Shayna woke up and saw that her clock said 5 a.m.
'Great, another day of school, another day of being an idiot. No wait, that's Kurt's job.' Shayna thought while she got out of bed.
She looked over and saw that Misty was still asleep. She went over and got her tape recorder out. She fast-forwarded to the part where Shayna recorded from Star Wars Episode 2. She pushed play right by Misty's ear.
"I don't like sand. It's rough, it's course, and it gets everywhere!" Said Hayden Christensen, whose voice was being projected from the tape recorder.
Misty just started laughing.
"Play it again, please!" Misty begged.
Shayna rewound the tape and played it again.
"Okay, I can make it through the day … maybe." Misty said getting out of bed.
"Well at least you get out of bed now, not just roll over until you become acquainted with the floor." Shayna said heading towards their bathroom.
Misty followed but took a little detour towards her dresser to get her clothes out. Finally she decided on a pair of black jeans, black chucks (high-tops), and a black ¾ length sleeve shirt. She quickly put that on and then headed in the bathroom when Shayna came out.
Shayna went to her dresser and found a black tennis like skirt, a black beadier, and neon green (high-tops) chucks. She quickly put that on and headed downstairs to the kitchen, with Misty following.
Shayna walked into the kitchen to find Piotr, Gambit, Jesse, Rogue, and the waffle iron. Misty and Shayna walked over to the cabinets. Misty got out the cereal and Shayna got the bowls and spoons. Misty walked over to the fridge and got out the milk and the orange juice. Shayna went and got the cups. While Shayna was pouring the cereal into the bowls with one hand and the milk with another, Misty was filling up the glasses and sticking spoons into the bowls. When everything was put away, the two girls sat down at the table with everyone else. They started to eat and noticed that everyone was staring at them.
"What?" Shayna asked with her mouth full of cereal.
"Nothin', shuga." Rogue said waving her hand in front the guys faces.
"Okay then." Shayna said going back to eating her cereal.
"What's with the waffle iron?" Misty asked setting her glass down.
"The what?" Jesse asked.
"The waffle iron." Shayna said.
"Oh, you mean Christine." Jesse said.
Shayna swayed her head over to the side and spat out orange juice all over the floor. "What!"
"You named the waffle iron!" Misty said.
"She's not a waffle iron, she's a very caring person." Jesse said.
"Alrighty then." Shayna said.
She looked at Rogue who mouthed, 'Insomnia!' and pointed to Jesse.
Shayna and Misty nodded their heads.
Shayna caught Gambit leaning to tell Piotr something. She sat there minding her own business and it bugged her for the rest of the day.
Shayna sat at her desk in Mrs. Halfin's room. She saw Bryan who looked very pissed at the person who was walking behind him.
"I'm sorry Bryan." Misty said laughing.
"No you're not! You just stood there and laughed! You didn't even help me up!" Bryan yelled sitting down.
"I was bending down to help you up right as you were getting up. I couldn't help it if it was funny." Misty said sitting down, still laughing.
"IT WAS NOT FUNNY!" Bryan yelled.
"Someone walking into an open locker and falling down is funny." Misty said, her laughing now down to a chuckle.
Shayna started chuckling. Bryan glared at her. Shayna rolled her eyes at him.
"It's not a big deal, Bryan. I've done it thousands of times. Misty's laughed at me but I just laugh with her. If you can't laugh at anything, then you're not gonna have a fun time through high school." Shayna said getting her stuff out as she saw Mrs. Halfin walked in.
"Are we ready to start to day class? Any questions before we start?" Mrs. Halfin asked.
Bobby raised his hand.
"Yes, Bobby." Mrs. Halfin said.
"Do they have to kiss?" He asked.
"Why are you asking that? You're not even Romeo?" Mrs. Halfin asked.
"Well, I was just wondering because it's kind of gross." Bobby said.
"You find it gross? Okay they don't have to kiss if they don't want to, they can just hug if that's more comfortable." Mrs. Halfin said.
Piotr and Shayna both felt a jolt of relief go through them.
"But I do want you to act it out." Mrs. Halfin said, getting out some swords and a lightsaber.
Shayna looked at the lightsaber and it's glowing goodness. She wanted it then remembered she was Juliet.
'Curse the day I born a Capulet!' Shayna thought.
"Who wants the lightsaber, since I only have one?" Mrs. Halfin asked.
Piotr raised his hand, followed by a few more.
"Piotr's hand was up first. He you go Piotr." Mrs. Halfin said handing Piotr the blue lightsaber.
Piotr took the lightsaber and set on his desk.
Shayna raised her hand.
"Yes Shayna?" Mrs. Halfin asked.
"Do I get to stab myself with that?" Shayna asked hopeful.
"If you want." Mrs. Halfin said.
Shayna sat there smiling.
"By my head, here come the Capulets." Misty said looking at Kurt and his men.
"By my heel, I care not." Bryan said acting full of himself.
"Follow me close, for I will speak to them. Gentlemen, good-den. A word with one of you." Kurt said trying to hide his accent so it didn't sound stupid.
"And but one word with one of us? Couple it with something; make it a word and a blow." Bryan said being an idiot.
"You shall find me apt enough to that, sir, and you will give me occasion." Kurt said forgetting about his accent.
"Could you not take some occasion without giving?" Bryan asked.
"Mercutio, thou consortest with Romeo." Kurt said pointing to Mercutio.
"Consort? What, dost thou make us minstrels? An thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but discord. Here's my fiddlestick; here's that shall make you dance. Zounds, consort!" Bryan yelled walking towards Kurt.
"We talk here in the public haunt of men. Either withdraw unto some place, or reason coldly of your grievances, or else depart. Here all eyes gaze on us." Misty said being all priest like.
"Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze. I will not budge for no man's pleasure, I." Bryan said becoming angry.
"Well, peace be with you, sir. Here comes my man." Kurt said.
"But I'll be hanged, sir, if he wear your livery. Marry, go before to field, he'll be your follower! Your worship in that sense may call him man." Bryan practically yelled.
"Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford no better than this: thou art a villain." Kurt yelled and pointed at Piotr.
"Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting. Villain am I none. Therefore, farewell. I see thou knowest me not." Piotr said beginning to walk away.
"Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries that thou hast done me; therefore turn and draw." Kurt yelled.
"I do protest I never injured thee, but love thee better than thou canst devise till thou shalt know the reason of my love; and so, good Capulet, which name I tender as dearly as mine own, be satisfied." Piotr said.
"O calm, dishonorable, vile submission! Alla stoccata carries it away!" Bryan said 'drawing' his sword. "Tybalt, you ratcatcher, will you walk?"
"What wouldst thou have with me?" Kurt asked.
"Good King of Cats, nothing but one of your nine lives. That I mean to make bold withal, and, as you shall use me hereafter, dry-beat the rest of the eight. Will you pluck your sword out of his pilcher by the ears? Make haste, lest mine be about your ear ere it be out." Bryan said making his last stand.
"I am for you!" Kurt yelled drawing his sword.
"Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up!" Piotr said.
"Come, sir, you are passado!" Bryan yelled lunging at Tybalt.
Kurt and Bryan 'fight'.
"Draw, Benvolio, beat down their weapons. Gentlemen, for shame! Forbear this outrage! Tybalt, Mercutio, the Prince expressly hath forbid this in Verona streets. Hold,Tybalt! Good Mercutio!" Piotr said 'protecting' Bryan by putting his arm in front of Bryan.
Kurt lunges forward and 'stabs' Bryan with the sword. Kurt runs away with his men.
"I am hurt. A plague a both your houses! I am sped. Is he gone and hath nothing?" Bryan said holding his side.
"What, art thou hurt?" Misty asked.
"Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch. Marry, tis enough. Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon." Bryan said still holding his side.
"Courage, man. The hurt cannot be much." Piotr said.
"No, tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but tis enough, twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for the world. A plague a both your houses! Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death! A braggart, a rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of arithmetic! Why the devil cam you between us? I was hurt under your arm." Bryan said.
"I thought all for the best." Piotr said standing in front of Bryan.
"Help me into some house, Benvolio, or I shall faint. A plague a both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me. I have it, and soundly too. Your houses!" Bryan said sitting down.
"This gentleman, the Prince's near ally, my very friend, hath got this mortal hurt in my behalf, my reputation stained with Tybalt's slander, Tybalt, that an hour hath been my cousin. O sweet Juliet, thy beauty hath made me effeminate and in my temper soft'ned valor's steel!" Piotr said.
"O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio is dead! That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds, which is too untimely here did the scorn the earth." Misty said.
"This day's black fate on moe days doth depend; this but begins the woe others must end." Piotr said.
The next day in class,
"Ah, dear Juliet, why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe that unsubstantial death is amorous, and that the lean abhorred monster keeps thee here in dark to be his paramour? For fear of that I still will stay with thee and never from this pallet of dim night depart again. Here, here will I remain with worms that are thy chambermaids. O, here will I set up my everlasting rest and shake the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! And lips, o you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death! Come, bitter conduct; come, unsavory guide! Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on the dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark! Here's to my love!" Piotr said drinking the 'poison'. "O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die." Piotr said laying his head down on the desk and 'dieing'.
"Saint Francis be my speed! How oft tonight have my old feet stumbled at graves! Who's there?" Sam asked as he entered the 'grave'.
"Here's one, a friend, and one that knows you well." Roberto said.
:Bliss be upon you! Tell me, good my friend, what torch is yond that vainly lends his light to grubs and eyeless skulls? As I discern, it burneth in the Capels' monument." Sam said.
"It doth so, holy sir; and there's my master, one that you love." Roberto said.
"Who is it?" Sam asked.
"Romeo." Roberto replied.
"How long hath he been there?" Sam asked.
"Full half an hour." Roberto said.
"Go with me to the vault." Sam said walking towards the vault.
"I dare not, sir. My master knows not but I am gone hence, and fearfully did menace me with death if I did stay to look on his intents." Roberto said.
"Stay then; I'll go alone. Fear comes upon me. O, much I fear some ill unthrifty thing." Sam said.
"As I did sleep under this yew tree here, I dreamt my master and another fought, and that my master slew him." Roberto said.
"Romeo! Alack, alack, what blood is this which stains the stony entrance of this sepulcher? What mean these masterless and gory swords to lie discolored by this place of peace." Sam said walking into the tomb. "Romeo! O, pale! Who else? What, Paris too?" Looks at Bobby who is lying on the floor. "And steeped in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour is guilty of this lamentable chance! The lady stirs." Sam said.
"O comfortable friar! Where is my lord? I do remember well where I should be, and there I am. Where is my Romeo?" Shayna asked sitting up from the desks.
"I hear some noise. Lady, come form that nest of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep. A greater power than we can contradict hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away. Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead; and Paris too. Come, I'll dispose of thee among a sisterhood of holy nuns. Stay not to question, for the watch is coming. Come, go, good Juliet, I dare no longer stay." Sam said.
"Go, get thee hence, for I will not away." Shayna said.
Sam walks back to his seat.
"What's here? A cup, closed in my true love's hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end. O churl! Drunk all, and left no friendly drop to help me after? I will kiss thy lips. Haply some poison yet doth hang on them to make me die with restorative." Shayna said kissing Piotr. "Thy lips are warm!" She exclaimed.
"Lead boy, which way?" Jubilee read.
"Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!" Shayna takes the lightsaber. "This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die." Shayna said stabbing herself and fall on top of Piotr.
A few minutes later.
"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 pardoned, and some punished. For never was a story of more woe; than this of Juliet and her Romeo." Mrs. Halfin read.
"Bravo class!" She said. "You can all go back to your seats."
"Shayna, you know you kissed Piotr right?" Misty whispered to her.
"I did?" Shayna asked.
"Shayna and Piotr, come here please." Mrs. Halfin said.
Shayna and Piotr both walked over to her desk.
"You guys were great. Very good actors. I'm surprised you did the kissing scenes. Not many people do." Mrs. Halfin said.
"Well, all for the best." Piotr said.
"We did them just to let the other kids know how deep Shakespeare is." Shayna said.
"You guys can go sit down now." Mrs. Halfin said.
Shayna and Piotr went back to their seats.
"So how was it?" Roberto asked.
"How was what?" Piotr questioned.
"Kissing Shayna. Come on were there sparks?" Sam asked.
"We were acting, there are no sparks when acting!" Piotr said.
Later that day at the Institute.
Shayna, Misty, Piotr, and Bryan were sitting in the living room watching a movie. Jesse walked in with Christine.
"What are you guys watching?" He asked.
"Life As A House." Piotr said.
"Oh, can I watch?" Jesse asked.
"Sure, have a seat." Bryan said.
"Before you sit down, can you grab the tissues?" Shayna asked.
"Sure, where are they?" Jesse asked looking for them.
"They're over there, in the corner on the table." Misty said.
"Why do you need them now? It's the beginning?" Jesse asked setting the tissues on the table and sitting in the chair.
"Well, we don't need them now but we will, and we didn't wanna get up." Shayna said.
"You people are lazy." Jesse said hugging Christine.
"At least we aren't crazy and fall in love with a waffle iron." Shayna whispered to Misty.
Almost two hours later,
"KEVIN KLINE IS NOT ALLOWED TO DIE!" Shayna yelled with a tissue in her hand.
"It's okay." Piotr said putting his arm around her.
"Look, Hayden's crying." Misty said.
"He is so sexy when he cries." Shayna said.
"The World's Best Crier." Misty said.
"That he is, that he is." Shayna said.