TO BE YOUNG AND IN LOVE

CHOCOLATE CAKE

*Some magical portal you're just now noticing* Hola, Konichiwa, Salut, and Hi. What has two thumbs and promised to update once a week and then kind of disappeared for a while? This guy. So I wanted to apologize for making the empty promise that I was going to update more and then doing the exact opposite so to those of you who kind of like this story I'm sorry. But I did want to make it up to you by publishing a chapter a day early. This is my present from me to you. But besides that, I hope that you'll be happy to know that this chapter is over 3,000 words so now you'll be able to read a bit more. There is also a lot of flirting between your two favorite characters so yeah. As usual, I'm talking a lot so I'm going to stop holding you up and let you enjoy the beautiful mess known as Angelica Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton.

Saturdays were always interesting days for Angelica Schuyler. In all honesty, anything could happen on a Saturday. You could be reciting your vows to the so-called love of your life or you could be in the process of signing the final documents of your divorce settlement. On a Saturday you could be putting down a loan for your dream home but you could also be rereading your eviction notice for a shitty apartment you know you pay way too much rent for. All in all the possibilities of a Saturday were endless but sometimes endless was just a recipe for disaster.

Angelica knew walking into this Brunch that this afternoon could either be extremely well for her or problematic in every humanly way possible. Knowing her family Angelica wasn't going to go with the latter. Angelica didn't know what it was about that particular day but she just had the feeling that her family was going to make her life 10 times harder than it had to be. Maybe it was the way Angelica's youngest sister, Margarita was in an uncherteristly good mood and didn't seem to have the urge to ruin anyone's life. It could also be the way her father didn't welcome his four children with a two-hour lecture on how they could better their already pathetic lives. But if Angelica had to account for the oddest thing this Saturday it would have to be how extremely chipper Catherine Schuyler was that afternoon. Not to say Angelica's mother wasn't a happy person she just wasn't that happy. You see Angelica's own personality was somehow very similar but oh so different to her mother's. She had layers, stages you might even call them and there were a few stages that you never wanted to be in. For example, Angelica was a very extroverted and social person but there were times that she could be considered cold and standoffish and not to say that was necessarily a bad thing but if you got to the point where she wouldn't say a word and was just silently looking at you. Well that was when you knew you were in trouble and all you could do was pray that God would take pity on you and you would somehow find your way back into Angelica's good graces. That was the stage of Angelica's personality you never wanted to find yourself in but if you were talking about Catherine Schuyler that's a completely different sport. Not even a ballgame, just a brand new genre of physical competitive activity.

Catherine Schuyler was the complete opposite. Strangely enough, you felt most comfortable when she was ignoring and silently judging you so when you took all of this into account you could only be skeptical when she greeted you with a warm smile and a hug. And Angelica was not the only one. Even Angelica's own father can't properly mask his confusion.

Catherine smoothed the wrinkles of her flowy sundress before placing her hands in her lap and putting on the most unnatural smile Angelica had ever seen.

Catherine sighed in annoyance.

"Are you guys serious ?"

Angelica, along with the rest of her family looked up to meet Catherine Schuylers irritated gaze.

"The Kennedys would talk about everything under the sun and we can't even manage to have a simple conversation."

When no one offered anything but side-eyed stares Catherine put it upon herself to share her own news. She started her introduction to the announcement by picking on her eldest daughter.