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Kylie and Malia had just arrived at the interview and this one was an important one. And the whole cast of Rise Of Red would be there. Malia was already feeling stressed today, but she would have to push through it. At least she had Kylie to distract her. She really appreciated her Co-star/best friend. She would always make sure she was okay, and distracted. And that almost always worked. But something about today wasn't right.

Kylie was standing with Malia, she could sense something wasn't right with the other girl. Malia had always tended to get in her head about stuff like this. "Hey, Lia? Are you okay?" Kylie asks, grabbing Malia's hand.

Malia stayed quiet for a little while, not fully registering that Kylie was there, until Kylie asked for her again, and she snapped up "Oh! Oh, yeah, I'm fine. Thanks Ky."

Now Kylie was getting more worried, she wished there was more she could do to help. Kylie turns her whole body towards Malia, and grabs her other hand, so she's holding both her hands. "Malia, are you 100% sure you're okay? It's okay to not be okay for a minute, you know that right? You can tell me what's going on." Kylie says with a gentle smile.

Malia gives her a small smile, appropriating Kylie's concern "Well.. I-i'm feeling some anxiety, but it's not that bad."

"Thank you for telling me. I'm sorry you feel this way. Here, let's go back here. We have like 30 minutes till we're on, so we can just chill in the quiet for a bit.  How does that sound?"

"Lia, it's fine. I promise, we can just sit back here for a little and then get ready, plus you know we only start getting ready 10 minutes before" Kylie says with a smile

"O-okay...if you say so." Malia sighed, grabbing Kylie's shoulder.

Kylie beamed at that, she wraps her arm around Malia and pulls them towards a quiet empty room. "Here we are."

"This room is actually pretty sweet!"

"I told you" Kylie smirks. "Come on let's go sit on the couch, actually you lay down, I know that helps sometimes." Kylie says as she pulls the other girl towards the couch

Malia follows, sitting on the couch, letting out a sigh "Ah, it feels good to actually sit on something comfortable."

Kylie laughs "Definitely. Those interview chairs are not as comfortable as I thought they were gonna be." Kylie says as she grabs Malia's hand and starts playing with her fingers.

Malia nods in agreement "We should invest in getting them new chairs." She sighed

"Oh for sure, I would rather bring my own chair from home then sit in those again."

"But alas, we are stuck with hard wood chairs." She sighs dramatically*

Kylie laughs again "Dork" She teases

"Hey! You're the one who posts those silly TikToks!"

"Hey! Those aren't silly! They're funny! And the viewers love them so"

"I suppose, I don't understand how you can post that many videos in a day without thinking about what people think about you."

Kylie thought for a second before she said anything. "Well, I guess I do think what others will think of me, but there's always gonna be haters and trolls, but I just try to think of the positive comments more, you know?"

She nods "You should make a live and invite Morgan! She's probably close. Or Ruby."

Kylie smiles* "That's a good idea!" *She pulls out her phone and goes to Instagram. but she pauses first,* "Are you sure you wanna go live with me right now? I know your feeling a bit better but the comments, you know how they are sometimes" Kylie laughs "We could just wait until after the interview, or do it later tonight if you wanna have a sleepover."

Malia lights up "Ooo a sleepover! Sure. Do you think the rest of the cast would want to?"

Kylie smiles "Ruby and Josh probably will, Morgan too, I think Dara"s busy but we can still ask."

"Alright, then, let's wait."

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Kylie looked over and saw that malia had fallen asleep, they had to start getting ready for the interview in like 5 minutes, but she thought it would be fine to let her sleep 5 more minutes.

5 minutes pass, and Kylie starts gently rubbing Malias face with her thumb “Lia, we gotta get up now, it's time to start getting makeup done"

Malia groaned, shaking her head "No…"

Kylie chuckles quietly "Lia come on, we have to get up" Kylie kisses her forehead

Malia at first sits up, blinking her eyes to adjust to the light, before realizing what Kylie had done and slightly blushed "Fine, how much time before we go?"

Kylie smiles at how out of it malia seemed "We have about 3 minutes to go to hair and makeup. but don't worry, I checked and apparently we had an hour instead of 30 minutes"

Malia immediately got up, rushing up, putting her coat on "Okay, okay! Hurry up Ky!"

Kylie laughs at Malia rushing "Lia, I said we have some time don't worry." Kylie gets up and walks over to Malia.

"You always look your best, but okay, let's go" Kylie grabs Malia's hand and opens the door

Malia rolled her eyes, whacking Kylie on the arm.

"Hey!" Kylie said with no real bite to it, in fact she started laughing

"That wasn't my fault! Completely my hands fault."

"Uh huh, yeah sure." Kylie rolls her eyes, they arrive at hair and makeup, and Kylie walks Malia to her station and then she walks over to hers, ready to get glammed up.

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“Well, a special welcome to the cast of Descendants: Rise of Red!”

First Kylie and Malia walk in, taking the two seats in front, Ruby sitting next to them. Next is Dara, Morgan, and Joshua. They all take their seats waiting

"Hi, I'm Kylie cantrall and I play Red" Kylie says as she smiles.

“Welcome, welcome! It’s so nice to meet you all.”

"Thank you! We're all as excited to see you!" Malia replied.

“Hi everybody!” Ruby replies excitedly

“Well, why don’t we start off with the questions everyone is dying to know!” The interviewer said excitedly.

Kylie chuckles, but she looks over to Malia, and she has her stressed smile on.

Malia sucked a breath in, nervous. There were millions of things that the interviewer could be talking about.

Kylie sees the gears turning in Malias head and reaches for Malia's hand.

Malia grabs her hand, squeezing tightly, Kylie squeezing back.

“Are you guys excited for D5?!”

Kylie smiles "Yes, I am so excited! I can't wait to start filming again, it will be amazing being back with my little family."

"Yes, I agree with Kylie, it has been such an amazing experience and I can't wait to be back in my Chloe costume, I miss my little wig."

"Ah yes, I love wearing my red wig. it will be Red and Bluey back at it again" Kylie beams

Dara eyes the pair, giving a knowing smirk to Ruby.

"So many things to look forward to! I can't wait to look at the storyline."

“Is there anything you guys can confirm for us about D5?”

Kylie chuckles nervously "I don't think we can say anything yet."

"There will be new characters though." Malia adds

“Well, if there’s one thing we’re always excited about it’s new characters.” The interviewer smiled, “What are some things you guys would like to see in this upcoming movie?”

Kylie giggles and looks over at malia but doesn't say anything

Ruby gives the two of them a look

Dara grins "Perhaps we see grown up versions of ourselves. Or maybe their children. Like the child of Uliana, or Something." She responded

"Yes, that would be really cool to see that, and maybe like love interests for certain characters." Kylie grins.

“That was actually my next question! What kind of love interests do you see your characters having?”

Kylie grins "I would definitely love to see Red have a love interest, maybe a new character or maybe an already existing character" She looks over at Malia really fast and then looks away.

Malia smiled, chuckling like she knew something "Yeah, same with Chloe. But the person would have to work for it because Chloe is tough and independent."

The interviewer nodded, “And being the daughter of Cinderella and Prince Charming I imagine she’ll be looking for her own perfect fairytale.”

"Yes, there is still a lot we could learn about Chloe."

“Malia, there’s a lot of speculation going around about Chloe’s sexuality and if it maybe reflects your own?”

Malia freezes her heart rate going up. She didn't know how to respond, but she tried to improvise. "Uhh...uh, Well- I can't really answer that question-"

“Maybe we should move onto a different topic…” Ruby says softly.

“The people want to know,” The interviewer pressed.

"I... I'm sorry, but I have already said I cannot answer the question." Malia said, trying to contain her emotions.

“Can we just move on? Malia already said she doesn’t want to” Ruby says, slightly annoyed.

Kylie is getting upset, but is trying to hide it "I think it's time to move on to a different question." She rubs Malia's hand with her thumb.

“Okay, we’ll move on then. Dara, this question is for you. What are your thoughts on-“ and the interview continues. The interview doesn’t ask any of them any more uncomfortable questions but it’s clear Malia is still having trouble throughout the process.

Malia starts tapping her foot, not listening to them anymore, her stress going up.

“Malia you ok?” Ruby asks her worrying

Kylie squeezes Malia’s hand in silent support.

She tries nodding her head, but her breathing starts getting heavy. She can't take this...."I need a bathroom break." Malia announced, rushing out of the interviewing office.

Kylie jumps up after Malia, and follows her back to the room, she walks to the door, and knocks "Lia? Hey, it's me. It's Kylie. Can I come in?"

Malia doesn't answer, crying could be heard from the room

Kylie checks the door, and it's unlocked, she slowly opens the door and sees malia crying and walks over carefully, she slowly sits next to malia not touching her yet, but close enough to let her know she's there.

Malia breathed heavily, not noticing her at first, she started clawing at her clothes, her leg tapping against the floor.

Kylie sees her start pulling at her clothes, she grabs Malia's hand and starts rubbing with her thumb. Physical touch always helps Malia when she feels like this.

"Kylie..." She tried, tears pooling her eyes.

"I know, I know. it's okay, you'll be okay" Kylie says with a small crack in her voice as she pulls Malia into a hug.

Malia hugs her tighter, tears falling from her eyes.

“I’m sorry, it's okay, it's okay" She hugs Malia tighter.

"No, no, no nothing is okay!"

“Lia, look at me" Kylie says as she pulls away from the hug and cups malia face, she rubs her tears away with the pads of her thumbs* "Lia, it's gonna be okay, it's gonna be okay, I promise."

After a few moments, Malia finally calms down, backing away from the hug "I-i'm sorry you had to see me go through that."

"Hey, please don't apologize. I’m glad I got to be here for you. We can stay here as long as you'd like, okay?"

"We...we need to get back to the interview…"

"No we don't okay? we can stay here however long we need to, especially after what that interviewer said. We don't have to rush. here lay your hand in my lap, okay? Just rest for a bit"

Malia complied, laying down in Kylie's lap

Kylie starts running her hands through Malia's hair "Close your eyes, i'll get you up in a little."

Malia nodded, instantly falling asleep.

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Dara walks in with Ruby, giggling, until they spot Malia and Kylie cuddling on the couch. Malia had her  head in Kylie's lap, while Kylie caressed her hair. It was an... interesting sight to say the least, but it wasn't surprising. They both shared a love for physical contact. Dara gave Kylie a small smile, waving to her, before sitting down.

“Oh, it seems like you two are comfortable.” Ruby giggles.

Kylie chuckles, "Yeah, Malia had... uh well she needed a minute. So we’ve just been laying here." Kylie whispers as to not wake the sleeping girl in her lap.

"Ah, okay. Do you want us to leave or- are we still having our sleepover?" Dara asks.

"Yeah we can still have the sleepover, well if Malia’s up to it." Kylie looks down at the sleeping girl and tucks her hair behind her ear.

"What happened? Was it the question?" Dara asks with a frown on her face.

“Yeah I think it was, she was already stressed and anxious before the interview and I think that pushed her over the edge" Kylie says sadly.

Dara frowns,  "Aw, poor Malika. I hope she'll be okay. Those questions...they shouldn't even be asked."

"They definitely should not have been asked. They didn't even warn us beforehand that they had questions like that." Kylie says bitterly.

"Did...did she have...an anxiety attack?" Dara asked hesitantly.

Before Kylie could answer Morgan walked in. “There you guys are. What-” And then she noticed Malia asleep on Kylie. “Oh, sorry.” She whispered.

Kylie smiles, "Hey Morgan." Kylie turns back to Dara "Yeah she had a anxiety attack, I helped her through it, but she was so out of it I just told her to sleep"

"That's good. She needs her sleep. Should we just...go somewhere else until she wakes up?"

“We could go to a café or something” Ruby says.

"You guys can go or stay, it doesn't matter as long as we don't wake her up. I'm gonna let her sleep for maybe another hour and then take her home. I can text you guys when we get there, if you leave." Kylie explains.

"Alright. Tell her we wish her well." Dara smiled.

Kylie smiles at Dara “I will”. They start to get up, and Kylie goes back to playing with Malia’s hair. 

After an hour passed, Kylie starts to slowly rub Malia’s face with her thumb again, "Hey, baby? It's time to wake up, we can go home now." Kylie says as she gently shakes the sleeping girl’s shoulder.

Malia groaned, but got up, rubbing her eyes tiredly "Mmm, hey Ky."

"Hey, Lia. How are you feeling?" Kylie says as she pushes the hair out of Malia’s face.

"Well rested. And calm." Malia sighed.

Kylie smiles, "That’s good. Why don't we get up, and I can take you home, everyone is gonna come over later but for now it can be just us and I can get us food?" Kylie says.

Malia nods, "Yeah, what are our options?"

"Well, whatever you want. You get to pick" Kylie smiles.

"Can we have Mexican food?" Malia asks.

"Yeah we can get Mexican, there's a place on the way back to my house, we can stop there." Kylie moves to get up, after she stands she offers her hand to Malia.

Malia grabs Kylie's hand and follows her out of the building, never letting go of her hand.

They walk towards Kylie's car, Kylie walks over to the passenger side and opens the door for Malia "Here you go" she smiles.

"Oh why thank you my kind sir." Malia chuckled

Kylie chuckles, "Well of course my lady” She tried some type of bow but failed. Malia laughed, smiling at Kylie.

Kylie closed the passenger door once she made sure Malia was fully in the car. She walked over to the driver side and got in and closed the door and started the car, and puts on a quiet playlist and starts driving to the Mexican place.

They arrive at the restaurant after about 20 minutes. "Lia, let's go in."

Malia nodded, but kept looking behind her, scared that people might see, but followed.

Kylie noticed that Malia keeps looking around, but decided not to comment. They walk in and she asks for a booth somewhere near the back of the restaurant as she figured not many people would be back there and Malia would feel better to be away from prying eyes. They follow the waiter and sit at the small booth. "You okay?" Kylie asks sweetly.

She nods, looking back to Kylie, "I'm alright. It's just- the last time I was here, paparazzi were everywhere. This is a popular place."

"Yeah, but nobody's here right now, okay? You don't need to worry. If any paparazzi show up we can leave, okay? For now just find what you want to eat and we can order" Kylie says as she grabs Malia's hand from under the table.

Malia smiled, nodding, confident, "Okay..thanks." She opened the menu.

“Ah hi guys!” Ruby waves.

Malia looks up and smiles widely, waving to Ruby* Hey! Come sit with us!"

“Oh I was wai- actually sure I’ll come sit with you guys!” Ruby says as she sits down.

"So, are you here by yourself? Or.." Malia raised an eyebrow, "A date?"

“No! I am not!” She says defensively

Kylie smirks "You sure about that Ruby?"

“Ugh! Stop being so noisy!” She groans.

"So is that a yes?" Kylie giggles.

"Probably." Malia laughed.

“Why are you two so noisy!” She buries her head in her hands.

Kylie laughs, "Oh come on ruby, we're just messing with you! But we now know the truth because you wouldn't be acting like this otherwise" Kylie smirks again "Soooooo..who is it?" She asks as she rests her head on her hand and leans closer in anticipation.

“No one! Jeez Kylie!” Ruby whines.

Malia rolls her eyes, leaning back "Sure ~"

Kylie giggles "You do realize, that we just have to watch the door and we will know who it is..." Kylie raises her eyebrow.

“She isn’t coming for a while anyway!” She says quickly.

"She?" Malia asks

“Did I say she! I meant uh-“ She start stuttering.

Malia smiled, looking at Kylie "Ohhh Ruby's got a girlfriend!"

"Ohhh who's the lucky girl?" Kylie smiles.

“No one!” Ruby smiles awkwardly

Malia raised an eyebrow again, but didn't press "Anyways, how long will you be staying?"

“Uh..I’m not sure”  She admits.

"Will you be able to come for our sleepover?"

“Oh yeah I don’t see why I wouldn’t,she doesn’t wants to come back to my house since she wants to go too” Ruby says not thinking.

"Oh my gods, we know her?" Kylie says excitedly.

Malia thinks a little before lighting up. There's only two other girls who are in the cast. “Morgan, or Dara?"

“I-..I”  She starts stuttering.

"Its okay, don't worry. I don't want to overwhelm you."

"Yeah, you don't have to tell us if you don't want to. Sorry if it felt like we were pressuring you"

“It’s fine..uh it’s uh” She tries to think of what to say

Malia gives Ruby a reassuring smile, "You got this."

Kylie reaches for Ruby's and gives her a reassuring smile.

Just then Morgan walked in. She stops, hesitating when she sees who Ruby is sitting with. She tries to get the pink girl’s attention without the other two noticing.

Kylie was facing the door, and just then she looked up and saw Morgan. Her eyes widened but tapped ruby's hand and nodded her head towards the door.

“Hm? Oh Morgan!” She waves excitedly at her.

Malia looks over and smiles at Morgan "Hi!!"

“Hey guys,” Morgan smiles, looking nervously at Ruby.

Ruby smiles “Eee! You’re finally here! Uh I mean…”

“Yeah, are we…?” Morgan trailed off, unsure how to ask if they were staying with Kylie and Malia.

“Huh oh no we don’t have to…” Ruby laughs nervously.

"Don't have to do what? Come? Of course you don't have to! We just thought it would be fun." Malia said.

"Oh no, I think they meant to sit with us Lia." Kylie laughs.

“I kinda thought…” Morgan trailed off. She’d been under the impression this was a real date. Just for the two of them.

"You guys don't have to sit with us, don't feel pressured too." Kylie says

"Yeah, it's alright!"

Morgan shifts awkwardly from foot to foot.

“You're on your date though isn’t that a bit awkward?” She says confused.

“Maybe we should go somewhere else,” Morgan said.

Kylie chokes on air "Oh we're not on a date!"

Malia blushed heavily "Y-yeah...uh-"

“Oh sorry I- let’s go Morgan!” She says quickly

“Uh, okay,” Morgan says, letting Ruby pull her away.

“Bye guys! See you later!”

"So...are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Malia asked Kylie once they left.

"Yes definitely, they're together right? I mean look at them" Kylie laughs.

"I know! But...we have to give them space."

"Yeah, or... I mean we can give them space! But maybe from a distance we can hear and see?" Kylie smirks with a mischievous glint in her eye.

Malia smacks Kylie slightly "No! Privacy Kylie. We can't become the paparazzi.”

"Ow!" Kylie sighs "Fine, you're right, we won't spy, let's just finish eating and we can go to the store and pick up snacks for the sleepover tonight, then we can go home and watch a movie while we wait." Kylie says.

Malia nods "Okay. Great idea. I love snacks."

“You dork.” Kylie says smiling.

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Ruby groans as they sit down at a table “Sorry about them I promise this is a uh real date…you know what I mean right?”

Morgan nods. “In hindsight…maybe we shouldn’t have picked the restaurant they always come too…”

“Ye-yeah I didn’t think that through, sorry.” She says softly.

Morgan clears her throat, “W-well, I came to talk to you, not them so we can just…pretend they aren’t here?”

“Yeah yeah let’s just forget.” Ruby smiles awkwardly.

“So…I know you can’t have sweets…are there any other foods you don’t like or can’t have?” Morgan asks, try to break the awkwardness.

“Oh uh, a few I’m kinda picky about a some things and I have an allergy to other non food related things, is there any foods you don’t like?” Ruby smiles as she fiddles with her fingers.

“Hmm,” Morgan reaches across the table without thinking, taking Ruby’s hand to keep her from nervously picking at it. “I’m not real picking. Some textures are just a no though. Like eggplant. What even is that?”

Ruby laughs “Ew, eggplant like what is that!”

“And zucchini.” Morgan says, “I do not understand that one either. Although, zucchini bread is good.”

“I wouldn’t know,” She continues to laugh.

“Well, maybe I can make you some.” Morgan says, squeezing Ruby’s hand.

Ruby realizes that Morgan is holding her and hand and starts blushing “You don’t have to do that. I might not even like it.”

Morgan shrugs it off, “It’s not a problem. I’ll just keep making stuff till we find something you like.”

Ruby looks away awkwardly “You really don’t have to do that Morgan I don’t want to waste what you make especially if you took forever making it.”

“Oh, it’s easy. Besides, I like making you things.”

Ruby sighs “I’m not going to be able to change your mind, am I?”

“Nope!” Morgan grins, squeezing Ruby’s hand.

“Guess there’s no point trying.”

“You should just give in and let me take care of you.” Morgan flirts not realizing the other why her words could be taken.

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“I-uh..wh-what do you mean?” Ruby say turning bright red at this point.

Morgan shrugs, still not getting it, “I just like taking car- oh! You meant-…I didn’t mean-…I mean, if you want me to…I’m just gonna shut up.” Morgan stops red faced.

Ruby hides her face in her hands.

“I’m sorry,” Morgan whimpers, “I didn’t mean to make you uncomfortable.”

“No! No! You didn’t..I’m just embarrassed”

“I’m still sorry.” Morgan says, “I shouldn’t say stuff like that.”

“I promise it’s fine I shouldn’t have made it awkward!” Ruby says softly trying to make Morgan feel better.

Morgan reaches back over, silently asking for Ruby’s hand. “Why does this feel so awkward? We’ve been close for years now.”

Ruby doesn’t notice that Morgan wants her hand. “I don’t know! This really shouldn’t be this awkward I mean I love talking to you.”

Morgan smiles softly, hand still outstretched, “What…What are you looking for? You know, with this, us?”

Ruby sees Morgan’s hand and lets her hold her hand before looking at Morgan. “I mean whatever you want.”

“I want you. I want this to be real. If you…if this is just a-a passing thing for you-“

“I-I want you to…”

Morgan paused, then smiled and squeezed Rudy’s hand. “Okay then. You have me. I want to make this work.”

“Ok..yeah! Let’s make this work…yeah.” Ruby smiles nervously.

Morgan, deciding there was no harm in being extra flirty, lifts Rudy’s hand and kisses it gently.

Ruby giggles “You’re such a flirt!”

Morgan gives Rudy a lopsided grin. “I try.”

Ruby sighs contently “We have quite a bit of time until that sleepover and I know we’re not going to take forever eating sooooo what should we do until then?”

“The hotel I’m staying at is fairly close to Kylie’s place. We could always go there and watch a movie or…um, something?” Morgan offers.

“That sounds good! We can watch a super cute movie and see where it leads us!” Ruby says excitedly.

Morgan smiles and nods just as their food comes.

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After they got done eating they went to the store and got snacks. (mostly Malia’s favorites) They drive back to the house and set all the snacks up on the counter. Malia is still in the kitchen as Kylie walks to the living room to set up the movie "Lia?! what movie do you want to watch?!" Kylie yells from the other room.

"Hmm, we should watch descendants 2!"

"Okay! Hurry up!" Kylie says as she lays on the corner of the couch. "Liaaaaaaaa, come onnnn! I wanna start the movie."

"I'm coming!" She yelled, rushing over to Kylie "Shouldn't we wait till the cast comes?" 

"They aren't gonna be here for another 2 and a half hours, so we have time to watch this movie and we can watch more later. Plus I think most of them are gonna be running late. Now come lay down with me so I can start this movie." Kylie says as she holds her arm out so Malia can lay next to her.

Malia rushed over, canonballs into the couch, sitting comfortably by Kylie, "Okay, start it!"

Kylie wraps her arm around Maila and presses play on the movie. as the movie begins Kylie puts her head on Malia’s shoulder.

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Morgan smiled as she watched Ruby watch the cheesy movie. The younger girl was enjoying it so much and she looked so kissable. Morgan paused at the thought. Could she kiss Ruby now? No harm in trying was there? 

Morgan reached over and hooked Ruby’s chin on her finger pulling the blonde to face her. 

Ruby yelps “Hm?”

Morgan doesn’t say anything she just leans closer while staring at Ruby’s perfectly pink lips. She goes slow and is carful not to close the distance all the way, making sure Ruby has a chance to pull away.

Ruby pulls away for a second before letting Morgan kiss her.

Morgan smiles smugly and keeps the kiss slow and gentle. It’s long moments of kissing Ruby’s perfect pliable lips before she pulls away again to breathe.

“W-woah,” Ruby stutters out.

Morgan grins, “Should I take that as a compliment?”

Ruby nods.

“Can I…do it again?”

“If you want I wouldn’t mind.” Ruby blushes.

“Oh? You don’t mind?” Morgan teases.

“Ugh..I shouldn’t have admitted that.”

Morgan laughed lightly for a moment before sobering back up. “So,” She tilted Ruby’s chin up. “I can do it again?”

“Please?”

“That’s better,” Morgan surged forward, this time being slightly less gentle. She nipped at Ruby’s bottom lip.

“Mph!” Ruby moans into the kiss.

Morgan presses forward, changing their position and forcing Ruby to lay down on the couch under her. She pulls back panting, “Is this okay?”

“Ye-yeah this..is good.” Ruby says softly trying to not her nerves get to her

“Tell me if it’s too much. I’ll stop.” Morgan promises.

“Ok..” Ruby smiles.

Morgan smiled now that Ruby didn’t look so scared. The trust in her Ruby was showing was addictive. She leans down and kisses her again. She wants to taste the soft skin on Ruby’s neck but that will have to wait.

Ruby wraps her arms around Morgan’s neck as she tries to keep herself together.

Morgan licks at Ruby’s lips, requesting entrance.

Ruby pulls Morgan closer as she eagerly lets her in, not in a thousand years did she think she would ever be this desperate to make out with someone.

Morgan sweeps in, moaning at Ruby’s taste. After a moment she breaks away and leaves a trail of hot kisses across Ruby’s cheek and down her neck.

“Ah~ Mor-Morgan, are you sure this is ok?” Ruby moans.

Morgan moves her lips to Ruby’s ear. “Is there a reason it wouldn’t be?” She whispered.

“I mean I don’t want to disturb anyone…”

“You can be quiet, can’t you?” Morgan says in a husky whisper. She trails her lips back down looking for that sweet spot.

“Yes I can try~ please don’t stop!” Ruby groans.

Morgan had absolutely no intention doing so. She moves slowly still looking for that sensitive spot.

“Morgan~ we have that sleepover.”

“So?”

“Shouldn’t we start getting ready to go?”

Morgan groaned and pulled away. “But I want to stay with you.”

“I guess we could stay a little longer, but I don’t want to be late ok?”

Morgan grins and pulls Ruby into her lap, “Sounds good to me.”

Ruby yelps before relaxing into Morgan “Do you also have to do this? Not that I mind!”

Morgan pouted playfully, “I like having you close.”

“You’re lucky you’re comfortable” Ruby sighs contently “Just don’t let me fall asleep.”

Morgan smiles, “I’m glad I’m comfy.”

Ruby nuzzles into Morgan’s neck “To comfy for your own good.”

Morgan laughs softly and wraps her arms around Ruby’s waist. “I’ll take it.”

Ruby yawns and rubs her eyes before groaning “Ugh! Why are you so warm? It’s so impractical when I’m trying not to fall asleep!”

“You can sleep. It’s okay if we’re a little late. Kylie won’t even notice. She’ll only be paying attention to Malia anyway.” Morgan said softly. She really liked the way Ruby felt lying against her like this. Relaxed and warm.

Ruby closes her eyes and relents as she knows she’s going to fall asleep in Morgan’s arms “Don’t let me sleep for more than a half hour ok? I still want to show up.”

“Alright,” Morgan whispered, she checked her watch to make sure she’d know when to wake her…girlfriend? Were they girlfriends now? Should she ask?

Ruby feels the tension building and tiredly pulls away from Morgan so she can see her “What’s wrong?”

“Hmm? Oh, I just…nevermind. You should rest.” Morgan deflects.

Ruby looks at Morgan trying to figure out why she won’t tell her “Come on~ what is it? I’m curious.”

Morgan sighs, “Are we…um, what are we now?”

“Hm? What do you mean?”

“I mean…are we…are we girlfriends now or…?” Morgan mumbles, not sure why she’s suddenly so awkward.

Ruby blushes at the thought “I-uh do.. you want..that?”

Morgan looked up at her for a moment before nodding. “Yeah, I-…I want everything with you.”

Ruby smiles and hugs her “Then it’s settled we’re..girlfriends?”

Morgan grins and steals another quick kiss. “Girlfriends.”

Ruby cuddles into Morgan and kisses her cheek “I love you,”

Morgan freezes.

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Ruby starts laughing “You know people usually say it back, right?”

Morgan just pulls Ruby down into another kiss. Hoping to relay her feelings that way.

Ruby gasps and warps her arms around Morgan’s neck pulling her closer.

They kiss for a moment before Morgan pulls away and rests her forehead against Ruby’s. “I love you too.”

Ruby smiles and pulls her into another kiss.

Morgan figures they aren’t going to make it to Kylie’s sleepover in time.

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Malia looks over and smiles as the movie ends. Kylie was asleep. Of course. She checks her phone to see if there were any messages she missed and...woah. she missed 136 messages. She was not going to be reading all of those. So, she just decided to scroll to the bottom. To her surprise, Dara had texted she and Joshua were on their way...20 minutes ago. Oh no. She shuffled around, trying to set things up carefully as Kylie slept, but just then, Joshua burst through the door.

"I’m here! I'm here! sorry I’m lat-"  Joshua gets cut off as he walks into the living room to see Malia shushing him as Kylie sleeps on her shoulder "Awww she's adorable, but I’m so taking blackmail photos." he laughs as he pulls out his phone to take pictures.

"Hey!" Malia growled, not trying to yell, but gives him her fake angry face.

"Sorry! Sorry!" Josh puts his hands up in surrender, but he still laughs.

Kylie sturs beside them but doesn't wake up.

About fifteen minutes go by and there’s no sign of Morgan and Ruby.

Malia sighs as she gets another unanswered call from Ruby "Okay, they aren't answering and they aren't here yet, what's going on?"

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After awhile of them making out Ruby pulls away frantically “Crap that sleepover! Ky, is going to be so mad!”

“Whoa, it’s okay. We can call her.”

Ruby looks at her phone and freaks out even more seeing all the missed calls from Kylie. “Ah! I already missed a bunch of calls from her! I’m a dead man.”

Morgan starts laughing, “She’s not going to be that upset. Betcha they’re napping on each other.”

“You’re right..should I call her back?”

“Probably, just so they know we’re not dead or something.”

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Randomly Kylie gets a call from Ruby.

Kylies stirs again but doesn't wake up.

Malia rushes over to Kylie's lap, and answers before Kylie could wake up "Uh - hello? Ruby?"

“H-Hey gir-girl, uh sorry, I didn’t answer.” Ruby stutters breathlessly.

"Hey! Uh- you sound like you're out of breath. Are you okay? You haven't been answering calls and you're late to the sleepover. It's okay if you don't want to come- we'll understand."

“No! No, I’m coming, we’ll be there soon!”

"Okay! Make sure to cover up those...uh- marks." Malia chuckled.

“What! Th-there’s no marks!” She says embarrassed.

"You sure? You sound like you just made out. And from your tone, for a long time."

Kylie moves and opens her eyes for a second and then closes them again. Not realizing anyone else was here she wraps her arm around Malia’s leg and pulls her closer. She murmurs but otherwise doesn’t wake up as she keeps pulling Malia towards her.

“What..what if I was making the marks?” Ruby mumbles even though she knows she wasn’t.

"Ah!" Malia squealed, pulling herself away "Hold on- Kylie is trying to grab me in her sleep.” She waits a moment for Kylie to settle then, “Okay...wait you? Now you're talking delusional nonsense. You can't."

“What do you mean I can’t!” She says, sounding like she’s offended.

"Ruby, honey, you are not dominant in any way, shape, or form. I'm sorry."

“I- yes I am!” 

"No. No you aren't." Malia laughed "Hurry up and get down here!" 

Kylie trys to pull Malia even closer and block out the noise by putting her face into the couch.

“Fine! But I can be dominant! Just so you know!” She says defensively even though she knows damn well she isn’t. 

Malia struggles to not fall into Kylie, but continues to stand, moving away from Kylie "Sure you can."

Kylie whines but is somehow still asleep. 

“I can be!”

Malia rolls her eyes, shaking her head *Okay then. Prove it."

“How?!”

"When you get here, let me see your neck."

Kylie wakes up, she sits up and rubs her eys "Lia? what's going on?"

Malia hushes Kylie, putting her finger to her lips.

Kylie blushes but stays quite. She looks around and sees Joshua on his phone in the corner of the room, she waves to him. 

Joshua waves back with a smile. 

Morgan’s muffled voice comes through the phone. “Your neck will give you away, pretty girl.”
“Morgan! I’m on the phone why would you say that!” Ruby says loudly.

Malia laughed, smiling "It's alright. I'll let you go. Hurry up though!"

“I won’t let her go,” Morgans voice says again, even more muffled.

“M-Morgan!”

"Lia? Do you have my phone?" Kylie asks confused as she looks around.

Malia feels like now would be the perfect time to hang up. She looked at Kylie, blushing "They're going to be extra late."

Kylie raises her eyebrow at that "Is it why I think it is?"

“Sounds like a plan!” Morgan calls. Malia can hear Ruby squealing before the line goes dead.
"Yes." Malia laughed. Shaking her head at Ruby and Morgan’s antics. 

"God," She laughs "Now come lay back down with me! You were my pillow." Kylie pouts. 

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"We have guests!" Malia says "We're not the only ones here."

"It’s literally just Joshua, he's on his phone anyway," Kylie pouts more.

"And Dara over there, and Ruby and Morgan on their way! We don't sit down for guests." Malia  stressed, rushing around to make sure everything was perfect.

"Lia it's fine. We set up everything before we layed down. Just come sit down with me and calm down for a bit, okay?" Kylie stands up and grabs Malia’s hand.

Malia sighs, sitting beside Kylie, still bouncing her foot "They're gonna use us as black mail. And..and..I think they're gonna go live soon."

Kylie pulls Malia into a hug "Lia, it's fine I promise you. We don't have to go live tonight if you don't want to, okay? and I'll make sure that tonight they leave us alone. Right Josh and Dara?" Kylie gives them a glare.

Joshua see this and nods "I promise,"

Dara comes out of the kitchen with oreas in her mouth and nods.

"Okay.." Malia sighed "I.. I suppose.."

"Its okay, just lay down okay? Morgan and Ruby are gonna be late so we can all just watch another movie while we wait?" Kylie looks around to everyone to get their opinion.

They all nod, heading over to the living room, taking their seats.

"Okay! what do we wanna watch?" Kylie asks the group.

"Ooo I'd like Highschool musical!" Dara says, giving Kylie a smile.

"Okay, how does that sound?" Kylia turned asking Josh and Malia.

Malia nods "Okay!"

Joshua agrees.

Kylie puts on high school musical. She noticed Malia pulling on the skin on her hands and gently pulls Malia so she's basically in her lap. She puts a blanket around the both of them and grabs one of Malia’s hands so she dosen't accidentally hurt herself.

"You doing okay?" She whispers.

Malia smiles, content. She leans her head onto Kylie's shoulder, looking at her eyes "I'm alright. I just...too much... today was a lot for me." 

With Kylie’s free hand she starts running her hand through Malia’s hair. she stares back at Malia, wow her eyes are really prett- not right now! "I’m sorry all that happened today."

"People are definitely going to see that clip and- and allegations are going to come out!"

"Lia? Lia, are you okay?" Kylie asks worried. She was worried Malia would have another panic attack. 

Malia starts breathing heavily, tapping her foot hard on the ground, "I..I.."

Kylie looks around and sees Joshua and Dara looking over at her "Lia? Hey, Lia? Let's go to the other room okay?" She moves Malia carefully off of her lap, she stands quickly and grabs Malia’s hands and pulls her up gently "Josh, Dara, I'm gonna take Malia to the other room, could you keep an eye out for Ruby and Morgan? You can keep watching the movie." 

Kylie dosent wait for a response and just walks Malia to her room. "Here Lia, breathe. copy me, in...out...in...out." She exaggerated her breathes so Malia would have an easier time copying her. 

Malia breathes heavier, shaking her head "No...no..."

Kylie realized that this wasn't working. She walks them over to her bed and pulls Malia down with her, she lays them down so she's practically laying down on top of her like a weighted blanket. Kylie learned that pressure could always help Malia no matter what state she was in, especially when she was having a panic attack "Lia? I'm gonna need you to try and copy my breathing again, okay?" Kylie really hoped this breathing technique would work so Malia doesn't pass out.

Malia nods, but tears start falling from her eyes as she tries to breathe, but fails, "Ky..too much." 

Kylie starts wiping Malia’s tears away "Too much pressure or is it too hard to try to breathe?" She whispers as to not overwhelm her more.

"Both." Malia whimpered, clinging to Kylie tightly "I...too much.."

Kylie starts to worry even more. She didn't know how to help. She couldn't freak out right now, because of she did she would set of Malia even more. She moved so she wasn't laying of top of her but so Malia was laying on top, she wrapped her arms around Malia so there would still be pressure but not to much to overwhelm her more. "Baby? You got this, I'm right here. Breathe." Kylie says trying not to show her panic, mostly knowing Malia was probably gonna pass out from lack of oxygen.

Malia tried to breathe. She really did. But she couldn't. She just kept feeling her heart beat faster and faster, until she could see fuzziness..she knew what this meant. Her eyes started to close as she became limp in Kylie's arms.

Kylie feels Malia finally lose conciseness. "Fuck," she whispers. She stay there for a minute, just holding Malia and to make sure she keep breathing. After she does that she moves Malia a tiny bit too see of she can reach her phone in her pocket. she needed to get Malia water but she couldn't get up. So, she did the next best things and texted Dara,

"Dara can you grab a glass of water and bring it to my room please?'

After she sent that she closed her phone and set it beside her. She started running her hand through Malia’s hair and with her free hand drawing shapes on her back.

Dara immediately responds with a 'Yes, of course.', and a few seconds later, Dara knocks on the door, a cup of water in her hand.

"Come in," Kylie says quietly even though it wouldn't wake Malia up.

Dara gave a small smile, handing Kylie the glass of water "Is Malia okay?"

Kylie’s chin quivered, and a tear fell out of her eyes "I think she will be? I'm not sure. I couldn't get her to breathe properly so she passed out from lack of oxygen." Kylie says sadly

Dara’s eyes widened "She..she did? Do you need us to leave?"

"No! No! It's okay, I don't mind if you stay. I just won't be able to hang out as much as normal." Kylie tries to wipe the tears off of her face but they just keep falling "I- um.. I'll ask what Malia thinks when she wakes up, but yeah you can stay if you guys want." Kylie gives a watery smile.

"Oh, okay. Well...I hope Malia is okay. And- you. She'll be okay. We're with you guys."

After that Dara leaves the room to give Kylie and Malia space. Kylie was determined not to move or leave until Malia was awake. She felt so guilty, this was her fault that Malia passed out (it wasn't) she couldn't help her enough. So, she was gonna stay and help in any other way she could. Just then she feels Malia start to move, she starts to wake up "Hey, Lia" She says and she kisses her forehead.

Malia groaned slightly, rubbing her eyes. Why did she feel so tired, but also, well rested? She didn't know. All she knew was that Kylie was there, and she made her feel safe. She gave Kylie a small smile as she started regaining consciousness "Hi..."

Kylie gave Malia a small watery smile "Hi.. how are you feeling?"

"I...I think I'm doing a lot better...thank you."

"That’s good." Kylie pulls malia closer as more tears escape her eyes.

Malia sighed, thinking for a few seconds before looking up "Why..why are you crying?"

Kylie tried to wipe the tears away as fast as she could "Oh- no- no reason. I'm okay," She tried to smile but you could tell she was sad.

Malia shook her head "No, tell me what's wrong. Did i- did I do something?"

"What! No, of course not! I- I just.. I got a little stressed and when you passed out, and when I get stressed sometimes I start crying. But it's not your fault in any way! I promise." Kylie says as she tucks Malia’s hair behind her ear.

Malia have a small smile, wiping Kylie’s tears "It's okay, I'm okay."

Kylie smiles back at her. she places her hand on Malias face and rubs her cheeks with her thumbs. she looks down at her lips, until she realized she was staring for too long, her eyes snap back up.

Malia didn't notice, and just gave her a smile, before standing up, and going to wash her face off with cold water.

Kylie sat there for a minute contemplating what that was about. I mean she didn't like Malia...right? She knew that most of her followers shipped her with Malia but, she didn't think she actually had feelings for the other girl. this revelation hit her like a train. She didn't know what to do with this information but she knew one thing. She could not tell Malia. At least not right now... she sees Malia exit the bathroom "Lia? I have some water for you, if your thirsty." 

Malia turned around, and gave a slight nod. "Sure...are our friends still here?"

"I think they are? I think Dara said she was gonna stay to see if we needed help with anything. But I’m not sure about Josh, and I don't think Morgan or Ruby ever showed up, but I could be wrong, I mean I haven't left the room since we've been here." Kylie explains.

"Oh..." Malia smiled, blushing at the idea that Kylie stayed with her through her anxiety attack. "We should go check."

Kylie smiles, she stands up and walks over to the door, she holds out her hand to Malia. "Come on, Giggles, let's go talk to our friends." 

Malia smiled and nodded grabbing her hand and followed behind Kylie smiling.

Kylie and Malia walk down the hallway to the kitchen, Kylie spots Dara in the living room, but Josh is no where to be seen. "Hey, Dara, where's Josh?" Kylie asks confused, but she's pretty sure he had to go.

"It was getting to late for him. He said he hoped Maliki felt better and that he wished he could stay longer." Dara explained "Morgan and Ruby are still running late so, don't expect them here soon."

Kylie chuckles "Okay, and yeah I figured Morgan and Ruby would be running late." Kylie turns back around towards Malia "Hey, Lia? Are you hungry?"

"Yeah, a bit. Let's just have popcorn and start because they're probably not gonna be here for another 2 hours."

Kylie smiles "Okay, Dara? Do you want any popcorn?"

Dara nods "Sure!"

"Okay!" She turns towards the cupboard and opens it and grabs the popcorn bag to put in the microwave. "Lia, do you wanna go help Dara pick a movie while the popcorn cooks? I'll be in there in a minute."

Malia nods happily, following Dara into the living room.

Kylie watches Malia leave, she still working through her feelings of realizing that she liked the other girl. 'Do I really like her?' 'Would she like me back?’ is all that's running through her head. A very loud 'BEEP!' shakes her out of her thoughts. she grabs the popcorn out of the microwave and places it in a bowl, she grabs the bowl and walks into the living room. "Soo, what are we watching?" Kylie asks as she plops down next to Malia and places her legs in the other girls lap.

As they start getting settled a knock comes from the door.

Kylie's head shoots up as she hears a knock "Hey, Dara, could you get the door?"

Dara looks up from her spot on the couch and nodded excitedly, opening the door and waving, "Hi guys! Have fun?"

"Finally! They're here!" Kylie says as she rolls her eyes sarcastically.

Morgan grins sheepishly, “Sorry, we got distracted.”

Ruby laughs nervously “Yeah, we were busy…”

Malia comes over and smirks "Oh yeah? I think I can guess what happened." She said laughing.

Kylie started laughing too, leaving Dara pretty confused.

Ruby groans “Ugh! Why you two like this! I’m leaving!”

"No! No! Ruby, I'm sorryyyyy! Stay." Kylie says dramatically but starts laughing again.

Morgan laughs softly, “Whatever y’all think it probably wasn’t that. Come one, we have a movie to watch, don’t we?”

Dara nodded, grabbing their hands and dragging them to the living room, and claims the beanbag.

“Daraaaa,” Morgan whines, “I wanted that. Kylie’s beanbag is the best!”

Ruby sits on the floor next to the couch and stars laughing.

Kylie keeps giggleing "Morgan, you know I have another beanbag in the spare bedroom, right?"

"Noo! I want it!" Malia whines.

Ruby continues to laugh before saying “If you get the bean bag then I’m stealing Kylie.”

Malia crosses her arms, pouting "No fair! They're both comfortable!"

Kylie blushes at that "Giggles, your staying here, I'm comfortable! and I'm not moving." 

"But- beanbag!!"

"No! I'm not moving. Morgan, run! Go get the beanbag!"

Morgan does just that, running to the beanbag.

Malia groaned, trying to get up, but just got stuck and pulled back down by Kylie’s legs. She started to pout.  "That is so unfair!"

"I'm sorry, but I'm comfortable and I don't wanna move, so you're stuck with me." Kylie beams.

"Fine... I suppose I'll stay..." Malia sighed, moving closer and snuggling into Kylie.

Ruby looks over at them and decides to mess with them, “Get a room lovebirds!”

Kylie blushes harder. "Shut it, Ruby! You’re one to talk."

Ruby starts blushing, “I will not be doing that!”

Malia smirks. "Why don't you tell us why you were gone so long?"

Kylie smirks too. "Yeah, tell us." she raises her eyebrow.

“I have claimed the beanbag!” Morgan says walking back in carrying the large thing. “Who wants to share it with me?”

"Probably Ruby!" Malia said.

"Well whoever sits with who, hurry up. I wanna watch the movie!" Kylie said even though she would likely fall asleep.

Ruby curls up on the bean bag next to Morgan, “For you guy’s information, I was taking a nap!”

"Sure! We're doing a neck check later!" Malia teased.

Kylie giggles and falls onto Malia.

"Eeee!" Malia squeals in surprise. 

Morgan grabs a blanket and throws it over herself and Ruby. “Enough, let’s just watch.”

Kylie finally composed herself enough to grab the remote, she pressed play on the movie. "Wait, I just realized I have no idea what movie were watching." She clicks a button so the title appears on screen. 'Brave'.

Ruby cuddles into Morgan’s chest forgetting that they needed to keep their relationship a secret.

Kylie sees this and taps Malia’s hand that she was holding. she nods her head towards Ruby and Morgan and smiles.

Malia looks over, and smiles, chuckling, catching their attention, as she looks away, but not fast enough.

Morgan frowns, “You laugh, but you two are doing the same thing. It’s comfy.”

"Shut up! It's just funny. You can't get mad at us for assuming things when you're this obvious."

Ruby moves away from Morgan feeling rather embarrassed about what’s going on.

Morgan frowned, not happy they’d made Ruby uncomfortable, “Guys, quit it.”

Kylie frowns "I'm sorry. we didn't mean to make you uncomfortable."

Malia did the same, ashamed of herself "I-i'm... I'm sorry- I didn't mean- I'm so sorry Ruby..."

Ruby smiles trying to act like everything’s fine “It’s fine guys, don’t worry.”

Morgan grabs Ruby’s hand and starts rubbing her thumb over the back of it in comfort. “Let just get back to the movie.”

Even though Kylie was still feeling bad about what happened, she figured it would probably be better to just move on. She turned the movie back on, grabbed Malia’s hand and started fidgeting with her fingers, she was pretty sure Malia knew she only did that when she was overthinking but she really hoped the other girl forgot.

Malia immediately felt Kylie's fingers starting to fidget and cursed silently. She tapped Kylie's shoulder with one hand, and squeezed her hand in the other "Ky? You okay?" She whispered.

It takes Kylie a second to process what Malia said. "Hmm, Oh- oh y-yeah, I'm fine. Just...thinking." She whispers back. 

She shakes her head, not accepting that answer. "No, we're going to the kitchen right now."

"O-oh, okay." Kylie says moving her legs off of Malia and allowing her to stand first.

Ruby looks over and sees them leaving feeling even worse than before that she might have made them upset.

Morgan squeezes her hand. “Don’t worry about them, they’ll take care of each other.” She whispered.

“I'm a really bad friend…” 

“No, don’t say that. We’re all friends and we all get it. They just haven’t come to terms with their feelings yet and would rather tease us.” Morgan whispered, scooting closer.

Ruby sighs and rests her head on Morgan’s shoulder “You sure?”

Morgan checks to make sure Dara isn’t looking before kissing Ruby’s head. “Yeah, I’m sure. They’ll be alright.”

Dara sighed, and shuffled in her beanbag, "Can you guys please stop flirting and let me hear the movie? It's my favorite part!"

Ruby blushes softly “Sorry, Dara...”

"Thank you!"

Morgan snickers.

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Malia dragged Kylie to the kitchen, sitting her down on the chair in the kitchen, and sat across from her. "Hey, tell me what's wrong."

Kylie sits there for a minute, trying to figure out how to word what was wrong. She may have been an actress, but she couldn't lie to Malia. "I don't really know how to word it. I wouldn't necessarily say somethings wrong, I just...I think everything kinda hit me when we accidentally made ruby uncomfortable. We made h-her uncomfortable and I think I just started overthinking everything and I- yeah." Kylie takes a breath because she barley breathed that entire time.

Malia hugs her, kissing her on her head "Sh, shh, Ky, we didn't mean to make them uncomfortable. It wasn't our intention. I'm here... I'm here..."

Kylie clings to Malia. She genuinely didn't know why she was feeling like this, but she felt better in Malia’s arms. She took a deep breath. The brunette kinda felt like she wanted to cry again, BUT she wasn't going too (lie). "Thank you..." She said to Malia but moved even closer instead of pulling away.

Malia seemed a little taken back by how long she was holding Kylie, but continued to hold her, trying to comfort her. "Of course. I'll always be here for you. No matter what."

Tears start pouring out of Kylie’s eyes, she didn't know why though! She just wanted it to stop. She clings even tighter to Malia if that's even possible. Griping at Malia's shirt like it's a lifeline. "I-I’m sorry, but thank you. I love you." she says, and she really hopes it doesn't come across the way she really meant it.

Malia embraced her tighter, wiping her tears, and gives her a small reassuring kiss on her head, mumbling a quiet 'I love you' back.

They stayed like that for a while, just holding and comforting each other untill Kylie eventually pulled away. She immediately missed the warmth but didn't say anything. "Sh-should we go back? To the movie." She asks Malia.

Malia didn't like that Kylie pulled away. She was just starting to get comfortable, but she tried her hardest not to let it show. "If you're ready. If you're not, we can stay here as long as you want."

Kylie sat there for a second, thinking if she was okay to go or not "I-I think...I think I’m ready? I don't actually know yet."

"Are...are you okay?" Malia asked, putting her hand on Kylies shoulder. 

"I-I really don't know. It kinda feels like there's this pressure in my chest, but it's not like anxiety pressure. I feel like the only way it will go away is if I have like something holding me, because like when we were hugging it went away. That probably sounds stupid, right? Sorry, forget I said anything." She let's out a sad laugh, then leans back a little in her chair and stares at the floor.

Malia stills a little, before grabbing Kylie from the chair, and pulling her into a tight hug "Sh, hun, you're okay. I'm here."

Kylie immediately relaxs, she didn't realize how much not being in contact with someone hurt in that moment. She sighs and wraps her arms around Malia. "Please, don't let go..."

"I won't ever. However long you want me here, I'll be here, okay?"

Kylie nods but don't say anything. The lights were so bright and the noise from the TV could be heard from the other room and it was not helping what she was feeling. Suddenly, the tight hug wasn't enough. She started breathing a bit heavier.

Malia's eyes widened as she could tell Kylie's sensory issues were getting worse. So she did the only thing she thought of that would help and sat on Kylie's lap, wrapping her arms around her tightly. "Shh..."

It was weird, Kylie felt instantly better when Malia climbed on her lap. it was like everything went quiet. She could breathe again. She took a deep breath and put her head in the crook of Malias neck. she still felt like she couldn't talk yet though, so she just sat there with Malia in her lap and help her like she was the only lifeline she had.

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After a little bit, Kylie and Malia make their way back into the living room. Their friends give them questioning looks, but Malia ignores it, and makes sure she is close to Kylie, giving her as much physical touch as possible. The movie was already almost over, so she just sat back into Kylie

Kylie didn't care that her friends kept glancing over at her. Malia wasn't as close to her as she would like, even though Malia was basically laying on her. Kylie wrapped her arms around Malia’s waist and pulled her so she was sitting in her lap again. She put the blanket around both of them and put her head into the crook of Malia’s neck. Where she felt safe. Kylie started drifting off after a few minutes. 

Malia’s breath hitched once she could feel Kylie against her...all she knew was that her job was to protect her, and keep her secure, and that's what she was planning on doing. Though she was a little embarrassed of the looks she was getting, but that didn't matter at the moment as she snuggled even more into her best friend, and made sure she was safe.

Morgan watches silently while Kylie falls asleep. Ruby had fallen asleep earlier snuggled into her so she figured teasing wasn’t the best idea. But She did want to make sure they were okay. “Is she okay?” Morgan whispered.

Malia jumps a little bit in surprise, but quickly composes herself. Was she okay? She has just had a semi- sensory attack, and she had to be in Malia’s arms at all costs. But she decided to just say the truth. "Oh..well...for now." Malia sighed.

“Do you know what happened? She’s practically wearing you.” Morgan said, a small smile on her face.

Malia blushed heavily, and laughed nervously "Yeah..uh- she had a sensory attack and- she felt really bad that she made Ruby uncomfortable. We both did."

Morgan nodded. “It’s okay. We didn’t mean to make you guys uncomfortable either.”

"That's alright. Are you the only one awake?" Malia asked.

“I think so? Dara? Are you still awake?”

Dara grumbled something that probably wasn't English, and shifted in her beanbag

“I get that’s a no.” Morgan laughed softly. “So, yeah, we’re the only ones awake.”

Malia laughed again, laying back into Kylie "Then, I guess we should go to sleep as well."

Morgan grabs the remote and turns the tv off. “Are you just going to sleep right there with her?”

"I mean, what else can I do? She'll start having an attack again if I'm not close to her."

Morgan shrugged, “I hope you’re at least comfortable.”

"I am. But even if I wasn't, I wouldn't care."

Morgan was silent for a moment before she smiled. “I kinda like it when someone I’m close to goes to sleep on me.”

Malia smiled a bit, nodding. She agreed. It felt good to know that Kylie has trusted her enough to sleep on her. "Yeah. I agree. My sister used to fall asleep on me all the time."

“Guess you’re comfy.” Morgan teased.

"Yeah, how about you? Are you gonna stay there?"

Morgan smiled and looked down at Ruby. “I wouldn’t ever move.”

Malia shifted a little bit, before gaining the courage to ask "Are...are you two a- a thing?"

Morgan thought about it. She didn’t want to lie but they’d agreed not to say… “Something like that.”

Kylie pulled Malia tighter, even though she was alseep she needed her closer.

Malia gave a huge smile and almost clapped her hands in excitement, but didn't since Kylie was there "That's amazing! When did this happen?" 

“Technically? Today. But we’ve…we’ve been aware of it for some time now.” Morgan said quietly.

"We all were betting on you guys." She laughed a bit. "You were too obvious."

“We’re not exactly hiding.” Morgan sighs, “We just didn’t want all the attention.”

Malia nods in understanding "I suggest you don't show it in public... people start... doing things."

“Things like making YouTube reels and shipping us?” Morgan asked knowingly.

She nods "I enjoy it, a lot of it. But...when the interviewer starts asking...those questions? I...it starts becoming a lot."

“I get it. She shouldn’t have asked you that. I’m glad the other stuff doesn’t bother you though. You two seem to be a good example for a lot of people.”

Malia nods confidently "I sure hope so. That's always my goal. The children look so happy when they see us...I love seeing their smiles." 

Morgan was about to say something else when Ruby grumbled and snuggled closer. “I think we better shut up and let our girls sleep.”

"Yeah, yeah I think -" Malia thought about what Morgan said and froze. 'Our Girls'... Kylie wasn’t... her girl, right? Kylie has other girls too...but- was if- no..no it couldn't be. She wasn't good enough to be Kylie's girl. No one deserved Kylie. She looked to Morgan again, and gave a small smile. "Yeah...let's do that."

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Kylie wakes up feeling a lot better, but she still felt like if she let go of Malia she would start freaking out again. She just wanted this feeling to go away, it wasn't awful because she got to hold Malia but...she felt like she was probably being a burden. She just hoped Malia was comfortable. Malia was still asleep so she looked around to see if anyone else was awake, the only one up was Ruby on her phone. "Hey, Ruby" Kylie whispers still tucked in the couch with Malia in her lap.

Ruby looks up from her phone and smiles “Good morning, Ky!”

Kylie gives a tired smile "Good Morning, how'd you sleep?" her voice is rougher then normal as she was technically still not fully awake.

“Pretty good, your beanbag is quite comfortable, how about you?”

"I slept okay, definitely warm." She gives a small glance to Malia, and then looks back at Ruby "But  still comfortable."

“Good...I’m sorry if I made you feel bad last night.”

"It wasn't really your fault. I swear. it honestly was really a combination of everything that happened yesterday. sometimes when things get to much my sensory issues act up. I'm sorry too, we shouldn't have kept pushing you like that."

Ruby looks away still feeling bad about it “It’s fine really I guess I’m not used to a lot of people asking me  or teasing me about that stuff you know?”

"Yeah, I understand. it's was the same way when everything first started. I guess I just got used to it, and learned to love it. I'm sorry I didn't realize it wasn't the same for you." Kylie gives ruby a small smile.

“It’s just so awkward! I don’t know how you handle it.” Ruby sighs.

Kylie let's out a small laugh, but quite enough it won't wake Malia. "Well, it is kinda awkward at times. Especially if your surrounded by new people, and the person your being shipped with. But if they're standing with you, it's not so bad. Like when I first started getting shipped with Malia, It was pretty embarrassing, but when I knew she didn't care either I guess it lifted a weight off my shoulders that I didn't know I had. Now we can laugh and joke about it, Without it being weird."

“I don’t how you can do that maybe I’m the problem…” Ruby smiles nervously.

"Woah, hey, your not the problem. Everyone is different. You'll get used to it or you won't. It's not bad of you don't, okay? Tt's understandable." Kylie explains gently. She would go over and hug Ruby if she thought she wouldn't freak out. "I'd give you a hug, but I can't move from here yet."

Ruby giggles before looking at Morgan for a second “I’ll steal that hug from you later.”

Kylie giggles too, until she feels Malia shift in her arms.

Malia groaned, her eyes slowly opening. And when she looked up, her eyes met Kylie's, and she immediately blushed, and pulled away "Oh...oh hello..."

Ruby smiles “Good morning, Malia.”

"Morning...you guys are up early." She commented.

Kylie smiles and rests her chin on Malia's shoulder. "Morning, Lia, and it's like 10 am." She laughs.

"I know, but me and Morgan stayed up late." Malia said, gesturing to Morgan passed out.

Kylie laughs "Yeah, what time did you guys go to bed anyway? I think I fell alseep like immediately after we came back in here."

"I- I actually don't know. I know it was late though."

Kylie smiles at her, she's knows she's staring at Malia like she the whole world, and she knows Ruby is watching her, but she couldn't care less. Malia was there for her the whole night. She tucks her face into the other girls neck and takes a deep breath. She wouldn't want to be anywhere else right now. She lifts her head up and looks around, She sees Ruby is back on her phone, so she does the one thing that she wants to do right now. She kisses Malia on the cheek. She let's it linger longer then she probably should have but she couldn't care about that right now. She had to do it before she chickend out. 

Ruby gasps playfully and acts distraught “Ah! Get a room!”

Malia immediately blushed heavily, jumping a little in shock "I-i...uh-"

Kylie let's out a laugh "Don't even Ruby, You don't want to start this and you know it." Kylie smirks and raises her eyebrow. 

Ruby immediately gets flustered and starts panicking to think of an excuse “Well I- we-“

Malia stayed quiet, not knowing how to respond to that. She was still shocked by the kiss. But she finally got composed and sighed, looking around at both of them "I talked with Morgan last night.."

Kylie laughs at how speechless Ruby was. She turns her attention towards Malia. "What did you guys talk about..?" Kylie asks curiously.

"Uh- I don't think I can say- it's their information." She said.

Kylie smiles at how honest and loyal Malia was. "Okay, that's fine."

Ruby goes quiet, praying that Morgan didn’t say anything or much about their relationship.

Morgan mumbles something incoherent before wiggling closer to Ruby. “‘er being loud.” She says in a sleep roughed voice.

Kylie giggles at Morgan. Even though she does the same thing to Malia.

Ruby tenses up, “S-sorry,”

There’s a moment a silence before Morgan speaks again, this time sounding less tired. “What are we talking about?”

Malia looked up, and gave Morgan a small smile "Just how late we stayed up last night."

“Oh,” Morgan rubbed her face. “Um, probably 12:30ish? I wasn’t looking at the time.”

Ruby looks over at Morgan surprised “What were you two talking about that you stayed up that late?”

Morgan shrugged, detangling herself from Ruby. “Just normal stuff. We weren’t paying attention to the time. Ky, do you have coffee?”

"Yeah, there's some in the cupboard by the stove. I would get up but I can't yet. Do you...maybe wanna make me some too?" Kylie flashes Morgan a sweet smile.

Morgan laughed as she stood and stretched, “Sure. Who else wants some?”

"Not it." Malia muttered.

“No thanks…” Ruby yawned. 

"Uh- yeah sure." Dara said, half asleep still.

Morgan nods and heads to the kitchen. They can all hear her moving around.

"So, Lia? What do you want to do today?" Kylie whispers in her ear as she waits for Morgan to bring the coffee.

Malia shivered at the feeling of Kylie's breath on her ear, but she had also liked it as well. "Well, I'm supposed to be meeting with my sister today."

"Oh, okay. What time are you meeting her? Maybe after we could get food?" Kylie smiles.

"Around 3:30. I'll probably have time after that."

"Okay, just let me know, are you gonna stay here till you have to leave? Or are you gonna go home before?"

"I'll probably just stay here. I don't know, I'll have to call her and see."

Kylie's smile widens. She was just happy that Malia was gonna stay longer, she really didn't want her to leave but if she just stayed longer that would be enough. "Okay, Lia. Oh, I'm sorry I forgot you probably need to move too." Kylie starts pushing herself up even though she doesn't want too.

Malia thinks a little bit before, pulling Kylie back down onto her chest. "If you...if you still need me- I don't mind."

Kylie smiles and tucks her head into Malias neck. "Thank you, Lia"

"Of course. But you do know you'll have to sit up for the coffee? For one, I don't need you choking, and for two,  I don't like the smell."

"I don't think so? I'll know when she brings it out. If the smell bothers you when I get it, let me know." She mumbles, as she was still tucked into Malia.

"You're not choking." She says again.

"I won't choke, Lia." She laughs "I normally drink my coffee in the mornings when I'm laying down anyway. Just this way I have you to talk to, and not scroll through tiktok. Or we can scroll through tiktok together?" She adds. 

Malia laughed "Sure. But I'm pretty sure I know what we'll see."

Kylie laughs as well "Oh, I know. Especially, because I reposted a edit yesterday." She beams at Malia.

"Yes! and I haven't really checked my phone since, So I'm really excited!"

"Are you ready for this?" She asks dramatically.

Malia smiled widely and nodded. "I hope so."

Kylie opens her phone to a bunch of missed messages and likes on her posts. She opens TikTok and starts scrolling, There was a ton of edits on her Fyp of her and Malia, just her, and just Malia. And as she was scrolling she did like a lot of them. Her and Malia were laughing at some of the edits "Oh my gods, this one is hilarious." her and Malia start giggleing "Ruby, you have to see this!"

Ruby who’s been sitting on the bean bag awkwardly looks at the two “Hm? Oh, that one’s funny I guess..”

Kylie quirks an eyebrow "What's wrong? You normally love the ship edits. Are you okay?"

Ruby knows she isn’t fine she just wants her friend but that’s the last thing she wants to say all Kylie is going to think is that she’s jealous right? And she’s not! She doesn’t know what she is. “Mhm, I’m still tired, I guess.”

Kylie was not believing a word of what Ruby said. She didn't know what was wrong with her friend, But maybe a hug would at least help, "Well, come lay over here with me and Malia. Malia may be warm but I'm still cold." That was a lie, she was actually kinda overheating but she wanted to help her friend in any way she could.

Ruby normally would have taken the chance to do so and was going until she started overthinking every single thing that she could do she didn’t “No, I’m okay...you guys enjoy your time.”

Morgan came striding back into the room carrying three cups of coffee. “I return with caffeine. What did I miss?”

"Me and Malia are watching edits of us, and Ruby won't come lay with us even though I'm cold." she frowns and drops her head dramatically.

“How are you supposed to drink your coffee if they’re squishing you?” Morgan laughed while taking a zombie Dara her coffee.

"Hey! I can manage! It's actually not that hard. And if it's gets to hard I can use one of them as a coster."

Morgan gave Ruby a questioning look. She knew Ruby loved cuddling with Kylie.

Dara let out a surprised yelp when she spilt her hot coffee all over her "Ah!"

Malia bolted up, concerned "Dara? Are you okay?" 

Dara shook her head, getting up sleepily, only to fall.

Morgan quickly moves to help her up and get cleaned. 

Ruby fidgets with fingers has she continues trying to figure out what’s wrong with her. “So uh what are everyone’s plans for today?”

“Um, I don’t have any plans for today, but I will have to clear out my hotel room…” Morgan said, sagging back onto the bean bag after helping Dara.

Ruby scoots away from Morgan allowing her to have some space “Oh yeah, I guess you do...”

Morgan gives Ruby an odd look. “Yeah, I didn't intended on staying here long…”

"Do Uh- do you guys have any free times for...for maybe tomorrow or something?" Malia asked hesitantly, wanting to break the tension.

Ruby looks over at Malia, “Uh..I think I do..”

"I do." Dara smiled, still tired. "Well, for two hours at least."

Morgan glanced at Ruby. She considered her for a moment then got up. “I’ll be right back. I’m going to cancel my flight and extend my stay.”

Ruby lights up when Morgan says that, “Really? You’re staying a little longer?”

Morgan nods, “I can think of a few good reasons to stay in town longer than I usually do.”

Ruby smiles softly, “Well, I’m really happy you are.”

Morgan would have leaned down and kissed her but she held back. “I’ll be right back.” She said again with a smile before leaving the room.

Right when Morgan left the room, Malia squealed loudly, waking Dara back up "Oh! Oh my goodness! Wow!"

Ruby looks over at Malia not expecting her to do anything “What...”

"I-i..." Malia realized she had said that out loud and blushed "Uh- nothing, sorry."

Ruby keeps looking at her now just confused. “It had to have been something, what made you do that?”

"Just- I don't want to be..you know. Blunt...but that was so cute.."

Ruby starts stuttering “I-you..y-you know? D..don’t you..”

"Morgan told me." Malia said, starting to frown "I-i... I'm sorry- I -i overstepped."

Ruby stares at her for second before sighing “It’s fine..you guys would find out eventually...right?”

"I'm sorry." She says again, feeling extra guilty. "I just...I...I thought you guys were ready."

“Well, I wasn’t! Ok?! I wasn’t, Malia! Ugh!…” Ruby yells unable to really control her emotions. 

Malia raised her hands in surrender, her eyes wide in surprise as she clung tighter to Kylie. "I-i- Ruby-"

“Just shut up! Shut up! I don’t want to hear another word from you! I can’t deal with you right now!” Ruby yells before standing up and getting ready to leave.