Secrets - A Lams Fanfiction

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~Alexander Hamilton~

I sighed heavily as I sat in my car in a Walmart parking lot. My family thought I was at work, but I definitely was not. So much for my high end lawyer job. I was fired.

I couldn't tell John though. He would start asking questions. For now, I just had to lie and hide out until I found a new job. I could just say I was promoted but Washington would never ever reccomend me for a job after what I did.

It was at 2pm when I got a text from an Unknown number. Panicked by this text, I read it over and over until I could come up with a reply. But how could I respond to something like this?

Unknown: hello, Alex. You know me but you won't remember me. You saw me but you didn't realize it was me. You hurt me more than you think. $50k or I tell your husband about what happened at that party. By next week or I tell him you've been lying about work.

I slowly texted out my response, not entirely sure what to do but I was a lawyer. I knew how to argue.

$50k by next week isn't possible. I really do want to pay but I can't. How about $10k by the end of the month?
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Now I just had to wait. I now realized who it was. Kitty Livingston. The bosses niece. It was Impossible to hide the things I did from him. I'm surprised I wasn't arrested. I guess he liked me a little. Not enough to not fire me though, but I deserved it.

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I decided to go home around 2:30. Claim it was an early day. John should be home, painting. I thought Pip is at his moms for the weekend. He didn't have to be but he liked spending time with her. I couldn't blame him.

Eliza Schuyler is a very nice lady. We only had problems because we married at 21 after having Pip at 17. Things only got worse after the "honeymoon phase". I worked too much, she couldn't work at all. We got divorced at 25 because I started seeing John and crushing on him. She could tell. That created more problems. We agreed to divorce and stay friends... sort of.

Even after the divorce, Eliza and I were still having petty fights. Random things like being a few minutes late to drop off/pick up Pip or just not packing enough clothes for him would start arguments that could last days. Eventually, John took over the drop off/pick up duty and I never saw Eliza until Pips graduations.

That's when I found out she was going to have another kid with her new husband. I wasn't jealous... of course not! She could do whatever she wanted with that idiot. I had my perfect family... every other week. When Pip wasn't with us, John and I would do our own thing. Work, dinner together, then go to different rooms to watch our own shows.

Anywho, when I got home, Ava-Grace was running around with Philip in the livingroom. That was the most active I had seen him since he came home from college. I smiled a little and set down my bag full of empty papers. Going to my office seemed like a bad move so I sat on the couch in the livingroom and watched my son play with his half sister.

"Hey, Ava. How are you?" I asked when she ran over to me. She had big, beautiful brown eyed and curly hair, like John's. I assumed she got it from Jerk- I meant Herc.

"Nooooooo!" She screamed and ran into Pips arms. He gave me a confused look and I gave one right back. Why would she run from me? Other than John, Pip and Eliza, I was her favorite.

"Bad!" She started to cry as she clung to my son. Philip took over and rocked her, trying to calm the screaming toddler. "Bad! Mean!" She cried.

I looked confused as ever. The only person who would call me similar names was Kitty but as far as I knew, she had no contact with a 3 year old. And she was only set on ruining my life, not Eliza's.

Pip picked up Ava-Grace and gave me a sympathetic look. "I'll take her downstairs if you want to be alone..." he said and held her close. She clung to him like a koala.

"No, it's fine. I'll go upstairs." I mumbled and grabbed my bag, going up to my office. I sat at my desk and looked at my computer. A text from John popped up but since it was nearly 3pm, I knew it was just him asking what I wanted for dinner. I could answer after I finished checking my emails.