Homework (Lams AU)

Circling Around, Just Circling

"Are you ready?" 

"Not particularly." 

John chuckles gently and holds my hand. "You'll be fine. They've promised to be nice." 

I sigh and give his hand a squeeze as we walk up to his lunch table, where the Schuyler sisters sat chatting with each other. Once we approach, they look up at me and sigh. I sit down with John, bouncing my leg nervously. 

"Hello, Alex." Angelica says, nodding at me. 

I nod back at them. "Schuylers." 

"Look, I think some apologies are in order." Eliza starts. "Alex, we're really sorry for treating you terribly all these years." 

I stare slightly, not sure what to say. I didn't think I would ever get an apology from them. At least not until the tenth high school reunion or something. 

"Um, well, you know." I say, though I didn't even know. 

"The thing is, we want you and John to be happy together. So if that means putting our past behind us and being.. acquaintances.. Then I'm willing to do that." Angelica says, sighing slightly. 

"Yeah, me too." Eliza smiles brightly.

"And of course I'm also willing to be friends." Peggy adds on. 

I nod at the three of them. "Thank you.. It means a lot to me-"

"But I swear if you hurt him, Alex-"

"Ange, chill." John chuckles gently and she looks at me before rolling her eyes. 

"Whatever, I gotta head to my next class. Later losers." She stands and walks away, throwing her trash away on the way out. Eliza giggles and leans in slightly. 

"Don't worry about her, she'll come around. It's going to take time for her not to hate you." She explains. 

I nod in some sort of understanding. "Oh, okay.. I'll wait, then." I smile gently. 

John smiles and kisses my cheek before leaning his head on my shoulder. 

"Aw, you two are so cute." Peggy giggles. "I'm so happy that you two can finally be out, and happy." 

I smile at her. "Thanks, Peggy."

Timeskip brought to you by love not discriminating between the sinners and the saints.

The rest of the school day was weird... Like, really weird. As far as I know, nobody really had a problem with John and I being together, but people started treating me differently. Before, I would walk down the halls and no one would even notice me besides my friends or John and his group.

Now? Everyone says hi to me. They try to start conversations with me. I knew John was popular, but I never knew he was friends with everyone. I just thought people were okay with him and knew of him briefly.

"Hey, you're Alex, right?" A particular person asked, stepping in front of me. 

I raise my eyebrows. "Um.. Yeah that's me, do I know you?" 

The girl shrugs. "Not really. I'm Martha Manning." 

I nod. "Oh, nice to meet you." I say. John had told me of her, saying they had a sort of relationship, but he treated it more as friends with benefits. He said she wasn't too pleased with him. 

"I just wanted to warn you about John." She says, crossing her arms. "He's a player, and that's all he'll ever be. Plus, he's not even that good in bed." 

I nod slowly. "Well, no offence, but I think we'll be fine. Considering I'm actually the gender he's into." I say, not wanting to piss her off too much. 

She scoffs. "Please, he's not going to change. No one can change that much. You'll see, soon enough he'll be hanging out with some new guy out of the blue, and you'll wonder what went wrong." 

Before I can answer her, I feel an arm wrap around my waist and pull me into a side hug. "Alex, there you are, I was looking for you." The taller teen looks over and nods at the girl in front of us. "Martha." 

She rolls her eyes and walks away from us and John wraps his other arm around my waist, turning me to face him. "I'm sorry about her, I told you she wasn't too pleased with me." 

I chuckle gently and shake my head, not wanting to think about what she told me. "It's fine, I don't care about your exes. I care about our relationship." I go on my tippie toes to give him a quick peck on his lips and he smiles brightly. 

"I love you, Alexander Hamilton." He says. 

I freeze and look up at him. This was the first time he had ever said that to me. I wasn't expecting it. 

I never understood why saying it for the first time was such a big deal, but now that he was saying it to me, I got it. The nerves got to me and I tried my best to reply back. 

"I..I love you too, John Laurens." I smile, blushing madly. 

His smile widens and he pulls me into a longer kiss, right in the middle of the hallway. Even though there were tons of teenagers trying to shove past us, it felt like we were the only two in the world, and it made me happy. Way happier than I had ever been. 

864 Words

Next chapter is the last chapter of this book. So excited for the future stories I have planned ☺️