IT WAS one in the morning in Somerville, Massachusetts and Morgan March lay on her bedroom floor, wide awake.

The young girl could not follow sleep, her mind was moving too fast. Did she actually kiss Matthew Sturniolo? So, it wasn't a dream? She pressed her pen down hard on her journal, scribbling down her thoughts and gratitude, along with today's goals.

After she journaled, Morgan was slightly less tense about the previous night's situation but her mind was still speeding faster than usual. The girl let her hair down from the bun it had been in and stood off the floor, straightening her pyjama pants and adjusting her tank top.

She chucked on her slippers and a hoodie before quietly exiting the house. Morgan didn't know where she was walking but she still walked to where her legs took her.

A chilly breeze blew through her hair, turning her nose pink. Morgan sighed and found herself at the local playground.

This was the playground she and the triplets would always be at. Even when they were fifteen, they would meet up by the slides at midnight to look at the stars and muck around together.

Morgan pulled out her phone, contemplating whether she should text the group chat she had with the three boys or leave them to sleep. She thought hard for a moment before deciding to text the chat, knowing that they would only answer if they were awake.

NICK + MOE 4 LIFE 🤜🤛

NZ ENTHUSIAST 🤨 — MORGAN
MOE'S HUBBY <33 — NICOLAS
MATT'S LOVER 🤗 — CHRISTOPHER
SAINT BERNARD 💘 — MATTHEW

01:32 am

NZ ENTHUSIAST 🤨
omg i remember when i was
so obsessed with new Zealand!!
i still really wanna go there 🙁

NZ ENTHUSIAST 🤨
anywho, are you boys up?

MOE'S HUBBY <33
bae, why tf are you up?

NZ ENTHUSIAST 🤨
i can't sleep. why are you
up, lover? 😏

MATT'S LOVER 🤗
bruh. get a room...

NZ ENTHUSIAST 🤨
morning to you too, darl :)

SAINT BERNARD 💘
Morgan, get some sleep.

NZ ENTHUSIAST 🤨
no!

MOE'S HUBBY <33
your room lights are off,
where even r you?

NZ ENTHUSIAST 🤨
ur moms!! HAH

MATT'S LOVER 🤗
THAT WAS A GOOD ONE LMFAO

NZ ENTHUSIAST 🤨
tyty! I'm at the park, Nick

MOE'S HUBBY <33
ooh, On my way!
*on my way!
OMW.
Jeez.

NZ ENTHUSIAST 🤨
LMFAOOO

MATT'S LOVER 🤗
Matt's trying to sleep so
Nick and I are walking
there right now <3

NZ ENTHUSIAST 🤨
I love you guys so much stop.
See you soon boys :))

——————

Morgan sat on the swing, quietly humming to herself as she waited for two of the three siblings to arrive and hang out with her.

"M-dog!" A voice squealed.

Morgan stopped the swing, instantly recognizing Christopher's voice. She hopped off the rubber swing and sprinted towards Chris's already running silhouette.

"C-dog!"

The two tackled each other in a big hug which made them fall to the ground, resulting in Nicolas jumping on top of the two. Creating a dog pile.

"I'm wide awake," Chris giggled as he sat up, shoving Nick and Morgan off of his legs.

"I can see," Morgan grinned, using her fingers to open Chris's eyes even wider.

Nick laughed and screamed loudly as a bird flew over his head from behind him. He held onto Morgan who now was also scared from the sound of bird wings.

"You guys are the biggest wusses I've ever met."

Morgan shoved the boy's shoulder at his comment, resting her head on Nick's. The trio sat in the park for another two hours, just talking about the dumbest things that came to mind.

"Can we talk about you and Matt's kiss?" Nicolas grinned, looking over to Morgan. The girl lost balance from her handstand and fell on top of Chris who was doing a headstand.

"What kiss?"

Chris glanced at Nick who rolled his eyes at the girl. It was obvious to anyone that the girl was hurt over what Matt had said and didn't want to remember it as a classified kiss.

"Oh come on Morgan. You know this isn't the first time you guys have kissed!" Chris stated, watching as Morgan began to play with her locket.

He was right but how? How did Christopher even know this?

"He told Chris, who told me," Nick quietly spoke, understanding the look on the girl's face.

Morgan pursed her lips, laughing through her nose. Of course, he did. They were triplets, they rarely ever kept anything from each other.

"It was freshman year! It was also at your lacrosse victory party or something," she defended, pointing at Chris.

"Okay but you still kissed him, no?"

"We were fourteen, fifteen, playing spin the bottle with a bunch of people in our year who were at the game! I didn't even want to play, you dragged me into it and then left to go get a Pepsi!"

Chris sighed, she was right about that part. Nick held in his laugh at how defensive his best friend got about kissing his brother.

"That's true, I'm sorry. But do you like Matt?" Chris smirked.

Morgan's mouth opened and closed, unable to say anything. She rolled her eyes and ignored the two, going back to the swing set.

"She totally likes him," Chris giggled loudly.

"Oh, definitely. My bet is since eighth," Nick replied.

Christopher Sturniolo grinned goofily at his brother, looking back to where Morgan was peacefully swinging.

"I bet it was sixth."

"The loser buys the other person whatever they want?" Chris stuck his hand out in a joking matter.

"I don't feel too good about my estimation now but fine," Nick raised his eyebrows, shaking Chris's hand before they both fell into a fit of giggles.

———

Morgan woke up at nine in the morning with only five hours of sleep in her tired body. She trudged into the kitchen, smiling at the note her uncle left her before making herself an iced coffee.

"Good morning sleeping beauty," Giovani Watson joked as Morgan answered him and Marion's face time.

Morgan rolled her eyes with a smile on her face, flipping the two laughing teenagers off.

"I was up until four, leave me alone," she mumbled, sipping from her straw.

Giovani and Marion smiled widely at her. The two were back at Marion Fallon's place that day, deciding to facetime their best friend from one phone rather than two.

"So, what did you think of the triplets?" Morgan asked with a yawn.

"You and Matt have something going on," Giovani carelessly stated.

"We do not."

Morgan glared playfully at the boy through the screen as he blew her a kiss. Marion smiled at her friend's reaction to the statement.

"I mean, he is attractive— ow! Sorry," Marion grumbled as Giovani hit her on Morgan's behalf.

The March girl giggled, shrugging at the redhead's observation and moved her phone to where her sewing machine sat.

Earlier that morning as she quietly sat on the swing, inspiration struck her. She remembered her uncle had some sort of work fancy dinner-thing and wanted to make her own dress because she recalled him telling her some famous fashion designers would be there.

"Imagine liking men— wait, I said that wrong," Giovani said as Morgan tuned back into the conversation. He furrowed his eyebrows, trying to figure out what he just said.

Marion let out a loud laugh, covering her mouth while doing so. Morgan giggled as she flipped through her design book, looking for the design she had drawn after she got home.

"Do we like it?"

"OUI!" The pair squealed at the design. It was labelled 'corset tulle gown' in the book and had been sketched out almost perfectly, even with Morgans' tired eyes.

Morgan then realized she had two different sheer fabric colors to choose from so she held them up to the screen with her friend's curious faces on it.

"Pink or orange fabric?" She questioned.

"Pink, for sure!" Marion commented and Giovani nodded his head in agreement.

Morgan nodded, wholeheartedly agreeing. She began to sketch out a more realistic design of the gown she had envisioned the night before. The trio continued to talk and catch up with what was going on with each other until it was time for Marion and Giovani to do some studying.

Morgan March sighed as she repeatedly hit her forehead with the end of her pencil, she was bored out of her mind. It was too late in the day to start sewing and she found it too boring to perfect her sketches even more.

She stood up, packing away everything and found herself at the front door of the Sturniolo household. She knocked on the door, expecting Nicolas to answer it but instead was face to face with Matt.

"Hey," she smiled. The pair didn't exactly know where they stood with each other after the other night but Morgan was going to try her best to act like she normally did.

"We need to talk," Matt softly spoke. Those four words sent Morgan into a spiral of panic, she didn't show it but as she walked behind Matthew her mind raced with thoughts on what she might have done.

Did she say something wrong? Was this about the freshman year lacrosse party? What did this boy want to talk to her about?

"Sit down," Matt chuckled at how tense the girl was and patted down on his bed beside him.

"Before you say anything I wanted to say, we need to talk about the kiss."

"What kiss?" Was all the boy answered with.

Morgan furrowed her eyebrows. Was he serious? She inhaled deeply, shaking her head as if to say 'never mind' and asked Matthew to say whatever he was wanting to say.

"Are you talking about freshman year or the other night?" Matt asked for clarification.

Morgan let out a small laugh, hating herself for immediately jumping to a conclusion that her best friend didn't even want to remember something that happened.

"I was talking about the other night but you remember freshman year?" Morgan widened her eyes in amusement as Matt nodded sheepishly.

"Yeah."

"It was just for the video, right? You said it yourself," Morgan shrugged, trying not to show the hurt she felt when his words replayed in her mind every night.

Matt's face dropped for a split second but he caught himself and quickly went back to smiling softly at the girl. Morgan noticed the slight change in his smile but stayed silent.

"Yeah, obviously. I just didn't want you to get the wrong idea from it, you know?"

Morgan nodded confused, get the wrong idea? She thought he was actually willing to kiss her. He actually meant it when he said it was just for the video.

"We're still best friends, yeah?"

No, we're basically fucking soulmates. Is what Morgan wanted to reply with but instead;

"Obviously!" 

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