A/N – I could apologize for it.
From the p.o.v. of Benvolio
I don't suppose that I love him, one feels naught like that for other of the same. I know though that I am envious of the gaze on Romeo that for all Mercutio's care still falls upon him in vain. Mercutio never looks to me as much, and but once I held such eyes in such a gaze, I would proceed to my grave as happy dead.
We go to the party of Capulets as if to see the gypsies. To laugh and to mock but Romeo hath disappeared ere too long and Mercutio has traded drink for women.
I want to leave and so I make for the door and I'm free. The revelers are left behind and my heart is lighter. Not far from the yard I am very soon seized upon and off we go. Ere before long fair Romeo we set to find or ne'er to bed should we go. I let Mercutio call for Romeo and in that time I see my place as second leavings.
Romeo does not come and off we travel to my home. Mercutio followed me to my room for the night as he has before.
I awoke the next day to a frightful sun and an arm across my chest and for one unruined moment I saw him with the gentle morning's light. And then at the door came the sound which had wakened me from my peaceful slumber. I tell the knocker to depart and leave me in peace and not to bother me for the day, so in peace I fell to sleep.
I awoke again, I know not how much later, to a kiss and another. I pull him down into my arms and I do not let him go till the day is done.
But the new morning's come and off I must be to comfort my cousin 'cause I trust not Mercutio to do so platonically. I trust him not with my cousin's heart for I am afeared he will naught but throw away mine to keep his.
Romeo's words are much to be afeared; Romeo's never been known for his faithful heart and yet has bound it for the heaven's to see.