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Summary:

bromeo: me and juliet are going on a date tmrw

mercuti_ohno: what the FUCK

the.ben: congrats but uhh what

the.ben: she yelled at you for fifteen minutes not even an hour ago

mercuti_ohno: she fucking hates you dude

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the romeo and juliet characters, but they're in high school.

Chapter 1: pink glitter

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

--saturdays are for the boys

mercuti_ohno: you fucking asshole

the.ben: romeo

bromeo: what

bromeo: i didn’t do anything

mercuti_ohno: can u not piss off juliet for like ten seconds

mercuti_ohno: she’s the only thing getting me through physics

mercuti_ohno: now she’s mad at you and won’t give me the homework

bromeo: i didn’t piss her off i stg

mercuti_ohno: yeah u fucking did

mercuti_ohno: i have physics in fifteen minutes

bromeo: i swear i didn’t do anything

the.ben: i literally watched you spill like eight pounds of pink glitter into her backpack

bromeo: oh that was nothing lmao

mercuti_ohno: 👁️👄👁️

the.ben: she spent the rest of the period screaming at you

the.ben: like just in the middle of math

bromeo: oh dw about that it was romantic

mercuti_ohno: romeo what the fuck is wrong with you

bromeo: what it was nice

mercuti_ohno: what in gods name would make you think that that is nice

mercuti_ohno: go apologize to juliet

bromeo: i didn’t do anything wrong

the.ben: pls just do it

the.ben: tell her you’ll help fix anything you messed up

bromeo: ok fine i’ll text you assholes later ❤️

the.ben: ❤️

the.ben: see mercutio was that so bad

the.ben: it’ll all be fine

mercuti_ohno: if he doesn’t piss her off again

the.ben: eh

the.ben: do you wanna get ice cream after school

mercuti_ohno: oh yeah meet me out front

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bromeo: guys

bromeo: guys guess what

the.ben: what

mercuti_ohno: she texted me the answers so we good

bromeo: me and juliet are going on a date tmrw

mercuti_ohno: what the FUCK

the.ben: congrats but uhh what

the.ben: she yelled at you for fifteen minutes not even an hour ago

mercuti_ohno: she fucking hates you dude

bromeo: she thought the glitter was romantic once i explained it to her

mercuti_ohno: i just lost so much respect for juliet holy shit

mercuti_ohno: you’re such a dick to her

bromeo: wdym i flirt with her all the time

mercuti_ohno: romeo i love you (no homo) but ur idea of flirting is painting her locker with really ugly hearts

the.ben: mercutio ur literally bi

bromeo: it was sweet!!

mercuti_ohno: it was vandalism

bromeo: ok assholes i’m adding her to the gc

the.ben: nono nonononoo make a new one

the.ben: have you read half the shit mercutio just said

the.ben: he’s an asshole but you can’t fuck with his hw plug

mercuti_ohno: yeah pls don’t make me actually learn physics

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bromeo has created a new chat

bromeo has added mercuti_ohno

bromeo has added the.ben

bromeo has added julieee

bromeo: hey guys!!

julieee: heyyy 💞

the.ben: hi julie!!

the.ben: what are you doing with my cousin ur way too good for him

bromeo has named the chat ap lit gang

bromeo: hey what the fuck

julieee: did you guys do the lit project yet

mercuti_ohno: answer for your crimes juliet

julieee: idk he’s nice

mercuti_ohno: no he’s not

the.ben: when i came out to him he asked if i was gonna ask him out

bromeo: dude i told you i was sorry

the.ben: we’re literally cousins

bromeo: i’m sorry!!!!

mercuti_ohno: AHAHAHAHAHAHA I REMEMBER THAT

mercuti_ohno: JULIE DO YOU REMEMBER THAT ONE MONTH WHEN ROMEO KEPT HARASSING BEN TO MAKE HIM LISTEN TO LADY GAGA SONGS HE DOWNLOADED

julieee: was that the time he kept trying to chase him down in between classes

julieee: and during lunch

julieee: and during classes

mercuti_ohno: THAT WAS HIM TRYING TO BE SUPPORTIVE

julieee: NO

bromeo: I WAS DOING MY BEST

julieee: so none of you started the lit project?

bromeo: what lit project

the.ben: bruh

the.ben: it’s due monday

the.ben: and since i know juliet’s the only one who can do math, that’s in three days

mercuti_ohno: thanks for the confidence in my ability to count on my fingers

mercuti_ohno: what’s the project

julieee: basically you analyze one of the characters in the play but like rlly deep

julieee: three pages on their development as a character and then you need to put together a presentation about their traits and something else that’s up to you

julieee: mrs. marvin gave absolutely no guidance on what that something else bc she’s a shitty teacher

the.ben: bonus points if you present in character

mercuti_ohno: i’m gonna do mine on why cyrano and christian definitely should’ve hooked up

bromeo: what book are we reading

mercuti_ohno: dude even i finished reading

julieee: cyrano de bergerac

bromeo: gesundheit 😀

mercuti_ohno: wait i can’t name a single trait of any of the characters

the.ben: i can help you

bromeo: wait juliet can you help me

julieee: lets see how the date goes first lmao

mercuti_ohno: ben, my place after ice cream?

the.ben: perfect

Notes:

I got bored so I wrote a shakespearean chatfic. That's just the way it is sometimes. This chapter's kinda short, but future ones will be longer.

Thank you so much for reading. Let me know what you think!