The Balcony Scene

Chapter 2

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Juliet froze in her tracks and covered the still-warm spot on her cheek with her hand. Everything seemed brighter for a moment before going back to normal.

He lied to you! You can't still have feelings for him can you?! She asked herself before sighing and shaking her head. Can and will continue to. But I can also definitely still be pissed with him too. He can't possibly think that everything is going to be okay. He lied to me! Snappingherself out of her train of thought she followed Shawn into the theater. He had already charmed all of the other people with his good-looks and charm so she just hung out towards the back and let him do all of the talking for them.

"Hi everyone! My name is Shawn and this is my girlfriend, Juliet. She lets me call her Jules, but to you guys she's Juliet." He turned to her.

"I was just in the middle of introducing us." He said genially. Juliet stood a few paces and attempted to glare at him but, his enigmatic nature pulled her back in faster than she knew how to handle. He wrapped an arm around her shoulders and literally pulled her in closer to him. She tried not to enjoy it but failed.

"I'm Nathaniel Mayson, the director of this fine establishment. It's very nice to meet you both. These two are going to be our new leads. We haven't had a good Romeo and Juliet for a while, since my parents were young in fact. Can you take the stage please? Let's see what kind of chemistry you two have." He shook their hands warmly and Juliet immediately decided that she liked this man. He was a couple of years younger than them and he was about Shawn's height with black hair and a small goatee. He was thin and wiry and wore an older out of style suit. Very much the bookish type.

"You'll be reading the balcony scene." He informed them and the rest of the cast and crew took their seats in the audience as Nate directed them to the stage. Shawn grabbed up a script and scanned each page rapidly and Juliet realized that he wasn't kidding about the perfect memory. That was all he needed. That one glimpse and he would remember forever. Juliet rejected the script offered to her completely. When Shawn asked her why, she responded with an adorable blush.

"I'm a fan. I've had the majority of the play memorized since middle school and then my college put it on and I guess I've had the whole thing memorized since. I never really forgot it. Shawn chuckled as he climbed up the ladder disguised as a tree and Juliet disappeared backstage before reappearing on the balcony. Shawn smiled reassuringly as the recited the lines to one another. Juliet felt as though she would lose her nerve if she took her eyes off of him. His eyes held enough emotion for ten people.

Shawn shifted his weight on the tree so that he leaning out towards her.

"See how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O that I was the glove upon that hand, that I might touch that..." Shawn saw something that cut him off abruptly. A dark figure in the shadows side stage that was working furiously to cut something. His character fell away immediately.

"Jules! Get to Mayson!" he shouted. He would have done it himself but she was closer having climbed down already. Just as a spotlight fell from the catwalk Juliet shoved Mayson out of the way but froze when she realized that now she was in danger as well. Taking all of this in in less than a second Shawn forgot about his shirt and jumped. He freefell from the ladder and hit the ground in a roll, pulling Juliet away with him, just before the light crashed to the stage a hair's breadth away from his head.