The rest of the chapters won't be as short as this one. This is just a little prologue to clear things up. The second chapter will be posted tomorrow morning. That one will be about 1,000 words.
Alexander confused everybody he met. He startled them. He amazed them. He astonished them.
You see, everybody knew everybody's exact death date. The exact year. The exact month. The exact week. The exact day. The exact hour. The exact minute. The exact time. You knew everybody's... except your own. The only way you could get a relative guess of your death date is when it is coming up soon and people start acting oddly kind and generous to you. There was also an unspoken rule that forbid people from telling others their death dates. Whether it was their somebody else's' death date or the death date that belonged to the person that they were talking to. Nobody did it. And nobody would ever do it. There were rumors that both people would die if you told somebody their death date. Of course, they're only rumors, but there is some evidence.
And that day when Alexander was sick in his bed with his mother, everybody knew that he only had a few more hours, at most. When the time came, February 17th, 2009, 7:36 PM, he survived. And all he did afterward was cry. He knew his mother was going to die in two days. He tried not to think about it but it was near impossible when he was always laid right next to her. Alex had figured that his death was coming soon, people had started to act nice to him, for once. He thought that they pitied him. And they did, but all of their predictions were wrong. Everybody on Nevis who had spoken to Alexander Hamilton. They were wrong. Although this was only the first time that he survived the impossible, there are more occasions. Like 5 years later when everybody thought he was going to get killed by the Hurricane. When the time came, August 30th, 2013, 2:23 PM, he survived. And he wrote his way out. He boarded his ship, the ship that caught fire. Coincidentally, the day his ship caught fire was the same day when people thought he was going to die. But no, he's Alexander Hamilton, he has to survive everything. And, of course, this got people jealous.