Chapter 2

Side note/AN: For those of you who don't know, Romeo and Juliet is a romantic tragedy about two lovers, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, who come from two different families. Unlike their families' hatred towards each other, they fall passionately in love, though their love is forbidden by both sides. Paris is the person Juliet was supposed to marry, but in the end, gets killed by Romeo.

Afternoon:

Everything followed their typical schedule. Jun and Megumi got jealous over a koala bear for being in the centre of attention for Ryuu, and Hikari got hit on the head from a rock shaped into "2nd place" after Kei beat her at the 200 sprint, once again. However, Tadashi was nowhere to be seen for most of the morning. While Akira was preparing their lunch and tea, the twins, along with Ryuu, were taking a nap, Kei was working on his laptop, and Hikari was studying for their upcoming test, which she challenged Kei to after her defeats for the nth time. As Akira arrived, bringing their lunches and tea, she said, "Without Tadashi here, we can have a peaceful and enjoyable lunch." She was clearly eager to enjoy a proper tea with Hikari.

However, at that very moment, Tadashi burst through the greenhouse door and exclaimed, "I'm ready to eat Akira's scrumptious food 333!!!" Akira's cheery mood was instantaneously dampened. However, unable to identify any reason to blame Tadashi, she deeply sighed, and gave up on her dream lunch with her angel Hikari.

The rest of the S.A. had sweat drops above their heads, "How did Tadashi know PRECISELY when Akira would serve food?! Does he have hidden cameras or something like that hanging around? Or is it just instinct?" they wondered, all at the same time.

After Tadashi had eaten until he was content, he faced everyone. "The roles for the play were chosen this morning. I was helping my mother choose." He took out thick booklets for each of the roles the S.A. would play and handed them out accordingly. Jun and Megumi were Montague and Lady Montague. Ryuu was the Friar. Akira and Tadashi were Capulet and Lady Capulet.

"Juliet... I got a leading role." Hikari stated.

Kei was brimming with happiness. He didn't even need to look at the script to figure out who he would be-Romeo. There was a kiss scene between Juliet and Romeo. Everyone within a five mile radius could feel the delight radiating from him.

Somewhere else in the school grounds:

"Do you feel something?" wondered anonymous emo person 1.

"Yeah… It feel so pure and makes me feel that life is suddenly worth living, maybe I should quit this emo thing and set out to search for that pure essence," suggested emo person 2. The two emo people lied down on the grass, as if to absorb as much as that happiness and purity as possible.

The greenhouse:

Behind Takishima Kei an entire flower garden, with rainbows, flowers, unicorns, and little angels floating around, sprinkling sparkly dust and confetti around appeared. Even Hikari, as dense as she is, could sense that Kei was simply overjoyed. Still, almost as if to prove her density, she asked, "Which character did you get Takishima?"

Just to prove to himself that he wasn't dreaming, and that this was actually true, Kei looked at the script.

"Hah?" he thought. Kei blinked and looked down at his script once more. "This can't be true…" he said in his mind, and our loud, he said, "I got…Paris?!" The happiness immediately turned to confusion, and then rage and fury. His aura of darkness and depression was ten times worse than that of his happiness and every single flower within a 100 mile radius withered.

Somewhere else in the school grounds:

The flowers around the two emo people all died away.

"Noooo!!!!! I'm losing it…" both of the emo people fell how to their knees, looking as if they was having their life sucked out of them. "The happiness… it's leaving me… noooo….." They had converted back to their original selves, but more emo than ever before. They collapsed, and moaned, "Life, love…what's the point in it all? I don't deserve to live; I'm such a loser…"

The greenhouse:

Kei, completely unaware that he just ruined the lives of two innocent people, approached Tadashi with the dragon of Seiryuu (I think it was called that) behind him. "You…You chose these roles didn't you…," he gave a humorless laugh, "How should I punish you? Shall I boil your head in hot wax? How about drop you into the earth's molten lava core? Oh, should I throw you into space and let you suffocate? I can't choose; they're all so tempting…" Kei rumbled. His fiery demonic eyes pierced Tadashi's and a bolt of lightning struck behind him. "Before you die though, tell me, who is Romeo then?"

"It's g-gonna b-be Iori T-Tokiwa," stuttered Tadashi, unmistakably frightened.

"Uh-oh… Tadashi is gonna die a painful death…" the S.A. (excluding Hikari) thought, waving good-bye to Tadashi behind Kei's back. "It was nice knowing you, we'll miss you." They pretended to blow their noses and wipe their tears.

Hikari, who was completely oblivious as to why Kei was so angry asked, "Why are you so angry Takishima? Iori is a nice person, I like him."

At this point, Kei had already fallen into a deep depression, after smashing Tadashi's head against a tree trunk. He answered her question with a glare, and then sighed deeply.

Checking to see if Kei was still angry, Tadashi peered from behind the tree. Seeing that Kei was depressed and not angry, he plucked up the courage to say, "Oh yeah, and everyone, you need to memorize your lines by tomorrow…"

"What?!" Everyone except Hikari and Kei looked at their 200 page long scripts, wondering if it was even possible.

The next day:

"C'mon mina! We're going to be late for rehearsals!" Hikari exclaimed, excited.

"Ahh… I feel so lucky to be Hikari's mother!" Akira was just as excited as Hikari.

Everyone was puzzled. "Where are we even rehearsing?" they asked.

"That's right Tadashi, where are we rehearsing?" Hikari added.

"Oh, mother had an auditorium built for this, as well as future plays that other classes will be doing," answered Tadashi. He led the S.A. to the new auditorium, which contained the latest stage technologies, including platforms that could move around.

"Wow… I've never seen anything like this!" Hikari exclaimed, "I can't believe we're actually gonna perform on this kind of stage!" While the S.A. reviewed their lines, the first scene started. Hikari, who already knew her lines by heart, was second to finish, first being Kei of course. She hanged her head low, so her hair would cover her face, and watched him.

"He looks unhappy about something. I wonder what it is." She was about to ask him directly, but then stopped herself. "He'll probably just say that it's nothing to worry about."

So, instead of asking Takishima himself, she decided to wait until it was his turn to act and ask Megumi.

"Hikari, you do know that there's a kiss scene between Romeo and Juliet right?" Megumi wrote on her notepad.

"Yeah. What about it? It's just acting." Hikari made a confused face.

"Even if it's acting, the kiss is still real, Hikari. How would you feel if Takishima had to kiss someone else, even if it's just acting?" answered Megumi's notepad.

Hikari's face fell. "So Takishima's jealous?"

"Most probably," Megumi noted down.

At this time, Kei just finished his part and headed back to his seat. Hikari gave him a huge smile. "You did wonderful!"

Kei smiled slightly, feeling just a bit better than he had 5 minutes ago. After a while, Iori passed Kei, who gave him a cold glare.

Iori grinned, "Well I'm off to rehearse my kiss scene with Hikari," then gave a fake smile. However, Kei did not respond to his remark. He was busy watching Hikari trying to convince the sensei who was directing the play to save the kiss for the actual performance. He felt a lot better that Hikari was trying to do something to prevent the kiss from happening. Poor Iori who didn't know the kiss wasn't happening yet. He found out when sensei said, "Cut," just before they kissed and was had the 'pissed mark' on the side of his forehead when the kiss was interrupted. Kei chuckled as he watched Iori's irritation.

After a few more rehearsals, the date of the actual performance was nearing every passing second, and Hikari's kiss with Iori could not be delayed any longer.

And that's it for chapter 2! Thank you for reading. I'll try to update soon. R&R please. Thanks again.