Romeo & Juliet ✅ Completed✅

The End

I sat back and stared in disbelief. He said it. Before me.

His eyes searched mine frantically and I could tell he was about to panic and take it back. "Fuck...I meant-"

"I love you too." I cried out, as my vision started to cloud with tears. "I love you so much." My body shook as I sobbed. I didn't feel embarassed, all I felt was relief. He loved me and that was all that mattered now.

"Juliet, baby. It's ok." Romeo gently placed his forhead against mine, still cradled between my thighs. "Don't cry, ciliegia." His hand reached out and softly wiped away my trailing tears. "I've got you."

His soft and gentle voice only made me cry harder and it was obvious that I wasn't going to stop anytime soon.

After about an hour of crying in Romeo's arms, I laid his embrace, whimpering and sniffling. "I can't believe you love me..." I muttered out.

He chuckled softly, rubbing circles onto my bare back. "Why wouldn't I? After everything that we've been through, especially you, I want you to be happy. It might not have seem like that from the beginning, but I cared about you more than anyone else thought. I did everything, even made fucking stupid mistakes to get closer to you." He sighed heavily. "I should be locked up right now. So many times I was going to turn myself in, but then you showed up again, and that just made me want you more. You wouldn't drop it and wouldn't stop showing up in my life when I needed you to stop. So I took it as a sign. A sign that maybe we needed each other more than we would've liked." A lock of hair fell into his face and I reached out to move it to the side. "You're all I've wanted. All I've needed. And never knew I would have to go through so much hell to get to you. I wished things played out differently. I wished I didn't kill James and I wish that you didn't get hurt because of me. Maybe things would be different and maybe I would still somehow end up with you if fate allowed it." Romeo peered down at me with so much love. Something that I had never seen due to him hiding his emotions the majority of the time. "I want to make this right. I want to give you the love you deserve."

Great. I'm going to cry again.

I laid a hand to my chest to calm myself down. Instead of uttering a word to him, I pulled his face closer to mine and took his lips against mine.

******

"You lost your virginity, didn't you?"

My head snapped up as I glanced over at my mom's back turned to me. "Um..." I nervously shifted on my feet, trying to figure out what my next words would exactly be. "I-"

"Is it want you wanted?" She turned to face me. I nodded slowly. Sighing, she walked over to where I was cutting the onions. She stood there for a minute, thinking out her next words. "To be honest, as a parent who actually does worry about her child constantly, I...would've preferred if you waited." She held up a hand, stopping my next words. "But if you felt like you were ready and that you think, for some reason, that he is the one, then...okay."

What was I suppose to say? Surprisingly enough, I never really had the talk with my parents, despite them joking every now and then about me using a condom when I stepped out of the house. They never felt like they needed to, because well...I was a virgin and not a very social person who went out and partied and hooked up with every single person I saw. I had this idea placed in my mind that unlike everyone else at my school, I would wait for the right person, and I ended up finding that right person.

"Mom...I really like Romeo, no I-I love Romeo, and do I sometimes wish our situation was different? Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that I had feelings for him since we were kids and those feelings ended up never going away." I stared down at the counter. "Fate has brought us through so many things and think it was bound to happen."

She carefully scrutinized me. "Okay! If you say so." She turned back to her work with a smirk. "Just don't let your father find it or he'll destroy that boy." She giggled.

If I knew any better, I would think that she wanted dad to destroy Romeo.

Giggles filled the kitchen as Aria stepped in with Everly in her arms, Derek and Amy close behind with Everest.

Amy raised a brow in question as she saw the distance between my mother and I, but I just shooked my head, letting her not to bring it up. She nodded sheepishly, dragging Derek along with her to set the table. Aria made her way towards me, setting Everly down on the counter. "I talked to Mason again." She stated abruptly. "He wants to see me tomorrow." She smiled up at me.

I smiled back at her, pulling her into my side. "I'm glad." As she continued playing with Everely, I took a look across the kitchen at everyone. My mom was taking out something from oven, while my dad was telling her another one his stories from work. Amy and Derek were in a corner being all lovey dovey with a sleeping Everest in hand. Ryan was trying to sneak some food into his mouth without being noticed, and then my eyes landed on Romeo's as he stepped in. He held my gaze as he stepped up beside me. "Hey."

"Hey." He placed a kiss to my forhead as we held onto each other. His scent surrounded me in a warm hug, keeping me safe and protected. I realized that all though so much had happened, everything was some what back to normal. I had my family, my friends, a somehow a boyfriend. I felt a presence besides me, as if someone was watching me, looking beside me, I saw no one, but I knew it wasn't anything to be afraid of, because I knew James was there and he would always be there. It brought a smile to my face to know that even if he were alive and things didn't work out between us, he would still be here with all us. My thoughts started to drift and I fell into a state of euphoria.

"You touched my daughter, didn't you?!"

Uh oh.

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Wow, just wow. I knew I was going to finish this book sooner or later, but I didn't expect it to take to two fucking years. I honestly think this book was meant to end, because I had nothing else to add on to it. I'm glad that being in quarantine has pushed me to finish this and I'm just glad it's over.