The noisy footsteps of the two small children could be heard in the streets of Verona. Young Romeo and his accomplice Rosaline were racing back home in order to keep from being caught. The children, only 5 years old at the time, had accidentally released the soon to be slaughtered chickens that belonged to one of Verona’s greatest farmers. After admiring the many feathered creatures, Romeo and Rosaline had dared each other to see who could get the closest to the fence without “chickening out”. Not wanting to be defeated by a girl, Romeo had climbed up on top of the fence and taunted Rosaline from above. As Romeo laughed he had started to lose his balance. Desperate, he reached out to grab something, anything to help him not fall down in front of Rosaline. Seconds later Romeo realized that he had accidentally grabbed onto the latch on …show more content…
“ I am sworn to chastity and it would never be able to work.”
“Excuse me, but I feel that I need to escort you back to your home now, Rosaline.” Romeo was astonished, hurt, and upset. How could he ever loveanother woman? He wouldn’t. Romeo decided that he would never find love again. If Rosaline wouldn’t be the one to marry him, then he would never marry anyone. Deciding not to love seemed like a simple decision in that moment, but what he did not realize was that eventually he would learn to love someone else.
For the time being, all Romeo knew was that he would not be able to see Rosaline anymore. Their friendship was going to have to end because Romeo knew that he would not be able to handle spending time with her when he knew that she could not love him back. So in this part of his life, Romeo was just going to have to learn to live without Rosaline, and try to hide his true feelings for her in order to prevent the awkwardness after what had happened to them. So with a heavy heart, Romeo moped home and retired to his bedroom, internalizing the events of the