REAL LIFE (BIG TIME SKIP TO MAY 31),

Ella and Baylen step foot off of their plane and is greeted with the familiar scent of the Boston Logan airport.

"Is it just me, or does the smell of this airport hit different?" Baylen mentions as he and Ella walk to baggage claim. 

"I mean it smells like every other airport we've been to. OO- except for that one in Washington, that one smelt so good." Ella replies, "It smelt like a unicorn had taken a big dump in the bathrooms." Baylen reminds his best friend, "And? That's not a bad thing." Ella states as they look for their luggage. They had planned on staying longer this time. From June to August, the whole Summer, so they packed more.

While Ella sees one of her bags, she goes and gets it. Baylen, being the dumbass of himself he is, he jumps on the baggage claim belt thing.

One lady begins to shout at him to be a responsible 'teenager' and stop messing around and take life seriously. Baylen rolls his eyes at this and continues to crawl around the belt.

He takes a piece of luggage and holds it up.

"WHO'S IS THIS?" He shouts.

An old lady raises her hand and begins to walk towards Baylen.

Baylen gets off and gives the suitcase to the lady.

"Thank you." she smiles, "Of course, do you have anything else?" Baylen asked, "No, thank you though. You have a nice day." she replies.

"You too."

"Aw Baylen that was so nice of you." Ella gushes as she and Baylen see their bags and goes to get them.

"Well I'm a nice person." Baylen states with confidence while they pull their bags off of the conveyer belt.

The two best friends walk out to the parking garage when they looked for their favorite boys.

"Is that them?" Baylen asked, pointing to a group of people. "I think it is." Ella smiles as the group grows closer to her.

"IT IS THEM!" Ella exclaims as she lets go of her luggage and runs to her friends.

"LANA." She exclaims, running to her first.

"AMMA, I  missed you." Alahna says joyfully as the two best friends hug while Chris and Baylen hug.

Ella lets go of Alahna and goes up to her boyfriend and hugs him as Nick and Baylen greet each other.

"Hey Matty." Ella smiles, "Hey El Bel." Matt replies, letting go of the girl.

"We missed you guys." he states, "Yeah we missed you guys too." Ella replies while Baylen goes to Alahna.

Everyone watches their interaction, knowing they liked each other.

The two talk about missing each other a lot and how they were excited to hang out again. They continue to catch up while Ella hugs Chris and Nick as well.

Once everyone was done with that, they all pile into the van. Matt drove while Chris rode shotgun. Alahna and Baylen sat in the middle row while Nick and Ella sat in the very back.

No one had taken notice of the slight action, but Baylen had rested his hand on Alahna's thigh the whole car ride home while Alahna's hand was on top of his own.

When Ella had leaned / stood up in her seat to see what Chris had wanted to show her on her phone, she had caught a glance of Alahna and Baylen's hands. She gasps with a smile, receiving a chorus of what's in response.

"Look at Baylen and Alahna. Holding hands. Aww." She gushes, still leaning up while Chris turns in his seat and Nick leans forward to see it.

"I SHIP." He exclaims, "I second this." Chris adds, "Me too." Both Ella and Matt add at the same time.

"Oh my God you guys are like Balahna  or Lestrella." Ella spit out ideas for their ship name.

"OO OR Baylena," Chris suggests.

"I like Lestrella." Nick announces, "Me too." Matt agrees.

"Lestrella it is!" Ella exclaims, her and Nick plopping back down in their seats.

Baylen and Alahna groan and sigh in defeat.

"You're annoying." Baylen states, "You love me." Ella replies. "Not anymore." he argues.

"Wait you guys dated in high school right?" Alahna asked her friends.

"Yeah..." Baylen replies, unsure if Alahna would freak out or something, but his uncertainty washes away once Ella replies.

"Yeah we did. But it's water under the bridge. It was a long time ago, there's no more feelings there anymore."

"Oh okay. Okay but to be honest, no shade towards Matt, you guys as a couple would be literally so iconic. Like troublemaker with a troublemaker, that's adorable."

Ella watches as Matt sort of tenses up at Alahna's words and looks back at everyone through the mirror since he can't turn around.

"I mean it was chaotic, but I like who I ended up with." Ella replies, smiling at Matt. "And plus, I'm gonna need someone to like make me chill you know? Like with Baylen we were always at it and fucking around. With Matt, he can like calm me down when I need it." she adds.

"Yeah, and not gonna lie. You and Baylen are way cuter of a couple than Ella and Baylen." Chris states, making a disgusted face at Ella's name.

"Mhm just like I'm cuter with Matt than you'll ever be." Ella claims back to the youngest triplet, "Says the one who has only known him for a year, only dated for a half. I've known him my whole life bitch. Try me." Chris shoots back.

"That's not my fault I've been in Florida my whole life. And plus, you were born with him that's not fair." Ella states, "Don't hate the player, hate the game." 

And with that, Chris turns back in his seat so he's facing forward, knowing he had the last word.

KIERA SPEAKS: oh well would you look at that, an actual chapter that's not instagram or tiktok