The Schuyler Party
Alexander Hamilton was most definitely a very smart man. It had only been the first week and he found most of his teachers were proud of him. He was, in fact, the smartest in his business class. Until Angelica Schuyler arrived. She walked in on the second week, seating herself in the very front right beside Alex. She immediately rose up to Alex’s level in brains and had Alex not had A+’s, she would have easily beat him. She never spoke unless it was to the teacher and never showed interest to making friends.
Alexander had started giving up on trying to make friends with her until she spoke to him on a windy friday. They were both early, having a three-hour off period before the class. “So Alexander, you clearly have an amazing amount of brains. Why hang around those four dummies?” She sat in her chair and crossed her arms, her wavy brown hair sitting delicately on her shoulder.
Alex was a bit taken aback. She had said no words to him for a whole week and then the first time she does, it’s to insult his friends. He laughed and sat down, almost mimicking her by crossing his arms as well. “Because they’re fun? Who do you have for friends, if you do have any that is.”
Angelica rolled her eyes. “I have my two sisters, Eliza and Peggy, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Maria Reynolds. All smart people, with bright futures. Your four friends don’t seem like they’ll be going anywhere soon. But you, you’re already going amazing places.”
Alex raised an eyebrow. “Odd. I’ve never heard of these people. Perhaps you’ll have to introduce me sometime.”
Angelica watched as the rest of the class filed in. “Perhaps I will.”
***
Angelica left the class swiftly, growing quite exhausted and needing her beloved sisters and friends to pump her energy up. She made it to the courtyard in record time, while wearing heels none the less, and sat at a table by her group. Madison was braiding Jefferson’s mess he called hair, Eliza and Maria were flirting per usual, and Peggy was daydreaming. As she sat they all looked over and stared as she slammed down her head and groaned. “Angie you feeling okay? You haven’t taken a single break since we arrived, and I don’t see you get much sleep.” Peggy said with a worried tone.
Angelica looked up at her sister and a smile formed on her face. “I’m fine. Business was just a lot of work today. I decided to talk to Alexander, that boy I told you about, and now he won’t shut up. I don’t get how Burr deals with him.” She pulled her shirt down a bit, making the words ‘Work’ more readable.
Jefferson shrugged. “He’s friends with Hercules Mulligan, perhaps Burr is just forced to deal with him.”
Madison nodded, still dealing with Jefferson’s hair. “You could invite them to your next party? Might be a good opportunity to learn that and introduce us to him.”
Eliza and Peggy nodded. Maria sat silently applying more makeup. Jefferson and Madison whispered things to each other about some girl in the distance. “I guess I might as well. Alex seems like a sweet kid, just talks a lot. I’ll get everything planned tonight and invite him tomorrow. He’ll be forced to go the moment he tells his friends, because they know that if you skip a Schuyler party with an invite from me, you lose all respect from anyone ever. Just ask John Adams” She stood and skipped off to her dorm, already planning in her head.
***
“You aren’t going to a Schuyler party? Even after Angelica invited you herself?” Alexander shrugged. He wasn’t interested in parties or Angelica. But apparently Lafayette was. “Alexander, mon ami, if you don’t go to this party you will lose the respect of everyone! Even me!”
Alex sighed. “Fine, fine. I will go to so people know I showed up. I may stay for a little while but then I must come back. I have an assignment due by tomorrow.” He stood and grabbed his jacket, watching and Lafayette ran down the halls and gathered the others excitedly. Laurens exited his room with as much, if not more, excitement as Laf. Alex couldn’t help but keep staring at Laurens. Two and a half weeks and he couldn’t get over Laurens.
Alex, Laurens, Laf, Mulligan, and Burr showed up to the Schuyler house about half an hour after it had started, and as soon as they walked onto the porch, Laf and Laurens ran inside. Burr and Mulligan slowly entered with a laugh and Alexander followed behind carefully. When Alex entered he was taken aback at how almost childlike everything was. There were people playing seven minutes in heaven, and a group with apples to apples open. Alex saw no alcohol out or drugs. This seemed a lot more like a Middle School birthday party. Alex was glancing around and he spotted Angelica walking over. “Alex! You’ve arrived!”
He smiled. “Yes I have arrived. You know when Lafayette was making a big deal of this I didn’t expect this level of tame.”
Angelica rolled her eyes. “I will have you know everyone loves my parties. I think it’s because it’s such a free environment people confess love to each other. I’m basically a matchmaker with this things. Hell, I got Burr and Mulligan together by making them play Go Fish.” She and Alex laughed together for a while. “Now come on, I said I would introduce you to my friends.” She grabbed Alexander by the hand and dragged him to the kitchen’s bar.
Alex observed as Angelica went over each and every name. Alex could tell they weren’t interested in meeting him, seeing as Peggy was staring at some girl, Maria and Eliza were staring at each other, and Jefferson was busy telling Madison something about the importance of rolling chairs.
Jefferson glanced over and grinned. “Angie, dear, would you mind getting me something fun to do? I’m exquisitely bored.” He had not yet seemed to acknowledge Alexander. Alexander, was fine with this. Right off the bat he didn’t like Jefferson.
“Excuse you?” Madison said in a jokingly offended tone. “I am sitting right here. If you wanted something fun to do you could have asked.” Everyone but Alex laughed, and Alex decided to walk off just as Jefferson and Madison got into a playful shoving fight.
Alex looked around for his friends, noticing Laurens sneak around down the hall and outside the door that lead to the backyard. Alex shuffled after and saw Laurens climb a tree and simply sit, staring into the world. Alexander knew this was his chance. He was not throwing away his shot. He stepped outside, and gently walked toward the tree.