Here you go! Chapter two of my "novel" is up and running! R&R please!

Thank you much!

~Neko

[Chapter 2: Jealousy Spreads]

"Alright people! Let's start today with the balcony scene! Places every one!"

Duo walks in to watch and sees Neko and waves. She waves back and smiles.

"ACTION!"

Hawk:

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?

It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,

Who is already sick and pale with grief,

That thou her maid art far more fair than she:

Be not her maid, since she is envious;

[.........and so on.........]

"okay...let's just skip to the scene where ROMEO bids fare well to his JULIET." Mr. Kultz asks Neko and Hawk, since there are a lot of lines in that scene, "and...ACTION!"

Neko:

Sweet, so would I

Yet I...I...uh...I should kill thee with much cherishing.

Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,

That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

Hawk:

Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!

Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest!

Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell,

His help to crave, and my dear hap to tell.

"farewell, sweet maiden." he whispers.

Hawk and Neko gazed into each other's eyes. Then Hawk passionately kissed her lingering on her lips for a bit longer than planned, before pulling away and hopping down from the make shift balcony.

Duo was 'squirming' in his seat.

'let's not get carried away here...' he thought as he watched Hawk kiss his girlfriend.

"All right...Neko, you have got to get that line right! Start it over." Mr. Kultz said, motioning the actors to set up again.

"you're a damn good kisser you know that?" Neko said to Hawk as they set up the scene again.

"thank you." He said with a smirk, '.you don't even know the half of it...'

"And...ACTION!" They repeated the scene about 2 times after that, while Duo watched in what seemed to be pain.

'Damn him! Kissing her like that. I'm the only one who can kiss her like that! She looks like she's enjoying that too! Grrrrr!!' he thought to himself.

~*~

And finally the 2 weeks had sped by, leading up to the night of the play.

~*~

"Look at all the people!" Neko said as she peered through the curtains.

"Alright everyone! Places, places!" The curtain is drawn back as Quatre walks out to center stage.

"Two households, both alike in dignity,

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;

Whole misadventured piteous overthrows

Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,

And the continuance of their parents' rage,

Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,

Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;

The which if you with patient ears attend,

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend."

(Author's note - I do not feel like writing out sections of the play because it is boring. and it is long. So lets just say: the play happened.)

The curtains fell and Quatre walked out onto the stage, head bowed, then he lifted his head and closed the play:

"A glooming peace this morning with it brings;

The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:

Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;

Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:

For never was a story of more woe

Than this of Juliet, and her Romeo."

The entire audience gave them a standing ovation as the entire cast walked out onto the stage and took a bow. The curtains closed.

Duo came running up to Neko back stage and gave her a big hug, lifting her off her feet. Then he moved her hair out of her face, kissed her lightly, and smiled, "You did good!"

"You really think so? I could have sworn I screwed up on the balcony scene...I never could remember that line."

"No really, you did wonderful," he smiled as they both walked back stage to get ready to leave.