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jimmy was upstairs showering and justin was cleaning up all the dishes everyone had made from breakfast. if you can call 12:30pm breakfast.

all the kids were sitting around the living room with a fan blowing cold air on them while they watch a tv show.

chris and chloe were on one end of the couch, and nick was sitting sideways, taking up the rest of the couch with his legs and refusing to move.

there were no other options of anywhere else to sit, so matt sat in the recliner and kaia sat sideways on his lap, her one arm resting ontop of both of his shoulders.

less than halfway through the movie, the front door opens as marylou and nathan walk inside.

kaia had turned her head around to see who it was, and smiled when she saw nathan kicking off his tow mater crocs and walking towards the living room.

"hey, nate." kaia greeted him.

"how are you guys?" nathan asked, pushing nick's legs off the couch to make room for himself to sit down.

"nate? i thought you weren't supposed to be here until like, 2 or 3." chris states, dapping him up.

"i was at the grocery store with my mom and brother, and we saw your mom there, she offered to just drive me over now because she had just finished shopping, so i just came here in her car." nathan explains as marylou walks by, messing up his hair with a playful smile as she enters the kitchen with her grocery bags.

nick rolls his eyes as he can't stretch out across the couch anymore, he now has to sit in only one seat like a normal person.

they sit around watching the tv show, marylou brings them each popsicles she had bought at the grocery store for them to enjoy in the hot weather, a nice treat to go along with being lazy and watching tv.

chris and chloe were slightly more cuddly than usual, and nathan noticed it. he looked over at kaia, assuming she would probably know better than anyone, and discreetly waved his hand to turn her attention away from playing with matt's hair while watching the show.

she noticed nathan trying to get her attention, and stopping playing with matt's hair as she turned to focus on whatever nate was trying to communicate to her.

matt frowned, wrapping his arms around kaia's waist and continuing to watch the tv, not noticing that kaia was looking at nathan.

"are they dating yet?" nate silently mouthed, poiting to chris and chloe.

kaia looked around, as if she was searching her brain for the answer and pretending not to know.

nate made an "i know you know" disapproving look at her, and she shrugged, giving in and nodding yes to him.

nate pumped his fist in celebration, chris now noticing the two silently talking to eachother.

"what are you two whispering about?" he asks, temporarily turning his attention away from chloe.

matt also looked at kaia, not noticing that she was whispering with nate until chris had said something.

by now, everyone was looking at them, expecting an answer.

"nothing, i was just asking him if he wanted to trade popsicles because, i uh, don't like this flavour?" she answered, very unsure of herself.

"bullshit." chloe laughed.

she narrowed her eyes at kaia, having a sneaking suspicion of what was really going on.

"yeah, that's it." nate agreed, reaching over to hand kaia his popsicle and she accepted, trading her's with him.

it was enough for matt and chris to believe, but chloe continued glaring at kaia, knowing something was up.

"it's a secret." chloe mouths to kaia.

"sorry." she silently mouthed back.

"okay, what's actually going on?" matt asked, noticing that kaia kept turning to look at chloe.

his hands stayed in their place around her waist, resting on either of her thighs while he questioned his girlfriend's secrecy.

chloe and chris looked at eachother, and chris finally caught on to what chloe and kaia were whispering about.

"am i the only one that's completely lost here?" nick asks, looking around at everyone.

"it's nothing, just something private. now, can we please just finish watching this episode so we can go out or do something later?" chloe covers, the awkward tension in the room getting to her, making the secret even harder to keep.

"what? that you and chris are dating?" nick confusedly asks, eyeing both of them.

"kaia!" chloe shouts at her.

"what?!" she defends herself.

"you told him? it was supposed to be a surprise!" chloe throws her hands up in defeat.

"i knew it! nobody told me, it's just so fucking obvious. i heard chloe yelling at chris this morning, then it stopped, and now your demeanor's have both completely changed. that's the only logical thing it could be. it's not some big secret anyway, you two are literally cuddling." nick laughs, explaining himself.

"what! look at matt and kaia! they literally cuddled before they were dating." chris starts.

"what does that matter? they're literally together now. they cuddled because they were in love with eachother, same as you and chloe." nick says to chris.

"okay, don't need to drag us into this." matt laughs.

"none of us are surprised." nathan shrugs.

"you told nate! that's why you two were actually whispering." chloe accuses kaia.

"he asked! look at you two!" kaia points at the pair still cuddled up on the end of the couch.

"whatever, it was supposed to be a surprise for later." chris rolled his eyes, accepting defeat.

everyone laughed and they all went back to watching tv, kaia kisses matt's forehead before resting her cheek against the top of his head.

he smiled and hugged her tighter, taking a picture of the both of them.

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kaiawright yesss mysterious king>matthewsturniolo huh

chrissturniolo we're in the same room this is enough>matthewsturniolo want some peanut butter with your jelly you jealous little bitch>chrissturniolo think we both know why im not>chloe.warner enoughhhhh

chloe.warner cute ig>kaiawright rude

nicolassturniolo when will it be my turn 💔>kaiawright never

nathandoe kaia can you pretty please keep your hands off my man?>kaiawright you're right there come stop me lets go we'll duel for him medieval style>matthewsturniolo no ❤

user my heart is broken

user really not a good few months for matt girls>matthewsturniolo should be an exceptional few months for matt girls considering how happy i am but ok

user matt got yalls ass

user miserable

user team james>kaiawright team blocked on all accounts! *user blocked by kaiawright* *user blocked by matthewsturniolo* *comment removed*

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