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after they finish the movie, chris bugs kaia to take out her new car to the mall. she agrees, and everyone runs to their rooms to get dressed.

matt closes the door behind kaia as the two of them enter his room, and she begins rummaging through her sleepover bag for her change of clothes.

she gathers her clothes, and stands up and turns around to see matt pulling on a clean pair of underwear and jeans.

she smiles at him and begins undressing as he puts on his clean shirt.

she throws on a clean underwear and bra set as matt is sat on the edge of the bed putting on his socks and watching her.

"you don't need to stare at me." she giggles as she pulls on her pair of jeans.

"not like i haven't already seen you. it's not a big deal." he shrugs, a smirk tugging at the corner of his mouth.

she rolls her eyes sarcastically and puts on her shirt, joining matt on the bed to put her socks on.

"you're weird." she shakes her head.

"you're pretty." he kisses her cheek, walking into his bathroom to brush his teeth and fix his hair.

she finishes getting dressed and slips into the bathroom with him, he guides her by the waist around the very small walkway in the bathroom to reach her tooth brush.

she pulls her hair up into a makeshift ponytail, and they brush their teeth together as kaia plays her "getting ready playlist".

oxytocin by billie eilish is the first song that comes on and they both hum along to the song as they brush their teeth.

can't take it back once it's been set in motion. you know i need you for the oxytocin. if you find it hard to swallow, i can loosen up your collar. 'cause as long as you're still breathing, don't you even think of leaving. not gonna wanna look away.

she blushes as she feels matt's eyes staring at her, deciding to ignore it as they have to leave soon and people are probably waiting for them.

she spits the sudsy toothpaste in the sink, rinsing out her mouth as matt does the same.

he taps her butt on the way out of the bathroom door and back into his room, and she laughs, brushing out her hair with her brush and frantically looking around for an elastic.

"i can't find my hair tie, matt. i just left it on your dresser this morning." she frustratedly huffs, turning around to see him smiling and holding a black hair tie.

"that's not mine. where did you get that?" she takes it from his hand and ties her hair up, making eye contact with him while she waits for a response.

"bought a pack from cvs the other day, you lose elastics in my room every 5 minutes." he laughs, sitting on the bed and waiting for her to be done doing her hair in his mirror.

"thank you." she sighs, walking back over to him after she's finished.

"i love you." he smiles, pulling her by the waist to stand between his legs and turning his head up to kiss her.

she wraps her arms around his shoulders and accepts the kiss, leaning in to him as she stands at the edge of the bed.

he pulls her down as he leans back to fall on the mattress, and she continues kissing him as they do so.

"i love you more. but we can't do this right now." she kisses him one last time, standing up and waving him towards the door.

"i hate you." he jokes, sighing and standing up to follow her downstairs.

"yeah, i'm really sure you do." she rolls her eyes, dragging him downstairs by the hand like a puppy.

"what do you mean by that?" he questions.

"well, judging by last ni-" she starts before he covers her mouth, seeing nick, nathan, chris, and chloe finally come running from around the corner to the front door where they were standing.

"that's enough of that." nick wags his finger at them.

she laughs and everyone walks outside, piling into her car. matt takes the front, chris and chloe in the back, and nick and nathan in the middle row.

she starts the car and rolls down her window as matt connects to aux. she backs out of the driveway, matt scrolling through his spotify to look for a song before finally deciding on travis.

baby, i don't wanna sound righteous. i got twenty bitches sucking like bisons. i just eeny, meeny, miney, roll the dices, i pick her. she ain't really even my type, been out here. she been losin' herself to the night shift. she been losin' herself, and i get it, oh, girl, yeah, i get it. yeah, yeah, you've been fightin' for your shot and you've been searchin' for your spot. girl, i feel it, yeah, girl, i feel it, yeah. oh, you think you got your groove, but you want someone like you.

they arrive at the mall, and after 5 minutes of looking for a parking spot and eventually finding one, they all get out and start walking inside together after kaia locks her car.

chris grabs chloe's hand as they walk, and matt does the same with kaia.

they enter the front main door and it's extremely busy, there's gotta be hundreds of people running around the mall on a saturday afternoon.

they start walking around and looking for stores or just anything that will peak their interest. they all get on the escalator and once they're at the top, kaia and chloe gasp and run towards someone, leaving the triplets and nathan confused.

"zeke! it's so good to see you!" chloe enthuses, giving him a hug.

chris furrows his eyebrows as the rest of the group approaches the girls talking to this guy they've never seen before.

"good to see you, too! how have you been? who's this?" zeke asks, gesturing to the boys.

"this is my boyfriend matt, these are his brothers nick and chris, obviously you know chloe, and this is our friend nathan." kaia introduces zeke to everyone.

zeke reaches out to shake chris' hand as he can tell that chris is the most tense, understanding what he must be thinking.

"hey, man. i'm zeke." he shakes chris' hand.

chris is apprehensive, still accepting the hand shake regardless.

"hi." he nods, looking at zeke then back at chloe.

"don't even worry about it, dude. i'm gay. i just kinda got the feeling you weren't quite sure. i met kaia and chloe in detention last week." he explains, making the tension in chris' facial expression soften significantly.

"sorry, i didn't mean to be rude." chris apologizes.

"no worries, figured i'd have to explain it when i met you guys. chloe told me all about you, kaia wouldn't stop talking about matt." he laughs, shaking matt's hand.

he introduces himself to nathan, then pauses and smiles as he shakes nick's hand.

"i like your tattoos." zeke says to nick, earning a smile from him.

"thank you." he blushes, turning his face away to avoid the embarrassment as everyone else continues making small talk with zeke.

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