How would Elio react if MC got along well with his family and little siblings?
The two of you were about to start marathoning the Step Up franchise, when Elio gets a FaceTime call from his younger brother.
Although, when he answers the phone (“Sorry, about this, lemme just make sure it’s not an emergency.” You wave him off with a smile. “It’s all good, Elio.”), Elio’s surprised to see the youngest of the Kealoha instead, lying on her stomach in what he recognizes to be their home’s backyard. Her expression is a little restrained but he can see how giddy she is by the way her legs kick behind her.
“Uh,” Elio raises a brow at Cass as she shuffles something on her hands. Was that a crab? He can’t tell. The connection’s always a little spotty from here to Hawai’i. “To who?”
“You know who! Come on, I don’t have much time!”
And that’s when you pop into the view of the camera, your curious face peeking from over his shoulder with a curl of your lips.
Cass screams, squeaky and excited, and you beam in turn, your fingers fluttering as you greet her and the twins— who both appear shortly after with a “Cass you can’t keep stealing shit from me” and a “Dude, language. Also why the hell are you shouting”.
Their lecture tapers off quickly as they lock eyes with the camera, however, and suddenly they’re dashing forward and cramming into the screen with a happy cry of your name.
All three of them are shouting over each other now, clipped and a little fuzzy but exuberant all the same. They’re asking you how your day has been. If you’re hanging with their older brother. If you’re hanging alone with their older brother. And— EVERYBODY SHUT UP I NEED TO SHOW YOU SQUIRE PINCHY!
It’s absolute chaos, but you’re laughing, beyond delighted.
“Okay, calm down, guys. One at a time.” You manage in between giggles, and Elio’s phone passes from his hand to yours as you resolve to answer each question with such honesty, such charm, and such wit. Already used to the shenanigans his little siblings had to offer.
Elio’s not sure when exactly it happened, but you’ve gotten really close with them. So close in fact that his sibling are now used to seeing you on his phone.
Part of him wants to interject. Hello? Remember me, your own brother? Where’s my 21 questions!
But a much much bigger part of him is melting instead.
Because they really do love you, don’t they?
Of course they do. How could they not? His family knows a good person when they see one and you’re as good as they get.
If only you could meet them. All of them. Without the shitty internet. Without a phone screen in the way. Elio just knows they’d love you even more.
It just has to happen. Somehow.
Like… how hard could it be, really?
A round trip for two could be a little expensive. But if he stayed overtime at his internship, maybe grab a part time job over at Extra Fries (Camilla likes him now, she’d be willing to hire another). Then surely he could get a plane ticket for two by the time the holidays hit, right? He knows his family would be happy to accommodate if you both drop by. Hell he can hear Cass begging for you to visit already so she can stop nabbing people’s phones just to talk to you (“Why’s it always my phone anyway? Why not steal Lyra’s?” “You stay away from my stuff.”).
Yeah…. He could do it. He could make it work. No, no. He will make it work.
Elio tucks the unspoken promise in his heart, right between where his affection for his family and you exists, as his siblings bicker for your attention again.
Someday, soon if he could help it, he’ll have his loved ones meet.
“Is anyone going to say hi to me???”