when i found you || chris sturniolo

25

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The group arrive at Madi's house and begin to make their way into their rooms to change and whatnot.

"Uh sorry that we're stuck together and ur not with Matt or Jay." Layla apologises. Chris shakes his head. "It's not ur fault" he says. It's his. He wanted this to happen.

Chris has been feeling this weird vibe from Layla. One minute they hate each other then they're sleeping on each other on a plane. He's confused. He wants to figure it out.

And in his head. Sharing a room with her will fix that. Or... it will go the completely other way. But. We'll see I guess.

"Yo on a for real level though. If you get like uncomfortable in here tell me I'll switch with Jay." Chris says looking down at the girl.

She smiles at him gratefully "thanks Chris. Uh. Who's gonna get the bed" he looks at her confused as she speaks before looking at the one double bed in the room.

"Flip a coin?" Chris says. She nods and pulls out a coin tossing it to the boy. "Ok uh heads I win and Tails you lose." He waits before flipping the small piece of copper.

She nods her head again and watches as the coin flys through the air before he catches it once again. "Heads." Chris smiles knowing he would've won either way. "Fuck. Fine." She agrees to him winning fair and square, completely oblivious to what he had actually said.

"Do you need the bathroom?" She asks him wanting to get in the shower. He shakes his head and she opens her suitcase, pulling out a set of pajamas ready to sleep on the floor in.

The group are all tired as fuck and decide that it's best if everyone sleeps now, relaxes and then tomorrow go out.

LayLa makes her way into the bathroom shutting the door behind her stripping down ready to climb inside. Chris on the other hand decides to lay back on the bed and relaxes.

The small blonde steps into the shower feeling the warm water hit her cold skin. She begins to wash her body then her hair having a think to herself.

She then pauses and scrunched her nose furrowing her brows. "Heads I win... tails you lose... that son of a bitch. Chris!" She finally figures out what her ex had actually said.

She starts to put a towel over her body as she climbs out of the shower quickly and steps into the colder air. Layla walks over to the bed seeing him sleeping. "Awh... shame." She shakes her head grabbing Chris's ankles pulling him off.

"What are you doing?" He questions her as she continues to pull at his long legs.

"What the fuck Chris. You asshole" Layla says slapping the boys claves with her cold and wet palms having just been in the shower.

"Ew your soaked-" Chris says before pausing "wait that sounded... Anyway what? I didn't do anything." He states KNOWING fully well what he did.

"Nothing? 'Heads i win. Tails you lose'." She stays imitating his deeper voice mocking him as she speaks his previous words. "Your so stupid." She says obviously annoyed.

He realises why she's mad but can't help but laugh feeling good about actually pulling it off for a while. "You fell for it though. Who's stupid now Layla." He shrugs before standing up. "It's fine you can have the bed. But I'm taking the bath so don't be getting jealous on me." Chris concludes as he just lets her take the bed and snatched a pillow from the headboard for his bath-shower bed.

"Ok guys the plan for the week is to go to Charlie's party on tomorrow night, the theatre to watch a movie on like Thursday, the beach on Friday and Sunday, and we can do whatever we want on the other days." Madi says to the group say around her island counter.

The week is pretty much planned out as the younger girl had already prepared for her friends week together, excited for their arrival.

The triplets and Layla FaceTime with Madi as often as possible, as well as making efforts to stay together having huge sleepovers as often as possible. However they haven't seen each other in person in a little while now.

And of course her beautiful mom Laura was greatly missed by the group as a whole, always being a fan favourite much like Mary Lou and Jimmy.

Laura has always been so loving to the triplets, letting them come and stay over any time. And now she's the same with the growing group. Layla especially loves Laura. Her and Mary Lou are like her acting moms. She loves them.

"What have we got planned today?" Eliza asks Madi, wondering if they're all just free to roam Los Angeles. Eliza has never even left Boston. She is definitely the most excited of the group to be here. To see LA. She's fucking crazy. We love her for it.

The triplets have been all over the US, Nate not so much but he was always the kind of guy who would sing home is where my horse is. And his horse is Boston. Weird way to put it but pretty much, he doesn't like to leave Boston. Boston is home.

Layla and Jaden though- you would mistake them for army brats. Moved from city to city, they even lived in the UK when they were younger. Just after their dad- their mom just wanted to get away from everything... everyone. So she did. Far away.

At first the pair hated the moving. Although after a while, they got used to it. They learned to love new people and new places. The pair took it as an opportunity to travel the world or at least America and the UK.

Even Brazil once. They lived in Guarulhos for two months with a pet Parrot. Her name was Alice. She was green. Then she was gone. She flew away. Maybe she found Rio.

Guarulhos is unexpectedly cold. Which is weird cause Brazil is known for being one of the hotter countries. Jaden and Layla loved it there. They didn't really have a lot of time to explore cause their mom didn't really let them leave the house while she worked.

There was this one time where Layla managed to sneak out but- it ended bad. She fell in a hole on the side of a road that she didn't see when she was walking. It was like falling to fucking Wonderland. Maybe her parrot was down there- lord knows.

She sprained her ankle that day and her mother was furious... whats new. Layla was so scared of her that day. After that she did what her mother told her and mostly behaved- mostly.

Anyway the point is they have travelled plenty. Although they hated middle school in LA. For many reasons.

Their last year of middle school however was spent in Minnesota which is where they also had their first year of high school.

Once the group had recalled their plans for the week, the individuals make their way up to their rooms ready for bed.

Layla changes into her pyjamas before climbing into the bed staring up at the ceiling. She hears Chris enter as he passes through the room quietly and walks into the bathroom- which would be his room for the trip.

After about an hour of staring up at the ceiling and planning her morning tomorrow before the group go to the party, she finally falls asleep.

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