Two feuding households, two star-crossed lovers, too much blood spilled and not enough sex. Sounds familiar? Of course, it does, it’s the greatest love tragedy ever told, sprung out of the fertile quill of William Shakespeare.
Everybody knows the story of how these two Clandestines came to:

• meet at a masquerade ball over at the Capulets’ manse;
• fall in lust at first glance across the dance floor and then even deeper during the balcony scene;
• secretly marry the very next day behind the backs of their respective families and Juliet’s betrothed, Paris, with the help of a misguided Friar Lawrence, who hoped to thus reconcile their eternally feuding families;
• consummate their forbidden union, with Romeo impavidly slipping in and out of Juliet’s balcony, bed, and… ehm, the rest of her stuff;
• accidentally poison themselves in the attempt to save Juliet from going through with her promise to marry Paris; all thanks to another genius idea of Friar “Dumbass” Lawrence.

But the most interesting thing in Shakespeare’s tragic tale is the oft-neglected fact that Romeo was initially in love with Rosaline, also a Capulet like Juliet, and went to the masquerade ball with his posse in tow to hook up with the sexy Rosaline, who was wont to treat young, horny Romeo like gum stuck to her shoe. But when he gets to the ball, Romeo spots Juliet, equally young and beautiful as her cousin, only that she digs him. Could it be, then, that Juliet was Romeo’s rebound girl and not his ultimate soul mate? Maybe, but that’s not the issue here. The issue is that these two were just a couple of teenagers in heat, and since Romeo had fallen in and out of love with Rosaline before you could say “Verona”, in a week’s time he might have also forgotten all about Juliet, especially if another hot chick had caught his eye. Think about that next time you want to kill yourself over love trouble.