The summer memory

I thought I would go and see Taylor one last time before having to go back home, but when I arrived in my suit and tie, I saw her about to kiss Calum. I had to stop her. “Hey, umm Taylor can I talk to you for a second?” I asked her. She snapped her head back and said, “Oh, um sure Javier.” She got up and walked over to me but I started walking away telling her to follow me. Once we got somewhere quiet I asked, “Hey, do you like me or not?” She looked at me like I was a stranger. “Honestly, I don’t really know. I have to get back to Calum, bye. It was great seeing you again.” She told me and then she just dissed me. As she walked away I followed her, she didn’t even notice too. Once she sat down beside Calum again, I sat down right beside her. Calum looked straight in her eyes and the whole world disappeared. It was only her and him. I could tell by the way she was looking at him. “Taylor, will you be my girlfriend?” He asked her very softly. “I looked at her waiting for her to answer. She stuttered, “Y-YES!” She hugged him by wrapping her arms around his neck. I couldn’t take any more. “OK, TAYLOR, I WAS GOING TO ASK YOU OUT!!!” I yelled and she turned around so did Calum. HE glared at almost as if saying ‘dude if you yell at her one more time I will murder you’ I looked back down at her, “OK IF YOU WANT HIM YOU CAN HAVE HIM BUT HE WON’T BUY YOU ANY FANCY DINNERS!” He looked at me and said, “I don’t need to, I will cook at home for her.” I looked at him then back at her, hurt filling my eyes as I saw him put his arm around her waist and her lean into his side. I looked her straight in the eyes and she looked into Calums eyes. I stood right in front of her and sang If I lose myself by OneRepublic. She was looking at Calum the WHOLE time! I kept singing even though I just wanted to grab her and run away.



“Taylor’s POV”

As he was singing I was looking at Calum the whole time. It was so romantic. His nose touch mined and he started whispering the song, “If I lose myself tonight, it’ll be by your side.” I smiled and kissed him on the cheek. I laid my head down on his shoulder and he laid his head on my head. I actually fell asleep while he was whispering the song into my ear. As I fell asleep I had this wacky dream…

“The dream”
I woke up and instead of my head being on Calum’s shoulder it was on Javiers. I got up and went out to find him. “Where is Calum” I asked Luke. He looked at me with a confused look, “Who’s Calum?” My jaw dropped. I told him ,”You know the one who plays the bass!” He started laughing at me and kept on laughing. “Did you forget your boyfriends name, he is the only one who plays the bass.” He told me. Wait, but my boyfriends name is Calum! I needed some fresh air so I walked outside. I saw Calum walking by the house so I ran up to him and gave him a big hug. “EW, GET OFF OF ME STRANGER!!!!” He yelled as he was pushing me off. My eyes filled with tears and I just looked at him. Wait that wasn’t Calum! That was some stranger who I just mistaken for Calum ! I said sorry and went to Calum’s favorite hangout spot. I started heading to the cemetery. Sure enough he was there but he was kneeling by a grave. I walked up and hugged him. He didn’t even react. As I was hugging him I read the grave and started backing up. It said, “RIP, Here lies Taylor Hood.” I looked right beside it and it said, “Here lies Calum hood.” I looked at where Calum was kneeling and he wasn’t there. I ran back to the house but guess what, it wasn’t there. It was just a decaying pile of wood! Just then I started getting sucked backwards and ended up in my grave.
“End of dream”

I woke up and started yelling, “CAALLUUUMMM!!!!” He jumped up and saw tears running down my face. He grabbed me and pulled me close to his chest. I looked up and Javier was gone, “Babe where is Javier?” I asked him and he looked at me with no expression, “He left to go back home.” I nodded my head and rested my head on his chest. He kissed the top but i couldn’t find myself going back to sleep anytime soon so i walk over to the bookshelf that is in the room. I looked at the choices i had between the hundreds of large books. I picked out Romeo And Juliet. I have read this novel so many times yet it still speaks to me in a way I can’t describe. My favorite quotes in this are “He that is strucken blind cannot forget. The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.” When Benvolio suggests that Romeo can get over his love for Rosaline if only he will “examine the other beauties,” Romeo replies that nothing can make him forget that Rosaline is the most beautiful of all, just as a man who is struck blind cannot forget the “precious treasure” of eyesight. “...one fire burns out another’s burning. One pain is lessen’d by another’s anguish.” Benvolio again argues that finding a new love is the way for Romeo to escape from the pain of his hopeless love for Rosaline. “ROMEO, well in that hit you miss: she’ll not be hit with Cupid’s arrow;she hath Dian's wit; And, in strong proof of chastity well arm’d, from love’s weak childish bow she lives unharm’d. She will not stay the siege of loving terms, nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes, Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold: BENVOLIO, then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste?” Romeo admits that Rosaline has vowed to remain “chaste” like “Diana,” the goddess of virginity and hunting. In other words Rosaline has sworn off boys and sex, which means that Romeo has no chance of winning her heart. What is interesting about the passage is that Romeo sounds a whole lot like a typical “Petrarchan lover.” Petrarch by the way was a fourteenth-century Italian poet whose sonnets were all the rage. in Renaissance England. In fact, Shakespeare’s own collection of Sonnets are, in part, inspired by Petrarch’s love poetry, which was written about “Laura,” a figure who was as unavailable and unattainable as Romeo's current crush (Rosaline). Petrarchan poetry happened to contain a lot of metaphors that equate the pursuit of love with hunting and/or battle. In this passage, Romeo says that Rosaline is well “arm’d” against the “siege” of his love and “Cupid’s arrow,” which is an elaborate way to say that Rosalie is physically and emotionally impenetrable. Overall this is my favorite book. I walked towards Tarah and told her happy birthday then I went to my room and started reading it again. I was in the middle of the book when someone knocked on the door “Can I come in?” Calum asked “Sure” i said, and Calum walks in my room. He prances over to my bed. “Romeo and Juliet, I didn’t know you liked Shakespeare.” he said I was so lost in this amazing book I didn’t even hear what he said. “Huh?” i asked and he repeated it but i still didn’t hear him. He snatched the old book from my hand playfully. I laughed but played along and playfully whined. “I was reading that.” i said climbing onto his lap. He set the book down so I would know where I left it. “I love you” he says and i smile. “I love you too.” i said knowing i have always had a huge crush on him. “Don’t say too,” he tells me “what?” i ask and he chuckles “Don’t say too.” he repeated himself then kissed my nose. “Why?” i asked and he looked me in the eyes. “I feel like you are just agreeing with me.” he explains and I nod. “I love you” I say again and kiss him passionately. I wrapped my arms around his neck pulling him closer to me. He responds by holding my hips and flipping us over. He is now hovering over my body. He pulls away and I whine. “You know this can’t go too fast.” he informs me and I nod. I know I can’t go too quickly in this relationship. It will ruin the whole thing. “He jests at scars that never felt a wound.” His words speaking of the great novel itself. I love the quote when it leaves his lips. “But, soft! What a light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” i reply smiling. “See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O that I were a glove upon that hand. That i might touch that cheek.” he said and I giggle. “Are we really reinforcing Romeo and Juliet!?” we say in unison. We nod and he kisses my nose then my forehead. “Taylor?!” I recognise the accent...

Notes

sorry the last few chapters are late... I love you all, you all are great! Thanks for reading my story!
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