Evelyn Skye

The Hundred Loves of Juliet

Jazelle H

"Time doesn't matter," Dad liked to tell me and my sister, "because if you live with one eye fixed on the end, you've already lost."

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, then are jumped of in your philosophy -- Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5

Sebastian blinks. And then his mouth drops open and he stares at me like a sailor who's been lost at sea and suddenly sees the North Star in front of him.

The moment I saw Helene, I tasted the faint sweetness of honeys wine on my lips, a ghost of a kiss. It happens every time she comes back into my life, a memory lingering from the first night we met, centuries ago.

And no one can look away from Juliet, because her smiles are golden light in our world that is shall shadowed by bloodshed and spite.

"Not yet," I say. "It's only the beginning of our story."

I missed her as much as the stars would miss the sky if they ever fell to earth.

You're right. You do know me, and our souls are intertwined, our story retold over and over for centuries. Romeo and Juliet. Cupid and Psyche. Me and you.

It's not about looks! Romeo falls for Juliet because he sees something special in her--maybe the intelligence in her eyes or the confidence in the way she moves. That special something I wanted someone to see in me someday.

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