In Class: Romeo and Juliet (Dom)

[Lucy Serrano-Blaise]

This thread is pre-Retreat 2013.

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Alright, Lucy was pretty close to calling bullshit.

Sometimes classes put people together for their assignments, and she understood that. What she didn't understand was why she had to get paired with Dom. Sure, she was friends with Dom. They got along pretty well and had a similar sense of humour, but that didn't change the fact that this was gonna get awkward.

Because the assignment? It was a classic.

One she was pretty sure she'd been faced with before back home; modernise a scene from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Then, y'know, get up in class and actually read it out loud.

Sitting on a desk in the classroom, Lucy pursed her lips and looked down at the script in her hand. She glanced up at the blonde as she shifted to cross her legs on the desk; "This is..."

What was the right word?

[Dominique Chevalier]

"A pile of wank," Dom finished for her, glaring at the printed off script in his hand. "A steaming pile of pure wankery." Shakespeare had never been his thing, no matter how much his mother had dragged the family to the theatre to 'appreciate the bard' or whatever.

And a love scene at that. With Lucy.

It was... gross. Yeah. Totally gross. Believe it.

"But soft," he read, "What light from yonder window breaks? Oh look, it's me, coming out of the closet. Sorry Julie, but I'm gay."

Putting the paper back down he lent back in his chair. "There, assignment complete. And this way no one dies in the end either."

He did not want to stand up in front of a class room and tell Lucy how hot she was, Shakespeare or not. That was just... it was just not on.

[Lucy Serrano-Blaise]

"Ah, you're so eloquent." Lucy countered with an approving grin. He was right, though. This was one of those things Lucy couldn't really see the point in. But then again, most assignments in english class seemed relatively useless to the Australian.

Dom was the ideal partner, right?

He carried the same thoughts about it that she did. That was what she meant.

She pressed her lips into a line to stop herself from chuckling at his creative rewrite.

"But Julz is the sun. So are you saying she is turning him back into a straighty?" Lucy asked as she rifled through the pages, "Because this shit goes on for like another four pages. If he's a mo, why's he still rubbing her face in it?"

So from that, she denoted an important fact; "He's a bit of an asshole."