messages//lams ✔️

chapter 4//i have a crush

justyouwait: didn't hear my name in law yesterday, were you there?

turtleboi: yes i was and good morning to you too

justyouwait: i was reading through our messages and i realized you mentioned "laf" who's that?

turtleboi: one of my pain in the ass friends

justyouwait: boy or girl?

turtleboi: or?

justyouwait: other?

turtleboi: bingo

justyouwait: nice.

justyouwait: i also realized i know nothing about you

turtleboi: welcome velma, get in the mystery machine

justyouwait: if anything i'm daphne

turtleboi: not fred or shaggy?

justyouwait: no, daphne is the pretty one and i find myself to be beautiful

turtleboi: whatever. what do you want to know?

justyouwait: where are you from?

turtleboi: south carolina. now you

justyouwait: nevis

turtleboi: never heard of it...

justyouwait: just some city in the caridnwksnw

turtleboi: ???? just tell me where it is. where you're from doesn't show who you are as a person

justyouwait: the caribbean. it's a fucking island in the caribbean

turtleboi: idk why you were scared to tell me. is being born in the caribbean bad or something?

justyouwait: just didn't want you to think that i was some stupid immigrant not worthy of america

turtleboi: i would never think that. never ever.

justyouwait: thanks laurens

justyouwait: enough of the sappy stuff. favorite color?

turtleboi: pastels

justyouwait: cute. mine's green

turtleboi: not a very creative answer

justyouwait: what is that supposed to mean?

turtleboi: everyone says generic answers like "blue" or "green" you gotta be specific

justyouwait: FINE. SEAFOAM GREEN. HAPPY?

turtleboi: yes i am lil angry boy. favorite hobby/thing to do?

justyouwait: writing. you?

turtleboi: other dudes

justyouwait: look i know you're gay but did i need to know that you like topping? no i did not. now be serious

turtleboi: drawing. favorite movie?

justyouwait: i don't watch movies

turtleboi: 😱😱😱 impossible. you sound like beca from pitch perfect

justyouwait:first of all, wtf is that??? and i have no time. i gotta do homework and prove i deserve to be here

turtleboi: alright mr motivator

turtleboi: i gotta get to class. see you there?

justyouwait: you wouldn't know if i wasn't anyways

turtleboi: so what? will you be there or not?

justyouwait: perhaps...

turtleboi: i hate you

justyouwait: no you hate the mystery

turtleboi: whatever

justyouwait: goodbye mr whatever

turtleboi: goodbye mr motivator

//alex pov

For the next week we had conversations like that. I knew probably every favorite of his I would ever need to know.

Animal: Turtles
TV Show: Friends
Song: This Town (He's pretty obsessed with Niall Horan and it's adorable, if you ask me)
Ideal Date: Aquarium and then a picnic

And so on.

Every law class I had a small hope that someone would call out my name, claiming to be John Laurens, but it's been a week and no one has. The only people that have talked to me in law class were Aaron Burr (obviously he had to because he told me he wouldn't be at the dorm some night this week), Thomas Jefferson (my "frenemy" who just wanted to let me know that I was wrong, even though I wasn't), and James Madison (who was apologizing for his boyfriend). 

At first I liked the mystery, but then I maybe, sort of, kind of, probably developed a slight, tiny, minuscule, insignificant crush on him. It was nothing really. He just started sharing some stories from his childhood and some tales of him and his friends, and I realized I wanted to know more about him. Like his face, more of his personality, where he would take me on a date, and how he would react to one of my episodes.  

I shuddered at the thought of him seeing me like that. Shaking, crying, muttering odd phrases to myself. No, he couldn't see that. Yet I knew that if I did want to start something with him, he would eventually see one. They would just happen. 

Maybe he would understand, though. Maybe if he really loved you, he would help you through them, instead of leaving you like everybody else. 

Dammit Alex, you have to make sure he even likes you this way before thinking about love. 

That's it! I'll find out if he likes me that way. Of course I'd ask him to send a picture of himself, and I'd just ask him out. I've tried to be flirty with him, but I guess who really can't get winks and smirks through a phone. 

My thoughts were interrupted by Burr tossing me my phone.

"Johnny needs help," he smirked. 

I snorted at Burr's words. I opened my phone to see the message from Laurens.

turtleboi: i need help

justyouwait: with what?

turtleboi: i have a crush

//an: *cue piano smashing* 
but seriously thank you for 2k reads on Smile More and 400 reads on Talk Less. i really appreciate it!! 

Sorry I've been updating this story more... It's just much easier to write through text messages, but I also dug myself into a hole when I was writing the next chapter for Talk Less, so I just deleted the entire chapter and started over. (It gets gay, trust me) 
anyways, thank you so much!!
~meghan