A - I will describe it so vividly you will think you were there. Oh, and I had a look at Eve Of Milady dresses, and there are all so beautiful and all soooo Rosaline. I chose two I liked best and kind of meshed them together. And yay, you have a deviantart! I'm glad you liked my pictures. I did them all for my art GCSE earlier this year. And also if you go in my favourites you can see a picture of Hermia and Benvolio that Oreoskidz did for me :)
Kiko33 - I'll be sad when it's done too! I've lived with this story for about a year or so now. You know, drafting it, writing it, posting it. I've got cracking on the sequel and I like how it's turned out. I think the sequel will be a more mature effort, as I'm going to be dealing with some harder topics.
Now, Lord Capulet has had a week to come to terms with the relationship between his daughter and Romeo. And what does he do about it?
"Listen here, boy" snarled Lord Capulet. Romeo spun around from where he had been watching out of the window.
"Yes?" he answered nervously. Something about Lord Capulet always made him feel nervous. But not as nervous as Benvolio usually got.
"I have been thinking about what you said to me on Saturday"
"Really?" asked Romeo, trying not to antagonise the cranky Lord.
"Yes"
"And...what exactly do you think?" Romeo pursed his lips and then smoothed his shirt nervously.
"If what you said about seeing my daughter is true" Lord Capulet began "Then I believe we need to have a chat"
"Oh. Ok then" said Romeo nervously. He waited. Lord Capulet took a deep breath.
"If I ever have reason to believe that you have hurt her, upset her, mistreated her, offended her, humiliated her, forced her into doing something that either she does not want to do, or I do not want her to do, whether it's sneaking out at midnight, drugs, sexual touching, sexual intercouse, smoking, stealing, or any other kind of crimes, then I will give Tybalt permission to beat you half to death, stuff your head down a lavatory, flush it, and then castrate you. Understand?"
"Yes, sir" muttered Romeo.
"But I'm sure that won't happen. You have proven yourself to be a little more mature and responsible. If only the same could be said of that idiot friend of yours"
"You mean Mercutio?"
"Yes"
"What's he doing?"
"Something he calls a flappy dappy dance"
Romeo snorted.
"This isn't funny! Several times during the past fortnight, I have considered ringing the Mental Health line and having them come over to evaluate him. The boy is quite blatantly mad, and I think he has a problem!"
"That's just him! Mercutio isn't mental" protested Romeo.
"I can't help but think so. My own sister has manic depression. I know the symptoms of mental health issues, and I unofficially diagnose him with Schizophrenia for the rant about fairies he had last night, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder for his incessant ability not to concentrate and start doing something else, Gender Identity Disorder for when he dressed up in my ex wife's clothes, and several other things that I don't even know enough about to diagnose!"
"But he's just...Mercutio! And he doesn't have Gender Identity Disorder! We always dress up stupid in stupid outfits. Sometimes they happen to be women's clothes, I mean, we sneaked into your party dressed as the Spice Girls one year so we wouldn't be recognised but Tybalt caught me and then we ran off and we also had to take it all off so Hermia couldn't get a picture to put on the internet and humiliate us with"
"You did WHAT!" barked Lord Capulet.
"Sneaked into your party dressed as the Spice Girls" mumbled Romeo.
"Oh, great. And let me guess, it was Mercutio's idea?"
"Yes" said Romeo "And he's not a schizo and he doesn't have ADHD, he has a vivid imagination and likes to express himself! He's just...Mercutio!"
"Did something happen in his childhood that I should know about? Was he dropped on his head?"
"No, but his dad is an alcoholic and his parents are divorced. People call him gay a lot but I think he's just affectionate with me and Benvolio"
"Whatever" Lord Capulet rolled his eyes "Just bear that threat in mind. I'm going to go and tell Mercutio to pack it in and shut up now. Tybalt would never act like that, it's shocking"
