Our face s were once again inches apart. I leaned in and slowly kissed her lips.
“You found me?” she said, both surprised and pleas ed.
“It wa sn ’ t that hard. I took a taxi and followed you and once in the gate, I was incognito.”
“How so?”
“I hung on the side of your limousine in stealth mode. Mostly white fur on a white limo .”
“That is very impressive,” Juliet smiled at me and my heart melted. I kept staring at her. “Why do you keep doing that? Staring, ” Juliet asked.
“I have never seen anyone so beautifu l. I am overwhelmed by the magnitude of your beauty, and that’s the truth. It’s not a line. It is exactly how I think and I promise you this is the first time I have ever said it to anyone. ”
“Okay, then. I believe you. You think I’m beautiful.” Then Juliet held her breath and quiet ly whispered in my ear, “Good answer. That was p robably the best answer I could have heard. ”
“ Do y ou know you ’ r e beautiful ? ” I said.
“Am I?” s he asked.
“Of course you are.”
“Sometimes , I don ’ t know.” She was being honest. I couldn’t believe someone this beautiful could feel insecure, but it was apparent that she did. <+0"> San>
“H ow could you ever feel that way? ” I asked.
“Life has a funny way of keeping us humble. With me, all it would take is for a boy never giving me a second look .”
“I can’t imagine anyone not giving you a second look,” I said.
“I don’t know. I saw him from the inside of his dreadful butcher shop job. No matter how many days in a row I stood outside watching him walk by the window, h e never once looked in my direction.”
I looked at Juliet and it was hard for me to believe she really did that. I wanted to believe it, but I was scared that she was just messing around. “Did you really do that?” I asked, with far more vulnerability than I would have liked.
“Yes, Romeo. It is true.” Juliet seemed embarrassed. “I hunted you down before you hunted me down. But you didn’t even look my way. Not once.”
I didn’t want her to feel that way. So, I told her what was in my heart. “I knew you were there. I felt you near me,” I said. “ I couldn ’ t see for whatever reason, but I felt your presence. I had a joy in my heart that was unexplained until I saw your face. Since then, I have never felt more alive . I knew in my heart of hearts that something magical was about to happen.”
“You have ?” Juliet.
“Yes, I have,” I said.
Juliet stared at me with tears dripping from her eyes. “You see I have always had this dream. It’s the most perfect place in the world.”
“It filled with love,” I said.
“Yes, and the sky is so blue…”
“That it looks like something you might see on a birthday cake,” I said, finishing her sentence. Then I added, “You can’t explain it, but there is a peace all throughout your body…”
“And you know it is exactly where you were always meant to be.” Juliet had now finished my sentence. Juliet and I had had the same reoccurring dream.
“This is too much. Never in my wildest dreams did I realize someone was experiencing what I was experiencing.”
“That they were seeing the world exactly how you see it.”
“Appreciating the same beauty and same essence that makes life so wonderful.” I finished my statement and just stared at Juliet, speechless.
“Do you really believe all those things, Romeo?”
“I do.” I said. I looked into Juliet’s amazing brown eyes and put it all out there. “Do you? Do you see the world the same way? Have you been dying inside, knowing that something was coming that was bigger than anything you had ever been a part of? Juliet, do you believe this about me? ”
Juliet was quiet and said , “I knew it last week.”
I wrapped my arms around Juliet’s body and held her. Juliet fell into my arms and nestled her head into my chest. I was still in my Dracula get - up. But my hair was no longer slicked
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