"Whoa! That wasn't the reply I was expecting," Jeremy said abruptly letting go of Kat's hand. "If I remember it right you were suppose to say good pilgrim you do wrong your hand too much…"

"Jeremy!" Kat squealed happily completely forgetting about her annoyance. "I can't believe it!"

"Well I thought it'll be cool to do a little catching up with you," Jeremy said. "But as I see you want a moment to yourself."

Jeremy turned around and pretended to walk away.

"Don't be silly." Kat said grabbing Jeremy back. "You know I would very much like to do some catching up with you. It's been ages since the last time we saw each other. So how's life?"

"Well as you can see I am now staying here at Las Vegas. I put up a construction business with Eric Catcher. You remember him right?

"Eric Catcher? You mean the guy who played Tybalt in our Romeo and Juliet?" Kat asked.

"Yup the villain guy." Eric answered with a trace of mischief.

"Well that's quite a surprise," Kat commented. "As far as I can remember you guys weren't exactly friends back in High School."

"Actually, we still aren't exactly friends." Jeremy said bluntly. "Let's just put it this way, he's got the financial capital to back up a project, and I got the charms to seal a deal." Jeremy ended the statement with a wink.

Kat laughed.

"So how about you?" Jeremy asked. "Are you also residing in here?"

"No." Kat answered shaking her head. "Actually I'm just here for a vacation. I'm residing in New York. I'm an editor of a women's magazine there."

"So are you married?" Jeremy asked pretending not to know about her divorce.

"For a time," Kat answered heavily. "Gerard and I divorced two years ago."

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that." Jeremy said hoping he sounded sincere.

"Well what about you? I wasn't surprise to hear that you've become the ultimate bachelor. I heard you're now specializing on models huh?" Kat said teasingly.

"Oh come on, don't tell me you believe all those rumors." Jeremy said in denial. "That gossip queen from high school, Sheryl Ventura, she's e-mailing you all those bogus trash on everyone's life isn't she?"

"Only I don't need Sheryl Ventura to know all about your zest for beautiful women."

"And what do you mean by that?"

"How can I forget back in high school, you hooked up with everyone on the cheering squad," Kat recalled. "And when we were doing the rehearsals, you were bringing in a different girl every time."

"Ok so I admit," Jeremy said raising his hands in a gesture of surrendering. "I fooled around with a couple of cheerleaders and models but that was a thing of the of the past. Now I'm completely over that. I'm a changed man." Jeremy said defensively.

"Hey no need to sweat it. I'm not holding anything against you for that." Kat said reassuringly. "The idea of hooking up with no strings attached, that doesn't appall me anymore. I'm cool with it now. In fact I'm thinking of giving it a try. And since you're a veteran in that field maybe you can give me some pointers."

Jeremy was about to exclaim, "you can't be serious!" when Kat suddenly grabbed him and hastily led him behind the heavy curtains hanging by the side stage of the Casino.

"Uhm Kat, why are we exactly hiding here?"

Kat carefully peered through the curtain. Jeremy followed her.

"See that guy in black shirt? He's been pestering me all night asking for my number."

"Well I can't really blame him." Jeremy mumbled. "But honestly, is that the real reason why you led me here behind the curtains?"

Kat turned around and gave Jeremy a puzzled look.

"I get it Kat, you were hoping I'd do this," Jeremy said moving closer to Kat. "Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again." He moved as if to kiss her reminiscent of Romeo and Juliet's first kiss back in their high school play.

"Good pilgrim, you flatter yourself too much!" Kat laughingly pushed Jeremy away.

"Hey you're supposed to reply you kissed by the book." Jeremy corrected.

"You know what? Stop being all Romeo to me because I am way over my Juliet days." Kat said meaningfully.

Jeremy was about to ask what she meant by that when the casino's drag queen distractedly started belting out a song.

"Do you wanna go somewhere else?" Jeremy shouted competing with the drag queen's soaring voice.

Kat smiled and nodded.

And the two went out of the Casino.

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"So where are you taking me?" Kat asked once they were inside Jeremy's car.

"Somewhere Romeo would have taken Juliet had he had a chance." Jeremy said and then he added, "In Luhrmann's movie version anyway."