Romeo & Juliet: What If?

What If?

     Thursday was the given day of Paris and Juliet's wedding. Juliet asked Friar Lawrence for a bright idea on how to prevent their wedding. Friar Lawrence gave Juliet a potion. A potion which lets Juliet to die for forty hours. Juliet drank the potion on the night before their wedding. Friar Lawrence asked Friar John to send Romeo a letter which tells him the fake death of his beloved wife, Juliet. The Capulets saw the dead body of Juliet. They put Juliet's dead body to the place where dead Capulets were buried. Balthasar, Romeo's man saw that Juliet's dead body was being buried by the Capulets. And so, he immediately went to Romeo's place, Mantua, to tell Romeo what he saw. After hearing what Balthasar said, Romeo went back to Verona as fast as he could.  Paris went to the Capulet's tomb to put the flowers to Juliet's tomb, he hid himself to the dark when he heard a noise. He went to the place where Juliet's body lies, not knowing that Paris was there. He went closer to Juliet's tomb and he grieved. Paris saw Romeo and then they fought. Romeo then, killed Paris. He continued grieving and he decided to kill himself by drinking a poison. But before killing himself, he kissed Juliet for the last time. Friar John came to Friar Lawrence and said that he could not send Romeo the letter and gave it back to Friar Lawrence. Friar Lawrence went to Juliet's tomb. He was shocked after seeing Romeo and Paris' dead bodies. Juliet woke up. Friar Lawrence heard the watchers so he immediately left. Juliet grieved after seeing Romeo lying dead. She also decided to end her life. She first attempted to drink Romeo's poison, but the bottle is empty. So she kissed Romeo thinking that there is still poison on Romeo's lips but there's none. Juliet saw Romeo's dagger and she buried the dagger to herself which took her life. Prince Escalus, Montague, Capulet, Lady Capulet and the watchmen came. Lady Montague died because of extremely loneliness after what happened to Romeo. Friar Lawrence explained what really happened and he told the Tragic story of Romeo and Juliet. The feud between the two families ended. Then, they decided to make a statue of Romeo and Juliet. THE 

END.

But what if, this was the story...

     Thursday was the given day of Paris and Juliet's wedding. Juliet asked Friar Lawrence for a bright idea on how to prevent their wedding. Friar Lawrence gave Juliet a potion. A potion which lets Juliet to die for forty hours. Juliet drank the potion on the night before their wedding. Friar Lawrence asked Friar John to send Romeo a letter which tells him the fake death of his beloved wife, Juliet. The Capulets saw the dead body of Juliet. They put Juliet's dead body to the place where dead Capulets were buried. Balthasar, Romeo's man saw that Juliet's dead body was being buried by the Capulets. And so, he immediately went to Romeo's place, Mantua, to tell Romeo what he saw. After hearing what Balthasar said, Romeo went back to Verona as fast as he could. Paris saw Romeo coming to Juliet's tomb, so he talked to Romeo. Romeo had to explain why he was so eager to see Juliet. Romeo told Paris everything about him and Juliet, but Paris' feelings was hurt so he quickly pushed Romeo. But Romeo pleaded to Paris that he just wanted to see Juliet. Paris breath deeply and went to Juliet's tomb along with Romeo. Romeo ran into Juliet, after seeing that Juliet was really dead, he was about to drink the potion until Juliet was awakened by Paris kissing her. Juliet pushed Paris, but quickly asked for his forgiveness, she told Paris everything about her and Romeo, then she chose Romeo to be her husband for life without knowing that Friar Lawrence, Friar John, Prince Escalus, Montagues, and the Capulets were at the door listening to her story. The Capulets and Montagues began to shake hands and tears fell down from their very own eyes seeing that a Capulet and a Montague became in love with each other. Paris began to run away and after some days, the families heard that Paris took the potion that was supposed to be drank by Romeo. The families went to Paris' funeral and asked for forgiveness, and remembered this funeral as the end of the war between their own families. THE END.