Father & Paris.

My father is so diffcult to deal with. He wishes for me to marry Paris, the pefect guy for me apparently. Paris is wealthy, good looking, well known, and respects all women. He is all that a woman should want in a man. If this is so, then why do I not want to be with him. Only few people know the true answer to that question. Romeo, the Nurse, Friar Lawrence, and I, are the only ones. I am in love with and wed to Romeo secretly; therefore, I can never go through with this marriage to Paris. Father once told me that, if I will not marry Paris, then I will be disowned by him and my mother, and thrown onto the streets. Lady Capulet had agreed with him. Afterwards, father and mother left me with Nurse. I asked Nurse’s opinion of the situation, and she had agreed. Paris is the man I should be with, instead of Romeo. I felt betrayed by Nurse. She was always the one person, besides Romeo, that I could trust to tell me the truth of everything. To tell me that I should leave Romeo – my love, my husband – was so very selfish of her.

Banishment.

Romeo has gotten banished. This picture is of us kissing before he left Verona. The banishment was ordered by the Prince. Tybalt has wanted to start a fight with Romeo ever since he’d known about the fued between my two families. What really escalated Tybalt’s wish to fight and kill Romeo, was seeing Romeo at the Capulet ball. Tybalt had told my father, but my father dismissed it, since Romeo was not really causing any trouble. Ever since that night, Tybalt seeks any reason to harm Romeo. He finally got his chance in the streets of Verona. It was after my marriage to Romeo, and Tybalt had sent a letter to Romeo. Tybalt and Mercutio begun the fight, and Tybalt ended that fight by stabbing Mercutio in the chest. Romeo had gotten in the way, trying to stop the fight; Tybalt thrust his sword up around Romeo’s arm, and it went straight into Mercutio’s breast. Tybalt and Romeo began fighting after that, and Romeo, by accident, murdered my cousin, Tybalt. The Nurse told me the horrible news. She had made it sound like Romeo was the one that was murdered by Tybalt, but I found out the truth soon enough. Romeo, by order of the Prince, was banished from Verona.

Death.

It says that I had disappeared after the death of my Romeo, but the truth is that they found my body next to his; cold, pale, and lifeless. My heartbeat ceased to be, and my breaths left my body. I was glad to be by his side when I died; I’d rather be nowhere else at that moment. But, to see him die…was the most cruel thing that God could ever make people witness. The death of their loved ones; seeing their bodies go limp, and their eyes become bleak. It was difficult to just reach for Romeo’s dagger, and stab myself in the chest. The hurt from his death, was just that greatly painful. I loved – and still do love – him with all my heart. When Friar Lawrence told me what happened, how my Romeo had died, I felt so distant and detatched. I did not want to be there, on that land anymore. I didn’t want to be alive while Romeo was dead on the ground in front of me. Friar Lawrence left and I proceeded to kill myself with Romeo’s shiny dagger; that dagger soon became red with the blood in my breast. The last images I saw before all the life fled from my body was Friar Lawrence and other blurry bodily-looking figures rushing into the room. I assume that it was my parents and the Prince, but I cannot be sure…

How Can I Not Love You?

Romeo and I, we're not meant to be together. But how can I not love him? I really hadn't concerned myself with love before I met him. When we had met, it was as if love at first sight had occurred. That look of admiration in his deep brown eyes while he peered at me, or the way his somewhat rough-skinned hand brushed against mine as he took my hand in his, was truly overwhelming. Romeo is a Montague, and I am a Capulet. The two families are and always will be enemies; almost nothing could ever change their views of one another. Therefore, Romeo and I can never be together publicly. I had felt like crying when I discovered Romeo is a Montague. He is more than just my love; he is my best friend, my husband, my lover, my one and only soul mate. That is why I must keep my relationship with him a secret from my family and his. Our families would not understand at all. Tybalt has already seen and mentioned him to my father at our ball, and that is what’s setting everything else off. Tybalt wants to murder Romeo; he wants to kill every living Montague at any cost. But I will not let him touch my Romeo. I would rather die by Tybalt’s sword, than to have Romeo die at all.