fifty-three.
[i give up on naming these chapters.]

5:01pm
matt is now texting: the gyals

matt: KAT EM
matt: I THOUGHT YOU TWO SAID YOU SORTED IT OUT

kat: about that

em: WE THOIGHT WE DID
em: WE MESSAGED HER SAYING DW NOTHING BADS GOING ON, DONT OVERTHINK IT BLAH BLAH BLAH

kat: AND THEN SHE SAID "oh okay 🙂 that's chill then"

em: SO WE JUST THOUGHT?? ALL RIGHT WE'RE ALL COOL

matt: oh my god
matt: nO it's NOT COOL

kat: what?
kat: but she said it's all chill :')

matt: nonono it's anything but
matt: aria only ever uses '🙂' when she's saying "this fucking bitch"
matt: in other words
matt: SHE IS EVEN MORE MAD

kat: WELL HOW WERE WE MEANT TK KNOW

em: JDJWK YOU COULDVE GIVEN US AN ARIA DICTIONARY

matt: oH mY fUCK
matt: ok ok here's what's gonna happen

kat: im crying

matt: LISTEN

kat: im FUCLING LISTENING

matt: is she still talking to you both

em: yeah i guess
em: we were texting yesterday as normal

matt: ok GOOD

kat: why..
kat: what are you going to do

matt: im pushing the proposal day forward

em: WHAT
em: BUT ITS NOT READY

kat: THERES STILL T-MINUS 17 DAYS UNTIL THAT DAY

matt: YOU DONT THINK I KNKW THAT
matt: BUT IM SCARED WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF THIS GOES ON TOO LONG
matt: I CANT LOSE HER

em: jfc
em: well what are you going to do??

kat: ^
kat: how do we fit into this??

matt: okay well i have the ring, i have (somewhat) the venue. im scratching the whole idea about different locations forget that. imma just go with grand park

kat: and...

matt: you two are gonna ask to go out to get her mind off things
matt: and then you're going to bring her to the park
matt: where i shall be

em: have you thought about what you're going to say?

matt: um nope
matt: hopefully it will all come out in the moment

kat: wHISI "in the moment" PLAN KT MATT

matt: I HAVE A ROUGH IDEA OK

em: okay okay when is this going to go down

matt: uM
matt: saturday

kat: STAURDYA
kat: ITS FUCKIG THIRSDAY MATT

matt: IM awARE

em: TJATS SO SOON HOLY FUCK

kat: im scared

matt: how do you think i feel then.
matt: im fucking terrified

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[a/n: hM sOON.]