Act Two ~Jeffmads~

Back from France

Jefferson saw as James found the last sentence quite funny. He understood that this was probably the first time James had told this to anyone.

"Anyway, the project consisted of 35 points that were going to be split over 25 pages, which again was going to be split among us,"

"A week into the project Jay broke his arm and was unable to write more. He had written five essays which left ten to me and ten to Hamilton. But I decided to take matters into my own hands and wrote a total of 29 essays,"

"But that's more than what you planned to write in total,"
"I know. When I was done I delivered them to Hamilton, but,"
"What?"
"He had already written 51 by himself,"

"51?!"
"He writes a lot,"
"Got that,"

"Anyway. I didn't see it as a big problem, in the beginning. I saw it as an improvement. However, later I found that he had included points that weren't supposed to be there at all. Not only that but he had taken credit for all of the essays,"

"That's pretty dumb,"
"You should have heard some of the points he had included by himself,"
"Any examples?"
"He wanted to close down the library to use the money on 'something more useful' and banning alcohol for the seniors,"

Jefferson knew that the library was James' safe place to go whenever there was something hard that he had to deal with. He didn't want to focus on that point and decided to bring up a new subject.

"So, did you do any dating while I was gone?"
"Yes, I was introduced to this girl by a friend of mine,"
"Are they still a friend?"
"Yes, but I think he is siding more with Hamilton,"
"You think?"
"He is not very open with his opinions, not as long as I've known him at least,"

"About the girl though?"
"Well her name was Kitty. We met at a party during freshmen year. Began dating a week later, but ended it this summer,"

"What happened?"

James didn't know if he wanted to tell Jefferson about Kitty anymore. But by the look that Jefferson gave him, it didn't seem like he had much of a choice.

"Right after school ended I decided to propose to her,"

James could see Jefferson in the corner of his eye and Jefferson didn't look pretty happy about the words that came out of James' mouth.

"Yes, I know that three years is a pretty short time since we are in college, but it felt right,"

"I assume that something bad happened,"

"If you consider running out of the restaurant while I'm still down on one knee, then block my number and never see me again or tell me why you left. Then yes, something bad happened,"

After that the men sat in silence for the rest of the ride. Jefferson had given James signs of comfort but had never opened his mouth.

When they arrived on campus around eight-thirty, James helped to get Jefferson's suitcase out of the back seat. It had gotten suck somehow.

"James, I'm willing to do anything to fix our friendship,"

"Well, you can start by carrying your luggage by yourself," James said handing him the suitcase, which by the way was quite heavy.

He smiled at James and said:" I better head of to find out where I'm going to stay,"

James grinned. "No need I've already been informed that you are staying with me,"
"What?"

"My friend informed that I already knew you so they decided to put us in the same room,"
"Oh! Can you show me the way to our room then,"

"Sure,"

As soon as they got Jefferson's luggage sorted out James decided that he needed to take a break. "So, Jefferson," he started as he made himself comfortable on the couch. It was going to Take Jefferson some time to be called that. "About that forgiving thing,"

Jefferson's face lit up. "Yeah?" He asked with a lot of hope in his voice. "I've been thinking about it and I actually need your help,"

"Whatever you need," he said. It sounded really needy and desperate. "I was going to have a debate with Hamilton tomorrow, but now you are,"

"What? Tomorrow? I don't know anything about it,"

Forget about sounding needy before this was way worse. "Are you taking your statement back?" James asked not even batting an eye in Jefferson's direction. "No, if this is what it takes then I'll do it,"

James smiled. "Great, and don't worry about what you need to know. I'll stay up the whole night to help you if that's what it takes,"

James caught one look at Thomas before he left to research in the library.