"Good news on the Laurens front then?".
Alex figured his face had given the the previous day's events away. Angelica had a talent for reading body language, but it had barely taken her a minute to work out the cause of his good mood.
"Actually, yes. I have a date next week.".
"Oh, Eliza will be so upset.". Angelica looked genuinely disappointed. "You would've made a pretty good brother-in-law, compared to some of the freaks she's gone out with.".
"You do know that I was never actually interested in your sister, right?".
"Alex. You're a great guy, but I love my sister more than anything in this life, so when you tell her, let her down gently, or I will put what we have aside and rip you apart with my bare hands.". She sounded deadly serious and almost scared him.
"Ang? I promise I'll do my best to not disappoint Eliza.".
"Good. So, what are you doing with him?".
"We're going to a protest.".
Angelica laughed. "God, that's so typical of him. You should wear a bulletproof vest and take bail money.".
"Um, why?".
"Let's just say that he tends to get a little... overexcited about things. He's been arrested for assault a few times and got himself into hospital too many to count. He once punched the new VP elect dude for saying that women were inferior to men. I'm genuinely shocked he hasn't killed any Trump/Pence voters yet."
"Wow."
"I know. This one time, his dad refused to bail him out, so he was in this detention center place for a month. After that, they must have pulled some serious strings to get him in here.".
"From what I've seen, Washington was probably just impressed with him.".
Angelica laughed, but carried on. "Seriously, Alex, be careful. You haven't got all the connections he takes for granted to get you out of trouble. Don't let him talk you into anything stupid.".
They sat, focusing on the lecture for a few minutes before Alex broke the silence.
"So, you're going for a journalism internship?"
"Yeah. If I get it, I might even get some articles published!". Angelica loved writing almost as much as Alex did. She, however, was content to write on someone else's terms and stuck to word counts, whereas he'd had a few essays rejected for going several pages over.
Alex spent the rest of the lecture online shopping for bulletproof vests.
A/N Sorry about how bad this is! I promise the next chapter will be better. Also, I'm going to start doing a QOTC, or Question Of The Chapter. Let me know your answers in the reviews!
QOTD: Top three Hamilton ships?
AOTC: Lams, Marliza, JeffMads. For some reason I don't ship any straight pairings.
So, I'll try to get the next chapter up sometime this week.
Thank you for reading!
Kitty :)