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irl, youtube

nick finishes editing the vlog over the next couple hours they spend in the living room. he is finally able to relax and he shuts his laptop and puts it on the coffee table.

it was nearing 7pm and everyone was starving. kaia decided she would make dinner while everyone watches tv. she pulls all her ingredients out of the fridge and is about to begin cooking before nick stops her.

"kaia, wait!" nick shoots up out of his seat and enters the kitchen.

"what's up?" she asks.

"why don't we split into groups and do a video making dinner for eachother?" he suggests.

"oooh, that's a good idea." nate says, entering the kitchen.

matt, chris, and chloe follow and everyone stands in the kitchen together.

"sure, we could do that." kaia agrees.

"i'll grab the camera." nick says, leaving to go upstairs and grab the camera from his room.

"what are we making?" matt asks kaia.

"i was gonna make tacos because it's tuesday." she answers.

"i don't wanna wait for a video, i want tacos now." chris whines.

"what groups are we doing?" nick asks as he comes downstairs with the camera and tripod in his hand.

"odds and evens?" kaia suggests.

nick puts the camera infront of the kitchen island and presses record once it's in focus.

"odds and evens." chris agrees.

everyone puts a hand behind their head and counts down from 3. they put their hand down and reveal their numbers; chris, kaia, and matt all had odd numbers while nick, nathan, and chloe all had even.

"dammit." chris curses.

"what's wrong with me?" kaia asks him.

"not you, it's matt. i hate cooking with him." chris rolls his eyes.

"don't be so dramatic." matt mocks chris.

"alright guys, today we're making tacos and we've split into two teams to see who makes them better." nick says to the camera.

"we're obviously gonna win, i'm practically a chef." kaia brags.

"we'll see about that." chloe glares at her.

"what do we start with?" chris asks.

"nevermind, we might lose." kaia drops her head.

"we're still better than them." matt pats kaia's back.

"we have to cook the meat first." kaia reminds chris.

"i'll get the pans." nate says.

he grabs two pans from under the stove and sets them on the counter. chris and matt open their package of ground beef and turn on their side of the stove.

chloe and nick grab theirs while nate and kaia start dancing.

"kaia." matt turns around.

"sorry." she stops dancing and her and nate start laughing.

"we have to be serious." chloe says to nate.

"chris, do you wanna chop the onion?" kaia asks.

"for what?" he questions, scratching his head.

"the meat?" she looks at him.

"chris, you're stupid." matt rolls his eyes.

"you two brown the beef, i'll cut the onion." kaia sighs.

"i'll cut ours." nick says.

nathan and chloe put the meat in their pan and stand next to matt and chris who are struggling to break their's up.

kaia and nick cut their onions on the kitchen island.

"you're awful." kaia looks at nick.

"sorry i never cook, i'm not a professional onion cutter." nick rolls his eyes.

kaia laughs and finishes dicing her's, she picks up her cutting board and dumps it into the pan with the meat that matt and chris were working on.

once both teams were done cooking the meat, they turned off both burners and put the beef in a bowl.

"now we're doing the toppings." matt says to the camera, glaring at nick, nathan, and chloe.

"what do you want to put on ours?" matt asks kaia, looking down at her.

she looks up at him and smiles.

"i don't know, vegetables, probably." she shrugs.

he shakes his head and grabs the ingredients off the counter and both teams chop up what they want to put in their tacos.

"we're pretty much done, we just have to plate it now." kaia says.

everyone grabs paper plates and puts a tortilla down, they plate up what they want and kaia grabs the camera to show each person taking a bite.

chris absolutely destroys his and nick yells at him for making a mess. they film their outro and put the camera away.

"you're cleaning this up." matt says to chris.

chris rolls his eyes and grabs a broom to sweep up his mess while everyone else eats in the living room.

once he's done cleaning, chris joins them and matt puts on a movie to watch while they eat.

a few hours later, everyone is tired and wants to go to bed. chloe goes with chris and nate sleeps in nick's bed. kaia stays up a bit later so she stays in the living room by herself, she just wants to sleep on the couch.

she watches the adventurous adventures of one direction on the tv and at midnight, matt comes out of his room to see what the noise is.

"oh, you're still up?" he asks in a sleepy voice.

"yeah, i wasn't tired yet." she nods.

"how are you not tired?" he leans on the back of the couch behind her head.

"i don't know, guess i had a lot of sugar today." she shrugs.

"you gonna sleep out here?" he asks her.

"yeah, probably. everyone else is asleep and i didn't want to keep any of you guys awake in your rooms." she says, turning her head to look at him.

"you didn't want to stay in my room?" he smiles.

"you were asleep, i didn't wanna bother you." she says.

"alright, i'll just grab water and go back to my room, then." he sighs, leaning off the couch.

"well, i could come with you, i'd just be awake longer than you." she turns around to look at him.

"i'm not super tired." he shrugs.

kaia turns the tv off and gets up from the couch, matt gets his water and then she follows him to his room.

he sips the cup and sets it down on his nightstand, she jumps onto his bed and lays down on the side matt doesn't sleep on.

he gets into the bed with her, throws the blanket on, and they lay there facing eachother and smiling.

matt pushes a hair out of her face and she blushes, admiring his caring and gentle nature.

she leans in a bit closer but doesn't quite kiss him, he leaned in all the way expecting her to do so first.

he kisses her and she smiles, putting a hand under her head to be more comfortable.

"goodnight." he says quietly.

she pecks his lips again.

"goodnight." she smiles back.

he waits a few seconds, and decides to kiss her again, this time it lasted a bit longer.

"goodnight." he says after seperating from her.

she bites her bottom lip and leans in to kiss him another time, he puts a hand on the side of her face and they deepen the kiss together.

as they get used to the kiss, matt pulls her closer by her waist, his hand slipping under her hoodie.

after several more minutes of making out, they seperate for air and she smiles at him.

"we should probably stop. we said we were gonna take things slowly this time." kaia sighs.

"you're right, unfortunately." he agrees.

kaia rests her head on his chest and they fall asleep together to the sound of matt's fan and cardigan playing in her mind.

hand under my sweatshirt, baby kiss it better.

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