It All Started With A Bet

Romeo and Juliet?

"Lets go Patsy, drive." I whined and he revved the engine and we started off...

We reached the school really quickly. We parked and walked in. As usual Liya was waiting at my locker. We always entered together in the morning.

Patrick walked towards his locker, which was 5 lockers down from mine, to get his stuff.

Liya's expectant eyes were looking at me. Waiting for answers to various questions.

"Ask.."We both laughed

"How was the night?" She asked.

"It was nice. He was behaving strangely at first but then when he was driving me home he kinda slipped into his real personality."

"HE DROVE YOU HOME. I told you to call Tyler, didn't I ?" Her eyes glowed in fake anger.

"Well.... He offered... plus it was late.."

"Adabelle... so stupid... anything could've happened."

"Sorry ....... mom" I laughed. She just gave me an annoyed look. Then the bell rang and we headed for English.

English was generally a chill class but off late we were studying tragedies which, in itself was a tragedy.

The class was split in 4 groups and each given a particular person or Novel. Patrick and Jass were in the same group and they had to do Romeo and Juliet.

Two days back it would've been a perfect opportunity for Pat and Jass to showcase their 'love' ,but as of today things were not looking good for the group.

They were supposed to perform today but after the incident I really don't know what happened to the play. To be honest I forgot it was today. My group performs on Sylvia Platt in a week.

So when Ms.Knowles called out for their group my head snapped to Patrick. His expression was unreadable and it was completely unnerving to see him so blank.

They walked up to the front of the class and started the play.
With each passing line the tension in the class grew. Everyone knew something was up .

Ms.Knowles kept saying stuff like 'put some life into it' , 'give the lines some soul kids' and the best one 'pour some love into your words'.

I could see Patrick getting more and more annoyed and angry with each comment. Right now.... he was doing the play just for the grade.

Jass' eyes were tired and apologetic. Whenever she gave the scene a little life Pat would shoot down the opportunity and show no emotion.

Me and Liya kept giving each other warning glances. We knew he was gonna burst soon if someone didn't calm him.

"Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things: Some shall be pardon'd,and some punished : For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." Renee, who was narrating ,ended.

The class clapped without enthusiasm. And the students began walking to their seats.
"Can Romeo and Juliet please come back to the front?" Our teacher called out.

The claps died down. The tense atmosphere was formed again. Everyone was so happy that it was over that no one wanted them going back to the front.

They both walked though, quietly to the front. " Well honestly kids I thought the play was slightly dry. There was lack of emotion and love. All the lines were said word to word but it lacked that wow factor.
So to make up for the grade of the group I want the both of you to try to embody the main characters and speak as if they would've spoken. Jass go first."

"I have always loved my Romeo, never once has my love faltered for him. Even though my father and brothers were so against the idea of him and his family I stayed committed."
She looked straight at him while saying this.

Patrick looked at her , his face had such a pained expression. He began speaking. "You loved the idea of us. The rebel in your heart got satisfied by my agony that's why you stayed committed.
I was ready to give everything up for you. Everything. I got beat up because of you. Faced family opposition because of you. Killed myself to be with you . That's commitment.
All you did was pull measly tricks."

Patrick was going way off tangent. He was still explaining a story but I think it was one that related more to him than to Romeo.

"How can you say I never committed? Do you know how much I gave up?" Jass was in tearing up..

"Commitment is counting the rewards instead of measuring them in comparison with the loss. Sadly only one of us fully gave to this relationship."

"How can you be so blind? How can you not see that I am hurting too?" She was crying by this time. She finished her statement and ran out of the class. At the same time the bell rang.

Jass' friends took up after her whilst me and Liya walked up to Patrick. As soon as we reached his desk he told us he's going home cause he's not feeling well and walked to the door.

Liya and me just looked at each other dumbfounded. As much as we wanted to help we really couldn't do much at this point.

This period I had French whereas she had Econ. My French was horrible. It was the only subject where I just nodded my head in unison with the class and barely passed each semester.

As I walked to the class I noticed Randall standing by the door , casually leaning on the wall. His eyes were wandering the halls searching for someone. As soon as he saw me his eyes widened.

"Just the girl I was looking for."

"Why were you looking for me ?"I asked curiously

"Are you forgetting something Kitten?" He asked slowly enunciating each word.

"Ughhh.... Why were you looking for me ... Master?

"Good girl... kindly grant me the pleasure of not having to remind you another time. By the way we're bunking."

"What ?" I wasn't really a goody two shoes but I had never bunked school before.

"Where are we going ? ... Master"

He smiled wide....
"We are going to .......

Well a double chapter update. Never thought I'd publish this so early but whaddaya know .... here's an update.
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