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"to walmart." chris points forward like he's guiding a pirate ship.

chloe laughs and matt starts the car, driving to walmart.

kaia gets aux and plays fine line, listening briefly but skipping the sad songs.

put a price on emotion, i'm looking for something to buy. you've got my devotion, but man, i can hate you sometimes.

after the short car ride, everyone gets out of the van and heads towards the front entrance of the large walmart building.

kaia reaches for matt's hand and holds it as everyone enters the store, wandering around and looking for something to do.

"oooh, let's go check out the bikes." chris happily suggests, dragging chloe by the hand to follow him.

they laugh and follow chris towards the bike aisle, watching him manage his way into sitting on one of the little kid's display bikes with training wheels on.

"chris, you're gonna break it." nick warns him.

"i'm not gonna break anything." chris shakes his head and continues slowly pedalling the small bike up and down the same isle.

everyone stands there watching him struggling, laughing at his childish attempts.

kaia smiles and leans her head against matt's shoulder while standing there, glancing over her shoulder to see if any employees were coming to kick them out just yet.

they don't make eye contact, but while she's looking behind her, she sees james and his group of friends being loud and obnoxious.

"matt." she whips her head back to see matt who was staring at chris.

"hm?" he turns his attention to kaia.

"james." she whispers, her teeth gritted.

matt looks behind kaia and he, too, notices james and his friends.

"guys, we should go." matt says to everyone.

"what? why?" chris pouts.

"james is here, we need to leave." he answers quietly.

"oh, shit." chris acknowledges, standing up off the small bike and putting it back on the display rack.

chris hikes his pants properly up and begins walking with everyone towards the exit, they're all careful to avoid eye contact with anyone james is with.

kaia drops her keys in a loud enough to turn a couple heads thud on the linoleum floor, resulting in one of james' friends hearing and looking behind him towards the triplets.

"is that your ex, man?" he whispers to james, tapping him on the shoulder.

james looks at their group, kaia quickly grabs her keys up off the ground and holds matt's hand as they speed walk towards the entrance.

"yeah, shit, it is." james nods.

"pussy!" james yells.

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