Everyone has the script and everyone is ready to go to rehearsal. Romeo asks if his mom used to play Juliet before, and her response was, "yeah, mom did too" . Romeo says he's only playing the role of Romeo, and everyone else has their roles ready. He asks his dad if he can use some random bottles of poison to play the priest's poison, and he asks his mom if she used the same poison when she played Juliet back in school. The narrator is here, wearing the gold robes that Romeo has prepared. He's wearing his school uniform, which is fine, since he told his dad that he wouldn't be playing the narrator on stage. He says he hasn't made any fake poison yet, but he'd like to use one of the bottles to play "the priest poison" , and the narrator can use the other bottles for the background. Romeo wants to know if the dagger that Juliet uses to kill herself is retractable, or if it's made with flour. He wants to see the dagger, but the narrator refuses to reveal her identity. Romeo tells the narrator not to make the play look like a "duel between protagonist and villain" because the students