A/N: It's sequel time! This is a secret to my story 'It was the Nerd, not the Bad Boy.' One shots into the life of Artie, Quinn, and Aubrey. As far as time goes, I'm not really going in a specific pattern. Everything will be in chronological order, but I might skip/jump around to certain ages. It all just depends on how old Aubrey would be in the time of what is going on in the story. Also be patient with my math, I'm horrible at it. So if I make an age mistake, please just ignore it. Also as I have it in my story, Aubrey's birthday was in April, to use that as a reference, but I will say before every chapter how old she is. Hope you enjoy! Please Read and Review.

Age: 6 months

"Artie, Artie, Artie wake up!" Quinn said slightly jumping on their bed.

"Ugh Quinn, what time is it?" he asked drearily.

"It's Halloween time! C'mon Aubrey is going to be up any minute, wake up!" she said rubbing his shoulders.

It was a sunny, but chilly October morning and it was also the date of Aubrey's first Halloween. Halloween was the first real event that they talked about doing with Aubrey when Quinn was pregnant and Quinn wanted to soak up every minute it of it. Their baby girl was now six months old and Quinn couldn't believe how fast everything was going, so she was ready for a day of pictures and fun. They were lucky enough that Halloween had fallen on a Saturday this year so they didn't have school, and Quinn was going to take full advantage of it.

Artie slowly stared getting up. "You do know, that Halloween is not like Christmas right? You don't have to get up in the morning to start celebrating, it happens at night. We are probably the only parents doing this."

Quinn rolled her eyes. "I'm aware but we were also the only parents who still have yet to get their pumpkins at the pumpkin patch because we had tests to study for. I want to get their early enough to beat all the other people who just forgot about the holiday in general. I think Aubrey deserves better pumpkins than them."

Artie laughed putting on his glasses before getting into his chair. "Well that's definitely true, but it's not even eight yet."

"You know she never wakes up after a quarter after eight. So what's going to happen is you're going to get, I'm going to finish getting ready, than we'll get Aubrey ready, and then we are starting off this day and getting our Halloween on. Sound good?" Quinn stated.

Artie couldn't help but laugh at her. When she acted like this it was kind of crazy, but super cute at the same time. "Alright. It's Halloween time."

Artie finished getting ready before Quinn did, so when he poked his head inside Aubrey's room to see her eyes roaming around the room, he went over to her.

"Good morning, Baby!" he cooed softly but excitedly as he wheeled over to her crib to get her up. She gave him a little smiled with her gummy mouth and Artie smiled back. She was getting so big, and more beautiful by the day. She looked so much like him. She had his blue eyes, his smile,a smaller and in his opinion cuter version of his nose, and his chin. While she had Quinn's ears, and cheek bones. As well as a patch of dark blonde hair on top of her hair.

"You ready for your first Halloween?" he asked her as he picked her up to start getting her ready. He had gotten pretty good at wheeling with on hand over the years and it came in handy for taking care of Aubrey. He was now an expert of being able to hold her safely and wheel around to be able to care for her, effortlessly, and that was a feeling he loved.

Aubrey responded to him with little gurgles. She always sounded like she was in a way trying to talk back, but it just came out sounding like little gurgles.

"Good, because you're mom is going to go crazy with pictures and everything today, so be prepared for that." he told her.

"I heard that." Quinn called from the other room and Artie giggled.

"See what I mean, Aubs?"

The morning was fun. Their little family went down to the pumpkin patch and got pumpkins for them to put on Artie's front porch. Lilly hadn't gotten around to it yet either so it was nice to have some time for themselves to get them with Aubrey. As expected Quinn took a ton of pictures and after a day of pumpkins and apple cider in sippy cups. It was costume time.

"She looks so cute!" Quinn beamed running to get the camera.

"You made a good call last year. I love the lady bug." Artie said as he adjusted the little black entenas on Aubrey's head.

"Yeah." Quinn said softly. "Can you believe it's been a year?"

"A year since last Halloween?" Artie asked confused.

"No, you know a year until we became a we and until we'd become a family." Quinn said quietly.

"I was so caught up with this, I forgot to see it like that, but you're right."

"It's pretty amazing huh?" Quinn let out kissing Aubrey's cheek.

"Yeah, it's amazing. Thank you." Artie suddenly blurted out.

"For what?"

"For this, for all of this." he said softly gesturing to Aubrey's room and her.

Quinn smiled softly. "You're welcome. Now c'mon let's go trick or treating!"

Artie laughed. "Candy time!"

Quinn giggled. "You know, soon she's going to be old enough to eat her own halloween candy, meaning we won't get as much of it."

Artie let out a little frown. "Yeah, I know, but that's not the case this year! So it's candy time!"

Quinn laughed and rolled her eyes, "Yes, it's candy time."

They didn't trick or treat for too long. They went at six and decided to only stay out until seven. Considering Aubrey was getting tired. Quinn pushed her in stroller and Artie wheeled next to them. They had finished the edge of Artie's street with one house left.

"Alright, let's just do this last one and then we'll take her home to go to bed." Quinn said approaching the door but Artie was hesitant.

"I don't know, maybe we should just go back."

"Why? There is only one house left."

Artie didn't really know the woman who lived in this house very well, but one things he heard, she wasn't exactly the friendliest, but he decided to just give it a shot.

"Alright." he sighed as they got to the door.

Quinn pushed Aubrey up as Artie rolled to the door and rang the doorbell.

"Trick or treat!" Quinn said on Aubrey's behalf as a woman, who was probably in her fifties, came to the door.

"Well, what do we have here?" she said, with the fakest smile Artie had ever seen.

"This is our daughter, Aubrey. She's a ladybug." Quinn said with a smile.

"Wait a minute, you're that Abrams boy who lives down the street, aren't you?" she said her eyes narrowing at Artie.

"Yes, yes I am." Artie said, trying to be respectful but he was nervous, he did not like the way she was looking at them.

She shook her head. "Well, well well. I never thought the day where I'd see you of all people with a baby so young. Both of you, my god, it's such a shame how kids can't even manage to stay out of parenthood these days."

Artie and Quinn were stunned. Not only stunned, but pissed. Although unlike Artie, Quinn could not hold back on it.

"Excuse me? What did you just say about us?" she asked her furiously, her words cutting.

"It's just sad that's all, I mean this poor baby is going to have to grow up in this environment. She'll probably make the same mistake." the woman snorted out. "I'm just trying to be honest with you kids, you did this, you shouldn't be hidden from the truth."

That sent Artie over the edge, not the stuff about them, but what she said about Aubrey, that she'd make the same mistake, when she was just a baby.

"Listen, talk all the trash you want about us, about me. But leave my daughter out of it, you hear? Us having her does not mean she'll make the same mistake, and even if she does, the only person who would've ever expected that from her, would be you. So leave her alone, leave us alone. And give my daughter her candy. We're trick or treating for god's sake." Artie finished his words cold.

Quinn stood there angry and sad, but trying to distract herself by looking down at her little lady bug, whose eyes were drooping.

The two walked home in silence. They quickly put Aubrey to bed, and Quinn brought all the candy into their room. The two of them sitting on the bed with it in front of them.

"I can't believe that bitch!" Quinn finally said after a while.

"Yeah, she's just one of those people." Artie mumbled.

"I mean we've gotten some uncomfortable and sometimes even dirty looks sometimes but no one as ever gone that far." she said her words in shock and anger.

"Yeah, that's why I didn't want to go to that house, but I didn't think she'd do that."

"Thanks for standing up for us, well Aubrey. Thanks for standing up for Aubrey." Quinn told him letting out a smile.

"I wasn't going to let you do that by yourself, besides, I don't care what anyone says about us, but when they drag her into it, I just-"

"Can't handle it. I know, me neither." Quinn finished for him.

Artie smiled and grabbed her hand. "On the bright side, we had the cutest lady bug ever."

"Oh ever. I think her first Halloween was a total success, no matter what. People are always going to have their opinions and we'll just have to focus on the good, not the bad." Quinn told him.

"Totally. So there is just one last important measure to decide for this epic Halloween day."

Quinn giggled, "What?"

Artie let out a mischievous grin. "How are we going to split this candy? I get dibs on all of her Snickers Bars."