~Third Person POV~

            "Hey, no fair! Your gingerbread man looks better than mine!" Alex pouted, crossing his arms. Thomas chuckled. They were making cookies for the Christmas party they were having tonight, just the Hamilsquad and the Schuylers. Aaron and Theo couldn't come because they were out of town with their family. So far, they've been making messes left and right, trying to get them perfect for the party. 

            "Lemme help ya." Thomas got behind Alex, reached his arms around, and grabbed Alexander's hands. "Here's how you do it." Thomas verbally explained how to mold the gingerbread man while controlling Alexander's hand movements. Alex didn't really listen, he just leaned back onto Thomas' body and closed his eyes. "Blah blah blah...." Alexander mumbled. Thomas gasped, trying to act offended that Alexander "fell asleep" on his great gingerbread man lesson and bit down onto his ear. Alexander jolted up and looked back at Thomas.

            "OW, THE FUCK WAS THAT FOR?!?" Alex shoved Thomas back a few feet. "You weren't paying attention to my important 'making a gingerbread man lesson'." Alexander pinched the bridge of his nose and went back to trying to make a gringerbread man. A couple of weirdly shaped cookies later, Thomas had put the cookies in the oven and set the small white timer for 15 minutes. "So what do we do now?"

"I think I have an idea.."

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            "Where are you, you tall ass bastard?" Alex heard Thomas gasp. "I heard that ya little shithead." Alexander snickered. He was hunched behind the island in the kitchen, looking over the island every once and a while to keep a lookout for Thomas. Thousands of little sprinkles of flour were scattered everywhere. Alexander had two handfuls of flour in each hand. Alexander peeped over the island again, only to be met with a face full of flour. Alexander sneezed and wiped his eyes. 

            "YOu aSShOle!" Thomas ran away, laughing his heart out. "No more hiding." Alexander mumbled under his breath. He screeched and tackled Thomas to the ground. Before Thomas could comprehend what was going on, Alexander was on top of him, flour in hands, ready to strike. "WAIT, no no no please, not the hair, not the hair!" He pleaded, attempting to shield himself. "Okay then..."

            Alexander smirked and threw two handfuls of flour on Thomas' new cat hoodie. Thomas wiped his eyes and his hoodie. "I deserved that.." "Damn right you did." Alexander giggled. They both and caught their breath and it took them both a moment to actually notice the position they were in. Alexander was practically straddling Thomas. That sexual tension was so thick that it could be cut with a knife. Oh how badly Alexander wanted Thomas to grab him by his collar and kiss his lips, but that will have to wait for another day.

            Both Thomas and Alex looked away from each other, blushing, as Alex climbed off of Thomas. Then diNg goes the bell. "I should get that..." "Yeah.." Awkward silence followed by footsteps filled the room. Thomas rushed over to the oven, grabbed an oven mitt, and grabbed the tray full of some weird looking cookies. Alex came over to see what they looked like, Thomas' weren't bad but Alexander's looked like some murdered, decomposed, parasite havin', gangerbread men. Yeah, gangerbread men. They don't even deserve the real name. Alexander sighed.

            "Hey, don't worry about it darlin', you'll get better with practice. I used to do this with my sisters all the time." Alex perked up, then slumped down again as a recollection of different memories from his childhood passed through his mind. Thomas almost immediately regretted his words. "I'm sorry." Alexander looked at Thomas. "It's not your fault. Now let's get to decorating, I might as well make these things look pretty for the morgue." Thomas snorted and the both of them got to work.

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            "WHATS UP BITCHES!?!" John screamed throwing his hands up in the air as he passed the threshold of Thomas and Alexander's dorm. "John! Language!" James gave John a stern mother look. "Sorry Jemmy.." Then Laf and Herc walked in hand in hand, both of them on their phones looking at memes. Angelica walked in with a bottle of wine and Eliza a homemade Christmas cake.

            Everyone set their stuff down and said their hellos. They immediately jumped into to a list of activities. Alex started everyone off. "So, how about start with asking how everyone is doing?" There were a series of "goods" heard around the room, John snickered. "Is this a therapy session?" James glared at John, and he slumped in his seat. Angelica spoke up.

             "Well, I for one can tell you that me and Eliza have been fairly well." Eliza nodded and smiled. Angelica continues. "We have been going to therapy sessions to help with...you know...and I started a women's activist group. And might I say that it's been very successful." Everyone one clapped with the occasional hoot or whistle. The Eliza started speaking. 

"Also, me and Maria will be celebrating our 3 year anniversary in about a month!" And then came more applause. "Laf, Herc, what about you. What have you guys been doing?" Everyone turned their heads to the couple, and both of them simultaneously said:

"Life"

            Everyone started to laugh. "What about you John?" John dramatically cleared his throat and started to talk. "Well, I found a new best friend!" John wrapped his arms around James, resting his head on James' shoulder. Thomas fake gasped. "What about me? Did all of those years of friendship mean NOTHING to you Maddy?!?" James sighed and smiled. "Thomas, I'm still your best friend, I just get tired of your bullshit." 

"And I'm just trying to sleep though life until I take my place in heaven." 

"And we'll all make sure to keep you up and bother you until do." 

James grumbled something to himself while everyone laughed. 

"Well, why don't we get our activities started, shall we?" 

"Wait I have a question?"

"Yes John?" 

"Why did you make cockroach cookies?"

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            They all indulged in the different activities that night. Gingerbread House Competition, Dancing to Christmas music together, going from dorm to dorm singing Christmas carols. Even though John sounded awful, he was having fun. The sun fell into the Horizon as the day went on, everyone surrounded themselves around the bright Christmas tree in love and good spirit as they started their last activity of the night. Then the friends would have to say goodbye.

"Alrighty! Now it's time for the last thing for the night. Gift exchange!"

             Angelica unwrapped her large blue present box from Herc. She pulled out about 12 pink shirts from the huge present box. She started reading the shirt. "The activists" Then she turned the shirt around. "Angelica" She gasped. "Hercules! This is so sweet! Now we have our shirts for the group." Herc smiled. "You told me you needed shirts so I made you some."

            James opened his small white box from Thomas. He found a friendship bracelet, made by none other than Thomas. James quickly put on the bracelet on, admiring it from his wrist. "Thank you Thomas, for the bracelet and being my best friend." James went over to give Thomas a hug. "Anything for you Jem." 

            After that, Eliza opened her present from Alexander. She squealed when she saw the necklace. It wasn't just any necklace, it was one of those picture necklaces. She opened the little heart and saw a picture of Alexander and herself at the park on Main Street from about 2 years ago. "It's so wonderful Alexander, that was very thoughtful of you. She grabbed her phone from off the counter and took a picture.

             The night went on. Hercules got the new sewing machine from John. He's been saving up to buy that thing for months. Laf got a new pair of blackberry colored glitter heels from Angelica. It went perfectly with his new outfit he bought. John got a rainbow colored shirt that says "I'm gay as fuck." on the back. He wore it for the rest of the night. Laf had gave Alexander the Autobiography Of Mark Twain book, something to occupy his dysfunctional mind. Lastly, Thomas had gotten a plain mirror from James which surprisingly, he was very thankful for. 

            After that, everyone said their goodbyes, and left the dorm. Everything went well and everyone had fun. But Thomas had one more gift to give. "Alex, could you c'mere for a second." Thomas called out from his dorm. "What's up?" 

            "I made you something, it was to uhm, honor our amazing friendship." Thomas smiled nervously  as he gave Alexander a huge collage the size of a mirror. The pictures ranged from 4 years ago to about 7 months ago. The oldest on the bottom, newest on the top. Alexander laughed at the one picture they took on Snapchat with a hotdog filter. "Thomas, this is amazing. How did you do this?" 

            "I just kept the pictures that we took, and when you got upset when we were decorating the house, I though I'd do something for you. To cheer you up." Alexander set the collage aside on the wall, and hugged Thomas. They both pulled away and looked into each other's eyes. As bad as they both wanted to make that move, neither of them could. What were they waiting for? No one knows. "How did I get lucky with a best friend like you?" 

"I don't know, how did you?"

Both of them laughed and smiled. 

"Now let's go hang up that collage."

Haiiiiiiiii internet.

AlExaNdEr iS haVinG sOmE sMeXY tHouGhtS eH~

Anyway, I'm gonna post a Alternate ending to this chapter, just for y'all peeps who wanna see them get all kissy, it might just be a smut chapter, who knows? But just know, THE CHAPTER IS NOT GONNA BE APART OF THE PLOT, JUST AN ALTERNATIVE ENDING. Do you like the fluffyness tho?

Alrighty then, I gotta go, I'll see you peeps later. BAI MY BEAUTIFUL PEOPLESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS 🤍🌈

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