Chapter Two

Alex was fidgeting nervously outside of Room C212, waiting for John to arrive. Hordes of students stampeded past, rushing out the building and heading towards the grounds where they would eat their lunches. Alex didn't have to wait long, and after a couple minutes, John was suddenly by his side, taking Alex's arm.

"Come on, we're all waiting for you!" John said cheerfully.

Alex allowed himself to be lead by the arm outside. John led him over to a fairly large group of about eight people, sitting on a few ivy-covered steps next to a thick grove of lush trees. There were four boys and four girls.

One boy was tall and handsome, with poofy black hair he kept in a bun. One was rather large and menacing with a beanie on his head. The other boy looked a lot like the beanie boy, but he was slightly less menacing and large. The final boy looked quite a lot like John, only younger.

One girl had straight black hair that was very long, and she had a blue dress on. Another girl had curly dark brown hair, and she was wearing pink. The final two girls both had brown hair, but one of them had hers up in pigtails. One was wearing red, the other yellow.

The handsome boy yelled, "Oi, John is back!" with a heavy french accent.

The beanie boy stood up and observed Alex with hard eyes. Two of the girls looked at him with something else in their eyes that Alex couldn't quite place.

"Hey, everyone, meet Alexander Hamilton!" John shouted.

The girl in red looked at John. "Is he one of us?"

Alex blinked at her in confusion.

'One of us?' he thought. 'What does that mean?'

John looked at him. "Even if he isn't, he is definitely an allie, Stood up to Jefferson today in English when he was taunting me again."

The red girl huffed and scooched closer over to the one in blue to whisper in her ear. The blue girl shot Alex a wary glance, and then said something back.

"Um, I guess I'll introduce you to everyone." John said uncomfortably.

How pointed to the handsome boy. "Marquis de Lafayette-"

"Actually, I'm Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette!" he butted in. "But you can just call me Lafayette. Welcome!"

"Anyways," John said, "Don't mind him, he's crazy. That's Hercules Mulligan" (he motioned to the boy in the beanie) "and his brother, Hugh." (The boy who looked like the less menacing version of Hercules.)

The boy who looked like John was his brother, James. The girl in the yellow was Peggy Schuyler, and her two sisters were Eliza (one in the blue dress) and Angelica (the one wearing pink). The girl in red was Maria Lewis.

"So," Maria prompted. "Are you one of us, Alex?"

"I don't know what you mean," Alex said uncomfortably.

Maria glanced at Eliza. "We can't tell you."

"So I just have to know what it is, even though you won't tell me?" Alex demanded, feeling resentful towards Maria already.

Maria ducked her head. "I'm sorry," she said in a small voice, "but we can't tell you. It's… complicated…"

Alex immediately felt bad for disliking her. She was clearly only trying to protect herself and her friends.

John leaned over to him. "Okay. Remember what Jefferson was taunting me about today in class…?"

Then it struck Alex and realization dawned on him. "Oh," he breathed softly.

John nodded.

"Er, yes, I'm one of you. . . I'm bisexual." Alex said.

"Shush! Not so loud!" Angelica warned, her eyes darting back and forth. "We can't let anyone hear!"

Alex frowned. "Why not?"
Maria bit her lip. "Clearly, there is a lot you don't know. Whose turn is it this time?"

Angelica stood up. "Mine. Okay, Alex, John. Come close. Peggy and James, be our watchmen."

Peggy and James stood up, and marched to opposite sides of the group, peering suspiciously into the campus. Alex was completely baffled. But then Angelica grabbed his arm and dragged him close.

"It's obvious you are new here. You don't know the story of our town. Let's start with George the III, the mayor of the town. He's racist, sexist, and a homophobe. He hates anyone who is. . . abnormal, meaning not straight. He was raised like this, and so is every high ranking authoritative figure in our community.

"Every year, he sends out raids to try and find the Abnormals, and kidnap them, where they are taken to the manor and he executes them. George the III believe that Abnormals are spawn from Satan, and by killing us, he fulfills God's wishes.

"We are the sole surviving members of a secret organization called the Revolutionary Set, which is basically the only LGBT+ group of the town. No one can know about it unless they're an Alliance or one of… us. At first, it was only John, Herc, and Laf. It's expanded since then, but we're still small.

"You're one of us now, whether you like it or not. I presume you're not going to tell anyone about us, because if we go down, you go down too. Got it?"

Alex nodded, starting to feel rather scared. "I got it." he said in a small voice.

Angelica sighed. "I'm sorry, I had to say that. We have to be very controlling and firm, I'm so sorry, we didn't used to be like this, we were fine before. . ." her voice trailed away and her eyes glimmered painfully.

Eliza's voice shook. "Someone gave us away. We used to be a much bigger group. Most of us got captured. Like Angelica said, we're the sole surviving members."

The group murmured agreement.

"So, what's the purpose of the group?" Alex asked, "besides providing a safe place for the. . . Abnormals?"

Angelica looked him straight in the eyes. "We help each other to live another day longer. An Abnormal by yourself, or better known as a Loner, won't last long. Better to stick in groups, where we can strategize and help each other for for the next Raid or Inquiry."

"What is an Inquiry?" Alex asked.

John shrugged. "It's exactly what it sounds like. Basically, they gather up everyone and interrigate them. Their goal is to get someone to confess that they're an Abnormal, or confess that they know an Abnormal."

"That's horrible." Alex whispered. "How many people are. . . lost each year?"

Eliza and Maria exchanged looks.

"The most people we've been alive to witness die in a year was probably two dozen." Eliza murmured.

Alex went stark white and John laid a comforting arm around his shoulders.

"Maybe we should just give him a rest," John said softly. "We're scaring him too badly."

"What about Jefferson?" Alex said. "He's running his mouth off accusing you of being gay left and right."

John shook his head. "Well, he's actually not really a problem. But everyone's used to it, he's been accusing people of being gay left and right since fourth grade. No one really takes it seriously."

"Yes," Maria said. "Anyways, we have something to hold against him. We once caught him kissing James Madison in the bathroom during freshman year of high school. So we can use that against him. There are multiple witnesses, also known as OUR James Laurens and Hugh."

Alex swallowed nervously. "Do you guys have any other plans besides trying to stay alive?"

Angelica nodded. "Oh yes. Eventually, we plan to assassinate Mayor George."

"And how do you guys think you can do that?" Alex asked.

"Well," she said, grinning devilishly. "We have a spy on the inside."

"Who?" Alex asked, intrigued.

Angelica pointed towards the back of the group. "Hercules Mulligan."

Hercules stood up, his eyes narrowed.

"Wait," he growled, "but how do we know that Alex isn't a spy for King George too?"

One by one, suspicious faces turned towards Alex. Only John remained by his side.

'What am I supposed to do?' Alex thought his heart beating madly, 'How am I supposed to prove that I'm one of them?!'

***Author's Note: Heheh, leaving you guys in suspense. I'm so mean. Please leave a review and tell me what you think, please! Also, can you help me improve any? Thanks so much for reading!