Things You Do

One

I would like to say that this is complete fiction and that the people in this story most likely do not act like this in real life. This is complete fiction.

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Mattea "Matt" Bernard Sturniolo was born August 1st, 2003 to her parents Marylou and Jimmy Sturniolo. She was the middle sibling of the triplets, her older brother being Nick, and her younger brother being Chris.

From the start, it was clear she was supposed to be a boy.

The nursery held no girly things, anything engraved had the name "Matthew" instead of "Mattea", and the worst of it was that there were no other girls except for her and her mother.

Growing up it often felt like her parents forgot she was a girl. She shared her brother's clothes till the age of five, when her kindergarten teacher took notice at how boyish she dressed and voiced her concerns to her parents.

Her dad complained about the extra stores they would have to go to just for her, but he was quick to pay.

Matt went to her brother's barbers for haircuts, shared a room with them till she turned thirteen, she even took on the nickname Matt because that's what everyone called her.

And it was fine.

It never bothered her, you could call her a tom boy and she'd just shrug. She never really had the chance to dabble in girly things, her mom didn't bother to introduce her to makeup.

Matt didn't feel the need to stretch into the section because things worked fine. Her brothers talked to her like she was a boy, they were the "Sturniolo Triplets", not the "Sturniolo Brothers" because Matt stayed the way she was. She wasn't pushed onto the outside of anything.
She had seen how brother and sister relationships turned out and didn't want that. They just never clicked the way the triplets did. Matt was an anxiety filled person, all she had was her brothers.

This is how she thought.

Until they filmed their latest video.

It was all going normal, they were sitting in their usual seats, Nick started off with the prompt.

"Matt," He said, nudging her shoulder. "You didn't date anyone in highschool, right? I can't remember."

"Oh," Matt replied dumbly, eyebrows furrowing. "No, I didn't."

"Awe, poor Matty," Chris teased, causing Matt to glare at him. "But really? No even one boyfriend?"

"Chris, people thought I would be the boyfriend," Matt stated. "I'm pretty sure most of the school thought I was a boy."

"Don't be stupid," Nick said. "You look like a girl, and you have long hair."

"Takes more to appeal to guys, you out of all people should know that."

"Shut up Matt."

"Wait so a guy didn't even ask you out?" Chris asked, frowning. "Like not one?" Matt shook her head. "You've gotta be joking."

"Why does this sound so surprising to you two?" She said. "I hung around you guys for the most part, plus there were other girls to be interested in."

"But why wouldn't they be interested in you?"

"I look and dress like a guy, that and I didn't talk a whole bunch till we started youtube, no one wants to date that."

"I would date that," Chris stated, making Matt groan. "What?"

"Stop interrogating me, what about you two, talk about your high school relationships." This video would be going up online, if they stayed on this topic she would be dealing with people jumping to conclusions about her life.