MATTHEW STURNIOLO lay still on his brother's sofa. His phone had died and Morgan went out with her uncle so his brothers were his only forms of entertainment, it wasn't necessarily a bad thing, the boy just missed Morgan March.

"Are you asleep?" Chris's curious voice cut off Matt's thoughts. Matt opened his eyes to glare at his brother.

"Yes, I'm asleep. No, you fuck, I'm wide awake."

Nicolas snorted at the insulting name, he was currently spamming Morgan's messages to annoy her enough until she admitted she was in love with his brother.

"Why are you typing so fast, Nick," Matt raised his eyebrows at the older triplet.

"I'm texting Morgan. No, I'm spamming Morgan," he corrected himself.

"Let me see," Matthew tried reaching for the phone but Nick quickly pulled it away.

Christopher knew why Nick was texting Morgan because the pair had talked about it this morning. He knew this was their time to get Matt to admit his feelings too.

"Matt!" Chris called. "Sit down."

Matt stared at his brother's grinning face but sat down on the couch he was earlier lying on. Nick walked over to sit closer to his brothers, leaning forward in anticipation.

"Are you in love with Morgan?"

Straight to the point.

"Yo, what?" Matt sputtered, taken aback by the sudden question. Chris and Nick looked at their brother with knowing looks and watched as Matt turned red.

"I'm not! What the hell made you think of that?"

"After the 'this or that' video, you two seemed to be closer and also the little scene we barged in on yesterday."

Matthew knew exactly what his brothers were talking about but instead shrugged in response.

"Come on, Matt! There's no way you haven't come to your senses yet," Chris laughed in disbelief. If it was obvious to Him and Nick, why wasn't it obvious to Matt and Morgan?

"I do not know what you're talking about," Matt responded, keeping a straight face.

Christopher and Nicolas laughed loudly before going back to being serious.

"Okay, then describe what you feel when you see her!— No, jackass! Not in that way, ew!" Chris groaned after the look his brother had given him from the first sentence.

"Fine."

Nick glanced at Chris with excited eyes, the two instantly were quiet.

"I just— stop looking at me like that, bro!" Matt covered his eyes while Chris looked elsewhere.

"Every time I'm with her I feel so much happier, you know? I always get this weird feeling here whenever she's around but it's not a bad feeling?" He explained, pointing to his abdomen.

"Those are butterflies, buddy. Carry on," Nick commented.

Matt rolled his eyes at his smartass of a brother. He gathered his thoughts before continuing.

"I feel like I can talk to her about anything and everything and she would never make me feel bad about it. Her laugh, her hair, her personality and just her, in general, is just like, Woah."

Nicolas smiled softly at his brother, he was definitely in love. Chris had the same look on his face but a little bit of disgust too.

"Jesus, Matt. Open your eyes, you're in love with her!" Chris exclaimed, unable to hold himself back from getting excited.

Matt smiled softly as a way of telling them they were right, making Chris and Nick tackle their brother into a big bear hug.

After laying on the floor in excitement, Nick's phone began to ring. He stared at his brothers in confusion, who was ringing him?

"Oh it's Moe," he sighed in relief. The paranoia from shows he had watched disappeared.

"Hey, M, what's up?" He asked into the phone.

"Oh, yeah. His phone's dead, why?"

Matt and Chris could only hear the girl's voice faintly from the smartphone but stayed quiet.

"Yeah of course we can pick you up," Nick spoke slightly louder so Matt would get the hint and get the car keys.

"Cool, we're leaving now. See you soon. Love you!"

The boy hung up and locked the front door behind him, whilst climbing into the car Nick was bombarded with questions from Matt and Chris.

"What happened?"

"Is she okay?"

Nick looked between the two, unsure of who's questions to answer first.

"She's fine. Teddy had an emergency meeting he was called to so she needed a ride home," Nick explained, feeling bad the two had panicked.

Matthew let out a small sigh of relief and handed the AUX cord to Chris who was in the passenger seat.

As they drove, their heads bopped simultaneously to the soft music. Matt pulled up on the sidewalk where Morgan was standing talking to a young girl.

"Morgan!" Chris called out of the window, catching the brunette girls' attention.

"One second, C!"

The triplets could barely make out what Morgan and the smaller child were talking about but Morgan looked very sincere.

"I can wait with you if you'd like?" Morgan softly asked the girl.

"It's okay, my mommy should be back soon," the young girl, whose name was Phoenix, replied quietly.

Morgan had found the girl crying in the spot she told the triplets to pick her up from and talked to the girl. She soon found out Phoenix couldn't find her mother.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. Thanks for keeping me company, Morgan," the girl smiled gratefully, waving as Morgan hesitantly got in the car.

She would've never left the young girl unless the child said she could. Phoenix waved at Morgan as Matt drove off and out of the corner of her eye, Morgan spotted who she assumed was the girl's mother as she saw Phoenix running towards the woman.

"Who was that?" Nicolas curiously asked her.

"Her name is Phoenix, she lost her mom in the park," Morgan explained, earning understanding nods from the three boys.

The drive home was silent but in a comfortable way. Morgan watched out the back window while fidgeting with her hands, weaving her fingers around one another.

"You coming back to ours, M?" Nick broke the silence.

"Sure, I have nothing else to do," she joked, making eye contact with Matt in the review mirror.

The quartet finally arrived home and huddled in Chris's bedroom, deciding if they wanted to stream on Twitch or just hang out.

"We can stream, I'm not fussed."

"Me neither."

That was that. Matt aggressively typed into the keyboard and set up the computer screens correctly and then started the live stream.

Nick took a photo of the four of them and posted it on the triplets group Instagram to alert their followers that they were currently streaming. He ordered the other three to repost it on their own stories.

"Hey, hi, hello," Matt greeted as many people began to spam the chat.

"Moe, they're all apparently in love with you," Chris gave the girl a sarcastic, disgusted look before turning back to read the chat.

"I actually love your fanbase so much, dude," Morgan commented as she leaned over Chris to read the chat.

Ninety percent of the comments about her were positive but there was ten percent that wasn't as nice.

Matt furrowed his eyebrows as he read a few comments, after seconds of typing and clicking, the user was temporarily banned from commenting. 'Morgan's ugly as sh*t bro,' was definitely not a nice thing to say. Neither was 'that girl should literally die lmfao'.

"We went live because we were bored, hanging out with these three is not as entertaining as you think," Morgan lied with a big smile on her face as she saw the looks the trio gave her.

Matt quickly muttered something about getting water, before walking out of the room.

"Yeah, well, hanging out with Morgan hurts my head," Nick retorted sarcastically.

Morgan scoffed, turning to the boy. She marched towards him, holding back laughter. Nick pursed his lips together to hold in his laugh but couldn't resist and cackled loudly.

"Someone said we should do the eat it or wear it challenge," Chris read out loud, glancing around the room for opinions.

"Like, right now?"

"No! In a Wednesday video," he replied.

Morgan nodded, giving the camera a thumbs up. She whispered something to Nick waiting for a response and then walked out of the room.

Matt was already in the kitchen grabbing himself a bottle of water and smiled as Morgan walked in.

"Hey," she smiled.

"Hello!" Matt cheerily spoke.

Morgan raised her eyebrows in amusement at the boy's good mood but said nothing of it. She would hate to break his spirits.

"Morgan. We need to talk," Matt sighed, his eyes still seemed happy but the cheesy smile on his face had slightly faded.

Morgan silently nodded, smiling softly at him. There was a small feeling of anxiety forming in her stomach but followed Matthew into his room.

"What's up?"

"I don't really know how to say this," Matt ran a hand through his hair as he paced around his bedroom.

Morgan nodded, watching the boy pace while she sat still on his bed.

"You can say it, Matt, it can't be that bad," she chuckled quietly.

Matt shot her a smile and dug through his hats before placing his red fitted cap on his head.

"I like you, Morgan."

The March girls' eyes widened in surprise, this definitely was not what she was expecting.

"I get that you may not like me back and I completely respect that! I only realized this today and I hate keeping things from you and—"

"Matt," Morgan giggled as the boy ranted.

Matthew stopped his spiel and looked up at her with anxious eyes, nervous for her response. Morgan stood up and walked over to him, embracing him in a warm hug.

"I like you too," she beamed up at him.

Matt leaned down, gazing at the girls lips. Morgan smiled widely before the pair connected their lips together.

Fireworks. Everywhere.

"Hey, that was the first one without other people with us or Nick and Chris intruding," Matt nervously giggled as they pulled apart.

Morgan laughed softly resting her head on his chest.

"Morgan?"

"Hm?"

"Promise me nothing will sprout from this just yet?" Matt motioned to his lips then hers as he said 'this' before looking down at the girl.

Morgan felt her heart ache a little bit at his words but flashed a kind smile.

"Of course."  

( 💌 ) MAL SPEAKS,

AHHHHH, THEY FINALLY KISSED!!
i cannot tell you how long it took
for me to perfectly execute the
kiss. it's not perfect but i'm happy
with it!!

i hope you're all very satisfied with
this chapter. i'm sure i'll start on
chapter ten very soon. 

also, we're no. 5 in #chrissturniolo
now?? that's "electric" LMFAO
idk who got that reference but
if you did i love you. 

enjoy your day and thank you so
much for 12k reads, that's bonkers.

xoxo, mal <33