(Eliza's POV)
"Someone's in love with John Laurens!" I sang to my sisters. Peggy flushed. "No! He's my friend." "Sure. A friend you have a crush on." Angelica says gleefully. Peggy rolls her eyes. "Oh come on Pegs, we're your sisters. We tell each other everything." I sat next to her. "I don't love John Laurens! I told you!" Peggy moaned. Angelica raises an eyebrow. "Oh really? Do you have a feeling you can't explain towards him so you just say it's friendship?" Peggy doesn't answer. "I'll take that as a yes." Angelica says. "That feeling is affection. And not just friendly affection, love Pegs. Love is what you're feeling." Peggy stood at once. "I will say it one last time. I do not love John Laurens. And I do not want to talk about it any longer." She stormed out of the garden house and back inside. I watched her go. "We should go too." I say, standing up. Angelica looks pleadingly at me. "Eliza don't you see? We have to get them together. We have to make them realize they're in love." I nod. We do have to do this.
(Narrator POV)
On Sunday, the older Schuyler sisters dragged Alexander, Lafayette, and Hercules into their plans. They were sitting in the Schuyler dining room and they agreed that they would go out tomorrow, the seven of them, and leave John and Peggy alone at a romantic restaurant. "What if it backfires?" Alex stressed out. Eliza patted his hand. "It won't." "What if they don't like each other?" He asked. This time it was Angelica. "They will." Alex nodded, unconvinced. "How about a coffee shop?" Lafayette suggested. Eliza looked up. "Peggy would love that. I don't know if John will though." "If John will what?" Peggy has walked in the dining room with a bag of chips. Nobody answered. "I said, if John will what?" No one. She shrugs and leaves the room, looking at her phone and continues eating chips. "That was close." Hercules muttered. Lafayette nodded. "We need to be careful. Let's go home. I create a group chat for this. K?" Everyone nodded and the boys drove home.