Dawnstar94 - Lucky you! I went to Disney World when I went to Florida. Hope you have a great time!
At least the boys are out of jail. Now, I think the Montague boys are going to make up.
As soon as he could get his angry mother and angry uncle off his back, Mercutio snuck out the palace and headed over to the Montague Ranch. He passed a few of Rosaline's poisonous friends, and they just glared at him. Scrawny rats. Mercutio knew the code to get into the Ranch, and so he typed it in and let himself in. In fact, he even had a key to the front door. He let himself in, and walked through the corridors to the dining room.
"Why didn't you tell us this?" demanded Anthony, Benvolio's dad.
"I didn't think you'd care"
"Of course I care, you stupid boy! Who do you think I am, Angelo Fulgencio?"
Mercutio snorted. That was a good one. He waited a while before deciding to make his presence known.
"And I don't know what was going on with the crush on Rosaline" Lord Montague shook his head "I know you are fifteen, Romeo, but really. It's getting out of hand. It's not love, it's not even a normal teenage crush, it's an obsession. And she's not good for you either"
"Yes, she may seem like a proper young lady when you look at her, unlike the one with the short ginger hair," added Paulina, Romeo's mother "But the truth is, she is a fake. She's just a social climber. She wouldn't care about you for who you were, which is the sort of person I want for you. That's not a very good type of girl to go for"
"Rosaline is like Britney Spears. Britney said that she would remain a virgin until she got married, then she dated Justin Timberlake and slept with him, and then she cheated on him with some other guy and slept with him as well" added Beatrix.
The rest of the Montagues shook their heads and rolled their eyes.
"It's really annoying" Benvolio continued "It's driving us apart. Mercutio gets so pissed off with you, and then you fall out, and I'm stuck in the middle!"
"Greetings, my favourite unofficial family!" declared Mercutio, bouncing into the room.
"Mercutio! How did you get in here?" gasped Romeo, obviously forgetting that he gave his friend a key.
"Oh, don't worry, I'll pay for the window and the dead security man" replied Mercutio. He looked at the solemn faces "I'm joking. You gave me a key, nitwit"
"We were just talking about..." Benvolio finished with a hand gesture.
"We were telling them off for fighting" corrected Anthony.
"Naughty boys" scolded Mercutio, in an Escalus voice.
"You were part of it, you broke Gabriel's nose!" Romeo protested.
"It's not broken. Angelo called their doctor, and it's just a bit swollen. Whoops. I should be careful not to let my hand slip when I'm trying to high-five people's faces with my fist clenched"
Both Romeo and Benvolio sniggered.
"Well, we'll leave you boys to make up. If you need us, we'll be in the front room" said Paulina. She, Beatrix and the adults left. Mercutio sat down next to his friends.
"So...how are my favourite sexy bums?"
"Stop calling us that!"
"What? You Montagues have great backsides. I wish I was a Montague so I could have nice butt. You ought to wear your trousers lower, especially you, Benvolio"
"I don't want my crack hanging out!" cried Benvolio.
"Teehee" said Mercutio. Then he suddenly went solemn "So, they told us to talk, didn't they?"
"Well, that's what we're doing, isn't it?" asked Romeo.
"Yes, but I gathered we need to talk about other things. The fact that we all fell out and left each other vulnerable to predators" said Mercutio.
"Predators?" Benvolio asked.
"Yes. Tybalt...and stupid useless Capulet rip-off version of me Gabriel"
"Oh" said Benvolio "Is that his new name?"
"Yes. Because that's all he is. Tybalt's jealous you have a friend so amazingly amazing and sexy as me, so he tried to find his own. And he got Gabriel, the horrible half-brother of his girlfriend"
"Ha ha. Does Tybalt actually have any friends? Like, you know, proper friends, not just people he beats up other people with for sport?" asked Romeo.
"Of course not. People only respect him because if they don't he will beat them up. Not like us. We go way back, don't we?" said Mercutio.
"I've known you since the day I was born" nodded Romeo.
"And so have I" added Benvolio.
"Why throw that away for a stupid petty argument over girls?" asked Mercutio.
"He's right. We should just forget about girls. It's not like I'll ever get another girl like Rose again" Benvolio sighed regretfully "I feel like it was all my fault. What's wrong with me?"
"Nothing, Benny. It's what's wrong with Gabriel that's the problem. I swear he needs to see a psychologist. And anyway, don't beat yourself up over it. Girls are stupid" replied Mercutio.
"What about Hermia?" asked Romeo.
"What about Hermy-wa?"
"She's a girl"
"But she's one of us" said Mercutio "She does it like a dude. But that's not the point. I think Romeo owes us an apology over the Rosaline thing"
"I liked her, I genuinely liked her! I thought she was really beautiful, and I didn't realise about the Tybalt thing. I believed the chastity lie..."
"And you ought to apologise to us for being such a twat and going on and on about her! You're like Beatrix for Edward Cullen, except, to your credit, you fall in love with real people"
Benvolio snorted.
"I'm sorry" said Romeo.
"Now let's have a hug" announced Mercutio.
"No!" cried the two Montagues. Mercutio pulled his signature freaky grin.
"Hugging time! Hugging time with Wooshy-wo! Come and hug me! Or I'll get you!"
He caught Benvolio before he could run. Benvolio groaned, and let his bizarre friend hug him. Eventually, Mercutio hugged Romeo as well, and they sat back down again.
"Well, anyway, we need to spend some time bonding together again. What do you say?"
"Bonding?" asked Benvolio.
"Male bonding!" responded Mercutio "In fact, I think, this weekend, we should build a Man Cave. Only men allowed"
"Says the boy...who watches Mean Girls, possesses a pair of pink trousers and has a poster of Lady Gaga on his wall" said Romeo.
"So maybe I'm a bit camp"
"A bit!" coughed Benvolio.
"Whatever! So who wants to watch I Love You, Man?" asked Mercutio.
"In a minute" replied Benvolio. He straightened up "There's something I have to do first"
"What's that?" asked Romeo.
"Nothing. I won't be long" Benvolio exited, shoving on his shoes as he went. Then he took off out the Ranch. He knew where he was headed. This is what he should have done the moment Gabriel clapped his greedy eyes on Rose, and the minute she'd started responding to his dirty advances.
He knocked on the door to her house. Her mother answered.
"Hello, Benvolio. Were you here to see Rose?"
"Yes. I was. Is that ok?"
"It's fine. I heard about the break-up. I hope you get back together and you talk some sense into her. I don't know if I like this Gabriel person..."
"I'm here to talk sense" replied Benvolio "But there's no reunion the cards"
Rose soon arrived in the hallway "Benvolio" she faltered.
"I'm not stopping" Benvolio began, speaking as quickly as he could "Before you can ask, I don't want you back. I'm here to tell you that I deserve better. Date your gender-confused ballerina all you like, I don't care. He'll break your heart like you broke mine. You'll regret being with him. I'm not just safe, reliable old Benvolio. I'm passionate in my own way and in my own right. I deserve better than an immature thrill-seeking girl. I don't care if it takes me five minutes, or fifty years, I will find her, and you'll wish you never let me go. I deserve so much better than you, so just...don't bother speaking to me again. I don't even want to be friends"
Benvolio turned, and stormed down the road. But inside, he felt like he was on air. He walked down the road, until he encountered a petite ginger girl, sitting on the pavement.
"Hermia, what are you doing down there?"
"Oh. Hey Benvolio!" greeted Hermia, from where she sat on the pavement.
"Hi...what are you doing there?"
"Um...I kind of got kicked out the house because Tybalt found out and told my dad and Rosaline about how I showed Romeo the DVD and Rosaline's pills. I think he was angrier that I actually managed to get into your house! So I yelled at them all, called Rosaline a fake, and dad told me to get out. What are you doing out here? Aren't you in trouble?"
"I was" said Benvolio "But we all had a chat, and then I just went to Rose's to tell her I deserved better. She left me for Gabriel two days ago"
"Shit, Benny! Him? Urgh, he makes my skin crawl" Hermia promptly shuddered on the spot "Well, anyway, good for you! Standing up for yourself. I wouldn't have left a sweet guy like you for a bitchy whore like him"
"Rose kept calling Gabriel sweet"
"Well, she's lost her mind. You'd make a way better boyfriend than him. Number one, you look like a guy. Number two, you act like a guy. Number three, you have a nicer ass than he does"
"I have a nicer...ass?"
"Yeah! You're much better looking. You've got such cute cheeks, and the way your hair gets all messy, it's kind of endearing. You rock that geek chic look. I mean, no one else, not even Mercutio, could pull off your dad's old jumper from the eighties"
"Thanks" Benvolio self-consciously readjusted his jumper, and then sat down beside her "I still have yucky spots and braces though"
"So? Those spots will be gone in a year or two. And your teeth are going to look great when the braces come off. I mean, they may be manky now, but if you look at Gabriel's teeth, they're nasty and kind of pointy. I'd take kissing you over him any day of the week. And he smokes. I hate smokers. He'll have yellow teeth and yellow fingers and wrinkles by the time he's thirty. You, however, will just grow into a hot science professor type. End of story, Ben-ben wins" finished Hermia firmly.
"Thanks" smiled Benvolio.