CHAPTER 7
A/N THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH FOR 100 READS!
Sorry I haven't updated, I've hit a bit of a writers block and I was sick and not in the mood for doing anything
Alex POV
After 'Perfect' ended, we all danced to one more song, Lady Gaga's 'Just Dance', before the sober people helped the not-so-sober people back to their dorms. It took a while, as James, Peggy and I were fairly short so it took more than one of us to take a normal sized person back to their dorm.
Most of the drunk people didn't protest when we led them out of the room. Thomas was of course being stubborn and didn't want to leave, and Sokka was saying something about 'drinking quenchy cactus juice'. Don't look at me, I have no idea what he's going on about.
"But Jemmy, I don't want to leaveeee," Thomas protested.
James sighed. "How about, if you come back with me now, I'll make you some Mac 'n Cheese," he said. Thomas' face lit up, and he immediately nodded, grabbing James' arm and running out of the room.
I saw Peggy mutter something to herself, before getting out her phone and writing something down. I wonder what it was?
Soon, John was the only one left in the Schuyler's dorm that wasn't supposed to be there apart from me.
"Alex, do you need any help taking him back?" Angelica asked.
"Nah, it should be fine," I said. "He isn't as tall as some of the others, I can manage,"
"Or is it because you want to spend some quality time alone with him?" Peggy said, wiggling her eyebrows and smirking.
"Shut up!" I grumbled, turning away and blushing, before leading John out of the room, away from a certain sniggering Schuyler sister. (lmao I didn't mean for that to have alliteration-)
It wasn't long before we reached John and Herc's dorm, and I was thankful to see that Herc was already sprawled out on a bed, which meant I didn't have to deal with two drunk people.
As we walked into the dorm, John ran towards his bed (me after school) and flopped down in the centre. I was about to take my exit when he spoke up.
"Alex, I can't find Freddie!" he whined.
"Who-"
"My turtle stuffie!" he said, like I knew this already. "I can't sleep without him!"
Aww, he had a special turtle toy? That's cute. *cough* UHH I MEAN I'd better help him find it. We spent the next few minutes looking for 'Freddie' before John shouted out "Found him!"
"Sshh!" I said. "Herc is sleeping!"
"Sorry," John whispered. "Can you tuck me in? Pleeeeease?" I blushed slightly, thankful for the dark room.
"Um... yes, of course I will." I said, not wanting to upset a childish John. I went over and tucked him in, and he closed his eyes.
"Goodnight, Lexi," he said sleepily as I made my way towards the door. My cheeks went bright red at the nickname, I really needed to work on controlling my blush.
"Night John," I whispered, stepping out of the room and quietly closing the door. As I walked back to my dorm, smiling, realization hit me like a brick.
I had a crush on John.
Goddamn it Alex, why do you have to fall for people so quickly?
Peggy POV
I had no idea what time it was. My sisters had been asleep for a while, but me on the other hand, hadn't slept at all. I had more important matters to attend to. My part time job.
Matchmaking.
I had seen many potential couples at the party earlier, and I had just come up with ship names for them all. I moved my gigantic painting of the surprised pikachu meme (which I painted myself), revealing a gigantic pinboard full of red wool, ship names, photographs and random notes on each ship. Yeah, I took my job very seriously.
Thankfully, I had enough space left on my board for my new ships. I scribbled down the ship names on post-it notes, before grabbing pins and sticking them on the board.
Lams
Mullette
Jeffmads
Tokka (Toph and Sokka)
Before my work could properly start, I needed a partner in crime, someone who wasn't involved in these ships to help me with everything, and I knew just the person for the job.
Maria.
She'll be sober enough to be able to have a proper conversation, so I picked up my phone and clicked on her name, and it started dialing. After a few dials, she picked up.
"Peggy, it's bloody 3am, what do you want?" she asked, half asleep. Oh. I didn't realise it was that late.
"I need your help with an important job. I can't tell you what it is until you are sworn to secrecy, and agree to help me."
"Is it illegal?" Maria asked suspiciously.
"No, I swear it's totally legal and you won't get in any trouble for being a part of it," I said, partially telling the truth. I mean, if the ship doesn't work out, and the people in the ship find out about my matchmaking, they might hate us. But that is a rare case, I have only been caught once, and that was years ago.
Maria sighed. "Well, if being involved in it does nothing to provoke legal action, I'm in. But can we please do this at a reasonable hour, I need my sleep!"
"You're the best, Mars! Come round to my dorm after classes tomorrow, and I'll explain everything then. Night!" I said, excited that Maria was going to be a part of this.
"Goodnight, Pegs," she said, before ending the call.
Deciding my work was done for the night, I slid the painting back over my board of ships and went to my bedroom, laying down on my bed.
4 new ships to make cannon, and Maria was going to help me with them. This should be fun.
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