A/N: Not grammar checked guys! I was rushing to get it out!

Chapter 27 PART A- This is it.

Timmy POV

"Oh come on! You knew the effect you were having on her!" Ellie said laughing.

"I'm not admitting I did, but let's say I knew just for argument sake, so what?" I said.

"Timmy! She was our sixty year old librarian, and you were flirting with her to convince her you were out of class for a reason!"

"Hey, it's not my fault I'm so hot. Unfortunately there's nothing I can do about that!" I said laughing.

Ellie hit me on my arm and rolled her eyes. "It's still gross!"

Me and Ellie had been walking around our area for the last hour. We had 'run' into each other near The Square, where Ellie was walking her puppy. Technically I had been hanging around the area, waiting for her to pass knowing full well what time she walked her dog on Saturday mornings. On my sixth round around the Square and about five minutes before I crossed the line into a stalker, she appeared around the corner, and I had bumped into her with an extra ice cream cone, since my imaginary friend had to go home. At first she was apprehensive but after I convinced her I couldn't throw the cone away, she agreed to let me join her on her walk. Things had begun to feel how they were between us, before we broke up and time flew by as we talked about the most random things, but avoided the taboo topic of us ever having a relationship. Unfortunately we had gone around the block and ended up in front of her house, which is where we would go our separate ways. I thought about asking her if she wanted to do something else now before the party tonight but didn't want to push her away after taking a step forward. At least she was voluntarily spending time with me now and I didn't want to alert her to the fact, in case she changed her mind.

Ellie opened her front gate, and unhooked Biscuit from the leash and let her into the front drive before closing the gate behind the puppy, suggesting she wasn't about to go in herself. I forced myself not to smile.

"So I'll see you at Romeo's tonight right?" she said, "As weird as that will be."

"I know, tell me about it. But yeah I'll be there." I told her. I tried to stop myself reading too much into the fact she asked me if I was going, and trying to analyse whether she was just being polite or she wanted to go with me.

Ellie nodded, and pushed a stray strand of hair behind her ear. There was an awkward silence for a few seconds, as if both of us were waiting for the other to say something.

"So I guess I'll see you tonight," she said moving toward the gate.

"Ellie," I started, and she turned around but before she could say anything I leant in to kiss her, unable to stop myself. I imaged my lips making contact with her soft gentle ones and braced myself for the rush of feelings, but I was pulled out of the moment when my lips made contact with her cheek. I opened my eyes and quickly pulled away to find Ellie looking awkward. It was lingering between us that she had just moved her face at the last second on purpose. For once in my life I actually felt rejected. I wasn't expecting her to do that. I thought I'd done my time, and I'd apologised and we would get back together.

"Look Timmy, I'm not ready to jump back into all that with you," she said shuffling her feet.

"Look Ellie, I'm really sorry about how I behaved with Lily and I get that I hurt you—"

"It's not about that! Well it is, but it's mostly about how you did that so easily without any consideration for how I might be feeling, and it really hurt and I don't think I want to go through that again." She said crossing her arms, not in a defensive way, but as if she was protecting herself.

"You wouldn't have to go through it again though—"

"Timmy, look I'm not what you're looking for. I'm not the kind of girl you want, I'm not going to be at your beck and call, when you're feeling in the mood to be my boyfriend. I need someone in my life who is going to put as much into this as I am."

"Elle…" I started but I didn't know how to finish. I didn't know how much I had hurt her when I had begun to ignore her to hang out with Lily without any explanation.

"The thing is though, the way you are, it's who you are and you shouldn't have to change," she said before taking a deep breath, "Just like the way I'm nothing like the girls you normally go out with, and I'm not going to change either. I'm nothing like Lauren."

Her eyes filled with tears and I found myself with no idea how to handle the situation. Yes, I had acknowledged to myself that I had hurt her feeling but didn't realise that I had probably broken her heart, and within a few days of breaking up with her I had been traipsing around with Lauren, and not to mention a few other girls right in front of her, making her feel like she wasn't worth anything, and our relationship hadn't meant anything at all to me. At this moment I felt the lowest of low, for what I did and making her feel the way she was. I felt the urge to wrap my arms around her and comfort her in my arms but resisted doing so, because I sensed she needed her space. Before I could reassure her, that I didn't want her to be anything like Lauren she spoke again.

"Look I don't think this friends thing is going to work out," she said, and I felt a physical pain that I didn't know I could feel, in her pushing me out of her life.

"Ellie, it's been forty-eight hours since we became friends, and there's no doubt we get on really well. Let's just see how it goes," I said, getting a grip and moving away from the past and into how I was going to fix this.

"Well how about for now we're not friends that hang out and make an effort to see each other. We're just friends that nod when they pass each other in the hallway," she said.

As much as I hated to admit it, I knew we weren't going to go from being in a relationship to breaking up to becoming good friends that quickly. And while I worked on my plan to get us back together, we needed to make the transition, and at least being civil and being a sort of friends was better than having her completely out of my life.

I nodded, even though on the inside I was thinking of ways I could be involved in her life again.

"See you around," she said in a quiet voice, before slipping into her driveway, closing the gate behind her keeping me out. I sighed and watched her walk into her house without once looking back.

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Romeo POV

"Seriously dude! On your kitchen worktop!" Luke said, looking like he would pass out purely from the thought of it.

"Yes," I said grimacing, and trying to avoid visualising the scene that had been waiting for me in my kitchen this morning. After I dropped Juliet home this morning, I forced myself to go and pick up the supplies for the party tonight, regretting that I actually volunteered to have it at my house, when I could have been spending the evening curled up by the fireplace with my girl. After letting myself back into the house, I nearly dropped a whole case of beer when I saw Rose lying seductively on my kitchen worktop wearing a lacy black underwear set with bright red heels.

One hour earlier

"What the hell are you doing!"

"Waiting for you to get back," she said sweetly.

The Rose portrayed in front of me was the total opposite to the Juliet that had just left my house, and seeing the over confident borderline trashy girl in front of me compared to the innocent, sweet, genuine person I had just been with made me feel sick that I had ever been with Rose. I thanked god she hadn't turned up an hour early to find Juliet in the house too, that would have been disastrous, especially having to explain what I was doing with Juliet Capulet. Also having Rose here in her underwear wouldn't have gone down too well with Juliet either.

"Are you out of your mind!" I said in a shrill voice, trying to avert my eyes and see where she had left her discarded clothes. I would be lying if I said Rose wasn't attractive, but seeing her in the same house that me and Juliet had made love in less than a few hours ago grossed me out. It was as if her presence was tainting memory.

"Oh common Ro, you know you want to! I totally get your little arrangement with the boys to get to Timmy. You poor baby, having to spend time with her," she said pulling a face, " but it will all be over soon, we don't have to go public yet, if that's what you're worried about."

I located her jeans and camisole flung over one of the dining room chairs and shoved them into her arms.

"Cover yourself up!"

"Look Romeo, I don't—"

"Rose, look I have no idea what the hell you're talking about! You need to leave now!" I said just wanting her to get out.

She slipped off the counter and put the clothes down behind her, before slowly pushing one strap off her shoulder.

"Tell me you don't want me Romeo," she said biting her lip. I automatically picked up what she was trying to do. When we had been seeing each other years ago, I had told her how crazy it made me to see her bite her lip and she constantly used it to get what she wanted. Now though, I didn't feel my body react in passion, but react in anger.

"Get the hell out of my house Rosaline!" I yelled.

I saw her recognition of how serious I was in my tone, with the combination of using her given name. She quickly slipped off her heels and hastily pulled her jeans on, before pulling on her top, and picking up her shoes in her hands.

She started heading toward the door, and I instantly felt bad for yelling at her. Even though I didn't want her in in that way, she and I were good friends before I had moved and it wasn't as if I hadn't led her on at times since I had been back, especially when me and Juliet were on a break.

"Rosie, wait!" I called after her.

She stopped in her tracks, and walked over to me.

" I knew you wanted me," she whispered.

"Not like that Rosie, I don't." I said bluntly. I could sense her annoyance at me for swapping from her barely used full name to the childish version of her name I had used since childhood.

"Who the hell do you think you are Romeo?" she said walking back toward the back door, "You have no idea how many guys would kill to be with me!"

"Rose, it's not like that with us," I tried to make her feel better.

"Whatever, you'll come back to me, they always do," she said facing away from me as she stormed out the door.

End Flashback

"So what, she just turns up in your kitchen in her underwear just lying there?" Ben said in a strange tone, handing the case of beer he was holding over to Adam.

Before I could answer he said, "And then when you turned her down she just left?"

"Yeah, she was pretty pissed though," I added.

"I can't believe this! You had Rose lying on your kitchen worktop eating strawberries, and letting the chocolate drip down her—"Luke said in a dream like voice.

"Hey hunny," Gabrielle said popping up from inside the house where the girls were 'teenage proofing' the house, and setting aside all my Mom's ornaments.

Luke jumped and stopped mid-sentence. "Hey baby," he said in squeaky voice. I rolled my eyes.

"Actually I never said anything about strawberries or chocolate. You added that in for your own entertainment." I said grinning and ignoring the fact that we now had company. Luke went bright red and put his arm around Gabrielle.

"What you guys talking about?" Gabrielle said confused.

"Oh nothing," I said laughing.

"Ok whatever, can you guys can come help move the stuff on the decking to make space for the DJ guy from Riverdale?"

"Sure," I said following her over with Adam and Luke behind me.

"Ben, you coming?" I called out to my cousin, who still looked pre-occupied thinking about something else.

"Yeah, sorry," he mumbled heading over the deck.

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Juliet POV

I lay on my bed all cried out, unable to produce any more tears. I had flat out refused to begin packing, as it would make this all the more real. My parents had sent me to bedroom to pack, and even though I doubted they meant I couldn't come out, I had been in my room all day not wanting to see any of them. Neither of them had come to check on me either so I didn't feel so bad. Ada had come up with a sandwich earlier but it still sat untouched on the tray.

"Jules?" I heard Timmy call from the other side of the door.

"Hmmpppff," I let out from under my covers, not bothering to produce any real words.

I heard the click of the door as he let himself in but remained underneath the covers. I felt the bed sink as he sat down beside me.

"Are you going to join the land of the living any time soon?" He said playfully.

I pushed the covers off my face and sat up a little bit, supporting my weight on my elbow.

"How can you be so calm? You heard what they're doing to me right?" I said, not being able to see the humour in any of this.

"Oh your parents are so terrible! They're letting you miss a month and a half of school, and sending you to live in a luxurious country house. You're right though, they're totally ruining your life."

I glared at him and he sighed, moving his position from opposite me to lie on the covers beside me.

"Ok, fine, I see where you're coming from, but honestly Jules, why don't you just try and embrace it. Look at the good side of all of this."

"What side of this is good?"

"You won't have to be around your parents for a while, you can do whatever you want. Lucky for me, they'll direct their attention onto making sure I'm the model son."

"Timmy! They're fricking sending me away to force me to be with Paul! This is not even funny!"

"Juliet you are blowing this way out of proportion. This isn't the medieval times; they're just encouraging you to spend some time with him because you're so stubborn you won't give it a chance yourself. Look you know I would never let you get into a situation which was bad for you, and I've spent some time hanging out with Paul , and I can honestly tell you I think he's ok."

"But—"I started

"Have you honestly spent any time with him to get to know the guy?" Timmy said in a tone that he probably would have used if he was talking to a four year old.

"No," I said meekly. "But that doesn't mean I want to go out with him," I said thinking of Romeo, and who I really wanted to be with.

"What's the big deal anyway? It's not like you have a boyfriend."

I was a second too slow in answering because Timmy sat up suddenly. "Are you still seeing that motor cycle guy?"

"Sort of, "I said. That wasn't exactly lying; Romeo was technically the 'Motor cycle guy'

"Do you see yourself having a future with this guy?"

"Maybe," I said, thinking about it for the first time. So far every time I had thought about Romeo, I had thought about right here, right now. I hadn't looked far into the future. Worrying about Paul and Yale and what everyone would think was complicated enough to push it to the back of my mind.

"Well I guess that's for you to figure out. But in the mean time you have to also figure out where you stand with Paul. I know you're adamant not to be with him, and even if that's the way it works out, it's not fair to let him and his family keep thinking you will end up together"

I nodded and sighed. Timmy got up from the bed and made to walk toward the door.

"So get some clothes on and come and help us enjoy the night as much as we can under the circumstances."

For the first time since he had come in, I had noticed that he was dressed to go out.

"Where are you going?"

"The day late after party with Compton remember?"

"Oh, yeah," I said remembering. I had been so busy freaking out about the trip I had completely forgotten about everything else. Although going to a party and socialising was the last think I wanted to do, I knew it would also give me a way to talk to Romeo and explain why I would be out of the picture for the next month. Without the party and without my phone I had no way to get any sort of message to him. I knew that is was really bad timing for our relationship especially after last night, to be leaving for a month.

"I'm heading off now with the guys, we have to pick up the keg and stuff. Do you want me to wait for you?"

"No, its fine, go ahead, I'll see you there," I said getting out of bed and walking into my en suite about to take a quick shower.

"Hey Jules?" Timmy called before leaving.

"Yeah," I said walking back out into the bedroom.

"You know I'll always be there for you right?"

"I know Tee," I said. He was obviously feeling bad about how upset I was about going on the trip, even though it wasn't his fault.

"That's why I spoke to your parents this morning and convinced them you would make the most of the trip and feel more comfortable if I went too," he said with a grin.

"You ass!" I said throwing my towel at him, but I inside I was thrilled that Timmy would be there and the trip wouldn't suck so much.

Timmy laughed, and threw the towel back at me.

"And you let me sit there upset all morning!" I said throwing a pillow at him, but he caught it. "And you kept it to yourself through that whole conversation!"

I rushed forward and Timmy got ready to defend himself against whatever attack I was about to throw his way but I embraced him in a hug. Timmy was surprised for a second but quickly hugged me back.

"Thanks Timmy," I said into his shirt.

"We'll always have each other's back Jules."

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Ben POV

Two soft arms came hugged me from behind, and I didn't need three guesses to know who they belonged to. Normally I would have welcomed this type of public affection but today it just irked me further.

"Hey baby. I missed you today, I haven't stopped thinking about you since I left last night," Rose purred into my ear.

I slammed my beer onto the counter and turned around to face her, pushing her arms off me in the process.

"Cut the crap, Rose!" I said. The anger in my tone could have been blamed on the amount of alcohol in my system I had already consumed, but I knew it stemmed further from all the times I had supressed my anger at Rose and let her get away with whatever she wanted. Just before Romeo came back I felt like we were getting closer and she was through with playing around but now that he was back and she went back to treating me like crap I could see this was all a game to her.

"What are you talking about Benjy?" she said innocently, looking up at me with her bambi eyes, which could normally get me to do what she wanted.

"You know exactly what I'm talking about! You really expect me to believe you were thinking about me all day?" I said, my tone getting louder.

"Benjy, I don't know what's gotten into you, but I promise I was thinking about you! All day all I've been looking forward to finding you here," she said, her tone not changing and still sounding as sweet at the beginning of the conversation.

"Oh, so you were thinking about me when you turned up in your underwear in this very kitchen to try and sleep with my best friend hours after you slept with me!"

Rose's demeanour fell for a split second, showing her shock at what I had said.

"Look, that's not important, it was a mistake, it's you I want," she said playfully tugging at the bottom of my shirt. "Now stop being silly and what do you say we go find a spare room?"

"Oh you cannot be serious!" I pushed her hands off my shirt and picked up my beer and started walking outside, not intending to finish this conversation, I couldn't be bothered with her.

"Benjy? Where are you going? I thought you wanted to me with me?" she called after me.

"Yeah I wanted to be with you! But because you wanted to be with me too, not as a consolation prize because who you really wanted rejected you! I've had enough of this Rose, I'm done! I'm through being your play thing!" I said changing my mind and not being able to keep it in any longer. A few people in the kitchen turned and looked at us, trying to pick up what they already missed of the drama.

Rose's little miss perfect façade dropped and I saw anger appear in her body language.

"This is unbelievable!" She shouted. If we didn't have everyone's full attention before, we had it now. "Twice in one day! First Romeo who I'm starting to believe is a little too interested in the subject of 'the plan' and then you!" It was then that my feelings were confirmed that Rose was no longer who she used to be and was no longer one of my best friends who I fell in love with. Somewhere along the line I had started to ignore the fact that she was changing because I didn't want to see it.

"Rose, have you ever stopped to think the problem might just be you?" I interrupted not wanting her to elaborate on the plan in front of a room full of people.

"Uggh," she scoffed, "Just watch how both of you come crawling back! You have no idea what you are missing out on!" she screeched as she stormed out of the room and into the back garden.

A/N : Hope you liked it!

Preview of next chapter:

Can it be that Juliet and Paul seem to be on friendly terms?

Is the Timmy/Romeo feud finally over once and for all?

Does anger really make people spill the beans?

Is it the end for one of our favourite couples?

Ps- I forgot to add in the last chapter, was the scene between Romeo and Juliet when theyre about to have sex totally awkward to read? It was my first time doing something like that and I got tremendously embarrassed! It was extremely hard…that's why I stopped it where I did, and also because it was a T rating…. Tell me what you thought!