WARNING: LONG AUTHOR'S NOTE – FEEL FREE TO SKIP
Yes I know I shouldn't be writing a new story when I've got about five other things I'm meant to be writing, but this came to me one boring English lesson and it was too tempting to resist. So I thought I may as well writing something that I'm obsessed with now rather than the stories which I totally can't think of what to write next (the I WILL get back to).
I'm quite proud of myself because I've already written two more chapters of this and plan to have always written one chapter ahead of the one I upload. Also for the first time in my life I have actually written a proper plan so I know where I'm going on this so I have no excuse not to update fast… this should be interesting.
When I say loosely based on Romeo and Juliet I mean LOOSELY so you don't need to know the play to read it (though I seriously doubt anyone doesn't know the basic storyline) and don't rely on your knowledge of the play to know the exact plot either.
So anyway being the person I am I've now made this longer than the chapter, so I'll shut up now and let you read.
Disclaimer: I may drive my family mad endlessly playing my flute along to the Wicked soundtrack but last time I checked that doesn't mean I own Wicked… oh and despite what you might think (you know me being female and not dead) I'm not Shakespeare either.
The news had been spread quickly throughout Oz. After the recent re-stirrings of the mutiny between the Vinkus and Munchkins, resulting in many deaths on both sides, the Wizard had declared that any crime, however petty, committed on a Munchkinlander to a Vinkan or vice versa was punishable by death. It was the only way he could think of to prevent the ancient feud between the two provinces, which had started, as far as anyone could remember, too many lifetimes ago over the price of wheat they received from trading with the Emerald City. Hundreds of lives had been lost over a price that had long since inflated and changed countless times.
Of course rules are made to be broken as a pair of star-crossed lovers from rival provinces, and households both alike in dignity were about to find out…