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kaseyjune how my friday morning has been looking

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emiliajakobs uhh, who's this kj??
^kaseyjune 🤷🏼‍♀️
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acjakobs did kj finally find herself a boyfriend?
^kaseyjune it's very possible
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lorenzojakobs since when do you have someone to put up with you?
^kaseyjune since a week ago
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user1 is it just me or does that look like lorenzo's hand??
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user2 i'm not even surprised that kasey's got a bf, she's literally gorgeous
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user3 it's probably some raggedy ass guy
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***

emilia smiled to herself as she looked at her best friend's instagram post. kasey hasn't had a boyfriend since the ninth grade, and now she's finally going to be happy again.

but it just so happens that they haven't been able to be best friends with boyfriends at the same time.

matthew had gotten out of the hospital yesterday after a week of being in, and nick told emilia that she could come over whenever. although emilia didn't think she could handle the pain of seeing him, annabella and lorenzo talked her into it.

so now, the three siblings were headed over to the sturniolo household to try and return back to their normal lives.

***

"i'm nervous." emilia admits as she taps her fingers on the steering wheel of her nissan altima.

"don't be. he thinks that you guys have been best friends for the past year, so it's not going to be as awkward as you think it will." lorenzo explains to her as he scrolls through instagram, in between snapping people back.

"plus, chris, nick, enzo and me will be there to make conversation." annabella places her hand on the shoulder of emilia's seat. 

"okay." emilia mumbles, pulling into the driveway, seeing her best friend's car parked beside the new minivan. "kasey's here?"

lorenzo looks up and then back at annabella with furrowed eyebrows. "why would she be here?"

"i mean, she is friends with them, too guys." annabella unbuckles, exiting the car.

emilia sighs, turning the car off before climbing out and locking it behind her. the three of them walk into the sturniolo's house to see chris and nick sitting in the kitchen.

"hey, guys!" nick smiles, walking over to hug emilia firstly. chris is right behind him, but he has a weird look on his face.

"what's up with you?" emilia asks as they hug, pointing out the strange look he had on his face.

"oh, it's uh- nothing really." chris mutters, walking into the living room for the others to follow behind him. annabella and emilia share a look of confusion before walking after the boys.

but emilia soon finds out why chris looked so uncomfortable.

kasey was sitting beside matt on the couch, with his arm over her shoulder, and their hands locked together.

the guy in her picture had been matt. my matt

emilia stops mid step, looking at the two of them with a gaped mouth.

"hey, emilia!" matt's voice is lively as he looks at his supposed best friend. "what's up?"

"hey, matt." emilia replies, swallowing back the lump in her throat. she sits down in the open spot beside chris.

what the fuck?

there's so many thoughts running through her head that she doesn't hear anything else around her.

"emilia?" chris bumps her arm, knocking her out of the never ending thoughts.

"hm?" she looks over at him, but can't see him without seeing kasey and matt.

"i'm sorry." he apologizes quietly, that way matt and kasey can't hear him. emilia just shrugs her shoulders.

"nothing you could've done about it." emilia replies dryly, standing up to go to the bathroom. "be right back."

she barely holds herself together enough to make it into the bathroom. as soon as the door closes, she bursts into a quiet sob.

how could kasey do this? should i talk to her?

emilia contains herself before looking in the mirror and splashing water on her face.

she returns to her seat beside chris to see kasey flirting with matt as if emilia wasn't there. kasey leans her head on matt's shoulder, which physically pains emilia.

that should be emilia sitting beside matt, not kasey.

"hey kasey? can i talk to you?" emilia asks, standing up unsteadily. chris places a hand on her back to make sure she doesn't fall down. the blonde looks over at matt and stands up, following emilia outside.

"what's up?" kasey asks with a smile when they get outside.

"the fuck do you mean 'what's up'? you know damn well what's up." emilia fires back, causing a unreadable look to take over kasey's face.

"you clearly didn't want him anymore, so i told him we have been dating for the past year." kasey explains, emotionally stabbing emilia in the heart.

"of course i still fucking want him! he's the love of my god damn life!" emilia points at the house as tears threaten to leave her eyes. her glossy eyes meet kasey's stone ones, not a single emotion in them.

"well, that's too bad. isn't it?" kasey smirks, bumping emilia's shoulder as she's walking back in the house.

emilia scoffs before going back in as well, to see chris and lorenzo talking in the kitchen.

"what was said out there?" lorenzo asks, taking a sip of his pepsi. "she came back in with a smile on her face."

"she told him that they've been dating for a year." emilia says, going into the fridge to get a bottle of water. she cracks it open before taking a long sip. "fucking bitch."

lorenzo laughs loudly at her choice of words, causing the other two to laugh with him.

"like, what the hell do i do now? i was hoping maybe we could become friends again and then date, but now she's gotten it in his head that they've been a thing for a fucking year!" emilia has to calm herself down before the others hear her ranting.

"listen, if i've learned anything over the year of being your guys' friends, i know that you're the only person matt will love, no matter what lies kasey puts in his head." chris consoles her, making sure she knows that matt and kasey won't last long.

"thanks, chris." emilia smiles, looking at nick and annabella who walk in the kitchen with wide eyes. "what?"

"kasey came in there crying and told matt you yelled at her and called her a crazy bitch." annabella explains quietly. "he's kinda pissed."

"what?" emilia doesn't even get a second to say anything else before kasey and matt enter the kitchen. lorenzo steps up beside emilia, not sure what's about to go down.

"emilia, did you yell at kasey?" matt asks before he accuses her of anything.

"yes, i just told you she did! do you not believe me?" kasey cries, grabbing matt's shoulder to look at her.

"i don't know." matt rubs his face. emilia can tell that he's stressed about everything that's going on. she frowns at him.

"she pulled me out there and yelled saying that i took her favorite shirt and i needed to give it back." kasey lies, causing everyone in the kitchen to hang their mouths open. "she called me multiple rude things, matt!"

emilia scoffs, rolling her eyes. when she focuses her sight again, matt is looking at her trying to figure out what the hell is going on.

"listen, why don't you two just settle it? i can't handle this." matt sighs, turning and walking to his room. emilia frowns and it breaks her heart that she can't go after him to comfort him.

when the door closes, emilia looks back at kasey.

"kasey, you're stressing him out so bad." the brunette steps toward the blonde, trying to make her understand. "he doesn't remember anything and that's probably fucking with him a lot right now. just chill out for a couple days."

"you don't need to tell me what to do with my boyfriend." kasey pokes emilia's chest, pushing her back slightly. emilia just nods, not wanting to fight anymore because it might actually break her heart even more.

"the only reason he's your boyfriend is because you tricked him into it!" annabella sassed, causing kasey to send her a look. emilia shakes her head at her, basically telling her it's not worth it.

"kasey, i think you should leave." nick advised, guiding her to the door. she tries to object, but nick insists, pushing her out of the door and closing it in her face.

"thank god." annabella sighs, jumping onto the counter as she drinks her dr pepper.

"ac." chris laughs, using the nickname all the boys call her. she just shrugs.

"she's fucking with my sister's bae." annabella tells them, earning a soft shove to the back of her head by lorenzo.

"bella." emilia rolls her eyes, bumping annabella's leg.

"it's the truth, isn't it?" annabella asks, shrugging her shoulders.

"he's not anymore, annabella. just drop it." emilia snaps quietly, trying not to bother matt.

however, matt comes into the kitchen which causes everyone to look at him.

"i'm just getting a snack." he looks around at everyone confused, catching emilia's eyes before entering the pantry.

"you guys wanna go watch a movie?" nick offers, and everyone nods and walks into the living room. emilia hangs back to make a couple bags of popcorn.

forgetting that matt was in there, emilia enters the pantry, nearly bumping into him.

"oh, sorry." emilia apologizes, grabbing two bags of popcorn and leaving the pantry. matt follows her and grabs a drink from the fridge.

"want some help?" emilia turns to see matt with a small smile on his face. she practically melts seeing him smile at her again.

"sure." emilia answers, handing one of the bags to matt. as she grabs a few bowls, he puts the bag into the microwave.

"so... how are you handling things?" emilia asks, trying to make conversation as the corn kernels pop in the microwave.

"eh. everything feels so new." matt replies, looking down. "like, a year ago, we didn't even have a hundred thousand subscribers on our youtube account, and now we have three million."

emilia smiles, watching his face glow.

"it's fucking crazy and really hard to believe." matt continues, "also, i don't remember shit about me and kasey, so it's hard for me to understand what she wants."

"she's definitely confusing." emilia adds, making matt laugh. "i could tell she was stressing you out earlier, and i just want to apologize for that, honestly. it could've all been avoided if i just kept my mouth shut."

"did you actually yell at her for taking your favorite shirt?" matt asks, raises his eyebrows as he awaits her reply.

"um, not really but kind of." emilia rubs the back of her neck. "it's along the lines of her taking something."

emilia takes the bag of popcorn out of the microwave before putting the next bag in. matt watches her, trying to figure her out.

"so, me and you used to hang out a lot?" matt asks, rubbing the back of his neck, kind of wary on how she'll answer.

"oh yeah, like almost everyday." emilia replies with a smile, which relaxes matt. she didn't react nearly as badly as kasey did.

"do you mind me asking how we met?" matt mumbles, avoiding eye contact.

"of course not." emilia smiles, realizing he's nervous. "it's funny actually."

matt looks up to meet her eyes, smiling with her.

"so me, annabella and lorenzo had been out at the fair for a little while before you and your brothers showed up with the goofiest looks on your faces. neither of us were paying any attention to where we were walking, so we ran right into each other. your blue slurpee went all over my brand new shirt, and it's still stained to this day." emilia tells the story, replaying the memory in her mind. "after that, we seen each other again at a mcdonald's, and annabella made me go talk to you."

"it frustrates me sometimes that i can't remember any of this shit." matt placed his face in his hands. before she can think about it, emilia steps in front of him and takes his hands away from his face, looking into his eyes.

"it's not your fault." emilia comforts him. "you can't control it, and it's completely fine."

matt looks at emilia with a shocked look. he wasn't expecting her to be so close, but he nods nonetheless, smiling at her.

"can i hug you?" matt asks quietly, not sure if emilia heard him until she softly wraps her arms around his neck.

"anytime." she whispers, making him smile into her neck as he hugs her back.

"hey, em-" nick pauses immediately when he sees matt and emilia exchanging physical contact for the first time in what feels like forever. matt turns his head to look at his brother, causing emilia to pull out of the hug. "we're about to start the movie, if y'all want to join."

"yeah, we'll be in there in a second." emilia replies with a smile, turning to get the second bag of popcorn from the microwave.

after putting the popcorn in multiple bowls, the two of them walk into the living room seeing that the only open spot, other than the floor, is a loveseat. emilia knows that they did it purposely, but matt has no idea, so he hands the bowls out and then sits down.

emilia joins him shortly after with a blanket and bowl of popcorn for them to share.

after they get situated, emilia realizes nick chose a horror movie, which nearly causes her to whine audibly. there's no way she can sit beside matt without touching him at all during a scary movie.

***

there's been a few scary moments that have caused emilia to jump slightly, so she's not relaxed in the slightest.

right as the entire room is quiet and the main character is hiding from the killer, he jumps out of nowhere. this causes emilia, annabella and chris to all yell loudly, and popcorn flies out of annabella's bowl, getting all over matt and emilia behind her.

emilia and matt both begin laughing as they look at all the popcorn surrounding them.

everyone else looks back at them as they share a moment, causing them all to smile. the way that they can still click the way they used to was no surprise to anyone.