I can't stay away from Romeo and Juliet. And to think I thought it wouldn't be good when we started it in English! Not to mention my mind has cultivated its own Romeo, with his own beautiful Juliet…
So this is it. Act I is closing in on us. This is a very filler-ish scene. But Alex is beginning to sense that when he meets the girl, all won't ride smoothly…
Just wait until you see what happens next. Cue curtain.
Enter ALEX BLACK, DAVE ULEY, and QUENTIN ATEARA, on their way to their enemies' home for a party…
"I can't believe we're doing this," muttered Dave. He pulled irritably on his army uniform and tucked the helmet under his arm.
Quentin rolled his eyes. "Do you have any sort of fun in you, at all?" he demanded. "It's fine. There'll be hot girls there. We have invitations. We get to scope out the Cullen headquarters." He glanced at Alex. "We got to get this one a babe hotter than Katie."
Dave also looked at Alex. He was dressed in army fatigues, like the others, but his forlorn face ruined the effect. It was obvious he was daydreaming of the girl who broke his heart.
Alex looked up and met Dave's dark gaze. "You can have them," he said with a voice devoid of emotion. "I can't dance. I feel like my whole body is made of lead."
Dave snorted, and shoved him in the arm. "C'mon, Alex. This is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I thought my dad wouldn't let me in a hundred yards of the Cullens, and Jake hates them more than he does. Leah, too. Enjoy it while you can, man!"
Alex rolled lethargically with the shove. Quentin moved to his other side, and pushed him back to Dave, who quickly volleyed Alex back. They kept it up, faster and faster, until the faintest of smiles appeared on his face. "Finally!" Quentin gasped. "He smiles!"
Alex barked a laugh, and looked off towards the glowing house at the end of the incredibly long driveway. "So what do you think it'll be like?" he asked vaguely.
Dave smirked. "If it's anything like your dad said Bella's graduation party was like, it'll be bangin'," he said eagerly. "Every girl in the general Forks area is coming – that Ellie girl likes to make friends."
"Friends," Quentin snorted. "Whatever. We'll make you kiss every girl there until you imprint, then bang! Problem solved."
Alex smiled at Quentin's brashness. "Nice try, but I'm going to try and win Katie over."
Dave groaned. "Man, that girl is not worth your time. She flirts with everything on two legs, including old Chief Swan."
Quentin laughed, but Alex stayed quiet. Suddenly, he said, "I had a dream last night."
Dave arched an eyebrow. "Okay? So?"
Alex glared. "So, it was weird. I saw this girl, really pretty, and she was dancing away from me. I ran after her but I couldn't quite catch her, then some really pale guy knocked her away into the shadows, and I couldn't get her back." He shuddered slightly in the cold November breeze. At least it wasn't raining, for once. "It was like this… doom feeling, I don't know."
Dave gazed at him levelly, then laughed, his bark sharp against the still air that hummed faintly with the throbbing stereo from the house. "Oh yeah, you're the fortune teller," he mocked. "Leave that to the little bloodsucker, ok? Dreams lie. Any girl you want won't run away, ok?"
Alex turned his face away from Dave. He couldn't shake the figure of the girl from his mind. She was so fair she seemed to have glowed in the darkness of his dream. So had the man, but his was harsh, while hers was soft. He had felt a feeling deep inside him, different from what he saw when he looked at Katie, more potent…
He looked back at his friends. "Yeah, a lie," he said finally. "Let's go before it starts to rain."