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irl, livestream, phone call

after being over at kaia's house all day, matt eventually went home around midnight. he kissed her goodbye at the front door and drove off in his car.

he had school the next day, but she was still taking it slow from the hospital. it's friday now, so she'd be returning to school the following monday.

matt texts kaia throughout the day to update her generally how his day is going.

after school was finished, kaia got in her car and drove over to the triplet's house. she walks straight in, taking her shoes off at the front door.

chris greets her, walking towards the front door from the living room.

"hey, how was your day?" he asks, holding and petting trevor.

"pretty good, matt just told me to come over after school." she answers.

"didn't he tell you we're streaming today?" chris asks.

"no, he didn't mention it." she shakes her head no.

"oh, well we wanted to do a twitch stream being back in boston." he says.

"we've been back for like, almost 2 months." she laughs.

"yeah, but we've been busy with school and we finally got better streaming cameras." chris answers.

"makes sense. i'll just sleep on the couch down here, then. she shrugs.

"i still think it's no fair that you get the whole week off school." chris pouts.

"i still think it's no fair you didn't get hit by a car." kaia mocks him, pouting her lip.

he nods and rolls his eyes, walking back into the living room as kaia walks upstairs towards matt's room.

she knocks on the door that's already open and slowly walks in, seeing him sitting at his computer.

"hey, baby." he stands up to give her a hug and a kiss.

"are you streaming right now?" she whispers as he sits back down.

"no, we will be in like half an hour." he replies.

"why didn't you tell me? i didn't have to come over if you're gonna be busy anyway." she questions, sitting on his bed.

"i still want you here." he answers, clicking through things on his computer.

"i'll just stay downstairs with your parents while you're streaming." she suggests.

"no, just stay in here. they all love you, anyway." he turns around to face her.

"do you know how many comments you get on your posts about people hating me? i'm just gonna stay off camera." she laughs.

"you don't need to do that. the three of us are just streaming fortnite together from our own rooms." he shakes his head in disagreement.

"whatever you say." she laughs.

"come here." he gestures her over to his desk.

he scoots back in his chair, giving her space to sit on his leg.

"see? better with you here." he smiles, kissing her cheek after she's sat down, her arm around him as she's higher up on his lap.

"you can be in the stream if you want, i don't mind." he continues speaking as he's doing stuff on his computer.

"i don't want to be a distraction." she says.

"then just lay in my bed, or you can go sit with nick or chris. i would rather you stay here, though." he laughs.

she rolls her eyes sarcastically and stays sitting on his leg as him, nick, and chris join a call on their computers to get ready for the stream.

when chris' camera turns on, he's in his room with his headphones on, trevor on his desk, and he's drinking a pepsi.

nick is adjusting his headphones and fixing his ring light to be facing himself and the camera.

"you guys good?" matt asks.

"yeah. all good now." nick answers, showing a thumbs up to the screen.

matt has a hand around kaia as she watches his screen while he sets up everything to be ready for twitch.

she's very much on camera with matt, and when he starts the livestream, everyone is commenting saying hi to her.

"we exist, too." nick jokes.

"don't be jealous, the people just love me." kaia laughs, matt sits up straight to be right next to her.

"ok, guys, we're playing fortnite." chris says loudly into his mic.

"fix your microphone, chris." matt winces and puts a finger to his ear.

"this is not gonna be easy." nick rolls his eyes.

"i'm amazing at fortnite, i don't know what you mean." chris mocks him.

"i think he just means you in general, chris." kaia adds.

matt rubs kaia's back under her shirt, nobody can see it. he knows she gets nervous on camera so he just does it to comfort her, plus it's out of public sight, so it doesn't matter.

kaia and matt both look down when they hear her phone ringing, and she quickly grabs it.

"sorry, i'll be right back." she stands up from matt's lap and walks off stream, into the hallway where nobody can see or hear her.

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"hello?" kaia answers the call from chloe.

"bitch, you didn't tell me you were going on their stream, you're all cuddly with matt online." chloe laughs.

"i didn't know they were streaming! matt just invited me over after school and chris told me when i got here." kaia replies.

"girl, i need to come over. watching them struggle with fortnite is so funny." chloe speaks.

"then come over! they don't care." she states.

"just ask for me." she laughs.

"ugh, fine." kaia rolls her eyes.

kaia walks down the hallway, and quietly opens chris' door.

"what's up?" he looks away from the stream to answer her.

"do you want chloe to come over?" she whispers.

"yeah, tell her to come to my room." he whispers, leaning his head off camera.

kaia pokes her head onto chris' stream and waves at the camera.

"hi guys!" she giggles, running back into the hallway with chloe still on the phone.

matt laughs from his room, seeing kaia on chris' screen.

"all good! chris wants you to come over." kaia says to chloe.

"yeah, i saw you." she laughs.

"ok, see you soon, bitch. go to chris' room." she says.

"see you in a minute." chloe answers, hanging up the phone.

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kaia shuts off her phone and waddles back to matt's room, opening and closing the door as quietly as she can.

matt scooches his chair back again and the stream sees her sit back down on matt's leg and immediately look at the chat.

"guys, don't be weird or we're not gonna stream." matt says, seeing the comments about her sitting on matt's lap.

kaia rolls her eyes and he leans forward, putting an arn around her.

"are we ready to start the game yet?" chris asks impatiently.

"yes, chris." matt answers.

kaia stands up off of matt and he looks at her, confused.

"what are you doing?" he whispers.

"you can't play with me right in the way." she laughs.

chris and nick see matt momentarily cover the camera to presumably give kaia a quick kiss before uncovering it and seeing her lay down on his bed in the corner.

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