A/N: Thank you for your lovely reviews! I'm so lucky to have readers who are also good reviewers, that tell me stuff rather than just 'update soon'. Hopefully this chapter will make the last chapter clearer…..

Chapter 7- Ten minutes ago

JPOV- Ten minutes ago.

"Miss Capulet." I turned in the hallway to the sound of my name. I saw Larko Lorenzo walk into the school building.

"Good evening officer," I said, trying to act as normal as possible.

" I see despite the ruckus yesterday, your fathers punishment doesn't involve basketball for Timothy?" I knew Larko was loyal to Dad but I didn't think he would go as far to question his parenting, so my best bet was probably to convince Larko that Dad knew about this.

"Yes, well Dad thought Timmy could play today since it was an important game."

"So you don't mind if I call your father to verify that?" He asked. Oh crap. This could end very badly. I didn't have much experience with being in trouble and I could hear my heart beating faster and faster. If I gave in and told the truth we would both be in trouble and Timmy wouldn't be able to play. But if I lied and Larko calls Dad it would end the same way. There was a small chance Larko would just take my work for it, since I had a clean reputation and according to the town I was Daddy's angel , which for once could come in handy. Maybe I should just take the risk?

"Nope, go ahead," I said sweetly, flashing a can't-melt-butter smile. Larko looked at me for a second. I could almost hear his brain ticking over whether to believe me or not.

"Very well. I'll take your word for it." Larko said, still examining me after his answer. I think I felt my heart literally stop.

Keeping up the façade, I said , "Ok sir, enjoy the game."

"Oh I will Miss Capulet, I will. No second chances tonight!" he said as he walked away from me and into the gym. I could see him take a seat next to Principal Tanner on the bleachers. No second chances tonight? For who?

I took a deep breath, glad that the whole ordeal was over, and made my way into the gym. It was a full house, and the crowd was very lively. Nobody wanted to miss the Riverside/Compton game. We were the two best teams in California, let alone THE best in Verone, and this was the one game that nobody could guess the outcome for.

Our side was out, warming up. I could see Timmy throwing the ball around with Andy and Daniel. The cheerleaders were on the side, stretching. I went to join them.

"Hey babe, where've you been?" Nala said as I joined the group. As head cheerleader, she was leading the stretch. I stood in the front line so I could carry on our conversation.

"Oh I got caught up with Larko." I said tilting my head in the direction of the bleachers to point him out.

"What a loser! Coming to a high school game," Andrea, one of the other cheerleaders ,who stood on my left said.

Lily, joined in on the conversation too, "It's to stop any trouble. We all know what our two schools are like."

"And are we expecting any trouble?" I asked. Even though this was a big match and we had the whole school rivalry thing going on , wasn't 'trouble' and 'violence' a bit over the top?

"How could there not be, actually I'm betting on it. It would make the night a little more interesting. Ooh and we have to win the cheer off this time! Compton , always have this crowd pleaser that they pull out, just as we finish our set, if we don't win , I would just die!" Nala said while she gestured to us all to turn to our sides to stretch out our hamstring. She was being a bit over dramatic.

" I can't believe you just said that , why would you want to encourage a fight?" I said to her, "and just because you lost a cheer-off you would die Nal," I finished rolling my eyes.

"Well duh , I wouldn't die, but It would be, like social suicide!"Nala said completely oblivious to the felling I was trying to pass on through my eye rolling.

"It's just cheerleading Nala," Nala stopped doing the warm up and looked mad.

"It's not just cheerleading Juliet! It's the whole point!" I didn't exactly want to have the argument that we had had many times before about how there is more to life than cheerleading and high school again, so I took the opportunity to step out for a bit.

"I'm going to get my water bottle," I said to avoid what was coming next. The thing was, I loved Nala, but at times she was pretty shallow.

After searching through my bag , I realised that in my stressed state to leave the house without my parents realising our plan , I had put my bottle in Timmy's bag. I looked across to the bench near where they were warming up and located his bag. I walked over to his bag without being noticed by them.

"I'm going to settle this in the gym ….and out!" I heard Timmy say. And out? What was he planning to do? I wanted to listen to the rest but didn't want to look like I was eaves dropping. I shifted closer to them just as the commentator started to do their sound check right next to me. I could only hear snippets but I didn't want to move again in case they noticed me now that I was closer.

"I'm just going to play some basketball."

"If that's what we're calling it these days."

"To be honest boys, my Uncle, Larko, and the consequences are the last thing on my mind."

What was going on? The music to introduce Compton came on. I had to think fast. I left the gym in a hurry. I was pacing in the hallway, trying to figure out what to do. The whole thing was stupid, it wasn't worth fighting our rival high school for no other reason than to fight! Not to mention that Dad would freak! Timmy wasn't even supposed to be playing! We had both lied to them!

I didn't get why Timmy thought fighting for a few minutes would be worth the aftermath. Think Juliet, think. I looked back into the gym to see everyone taking their places. Nala saw me and gestured to me to hurry up. I held up one finger and mouthed 'one minute.'

Larko was also sitting right there! Anything they did would just get broken up. I thought back to what Larko had said, 'No second chances tonight'

I would deal with Timmy later, but for now…..My eyes stopped as I saw my answer. I looked around first to make sure nobody could see me.

Then I pulled the fire alarm.

A/N: I tried to be clever, and make it back track to make the last chapter make sense. Hopefully it worked! Did you like the way I did that, or do you think the overlapping idea was a bad idea? Review!