Act 1 Scene 5

Juliet’s Diary – Entry 2

Dear Diary,

            I am in complete despondence and there is nothing that could repair it besides another encounter with the gallant that I kissed last night at the masquerade ball. It had been the best ball in years for me until the nurse told me a fact I wish had never existed. The boy I wished to spend the rest of my life with is a Montague. I fell in love with my enemy! What will my family think of me? They’d be embarrassed to call me a Capulet. Yet I can’t bare another minute without seeing him.

            Maybe I was wrong about waiting until I am older to marry. My mother and the nurse were right in that aspect, but I don’t want to get married to Paris. I told them that I wouldn’t go any farther with him than they wanted me to. I love one man and he is Romeo. Oh diary, I hope the nurse keeps my secret.

Juliet