One Last Time //Lams//University AU//Part 1

Chapter 51

July 16 2018
Friday

Alex POV
"What's the time?" I ask John who's putting on a shirt, today's the day he meets my second dad or the sister's dad. "5:34." he replies checking his phone. I sigh sitting down.

"Are you nervous?" he asks, "Stephen is gonna kill me." I say and he laughs, "I'll make sure he doesn't." he says kissing me on the side of my head. "We should go." I say getting up. He grabs my hand before I can exit. "Let me at least put on some pants."

I sit back down and he sits next to me, "Calm down." he says rubbing my back. "Did you take your medicine today?" I stay silent for a moment and then shake my head. "Why not?" he asks.

"Angie said something last week and... I don't know, I just felt like Philip wasn't happy that I'm on medication." I say, he kisses my forehead, "It's not your fault. Better to take it then not to." I nod my head and he hands me the bottles, I take them and slip the anxiety pills into my pocket, just in case.

We head down to the car and start driving to the mansion. We arrive right on time, Peggy and Maria are already there.

"Alexander! You made it!" Philip says as we walk through the front door. "You must be John, I'm Philip Schuyler, pleasure to meet you." he says shaking John's hand. "Pleasure to meet you too." John replies.

"Margarita and Miss Lewis are in the third lounge, you can go join them." he says and I guide John to the third lounge to find Peggy and Maria sitting on the couch. "Oh thank God you two are here." Peggy says hugging me and then John.

"This is gonna be a nightmare." Maria says as I sit down next to her. "How have you been?" I ask, "Good actually, and you?" "Better then I was doing before so I suppose good too."

Maria and I have been getting along better then we used to so it's easier to be around her now.

John sits down next to me and pulls me into him, "It won't be that bad." he says and I laugh. "It might be worse for you. The last boyfriend I had raped me and that's when I was living here." I say and he shrugs.

The door opens and Angelica walks in with John Church trailing behind her. "Hey guys." she says walking up behind me, she kisses me on the cheek and hugs John from behind sitting down on one of the other chairs.

"Hello, I'm John Church, Angelica's boyfriend." Church says, "Alexander Hamilton, Angelica's sorry little brother that got everyone into this mess." I say shaking his hand. "John Laurens. The boyfriend of the sorry little brother." John says and I smirk.

"Maria Lewis." "Margarita Schuyler, but you can call me Peggy." he sits down and we wait for Eliza and Stephen to arrive.

About five minutes later they enter the room. "This feels like a torture chamber." Eliza says as she walks in.

"Guys this is Stephen." she says and he waves at us, "You've already met my sisters and John Laurens." she continues guiding him in my direction, "This is Alexander." she says gesturing to me, "Ah, you're the brother that got us into this."

"Angelica started it." I say defensively. "John Church and Maria Lewis." Eliza finishes sitting down. "Pleasure to meet you all." he says sitting down next to Eliza.

I lean into John who wraps his arm around me. "I told you." I whisper. He smiles and strokes my hair.

Philip enters and sits down on a chair facing us, I sit up so I'm not leaning on John anymore. "Dinner will be served in a half an hour, for now, why don't you all tell me what you're studying?"

"I'm studying finance, sir." Church says nervously, "Law." Stephen says with equal amounts of enthusiasm. "Technology, specifically coding, that's where I met Peggy." Maria says squeezing Peggy's hand, "I'm a major in art." John says, Philip smiles, "Oh, I see. A man of culture."