Romeo draw his dagger too and fought back. Count Paris gasped and fell to his knees, dying.
Romeo stepped over the body and went to find Juliet. She was lying inside, as cold as the stone beneath her. Rome took her hand and wept as he kissed her cheek. Back at Friar Laurence’s house, Friar John had returned. “ I went to Mantua, but I couldn’t deliver the message,” he announced. “ Romeo wasn’t there.”
Friar Laurence felt sick. “ But Juliet will wake up alone in the tomb,” he said. “ I must rescue her!” And he rushed from his house, heading for the Capulet tomb.