A New Day [Hamilton AU]

Chapter 9

*Eliza POV*
"James! Over here!" I waved at James, signaling that we were sitting over here.
"Hey Eliza!"
James walked over, with some girl at his side. Oh wait, that's Maria.
"Do you guys mind if Maria sits with us. She usually sits with me and doesn't want to be alone with Thomas and Samuel."
Peggy's eyes lit up when she saw Maria.
"Maria! Hey! Come sit next to me!" Maria sat down next to Peggy and they immediately started talking and giggling.
"I guess that settles that."
James sat down next to me. We started talking about our classes and how they were going. Soon everyone was all sitting down and we were all talking together and sharing stories.
I couldn't help but stare at James' face. It was so cute.
"Eliza?"
Oh god. I zoned out staring at him.
"Oh! Uh, sorry. I zoned out for a second, what were you saying?"
"Would you like to come over to my dorm tonight and maybe watch a movie?"
"Sure. That sounds nice."
Did he just ask me on a date?? No, why would he do that? Why would he like me? I'm not special enough for someone like him to be interested in.

~~~~~ Later that night

I stood outside James' room. I took a deep breath, made sure I looked okay, and then hesitantly knocked on the door. Thomas opened the door.
"Jemmy! Youe girlfriend is here."
I started to blush, but I glared at Thomas. James started to run to the door.
"She's not my girlfriend you ass. Now go, you said when she got here you would go to Samuel's."
"Alright, alright, I'm going." He exited the room and as he was walking he muttered "Have fun love birds."
James stared at him as he walked away. "I'm sorry about him. He's being a little bitch. Come inside."
I laughed at the comment he made and walked inside. It was a very nice room. We both sat down on the sofa. "So what movie do you want to watch? Its your choice."
"Do you think we can watch A Dogs Purpose? I really wanted to see that movie but I never got the chance." I looked at James, hoping he would agree to the movie.
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure its on this website I use to watch movies for free."
He searched for the movie and clicked on the title. "Here we go. Do you want to make popcorn or get a snack before we start it? I have a stash of candy that I hid from Thomas because he eats it all."
"Sure. Do you mind if I use your bathroom quick?"
"Not at all. Take your time."
I got up, walked into the bathroom and looked into the mirror. Calm down Eliza. Why are you so anxious? You're just watching a movie. Its not even a date. You heard him, you're not his girlfriend and I doubt he would ever actually like you.
I splashed water on my face, and fixed my hair. I walked back out and James had put popcorn in the microwave and got out the stash of candy he had mentioned. He also brought out the drinks he had. I was surprised as to how much stuff he was able to hide from Thomas without him knowing.
"Wow. That's a lot of snacks. How did your manage to hide all this from Thomas?"
"I put it in the cabinet underneath the book shelf. He doesn't go near the books."
I laughed. "That makes a lot of sense."
We got our snacks, sat down together, and started the movie.

*James POV*

The movie was about Three-Fourths over when Eliza's head slowly fell on my shoulder. She must have fallen asleep. I turned off the movie, and gently lowered her body on the sofa. I cleaned up the snacks and the drinks and made sure they're were hidden again. After that, I picked up Eliza and layed her down on my bed. I pulled up the blankets and kissed her forehead. "Goodnight Eliza" I whispered. I walked back out to the living room and shut the bedroom door. I got an extra blanket from the closet and went to sleep on the couch.

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*John POV*
I poured cereal into two bowls. One for Alex and the other for me. Alex was looking through the calendar for some reason.
"Hey John?"
"Yes?"
"What's Halloween?"
"What?"
"It says here that October 31st is Halloween. What's that?"
"You don't know what Halloween is?"
"I guess not."
"Its where you dress up as whatever you want and go trick-or-treating."
"What's trick-or-treating?"
"You're clueless." I laughed and set down the bowls of cereal on the table. "You go door to door and say trick-or-treat and the person inside gives you candy. Children mostly do that though. We are going to a Halloween party being thrown by the Schuylers." I looked at Alex who currently looked like a 5 year old on Christmas Day. "Can we go trick-or-treating?" I laughed at his childlike actions. "Yeah. I'll take you trick-or-treating. What do you want to dress up as?"
"What do you mean?"
"You put on a costume. For example, dressing up as a vampire or ghost. You can be anything you want. I'll help you with your costume."
"Can I be a pirate?"
"Of course. Do you wanna go shopping today to buy the items for the costume?" He nodded his head in excitement. "You have to eat your cereal first, okay?"
"Okay." He sat down and started eating his cereal. He opened his phone and started to look at pictures of pirate costumes. That is just adorable.

I finished my cereal first, so I got up and changed out of my turtle pajamas. Alex comments on them every time I wear them but I don't care anymore. I changed into joggers and a a t-shirt with a jacket. Alex came in after me and got changed as well. He wore his jeans and a sweatshirt.
We were about to leave when I noticed what he was wearing.
"Alex." I giggled. "What?" He looked down at what he was wearing and his eyes went wide. "I'm sorry. I didn't notice this was yours. I'll go change out of it." He turned around to head into the bedroom. "No, you can wear it. I was going to say it looks good on you." He turned back around and he looked embarrassed. "Thanks."
He quickly brushed his hair and pulled it back into a ponytail. "John, let me brush your hair quick."
"No."
"Come on. You need to brush it. It'll take three minutes."
"Nope"
"Yes"
"Fine."
I sat down on the chair and he brushed out my hair. He brushed it very delicately and it felt really good for some reason, almost relaxing. "Do you want your hair up or down?" I handed him one of my hair ties. "Up please." He took the hair tie and slid my hair into a pony tail. "Alright. I'm done. Let's go."

We went out to the mall and wandered around looking for stores that might have the right articles for the costume. We found most of the things we needed within an hour, but then we walked past a pet shop and we had to just go in and look at the animals. I saw in the back of the store there was a big turtle tank. I jumped up and down and ran towards it. They were so adorable. MAYBE I CAN ASK ALEX IF WE CAN GET ONE!
"Alex?"
"You want a turtle don't you?"
"Mhm. Can we please get one??"
"Sure, but you have to remember to take care of-"
"I'm going to play with it every single night and no one can stop me."
"Whatever you say."
We paid for the turtle, and got a small tank for him. I carried him around for the rest of the day.
"What are we going to name him?"
"Its your turtle so its your choice."
"I can't decide right now. Maybe a name will come to me when we get home."
We finished shopping for Alex's costume and went back home. I set up the tank on the counter and filled it with water. I went to put the turtle in the tank but he wasn't where I left him. "No no no. Where did he go! Alex did you take the turtle??" He looked up at me and started laughing. "You lost the turtle and its only been 10 minutes." Alex got up and tried to help me find him. I felt something pinching my ankle and when I looked down, it was the turtle trying to bite me. "I found him!" I picked up the small pet and lifted him into the tank. "I know what you should name him." I looked to Alex, waiting for a response. "Tobillo." I looked at him in confusion. "It means ankle in Spanish" I started to laugh. "How many languages do you know??" He smirked and said "I'm not fluent in Spanish. I just remember what ankle meant for some reason. And to answer your question, I can speak fluently in three languages." I was pretty amazed by what he said. "You're only nineteen and you know three languages while I'm twenty-one and I can barely form a sentence in English." Alex started to laugh so hard that he fell out of his chair. I started to laugh as well. "Are you okay there, buddy? Do you need some help getting back up?" Alex climbed back into his seat and breathed in deeply and sighed. "I need some coffee." I checked the time on the clock. "At 9:47 at night?" He looked me in the eyes and said with a straight face, "Yes." I burst out laughing and when I calmed down he said, "I'm gonna go down to the coffee shop down the road. Wanna come?" I nodded my head and we both walked to the coffee shop. Alex ordered a small black coffee and I ordered a French-Vanilla iced coffee. "You're going to drink black coffee at almost 10pm?" He took a sip of his coffee, "You bet your ass I am." I chuckled and we both drank our coffee, occasionally showing one another something funny on our phones.

A/N
Ok so the next chapter is going to be the best one yet, I'm my opinion. Also, so far, this was my favorite chapter to write and I really hope you guys like it. Filler chapters are so much fun woo.