Author's Note: I'm new to the whole fanfiction thing, but I think I should put in a disclaimer. I am not Shakespeare, and all of the real people in this story gave me permission to put them here.
The other students looked less enthusiastic about suddenly being in Shakespeare's famous story as they glumly watched Reece kissing the ground and running up and down the street. Blake was the first to break the stunned silence, "Dude, there's no Internet." Many murmured in agreement.
All this talk of alternate universes and black holes bored Dan. There was no dancing. Or singing, for that matter. Everyone on the street looked pretty excited about a party at the Capulet place. To Dan, parties meant one thing: Dancing. Without consulting his friends, Dan wandered off in a direction that looked like the right way.
Meanwhile, the 9th graders were trying to figure out a way to get home. Stephanie hypothesized that the universe would probably cease to exist once the play ended. Most felt this was a reasonable idea, but Pat R. disagreed. Since Pat R. disagreed with everything, they told him to stay out of the discussion henceforth. Realizing they only had a few days before they were erased from existence, the kids decided time was of the essence. To prolong their time, they planned to keep Romeo and Juliet from getting together. The plan, which was to be lead by Tim, was to commence at the Capulet's party.
Tim always considered himself to be excellent at picking up girls. He felt his deep, manly voice would attract Juliet better than anything that sissy Romeo could come up against. At the beginning of the ball, he sidled up to her and said, "Check out these guns." He flexed. Juliet and Paris however, were not impressed. Paris displayed his displeasure by punching Tim in the stomach. It hurt. A brawl ensued.
In the ensuing chaos, Romeo crashed into Juliet. "Hey," said Romeo, "You're hot." Juliet giggled. "I'm not even fourteen. Wanna get married?" The two ill-fated lovers set off for Las Veronas.
Through his new friend Mercutio, Dan had learned that the legal drinking age in this alternate reality was somewhere around two. Drinking some Viñedo de Capulet 1492 (a very good year), Dan watched the violence with increasing merriment. The violence and the merriment it brought came to an immediate close, however, when the ruler of Verona, Prince Escalus showed up. "O good Lord, what happened here? What's this, more fighting? Who among you started this fight?"
Had the good prince thought about his question, he would have realized that no one in their right mind would have admitted to it, for the penalty for fighting in Verona was death. There was a guilty silence. Finally, Jim pointed at Juliet and said, "She did it!"
"I did not."
"Did too."
"Did not!"
"SILENCE!" shouted Prince Escalus, "Guards, take this miscreant to the gallows!" In a rush of quick thinking, Reece said, "Wait, send her to Friar Lawrence. He has many poisons that give slow and painful deaths." A sadist at heart, Escalus agreed. To the great dismay of Romeo, Juliet was whisked away. To his greater dismay, he and the rest of the party-goers were taken to prison to think about their possible fate. Except for Mercutio. He had a fancy brunch to attend with Prince Escalus in the morning.