Laf had been calling the same number for 5 minutes straight until said person answered it, he could almost hear how nervous the man sounded
-"Lafeyette, mon ami. Es-tu bien, pourquoi tu m'appelles?"
-"NE JOUE PAS DES JEUX AVEC MOI!"
-"Laf, he told you didn't he, I.. I can explain, I didn't mean to"
At this point Jefferson was starting to sound scared, and anyone else who knew Laf couldn't blame him. The french fry could be terrifying if he truly wished to be, in second grade the teacher wouldn't let him play with the other kids because he hadn't finished his lunch. So he threw the classroom printer at her, no one knew how he could throw one at that age but he did nonetheless.
-"Thomas, tu as perdu ton privilège de m'appeler 'Laf'"
And with that, he hung up the phone on Thomas who was still shaken by the whole situation. He hopelessly looked over to Madison "Jemmy, I'm fucked. Laf found out and he is going to kill me" James didn't know what to say, it's not like he could protect Jefferson if given the chance "Well it's not like I could save you so, I think you just have to face Laf like a man. I mean maybe you'll see what it felt like for Alex to get beaten up and not have the chance to defend himself."
As much as he hated to admit it, Mads was right, he had to face Lafayette and not run away from his mistakes. Thomas spent the time he had left to prepare himself from the wrath of Laf, so when the doorbell rang he walked over and opened the door. "Écoute monsieur 'je peut attacker les amis de Lafayette' je montera quoi t'as fait à Alex!" Laf showed no mercy when he punched Jefferson, he then began to yell in french, telling him to never show his face to any of his friends ever again. He also got a few more punches during his ran, and then left with a few parting words "Si Alex dit que t'as encore lui fait mal je reviendrai, puis j'aurais moins de patience"
After the encounter Lafayette went to rejoin John and Alex "sorry for taking so long.. but Jefferson shouldn't bug you anymore, if he does just tell me." Alex still seemed anxious "Are… are you sure?" He eyes pleaded for some type of reassurance that everything with Jefferson would be fine. "Well I can't guarantee, but I can say for certain that he'll regret it if he does" Laf smiled at Alex, hoping to give him some kind of reassurance, bough things still seemed tense in the room.
John thought there was too much tension in the air and decided to lift it by watching movies "hey guys what Disney movie do you want to watch?" Laf had been quick with his suggestion "Frozen!" which only earned groans from John "geez Laf you pick that movie every time, ever heard of diversity?". The Frenchman only giggled at this "But mon ami! It's a good movie!"
But John had had enough of frozen so he turned to Alex "Hey Lexi what Disney movie do you want to watch?" Alex had seemed uncomfortable at the question and John took notice "Lexi? What's wrong?" Alex was only able to mutter a small "I don't know Disney movies" which was barely audible. "What mon ami?" This time Alex spoke louder "I've never seen a Disney movie.." though it was still just above a whisper "Lexi, how have you never seen a Disney movie?" Now Alex was uncomfortable again, this was exactly his worry when coming to the US for the first time. He felt like he wouldn't know the popular things or customs of the new environment, though nowadays that was the last of his worries. "We… I… I've never seen one, is-is that weird?" John didn't realize how sensitive Alex was about the subject and was quick to backtrack "no it's not weird at all! Just a little uncommon but whatever let's watch Frozen since you've never seen it." And they did, though Laf singing every single song wasn't necessary.
After the movie Laf and John turned to Alex "So Lex, what'd you think of it?" Alexander didn't know what to say, it wasn't particularly bad, but he felt like it lacked some grave danger. It was pretty much 'boohoo the world is cold, oh and some girl is going to die' and even though the latter is less effective on him the cold doesn't seem like it would be that bad. "I guess… it lacked any real problem.. I mean people die all the time… and the cold isn't that bad" Alex had looked so uncertain that he was even allowed to say that, but then Laf took away all the tension in the room "Well I guess you could say-" John knew where this was going "You baguette don't you dare" but his pleas were left unheard "the cold never bothered him anyway" the joke only earned groans from John "see this is why I don't watch Disney movies with you anymore!" It seemed as if all the tension in the room was forgotten, and Alex felt himself relax again.
"So I guess we should start the next movie then, how about The Little Mermaid?" Now it was Lafs turn groan "mon ami, it's a great movie but… don't you think it's really dumb, I mean she blindly trust this octopus bitch and then is forced to make this guy fall for her without talking, I think it's all superficial" Alex was still trying to make sense of what kind of movie they were about to watch was "uh-umm" he tried to intervene to ask but it seemed like John and Laf only bickered about what movie to watch.
Its because you couldn't choose a movie Alex
It's your fault they're fighting
It's all your fault
Your fault
Alex was trying hard to suppress this voice in his head, so he decided talking would keep his mind off it "What is the movie even about?" Upon hearing Alex both John and Laf stopped talking, until former broke it "well basically Ariel saves Eric and sings to him but leaves so she isn't discovered because she's a mermaid. Then her father finds out, breaks her stuff and she gets tricked into making a deal with Ursula to grow feet so she can go on land and find Eric again. But the thing is she traded her voice and he doesn't kiss her within 3 days she will never regain it, and she'll tune back into a mermaid" John casually left the storm part out, deeming it an unimportant surprise. He honestly loved this movie, and even though Laf had a point in saying it was artificial, he thought Alex would enjoy it too.
He couldn't have made a bigger mistake