Trois

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We headed back downstairs and got everyone seated. My father and Mr.Hamilton sat on the opposite sides of the table glaring at each other. Phillip and I were seated next to each other so we secretly held hands under the table. I took some salad and silently ate until Eliza cleared her her throat, "So, Aaron, I've noticed Theodosia has not joined us for dinner. Is she alright?" My father looked down with sorrow in his eyes. "Actually, Mrs.Hamilton, my mother passed away a few years back from tuberculosis." "Well I am very sorry to hear that, she was a wonderful woman that Theodosia." Eliza replied. "You knew her?" "Yes I would sometimes talk to her when at the market." She looked at me with a smile, a few seconds after that I heard Mr.Hamilton scoff. I looked at my father and spoke up, "Mr. Hamilton I know you do not exactly like my family but I will not stand for you disrespecting my dead mother." After I said that Phillip stood up as well, "Father I will need you to accept their family." "Why?" Alexander said not as a question but more of just saying it. "Because me and Theodosia are courting." I hear both of our fathers drop what they're holding, my father gets up and starts to leave. "Aaron Burr sit back down..." I say in a stern voice my mother would use, he came back but did not sit down. Instead he marched right on over to Phillip, who looked incredibly scared, and said...

(Bam cliffhanger. 258 words.)

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