The following morning, the newly weds were out enjoying a walk by the beach reminiscing the good old days.
"I've been wanting to ask you this for the longest time," Jeremy said. "When we were rehearsing the final death scene, you were having a trouble trying to suppress a laughter weren't you?"
The question triggered something in Kat's memory and she started to laugh. "You noticed that? And I thought I got away with that one…"
"Mind telling me what that one was all about?"
"Look, you know how much I love Mr. Bailey and all, and I really regard him as this brilliant, outrageous, genius director but he's no immune to having spinach stuck on his front teeth," Kat explained laughing at the memory. "I didn't have the guts to tell him, didn't you notice it?"
"No," Jeremy shrugged. "I guess I was going paranoid thinking what a total fool I must have look acting as if I'm gaping for my last breath, all this time I thought you were laughing at me…"
"What are you talking about? You were really great on that scene!" Kat exclaimed. "That for me was the hardest scene and I really admire how you keep your focus and disregarded all the distraction particularly the spinach on Mr. Bailey's teeth."
Both laughed.
"And all this time that incident kind of bothered me you know." Jeremy confessed.
"Well would it help you to know that when you naughtily started the food fight and you attacked everyone and I mean everyone on the rehearsal except me… that bothered me too," Kat confessed.
"You were bothered that I did not smudge your immaculate Juliet costume with a spaghetti sauce?" Jeremy asked.
"Not in that sense of course, it jut made me feel…left out. Did I appear that rigid to you or something?" Kat asked.
"Well I believe the word's not rigid but rather pure. I mean come on it's how can I mess up with a bright angel?" Jeremy pointed out.
"Ok, point taken." Kat said nodding. "Jeremy, this is embarrassing but I have to ask you this. You were utterly a major flirt. You flirted practically with every girl in high school but you never did with me, not even once and to think I played your Juliet. Not that I'm seriously heartbroken or anything, it just made me feel undesired you know."
"Undesired? What are you talking about?" Jeremy asked incredulously. "Kat, everyone would agree you were the loveliest women on the entire Palm Chester High! And besides you were seriously involved with Gerard Evans then…"
"Oh come on, you flirted with Anna Thompson and Glenda McGhee and they have steady boyfriends then." Kat said knowingly. "I get it Jeremy, I'm too much of a nerd for you."
"You were hailed as the prom queen and you're claiming to be a nerd? Yeah right." Jeremy said. "Sure you knew a great deal in Geometry and Chemistry but you also knew a great deal in fashion and music. I remember watching you the in hall way looking so sleek and the next day, every girl would try copying your previous day's outfit. You also happen to be the first girl I know who listens to The Eels, Ash, and Manic Street Preachers."
"How did you know I love to those bands?"
"I see you listen to their CDs in your diskman during rehearsal breaks," Jeremy recalled.
"Yeah I would go listen to those bands whenever Gerard's not around," Kat informed. "He doesn't dig the genre you know."
"The thing is you were simply unatainable," Jeremy said plainly. "A beauty too dear for the earth's use, cheeks too bright it would shame those stars..."
"Ok I forgive you." Kat laughed. "I have to say you've made up for your lack of flirting with that one."
"And don't forget I asked you to marry me."
"I never will."
"The truth is I've been uncomfortable with you, "Jeremy confessed. "I knew that Gerard also tried out for the role of Romeo and he ended up playing Paris. It was just awkward. I felt like if it was up to you, you would definitely have chosen Gerard over me which is perfectly understandable."
"Trust me, I would have chosen you for my Romeo." Kat said.
"Well you're saying that now" Jeremy said. "But I don't think you would have said the same thing nine years ago."
"I've always thought you were uncomfortable because you were just too cool for a high school play," Kat said. "I mean you only tried out for Romeo's part because of the deal Mr. Bailey made with you."
"You mean the deal where the only way Mr. Bailey will give me a final passing mark after I failed all the written exams is if I auditioned for Romeo's part?" Jeremy asked.
" Yeah everybody knows about that," Kat said.
"What if I told you that I deliberately failed those exams so that Mr. Bailey will make that deal with me." Jeremy said.
"And just why would you do that?" Kat asked skeptically.
"Because I don't want to appear too eager about playing Romeo," Jeremy said. "You know drama wasn't exactly in line with the image I was projecting back in high school.'
"So you're telling me that you actually wanted to play Romeo?" Kat asked still unconvinced.
Jeremy simply nodded.
"And you know why?" Jeremy asked. "It's because I knew you'd win the part of Juliet and I thought that playing Romeo would be the perfect way to finally get to you. The thing is I had the biggest crush on you since we were in freshmen."
Kat laughed dryly.
"Then how come when we were doing the play you kept things solely professional between us?" Kat joked.
"Because Gerard was always around guarding you."
"O maybe because you were too busy making moves from a cheerleader to another."
Just then, Jeremy's cellphone rang.
It was Eric Catcher calling. He was shouting so loud that even Kat could hear him.
"Jeremy! What the hell were you thinking! Who the heck do you think you are Romeo!"
"Hey lighten up. It was April Fools day." Jeremy replied coolly.
Jeremy and Kat smiled at each other.
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They got a couple more calls later asking the same question for which they consistently came up with the same answer: It was April Fools Day. (Come to think of it, they weren't really denying anything.)
The rest of the day turned out to be a total relaxation for both Jeremy and Kat. They spent the whole day by the beach reminiscing, reading, playing Frisbee, and playing with the cottage's caretaker's dog.
They spent the later part of the day on the couch having The Simpsons and Daria Marathons.