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they hurriedly walked around walmart, just throwing things into the basket. after ten minutes, they ran back to camila's car and collapsed in the front seats giggling.

"in all seriousness," nick said, turning to me, "what are we gonna do about matt?"

"what about him?" camila shrugged nonchalantly.

"oh shut up cami, you know what i mean."

"yeah, okay. i had a crush on him for, like, a month. so what! i'll get over him."

"mhm." nick didn't sound convinced.

"I WILL! oh my god, literally watch me be over him in a week."

"whatever you say sugarplum." nick drawled sarcastically. camila threw him her phone to play some music, and he played olivia rodrigo at full blast, singing along.

"THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED!" he said, trying to make himself be heard over the deafening music.

"I'M NOT HEARTBROKEN." nick rolled his eyes at her reply and went back to singing. camila laughed, but inside she felt as if someone had taken a large spoon and swirled around all her insides. she was scared to see matt again. she couldn't just act the same now that she knew he had a girlfriend- that would be all kinds of wrong. but at the same time, she couldn't just ignore him. she parked outside their house, her head spinning. nick was oblivious, high on olivia rodrigo songs. he skipped into the house like a child, swinging his bag of goodies. camila followed reluctantly. she walked into their house, and then into the living room. as she approached, she could hear them arguing in whispers.

"why did you tell her? i thought we agreed i would be there too. it's my fuck up as much as it's yours." chris asked nick.

"she had a right to know!" nick replied.

"it's not that big of a deal." matt groaned.

"oh grow up." chris retorted.

"easy for you to say. i don't even get why she would be mad." matt said.

"my god you are oblivious." nick whispered loudly.

"not true." matt said.

"is true." nick replied childishly.

"isn't."

"is."

"isn't."

"oh my god shut up!" chris demanded. camila decided that she had been listening in on their conversation for too long, so she took a deep breath and walked in while they were quiet. matt and chris looked up at her guiltily, while nick bore a smug expression.

"hi." she said, sitting down next to chris and pulling out drinks.

"hi." the triplets chorused, then nick glared at matt and chris.

"so..." matt said, twisting his rings around his fingers.

"so.. i was thinking you three come over at, like, eleven for a little sleepover?" camila said. they looked at her surprised.

"wait what?" nick asked. camila started giggling.

"what? i'm not pissed that matt had a girlfriend, that would be weird. it's not like i had a crush on him." she stated. matt's face visibly fell, then he recovered himself.

"okay good."

"okay, so, i'm gonna leave now because i'm behind on editing this 'get ready with me' i filmed earlier, but i'll see you guys at eleven." camila said. she didn't wait for them to reply, she just stalked out the room. she drove home, ran straight up to her bedroom and screamed into her pillow.