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"kaia!" chloe shouts.

"what?!" she answers with a smile on her face, playfully stepping infront of matt and pretending to hide him.

"dude!" nick shouts at matt, pulling his arm to step out from behind kaia.

"what?!" matt throws his hands up.

"what the fuck is going on?" chris rubs his forehead.

"kai?" matt invites her to explain.

"kai?! what the fuck? you guys are talking again? since when? how are nicknames back?" chloe interrogates kaia.

everyone makes their way over to kaia's bed and sits down on it, they all look at kaia to explain as matt rubs her back.

"uhhhh, i don't know what happened. he kidnapped me?" kaia laughs.

"baby!" matt shouts at her.

"BABY?!" nick, chris, and chloe all shout in unison.

nick and chris stand up at the same time and walk out of her room dramatically, pacing back inside after they've collected their thoughts. chloe remains on the bed with her mouth wide open in shock.

"we might have, uhhh-" kaia starts, not able to contain her laughter.

"ran into eachother at the grocery store. and then i came back here with her after we put willow to bed last night." matt explains, finishing kaia's sentence.

"where is willow? and anne? matt, where the fuck is your car?" nick questions.

"i think my mom is out with willow somewhere, i have no clue. and his car is down the road so you guys wouldn't see it, we wanted to properly surprise you." kaia explains, nudging matt.

"hold on. you're a "we" now? what the fuck happened? matt, why didn't you answer anyone?! we were seriously worried." chris glares at matt.

"phone died. i just plugged it in this morning." he shrugs.

"you gonna answer my first question?" chris asks.

"uhhhhh-" kaia laughs, rubbing her neck.

"yes or no, are you two back together?" chloe asks directly, staring at kaia.

"yes." matt quickly answers, not thinking about it.

chloe falls back on the bed and nick and chris hug eachother as they begin laughing hysterically.

"FUCKING FINALLY!" nick points at matt and kaia.

"i mean, holy shit." chris shakes his head.

"well, that was easier than we thought it was gonna be." chloe laughs, sitting up and leaning against chris.

"what?" matt and kaia both ask simultaneously.

"we had a whole elaborate plan for prom, this saves so much time and effort." nick laughs.

matt looks over at kaia, remembering prom and that he has to ask her. after all, he is her boyfriend again.

"so, did you guys just talk everything out? kaia, please tell me you're gonna communicate with him more." chloe looks at her bestfriend.

"talk it out, plus anything more? what the fuck is that?" chris laughs, pointing at kaia's neck.

"okay, that's enough." matt chuckles and cuts him off.

"this conversation is over, me and kaia are happy, we're fine, we love eachother, let's move on." matt shakes his head in embarrasment.

kaia agrees by nodding her head aswell and resting her's on matt's shoulder.

"kaia and i." she corrects matt.

"well, mostly happy." he states.

"oh, come on." she rolls her eyes.

"you two need to get fucking dressed, then meet us downstairs, we need to go back to our house and tell mom that matt isn't missing before she calls the police." nick says.

"fine." kaia agrees, closing the door behind chloe, chris, and nick as they leave to walk downstairs.

once they're gone and the door is closed, matt turns around to kaia and shrugs with an innocent but cute grin plastered across his face.

"sorry for spilling it." he walks towards her.

"it's fine, i wouldn't have been able to hide it from chloe for longer than today, and she'd immediately tell chris, then he'd tell nick and everyone would've known anyway." kaia shakes her head, placing her arms around the back of matt's neck as he stands inches away from her.

he leans down to her level and pulls his lips away last second, kaia getting irritated with his teasing and shoving her lips onto his.

he chuckles into the kiss and holds her tightly, hands snaking around her waist and up her shirt.

she plays with his hair and pulls him down closer to her by his head, not able to get enough.

"we need to get dressed." he manages to get out, cut off by kaia hushing him and kissing him again, anyway.

"i actually have to stop." matt pulls away, still smiling at her.

"why?" she fake pouts.

"you don't wanna know." he laughs, kissing her forehead innocently.

"oh." she smiles, playfully rolling her eyes and walking over to her closet.

"you need a change of clothes." she says to matt.

"why can't i just wear my clothes that you keep here?" he asks, walking over to her closet.

"because you're never gonna give them back to me if you wear them today." she sighs.

"they're literally my clothes." he laughs, picking up a complete outfit worth of his clean laundry in the corner of her closet.

"girlfriend rules, you have to let me keep your clothes, no take backs." she crosses her arms.

"we're literally getting ready to go to my house right now, just sleep over and i'll give you more." he shakes his head, enjoying seeing her irritated.

"you better." she warns matt.

he laughs and changes into his own clean clothes, she does the same.

matt helps kaia do her hair because he always loved feeling useful so kaia would be ready to go places quicker and he wouldn't have to sit around all day waiting for her.

once they finish getting dressed (and matt sits on the corner of the bed not looking at kaia for a couple minutes), the pair walks downstairs together to see everyone waiting for them in the living room.

"ready?" chloe stands up off the couch, chris and nick following her.

"yup." kaia nods.

they all step out the front door as matt suddenly remembers he parked all the way down the road to hide his car.

"we'll meet you there." matt announces to everyone except kaia, they start walking down the road and towards where matt's car is parked as the rest of them pile into chloe's car.

once they make it all the way down the street to his car, matt and kaia hop in and his sad playlist starts the second he turns the car on because it was the last thing he listened to.

"vortex? matt, that's so sad." kaia looks at him lovingly and rubs his back.

"oopsies, ignore that." he jokes, putting his seatbelt on as he begins to drive towards his house.

she laughs and puts her hand on his leg to comfort him, feeling bad for the reasons matt, as a straight man, is listening to vortex by lizzie mcalpine in the first place.

he quickly blushes and puts a hand overtop of her's, ensuring she doesn't move that hand anywhere, worsening his problem from earlier.

"shit, sorry. i forgot. i'm just a girl." she smiles, removing her hand from matt's leg.

"it's fine." he exhales, smiling at her through the mirror.

someday, i'll be able to let you go. oh, oh. someday, you'll come back, and i'll say no.

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