a/n: hey everyone! I'm pretty proud of myself for updating so quickly! I wanted to try this one in third person.

Maria kissed the man she has been secretly in love with for the longest time. Her and Marcus have been secretly seeing each other for a few weeks. But have had to both come to terms with their attraction for the other. She deepened the kiss and thought of how much she loves Marcus. His soft cameral colored eyes and his perfectly placed nose that centers his face. His eyebrows arch beautifully over the eyes she could stare into forever. His lips that curve into the mend of the soft flesh of her own lips so perfectly that Maria would deem it heavenly. Maria ran her fingers through Marcus dark brown locks as she counted the numerous times she had felt this explosion inside her heart when she was with Marcus. Marcus brought his one hand to rest on Maria's hip while the other hand held Maria's face close to his.

Maria and Marcus didn't really realize what they felt for the one another until Marcus came into Maria's chambers. Maria just couldn't contain herself any longer. She had to kiss Marcus. For weeks they had stolen glances at each other and dreamt of the other. This sort of attraction wasn't allowed for a servant and a member of the royal family, And especially between Maria and Marcus. And that was the burning truth. The truth that set ablaze her hatred for her "royalty". And Maria knew Marcus had a fiancé but she really just couldn't control herself that evening when Marcus walked into her room.

~flashback~

Maria was lounging on her balcony reading Shakespeare when Marcus walked into her room.

"Madam Maria. They sent me to tell you dinner will be ready in a half an hour." He looked at her briefly then down at the ground

"Very well." Maria said as she stood from the plush sofa on her balcony. She walked into her room as she shut the balcony doors pulling the curtains. Marcus walked over to Maria's closest and pulled out one of Maria's favorite evening gowns. It was red and tight around her curves and it squeezed her breasts together. He laid the evening gown on her bed and bowed. The way Marcus stared at her and her body was like she was drinking in the way her curves blessed her body.

Maria twisted a black tendril of her own hair around her finger. "Miss Maria you're a very beautiful women." Then he looked up at her like he couldn't believe he said those words. He blushed and his cheeks warmed to a hue of a soft pink.

"Sorry, miss. Your suitor will be very lucky to have you." he said as she stepped towards Maria.. "I'm sure he will appreciate you and all you have to offer." Maria looked into Marcus's eyes as she smiled. The way he said it was like he saw more than just the outside of her like he saw something deep down inside her.

Maria laughed bitterly. That's the only thing that men that were interested in her seemed to notice. It's all they thought she offered her body. But Marcus nodded like she understood but Maria doubted that he did. "You're more than you appear to be, Miss Maria." He murmured as he looked down at the ground. Marcus turned to leave but before he did Marcus head dipped down and softly brushed his lips against Maria's. Just gently and briefly that Maria didn't have time to react before he smiled and left.

End of Flashback

And now here they stood completely involved (secretly) with the other. Marcus pushed them apart gently from their kiss.

"I love you, Maria. So much that it scares me. This isn't supposed to happen. A servant and a member of the royal family. But you're so beautiful and tempting that I don't feel like I'm worthy of you. I'm nothing look at me I'm some servant and you are perfect. But you are mine. You're my other half." Marcus began to cry at seeing Maria smiling brightly as his recognized their relationship and what they felt for the other. He never wanted to talk about how he felt. "And I am so sorry to tell you this. But your father saw us in passing as we were holding hands. He has decided to send me away. And you too."

"Great! Where are we going? I knew he would understand that we love each other! This is wonderful I can finally be free to tell people how much I love you!" Maria giggled happily and hugged Marcus tightly. When she pulled back to look at him in the eyes to share this moment all she saw was deep sadness and a brokenness that cannot be fixed. She reached her hand up to touch his cheek but he captured it in his much larger hand. He squeezed her hand as he sucked in a breathe and stared at her.

"Not together, princess. You're going somewhere were you won't be known as royalty but just a normal everyday teenager like you always wanted to be. You'll grow up in some suburb town and then you'll go to college and get a degree in what you always wanted to do, teach. You can teach kids! And then you'll get married and have children." He cried as he took his hands and brushed away her hair from her face.

"No! Marcus I want to be normal with you! I want to grow up with you! I want to get married to you and have our children! I want to die together." She said sadly as he crashed his lips onto hers in a slow decent. His lips were salty with the taste of his tears that rolled onto his lips and she could feel the pain and sadness behind this urgency of the kiss. Because it was their last kiss. It was their goodbye. He pulled away from her with a sob and slowly walked away from her and out the door. That was the last time she'd see him.

Someone came and collected her from her room several minutes later. She only brought one thing with her to the town she will be re-located at. And that one thing was a photo of Marcus and her that she had taken during a sunset were they lay out on her balcony. The sad memory rushed over her as she was filed into a plane. She looked down from the plane window as it lifted off into the sky. She watched the patches of green and the crystal blue lakes blend together like a puzzle piece. And then she saw the castle planted right in the middle of it all. Like a jagged unwanted enemy reminding her of what she has lost. And what she will never find again, true love.

She looked down at the photograph in her hand and smiled sadly at the people so blissfully unaware in the picture. She saw the way they looked at each other. It was her. But it hurts to even admit that now. Because with admitting you have found love comes with knowing that you've lost it. And there is nothing you could do about it. Maria lived sixteen years up in that hell hole they called a bedroom chamber. Feeling nothing about what Shakespeare wrote about. She loved his words but she couldn't find the meaning of Romeo and Juliet until this day. She understood love the day Marcus kissed her. And she was alarmed to find that with love comes an unraveling unfair ending to it all.

a/n; too overdramatic? Please review! You guys really make my day when you review, favorite, and follow! I kinda wanted to go a different root with Santana since in the show you don't really see her this open with someone but now that she has losted love that's when she becomes closed off and nasty towards off. Hence season 1 and kinda 2 of glee.:)