𝐃𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐒 - 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴

eighteen.

NATALIE GOT UP FROM HER bed, rubbing her eyes and stretching.

She got in the shower and put on makeup, until she heard a knock on her door in the middle of curling her lashes.

"Who is it?" Natalie yelled out, switching over to the next lash, pushing down and holding it.

"Miguel!" he yelled back at her.

"Come in! You with anyone?" she replied, adding another question.

"Yeah, just two." Miguel answered, which Natalie expected Tristan and Jacob, but guess who it actually was.

Tristan and Mason.

"Just sit on my bed, I'm almost done." Natalie said and opened her mascara bottle.

"Come on, hurry. I'm hungry for breakfast and we're all going with Becca and Maddy also." Miguel pressured.

"Stop rushing me," Natalie groaned and wiped a piece of black mascara off her nose.

"Hope you mess up your mascara." Miguel laughed.

"I'll kick you out, bitch. Let me finish." Natalie grumbled and tightened her grip on the mascara, adding some to her left lash.

"Uh, no you won't. Want to leave Maddy and Becca with us?" Miguel asked. Natalie ignored him and finally closed the mascara and made sure she didn't forget anything.

"I'll gladly play roblox with my brothers, Walker, or Hazel. No hesitation." Natalie said and opened the door, not looking at anyone. She pulled out her white converse, untightening the laces.

"Mhm." Natalie heard someone mumble. She looked up and saw someone she didn't expect. Who was mentioned earlier? Mason. She looked up and saw Mason. She spared her eyes for her converse and looked back down, slipping the shoe on.

"Yeah, and I'll get them to add me." Tristan chuckled.

"And I'll tell them to resist." Natalie said and slipped the shoe on.

"Yeah, but they wouldn't resist this pretty face." Tristan argued.

"Yeah they would, Nathan has a girlfriend and Nate is straight, I think. Walker also has a girlfriend." Natalie argued back.

"Can you shut up?" Miguel spoke up and laughed a little bit. Natalie grunted and stood up, grabbing her airpods and putting one in her left ear.

"Give me one." Tristan demanded and held out his hand. Natalie put one in his hand and he shoved it in, his ears filling with some TV girl song.

"What's the song?" Miguel asked and snatched Natalie's phone, seeing the songs name.

"Ooh, is this Taking What's Not Yours?" Tristan asked and pointed at his airpod.

"Yup." Natalie said. "Skip or listen?"

"Listen, duh." Tristan replied and opened Natalie's hotel room door.

"It's okay, Mason. We can share." Miguel said sarcastically and took out his airpods, giving Mason one.

"Little babies. Probably listening to some Cocomelon song, right Natalie?" Tristan chuckled and threw one arm around Natalie's shoulders, them skipping along the hotel hallway.

"Yea. Miguel's favorite is the one with them taking a bath." Natalie agreed.

"Whats Masons?" Tristan asked, his skipping stopping.

Natalie hesitated and slowed down. "Uh, I don't know."

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THE KIDS WALKED INTO A little café that had some sort of breakfast they could eat. Natalie was forced to sit across from Mason at their six seated table. The girls on one side and the boys on the other, they had some fun conversations.