NINE. ━━━ ⋆˚࿔
❛ couldn't move on ❜
( real life, imessages )

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real life !

MALCOM COULDN'T HELP THE SMILE that crept across his face after he realized what had just happened. he somehow managed to get corinne to kiss him, let alone literally on top of him. the moment replayed in his head over and over and over again. it was, without a doubt, one of the best moments of his life.

he quickly started to miss the feeling of her lips on his and her body at his touch. it was something he'd always wanted to get used to, and hoped that could be soon. which oddly reminded him of malory. if he really wanted it to be something to get used to, she'd have to find out one way or another. but how would he even begin to tell her something like that?

planning to think of that another time, he got up from his spot on the couch determined to find out where corinne went off to. she left so randomly, it made him worried about what her thoughts were on the kiss. did she regret it? or did she actually enjoy it? did she realize what she was really doing, and that's why she left? he hoped it was the second one.

after multiple attempts at trying to find corinne, he ultimately had no luck. it was weird because with was like she had just vanished. what if she had left?  but without another word? would she really do that?

that's when he got a text from cory in a group chat with his sister.

cory 🫦
malc, malory, i'm outside.
liked by malcom

mal 🫂
but corinnes take us home

cory 🫦
not anymore...

malcom immediately switched from trying to find corinne, to trying to find malory. he could tell that she was clearly shitfaced just by reading her message. which only added to his drive to find her.

it must have been a weird twin telepathy thing because malcom always had this weird sense of where his sister was even if he really had no clue. it's like his body would always know which way to go when trying to find her. and it didn't fail him this time either, finding her in under two minutes. although he wished he hadn't as she was talking to chris.

"what the fuck are you talking to him for?" malcom didn't hesitate when calling his sister out for this insane behavior.

"woah! what did i do?" he got offended easily, taking a step back while a hand fell over his chest.

malcom took a step closer to — who he thought was chris. poking him harshly in the shoulder, "you know what—" he was cut off by someone trying to pull him away from the poor triplet. he was thankful that it was just malory, but he wouldn't have thought twice about sucker punching if it had been someone else.

"malc, no—" he forcefully pulled himself out of malory's grasp. just because he wouldn't punch his sister didn't mean that the situation didn't make him fume, because why was his sister talking to that asshole.

before he could try anything else, another one of the triplets stepped out of nowhere, confusing the fuck out of malcom. which didn't help the situation any more for when chris came in yelling at malcom.

"dude, back the fuck off of him!" chris really didn't want to fight and he already accepted that he wouldn't even if it came down to it. he just wanted to stick up for his brother.

"oh, it was you, not him." malcom looked between the two brothers, recognizing the differences between the two now. after all he did get to know them well enough when corinne had her — whatever it was — with chris.

"what was me exactly?" chris couldn't tell what malcom was talking about. seeing how out of it he seemed, he could have meant literally anything. though, he couldn't deny that he had a pretty clear idea. after all she was the only reason malcom knew chris.

"you know."

"i don't, actually. can you just leave my brother alone?"

"yeah for sure..." he put a smile on his face, looking at chris in all seriousness before saying, "because he's not the one i have a problem with."

his words put a concerned look on malory's face. the alcohol he had throughout the night was clearly affecting him and it wasn't going well. "malcom, stop," she ordered, grabbing onto him in restraint.

malcom didn't fight this time, simply pointing towards chris when he spoke. "you need to stay away from her." he tried to keep the threat in his tone, not wanting to cause anything in front of his sister.

"why? so you can kiss her some more?"

malcom tried real hard to not explode from that small sentence because he had no idea what he had just done. there was no way malory couldn't figure it out anymore, that is unless she's too drunk to understand fully. and sadly he was hoping for that option.

without much thought, he let his emotions get the best of him, finding himself actively swinging at chris. he didn't remember deciding to do it, but there it was. malcom had punched chris and he didn't even try to fight back.

malcom couldn't hear anything other than the loud gasps of horror that came from malory and nick. he didn't blame them because he, too, was shocked by his own actions.

"what the fuck malcom?!" he faintly heard malory yelling at him, along with a small smack across his back. she then grabbed his hand and voiced their sudden departure. "we're going."

somehow, being as drunk as she was, malory was able to find cory's car outside of the party. it took her a bit but they made it there eventually.

"care to explain?" malcom asked cory, referring to the fact that corinne was missing and cory was now the one taking them home. he didn't really care that cory was the one who picked them up, but he was more worried about corinne. where she was, but most importantly, what she was thinking. was it of their kiss? did she hate it? was she even thinking about him at all?

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CORINNE LAID ON THE FLOOR OF HER bedroom, not thinking much at all. the lyrics to sharpest tool by sabrina carpenter playing over and over again in her mind like a broken record. she'd be lying if she said she didn't relate almost every song off this album to chris, and she hated being reminded of carissa anytime the ex was mentioned. but she didn't mind thinking of chris. because underneath all the snarky comments and all the shit she's said about him, they were all just cover-ups for how she actually felt about him. and she just couldn't get him off her mind, she just couldn't move on.

she knew if malory had been here, she wouldn't be thinking any of this, because first of all; chris wouldn't be their first choice of conversation, and two; corinne seemed to just think of chris like this when she was alone.

it was weird because when they first broke up malory was really good at making sure to ease corinne into the heartache, but after a while she just decided it would be easiest to just full on hate him. it hurt corinne because since then she hasn't been able to vent to literally anyone about her feelings, knowing malory wouldn't say what she wanted to hear. and maybe that was a sign, but it was a sign she didn't want to take at the moment. what was right for her was to slowly get over it. completely cutting him off and not thinking about him was far too hard for her to do.  she really loved him and she swore she wasn't crazy when she said he loved her too.

she also knew that she shouldn't be dwelling on him as much as she did, but he managed to mean so much to her in such little time, and to her, that was unforgettable. she couldn't just up and forget about him like he seemed to do so easily. she envied him for that, really.

although she believed wholeheartedly that he felt something deep down for her, it made her question why he left. of course she knew why logistically, but there was never actual reasoning behind it. she just wished that she could see into his head and know exactly what he was thinking. because there was something to this that she didn't know and it was itching to come to her.

suddenly, her phone buzzed from its spot on the floor next to her. her heart stopped when she noticed the name of the sender.

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imessages !

chris
next time keep your psycho boyfriend away
from me please

corinne
huh?

chris
that asshole you were kissing

corinne
he's not my boyfriend
and he's not an asshole
disliked by chris

chris
then why'd you kiss him?

corinne
i don't fucking know

chris
you don't just kiss your childhood best friend for no reason

corinne
well good thing thats none of your business.

chris
it is when he comes up to me in the middle of a fucking party and punches me in the face

corinne
i'm sure you deserved it

chris
yeah okay 😐

corinne
what? did you not deserve it?
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nat's notes !

malcom kinda crazzzyy drunk 😵‍💫
and corinne in her true form? 😞