Chapter 4
"Alexander!"
"Whoop whoop!"
"Come on out Alexander!"
Laurens was over the top excited somehow to meet Alex's mate.
He was curious. They all were in fact!
To meet the person that the cupid system had said was Alexander's perfect match.
Would he be fun like Alexander? Wild like Alexander? Have se strange quirks and habits?
Was he a crossdresser?
A performer?
A business man?
A lawyer?
Could he take dangerous dares like Alex did?
Chug down a whole glass of champagne?
Drive screaming with his head outside of the window?
Just thinking about it was making his head spin with glee. He really wanted to meet this guy!
He'd kind of pouted when Alex didn't bring him over to Lafayette's place but that's didn't matter now that they were here.
"What on earth are you guys doing here?!"
A fact Alexander didn't seem particularly happy about for whatever reason.
"We're here to see Aaron!" Laurens grinned and waggled his eyebrows at him. "You know, your 'oh ho ho ho'. "
"What does that even mean?!" Hamilton demanded.
They know my name?
Against better judgement Burr couldn't resist following Hamilton to the door.
Though he was hiding behind the door while Hamilton stood at the door.
It was open only slightly and he blocked out all of that open space with his body, a clear sign that his friends were not allowed to come in.
Burr didn't want his friends to feel discouraged and unwelcome their first time visiting but who came around to visit without calling ahead anyway?!
Hamilton groaned.
"Come on people, it's the first day!"
"We know." Laurens pouted. "Laff said we couldn't come in last night because you guys might be doing the tango."
"The tango?" Hamilton repeated a little confused.
"You guys thought I'd be dancing?"
"It's a special kind of dance meant for a special sort of sheets." Mulligan smirked.
They don't mean dancing at all do they?, Burr sighed a hand to his face.
"Make it rain babies my friend!" Laurens winked and Hamilton flushed.
He hadn't....he hadn't even thought of that!
"That's crazy. We didn't do any of that, what are we animals?" Hamilton said getting flustered suddenly.
It surprised Burr.
Sure they'd never discussed sex or anything like that but he didn't think Hamilton would be that embarassed at the thought of sex like a............
Oh My God! Burr thought as it hit him that he was going to have sex with a dude.
That at some point in his life he was actually going to have sex with Alexander!!!!
Oh my God
Oh my God
Oh my God!!!!!
"Besides, we can't even make babies and you know it." Hamilton pouted.
"It was just a joke Alexander." Lafayette said thinking Hamilton going red at the thought was cute.
Seemed he really liked his mate.
"Thought you might want to mark your partner the first night together is all." Laurens said.
"Obviously not with sex!" Hamilton protested.
That was moving way too fast.
They hadn't even looked at each other's health reports or something....
Actually he wondered if he and Aaron had to go do some tests and documentation.
He hadn't asked Aaron if he accepted him as his mate yet....he'd just....assumed.
How long would documentation even take?
Hamilton was getting anxious about everything again and he did not like being anxious.
It made him feel vulnerable.
"It's not unusual to mark your mate on the first day. It's usually a mate thing where you leave a mark so the rest of the world knows their claimed." Mulligan hummed with pride as he hadn't hesitated to mark Lafayette as soon as he knew the man would be his.
"Some use rings. Others use their teeth......."
"I get the idea." Hamilton said needing to end that conversation before it got far.
They had no idea Burr could hear everything. He was going to think his friends were a pack of perverts.
"We're not property that we need to mark each other and he travelled a very long way, he needs rest." Hamilton sighed. "So I'm sorry but the answer is still going to be no."
"Even if you won't let us will you at least allow us to leave our gifts?" Lafayette asked with a sweet smile.
He knew Alexander was nervous though his Amerikan friend would always have trouble being that openly vulnerable with anyone.
Coming here was just setting him on the edge so they'd leave him be.
However first they were leaving their 'Welcome to the neighbourhood' gifts.
"Gifts?" Alexander asked surprised while Burr noted one of his friends had a rather thick foreign accent.
Sounded french.
"I baked some more cookies this morning. These are fresh, a special recipe from my home land." Lafayette beamed.
"And we brought drinks as well!" Laurens grinned holding up two bottles of wine.
They actually brought four but Mulligan figured they wouldn't be using the other two since they wouldn't get to stay.
More food?! Burr thought in dismay.
"What are gifts for?" Hamilton asked confused.
"Urrrr......" Laurens said averting his eyes.
"They're for Burr!" Lafayette said trying to hide Laurens' obvious guilt.
"An after meeting relaxation." Mulligan encouraged.
"They're for us to drink after sex aren't they?" Hamilton deadpanned and unamused expression on his face and his friends flinched.
"Well....they can also be used before. Whichever way works." Laurens mumbled kicking at a stone on the pavement.
"We're not having our first time drunk." Hamilton scowled.
That would be entirely unacceptable. What if he wasn't able to remember a thing?
But then that he wanted to remember that badly made him blush and he grunted in annoyance.
This having a mate thing was serious emotional business.
The wine did look pretty though.
Which reminded him that he didn't know whether or not Burr liked wine.
"So we don't even get a peek?" Laurens pouted.
"No." Hamilton scowled.
He didn't want to share Burr with their eyes.
He just got here. He was his for now.
"Alexander wait." Burr said and Hamilton turned immediately giving him his full attention.
Burr was a little taken aback by it but hurried to their breakfast spread out.
"Before your friends go let's give them some of this food."
"Oooooh. Excellent idea." Hamilton smiled and turned back to the door.
"Give me a sec." He said and closed the door behind him before hurrying to join Burr.
It was fortunate that they wouldn't have to go to them and they could offload some of this food unto the men who might be hungry standing outside in the cold.
Alexander prepared packaging while he waited for Burr to choose what he was giving away.
There was too much bacon and too much egg. The sausages could still be preserved to some degree.... The toast had to go...still he hadn't even tried a bit yet.
The pancakes and waffles also came in heaps. Then there was both tea and coffee.
Alexander's food choices were giving him a headache!!!
He had to choose which to keep and which to hand out.
It aught to be easy.
But thinking of how his mate had worked so hard to make all of this and he was just going to give it away like he didn't appreciate the effort didn't sit right with Burr.
"Aaron?" Alexander called out wondering why he was taking so much time.
Surely there was something he wanted and something he did not want.
"What are we giving away?"
Aaron took a pause.
Freezing as if feeling cornered by the question.
He was indecisive.
It was something he'd had to deal with for a really long time now so he preferred straight forward decisions like a career path and a mate choosing that he couldn't question in the general sense of it.
The system had never failed.... so they said.
Aaron took a deep sigh to arrange his thoughts.
Then finally he took up a knife and starting dividing the food in 3/4s.
He put the 1/4 aside for him and Alexander and packed up the 3/4 for Alexander's friends.
He did this for the eggs, the bacon, the pancakes, the waffles, the sausages, the toast, the tea and even the coffee.
Alexander watched feeling rather stunned.
Why was he keeping a part of everything? He wondered.
It's almost like he can't choose.
"There. Give this to your friends." Burr said and Hamilton nodded.
He grabbed the food Burr had and came out to his friends who'd just been standing around outside.
"Sorry that took so long." He said.
"Yeah well, we're just chilling." Laurens pouted feeling upset but then beamed when Hamilton handed him a huge package of food.
"Woah what's this?!"
"Breakfast." Hamilton smiled and they all cheered.
He collected the gifts they brought and they bid happy farewells to each other. Calling out to say hi to his mate for them as they parted ways.
Alexander sighed with relief once the door was locked firmly behind him and turned to Aaron.
"So, we have gifts." He chuckled.
"And we also now have a manageable breakfast." Aaron said amused setting the places out for himself and Alexander.
Alexander frowned slightly recalling Burr's selection method and came over curiously with the gifts.
"Aaron."
"Yes?"
"Why did you select the food that way?"
"What way?" Burr asked raising his head with surprise.
"Taking one of each. Why didn't you chose just one?" Hamilton asked curiously.
He could have had a huge helping of whichever he favoured but he'd opted for taking small helpings of each.
Would that really equal greater satisfaction?
Burr wrinkled his face and he considered Hamilton's question.
It felt embarassing to admit that he just hadn't been able to choose when faced with a choice, so he went for a diplomatic answer instead.
"You made this for me Hamilton, it would be a waste not to try the food my mate made his first time cooking for me." Burr pointed out. "Besides this way I can easily decide which breakfasts food you make that I enjoy for future references."
"I see." Hamilton smiled.
Yes that did make sense.
He took his place before Burr at the breakfast table and watched him eat with excitement.
"So which do you like more?"
"I'm still eating Hamilton, I'll figure that out. You should eat too." Burr sighed. "After that we should go for proper registration and documentation so our mating is official."
Hamilton's heart hammered in his chest.
"Are you sure?" He found himself asking, his breath hitching a little.
"Is that not we're to do next?" Burr asked surprised.
"Well yes." Hamiltom agreed.
It was part of the process.
One could lodge a complaint after meeting their mate and turn tail for another search to be ran so that someone else compatible would be found.
Sometimes those searches were successful, other times the person ended up paired with the exact same mate and had to stick it out living alone or staying with the person.
"What I actually mean is...are you sure that...we should get registered? You're okay with this?" Hamilton smiled and Burr paused confused.
He hadn't realised....that there was a choice in this matter.
You meet your soul mate, you accept your soul mate.
Wasn't that how this went?
In this sort of society it was more beneficial to stick with your soul mate since people without mates tended to struggle a lot with their image and respect.
He didn't like trouble and Alexander seemed a decent man.
But he had to admit it did seem like they were rushing.
They'd only known each other for a few hours. For all he knew this man could be a serial killer and he'd permanently join himself with him for eternity.
Perhaps they needed more time to think this through....
"I guess perhaps we're moving too fast." Burr admitted.
"Oh?" Hamilton blinked his heart falling.
No we're not.
There's no such thing as too fast with soulmates.
Don't you like me?
What's wrong?
You're the one who said we aught to get documented.
Why are you changing your mind?
"We might need some more time to properly know each other. Our habits, likes and dislikes before we draw our conclusions. Perhaps say we postpone registration by perhaps a week?" He frowned not wanting this not-being-mated thing, to affect his chances at a job.
Was a week enough to judge a person's character.
A month seemed a more firm estimation but they didn't have that much time to waste.
It's not like Hamilton was going anywhere but why delay mating for that long?
"Is a week fine with you?" Burr asked Hamilton who surprisingly looked like he'd swallowed something sour.
"Alexander?"
"A week is fine." Hamilton sighed.
Why not then.
They'd wait a week to figure some things out.
So not where he expected the conversation to be going.
"So within a week we do a lot of self discovery?" He asked and Burr nodded.
"That's the intention." Burr agreed.
"Alright then." Hamilton said and pulled up one of the bottles of wine.
"Do you like wine?"
"It's an acceptable beverage when taken in the reasonable amounts with a firm level of control." Burr replied.
Not a big fan of yes or no questions was he, Alexander hummed to himself.
Or perhaps he just preferred to express himself with a lot of sentences.
Hamilton liked that too.
"Then what's your opinion on sex?" Hamilton asked suddenly and Burr was suddenly choking on his eggs.
"Aaron?!" Hamilton gasped in horror.