MAYA POV
The loud music from the overhead speaker pours over me as I sink to my knees in front of Romeo. He’s hurt very badly from the duel with Tybalt, and I'm so scared he is going to die but then again, I'm more heartbroken that he was going to leave me after I had found home in him.
I reach out to him but his entire body is still. No, it's definitely not possible. The tears I have been trying to hold back slide down my cheeks. ‘Please don't leave me. Please.’ I throw myself on his body and sob. He can't just leave me because I loved him so much. Silence defended. The hair on the back of my neck rises. A current of electricity swirls around me.
A part of me is aware this is all musical, and I'm just acting. Or am I?
I clutch him even tighter. My chest hurts, my limbs are numb, an
