My Heart Turned Red
Chapter 6: Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow
Author's note:
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I've decided I'm one of Gnomeo and Juliet's biggest supporters! I just love the movie so much and more than that!
Another favorite part of mine, the Balcony Scene!
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The question was, how was I going to get back to her? And without getting caught was even more important than that! I was already in a lot of trouble with the Red Garden, and I know that even though they have the worst security in all of London, I think they are going to realize that maybe it was better to be more cautious because two Blues had done the unthinkable and crossed enemy lines! They're probably going to set up more Gnomes so that it won't be easy to get back into the garden again. Which is going to make my suicide mission really difficult, but I had to see her again before I exploded from not seeing her at all. I know I wasn't even thinking clearly, but I had decided not to live without her because that would be worse than being smashed. But how was I going to get back into the Garden without being noticed? I know I had done it once tonight but that didn't mean anything because this time I was looking for someone. Someone that had changed the way I looked at everything in just a single night, someone I loved more than anything and tonight I was going to tell her. But right now I had to focus on the most important thing, getting past Red Garden Security for the second time tonight and making sure I don't get caught seeing her because if I was, I was going to be worse than dead.
And once again, I didn't even care.
First things first, getting into the Red Garden without being seen and without climbing the fence. The previous attack on the Red Garden had been planned for hours, this on the other hand was being done without any sort of plan only a desire to see a certain person and if I was found, at least I could've seen her, even if it one last time. Nothing really mattered, except her. I know I should be going back home, but I had to do this. I can't live without her, the only problem is, I have no idea how I'm going to get back in there without even being noticed. They're probably going to make sure that the fences are being monitored so that no one else could get in tonight. But what I was wondering was, would they be watching the doors? Forget it Gnomeo. There's no way you can climb that and actually not get smashed. Fences, fine, doors forget it and don't ever look back. But then again, just because I wasn't good at climbing, that didn't mean I didn't know how to pick a lock on a door. I'd snuck into doors all the time when I was a kid, it was something that we all had to learn in case Ms. Montague locked the Shed Door and we could open it easily to get things out to throw over the fence that separated our gardens. Picking locks was easy for me, finding something to pick the lock wasn't. There wasn't anything in the alley that could help me pick the lock.
I then remembered something. I could've been imagining things but I could've sworn that I saw some sort of metal stick lying around somewhere back in the Lawrence Garden. I think that when people lived there used these to make sure that when saplings were growing they wouldn't fall over and die. Now this one was all rusted and clearly old, but still, it was the only plan I had to open the Gate. Yes. That would be something very useful for picking something like the lock on the door that would let me enter the Red Garden in a suicide mission to see the girl that I loved. I was insane. Insanely in love. I ran back to the Lawrence Garden to find what would help me see her again. I would do anything as long as I got to see her, even if she was the last thing I would ever see, at least I would be happy. I wasn't sure if she felt the same way that I did about her, but that didn't stop me from showing how I felt. That was why I was going, not only to see her, but tell her how I felt.
I found what I was looking for and ran back to the gate. OK, Gnomeo, think about this very carefully, you can still turn back, you know. You can still never have anything to do with this girl ever again, your love will never have any hope of surviving, and your Garden will never be able to forgive you. Yes, all of these things were true, but I didn't care. I had to do this, otherwise I wasn't even sure how I would live. I then pushed the wire upwards into the gate handle and this time I was able to open the door without battling myself to do so. The Gate was now open, and even though I hadn't thought this through, I knew well enough that I had to be quiet. I peered inside the door and looked at the place I had so longed despised and couldn't despise it anymore. I had to make sure that it was OK to walk around and try to find Juliet and again, without being caught. I then saw the lighthouse light still hanging around as it did earlier tonight when I had a different purpose for trying to come here. Now I knew I was right, security was a lot worse than before. Without making noise, I walked into the Garden and quietly shut the gate behind me. I then ran behind bushes before looking around to see if it was safe to move again. But then I heard voices and I knew that I couldn't stay in my hiding place any longer and I ran for a bush that was opposite to where I currently was. It was darker than where I was, which meant escape could be easier. I heard the voices again, and I recognized them at once. The twins, Sampson and Gregory.
"I've never seen Lord Redbrick so riled up!" Sampson yelled. "We have to find Gnomeo!"
Yeah, like that's going to happen.
"Let's split up!" Gregory said.
The problem with Sampson and Gregory is that they're not only annoying but they seem to think that they can magically separate whenever they choose, which is, of course, impossible. So they tried to do it again, which I heard as they fell to the ground in another failed attempt to prove their ridiculous theory. I heard them get up and Gregory spoke again.
"Ah, I wish I could quit ya."
"Oh, well," Sampson said in agreement. "Let's go fishing."
And then I looked from my hiding place and made sure that they were gone. I looked around this maze to find Juliet, and I was trying to figure out the best way to sneak around here without getting caught.
I found and then climbed up into the garden bed, using the large leaves as my cloak to hide me from my enemies, the only ones keeping me away from Juliet, and slowly began walking forward until something caught my eye, and I stopped and looked to see exactly it was. Was it Juliet? No, I was wrong, instead I found Lord Redbrick, Tybalt, Fawn, and more Reds looking at the damage that was accidentally done to Tybalt's wishing well. Hey, it wasn't part of the plan, sure I thought it was funny, but I hadn't planned on that happening to him. I looked away from that and looked in another direction to find a Green Frog that I didn't recognize who was picking petals off of a flower and saying "Doomed" and "Dead" every time she picked a petal off. Huh, I thought I knew everyone in the Red Garden and knew exactly how to torment all of them. I guess that I was kept in the dark about a lot of things. Again, not who I was looking for. I looked again in another direction different from the last and saw a silhouette of a Gnome holding a flower. Wait, a minute, what light is shining upon that Gnome over there? I think I knew who exactly that person was and so I moved in that direction. I parted away the leaves and looked up to find Juliet, holding a rose, staring up at the sky, her entire being shining in the moonlight. I smiled up at the girl. It is my love! If only she knew that and not just me. Her face looked as if she wanted to say something, and yet nothing is said. She looked as if she needed someone to talk to, I was about to do it, but I'm just too afraid to. And what's the point of doing that? It's not me she's thinking about. And then I heard her voice sounding very sad.
"Oh, Gnomeo," she said, and my eyes widened. Was I hearing things correctly? Was she actually saying my name? "Gnomeo, are we really doomed, Gnomeo to never see each other again?"
The Gardens may feel that way, but I don't! Does she really believe this or she just saying it because she has nothing better to say?
"Why must you wear a Blue hat?" she asked, playing around with her rose. "Why couldn't it have been Red like my father's, or Green, like a Leprechaun, or Purple... like...uh...like...uh... Like some weird guy!"
I covered my mouth and prevented myself from laughing at her face when she made that comment. Should I really be hearing more of this? Why do I really have to stand here? If I could be anything but a Blue if it would allow me to be with her, I would do it.
"I mean, what's in a Gnome?" she asked. "Because you're Blue, my father sees Red, and because I'm Red, I'm feeling Blue!"
I don't even think that I can stay here much longer, I've heard all I needed to hear. I now knew how she felt. She did feel the same way for me! She loved me! I smiled, and was about to run out and surprise her when she spoke again.
"Oh, at any rate," she said, playing around with her rose again. "That shouldn't be the thing to keep us apart, should it?"
Unable to keep myself away from her any longer, I ran out and I yelled to her not even remembering where I was and what would happen to me if someone here would hear me.
"NO! NO!" I yelled, so that she would know that I was here. "It shouldn't! I couldn't have said it better myself!"
That's because that's what I had come here to say to her, that even though I should, I didn't care that she was Red. Henceforward, I never will be Gnomeo! She looked at me pretty startled, and I couldn't blame her. I did come out of nowhere. She dropped her rose, and didn't really know what to say to me which was how I felt. I hadn't gone past telling her that our colors shouldn't keep us apart.
"Oh, my giddy aunt!" she said, looking mortified at this point. "Did you just hear all of that? What're you doing here?"
"I don't know! Ummm," I said stupidly, scratching the back of my head trying to find words. I knew perfectly well why I was here, but I couldn't even get it out of my mouth. Shows how much of a failure I am talking to this girl.
"I came here," I tried to say, going pretty weak at the knees, still attempting to get the words out. "To...well.." I got the courage back and stood up to tell her how I felt. "I don't know. I just wanted to see you again!"
And it was the truth, it took awhile to get it out of me, but it was what I wanted to do. Seeing her again was the only thing that I wanted. And if she didn't love me back, then it would be alright to have the Red Garden finish me off.
"Are you crazy?" she asked, leaning over the edge to look at me. Yes, yes I am. "If Dad finds you here, he'll bury under the patio!"
Oh, some confidence at that, huh, Juliet? If I can sneak in here without anyone finding me, that's probably going to be the case for the rest of my stay here.
"Finds me? Are you kidding?" I said confidently, smirking at her. "Stealth is my middle name."
And then I did the most stupid thing I had ever done in my life, I walked forward and stepped on a switch, and as soon as I heard it click, I knew that this was going to end badly. Juliet gasped as the pedestal , to my surprise sprung to life. I then hopped backwards, pretty shocked by the noise. The next thing I knew was that there was very loud music playing, and then I thought, why the bloody hell did Mr. Capulet by this again? Juliet was spinning and then yelled.
"Quick!" she yelled. "TURN IT OFF!"
I grabbed a hold of the switch and started hitting it to shut off with nothing happening. Great, just great, just what I needed! My plan to see Juliet without causing any attention to us was an absolute failure.
"I'm trying!" I yelled back.
Hopefully the music was so loud, no one would hear us yelling at each other. The music was blaring out like no tomorrow, the lights flashing following suit. I was trying so hard to shut the bloody thing off to no avail. This is not my night for lights being my friend is it?
"Do something!" she yelled.
"The button's stuck!" I yelled back, and I began stomping on it. If my hands wouldn't work then I would have to use my whole weight to SHUT THIS THING OFF! AND IT'S NOT WORKING! "Come on! Come on!"
I grabbed the bloody thing and starting hitting it against a tree and it STILL wouldn't shut off!
"It won't turn off!" I said frustrated.
"There's something behind you!" she said scared.
Oh, no! Have I been discovered? Not now! Then I turned around and saw a familiar face. Running from out of the bushes, was Shroom. I gasped, and I realized how stupid I was at not realizing that Benny would've sent Shroom out looking for me! URGH! Why am I so stupid?
"Shroom!" I said.
Shroom hopped towards me but tripped on the wire, and I tried to catch him, but was tangled up in the wire in the process. Shroom then bounced off the waterfall and I didn't see where he landed. Great, now he knows. Could things get any worse?
Yes, they could.
The Green Frog that I had seen earlier suddenly appeared out of nowhere, great, now someone else knew too.
"Juliet? What's with the...?"
But she didn't finish her sentence as Shroom landed in her mouth. I was relieved that he was alright even though it was a pretty weird place to land. She yanked him out of her mouth and placed him on the ground.
"OH! You look like a Fun guy!" she said happily.
I think they all forgot that I was still tangled in the wire.
"Scuse me, a little help here?" I said, trying to move without falling.
"My dad's coming!" Juliet said hopping down the stairs.
The Green Frog then ran up to me and shook the hand that was tangled in the wire.
"SO you must be Gnomeo... lovely to meet you..." Then made a motion as if I was going to die. "In the 30 seconds before you're discovered and killed!"
Juliet came down finally and pushed us apart.
"QUICK! HIDE!" she said.
"JULIET!"
We all gasped. I was worse than dead, but Juliet managed to untangle me and pushed me and Shroom into the pond in a matter of milliseconds before Lord Redbrick came to probably complain about the loud music that was still playing in the backround. I didn't really care for water after falling in it once tonight but I had no other option so I shut up my head. I couldn't see anything that was going on obviously but I could still hear everyone talking.
"I've told you before! No music in the grotto after 10 o clock!" Lord Redbrick said. "What's going on, here?"
And then the music finally stopped, I was relieved, and I could only hope that Juliet had a solid excuse that would get her father to leave so that I could talk to her. Whether I was caught or not really didn't matter to me. As long as I told her how I really felt. Then I could hear her voice, and that was enough to make this time in this freezing cold water go by faster.
"Umm... It was ummm... Um I saw a squirrel and he... he..." she said, and I heard something break. "...dropped his nuts."
"Yes nuts! The size of boulders!" the Green Frog said adding on to Juliet's little lie.
Whether or not Lord Redbrick would buy it was still out there, and I was really hoping that that would happen.
"Ah... Yes, right," Juliet said, pretty weirded out. "Thank you, Nanette."
I was being to get really bored waiting for Lord Redbrick to get out of here, but I had no choice than to wait down here.
"Well... Okay but no mucking about! Especially not tonight!" Lord Redbrick said. "We've been attacked by a blue!"
Great, he was remembering fond memories of tonight and when Juliet found out, she wouldn't ever want to see me again.
"AND IF GET MY HANDS ON A BLUE, HE'LL BE SLEEPING WITH THE FISHES!"
Yeah, a little late on that Old Man. I'd had enough of waiting around for him to leave and waiting to see Juliet, I swam up to the surface where she was standing and she and the Frog gasped at seeing me. I didn't care if he saw me, let him find me here, he's not going to stop me.
"Now I am not a man who is wounded up easily..!"
"Lord Redbrick, I've been having problems with my uhhuhhuh!" the frog said in an attempt to make sure Lord Redbrick didn't see me.
"Your what?" he said confused.
"Uhhuhhuh!" she said again.
This gave me a few seconds, I needed to talk to her even if it wasn't really the best time, it might be the only time. I looked towards Redbrick and then back at the real reason that I was here.
"I guess this isn't the best time to talk..." I said.
She kept looking back at her father and then at me.
"It's not ideal," Juliet said.
I understood this really wasn't a good time, but I just couldn't leave without telling her how I felt about her. I wasn't going to let her walk away from me.
"But I..." I started only to interrupted by her.
"Just go, please go," she said pleading.
It's not that easy to get rid of me, and this case was no different. I had to tell her.
"Just came here to say I..." I then faltered in nervousness, what a great time to do so. "Um.."
I just had never in my whole life felt the way about a girl that I do about Juliet and never did I ever feel the need to tell them my feelings so badly. I just loved her so much and I needed to tell her, I forced a lot of things out of my mouth and now I needed to do it again. I need to let her know how much I love her. Now, before it's too late.
"What?" she said hopefully.
"I'm..." I said smiling at her, trying to get the words out.
"You what?"
I think I was closer to saying what I wanted to say to her but she used her foot to push me back down into the water, and my spirits sank. Bloody hell, when did I get to be so silent?
"OH SORRY!" she said.
Then Lord Redbrick spoke again.
"Juliet, is there something wrong with the pond?"
She spoke again. Speak again and I'll get through this I swear.
"The pond?" she said. "NO! No, it's fine! I mean it's just as pondy as ever!"
She laughed nervously.
"OH MY GOSH! What is that thing over there?"
Shroom and I managed to get out of the pond as the Frog guided us to the way out of the garden, but I looked after Juliet and our eyes met once again and I looked after her. I still hadn't told her how I really felt about her, and I stared after her and she walked farther and farther away from me. I was brought back to my senses when I heard the Frog's voice. Nanette, I think I heard Juliet call her, and she pulled me into the shadows and farther away from the girl I loved.
"OK, then!" she said, as she tucked Shroom under my arm and started to push me towards the gate. "Thanks for stopping by! Good night sweet prince and flights of angels...or pigeons or sparrows or whatever!"
I know I shouldn't be rude, but it's "Good Night, Sweet Prince, and flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest," and who doesn't know that? Seriously, even I know that.
She opened the gate and kicked us out into the alley.
"Parting is such sweet sorrow!" she said, waved and slammed the door shut.
Shroom then jumped out of my hands, but I really didn't notice at that point. I felt depressed at my failed attempt to explain to Juliet the real reason I was there.. Maybe I shouldn't even bother anymore... I walked away really disappointed, what if she didn't...
But then those doubts were forgotten as I looked out into the hole that if one took it, they would end up back into the Lawrence Garden. I then thought of an even better way of telling her how I felt. I felt my spirits brighten as I got a brilliant idea. If I was unable to speak my feelings, maybe I could show them to her. I then remembered what exactly brought us together and what made us fall in love in the first place, what she was really after in the first place. Seeing as though I turned her entire world upside down in one night by falling in love with her, I think that I should give a memento of me, something that she could look out when I wasn't around and she could think of me. The Cupid's Arrow Orchid, the second most beautiful thing in the world, was now the only thing that could help me express the way I felt about a certain girl. I ran back to try and find it, and I knew I had to be quick, because soon Nanette may be telling Juliet a lie on how I don't love her at all because she's a Red, and that's not the case at all. I was trying to remember where exactly it went after Juliet and I fell into the water. I ran back to that exact spot and saw the Orchid on a lily pad floating in the middle of the water we fell into before we...kissed. I stopped my imagination from thinking about what could've happened when I had to focus. I pulled the lily pad towards me and grabbed the Orchid and raced back to see Juliet, hoping it wasn't too late.
I don't think I ever ran faster in my entire life, because I think I made it back to the alley in less than milliseconds, and I wasn't even bothering to count at all. I then realized that I couldn't get back into the garden, so I had to climb the fence for the second time tonight. I put the flower gently in my mouth and began climbing the dreaded fence even though I hated climbing more than anything. I don't think I can name a Gnome that doesn't dislike climbing and that's because it was a huge risk. I had managed to get to the top when I was met by a familiar face and I was shocked when I saw her, just like I was when I saw her for the first time because I couldn't get over how beautiful she was. When we saw each other, we were shocked, and I almost lost my composure and the Orchid fell from my mouth but luckily I caught with my free hand while still holding onto the fence.
"I think you'll find," I said to her lovingly. "That this does actually belong to you."
These were the only words I could really get out of me, but no matter how you expressed love to another person, you still did it anyway. I passed her the Orchid through the fence only to have our hands touch again. I know that tonight my ambition wasn't the Orchid at all, but still I was glad that I had found it because I wouldn't have ever found her. I was even grateful to Tybalt for being a right piece of work and destroying my Lawnmower because if that hadn't happened, I would've never met her. I hoped she was convinced now that I loved her for her and that I didn't care that we were from different Gardens and different walks of life. None of that mattered to me, I was only trying to convince myself I didn't love her before, but never did I care that she was a Red, and now I don't think I ever will. She looked at the Orchid at first, and then looked back at me, and those eyes that I could never take my eyes off of, pulled me into another world with just her and me in it. And now I was that I never wanted to leave that world.
"Thank you," she said back, seeming to be lost in me as well.
I felt the wild desire to do what we could've done if the bloody branch hadn't broke and gotten us all wet. I wanted to kiss her so badly ever since I first saw her and she took me into that world where we would be if we were ever together, just where I was now, and I saw that desire in her eyes as what I wanted. She leaned forward and so did I, getting closer to her, and then all of a sudden, something prevented us from kissing, like a huge gap. I tried getting closer to her, to no avail. I then realized that even though we were really close, we were completely stuck within the fence. I opened my eyes and saw she was stuck. We laughed, but I kept my eyes on her lips, I was frustrated that we had tried to kiss twice and it failed. We then began trying to pull our heads out the fence, she got out easily, but I struggled and I felt stupid for not being able to get my head out of the fence. This was something so easily done, and just look at me, struggling to get out of the bloody fence. I smiled.
"I can't go."
She smiled back. "I know how you feel."
"No, really, I'm stuck," I said stupidly.
I laughed at my failure to look good in front of this girl, and she couldn't help but laugh with me.
"So, can I see you tomorrow?" I asked.
Please, say yes.
"Yes," she responded quickly, but looked away from me. "But not here."
I thought about what she said. What about the place where we first met? For some reason, I felt the most comfortable around her there, and maybe there, I wouldn't be all silent like I was tonight.
"Back at the Old Lawrence Place then?" I suggested.
She quickly looked back at me, smiling.
"Noon?" she said.
Any time away from her was torture, but she was the only one I would wait for. I would wait for her, even though to me it would seem like 20 years.
"Not soon enough," I said, without saying how I never wanted to leave her.
"I could do 11:45," she said.
I smiled.
"Done," I said happily. "That frog was right, parting is such sweet sorrow."
I didn't want to leave her ever, and I knew she didn't want to leave me either, but sooner of later more troops from the Blue Garden are going to be looking for me, and as of right now, the Red Garden and I aren't on very happy terms either, and sooner or later Lord Redbrick would be coming back to look for his daughter, so as much as it killed me, I had to go. I just wish that I could kiss her, but I was stuck. She kissed her hand and pressed it against my lips, it wasn't what I wanted, but still, it was enough for me. I closed my eyes and kissed her hand, pretending that they were her lips. She laughed and slowly pushed me out of where I was stuck. To prevent myself from falling, I grabbed a hold of her hand. I looked at her lovingly and she did the same, as we held hands for moments that seemed like seconds. We held hands for as long as we could before we reluctantly let go, and then returned to the place where she wasn't with me.
I walked in complete joy until I found my friend, smiling for the first time in my life. What is this weird feeling?
"Shroom, do you see this face?" I said pointing to my huge smile. "It's a happy Gnome face!"
I felt this weird feeling inside of me and I had never felt this way before and she made me feel this way. I had found something else that was more important than revenge. Was I really saying that? Yes, I was, and I didn't regret it. I'm going to spend the day tomorrow with the girl I loved, and I didn't care how long we would be able to keep it a secret, she was well worth it. I picked up my friend and placed him under my arm, and rubbed his head playfully. Time to go home, sadly.
"C'mere!" I said. "Come on!"
I probably was going to be yelled at a lot by Shroom, but at the moment I simply, did not care. I was in love and no person can convince me otherwise. Juliet. I then ran to the place that I now dreaded the most because she wasn't there.
That's it! Hope you enjoyed it! I'm always nervous writing stuff because I'm afraid that they won't be good! So please go easy on me! I had to complain about Nanette not getting the Hamlet quote right because if you all remember I was Hamlet in my camp's production!
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