Aaron looked out of his window onto the parkway, seeing a few people toss back a frisbee. "Alex, please. You've been here 2 weeks and you've barely left the campus."

"What's wrong with that?" He said, annoyed at his roommate.

"This room is getting depressing from your presence. I'm sure you've left a butt indent on your chair."

"I'm studying. Maybe you could give it a shot, too, Mr. Smiles."

"All i'm saying, Alex, is that you should live campus life while you're, uh, on campus. And i'll have you know, talk less, smile more is what got me into this college. It's my mantra."

"Blah blah blah…" Alex turned his swivel chair back towards his computer, where he was writing an English essay, which had reached page 86 out of the 10 minimum. "I'm not interested in talking less."

"Alex, I swear to God, if you don't go outside on your own, I'm pushing your chair to Brooklyn."

Just as Aaron was saying this, one usually high, now sober person was walking past room 1776. When a certain John Laurens heard what his old pal Aaron had just said, he had to swing his head in the door.

"Does a certain sexy freshman need to have his first night on the town?" Laurens said, swinging his body into the room by crashing face first into the door and swinging back from the momentum.

As Alex blushed, Arron exclaimed "John! Just the man I needed. Yes, I feel like this young man needs an initiation night."

"Hell yeah he does! LAF, GET IN HERE!"

As Laurens ran out of the room to go get Laf, Alex sunk back in his chair.

"I don't have a choice, do I?"

"You most certainly do not."


As Alex sat in the back of a Toyota that was a friend of a friend of a friend's, that had a horrible piss smell to it, he couldn't help but think of the comforting allure of his computer and the hoards of snacks from the vending machine he hid in his desk.

"Where are we going, anyway?" Inquired a miserable Hamilton.

"Bro, the Schuylers hold the best back to school party ever. 2 of them go to Kings, Angelica, who's a senior, and Eliza, who's a sophomore. They have a little sister, too, I think her name is Peggy? I don't know, but I think she's a senior in High School. She's legal, though, if you're into that." Laurens replied while narrowly steering away from a trashcan in the street.

"So, let me guess. Cheap beer and doritos?"

"Think again, mon ami. Their dad's hella rich. We're talking Champagne and Escargot here, homeboy." Laf, who was sitting shotgun, said.

"And, all three of them are single. Not that i'm looking anyway, I got my Theo." Aaron turned to his right and eskimo-kissed his girlfriend.

The three other people in the car, were, needless to say, disgusted.


When they finally pulled up to the house, Alex was purely glad that he could get out of the horribly smelling car. Upon looking at the house, he was truly astonished. From where he was standing, he could see a pool and a tennis court, as well as at least a few hundred people from what he could see outside.

"Holy fuck, guys!"

"What'd I tell you, hot stuff?" Laurens said as he exited the car. He winked at Alex as he walked up the main entrance to the house.

Alex could barely move he was blushing so much.

Aaron and Theodosia came up behind him.

"I think it's safe to say who we're gonna find in the Toyota later tonight, Aaron." Theodosia said.

Alex blushed even more as he ran up the steps into the party.