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john pov:

"so, how's it going, johnny cakes?"

"not much. what about you, alexanbarb?"

alex blinks a little in confusion.

"what?" he says, letting out a breathy chuckle.

"i'm talking about your weird contact name in the group chat!" i explain. he smiles softly, i take in the pretty view. the way the corner of his eyes crinkle a bit, the way the corners of his mouth curls up, the way his dimples pop out, the way his eyes sparkle, and how his nose scrunched up a bit. it always takes a toll on my heart.

"my contact name?" alexander says in adorable confusion.

"yeah, your contact name." i repeat. we stare at each other in what i hope is fondness, until we both break out into silly grins. we laugh in contentment as everyone else around us stared.

"come on, freckles, people are staring." alexander says. i turn to look at him again.

"freckles?"

"yeah, it's your new name now."

i smile at him. he smiles back.

"that's cute."

alexander sheepishly grins at me and looks away. we continue walking to our panel in comfortable silence.

when we got there lafayette, hercules, and the schuyler sisters have already broke into an argument. we head over towards them and exchange greetings and smiles.

"hey y'all, we're finally here!" alex says obnoxiously. he swings his arms across lafayette and hercules, shoulders. lafayette pushes his arm off in an aggressive manner.

"mon ami, shut the fuck up! you are annoying. period!" lafayette yells. alexander puts his hands on his hips.

"bitch, you think i'm the one that's annoying?" alex fires back. lafayette scoffs and flips his hair a bit before crossing his arms in front of his chest.

"yes! bitch, are you deaf?" lafayette says while pointing at his nose. alexander's annoyed expression twists into confusion and judgement. he rolls his eyes for what seems like the hundredth time today.

"this crazy bitch." alex mutters under his breath. we all share a light hearted laugh.

"you hoes are out of control, might be time to get y'all shots at the vet." peggy says jokingly.

"we are not dogs, peggy. show some decency." eliza says while laughing, she lightly swats peggy with the back of her hand. peggy lets out a pained noise and rubs the place she's been hit dramatically.

"you ugly whores sure smell like it." lafayette says sassily. hercules throws his arm around lafayette and chuckles.

"baby, not everyone smells like roses and Victoria's Secret perfume all the time."

lafayette scoffs and crosses his arms again.

"the bar has been set too fucking low then."
we all laugh again until peggy started crying actual tears.

"hey guys, the panel is starting soon, take a seat." eliza says. we see the people filing in and sit in the seats.

"yes, mom." i say teasingly. eliza rolls her eyes playfully at me and sits next to alexander. i huff a little because i wanted to sit next to him. i scold myself internally for acting so childish and take a seat.

"john, mon ami, you seem a little distressed and annoyed, what's on your noggin, bitch?" lafayette asks me. i turn to look at him.

"oh, nothing. it's fine, just feeling a bit tired today." i say reassuringly. his eyes narrow at me before turning his sharp gaze towards something else.

"i actually don't believe you at all, but okay."

i swallow nervously. i try to open my mouth and say something but the deafening screams of our fans cut me off. the show has officially started. as terrifying as that sounded, i felt a bit excited. actually, i felt a mixture of things. anxiety and adrenaline.

Time skip because fuck it 😎

the questions that the fans gave us were a bit uncomfortable to say the least. we tried to answer them to our best ability nonetheless. there were plenty of inappropriate questions and a bunch of nosy ones that just completely disrespected our privacy. i could tell that the others were annoyed and bothered with it. eliza was the one that was really freaking me out though.

every time a fan asks alexander a weird question, eliza has this unreadable look on her face. whenever it happens to anyone other than alex, she remains with a seemingly unfazed and friendly smile plastered onto her delicate face.

there were a lot of actually decent questions, though.

"peggy! how are you such an icon?" a fan asks. peggy flips her hair a bit and leans towards her microphone.

"born a bad bitch, always a bad bitch. that's my philosophy for life." she answers. the fans in the crowd laughed lightly.

"lafayette, will you tell us your beauty secrets?" a boy asked. lafayette grabs his microphone a bit aggressively.

"non, they're secrets for a reason." he says a bit menacingly. we all let out a laugh at his aggressiveness.

we decide that we'll take one more question before we wrap up the panel. a girl shoots her hand up.

"alexander, is it true that you're bisexual?" the fan asks. we all look over at alexander, wondering what he'll say next. alex's eyes widen a bit at the question.

"well.. i mean..  women? yes. men? also yes. i won't give it a label, though." the girl nods. "i don't even know how you came to that question though." alexander says, laughing a bit. the girl shrugs.

"you just give off the chaotic bisexual energy."

we laugh and end the panel, thanking everyone for coming to see us.i looked at my surroundings and the people i'm with, suddenly meeting eyes with eliza. i look away quickly, feeling a bit spooked. her and i have this weird tension, not the good kind of tension either. i fix my eyes on the people leaving, just to look at anything other than eliza.