The Picnic Pt 1
Angelica's POV
(One week later)
I was nervous, strawberries kept falling out of the basket I was carrying. I was meeting Aaron's friends today. Surprisingly, all of my sisters were invited. We had to convince our father that we would be home by sundown.
"Are you alright?" Eliza asked me, I nodded and kept walking.
"I can see John!" Peggy ran ahead with Cornelia and Catherine close behind.
"Do you know exactly why we agreed to this?" Eliza whispered to me.
"You know a lot more about Mr. Hamilton then I do about our house," she playfully shoved me at my remark.
"Look, it's not my fault that he writes to me."
"Yeah, every night." Eliza began to blush. I smiled, knowing I got her.
"Oh, stop it" she briskly walked past me to Mr. Hamilton. "Good day, Alexander."
"Oh, on first names are we?" I whispered to her.
"Shut up. Go meet Mr. Burr. I saw you dancing with him a week ago" now it was my turn to blush.
"Fine," I walked over to where Aaron was standing, away from the group.
"Miss Schuyler, it's good to see you," Aaron said
"And you too" I replied.
"What's for lunch?" the guy who Peggy was standing next to asked.
"Well, I bought strawberries and Eliza made a cake," I say.
"Wait, so you're Alexander Hamilton, and of course I know who you are Hercules, but who are the rest of you?" Catherine said.
"Aaron Burr"
"Alexander Hamilton"
"John Laurens"
"Hercules Mulligan"
"Just call me Lafayette"
"And you girls are..." Aaron asked.
"The Schuyler Sisters, I'm Angelica"
"Eliza"
"And Peggy"
"And Cornelia"
"Catherine"
"Ladies to you!" Alexander toasted us, afterwards kissing Eliza.
Peggy slipped over to me "Did he just do that?" she asked
"I think so" I was as stunned as my sister.
Eliza and Alexander broke the kiss. Eliza looked around. "What?" she said blushing scarlet.
And Alexander just smiled and pulled her in for another one.
"Excuse me, Mr. Hamilton, that would be enough." I said. He looked into Eliza's eyes before delicately kissing my sister's hand, nodding. He was blushing too.
I felt a presence next to me. It was Aaron.
"You said you had cake?"
I stifled a giggle. "Eliza?" I interrupt them. "Do you have the cake?"
"Huh? Oh yeah, that. It's over there" she gestured vaguely to a covered basket she had tossed aside when she went to greet Mr. Hamilton.
"Eliza, could you stop staring at Mr. Hamilton like you are a little lovesick and eat?" said Nelia.
Her comment made Mr. Laurens laugh so hard he tripped over the basket of strawberries and fell face first into, the now pile, of strawberries. He came up with his face full of strawberry juice which caused Peggy to laugh so hard she fell over, but luckily, Laurens caught her.
"Don't want you to end up with your pretty face messed up, little lady" he said.
"Awwwww!" Kitty and Nelia said at the same time.
"Oh stop it," Peggy blushed.
I looked at Kitty and Nelia, "cut it out you two" I had a hard time not laughing though.
"I'm not a 'little lady' Mr. Laurens"
"Oh call me John." Laurens interrupted
"Well then, John," she mimicked, "you have a little something on your face" she gestured to his whole face. Everyone started laughing at Peggy's swift comeback.
"Come here little lady" he said entirely disregarding her earlier instructions and kissed her. When Peggy pulled back, her face was covered in a red syrup.
"Peggy!" Eliza said "Why are you kissing him?"
"Eliza, shut up" she snapped, "You just kissed Mr. Hamilton. Stop being a hypocrite"
"Oooooooo" all the men, excluding Aaron, exclaimed.
"So can we, or can we not have the cake?" he asked instead.
We all sat down to eat. In the middle of a slice of cake, Mulligan asked me, "if we all call you 'Little lady' do we get the same response as your sister?"
I smiled "I might punch you."
"Nevermind," Mulligan backed off quickly.
"Well then" Aaron said putting down his slice of cake, "what do we call you? 'Cuz Miss Schuyler is going to get confusing quickly."
"I just prefer Eliza" Eliza responded, shrugging.
"Kitty"
"Peggy!" She had a huge grin on her face.
"Nelia"
The thought struck me that the only nickname I had was Angel, which was Eliza's nickname. "Angelica's fine"
"shall we play a game?" Eliza asked once the cake was finished.
"what game?" Mr. Hamilton asked.
"Truth or Dare?" Eliza suggested, a smile on her face.
"Why not?" Aaron said, looking at me.
"I'll go first" Peggy called she turned to Mr. Laurens, "truth or dare?"
He smiled, "truth"
"Hmm. Do you like me?" she asked.
"Yep" he replied and Peggy kissed him.
"My turn!" Eliza said and turned to me "Truth or dare?"
I thought she was enjoying this too much "Uh, dare." I reply.
"I dare you to kiss Mr. Burr" I glared at my sister and turned to Aaron.
He was smiling at me, I realized that everybody was staring at the two of us.
"Go on, do it!" Eliza coaxed. I rolled my eyes and leaned in kissing Aaron. It actually wasn't awful.
"Now it's my turn" I turned to Mr. Hamilton, "truth or dare?" I asked him.
"Dare" he said excitedly.
"I dare you to pledge yourself to my sister" his eyes widened at me.
"W-what?" He said, stuttering
"You heard me. Eliza is my sister. I need to know that you will care for her."
"Angelica," Eliza protested.
"I dared him to. Anyways, how do you think I'd feel if I caught him cheating on you. You are my younger sister. I would do the same for any one of you." I looked all of my sisters in the eye.
Hamilton looked at Eliza, "I will always love you, and on my own life I will protect you."
"Awwwwww" Kitty and Nelia said again.
"Girls" I warned, this time not bothering to try not to laugh; they were like Siamese cats.
"I guess it's my turn" Aaron said. "Truth or dare?" he asked me.
"Why is everybody asking me this?" I complained. "Fine. Truth."
"Do you like me?"
"Answer Angel!" Eliza clearly knew I would procrastinate.
"Angel. I like it" Aaron muttered. I flushed.
"Yes I do" I finally admitted. He smiled, pulled me close and kissed me. He tasted like cake.
"I love you, Angel" he whispered against my lips.
"I love you, too"
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