Time skip (again :3) to when Alex can go back to school

Alex's POV:
Alex was looking forward to going back to school. He had been bored for what felt like a century. He waved goodbye to his cousin and walked towards the line up. Many kids were running around, talking to their friends or just standing there. He got up to his class line up and saw the three little assholes. That's what he likes to call them. And a boy that was hanging out with them. The boy had dark skin and was wearing a very dark blue hoodie and gray jeans. The boy looked at Alex and walked over to him. Alex just stood there awkwardly, "Hey! You must be the new kid. Alexander right?" Said the boy. Alex nodded his head, "Yea, how do you know my name?" Asked Alex. "Oh sorry I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Aaron Burr, just call me Aaron though. John told me about you." He replied. "Oh, okay. Do you know if John is here? I don't see him." Alex asked Aaron. "He is here, he's out on the field with Lafayette and Peggy. You'll see them once you get down there." Aaron told him, "Okay, thank you!" Alex said and walked off. He walked down the steps and looked to his right to see three people sitting on the ground. They were Lafayette, John and Peggy. Alex smiled and walked quickly towards them. Peggy turned her head, "Alex! You're back!" She exclaimed and got up to hug him. "Hey Peggy." Alex chuckled. Peggy let go and Alex sat in between John and Peggy. "Alex, mon ami you are here!" Said Lafayette. John hugged him lightly, "You're here!" John said happily. They all talked to each other. "Where's Eliza and Angelica?" Asked Alex, "Eliza and Angelica are over there talking to Theodosia, and there is Aaron. Aaron has the biggest crush on Theodosia!" Replied Peggy. "You've met Aaron right?" John asked, "Yup. He told me you guys were down here. Although he was talking to the three little assholes George, Jefferson and Charles." Replied Alex. Everyone laughed when Alex called them the three little assholes. "That pretty much sums them up!" Said Lafayette. Alex was looking behind Lafayette to see Hercules creeping up behind him putting a finger up to his mouth. Alex kept quiet and let Hercules do his thing. Hercules grabbed Lafayette from under his arms and pulled him up. Lafayette had the most scared looking face ever. Lafayette looked up to see Hercules, "What the heck Hercules, you little bastard!" Said Lafayette. Hercules smiled, "Lafayette I do this on a regular basis and you still get scared. You should be used to this by now!" Hercules said and let go of Lafayette. The two sat beside each other and Hercules kissed Lafayette on the lips. "You two must be a thing." Alex said. They both nodded, "Nobody has told you." Lafayette said, "I was sure that John would tell you since he's the only one who has your phone number." Hercules added. "I wanted to wait until you found out for yourself. I don't really know why, I just wanted to." John said. After a few minuets had passed of them talking the bell rang and everybody went to their class line ups.
(Time skip to close to the end of the day)

"Okay everyone! I'm going to tell you about a project we are going to the be doing." Said Mrs.Washington. Everybody listened. "Today we are starting a new project. This is going to be a buddy project and you will be able to pick your own buddy. Only two people max." Said Mrs. Washington. "For this project you are going to be making a book. You can make this book about anything you want and you can make it however you choose." Alex listened very closely. He liked the idea of writing a book. Mrs. Washington explained more about the project and let them pick their buddies. John and Alex decided to be buddies and Lafayette went with Hercules and Peggy went with Aaron. Mrs. Washington let them have time to think of an idea for a story. John and Alex were having a hard time thinking of one. "What's your favourite animal?" Asked John, "Umm, a lion." Alex replied. John was slumped in his chair until he sat straight up. "I have an idea! It can be about a turtle and a lion! At first they don't like each other because the lion's family kept stealing the turtle's family away. But this lion doesn't do that but the turtle thinks he does but he doesn't. But later the turtle and lion become friends because the lion returns the turtles family members. This leads to the lion getting kicked out of his group and he now lives with the turtle and his family." John stopped to take a breath and continued, "They live together for about two years and then the lion and turtle show all the turtles and lions that they can be friends, and yeah." Alex was amazed, "That would make a great kids book John!" Alex said, "Then let's make it a kids book Alex!" John  exclaimed. "Who should write and who should draw the pictures?" John asked, "Well I could write and you could draw. That picture of a turtle I saw you drawing today was amazing, I could never draw like that." Alex said. John smiled brightly, "Thank you!" John said. They had it decided. Alex would write and John would draw the pictures. They decided to talk for the rest of the school day until the bell rang. Mrs. Washington dismissed them and they all went home. John and Alex walked over to Grayson's car. "Hey, you wanna see if you can walk with me home? You know since we're living on the same street." Asked John. Alex nodded his head and opened the car door to ask his cousin if he could. His cousin said yes and drove away after waving goodbye to them. John lead the way since Alexander obviously didn't know the way back home from anywhere. They kept joking around and talking to each other until they got to Alex's house. "Bye turtles. Can I call you turtles?" Alexander said, "Yeah you can call me that. Only if I can call you lion." John said with a bright smile. "Okay. Bye! See you tomorrow!" Alex said as he crossed the street. "Goodbye lion!" John said back and made his way back home. Alexander got into the house. He took off his shoes and put his bag down. Peter was sitting on the couch watching TV. Something was under the pillow that Peter's arm was on but Alexander didn't question it. Alex sat on the couch and watched TV with his cousin. Peter looked over at Alex, "Hey Alex. How was your walk home with your friend?" He asked. Alex looked back at him, "It was fun. Can I do it tomorrow to?" He replied. Grayson nodded his head and looked down at the pillow. He took out what was under the pillow and moved up next to Alex. Alex looked at him and the thing in his hands. It looked like a phone but a bit bigger. "Here you go Alex. This is and iPad that I don't use that much. I want you to have it." Peter smiled brightly. Alex took the iPad from his hands and looked at it. "It's like a phone but you can only FaceTime on it." Peter said. Alex nodded and hugged his cousin, "Thanks!" He said, "You're welcome." Replied Peter. Alexander went to his room to play around with the iPad. He found an app called YouTube. He had seen it before on his cousins phone but he didn't go on it. He clicked on it, he was eager to see what was on there. He was scrolling through the home place looking at all the videos titles. He saw a video that caught his eye. The title read: Fourth of July animatic| Sufjan Stevens
He clicked on the video. He sat on his bed and listened. "The evil it spread like a fever ahead. It was night when you died my firefly. What could I have said to raise you from the dead, oh could I be the sky on the Fourth of July." It sang. He watched the video and listened to the soft song. "Sitting at the bed with a halo at your head, was it all a disguise like junior high? Where everything was fiction, future and prediction, now where am I my fading supply?" He kept on listening to it. It hypnotized him a little. The song reminded him of his mother in a way. He touched his face to feel the tears that were falling from his face. He wiped his finger that had touched a tear on his shirt. He then took his shirt and wiped away his tears. He scrolled down to see other videos like this. He found another song called 'John my beloved' also by the song creator Sufjan Stevens. Although this one wasn't by the person who made the animatic, the user was named Asthmatic Kitty Records. He clicked it so he could listen to it. "Are we to speak, first day of the week. Stumbling words at the bar. Beauty blue eyes, my order of fries. Long Island kindness and wine. Beloved of John, I get it all wrong, I read you for some kind of poem. Covered in lines, the fossils I find. Have they no life of their own?" This song reminded Alexander of John. He didn't know why but it did. He listened to more songs by the creator. He loved them. Everything was amazing. He can write but he probably couldn't write a song. He found himself listening to the songs over and over again. He got to the point where he remembered little snippets of the songs.

John's POV:
It had been a few days since Alex got back to school. Today was Saturday. Today he got to have a sleepover with Alex. They were both excited about this. John was currently walking over to Alex's house, his bag over his shoulder. He turned to his left and crossed the street over to Alex's house. He got to the door and knocked on it. Peter opened the door. "Hello!" John said and smiled, "Hello. Alex is in his room. He won't be coming out because he's been singing songs for hours today and he's only come out of the room once or twice so you might just want to go over to his room and go in there." Peter told him. John nodded his head and took off his shoes and Peter lead him over to Alex's room. Peter left and John listened to the song that Alex was singing. "Well you do enough talk my little hawk, why do you cry? Tell me what did you learn from the Tillamook burn or the Fourth of July? We're all gonna die." He heard Alex sing. John opened the door to see Alex with his back turned to the door and was singing. John crept up to him and pulled him off the bed. Alex yelped and said, "I didn't do anything!" John laughed and let him go. Alex turned around, "Oh, hi John. How's it going?" He said and scratched his head. John smiled, "It's going good. What's that song your listening to?" John replied. Alex got off the floor and hopped onto his bed with John following him. "I'm listening to Fourth of July by Sufjan Stevens. His songs are really good. You should listen to them!" Alex said. "So this is what Peter was telling me about. He said you were singing this for a long time." John said, "Oh, really.." Alex said. John nodded his head and took his iPad and turned it off and put it on a high place that Alex couldn't get to. "Hey! What was that for!" Alex said a little annoyed, "You only get it if you need it for not listening to music! I don't want this sleepover to be boring." John replied. Alex crossed his arms, "Fine." Alex hugged and sat on his bed. John went over to the window and saw that it was raining. "Well we're not going outside." John said. Alex moved over to John and looked outside too. "Yup. Definitely not going outside." He said. They decided to just talk. After about half an hour or so John was getting FaceTimed by Aaron. John clicked the green button and Aaron's face showed up on the screen along with Theodosia's. "Hey John! Hey Alex,  What are you guys doing?" Aaron asked. "Hello Aaron and Theo. I'm having a sleepover with Alex today." John said with a smile on his face. "Oh cool. Me and Theo are just hanging out together. Mom doesn't trust me having a sleepover with her for some reason." Aaron replied and blushed a little. "Do you guys wanna play truth or dare?" Theodosia said suddenly. "Yeah sure." John and Alex said in sync. "Jinx! You owe me a turtle!" John said, "Where am I supposed to get a turtle?" Alex said and laughed. John shrugged, "Oh wait! I have something for you!" Alex said and pulled out something from his sweater pocket. He pulled out John's turtle necklace and handed it to him, "I forgot to give it back to you yesterday when you dropped it on the sidewalk when we were walking home." John grabbed it and put it on, "Thanks! This is technically a turtle to me so you don't owe me a turtle anymore." John replied. "I'll go first for truth or dare." Aaron said, "John, truth or dare?" He said. John thought for a moment, "Truth." He replied. Aaron thought for a second or two, "Is it true that you are gay?" He said with a smirk, John nodded. Theodosia just laughed, "Of course he is! You already know this Aaron!" She said. "So you are gay!" Alex said. John turned his head and looked at Alex. John nodded and put his hoodie over his head. "But how gay?" Aaron then said, "He's as gay as his rainbow turtle sculpture with rainbow stickers all over it." Theo said. "Can we stop talking about this guys?" John said, "But why?" Theodosia asked, "Because I'm at Alex's house and I don't know if Peter's hearing this and I don't know if he hates gay people." John said. "Fine." Theodosia said. They continued their game until Alex and John got called for dinner. "Bye Aaron, bye Theo. We might FaceTime you back." John said and hung up. They ate their dinner and went back to Alex's room. John looked out the window, it was pouring rain now. "I wonder if it's going to storm. I love storms!" John said. Alex didn't say anything and sat on his bed looking out the window. John grabbed his phone and looked at the weather. "Yup! It's going to thunder storm tonight." John said and smiled.

Alex's POV:
Alex and John talked for a while. That was until Peter said they had to get ready for bed. John picked up his bag and went to the bathroom to change. Alex got his pyjamas on and sat on his bed waiting for John. Thunder sounded and Alex flinched. He hated storms. Thunder kept coming and Alex curled up in a ball on his bed. What is taking John so long? Alex wondered. Thunder sounded again and Alex hugged himself tighter.

John's POV:
John had to run back home in the rain because he forgot his pyjama pants, and John wasn't about to sleep in jeans the whole night. John got back inside Alex's house and took his rain jacket off, I packed a rain jacket but not pyjama pants. Great job John! He thought to himself. John heard thunder. John went back into the bathroom and put his PJ's on. He went to Alex's door and heard soft whimpers in there. Was Alex keeping a dog in there? Thunder sounded and he heard the whimpers grow louder. John entered the room to see Alex curled up in a ball with his face hidden in his knees. John got up onto the bed and Alex looked up at him with tears streaming down his face. Alex quickly looked down and buried his face in his knees again and cried. "Alex, what's wrong?" John asked. Alex didn't reply and kept crying. "Alex, what's wrong?" He asked again. Thunder came again and Alex cried even more. "James don't go." Alex muttered. "Who's James?" John asked, "James no!" He muttered again. John didn't know what to do other than hug Alexander. John went behind Alexander and hugged him. Alex uncurled himself from a ball and let John's arms go around his chest. They stayed like this until Alex asked, "Can I have my iPad now?" John let go and got his iPad. He gave it to Alex and hugged him again. Alex went onto YouTube and searched up a song. He clicked on a playlist and he put the iPad down. Thunder came again and Alex snuggled closer to John and listened to his music. After a few minuets the song ended and a new song came on. John read the title, John my beloved. Haha, funny.. John smiled and listened to the song also. "Such a waste, your beautiful face." It sang, "Stumbling carpet arise." John could hear Alex singing it softly. A minuet late Alex fell asleep in John's arms. John hugged Alex tighter and blushed. Alex looked so cute right now. John soon fell asleep to the soft songs that played and the sound of raindrops landing on the window. The lightning and thunder stopped so it just rained. "Goodnight Alex." John whispered before he fell asleep.

Omg this is cute. I was dying to write this chapter today. I wanted the Lams fluff! And also all of those lyrics belong to Sufjan Stevens. All of his songs are really great. These songs come from Sufjan's album Carrie and Lowell. I have been a bit to upsessed (However you spell it :/ ) with that album lately and I had to put it in here. Again all lyrics mentioned in this chapter belong to Sufjan Stevens!
~Peanut