"I think she was only supposed to fake her own death?" Romeo frowned. "Friar Laurence never explained it well to me."

"Anyhow, I tried to kill myself at the side of her funeral bier, and I failed -- as you may have noticed -- and she awoke and shot herself, thinking me dead." He shuddered involuntarily at this part. "I saw her -- alive -- for just a second, before I was out. When I awoke, she was gone for good."

"A few months passed. Then I got sent here."