Meanwhile, Theodosia Burr was begging Mary Jefferson to lower the neck on the dress she was sewing. "Please, Mary, you are my friend," she implored. "Stop it, Theodosia,""You must make the neck lower," Theodosia said again. "And you must stop heckling me! We are working on our time, now, not the old lady's!" Mary firmly said. "One inch! How much can one little inch do?" Theodosia asked. "Too much," Mary replied. "Mary, it is now to be a dress for dancing, no longer for praying!""Listen, with those boys, you can start IN dancing and then end UP praying," Mary shot back. "Mary, please, just one little inch!" Theodosia begged. "Aaron made me promise!""Aaron! I've been in New York for one month, and do I even touch excitement? I sew in this place all day, I sit at home all night...for what did my cousin bring me here?" Theodosia said. "To marry Eacker," Mary answered. "Eacker...when I look at George Eacker, nothing happens!" Theodosia spat. "Well what do you expect to happen?" Mary asked her. "I don't know. Something? What happens when you look at Aaron?" Theodosia asked.
"It's when I DON'T look that it happens" Mary said. Theodosia walked a few steps from the back of the room to where Mary was sewing.
"I think I will tell your mama and papa about you and Aaron at the balcony of the movies!" she blackmailed Mary, who gasped. "I will rip this to shreds!" Mary exclaimed, holding up the dress. "No! But if you can perhaps manage to lower the neck..." Theodosia offered, holding up scissors "Next year," Mary said, putting them down. "I hate that dress!" Theodosia said. "Well, then don't wear it and don't come to the ball with us tonight!" Mary replied. "Don't come?" Theodosia asked, shocked. She then picked up the dress.
"Could we not dye it red, at least?" she suggested, to which Mary vetoed with an "Oh, no, we could not!". Theodosia then tried to put the dress on herself, with Mary coming behind her to help her. "White is for babies!" Theodosia muttered to herself "I would be the only one there in white!". She then stopped to look at her reflection in the mirror, and she was pleasantly surprised. "Oh, yes..." she approved "It is a beautiful dress! I love you!" she said to Mary as she turned to hug her. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. It was Aaron.
"Are you ready, ladies?" he asked. He and Eacker had come to pick the girls up to go to the ball. "Aaron, come in!" Theodosia said to her cousin. "Isn't it beautiful?" she asked him, referring to her white dress. "Ah, yes! Very!" he said approvingly, and they both went in for a hug. "Uh...I didn't quite hear..." Mary said to Aaron. "Ah, very beautiful!" he said to her, and they kissed. "Come in, Eacker, don't be afraid," Theodosia said to Eacker, who had been standing outside in the doorway this whole time. "But this is a shop for ladies," he said, and Mary walked toward him and said "We won't bite you...'til we know you better". She chuckled.
"Eacker, you will keep both eyes on Theodosia tonight in case I cannot," Aaron instructed Eacker. "You, too, Mary," he continued, turning toward his girlfriend. "My cousin is a silly watchdog!" Theodosia joked. "Well, MY cousin is a precious jewel," he bantered back as he and Theodosia hugged. Then Mary walked toward them.
"What am I? Cut glass?" she asked. "Aaron, it is most important that I have a wonderful time at the ball tonight," Theodosia said. "It is?" Aaron asked. "Because tonight is the real beginning of my life," Theodosia replied, "as a young lady in New York City,". Little did she know, her life would change
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Philip and Theodosia (West Side Story x Hamilton)
FanfictionAt a dance, Philip Hamilton and Theodosia Burr, from two different groups meet. What happens after that is a roller coaster. Will their love remain strong? Or will their relationship end in tragedy?
