Hi everyone!
I'm really, really sorry about this late update :(
I hope the contents of this chapter make up for it :3
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Guest36: Thank you =) Haha, I hate Percabeth-ruining Rachel too! I agree with you about the movies- they were terrible but I'd still watch them.
Turquiose Crystal: True, but admittedly the Sea of Monsters was better than the first movie, by a teensy bit.
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Wolf-P.J-2.0: Haha, oath =) They were truly quite dreadful.
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~Chapter 11~
"Nurse, where's my daughter? Call her forth to me"
Annabeth read out loud as she stepped onto the stage, facing Ross.
Ross gave her a secretive grin and they laughed silently as she replied as the Nurse.
"I bade her come. What lamb! What ladybird! What, Juliet!"
All the students in the hall watched in anticipation as Amelia (Juliet) came lumbering onto the stage.
She smiled sickeningly and tossed her sticky hair over her shoulders.
"Hey now, who calls?"
She said in a sing-song voice.
Annabeth looked out at the sea of her castmates and met Thalia's eyes.
She was laughing and mimicking Amelia's voice.
Ross saw this as well and burst into laughter.
Ms Loran bustled over impatiently, wearing her trademark frown.
"What's this, girls? This is a theatre, not a playground"
Since Annabeth and Ross were in fits of giggles by now, Amelia piped up and said.
"They're laughing at me, Ms Loran"
Annabeth opened her mouth to protest but the teacher gave her a severe look.
"Consider me disappointed. Act 1 Scene 5 everyone! Romeo, get up here!"
Percy grumbled and trudged up the stairs to the stage.
When Annabeth passed him, she gave him a small smile.
He returned it awkwardly.
"Good luck for this scene" she said shyly.
He shrugged. "What's special about this one?"
Annabeth stared at him like he was supposed to be at a mental hospital instead of school. "It's your kissing scene" she replied.
Percy nodded mindlessly. "Okay- wait WHAT"
He looked at her desperately, like she could save him from the terrible ordeal he was about to face.
Annabeth just gave him a amused, sorry-can't-help-you smirk and walked off.
He stared at her retreating back and started to panic. What was this kissing scene? Since when was there a kiss in Romeo and Juliet?
Percy slapped himself mentally. Maybe Annabeth was right about the whole psychiatric hospital thing.
Amelia was waiting for him when he hopped up onto the stage. Abruptly, she turned to Ms Loran and said, "May I please skip out on this scene?"
The teacher looked at her, bewildered. "Percy needs to practise this scene, Ms Lister"
Amelia turned beet-red and she stammered, "I want my first kiss to be special" She stared at her feet.
Percy's eyes widened and he glanced at people in the audience, who seemed to have a similar reaction.
Some people looked like they wanted to puke, some were stifling their laughs and a rare few looked genuinely sorry for the girl.
Percy felt a mixture of all three, but there was a huge pinch in his gut. He felt a sudden surge of respect for Amelia, for speaking out like that.
"Don't worry, Amelia. We don't actually have to kiss," he said gently.
And I really don't want to, he added silently in his head.
Ms Loran looked exasperated. "Are you serious? Annabeth, you do this scene"
"WHAT?" she exclaimed, in the middle of inserting an earphone into her ear.
Ms Loran was furious. "Since Ms Lister is trying to be a Saint at the worst of times, you will replace her for now, Ms Chase"
Annabeth opened her mouth. And closed it. And opened it again.
"I don't want to kiss Jackson!" she announced.
Ms Loran put her head in her hands and ushered her onto the stage.
"A kiss is just a kiss!"
Annabeth took a deep breath and nodded. Thalia gave her a sheepish smile and a thumbs-up.
Percy leaned in closer to her and whispered in her ear.
"Are you nervous?"
His warm breath tickled her skin and Annabeth's heart beat faster. Was this really happening?
Must keep calm. Must keep calm.
"I'm not nervous" she replied, her voice trembling slightly.
Though she did not look at him, Annabeth felt him smirk.
"I don't believe you" he said tauntingly in her ear.
She was just about to pull away and do something weird like hit him when Ms Loran announced that they may "start whenever ready"
Percy glanced at her nervously and took her hand. Their fingers entwined.
His hands were shaking, ever so slightly.
"You're nervous too" she whispered, looking into his eyes.
They were darker now, and reminded her of the sea at night, waves crashing and the wind rippling.
He leaned closer.
"If I may profane with my unworthiest hand, This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this, My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss" Percy read expressively, words rolling off one another as they combined into a single lulling melody.
He showed no sigh or reaction whatsoever but his gaze was locked onto hers.
Annabeth was dying; but she wouldn't go down without a fight.
With an innocent smile, she laid her fingers on his chest and read,
"Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this, For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss"
She smiled at him and felt the rhythmic pulse of his heart speeding up, against her fingertips.
This was wrong. So wrong.
Percy took a deep breath and placed his hand on hers, the one she had placed on his chest. He removed it, but kept their hands clasped firmly together.
Annabeth could feel a billion nerve points soaring from her fingertips to her brain, telling her that what they were doing felt good
"Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?" he said, not skipping a beat.
"Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer" She said, stepping just a little bit closer.
The heat and energy in the room at that point was ridiculous and Annabeth felt that she could burst into tiny little flames at any moment.
"O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do: They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair" Percy continued, stepping even closer.
Annabeth could feel him breathing and felt the steady rise and fall of his chest. This was all too real. She wasn't ready to kiss him.
Her mouth moved against her will, continuing the speech.
"Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake," she whispered.
Everything was going too fast. Annabeth's mind was a blur. It seemed like forever since the boy standing in front of her was her sworn enemy, and now, she was leaning in to kiss him.
Percy reached up a gentle hand and brushed away a curling strand of hair that had escaped out of her bun. All the girls in the room sighed.
"Then move not while my prayer's effect I take" he whispered tenderly and leaned in.
Annabeth could only think oh my god what, before she felt a gentle pressure on her lips. They were soft and warm, and made her tingle all over.
She'd never felt like this before. Not with Luke, and certainly not with that weedy boy with the foggy glasses in eighth grade.
Percy cupped her cheek and pulled her closer.
After a few more moments, Annabeth realised that they were still in the middle of the scene and she pulled away gently.
"Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purged" he said softly. He looked shell-shocked and despite the nonchalant face, the glimmer in his eyes gave him away.
"Then have my lips, the sin that they have took" she replied, staring at his shirt. This was way too awkward.
Percy ran a light finger across her jawline and tilted her head up ever so slightly.
"Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again"
This time Annabeth tiptoed up to meet him, twining her arms around his neck.
Percy wound his arms around her waist, supporting her as he kissed her again.
Everyone in the audience was clapping and cheering, but the pair ignored everything.
When they finally pulled away, Annabeth couldn't stop the smile that was stretching widely across her cheek.
Over all the shouting and whooping, and Ms Loran crying, exclaiming that it was "perfect, just perfect", Annabeth caught Percy's gaze.
He grabbed her hand and led her backstage.
When they finally stopped, he released her hand and said,
"This changes nothing" He didn't look at her. He didn't have to.
Annabeth's smile dropped and realisation hit her. Of course he would say that.
He was the school player, for god's sake.
But there was that one moment, when she thought-
Annabeth jerked her head up. Percy looked uncomfortably at her.
"Right? We're still friends" he asked, awkwardly.
Annabeth forced herself to smile and she took a step back.
She didn't know Percy was just trying to save himself from disappointment. She didn't know that when he saw her disappointed face, his heart nearly broke.
Annabeth didn't know.
"Of course" she said, smiling.
"A kiss is just a kiss"
Cast of Romeo & Juliet:
Romeo: Percy Jackson
Juliet: Amelia Lister
Narrator: Taylor Casey
Manager: Thalia Grace
Lady Capulet: Annabeth Chase
Montague: Jason Davis
Nurse: Rosaline Davis (Ross)
Paris: Gabe
Benvolio: Evan
Hope you enjoyed this chapter!
It's been a while since I updated, so it's a bit rusty (as you can tell)
Ok, so this kinda funny thing happened in my English class when we were studying Romeo & Juliet. We were watching the 1996 version with Leonardo DiCaprio, and someone just randomly asked,
"What do you think Leonardo DiCaprio is doing right now?"
And our English teacher, who up to that point, I had thought had no humour whatsoever casually said;
"Well, he's not winning an Oscar, that's for sure"
QoTD: Best pick-up line you know?
There WILL be a winner of this question haha =)
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