September 23rd 2016 (skipping to Friday)

Alex's POV:

"Hey John?" I mutter as I hold a hair grip between my teeth.
"Yeah?" I look over to see he has a hair band in his mouth and I let out a sigh. I take the grip out of my teeth and pin back the loose hairs from my ponytail.
"Do you think we've been too distant from the others? We've spent a lot of time with just us, not that I didn't like it, I just think we should do something tonight for all of us."
He nods in agreement and turns to me whilst tying his curly hair into a loose bun.
"Yeah, you're right. Let's have a pizza night, play games, truth or dare, or something like that."
"Sure."
"But first," He pauses to grab my bag and hands it to me "classes."
I laugh a bit and follow him out the door as we head to our first classes.

---After classes---

Since Alex has an extra major, his classes are in the morning and afternoon, but mine finish at lunch (A/N- sorry if I'm wrong!) so whilst he was still in his History class, I was getting our dorm ready. I pushed our beds to the edge of the room and moved the desks too. I laid out a huge blanket and put some bags of chips in the middle and reminded myself to get the soda from the fridge when everyone arrives. Alex and I had briefly met with the others at lunchtime to invite them over and they all can come, which is good. Honestly, I'm pretty excited to see everyone together like usual. We haven't hung out much since the year started so today should be fun.

---1 hour later---

Since I finished getting ready for everyone pretty early and it didn't take too long, I started on a new piece for art. I've decided to do an oil painting of Alex based on a photo from when he had his hair in a half ponytail, which is my favourite hairstyle for him. There's a slight blush on his cheeks and the scenery from the park behind him is really nice too.

Just as I finished the initial sketching before I started using paints, I heard a key being twisted in our door and my face immediately lit up with a smile. The door swung open to reveal Alex holding two slushes from 7-Eleven. When he saw me, my smile was mirrored onto his face as he handed me my drink, which I took from his hand as I softly placed a kiss on his lips.

"Thank you" I chirped as I walked away back towards my work.

Alex quickly followed me over to the canvas
"What're you working on?"
I smiled as I told him
"An oil painting of you."
"Really! Woah cool, let me see!"
"Well I haven't started painting yet." I set my slush down on a table and pulled him so he was in front of me and placed my head on his shoulder and wrapped my arms around him so they were tight around his waist.
"It's already great," he turned to face me "you're great."
He put his slush on the table next to mine and his arms around the back of my neck and pulled me closer for a kiss, which I gladly accept. I move my arms up his torso and to the front of his body so that they're resting on his chest and I feel him move one of his hands into my hair, tangling itself underneath my messy bun. Alex presses tongue against my bottom lip, asking for an entrance which I was about to allow when we heard a bang on the door to our dorm. We both let out groans of annoyance as we walk over to answer, and when we open the door we see Laf and Herc, both wearing very smug expressions.
"Hey losers." Laf says to us. We both just give him pissed off looks, not that he knows why.
"Why do you look so mad? Did we interrupt something?" Herc says, his voice dripping with sarcasm. Alex and I exchange worried glances.
"No." We say in unison. "Why would you think that?" I add.
"No reason." Laf says, dragging out his words. He fiddled with the peephole on our door and suddenly I feel my heart drop to my stomach.
"Oh shit. Did yo-"
"Yup." Laf says, displaying his huge grin.

Before I have time to react in any way, a third party arrives at the door. A very confused looking pizza delivery man. He looks like he's about to knock on the open door, but instead I just shove Herc out of the way and pay the guy and quickly thank him as I take the pizzas (by the way I don't know if you can have stuff delivered to dorm rooms, probably not, but let's go with it okay?)

Everyone follows me into the room and I pull out my phone to text Angelica, Eliza and Peggy. (sorry I had to)

-----Text Messages-----
The Sisters

TurtlesInThePlaceToBe
Hey, are you guys on your way here?

Unsatisfied
Yeah, if Peggy can finish doing her fucking makeup.

AndPeggles
You know, looking this good takes time! Not that you'd know anything about looking good 😏.

Helpless
Calm it girls. Yes, John. We will be there in 5-10 mins.

TurtlesInThePlaceToBe
Okay, thanks ELIZA. Man, you two though 😂. Just hurry up and get your asses down here.

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"Okay, the sisters will be here soon. You know what that means, start thinking of some good truths and dares. Also, feel free to start eating the chips, I'll be right back, I'm just going to get the soda from the fridge."

On my way there I notice that Alex and I never picked up our slushes again, which then reminds me that Laf and Herc totally saw us making out. I face palm, pick up the drinks and grab the bottle from the fridge and start walking back to the other three people. I set down the bottle and hand Alex his cup.

"So Lafayette, Hercules, why exactly were you two spying on us through the peephole?"
Before they can answer, Alex speaks up.
"Wait, what? Peepholes are one way, they can't see in." He has a quizzical look on his face.
"Yeah, but in this room the door manufacturers must've put it in backwards. So that gave these two the capability to see in to our room, and they saw us."

Suddenly Alex's confused face turns to one of pure terror, that honestly is pretty funny. He's lost for words, which is shocking for a guy that can barely keep his mouth shut. I laugh a little bit at him and Laf and Herc join in too, clearly trying to avoid the question.

"HEY! Answer the question guys."
Herc decides to tell me.
"So when we came to visit Alex on Tuesday, Laf said we should spy on you first instead of knock straight away, so we did and we saw you lying on top of Alex and you were making out. So today, we thought it would be funny to interrupt you right as it was getting interesting."

I let out a groan of embarrassment and Alex buried his face in his hands.
"Whatever, just don't tell the sisters yet, and we won't murder you, deal?" I outstretched my arm for one of them to shake.
"Deal" Laf said, grabbing onto my hand.
Just as we shook hands we heard another knock which Alex clambered up to answer.

"Hey girls!" I heard him say.
"Angie, Liza, Pegs! Hey, come sit down so we can start this pizza, and the game of course."

They joined our circle so that we were sat in this order: Me, Alex, Herc, Laf, Peggy, Angelica, Eliza.

"So, who'll start?" I said. Peggy raised her hand, clearly excited to start.
"John." She began, reaching for a slice of pepperoni pizza "Truth or Dare?"
I pondered for a moment before picking Dare.
"I dare you to... shout that you're gay as loud as you can down the hall."
We all laughed a bit before I got up to do it. I quickly shouted it and closed the door as I heard a few confused people open their own doors to see where the noise was coming from. We all burst into fits of laughter as we heard someone shout back "We know" and slam their door. It was my turn to ask someone now.

"Alex, Truth or Dare."
"Uh...truth?"
"Hmm...have you ever broken the law?"
"Um, when I lived in Nevis, Burr and I went to what we thought was an abandoned convenience store and smashed up the windows with golf clubs to get in, but it turns out it wasn't abandoned, it was just closed for the night and we set off some alarms. Never got caught though."
Like before, we all erupted into laughter in-between bites of pizza. We continued going round the circle for a while, each having to do a few crazy things. But then, it was Lafayette's turn.

Angelica's POV:

"Alex. I dare you to make out with anyone in this room."
We all shared a collective glance of 'who's he going to pick?' We all know he's bisexual so it could be anyone.

He looked around the room as if he was pondering who to choose when suddenly he did something that Eliza, Peggy and I were not expecting. In one swift movement, he grabbed John by the shoulders and roughly pushed their mouths together as he rested his hands on the small of John's back. Just as John reached up to run his fingers through Alex's hair, my sisters and I exchanged glances and we all wore the same expression.
"WHAT THE FUCK?!" Peggy screamed. John and Alex separated and both turned bright red. Lafayette and Hercules share knowing glances and I mouth at Laf 'did you know?' And he nods in response, stifling a giggle.

"So, who's should I pick next?" Alex says.
"No. Okay, no. You are not brushing over that like it was nothing. What. Was. That." Peggy says, her voice full of sass.
"Oh, the kiss. Right. I was just going with the dare."
"Well that clearly wasn't just part of the dare." Eliza adds in.
"HERCULES! Truth or Dare?" Alex quickly said, clearly trying to drop the subject. We'll get it out of him later.
"Dare, I guess." A mischievous smirk spread across Alex's face and he looked at John who was clearly thinking the same thing.
"Make out with anyone in this room."
We all gasped and Hercules looked pretty nervous. Like Alex, he is one of the new people in our group since the rest of us were here last year but Alex and Herc only moved to New York this year. So as you can imagine, he didn't really know any of us well enough to want to make out with us.

Hercules' POV:

Shit. Who am I supposed to kiss? I'm not good enough friends with any of the sisters, and I'm gay anyway, Alex and John are already dating, so the only one left is Laf. Yeah, we both admitted we have feelings for each other, but do we really want our first kiss to be in truth or dare?
"I-I, um.." I stuttered, but not for long since my words were cut of by a soft pair of lips cutting off my words. I automatically kissed back but opened my eyes to see that it was Laf who kissed me. Perfect. If I wasn't kissing him I would have let out a breath of relief, but all I could focus on was making out with the guy of my dreams.

When we cut it off I looked around the room to see everyone's jaws hanging open. I chuckled and slung my arm around Laf's shoulder.

"I'm done. This is all too cute for me." Angie said, raising her hands and standing up to walk out of the room. Eliza and Peggy followed her.
"Yeah it's getting a bit late guys, I mean it's 1:34 in the morning. Thanks for the good night guys." Eliza said with a yawn.

They walked out after we had all said goodbye, leaving just me, Laf, Alex and John. We talked for a bit before deciding to go back to our own dorm.

Alex's POV:

After everyone had left we quickly restored our room to its original order and I walked back over to John to give him a hug.
"Alex, we should get to bed, I know you're probably not tired but I am."
I nodded back, realising that I actually was tired for once as we went to brush our teeth and change into pyjama pants. He walked over to his bed as I climbed into mine.
"Um, no. I might be tired, but I'm not sleeping without my boyfriend." I heard John say, making me chuckle.

He came and got into bed with me so that we were facing each other and he wrapped his arms around my waist. His body was warm and comforting so I shuffled a bit closer to him and held him like if I let go he would disappear.
"Night darling." His voice trailed off as he slipped into sleep.
"Goodnight sweetie."
I fell asleep too, but with a huge smile on my face.

31st July 2017