A Little Bit Longer and We'll Be Fine

Disclaimer: You guys should know this by now. I sadly don't own anything except for the song on my ipod. I wish, like every other girl in America(throughout the world!) that I knew and owned a Jonas Brother(change that…how about all 3!). Hehe. Um…I do own Niki and the guitar I used in the story. Oh yeah...and Romeo & Juliet as we all know belonged to William Shakespeare. I'm using Act 5, Scene 3—the death scene. Love it! Reviews are appreciated. Love ya! :)

Side Note: **Means that I'm not plagiarizing! Just simply quoting from Romeo & Juliet; edition Shakespeare I of II. As we've all pretty much learned in English Literature, […] means omitting words and stuff. Yeah....sorry for the lesson. Just needed to make another point. :)

Dedication: This story is dedicated to my best friend, co-author, and partner-in-crime Niki. She's written me like 4 stories, and I think I owe her one. I love you, Niki! :)

Chapter 2

As soon as I got home, I heard my cell ring. I looked and smiled.

Niki: Hey, Nick.

Nick: Hey, Niki. I was wondering if you were busy tonight?

Niki: Um…not that I know of. What's up?

Nick: I was just wondering if we could get together to work on the English Literature project tonight.

Niki: Yeah. That would be great. How about my place around 6ish?

Nick: Yeah. That would be really great. See you then!

Niki: Okay. See you!

As I got out of the car, I could barely contain my excitement. "Thank you, God!" I said as I looked up toward heaven. Maybe this was the sign of the something more that I was looking for. I quickly did my homework and ate a tiny snack of applesauce.

As the doorbell rang, I became a little bit nervous. I was about to rehearse the death scene from Romeo & Juliet with Nick. I hoped that it wouldn't be too obvious that I really liked him. If it was, then I'd just go from there.

After I introduced Nick to my parents, we were free to go rehearse. "Okay, follow me." I said as we headed up to my room. As we walked into my room, I felt a High coming on. As I sat down on my bed, I caught Nick's attention. "Okay. Not good…you're having a high." he said, as he quickly ran down the steps to get my medicine for me. When he came back up, he sat down on the bed and handed me the needle and insulin. As I pulled my needle from the kit, my hands were shaking so much that I could barely give myself the shot. As I tried valiantly for the 3rd time, Nick grabbed the needle and ever so gently helped me administer the shot. "Thanks Nick. Wow…I feel so embarrassed!" I said, as I drank the orange juice he had also brought to help balance it out and hid my face in my hands. "You're welcome, Niki. It's not a problem. I understand." he said as he pulled me into his arms for a hug. "Yeah, I guess you do. That was just a little embarrassing." I said, my face buried in his shirt. As he broke the hug, he pulled my hands away from my face. "You're really too beautiful to hide your face. I love those eyes, even when they are filled with tears." he said as he smiled. "Okay, Nicholas. You win. I'll try not to hide my face and eyes behind my hands anymore." I said as I giggled.

As I jumped off my bed to get my script, Nick jumped off the bed to get a drink of water. When I had my script in hand, I jumped back onto the bed. I adjusted myself into the scene. "Ready to go?" I asked Nick as he stood by the door. "Yes. Off the bed...my death spot!" he says with a giggle. *Oh goodness gracious!* I think to myself as we both burst out laughing. "How are we going to get this to work if we're both laughing?" I asked him, a little curious. "Well, we're just going to have to get into serious actor mode." he says as we both try to stop giggling. When we've gained seriousness, we began.

**Enter Romeo: As Romeo states, "O my love! My wife! Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath. Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, and death's pale flag is not advanced there.[...] Depart again here, here will I remain with worms that are thy chamber-maids; o, here will I set up my everlasting rest, and shake the yoke of of inauspicious stars from this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, o you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death! Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide! Thou desparate pilot, now at once run on the dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark! Here's to my love!" [drinks poison] "o true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die."

As soon as Nick kissed me, I opened my eyes. "But you're supposed to be 'dead!'" he says. "Sorry, couldn't help it. I just thought of something." I said, shock in my voice. "What? What did you think of?" he asks, curiosity taking over the seriousness. "Well, I wonder if Mrs. James gave us the death scene for a reason?" I asked, suspicion now replacing the curiosity. "Maybe. But...she couldn't have..." he stops for a minute to think. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" he asks. "What, that she thinks there might be something other than friendship in the air? Maybe." I reply, the suspicion turning back to curiosity. *Wow!* I thought to myself. "Anyway, we better finish rehearsing for our presentation tomorrow." I said, to kinda clear the air of the curious mood we were both in.

**Juliet Awakes: As Juliet states, "O comfortable friar! Where is my lord? I do remember well where I should be. And there I am. Where is my Romeo? [….] Go, get thee hence, for I will not away. What's here? A cup, closed in my true love's hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end: o churl! Drunk all, and left no friendly drop to help me after? I will kiss thy lips; haply some poison yet doth hang on them, to make me die with a restorative." [kisses him] "Thy lips are warm. Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!" [snatching Romeo's dagger] "This is thy sheath [stabs herself]; there rust, and let me die!"[falls on Romeo's body—dies].

As soon as I kissed Nick, I had a hard time saying my last few lines. I could have also sworn that when I kissed him, he smiled! Wow...if fate's stepping in, then it must have stepped in when we were given the death scene. Had our teacher been working with fate? Maybe. Or, could his two brothers have had anything to do with this? I bet they've seen how Nick acts with me in the hallway. He's kinda flirty, but in a good way. I felt Nick touch my shoulder and that snapped me out of my thoughts. "I've been thinking...the presentation's great, but I think we could improve the kissing scenes a little bit." he said with a grin and a mischievous look in his eyes. Before I could say anything, I felt Nick's lips on my lips. *Wow! I can't believe I'm really kissing him for real!* I thought to myself as I returned the kiss. I mean, I've kinda known Nick for about 2 years, but I only knew him through some friends at school and from him being in the band Jonas.

Our 10th grade English Literature class was really the first time I got to talk to him as a friend and a real person. "Um...I think that the kiss went better that time, Nick." I said, a little bit out of breath. "Um...I guess it did. It might have room for some improvement, though." he said, that smirkish grin on his face again."What exactly are you talking about, Nicholas Lucas?" I asked, suspicious by whatever was going on inside his head. "Well, I guess it's kind of confession time." he said, that smile still on his face. "Explain, Nick." I said, "I won't be mad." "Well...I kinda." he paused, and the puppy dog look appeared. "Just tell me, please." I said, more curious than anything now. "Well, I kinda asked Mrs. James to give us the death scene with the 2 kisses." he said, the puppy dog face turning into a grin again. "What? You did that?" I asked, a little shocked. "Yes, I did. Are you mad?" he asked. "No, Nick. I'm not mad." I said, just a little bit more curious than I was before. "Okay, good. It would be absolutely horrible if the girl I really liked was mad at me." he said, the grin widening.

"Wow...you requested the death/kiss scene because you like me?" I asked, trying to make sense of his thought process. "Yes, I really, really, really like you! You are the cutest girl ever, and I would really like to date you sometime soon." he confessed. "Awww!" was all I could manage to say as tears started to fall. "That's the sweetest thing a guy has ever done for me!" I confessed back as the tears fell. "Yes. I really do like you, and please don't cry!" he said as he wiped the tears from my face. "I'm crying happy tears, Nick. I really like you, too; and, at some point I would like to date you, too." I confessed as the tears kept falling.

"Great!" he said as he kissed me again, only this time the kiss was on the cheek. "I wouldn't feel right kissing you for our presentation unless I knew that you were my girlfriend." he said, hoping that I would say yes. "Well, Nick. That's kind of funny because I wouldn't want to kiss you again unless I knew I was kissing you as my boyfriend." I confessed back. "Really? So, you will be my girlfriend?" he asked. "Yes, Nick Lucas. I will be your girlfriend." "Awesome! You are the cutest!" he said, and then he kissed me for the last time tonight.

Tomorrow, I would do my Romeo & Juliet presentation for English Literature with my new boyfriend, Nick Lucas.