Fair discovery


"Do we have any plans for today?" Alexander asked.
"Not that I'm aware of," John answered him.
Lafayette made a noise of agreement, casually flipping through a newspaper.
"Should we do something?" Hercules said. "It's a Saturday after all and we don't have any small mammals to care for anymore."
"There seems to be a fair in town," Lafayette mumbled as he scanned an article. "Maybe we could go there."
The four had a quick discussion, and mutually agreed on going to the fair. After all, it was a sunny autumn day and none of them had much homework to do. Well, at least not much homework that they wanted to do.

"This is bigger than I thought it would be," John said in astonishment.
Alexander nodded in agreement. The fair did seem to stretch on and on. It was located on a field near their campus, only a short bus ride away. The entire area was filled with brightly painted attractions, blinking lights and laughing people. Alexander felt the brisk breeze play through his hair and breathed in the smell of the fair.
"So where do we start?" Lafayette said with a grin.

They started at a carousel. After purchasing their tickets from a lady in a booth, who stared at them very judgmentally, they each jumped onto a plastic horse. Alexander picked a jet black one, next to the chocolaty brown taht John choose.
"Black like your soul, Hamilton," Hercules joked, seated proudly atop his own grey horse.
"And grey like your personality," Alexander shot back.
John and Lafayette laughed at them, accompanied by a small kid that was sat right behind them. Alexander was pretty sure the kid didn't understand the joke though, but he appreciated the support. Hercules did not look pleased. But before he could retort the carousel started.

"Wheee!" Lafayette cheered, holding tight to the snowy white neck of his steed as it bobbed up and down a few inches.
"Just wait until someone tells him about carousels that are made for people above the age of five," John theather whispered to Alexander. "He'll go crazy."
"Hey, I heard that!" Lafayette sent them a disapproving look. "And I'll have you know that an honorable man must have a good relationship with his horse!"
"And here I was, thinking it hard to have a relationship with a clump of plastic," Hercules muttered. Lafayette mockingly scrunched up his face at him, and lovingly stroked the mane of his horse.
John, clearly deciding that the conversation was going downhill, sniffed the air.
"Is that cotton candy I smell? Great!" The carousel came to a halt and he hopped off, quickly followed by the others. They followed the scent further into the fair, Hercules and Lafayette still bickering.

Shortly after they found the stall and got their cotton candy, Lafayette spotted some familiar faces.
"Look over there!" He whispered. "But be subtle!"
John and Alexander glanced inconspicuously in the direction he'd indicated, while Hercules turned his entire head.
"Idiot!" Lafayette whispered angrily at him. "But see, those are the girls I was telling you about, the ones that are moving in."
"Aha," Hercules mumbled back. "You were right, they are really attractive," he added with a smirk. Lafayette punched his arm.
Alexander had to admit he had a point. Now, he had no interest whatsoever to leave the boy whose hand he was currently holding, which wasn't the easiest thing to do while holding a large stick of spun sugar. But these girls were very pretty.
Just as he thought that one of them, the girl dressed in pink leather jacket looked over at them. She must have seen Hercules' head movement because she raised her eyebrows and smirked.
And begun to walk over to them
"Oh shit," Lafayette whispered.

"I believe I recognise you," the girl said to Laf. "I saw you when we were moving in. Do we perhaps go to the same school?"
"Uh," Lafayette answered. "I, uh, yeah probably."
The girl laughed warmly and stroked her hair behind her ears. "My name is Angelica Schuyler," she said and extended a hand towards Laf, who shook it.
"Eh, Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette." He bowed and grinned at her. "But I go by Lafayette."
"Right," Angelica said with a smile, before shaking the others' hands. Then she gestured to the girl behind her. "This is my sister."
The other girl smiled at them. "Elizabeth Schuyler, but call me Eliza," she said. She, too, shook their hands as they introduced themselves.
"Alexander Hamilton," Alexander said when it was his turn. Eliza's hand was warm in his grip and she smiled at him with kind eyes.
"It's a pleasure to meet you," she said before moving on to shake John's hand.

"So I take it we live in the same building them," Angelica said once the greetings were over. Lafayette nodded, as he was the only one that had actually seen where the girls lived.
"That's cool," Eliza said. "It's nice getting to know some of the people at campus that I don't have class with."
Angelica nodded thoughtfully, and her eyes dropped to John and Alexander's entwined hands. Her eyes glittered with realization for a moment before she looked up at them again.
"Of course Angie here has already made some friends," Eliza continued and shoved her sister playfully. "But not all of us find our best buddies in the first week of school."
Angelica rolled her eyes at this.
"I've gotten to know a couple of people, Eliza, which is usually deemed as normal social interaction. And none of them are my 'Best buddies'."
"Yeah sure," her sister laughed. Then she gave the boys a knowing look and said, "I swear she became friends with that guy Thomas Jefferson not even two hours into our first day here."
The four boys froze.

"Eh– Thomas Jefferson?" Alexander asked. "He doesn't happen to, uh, live in the same building as us?"
Eliza nodded.
"And has he, um, mentioned anyone else that lives there? Like, his neighbours?"
Angelica laughed, and shared a look with her sister.
"He has, I take it you are his dearly beloved neighbours? Maybe the ones who allegedly "Poisoned" his mac and cheese?"
"And tricked him with raisin cookies," Eliza added.
Alexander looked over at the other boys.
"That… might be us," Hercules finally said.
"I thought so," Angelica said with an amused smile. "But don't worry, I've figured that Thomas can judge people pretty easily."
Lafayette breathed out a sigh of relief.
"And anyone who has rap battles at one o'clock is a person I want to meet." Eliza laughed.
Alexander took a swooping bow, pulling John with him. "At your service!"
The two girls laughed at them, and Hercules gave a salute.

They stayed and talked to their new friends for a while, until the girls said that they had to leave. They waved goodbye and decided that they had to meet up again sometime soon.
"Well that went well," Hercules said.
"Yup," John agreed. "Especially given that they knew Mr. Purple coat."
"That's very true," Alexander said. "Though why she'd want to be friends with him.."
They others strongly agreed.

"So," Alexander said once they'd finished their cotton candy. "Where to now?"
"I want to try the roller coaster," John suggested.
"I was about to say the Ferris wheel," Hercules said.
"I think I agree with you Herc," Lafayette said. "What about you Alexander?"
"It doesn't really matter, but it's getting pretty late. How about we split up and you guys can go on the Ferris wheel and John and I can go on the roller coasters?"
"Sounds good to me," Lafayette said. "Anyone object?"
Clearly no one did, so they decided to stick with Alexander's idea.
"Have fun on your date!" Lafayette called after them as John and Alexander begun to walk away.
"Yeah you too!" John called back at them. It was hard to see from the distance, but Alexander could have sworn that Lafayette blushed ever so slightly.

"Are you okay Alex?" John asked as they lined up for the ride.
"Yeah," Alexander answered, swallowing hard. "It's just, I'm not a huge fan of rollercoasters."
"Oh no, why didn't you say that? We can do something else instead!"
"No no it's fine, I don't mind."
"You're sure?"
"Yeah," Alexander nodded.
"Here, I'll hold your hand," John offered as the sat down in the train. Alexander took it gratefully. He knew his fear was irrational, and he really did want to go on the rollercoaster. It was going to be okay.
The ride took off.

Alexander screamed his lungs out at the first drop, crushing John's hand in his grip. Beside him, John laughed happily as they plunged down the track. They lurked back up again, and Alexander caught his breath. He'd survived the first drop, everything was fine. They stopped briefly at the top of the next drop, and Alexander glanced over at his boyfriend. John grinned back at him with shining eyes. "Ready?" he asked.
They dropped again.

Alex was pretty sure that his stomach had stayed at the top while the rest of his body followed the track down. He held on hard to the railing of the ride, clamping his lips shut together. They took a sharp turn and did a loop and– Alexander laughed. He felt his body slowly easing up, and the ache in his stomach turned into a pleasant tickle. When the train lurked down the final slope he yelled cheerfully.

"That wasn't too bad was it?" John asked once they got off.
"It wasn't," Alexander assured him with a grin. "It was actually much better than I had expected."
Dusk had fallen and the lights around them seemed to shine much brighter than the had before. John laughed, his hair all ruffled from the wild ride.
"That's good, I thought you might throw up for a moment."
"Oh I'm still think I might, Laurens," Alexander smirked. "But it would be worth it."
John grinned at him, the blinking lights illuminating his face and reflecting in his eyes. Alexander was stricken with the sudden desire to kiss him.
Apparently John had the same thought.

When they decided to head back to where they were supposed to meet their friends night had fallen completely. Still, all the lights from the different attractions lit up the place and Alexander had to admit it looked really cozy where they walked hand in hand, the smell of street food and popcorn drifting through the air.
"So, aren't they supposed to be here?" John asked when the reached the spot where they had split up. Alexander shrugged.
"Maybe there was a long line?"
John scanned the surroundings, and finally looked up at the Ferris wheel.
"Isn't that them?" He said, pointing at two silhouettes. "Hang on. Are they… kissing?"
Alexander looked.
"Yup."
"Wow."
"Yup."
"I can't believe they didn't tell us!"
"Agreed," Alexander said, squeezing John's hand.
"Well that's a surprise."
"Is it really though?" Alexander asked, thinking back on all the times he'd suspected his friends might be more than friends. The fact that Lafayette seemed to spend more time in Hercules' room than his own. The pan incident of last week. The comment Laf had made about someone flailing a lot when they were asleep. Hell, now that he thought about it, the very first time they'd met Lafayette had seemed to be flirting with Hercules. John seemed to be thinking the same thing.
"I guess not," he grinned.


Well, this turned out to be a bit of a longer chapter, but I hope you enjoyed it. I have been wanting to write about them going to a fair for so long now, and I finally managed to do it, yay! I just want to tell you that I have started school now so I'll have a lot less time to write. Hopefully this won't affect my uploading too much, but I know that I'll have pretty intense practise the upcoming weeks so when I post might be a bit irregular. On another note GravityUniverse13 asked me if I could tell you that after he went on hiatus the app won't let him log in, which is why he can't update his stories anymore. So if you've been reading his stories and wondered what happened that's the reason, and if you know anyone that has read his fanfics maybe you could tell them why he's stopped updating? Anyway, thanks so so much for reading, and take care!