CHAPTER THIRTEEN !
[ real life ]

❝ YOU PHYSICALLY PAIN ME ❞

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when aurora leaves matt's room to shower, nick and chris who were hiding further down the hallway to eavesdrop both simultaneously race into the room.

"what, and i can not stress this enough, the fuck?" nick instantly exclaims as him and chris walk in through the doorway.

matt groans at their presence and sits down on the edge of his bed, still facing them. "what?"

nick and chris both share a look before looking back at him. "you just flirted with your," chris raises his hands to make air quotes, matt already rolling his eyes at the dramatics before he continues. "enemy."

"that literally wasn't flirting," matt immediately defends his actions, acting like it's the farthest thing from the truth.

"what!" chris exclaims, throwing his arms out in frustration from his own brothers stubbornness. "you literally said you want her to exit your car instead of cameron's."

"yeah because i do," he responds like it's no big deal. nick and chris both instantly raise their eyebrows from his words. "that's just because cameron's an ass."

chris and nick both sigh. they really thought for a second that they had gotten somewhere.

"okay you might've not flirted with her," nick says, crossing his arms as he continues. "but you literally got jealous when she mentioned having cameron pick her up. i heard it in your voice."

"no i didn't," he immediately defends his actions yet again, beginning to form another excuse. "it's literally just because cameron's an ass, like i just said."

"okay but if you hate her so much why do you even care if she hangs out with an ass?" chris asks matter-of-factly, earning a nod from nick as that was a really good point.

matt noticeably goes silent for a minute to think up an answer, chris and nick sharing a slightly smug look from the hesitancy. after a moment, he shrugs. "you guys are thinking too much into it. i wouldn't even want some random stranger hanging out with cameron."

"yeah, i'm sure." nick rolls his eyes.

"look, you guys do this thing every month where you try and convince me i like aurora," he says, standing up from where he was still sitting on the edge of his bed. "sorry but it's literally never gonna happen. you guys might be becoming tad delusional."

nick and chris both roll their eyes and matt shrugs, beginning to walk towards them. "she's like the most annoying person i've ever fucking met. i would never," he tells them blankly, crossing his arms and stopping in front of them for a second. chris sighs loudly and nick blinks, still not buying it.

"now i'm gonna go find something to eat," he says, giving them a tight-lipped smile before walking past them and out of his room.

just after aurora begins to play her taylor swift playlist and starts the faucet, she realizes she didn't bring clothes with her. luckily, she hadn't undressed and gotten in the shower yet.

she sighs and walks out, leaving the door open behind her as taylor swift grows louder for more people to hear. she heads for the kitchen where she left her bags on the island counter before she stormed to matt's room earlier.

when she steps into the kitchen area and sees matt already there, she sighs quietly and decides to ignore his presence. he notices her walk in but doesn't say anything, continuing to look through the fridge.

she walks over to her two bags and pauses. two bags? she immediately picks the backpack and makeup bag up and looks underneath of them for her bag of clothes. where the fuck did it go?

"what the fuck?" she murmurs to herself, looking around the area and not being able to spot it anywhere.

matt turns around and watches as she searches for something. he sighs before speaking up, "what?"

"i don't know where the fuck my clothes went," she says, not looking up as she continues looking around, now frustrated.

during the time aurora is occupied looking elsewhere, matt glances down at the floor in front of him. there's a bag on the ground right in front of the counter that must've fell off.

"damn," he says with not a single care in the world before turning around and back to the fridge. "must suck."

aurora immediately turns around, narrowing her eyes at his back and the mocking tone to his voice. she scoffs loudly and turns back around, now decidedly heading for matt's room. "i'm raiding your closet!" she calls out as she walks away.

"what!" matt suddenly exclaims, immediately turning around and spotting her retreating figure. he groans loudly and instead of telling her where her clothes are so she doesn't take his, he begins following her.

when he reaches his room, aurora is already one step ahead of him and beginning to go through his drawers for something appealing. he gets side tracked though by the music blasting from down the hallway. "why the fuck is taylor swift playing so damn loud?" he asks, his nose scrunching up as he immediately knows she's the cause.

"why the fuck are you complaining?" she shoots a question back, rolling her eyes without even glancing up at him as she continues looking through his clothes.

"because it's annoying as fuck and already hurting my ears," he tells her, watching with a scowl as she grabs a pair of his sweatpants.

"ugh," she groans, closing a drawer and glancing at him. "you physically pain me, you know that?" she says, frowning at him deeply before turning around to walk to his closet.

his eyebrows furrow as he grows offended and confused. "what the fuck does that even mean?"

"it means," she sighs, reaching his closet and beginning to swipe through the hangers at a quick pace. "the shit you're saying hurts my brain so much that it's putting me through actual physical pain."

"what the fuck?" he frowns, his eyebrows furrowing even more. how does she even come up with this shit? when he notices her beginning to grab his green dino sweater off of a hanger, he immediately walks over to her. "that's my favorite sweater. there's no fucking way you're taking it."

she turns around with the sweater now in her hands on top of the sweat pants she's already grabbed. she drops the hanger it was hung up on and matt glances down at it as it hits the floor. "watch me," she grins at him before walking right past him, even hitting his shoulder to be dramatic.

"rory!" he exclaims, groaning loudly as she rushes out of his room with his clothes in hand.

he continues standing there in front of the hanger on the ground and when he hears the taylor swift music get way quieter with the shut of a door, he sighs.

for someone who doesn't want her wearing his clothes, he sure isn't putting a lot of effort into stopping her from taking them.

he picks the hanger up off the floor, annoyance clear as ever on his face as he puts in back on the closets clothing rack. he decides on going back to the kitchen to actually find something to eat without an interruption.

when he gets in there, chris is in there as well. the man must be a fucking teleporter because that was fast as hell.

he walks in and notices he's making a bowl of krave cereal out of all cereal. "why are you making.. krave?" he questions with a frown.

chris immediately turns around with wide eyes. "bro listen to this fucking shit," he says, a ridiculous amount of enthusiasm in his voice that already has matt sighing. "i was just gonna grab some frosted flakes, right? well, i was reaching for them and i just got like.. this gut feeling that i just had to grab the krave instead. so, i did. and then i got this massive fucking amount of deja vu. it was so weird that now i feel like i genuinely need to eat it or i'll die."

matt presses his lips together. "craaaazy, bro," he says as he opens the fridge to look through it yet again.

twenty minutes later, matt decided on chilling in the living room for a bit. chris was in here with him earlier so the tv is playing some random shit but matt doesn't pay attention, instead mindlessly scrolling through tiktok as he's bored out of his mind.

when he hears the taylor swift music that's been quietly playing from the bathroom stop, he sighs. he doesn't even look up when the bathroom door opens and he hears aurora walk in here.

"why are you watching beverly hills chihuahua?"

he immediately furrows his eyebrows and glances up at the tv. when he sees talking chihuahuas, he internally groans. chris really put on some weird shit and then just left.

he already opens his mouth in preparation to explain but when he actually looks up at the girl, the words on the tip of his tongue die off. his breath hitches just slightly at the sight of her actually in his clothes. after just a few seconds, he realizes his mouth is still open from his attempt to speak and closes it.

aurora immediately furrows her eyebrows, definitely noticing his weird look. "what?"

"nothing," he immediately says, shaking his head slightly at himself. what the fuck is going on in his head right now?

"uh... okay," she says, pressing her lips together as this is kinda awkward for some reason. "i'm gonna go chill with chris now so... have fun with the chihuahuas i guess."

matt presses his lips together as well, subconsciously mimicking her own expression as she walks off before he responds with anything.

he looks to the tv after she leaves and sighs.

he zones out for a second, trying to clear his head from the weird thoughts he's had today. he pulls his phone back out to get on tiktok again.

out of the corner of his eye though, he spots the clothes aurora was wearing before she showered on the top of their living room chair. she must've sat them down when she came in and forgot about them before she left.

his eyes focus on cameron's hoodie and he suddenly gets a thought.

💌

aurora rlly living out all our dreams by wearing that green dino sweater fr

if u guys also got deja vu from the krave, i love u 🤝🤝

also i changed a couple ages in the introduction chapter so it makes more logical sense 💪💪 the triplets are all 18 bc they already turned 18 august 1 and it's currently sometime in september rn bc im just gonna say they they started school during that time?? venus is also 18 which means she had her birthday sometime during summer. elijah and cameron are 19 now bc they're always meant to be a year older than everyone! you should see raven and then auroras birthdays when they turn 18 🙌

<3
jaden