Okay, so for this one I have made Lucas pretty OOC. He's really arrogant, but sweet in a way. I think it somehow works out though.

Drabble 2- Oh Romeo, Oh Romeo, wherefore art thou...Lucas?

Song- Love Story ~Taylor Swift

This isn't good! This just isn't good! How dare he just drop out of Drama when they play is in two weeks? He was the only guy qualified for the role and yet he leaves without so much as saying sorry? That's more than rude if you ask me! Now who's going to play Romeo? Since my role is Juliet I should certainly be the first to know...

Oh good, here comes Mrs. Oakley. Maybe she'll be able to spread some light on this situation.

"Good news everyone!" She says excitedly as she hurries into our tiny classroom. "I've found the perfect person to fill the role as Romeo! He just got transferred into our class and he said he was more than willing to do it, but I would like to test him so today we're going to do one of the easier scenes. Act One Scene Five where Romeo has first laid eyes on Juliet! Hurry with your costumes because this is a dress rehearsal since we need to make sure that they fit since they're new!"

And she's not even going to tell us who it is? Oh well, this will be a good way to find out if the guy is good enough to be Romeo.

It's kind of interesting really. We're not actually doing the whole play, more like a simpler version and with a better ending. I hurry to put on my outfit along with everyone else and we then proceed to get on the stage. I must admit that our scene crew is pretty good at setting up the stage in a hurry.

Everyone takes their spot and I think I've spotted 'Romeo', but his face is canceled behind that silly mask he has to wear.

"Mrs. Oakley, does he know all the lines?" Keith –who will be playing Tybalt– asks from the back. "He says he does." She answers from where the crowd will be sitting. "Let's get this started!"

The music starts to play and we begin to do the ridiculous dance that we have to do for this scene. The guy playing Romeo leans over to one of the guys playing one of the many Servingmen. "What lady is that, which doth enrich the hand or yonder knight?" He asked.

"I know not sir." The other guy answers.

"Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night..." I amazed that he manages to recite that whole part, and even adding feeling to it. It almost sounds like he completely means what he is saying.

I leave the person I am currently dancing with and go to stand on the sidelines. I watch as Romeo makes his way over to me.

"If I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss." He says smoothly after he stood behind me. It was weird, but I know this voice, but even though I know by now he has removed the mask I can't exactly see him

"Good pilgrim, you do wrong with your hand too much, which mannerly devotion shows in this; for saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, and palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss." I reply keeping my gaze away from him.

"Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?" He asked.

"Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayers." I answer calmly. Wow, this is going better than I had expected! Even the previous Romeo had a bit of trouble with this scene. Now if I only knew who this was...

"Oh, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; they pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair." I loved the emotion he was putting into this! He sounded upset, but ended on a hopeful note.

"Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake."

"Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take. Thus from my lips, by your, my sin is purged." His tone ended light, and when I turned to face him I felt like I could collapse. I knew this person alright. My best friend, the guy I've had a crush on since last year, Lucas. Obviously I had an expression that let him know that I was shocked to see him. He cracked a smile as I resumed the dialogue.

"Then have my lips the sin that they have took."

At that Mrs. Oakley cut everything off and began to clap. "That was excellent! I loved the emotion you put into that, but Keith, you need to be fiercer when you are arguing about Romeo! I know you have it in you! Dawn, now I know you were just probably surprised at who it was playing Romeo but don't stutter! Take from Lucas and put every bit of emotion you have in you into the script! You're doing good but lets push for one hundred and ten percent!"

Class seemed to fly by after that. I am rather amazed at how Lucas knows the whole script to this. I though I went overboard with the memorization but he went all out! Oh well, I definitely can't complain since it makes things a whole lot easier. I just wonder though...why did he leave Gym class for Drama of all things?

It's the end of the day and Lucas and I are walking through the halls down to my locker. "So why'd you join Drama?" I decided to ask as I began to open my locker. "Gym got boring since I didn't exactly like anybody in that class and I figured that Drama couldn't be that hard since I have already read the play for Romeo and Juliet in my language class a million times." He answered as he leaned up against the lockers.

I couldn't help but swoon over him. His cool blue eyes and short blackish hair...but I can't stare at him now! It would be too obvious...

"But I've got a few questions and Juliet I think you can answer them." He said jokingly.

"Fire away." I said as I began to put my books away. "Well in the movie Romeo and Juliet they had been kissing every time they had seen each other and acted like if they didn't kiss they would die. How many times are they making us kiss?"

Oh god...I completely forgot about the kisses...this could be really good, or really bad. "W-well we kiss at the party-thing and then at the Capulet's Orchard. Once again when we have to get married and I think once again near the end. You do know that this is a different ending right?"

"Yep. You're nervous aren't you?" He asked in a sly tone. I blush but try to hide it as anger. "Now why would you say that?" I asked.

"Oh I don't know, maybe because we have to kiss so many times in front of a lot of people."

I ignore him and slam my locker shut. "Admit it! You want to kiss me!" He accused. Of course he was right, but it's not like I'm just going to admit that he's right. "Oh please." I answer as I begin to walk away.

"Don't lie. I can see it written all over your face! You can't wait till we have to kiss." He said as he hurried to catch up with me. I try to walk faster but he only keeps up my pace. "You wouldn't be running away if it wasn't true."

Alright! He's really making me mad! Time to use everything against him! "Oh really? You're the one who brought it up! Obviously you want to kiss me!" I yell.

"Maybe I do." He said in a more suave tone. Well that completely backfired! I expected him to say something other than that! I begin to blush as I stop walking. "Oh yeah right Mister Sarcasm! You wouldn't kiss me if I was the last person on this planet."

He shrugged and his tone became lighter and not filled with as much sarcasm. "You know, I figured you would have taken the hint."

I gave him a questioning look and he continues. "C'mon! I decide to quit Gym and what's the first class I think of? Drama! Why, because you're in it and I already knew that you all were doing Romeo and Juliet so I studied your script."

"What do you mean my script?"

"A few weeks ago you left your script in our Geometry class. I was going to give it back to you, but I forgot. Back to what I was saying. You're the last person I'd expect to not get what I'm saying."

I think it over for a few seconds. He doesn't exactly seem to be getting to the point, nor does it seem like he will be getting there anytime soon. I have homework and practice to do! I don't have time for nonsense like this. "I have to go." I state calmly as I swiftly begin to walk away.

Again he hurries to catch up with me but this time he grabbed my arm, stopping me and then pulled me close to him. "You know, for a person who can tell exactly when someone likes someone else, you're pretty oblivious." He stated.

I tried to say something in reply but I only stuttered. Being this close to him was making my heart race and if I didn't know any better, I'd say that I just saw the absolute faintest blush on his face.

It's kind of funny though; Zoey has said the exact same thing. "It's funny how you know exactly when someone likes someone else, but you remain completely clueless as to who likes you!" She had said.

She couldn't have possibly meant Lucas could she? He's never really shown any serious signs of liking me in that sense. But then again, I have noticed that he has been acting differently around me recently...but that could mean anything!

"What are you implying?" I asked cautiously. "Hmm, maybe I like you." He stated almost in a mocking tone. "Maybe I like you too." I reply in a tone mocking his as we move away from one another. "Maybe we should go out."

"Maybe we should."

Funny how we seem to be more or less yelling at each other than actually having an intimate moment. "So," he says in a more calm tone. "So," I reply, but soon begin to laugh. "Did you really just ask me out like that? You don't want to date me!"

"I don't remember saying that." He says modestly. I look up at him and for once all I see is sincerity not his usual mocking eyes. "You know how I was able to put so much emotion into the play today? Because most of what I said I do mean. Sure it was all said in a different kind of way, but it was mostly true."

I feel my cheeks burning from blushing, but someone laughing interrupts my thoughts. "Well, that was sure interesting. Not how I had told you to play things out, but nevertheless interesting." I recognize the voice to be Zoey's. She had been watching? I'm never going to live this one down! "Zoey?" I say in a surprised tone. "Evening lovebirds." She replies modestly as she begins to walk down the hall towards us.

"Hey Zoey." Lucas greets in a bored tone. "Hey Lucas. Now tell me why you didn't do what I told you to do?"

"My way was better."

Now I'm confused. Zoey was making Lucas ask me out? "Wait, you were in on this?" I asked.

"Maybe. But lover boy here didn't listen, but I guess he reached the objective: finally asking you out." She replies with a smirk.

"But c'mon. If you want a ride home we better get going."

We begin to make our way to the student parking lot and Lucas follows us and when we reach Zoey's car I stop to talk to Lucas. "So, I'll see you tomorrow." I said in a light tone. "Yeah," he says as he wraps me in a tight hug.

We've hugged before, but this one sure is different. I want to kiss him, but I don't think I should just yet, after all, he only asked me out like ten minutes ago. I pull away from the hug, lean up and delicately pecked him on the cheek before getting in Zoey's car. I turn to her as she begins to back out of her spot. "You have a lot of explaining to do." I state in an angry tone.

"I think you have a lot of thanking to do. You have no clue what I had to do to get him to finally ask you out. You wouldn't believe how nervous the guy was."

Confusion replaces my slight anger. I look back at Lucas from the rearview mirror then back at Zoey. "Lucas? Nervous?"

She only laughs at my comment.

I watch as Dawn and Zoey drive away and I can't help but smile. It's either due to the fact that Dawn looks utterly pissed at Zoey or the fact that everything turned out better than I had expected. No, I didn't ask her out the way Zoey had planned but I think that my way was better.

All in all today was probably one of the best I've had in awhile. I have more than one class with Dawn now, she's my girlfriend, and I got Romeo without any problems. I'm going to have to thank Zoey for convincing David to drop out of Drama. I'm also going to have to thank her for forcing me to ask Dawn out. I'll probably never admit this, but I was nervous beyond belief, but like I said, I'll never admit that.

So, that was the second drabble and I'm in first place in the challenge, but just to let everyone know, I won't be writing for maybe a week because I have to attend my grandfather's funeral...yeah, so me and the other two people in this challenge won't be writing since we have to leave soon to make our trip to the other side of the country and that's going to be fun going through airport security and three airports all together...fun fun fun!