Juliet & Juliet Part 2
HI!!! So I've FIIIIIIIINALLY got an update for this fic. Sorry it took so long, people were starting to wonder whether I'd abandoned it but that was never the case, I've just been utterly chockers with uni work so had very little to no time to write but trust me, I'm not giving up on this fic, not by a long shot that's for sure. I've even been re-reading Romeo and Juliet and let me tell you, it makes way more sense now then it did in year 10 english :/ But anyway, I'll stop with the rambling and let you get on with it :)
Part 2 - It Starts With Hello
“I can’t see him anywhere!” Sophie whined to Chesney.
“Well surely he’s here somewhere,” her friend replied back. “EVERYBODY’S here.”
Sophie frowned. One of the real reasons that she had wanted to crash the party so badly was because she had thought that Ben would be here. Ben was, well amazing Sophie thought. She was head over heels for him and was hoping to meet up with him. Well he would be wearing a mask, she thought. Maybe I just missed him.
Sighing, Sophie decided to give up looking for Ben for the moment, the amount of drinks she’d had so far that night taking its toll on her bladder. Hey, it was an open bar, who could resist?
“I’m just gonna pop to the loo,” she informed Chesney.
The boy was paying her no attention though, instead staring at a dark haired girl across the room. “Yeah, whatever,” he mumbled before downing a drink for courage and heading over towards her.
Sophie chuckled to herself at the sight and went off in the direction of the bathrooms.
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Sian clicked ‘ignore’ on her phone for the 8th time. Her parents had been trying to get a hold of her for a while now, her mother even coming into the bathroom at one point calling for her but she had just kept quiet and prayed for her to leave. Now she figured it was probably time to rejoin the masses and hopefully survive the wrath of her parents.
When the stall door opened Sophie looked up into the mirror out of habit and couldn’t help but freeze what she was doing by what she saw. Sian had stopped as well when she’d seen Sophie, her breath hitching in her throat. It was more than just the beauty of the girl in front of her that caused her heart to beat more rapidly and her palms to go all sweaty. No, there was a look in this girl’s eye, a look that drew her in and she couldn’t help but stare.
Sophie was staring also and if it was any two other people it might have been awkward, but not for them. Their fascination with each other was too great to notice the lack of talking, each one enthralled by the vision that was in front of them. Not everybody believes in the concept of ‘love at first sight’ and in all honesty neither Sophie nor Sian may have described it as such but to anyone else watching, who would be able to see the look in each of the girls’ eyes, you wouldn’t be blamed for mistaking it as such.
They would have stayed that way forever if Sophie hadn’t of said, so softly that it was barely above a whisper, “Hi.”
Sian thought it was the most beautiful thing she had ever heard, along with the most beautiful voice as well. She choked out a “hi” back before clearing her throat which had gone dry and repeating more clearly, “Hello.”
“Hi,” Sophie repeated without realising, causing Sian to smile at the ground subconsciously.
Sian didn’t know what to say so pointed to the mask in Sophie’s hand and asked lamely, “Here for the party?”
Sophie nodded, “Yeah, something like that.” Then she licked her lips and looked at the mask in Sian’s own hand. “Your mask is really beautiful, where’d you get it?” Sophie enquired, equally amazed that her voice wasn’t failing her and that she could be picking the most utterly boring topics in the world to discuss with this amazing girl in front of her.
Sian looked down at the mask as well and shrugged, “No idea. My Dad bought it for me. Probably some ridiculously expensive place,” she slightly grimaced at yet another reminder of her father’s controlling nature.
Noticing the drop in Sian’s mood, Sophie took a step towards her asking softly, “Are you alright?”
Sian looked up into the eyes of the girl in front of her. They were so full of concern, concern for her. She couldn’t help but get lost in them, slowly inching herself closer to the brunette. She started to lean her head towards Sophie’s, staring at her lips then back to her eyes. “I...I’m...” she stammered in a whisper.
Without realising what she was doing Sophie started to move her head closer towards Sian’s as well, tilting it slightly. The air around them at that moment was electric and Sian was already breathing a little more heavily in anticipation. Impossibly slowly, they were getting closer and closer to one another, their lips already reaching out but right before physical contact was made, when they were close enough to feel each other’s breath, Sian’s phone went off for the badzillionth time and both of the girls jumped at the sudden loud noise filling the bathroom.
Sian quickly pulled her phone out and was about to hit ignore again but then she noticed that this time it wasn’t her parents, which meant that it was urgent. “I’ve got to go,” she told Sophie, hurrying to the door.
“Wait!” Sophie called out, causing Sian to stop with her hand on the door handle and turn around. Sophie didn’t know what to say now that Sian was waiting so blurted out, “Sophie. I’m Sophie.”
Sian smiled at her with a smile that Sophie thought would stop her heart or cause her knees to give out. “Sian,” the blonde replied simply.
“Sian,” Sophie repeated with a matching smile, and then Sian was gone out the door.
Sophie raced to it herself, as soon as she opened it the noise and music of the party flooded into her senses as she looked around the room to see where the other girl had gone.
The voice of Vinnie Powers broke out over the speakers in the party hall, causing the music to stop and everyone to turn around and look, even Sophie. “I’d just like to thank everyone for coming tonight,” Vinnie said into the microphone. “It means a lot to us that on our little girl’s 18th birthday so many people would want to celebrate her big day. Sian honey, come up here,” he gestured behind him.
Sian? Sophie thought to herself, confused. Surely it can’t be... but when the blonde girl stepped up onto the makeshift stage next to her father with a fake smile Sophie could only look on in horror.
“Doesn’t she look absolutely beautiful tonight?” Vinnie continued. “Go on, sit down love,” he instructed Sian, the girl gladly moving back to sit next to her best friend, Katy Armstrong.
Leaning over to her while her father prattled on Sian whispered to the other girl, “You see that girl, the one out towards the back?”
“The only one without a mask on you mean?” Katy replied.
“Yeah her. Her name’s Sophie, do you know her?”
“Sian, you’re kidding right?” Katy scoffed.
Sian frowned at her, “No, I’m not. Why? Who is she?”
“That’s Sophie WEBSTER, Sian, the daughter of KEVIN Webster?” answered Katy.
“No!” Sian gasped a little too loudly so that her Dad paused and looked at her for a second before continuing with his speech where he was singing Sian’s praises. Sian looked down embarrassed by the outburst and Vinnie, not missing anything, looked in the direction that Sian had been staring only to see none other than one of the Webster girls standing towards the back (he’d made it his business to familiarise himself with these sorts of things).
Wrapping up the speech and joining in with the toast and applause for his daughter, he moved off stage to where Owen Armstrong, his right hand man, business associate and father to Katy Armstrong, stood and said to him ominously, “We’ve got an uninvited guest.”
Owen looked in the direction that Vinnie was indicating and recognised the Webster as well. “You want me to make an example?” Owen guessed and started to go off into the crowd but Vinnie stopped him.
“No,” he instructed. “Let her be, I don’t want to cause a scene but keep an eye on her while she’s here.” Owen nodded in response. “Besides,” Vinnie added, “I think it’s about time to get Sian home anyway.”
...
Sophie watched from a distance as Sian was escorted away to the back by her mother and Katy while the party raged on.
“Sophie, you’ll never guess what,” Chesney appeared by her side for the first time since she’d left him.
“What Chesney?” Sophie muttered distractedly, still staring after the blonde.
“I’ve met the most brilliant girl,” he told her. “Uh, she’s just, amazing she is.”
“So have I,” Sophie whispered, in a world of her own.
Chesney didn’t notice as he was pretty preoccupied with his own romantic dealings of the night but eventually Sophie snapped out of it and headed for the exit, slipping her mask back on in the process. Finally realising he was standing alone staring goofy faced at the ceiling thinking about the girl he’d met, Chesney looked about and raced off out of the hall after Sophie.
...
“Sophie, SOPHIE!” Chesney hissed after her, barely being able to keep up as she raced through the streets of Weatherfield, only stopping once she’d arrived at her destination.
“Finally,” Chesney muttered, out of breath and panting heavily. “What the bloody ‘ell got into you?” Sophie didn’t answer or even acknowledge him, simply staring through the fence at the edge of the property up at the house she had stopped at.
Looking around Chesney finally realised where they were and, frowning, asked Sophie, “Wait, what are we doing HERE?” He then added in a cautionary voice, “Sophie, what are you up to?” Sophie turned to look at him for the first time and grinned. “Uh oh,” Chesney uttered. “I know that look. That’s the same look you gave me when we were twelve and you decided it’d be a great idea to put glue in the key hole of Norris’ door, which we got caught for. And then again when we were fifteen and you thought AGAIN that it’d be a good idea to go behind the sheds at school and- ”
“YES, Chesney okay I get it,” Sophie cut him off of his rant.
“I don’t think you do,” the redheaded boy insisted. “This is VINNIE POWERS’ house, Sophie. Do you know what’ll happen if we get caught?” He then dragged his finger across his throat to reiterate his point.
Grabbing him by his shoulders, Sophie looked him in the eye with all the seriousness she could. “Chesney, listen to me,” she said to him calmly. “This isn’t like those times okay, I’m not here to try and vandalise anything or piss Vinnie off.”
Chesney looked at her, confused. “Then why are we here?”
“I’M here because well, Chesney, tonight I, I met someone as well.”
Chesney’s forehead only creased further, but in all honesty it wasn’t as though Sophie was giving him much to go on. Seeing his lack of understanding Sophie elaborated, “Her name’s Sian.”
“Sian?” Chesney queried. Now why did that name ring a bell to him? Looking up at the house he said out loud again, “Sian,” then when it clicked in his head, “SIAN! As in Sian POWERS, Sian?” Sophie nodded her affirmative. “What? Sian, but, Powers, what, Girl?” Chesney stammered out incoherently. “What happened to Ben?” he gasped in disbelief. “And since when were you into GIRLS?”
“Shh, Chesney keep your voice down,” Sophie whispered at him, the street they were on was empty but the sound seemed to be carrying far more than Sophie was comfortable with. “I don’t know okay, all I know is as soon as I saw her Ches, I don’t know, something just, it felt absolutely right. I couldn’t breathe properly and I was all nervous and when she smiled, God it was amazing.”
“Okay, okay let’s ignore the fact that she’s a girl for a second, but just for a second because seriously Sophie I never thought that-”
“Get on with it Chesney!” Sophie snapped.
“Okay keep your knickers on, how about the fact that SHE’S THE DAUGHTER OF VINNIE POWERS!” He hissed at her angrily.
Sophie ran her hand through her hair sighing, “I know, alright? I know that he’s me Dad’s worst enemy and she’s probably the last person in the world that I should fall in love with (she ignored the look Chesney gave her at that) but I didn’t know who she was at the time and then we almost kissed and I just have to see her again Ches, I just have too.” Sophie stopped rambling long enough to take a breather and look at her friend, scared of what he’d say.
Chesney looked at Sophie with a sad smile, he wouldn’t trade places with her for anything in the world. She’d really gotten herself in a mess this time but she was still his best friend so what else could he do but try and help her. “And I suppose you want my help to try and get inside this fortress to see her then?” He asked with a smirk.
“Thank you so much Chesney, seriously I owe you one,” Sophie told him, grabbing him into a tight hug.
“Yeah, yeah, get off now. What would someone say if they saw us, ay?” he joked.
“Seriously Chesney, you’re a great friend,” Sophie said to him.
“Just you remember that when my birthday comes up, okay?”
“Definitely. Now, give me a leg up why don’tchya.”
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Soooooo, there you go! Please comment and let me know what you think, I'm not hugely proud of it but I've already got the balcony scene planned out so it should be good hopefully. Update-wise what I'm going to be doing is alternating my fics so I'll be posting another update for A Webster Walks Into A Bar hopefully sometime between now and next week (no promises though) and then another J&J one after that.
Again, comments make my world go round (or something less cheesy) so I appreciate it heaps if you leave one but all in all, thanks so much for all the comments that I've got for this fic and my others, it really makes my day (and week sometimes) to see that people actually like the stuff that I've written and it makes me feel better about myself :)
- devilsspy xx