A/N: Now I really love this chapter for a few reasons, one of them being it introduces a new couple, which you may have had inklings about in the past, they are actually the most complex couple, and they are my favourite, and after this chapter will feature a lot, so let me know if you like them. (I won't say who yet, you have to read on)
Also the scene between Romeo and Juliet was really hard for me to write because I've never written anything like that before. I really hope I managed to capture the emotion between them.
Chapter 26- Drama!
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Juliet POV
"Are you sure your parents aren't home?" I whispered as Romeo let us into his house.
"Yes," he said in a normal voice, which sounded way too loud for the silent house we just walked into, "I saw them leave for New York just before I left for the game, nobody's home, I promise."
Romeo began switching the lights on in the hallway and around the house, and I stood there awkwardly clutching my overnight bag, not knowing quite what to do with myself. Normally I felt at ease with Romeo, and I still did, I just felt nervous at the thought of what we were about to do, and what exactly I was supposed to do, and if there was a specific way that this 'worked'.
"So, uh do you want to watch a movie or something?" Romeo asked.
I smiled at his attempt to make me feel more comfortable, and felt all my apprehension wash away.
"Sure," I said, putting my bag down in the hall, and taking off my jacket.
"Why don't you go ahead into the living room and choose a movie, and I'll go get us a snack," he said.
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Romeo POV
"Sure," Juliet said, visibly relaxing. I wanted her to feel completely comfortable and relaxed about tonight. Believe it or not I actually felt pretty nervous myself. Sure I had slept with other girls before, but this time with Juliet it actually meant something. I knew how much this all meant to her, it meant a lot to me that she cared about me enough to want to do this, and I wanted to give her the best first experience I could. Part of me wished I had waited for her myself instead of losing my virginity when I was fifteen in an empty bedroom at Jimmy Sawyer's annual house party.
After grabbing two bowls of rocky road ice cream, and chocolate chip cookies I headed back to the living room to find Juliet already curled up on the couch. I pulled a blanket out of the wooden chest and brought it over with me.
"So I've narrowed it down to the Notebook or the Notebook? Juliet said smirking.
"You're such a girl!" I said rolling my eyes, but taking the case from her, and inserting the disc into the player anyway.
"Last time I checked, yeah," she said giggling and putting a big mouthful of ice cream in her mouth. I took a quick look at her and took in the image of her sprawled out on my couch in her cheerleading uniform. The blanket I had passed to her, the one I had been using ever since I was a kid was thrown over her. I swallowed and tried to keep my mind on the task at hand. The opening music began playing and I picked up my bowl of ice cream and sat on the armchair, not wanting to make her feel like I was invading her space.
"What're you doing all the way over there?" she asked, "Come here!"
I got up and sat beside her, glad that she had made the move to show me she was feeling comfortable. She pulled me closer and pulled my arm around her and leant against my chest then rearranged the blanket to it was over me too.
The movie was going by pretty quickly, and I have to admit as far as chick flicks go, it wasn't so bad. Juliet was now completely still as she was cuddled into me absorbed into the film. I had to check a couple of times to make sure she was actually awake. We were nearing the end and had gotten just gotten to the bit where Allie left his house to go back home, when the TV, and all the lights turned off in one quick sweep.
"No!" Juliet whined, "Now we won't get to see the end!"
"I'm sure you've seen it enough times to know what happens," I told her, making fun of her even though I wanted to see what happened myself.
"I know, but it's not the same!"
I got up from the couch, reluctantly untangling myself from Juliet, and headed over to the window.
"It looks like the whole street is out," I said looking at the pitch black that was our road.
"How long until it comes back on?" she asked, as I could see her shadow getting up and stretching.
"I have no idea," I told her, "It's ok though," I said feeling my way over to the fire place and trying to locate the matches. Before long the room was illuminated in a soft orange glow. Juliet crouched down on the brown fluffy rug in front of the fire, and sat down next to me. Without a word she gently stroked my cheek, and before I could say anything I felt her soft lips on mine. I kissed her back gently but still let her take the lead. We slowly pulled apart, not by choice but because we both needed to breathe.
"Are you sure you want to do this? We don't have to you know," I said making complete sure that this was what she wanted, and also because once I kissed her again I knew I would find it hard to stop.
"Ro, I love you for asking I do, but I'm one hundred per cent sure," she said giving me a soft smile. That was all the assurance I needed to kiss her again. This time, the kiss was a little more urgent on both of our parts. I pulled away not wanting to go too fast, we had all night and I didn't want us to rush this. I slowly reached up and pulled at the navy blue ribbon tied in her hair, and we both watched as is came undone and slowly fell to the floor. Our eyes connected and we both shared in the knowledge of knowing it was us in this moment, and nobody else, not Timmy, or Ben, or either of our parents. We were in our own little world in this room.
The glow radiating from the fire reflected in her face, and she looked unbelievable, combined with the glow coming in from the moonlight. For a brief moment I considered moving us upstairs to my bedroom but pushed the idea to the side, not wanting to kill the mood, and knowing we were both content where we were. This time, I took control and kissed her, whilst letting my hands get buried in her hair. Our lips connected and I could've sworn I felt an electric current race through me. I took in every little detail about her as I continued to kiss her. The kiss was urgent and passionate as well as caring and full of love. She tasted unbelievable, with the essence of chocolate still lingering in her mouth. Her lips were soft, yet firm against mine as she began to kiss me back. I moved one of my hands down, cupping her delicate face in my palm as I lost myself in the kiss. The moment was far better than I ever could've imagined, and I'd imagined this moment plenty of times. A soft groan escaped her lips as her tongue lightly traced the seam of my own. I opened my mouth, letting our tongues grapple with one another as I raised myself up on my knees to lean over her, pressing our chests together. Her hands wove themselves into my hair as she pulled me down. It was crazy, I felt like I couldn't get close enough to her, no matter how hard I tried. The layers of clothes between us felt like a huge wall keeping us apart. I put my hands at the edge of her cheerleading top, and began to cautiously edge it upwards. I obviously wasn't going fast enough because Juliet reached up and pulled it off herself, revealing her dark purple bra. We both stopped in out paths knowing, this was as far as we had gone before, and once we went further, we were would make a huge advancement in our relationship.
"I love you," we both said at the exact same time.
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Ben POV
"Hey Benji," Rose said as she let herself in through my ground floor bedroom window. She had changed from her cheerleading uniform into a baby blue tracksuit. Even though she could have easily used the front door, which would have been less work, whenever there was someone else in the house and Rose felt like dropping in at random hours she would use my window. One of the perks of having the only bedroom downstairs was nobody could hear another person in my room.
"Isn't it past your bed time?" I joked with her, from my spot on my bed.
"Yep, I thought I could have my bedtime here," she said in a slow seductive voice.
I put my laptop down on the table beside the bed, not surprised at all by her behaviour.
"It's been a while, since we shared a 'bedtime'" I said referring to the fact that we hadn't randomly had sex since Romeo had come back into town.
Rose and me were complicated. Our relationship consisted of being very good friends, who would randomly sleep together, but it never meant anything and once we were done, we went back to just being 'friends', to my disappointment. The last year I had found myself having feelings for Rose, but not having expressed any of them to her, since it was clear she just saw us as 'sex buddies'. As much as it annoyed the hell out of me to see her flirt with other guys, and be with other guys, I knew being her friend as well made me different to the other guys that she used her power on.
Since Romeo had come back into town she had turned all her efforts into trying to be his girlfriend, which was completely out of character for her, since she wasn't the relationship type. Sure it bugged me to see her obsessed with my cousin, but I couldn't very well complain, considering she was technically his first.
"Oh come on, I've been busy!" she said jumping onto my bed.
"Whatever," I said like I wasn't bothered, not wanting her to pick up that I had noticed her lack of presence in my bedroom.
"Well if you're going to be like that," she said getting up and walking back to the window. I knew as well as she did that she wasn't going to leave, but I played her little game, of giving her the attention she wanted.
"Rosie, don't go," I said getting up and holding onto her waist from behind her.
She turned around in her tracks and unzipped her tracksuit jacket, throwing it on my chair.
"I missed you," she said, kissing me hard before I pushed her onto my bed behind me.
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Juliet POV
I walked up my driveway as slowly as I could, not wanting to enter the real world yet. I'm sure the security at their booth by the gate probably thought I was crazy, because I had a permanent smile stuck on my face.
Last night was indescribable, and was beyond what I had imaged it to be. We had moved up to Romeo's bedroom at some point in the night, and we had woken up this morning in each other's arms. We spent most of the morning in bed, neither one of us wanting to leave the haven we had created for ourselves. Somewhere around eleven I realised I would have to leave before someone called Nala to find out where I was. After persuading Romeo to give me back my clothes, which he had hidden in an attempt to get me to stay, he had driven me home.
I let myself into the house, and was heading up to my bedroom when I heard my Mom call me from the kitchen.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" she said with a stern tone and her hands on her hips. My Dad was sitting at the table. It was rare for him to be home at this time, which told me something was up.
"I spent the night at Nala's, it was a late game," I said in a timid voice, completely freaking out on the inside. I doubt she would have called Nala to see where I was, or if she even noticed I wasn't in my room. Maybe Nala had called here, creating confusion to my whereabouts.
"Not that!" she said "I'm talking about that Montague boy!" she all but yelled.
I froze at her words, my mind too panicked to figure out what to say. Oh my god. This was really it. It was really over. I knew we'd get found out at some point but this was the moment.
"Marcy Tanner saw the two of you walking together on the street last week!" I knew I couldn't act as though it was someone else, because Marcy was integrated into the social scene well enough to know the two children of the Capulet's and Montague's. "Last week I ran into Serena at the club and she mentioned she saw the two of you together too. I didn't mention it because I was certain she was mistaken but now I'm not so sure!"
"We were just-" I started to explain.
"Do you have any idea how this looks? How it would look if the Prince's found out? You would jeopardise everything!"
"I was just talking—"
"I don't care what you were doing! You are supposed to be with Paul, and his family are running this merger on the basis of you two being our future! And even if it had nothing to do with the Prince's, these people Juliet, who you are now associating yourselves with, are trying to tear down everything we have built up! They are not the type you should socialise with Juliet! Is that how little you respect me and your father and everything we have done for you?"
My father put down his coffee mug and spoke up for the first time since I had been in the room. "Look Juliet, we understand how the whole idea of being with Paul has been thrust upon you, and you're naturally looking for ways to go against us, but befriending the Montague's isn't the way."
"But I don't love him," I choked out, while the tears escaped from my eyes.
"Love? This is about love? Juliet, you are so naïve! This isn't one of those stories where people fall in love and then get married and have a happy ending. This is real life. Love will come later. Paul is a lovely boy, and if you would just give him a chance and spend some time with him you would realise that you have a real chance to be happy here, being married into the Prince family combined with being a Capulet will give you everything you ever dreamed of," My mom said. I had a feeling the 'everything I ever dreamed of' she was referring to had to do with money.
"Look honey, we're you're parents and we know what's best for you." My dad said. Both my parents exchanged looks, telling me they were having a mental conversation, which for some reason invoked worry within me.
"That's why I spoke to Paul's mother about that trip in the summer; she was talking about, and organised to move it forward slightly."
"What!" I said, nearly in hysterics. The tears were still in full flow, and I made no attempt to hide them.
"We just think how you need some time to reflect without outside influences, and spend some real quality time with Paul, and his parents agree, so tomorrow you and Paul will be going to his grandfather's house in the country, where there's no distractions and ways to get out of this. It's the only building around for miles. We have already spoken to your school and they have agreed to give you both the time off."
I let out a gasp and I didn't think it was possible but I was crying even harder now.
"You can't force me to go!" I yelled. I had never yelled at my parents before, and the change in their demeanour told me they had picked up on it.
"That's enough!" My Dad shouted. "We have done everything for you Juliet, and this is how you are acting! We have known what's best for you for seventeen years of your life, and we will continue to know what's best! I don't know what's caused this change in behaviour from you, maybe it these influences with the Montague's but I don't like it! You will start to behave how you're expected to!"
"Give me your phone," my mother said calmly. I looked up at her with disbelief. "You need to invest yourself into this trip fully, and you can't do that outside influences."
I looked to my Dad to see if he was going to comment but he merely nodded at me. I pulled my phone out of my pocket and threw it onto the dining table.
"Now I suggest you go to your bedroom and begin packing, you have an early flight."
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PS did you like the instant messaging insert? I've never done anything like that before but I thought it would update you on Timmy and Ellie even though I didn't write about them here. Do you like the idea of me adding random texts and emails in chapters to give you insight onto other characters?