UPDATE (03/04/17): Grammar correction - by Rose

Chapter_4_It's_a_Hamilton_thing

August 22

Monday meant a whole new day in hell, especially because exams started this week. In the road to school mom asked me about every detail of Johnny and I answered almost everything.

"So... you are not a..."

"Mom, stop bothering me with the F word please, I don't even know what I am feeling. Maybe tomorrow I´ll stop feeling this way" Of course I didn't believed in my feelings. I just met him like 3 days ago.

"I'm just joking, Tom. I love you and I support your decisions. But, how old is this Johnny guy?" I didn't answer that, I didn't want to know. It would hurt me (right now) if Johnny says I'm to young to be loved by him.

"Don't know... I'm almost 18" A subtle change of subject, nice one Tom.

She arrived to school and I left the car saying "good bye" and "I love you". Everything seemed like a normal day with school stabbing my back. When I got to my classroom, every classmate was hurdle in a little group around Axel. I heard whispers of "He's here!" "Shhh!"

"What's up?" I asked, confused since I know every classmate I have. They would tell me what they were doing just by asking.

"Oh, you know. We were... studying!" Said Anne. Like hell Anne was going to study in school. She was too smart to study.

"You showed it, didn´t you?" I asked Axel. "Just tell me, I'm not going get mad"

Then a lot of my classmates started asking me questions about the cast, where I learned to dance like that, about how is it to work with Mr. Moon; like I said before, just another day in hell.

[Johnny's POV]

"Noon guys" I went to the theater to practice. Since my father was in prison I needed the money of this project to get him out. Even though he told me not to worry about it, I'm still doing what I can.

"Hey Johnny, could you help us?" Meena, Ash and Rosita were on stage with some dresses for the play "Could you sing The Schuyler Sisters with us?"

"Sure, but it'll be my first time" I heard the musical on YouTube yesterday, although I haven't practiced the songs where I came in.

"Good, start then" Rosita asked.

"Well..." Now without music it's more comfortable.

~~There's nothing rich folks love more
Than going downtown and slummin' it with the poor
They pull up in their carriages and gawk
At the students in the common
Just to watch them talk
Take Philip Schuyler: the man is loaded
Uh-oh, but little does he know that...~~

This was an easy one, but... boy how will I sing the other songs, "The Room where it happens" is very difficult, without mentioning "Wait for it".

~In the greatest city in the world!~

When we finished Ash was satisfied with the results "It sounds great" she said. I do think it sounded great, but I need to practice more the rhymes because it is almost like rapping and I'm not an expert on that.

"Are you kidding? It sounded amazing!" Thomas was right there. We could always count on him if we needed compliments "Although I'm still kind of disappointed that Meena's character only appears two times on the musical, it would be cooler if her vocals could appear more"

"What about us?" Ash asked, pointing at Rosita, himself and me.

"You and Rosita are the two most love characters in the fandom with almost eleven songs and Johnny's character kills the protagonist. I think you three deserve your positions" He made me laugh while he told us all the spoilers of the musical. Though I couldn't call it spoilers because is basic history.

"Did you memorize the musical?" Meena asked.

"I went to see it" Wow! That should cost a fortune. I heard that the tickets for the musical cost more than $1000 dollars "and know every song, every beat and every meaning of it"

When he said that everyone looked at him, besides of us five the other dancers, Mike and Gunter put attention to him, even though he didn't liked it.

"Sorry, I didn't want to brag" He put his hand in his nape, almost shy.

"Is not that" Ash replied "It's just..."

"It's just useless because none of us know this musical" Mike interrupted from the backstage with the truth. It is supposed that we should already know this song because we work in the music industry, but we can't perfect it in just one month. "Look at me. I am a professional singer I didn't studied to be a rapper!"

"Have you tried your songs Mike?" Thomas asked.

"Do you think I´m a newbie?"

"Mike come on stage, Johnny stay there" For some reason he went upstairs. What is he trying to do upstairs? Is he trying to bring the piano down here? Everyone in here was little confused, but he came running with three wireless microphones. Then he gave one to me and one to Mike.

"Do you know Guns and ships?" He expects us to sing that song right now? Is one of the most difficult songs, especially for the one who is supposed to be Lafayette.

Mike and I saw each other nodding.

"Yeah, why?"

"Sing it!" Not a good idea, we don't have a Lafayette.

"Umm, who do you expect to be..." Mike was about to ask, but Thomas interrupted him with a smile.

"I'll be pleased" I didn't know that he could sing. Now I'm very intrigued of what he can do, even though it will be not a surprise because is a rap. Now that I think of it I also didn't thought Thomas style was rap. "Girls can you put the track please?" The three of them went back stage, a little confused, to the computer.

"You are a dancer remember?" Mike...

"Johnny!" The music started and so I did.

~~How does a ragtag volunteer army in need of a shower
Somehow defeat a global superpower?~~

Thomas positioned himself in the center of the stage, as always.

~~How do we emerge victorious from the quagmire?
Leave the battlefield waving Betsy Ross' flag higher?
Yo. Turns out we have a secret weapon!
An immigrant you know and love who's unafraid to step in!
He's constantly confusin', confoundin' the British henchmen
Ev'ryone give it up for America's favorite fighting Frenchman!~~

Everyone that weren't us shouted: ~~LAFAYETTE~~

~~I'm takin this horse by the reins makin'
Redcoats redder with bloodstains~~

Some were shocked, other were hyped. I was the hyped one.

~~And I'm never gonna stop until I make 'em
Drop and burn 'em up and scatter their remains, I'm~~

He rapped without hesitate while he was dancing. Everyone skipped the shout just to hear him rap and when Mike got in he was astonishing. Even tho he didn't sounded like the original cast he nailed the voice style.

[Thomas POV]

The song finished with Mike's vocals and the music stopped. I closed my eyes again.

"Wow..." said Ash.

"Come on, it wasn't that great guys, it's just rap. Everyone can do it. I did it and this is not my style. Also Johnny and Mike were the ones who..." Everyone stared at me. "Could you like... stop staring at me please?"

Moon appeared to save the day, dictating all the things we had to do; then we started to work.

We finished around 7:00PM. I was tired but exited because of the movie. We went across the street, in front of the theater, wanting to watch (Suicide Squad). But when I bought my ticket I realized that I didn´t have any money left for popcorn or soda. As I waited for them to buy their stuff, I tried to downplay my starving face by messing with my phone, but when Johnny came over close to me with his two hot dogs my stomach growled. I wasn't ashamed at all.

"Thomas, are you hungry?" He is not calling me Tom...

"Umm... kind of, but I'll have dinner when I get to my house. Don't worry" He laughed. God, my eyes automatically glanced at other direction.

"Here" He said, pointing at his hot dog.

"Oh, no I couldn't..." He didn't even let me finish when he put the Hot dog on my hand and left me there, while he went with Ash to talk about something. Then I stared at it thinking about his action. Is he doing this because for pity, kindness or for another reason? Why is he being so nice to me if he doesn't even know me? Why is he saying my whole name? God, I don't even like my name, that's why I tell people to call me Tom.

"Tom come on, the movie is going to start!" Meena called me, so I ran behind her to not be left behind.

—O my... Harley, what have they did to you— The Joker was a good actor, but the style didn't fit.

Although, the only good thing that came out of this day was that sweet hot dog dissolving in my stomach.