You're in my Seat ~ M. Sturniolo

Chapter four - kiss, marry, kill

A few weeks pass by and now I'm starting to get along pretty well with Nick and Chris. I was even sitting with them at lunch. I met a few of their friends too. Matt however, was still hostile.

I was over the triplets house, doing homework with Nick. The teacher gave us a big assignment to do and said we could work in pairs if we wanted to. Nick and I jumped on that opportunity right away.

"Okay, for graph number 4, we have to draw a nonlinear function with a range of-" I get cut off. "We're back!" Matt yells coming into the front door. "Oh. Your here. I'll be upstairs" he says looking annoyed. "Stop being mean Matt she didn't do anything to you!" Chris yelled from the kitchen, unloading groceries.

Nick and I get back to work after Chris quiets down. He sits on the couch with us and watches TikTok on his phone. "For the love of god Chris. Put in your fucking AirPods in" Nick says in an exaggerated voice. Chris rolls his eyes but does as his brother says.

We finish up the section that we wanted to get done today and cleaned up our materials. Nick and I go up to his room and sit on his bed.

"Wanna play a game?" he suggests, breaking the somewhat awkward silence in the room. "Sure, what did you have in mind?" I asked him. "We can play..." he thinks, "KMK, truth or dare, smash or pass, something in that category" he shrugs, waiting for me to pick. "Let's do KMK" I choose. "Okay cool, you go first" he says.

"Okay uhmmmm, Brayden R, Tommy, or Mr. Belding" I smiled mischievously, knowing they were all bad options. "Fuck you" Nick laughs, "I'll go...kiss Brayden, kill Tommy, and marry Mr. Belding" he shrugs. "Marry Mr. Belding?!" I exclaim. "He's the most tolerable of the three, if I have to be with one for my entire life, it's him." Nick concluded. "Okay you know what, makes sense" nodding my head toward him in agreement.

"Okay now my turn" he evil laughs. "Bobby, Mr. Thompson, and....Matt." He mischievously grins. "Nick! This is way worse!" I whine. "You get what you get and you don't get upset" he sings. "Uggghh! Mr. Thompson's like 90...so I wanna kill him, but that means I have to kiss or marry Matt! I hate you Nick!" I whine jokingly. "CHOOSE MOTHERFUCKER COME ON!" He yells at me.

"Fine. Kill Mr Thompson, Marry Bobby and...kiss Matt I guess" I say a little grossed out. Nick bursts out laughing. I think he purposely gave me those people so I'd say I wanna kiss Matt, which wasn't true by the way.

"What's this about kissing me?" Matt walks in the door. Oh my gosh. This was probably one of the most embarrassing moments of my life. "Nothing Matt, mind your business" nick rolls his eyes. "It is my business. You said my name" he said looking over at me. "We were playing kiss marry kill, if you must know Matthew" I tell him, trying to pretend I wasn't embarrassed. I could tell I was blushing and that's something I couldn't control.

"What were your options?" He asked me. "Bobby, you and Mr. Thompson" I say with an 'I told you so' attitude. "And you chose to marry Bobby I'm guessing?" He chuckled. "Yeah. What about it?" I reply. "He's an asshole, you should have married me" he smirked. If I wasn't blushing before, I definitely was now.

"Yeah he is but you're a bigger one" I scoff. "Is that so? I can be nice you know." He looks at me. "Well you're not very good at showing it" I roll my eyes. Matt laughed and left the room. I don't know why, but I was a bit flustered in that moment. I couldn't tell if it was just pure annoyance taking over my body, or something else.

I realized that was the longest conversation I'd ever had with Matt, and the most friendly one. Even if he still got on my nerves, he was friendlier than before right then. I look up at Nick, confused about what just happened. Nick had the look of something clicking in his head.

"What was that about!" I ask him. "I don't know, you tell me Viv" he smirked, raising his eyebrows. "What's that supposed to mean?" I ask him, somewhat offended he'd insinuate about something between me and Matt. "Oh nothing" Nick giggles.

We continue to play the game until we run out of people to put and just decide to watch a movie. We invited Chris to watch with us and all sat on the couch.

"Dr Pepper for you, Dr Pepper for you, and Pepsi for me!" Chris said passing out the drinks. Then, he ran back to the kitchen to grab a family size bag of chips for us to share, as well as a few bags of candy.

Nick reaches for the remote and scrolls through Netflix for a bit, looking for a movie we all wanna watch. "Let's watch Good Burger!" Chris says excitedly when Nick passes it. "Ooh yeah I love good burger!" I agree. Nick doesn't say anything, but he puts it on.

About 30 minutes into the movie, I hear footsteps walking towards the couch. They were behind me so I didn't know what it was, until he walked around the couch and sat down on the other side. Matt.

"This movie is dumb" he said. "You're dumb" Nick replied. "Oop" Chris whispered, loud enough so just I could hear him. I googled at Chris's comment and went back to the movie.

I could tell Matt wasn't very interested in the movie, but he was still sitting with us watching it. Why wouldn't he just go back to his room? Whatever, I don't care.

The movie ended and Matt went back up to his room. I decided it would be a good time to go home. "I'm gonna head out" I say, packing my bag and collecting my things. "How are you getting home?" Nick asked me. "I'll just walk. It's only like 20-25 minutes" I tell him. "No don't walk, we'll have Matt drive you" Chris suggests. "Oh it's fine really, I don't need him to drive me if he doesn't want to" I explained. "No viv, it's dark out, Matt's driving you, end of story" Nick says sternly, "MATT! YOUR DRIVING VIVIANNE HOME!"

Matt shouts downstairs "NO" but Chris and Nick kept pestering him until he reluctantly agreed. He walked outside while I was finishing packing my homework up. "Let's go. Get in the van" he said annoyed, when I walk out the door. He was leaning against the passenger seat and opened the door for me. He walked around the front and started the car. There was an awkward silence in the car that was broken by Matt playing music.

I saw him shuffle his playlist and the first song that came on was Swim by Chase Atlantic. I really like this song and wanted to sing along, but was embarrassed to, due to the person in the car next to me. I quietly hummed along and Matt noticed.

"You like this song?" He asked jokingly. "Yeah" I reply questioningly. "Cool" he said back. He reached his hand over to the radio screen and skipped to the next song. "Oops" Matt shrugged. "Uggghh I hate you Matt" I rolled my eyes and stared out the window. "I hate you too Vivianne" The rest of the ride was quiet with the exception of me telling him the directions to my apartment.

He pulls into the parking lot and parks the car. "Out" he's not making eyes contact with me. "Oh umm...okay. Thanks for the ride. See you tomorrow" I hesitate. "Mhm" he hums while looking down at his phone.

I go inside and by this time I knew I had to be in bed for school tomorrow so I went to my room and fell asleep.

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Hey Yall!

Matt's fr being a bitch rn 🙄 (I say as if I didn't write this)

Writing a slow burn is hella boring in the beginning tbh but it'll be good soon trust me I just gotta get past the beginning

Suggestion, tips, ideas, questions, comments, concerns please comment here

Reminder to down ur phone for a second and go do what you need to do (eat, drink, bathroom, chores, etc)

That's all for now 😊

Love ya!

-Joemommasmells69