He has his eyes on you- Lams college AU

Chapter 5-Parks and Picnics

*Herc's Pov

I tried to keep the blush off my face as Laf came back, somehow managing to look amazingly hot in jeans and a blue ruffled shirt. "Hey Herc, why're you, 'ow you say, staring?" Lafayette asked as his face drained of color. I assumed it was a side-effect of being trans, (Not that I'm against that. Hell, I'm bi) but Laf always felt like people were judging him and that caused anxiety, but I thought he was always beautiful and didn't know how Laf thought he wasn't too. "Oh, sorry Laf, I was just admiring you." I said and Laf blushed, a pleasant shade of red dusting his cheeks.

We looked at each other for a bit before my phone buzzed. Turtleboi: me and Alex are ready, wanna go together? I sighed before typing back; justalittlehorse: yeah, we'll meet there. Lafayette looked over my shoulder and saw the texts. "let's go." Laf said and we walked out together. I tried to put my arm around Lafayette's shoulders and actually succeeded, us walking together happily.

*John's pov

Alex and I were sitting on a bench when we saw Lafayette and Hercules walking down, Herc's arms over Laf's shoulder. They were the cutest couple even if they weren't a couple, but I knew sometime this year we would push them to be one or they would do it by themselves. "Hey lovebirds, what took you so long?" I teased as Herc looked up, blushing red as he quickly put his arm to his side. Alex looked at me, his face an eager question mark. "I'll tell you later." I whispered, titling my head up little instead of a lot like I had to do with Laf and Herc. "I'm hungry." Laf said after a moment of awkward silence. "good thing I brought the basket." Alex said, and I looked greedily at the blanket-covered basket. Alex had let me try some of his cooking before, and it was delicious. Alex told me it was average and seemed to brush off a compliment to thoroughly, but I assured him it was delicious. Alex opened the basket and took out four paper bowls, giving them to us. He then portioned out some chicken- jerk Pasta for us and we ate in silence. I noticed Alex barely ate anything, just a few pieces of chicken. "you ok?" I asked, knowing from my mom that either meant he was sick or depressed. "'m fine, just not hungry." Alex said, giving me a small smile to ease any worries. "So, where did you guys get this from?" Hercules asked and I could see Alex sit up a little straighter {But not totally straight cause he can never do that}. "actually, Alex made it." I said and Laf clapped. "good job mon ami, I didn't know you could cook." Lafayette said, and Alex shook his head. "I just whipped something up, nothing too good." Alex tried to convince us, but we exchanged glances and let it go, knowing Alex was hard-set that he wasn't special. We walked around and eventually we found a turtle pond. "turtles!" I screeched before running to the pond. There was so many turtles! I spotted a box, striped, and red-bellied turtle and the boys found me there, looking lovingly at the turtles. "Alex, look at the turtles." I said, ignoring people looking at me strangely as Alex crouched down to see the box turtle I was observing. "it's very nice." He said warily, as if I was a child in need of protecting. "Can we keep them?" I asked, and Alex shook his head. "maybe you two should date before getting a pet." Hercules said, and Alex gave a frightened sound before burrowing into his hoodie to hide his crimson blush, while I only nodded jokingly. "we'll date when you two do." I said, nodding to Laf. Herc sputtered a incohesive response before Laf interrupted the match making. "Guys, it looks like it's gonna rain." I looked over at Alex as he let out a choked gasp, as did Laf and Herc. "we should go." I said and we all nodded, running over to the park.

A/N: I realize I sound like I'm stereotyping so lemme explain. I imagine Laf as a great baker since he was a noble Frenchman historically so in modern AU their parents would push Laf to pick up girly habits, but the one she/he really picked up was baking and loved it. Alex would know how to cook since he would cook for James after their mother died since he wanted to stay with James and not get put under his cousin's care, so he would use rations and cook.