The next morning, the boys watched the breaking news story. "Both young performers were taken to the local sanitarium where they will be held for observation. Doctors wonder if the fame was maybe just a little too much for these two to take."

AJ clicked off the TV, glancing around the room at the quiet bunch. *"A glooming peace this morning with it brings: The sun for sorrow will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things. Some shall be pardoned, some punished, for never was a story of more woe than this of Emma and her Backstreet Beau."

"Dude! I didn't even like her!" Nick pleaded in defense.

* = Either some or all of the text was taken from "William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet"

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