forum In Fair Verona // Modern Romeo and Juliet // Private RP - CLOSED

Started February 05, 2019 by @blue_topaz

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His soft words touched me in ways that I never would have imagined two weeks ago. This had all happened so fast….

"I'm sure," I answered, and though the statement rang true in my head, my volume dipped drastically. "And–And I trust you."

“Does That make us…?” I trailed off, letting her fill in the gap. My heart had begun to race again, leaving me almost breathless.

"Girlfriend. Boyfriend." I tried the words out on my tongue, so strangely foreign yet so sweet. My voice was soft, hoarse, disbelieving. "I–I'm a girlfriend again. If–If you want—"

“Yes—I want that. I want this.” I emphasized, gesturing to the picnic and the picture perfect scenery. “We might just have to take it slow. But I want us.”

Us. Us, us, us.

My heart pounded furiously against my ribcage.

"Slow sounds good," I agreed bashfully, "Really good. Listen, Mercutio—when we were texting, and you said that thing about dating—"

“You might have to remind me on that…” I hid my face out of embarrassment. “Had a bit of a mind wipe yesterday with all the alcohol.”

I bit the inside of my cheek as hard as I could. “You were talking about dating girls for.. sex.. and I was arguing your point.”

“Oh… that.” I looked away out of shame. “Marina— I just… I did it to try and feel normal.” I paused to recollected my thoughts, trying to stop myself from shaking. “I wanted to be whole again.”

I tightened my fingers around his, nodding quickly. "Yeah—I understand. I'm sorry—–forget I ever brought it up."

I closed my eyes and took a shuddering breath to calm myself down. “No, it’s okay.” I murmured, taking solace in our intertwined fingers. “You don’t make me feel normal…” I admitted, giving her hand a gentle squeeze. “But you make me feel like myself, and that’s better, I think.”

"If you say so.." I murmured, rubbing soothing circles into the back of his hand with my thumb.

I let out a long sigh, pushing my glasses up onto the bridge of my nose. I reached for a cream puff and shoved it into my mouth, puffing put my cheeks after realizing this might not have been the best idea in the world.

Glancing away from him, I began to pour my strawberry lemonade into two plastic cups.

Girlfriend. That title applied to me now. Boyfriend…

I managed to somehow chew the cream puff so I didn’t look like a total idiot, licking my lips afterwards. I turned my gaze to Marina as subtly as possible. “I’m glad you agreed to come out here with me.”

“Of course I did,” I replied, offering him a shy smile and a cup of pink lemonade. “I’m glad you suggested it.”

I accepted the cup of pink lemonade, sloshing it around before taking a long sip. “You didn’t think it was weird that a guy— your new boyfriend— wanted to sneak off into the woods for your first date?” I chuckled softly. “I’m just an idiot, I guess.”

“You’re a lovable idiot,” I told him, blushing furiously. “And it’s not like we could’ve gone anywhere else without being caught..”

Before I could say something to further embarrass myself, I was gulping down my lemonade, eyes flickering away.

“Lovable, huh?” I smirked, trying to avoid blushing. “God, I’m so glad I have you— that probably sounds a little insane since, you know, we’ve only been dating for like ten minutes, but I’ve been going sort of stir crazy for awhile now.” I explained, taking another sip of lemonade afterwards.

So glad to have you…

My heart fluttered weakly in my chest. “No one’s ever told me that before..” I murmured, smiling like an idiot by now.

“You know me… Mercutio Escalus. Master of romance.” I fidgeted with the cup of lemonade, completely embarrassed.

Something about this boy was constantly unearthing a need to flirt, to bar my eyelashes. So, flirt I did. Leaanjng in a little, I raised an eyebrow. “Oh? Why don’t you show me?”

My face matched the pitcher of pink lemonade in color now. She was flirting. This shouldn’t be an issue. I’m actually pretty good at flirting most of the time. Something about Marina just… deactivated that completely, flipping a switch I didn’t know I had in the first place. “Um…” I struggled to come up with something clever, curing under my breath as my brain failed me. I helplessly adjusted my glasses, taking them off so I didn’t have to make eye contact.

Moving slowly, I nudged his glasses back over the bridge of his nose. “Too far?” I whispered, pulling back. “Sorry…”

“No, it’s not like that. I’m not fragile.” I protested, blinking as my vision adjusted, turning the world from a colorful blur to defined shapes. “I’m normally not this awkward— It’s just, I like you a lot and I’m super hungover. I don’t want to scare you off.”

“You know what would scare me off,” I murmured patiently, “And you’re fine right now. Do I really fluster you that much?”

“Does this answer your question?” I replied bluntly, pointing to my reddened cheeks.

I laughed softly, reaching for his hand. “Aww… you’re adotable, Mercutio..”

I groaned in exasperation. “I just started liking you recently, alright? I’m still in the embarrassing stages.” I grumbled, grabbing a donut out of the bag I brought.

“Works for me~” I chuckled, releasing his hand to lift the cup to my lips. “The more flustered you are, the less shy I am.”