I am SO sorry that it's taken me so long to update this. What can I say, life happens. In the meantime thanks for reading and reviewing! Please keep doing so :)

This chapter is short but it's necessary so here we go.

AND... I don't own Romeo and Juliet.


My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.

"What the hell Juliet?" Nora said as she took in the mess. Her eyes raking across the ground and stopping on Romeo. She suddenly gasped as she took in his face. "Get inside now Juliet! Our investor is looking bored and you're supposed to be making sure he's happy, I'll send some of the boys out to clean this trash up." She looked directly at Romeo as she said the last part. Juliet made her way quietly up the stairs and followed Nora back inside but turned and smiled at Romeo just before disappearing inside.

Nora slammed the door closed behind them making sure that the lock clicked. She turned to Juliet with a frantic look on her face. "Are you okay? Did he try to do something to you? What was he saying to you? Are you hurt?" Nora began firing off one question after another as she fluttered her hands around Juliet's face.

"What?" Juliet asked confused by Nora's reaction. "I almost fell on the stairs and he was helping me. He wasn't trying to hurt me." She said as she reached out and placed her hand over Nora's trying to calm her down. Juliet had a sinking feeling that she shouldn't tell Nora that she was enamored with the boy that was now left standing outside alone. Even at this very moment every fiber in her body was willing her to bolt back out the door and into his arms again.

"I'm so sorry Juliet. I didn't prepare you correctly for this. That boy out there is named Romeo" The name washed over Juliet as she heard it and echoed through her mind as Nora continued. "He's a councilor from Mount Montague. As a matter of fact, he's one of the most active members in the rivalry between our camps. I'm sure your cousin, Tyler, and the other counselor have told you about the terrible things he's done to us. Now that you know what he looks like please be more careful to stay away from him. You can't trust any of those Montague boys. Consider him very, very dangerous."

As Nora's words washed over Juliet as she leaned back against the wall of the hallway, and finally let it sink in. She was so confused, and torn. She couldn't reconcile the beautiful boy she had just met outside, who had been so kind, with the stories that she had heard from Tyler over the years. It wasn't possible. But even if it was, it didn't change the way she felt drawn to him. It was too much to take in. Without realizing it she had sunken down the wall and was sitting on the ground.

"I didn't mean to scare you. That was probably a shock and this has been too much for one night. I'm going to call one of the boys to escort you back to your cabin to rest." Nora said as she helped Juliet back to her feet and steered her towards the thrumming sound of music. "But first, come say good night to the investor."


Romeo stared after the girls as the door slammed shut behind them. "Juliet" He let the name roll off his tongue, savoring the way that it sounded. How could he have not realized that she must have worked here until that awful witch Nora had come out looking for her. He supposed that Nora was probably filling Juliet's head with all kinds of terrible things about him. She may never look at him, as she had been before, again. He wished that he had never partaken in any of those stupid pranks, if only because he didn't want Juliet to think him unworthy of her presence.

He knew that in a matter of minutes Nora would spread the word of his presence and people would be coming out looking for him and a fight would mostly likely ensue. He should probably find his friends and leave but he didn't feel like explaining what had happened or risk them wanting to challenge these boys to a fight. What he really wanted at this moment was to see Juliet's face again. He already craved her presence. For someone he had only just met, she had quite suddenly consumed him completely. He turned and ran into the tree line just moments before the sound of angry voices and footsteps came rushing around the sides of the building.