Romeo’s Kiss – chapter seven

Brian inhaled sharply as he looked through the window and into the public library. After a minute of looking around he found her, reaching up to put some books away on one of those ladders that’s attached to the shelves and you can just move them around where they’re needed. He took in all the surroundings, her clothes, how her hair looked, even what shoes she was wearing, he wasn’t surprised to find that she hadn’t changed much since thirty minutes ago when he watched her leave the high school with some friends.

Julie blew a stray piece of hair out of her eyes as she looked around the top shelf for the book Mrs. Paterson had been requesting, Julie had just been stupid enough to volunteer to find it for the little old lady and now found her self at the top of a very tall ladder holding about five books in one arm and holding onto the shelf with the other so she wouldn’t go flying down the book shelf and still had no clue where the book was. She looked down at her wrinkled, black and baby blue lucky shirt, her hair was falling out of the clip she had it in, and her flare leg jeans were getting a hole in the knee. She knew she looked disgraceful but that had become her style, and no one ever paid any attention to her anyway so she figured it didn’t really matter. Her glasses, in which she only wore when her contacts were acting up, were slowly falling closer to the tip of her nose.

“Need some help?” She heard someone ask down below. She looked down as best she could to see Brian holding the ladder firmly in place at the bottom and looking up at her. She heaved a sigh of relief as she finally made it down off of the ladder and handed the books to Mrs. Paterson, promising herself never to volunteer for a book hunt again. After a quick trip to the front desk to sign the books out Brian and Julie went and sat down at a table in the back so they wouldn’t bother anyone, both had, so far forgotten of their evil name callings and rudeness towards each other.

“Are you sure they don’t mind us rehearsin’ back here?” Brian asked as he looked around the full library.

“Naw. Besides, I needed a break and you’re my excuse.” She said as she sat down and opened her dark blue binder to the Romeo and Juliet script. They rehearsed the first few lines of the play before they got the party scene.

“Excuse me, miss? Could you help me find a novel called ‘Mirror Image’, I don’t know the author’s name.” A lady came up and asked Julie. She got up and made her way over to the works of Danielle Steel, A well-known author who wrote that book. She thumbed threw the books until she found the hard copy and handed it to the lady who had walked up right behind her. Julie smiled at her and watched the lady walk away with the book in her hand.

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Julie turned to Brian who was walking her way. They were in the back of the library and no one else could be seen from that view. Brian walked right up to her and their eyes locked.

“Y’know at some point we’re ganna have to…have to kiss for the play- I mean as much as neither of us want to be anywhere near each other, it’s unavoidable.” He whispered, barely audible as they inched closer. Julie knew she had to stop this but she just couldn’t, she was froze in that spot, and couldn’t talk or move, or even breathe at that moment. His sparkling blue eyes almost seemed to twinkle as he put his hand on her shoulder and their lips brushed.

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“Uh, Julie?” Brian asked as he waved his hand in front of her face. Snapping her out of the small trance she was in. He chuckled at the far away look in her eyes and the confusion on her face as she came to. She looked over at him.

“What?” She asked in her disgusted tone again, still confused.

“You were day dreaming, or somethin’…Anyway I gatta go. I have basketball practice. Um, I know we still didn’t get to rehearse much…um…I…I guess I’ll see ya tomorrow.” A weird silence came over them as they walked back to the table and gathered up their books. Brian walked out to his car and Julie went to sit at the desk of the library to play solitaire on the computer. Why she had had a daydream about HIM was beyond her, she didn’t like him, or at least that’s what she kept telling herself…