🎱. . .CHAPTER 47 ! -----
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          Mikayla genuinely hasn't stopped staring at chris' recent post since he posted it last night. it's monday into their first week back at school and she's currently in her kitchen, eating her bowl of fruit loops while she waits for matt to come pick her up.

          nate's in the living room, catching up on a late assignment on his macbook and her eyes occasionally glide over to him, narrowing them at her older brother. she wonders if things could be different if maybe nate wasn't so overprotective because she knows he doesn't hate the idea of her dating, just as long as it isn't chris. it's stupid to mikayla but after what happened between their parents she understands it.

          as mikayla finishes her cereal, she hears a couple of honks and she instantly knows it's matt. the siblings simultaneously pick up their backpacks for school, without miks even saying a word to him. it's truly because mikayla's pissed at nathan for how he acts towards the idea of chris and miks.

          he's definitely acknowledged it though because ever since they returned from cvs yesterday, she hasn't said a word to him. miks doesn't like not talking to nate, but she's angry that he keeps on being overprotective.

          miks throws her bag over her shoulder, making her way to the door but she's suddenly stop by nate. "are we gonna keep ignoring each other miks?" he questions, tilting his head slightly. mikayla rolls her eyes, still staying silent. "i'm literally your sibling, i'm your brother."

          she frustratedly punches at the bridge of her nose, irritated at nathan's words. "yeah and you think that it give you the opportunity to be controlling," she states, pure annoyance laced in her voice.

          nate loudly sighs, shoving his hands into his pockets, "you know i'm not purposely trying to be controlling, right?" he says it like he has some sort of entitlement and that makes mikayla's face scrunch up.

          "okay, nate," she quickly and bitterly retorts, resting both of her hands on her hips. "but you are. i know you're my older brother but it's annoying when you continue to do shit like that," miks tells him and he nods his head.

          "put yourself in my shoes mikayla," he mumbles, then pushing his lips together. "i've already warned you about chris in the past. also he's one of my best friends," nathan gives her a look. "but you're my sister, and if you try understand where i'm coming from, you'll see i'm only trying to protect you."

          mikayla sighs, placing her hand on nathan's shoulder, patting it as she pushes her lips together. "you don't need to protect me nate. you literally don't," she drops her hand to her side. "it doesn't matter now anways, chris and i are friends and we always will be."

           a sharp sigh of relief leaves nathan's lips. "fine. are we good?" he asks, seeming like he's genuinely concerned about his relationship with mikayla. he obviously needs to, considering the predicament with their parents, and he's just trying to show that he cares.

          "well yeah, if you move out of the fucking way so we can go to school," she jokes, plastering a plastic smile on her face and nathan playfully rolls his eyes, throwing his arms around his sister.

Miks sits in her shared class with chris at the back of the room, hiding her airpods firmly tucked in her ears with her hair. she sighs, tapping her ballpoint pen on the desk while the teacher continues to ramble on about whatever she's talking about. but mikayla isn't even paying attention, instead her out, because her gaze is glued to the back of chris' head.

she hums along to tyler, the creator blaring in her ears, narrowing her eyes as she watches the way his head tilts in confusion at the teacher's words. her eyebrows pull together, shaking her head slightly to avoid staring at him. probably because mikayla's slowly trying to convince herself that she 'hates' chris and lacks any feelings for him.

she instead chooses to think about the halloween party, her friends, how fun the getaway was, chris, nate and his— she pauses in her thoughts. mikayla's face twists up at the thought of chris staying in her mind. 'snap out of it miks', she thinks, fighting the urge to fill the quiet classroom with the sound of her facepalming herself.

there's still over half an hour left and mikayla's about to die of boredom. so instead of slowly dying, she snakes her hand into her backpack on the floor, picking up her phone.

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' THE SQUAD 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼 '

( miks 🫦🫦 — mikayla )
( ria 🫦🫦 — maria )
( lucy 🫦🫦 — lucille )
( dumbest mf ever — mason )
( nick 🫦🫦 — nick )

miks 🫦🫦
CHAT
IM SO BORED RNNNN 😭😭😭😭
HELPPPP

dumbest mf ever
imagine being in class rn 😂
SO lame
L

lucy 🫦🫦
Ls in the chat guys ✌🏼✌🏼

ria 🫦🫦
i'm in class w nick and matt💓💓
nick tried to pull his phone out but it got taken LMAOO

miks 🫦🫦
IM HOLDING IN MY LAUGH RN
lucy
mason
where r u guys 😞😞

lucy 🫦🫦
um
im omw to the abandoned stairwell to commit in acts that will NOT leave me sober.

miks 🫦🫦
WHAAAAT

dumbest mf ever
miks look outside ur class quick

miks 🫦🫦
what
LMFAOAOOAA

ria 🫦🫦
WHAT????
my fomo guys 🙁

miks 🫦🫦
hb just popped out of nowhere and started dancing in the hall 😭
shaking ass and allllll

dumbest mf ever
i'm omw to the meet lucille 😉
come on guys

miks 🫦🫦
i'm in

ria 🫦🫦
i can't leave AND bring matt and nick
imma have to thug the rest of this class out💔💔

lucy 🫦🫦
NOOO

miks 🫦🫦
guys.....😁

dumbest mf ever
what

ria 🫦🫦
yes? 🤨

miks 🫦🫦
chris looks so good rn

lucy 🫦🫦
NO
WE'RE SO NOT DOING THIS AGAIN⁉️⁉️

ria 🫦🫦
the sigh that left my mouth was so loud
SHIT TECAHERS COMGINF
BYEYEYEEE

miks 🫦🫦
we lost her soldiers 🫡🫡

dumbest mf ever
miks come to the auditorium
so lucy and i can jump u ❤️

miks 🫦🫦
HELLO??????

lucy 🫦🫦
what does chris look like rn

miks 🫦🫦
idk bc im sitting BEHIND him

lucy 🫦🫦
he looks.....good.....from...behind...?
u make me SICK

miks 🫦🫦
i'm visualizing the front! 😇

dumbest mf ever
dr she's out again
i need to slap some sense into you 🙏🏼

miks 🫦🫦
ugh 😕
im gonna ask to use the bathroom
WAIT FOR ME AT THE STAIRS
and don't do ANYTHING without me thx

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          "Miss, can i use the bathroom please?" miks questions the teacher, dropping her hand back to her thigh with a fake grin on her face. she skeptically nods her head and mikayla shoves all of her books into her backpack.

          her gaze falls to her bag on the floor, then looking up and realizing that chris is staring at her. he quickly whips his head back around once he notices that mikayla caught him, making her slightly confused. she doesn't know how she feels towards chris, whether she still likes him or if she only sees him in a sort of platonic way, but whatever it is she's confused about it.

          mikayla rushes out of the classroom with a hall pass in her hand, not looking back at him and instead choosing to hastily walk to the abandoned stairwell. she slows down in her steps when she recognizes her two friends waving at her, returning the gesture. miks doesn't say it often but she's genuinely so appreciative towards her friends and how lucky she is to have them.

          they've always been there for her since they were kids and she couldn't be anymore thankful for all of them, especially mason, lucille and maria. considering how the triplets are family to her—an odd comparison when she thinks on her relationship with chris—the three of them are very important people in her life. she knows it's gonna be extremely hard to complete her final year of school after mason graduates.

          "guys!" miks whisper-yells, tightly holding onto the strap of her backpack. she practically runs towards them, pulling them into a tight embrace.

          the three of them sit down on the first couple of steps, placing their bags on the ground. the atmosphere is dirty, the staircase caked in dust with walls littered with graffiti but mikayla's happy to be here rather than in class.

          mason moves his hips up slightly, taking a packet of something out of his pockets. he waves it around in the air and mikayla narrows her eyes. "we can't fucking smoke here, we'd get caught," he huffs and miks understandably nods her head.

          "okay genius," mikayla says sarcastically, making lucille giggle quietly. as she watches mason open the packet of edibles, popping a 'special' gummy cluster into his mouth, then passing one to lucille, mikayla still can't seem to get chris out of her head. the worst thing on top of it, is that the ball is quite literally in her court, nathan's just slightly ruining it.

"so," lucy trails off, chewing on her candy. she fully turns around so that her back is on the wall and her legs are thrown over mason's lap. "you're seriously going back into your chris era?" she questions with a judgmental tone.

mikayla grimaces at the idea of falling for chris again, shaking her head. she clicks her tongue and taps her chin while thinking of how to reply because she genuinely doesn't know.

"first of all," mikayla pauses to adjust her seating position. "'chris era' is kinda crazy," she repeats lucille's words while using her fingers to show air quotes. "second of all, i don't know. like i get jealous when he talks to other girls, like the cashier at cvs yesterday. kid was full on flirting with her in front of me."

mason's mouth snaps open, his jaw almost falling to the floor. "insane because chris quite literally told us to wait in the car," he huffs and mikayla's eyes widen. "like full on said 'can you guys wait in the car, i just wanna spend some time alone with mikayla real quick. it's important'," miks' eyes widen even more.

lucille rapidly nods her head in agreement, pushing her hair behind her ear. her eyebrows knit together as she watches the confused expression plastered across her face. "he's making it so much easier to be team abel everyday," she sighs.

mikayla shakes her head quickly, "nuh uh, abel's just a friend remember. i like him though, cool guy," she amusedly smiles at the remembrance of abel. she likes the fact that he seems to be 'getting along' with chris, mostly because chris is choosing to be mature, since she genuinely wants to continue talking to him. after all, abel literally said that he'll always be there for mikayla.

"but seriously babe," lucille places a comforting hand on mikayla's thigh, showing her support towards her friend and her confusing love life. "do you really want chris?"

mikayla quite literally does not know how to answer that question. after knowing him for years, having a fake relationship with him, kissing him, the only thing on her mind is chris, chris, chris, chris. it's just chris this and chris that and it's kind of starting to get on her nerves.

she sighs, pinching at her nose in frustration. "i don't know. yesterday he said to me, 'i was always yours', like what the actual f—"

"WHAT!" lucille and mason yell out in unison, looking at each other then back at their friend.

"i know right!" miks buries her face in her hands, lost on what to do. if her friends told her at the start of the school year that she'd be on the verge of confessing her feelings to chris, she'd say that they were lying. "i think i want to be with him? i just don't know how to say it," mikayla rests her elbow on her knee, placing her chin on the palm of her hand. "like what do i even say to him? 'hey chris, i know my brother hates the idea of us dating, but how about we do it!"

lucille chuckles at her friend's tone, followed by mason uncontrollably giggling; the edible is most definitely kicking in. "listen," he slurs, pointing his finger in the air. "i think i'm way too high to give you reasonable advice. but, if you think it's right with christopher owen sturniolo, we're gonna support it."

mikayla's expression softens and she looks at her friends, genuinely so grateful for them. the corner of her mouth quirks up, tilting her head slightly. "reallyyy?" she questions, dragging out her word and they both nod their heads. "aww i love you guys," mikayla both pulls them into a hug.

moments later she pulls away first, watching as mason looks like he has literally no idea what's going on. "oh!" mikayla hums, picking up her backpack by the strap. "who's locker are we meeting at after school? easier for matt, right."

a grin slowly forms on lucille's face, turning her head at a sluggish pace to her ginger-haired friend. mason slyly smiles, the two of them exchanging mischievous looks. "chris'," the say simultaneously, their heads whipping back around to face mikayla.

she groans obnoxiously loud, frustratedly throwing her hands in the air. "of fucking course," she seethes, throwing her backpack over her shoulder. "but i'll catch you guys after class, gotta go back now. can't have everyone think i was taking a shit."

lucille nods her head, watching as her friend stands up. mikayla brushes her hands against her jeans, removing the minuscule specs of dirt off of her clothes. "see ya!" she hums, waving goodbye to her friends while also dreading meeting at chris' locker.

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don't really have anything else to say tbh 😕😕 just that i'm on my fucking GRIND like i full on have the rest of the chapters planned and like three in my drafts rn