It's been almost two years since Chloe had given birth to their beautiful baby boy, Clayton. It's been a while since they've had a nice night out without the kids. Beca's dad and step-mother in conjunction with Jesse's parents had taken their kids on vacation for the weekend down to Disney World. Beca was nervous to have her kids so far away, especially Clayton, but she knew they were in good hands.

It's Friday night. Beca normally works Friday nights, but she took that night off so she could enjoy a night with her friends without having to worry so much about the kids. Beca and Chloe walk hand-in-hand to Aubrey and Jesse's house. It's just down the road on the other side of the street, so it isn't far, but it's just so nice out, and the stars are shining bright, along with the nearly full moon.

They don't bother going to the front door. They know everyone's out back. The yard went down to the river. There's a fire going in the pit Beca had helped Jesse put together three years ago. There's a few lawn chairs around the fire. Beca and Chloe are the last to arrive.

Fat Amy has graced them with their presence, surprisingly sans her flavor of the week this time. Stacie was in town visiting, so she joined them as well. Cynthia Rose and Denise were there as well. They only lived a few blocks away, but they were normally so busy that they missed the rare times they had adult only get togethers.

Chloe settled into the last empty chair, pulling Beca into her lap. Chloe wraps her arms around Beca's waist, and Beca in turn wraps hers arm around Chloe's shoulders. Beca uses her free hand to take the bottle of whiskey that Jesse offered her. She took a long swig before passing it to Chloe, who did the same before passing it on.

Beca felt that sense of contentment again. Sitting around the fire on the riverside with her best friends. It was another one of the moments that Beca lived for.

It was on the third pass through of the whiskey that Beca noticed that Aubrey passed it straight to Jesse without taking a swig. When she did it again, Beca decided to say something.

"Bree?" Beca asked as she passed the whiskey to her wife.

"Yeah?" Aubrey said.

"Are you…?" Beca asked. She knew she didn't need to vocalize the actual question. The full blown grin that appeared on Aubrey's face answered her question.

"Don't worry," Beca said. "I won't tell anyone."

"Liar," Aubrey said.

"Chloe doesn't count," Beca said. "She's my wife."

"Baby?" Chloe said.

"I'll tell you when we get home," Beca said. Her response pacified her wife for the moment.

"I don't know how you guys went from hating each other, to this," Cynthia Rose said, gesturing to the silent understanding between Beca and Aubrey.

"We never hated each other," Aubrey said.

Beca smirked. "Yeah, and I still piss her off to no end," she said.

Aubrey glared playfully at Beca.

"I guess we made peace with each other around when she handed over the pitch pipe, freshman year," Beca said.

"Oh no," Aubrey said. "I was so pissed off at you when I saw you kissing Jesse at the ICCAs."

"Oh God," Jesse said. "Don't remind me."

"Was that because Chloe was in love with me or because you were in love with Jesse?" Beca said. Her eyebrows raised in silent challenge.

"Or that awful oath?" Stacie added.

Aubrey groaned.

"In all honesty," Beca said, "It just kinda happened. When all you want is for your spouse to be happy, you kind of have to get along with their best friend. Aubrey is Chloe's best friend."

"And Beca is Jesse's," Aubrey said.

"I'm just saying," Cynthia Rose said, "I never would have bet that things would end up this way back then."

"What do you mean?" Chloe asked. Beca smiled at Chloe. She loved her wife with everything she had.

"I don't know," Cynthia Rose said. "I guess when I thought about the future, I figured Beca would be in LA rocking the world as a music producer. I mean, who knew Jesse would make it but Beca wouldn't?"

"Yeah, I guess that makes sense," Beca said. "I was dead set on going to LA when I got to Barden."

"Come on, shortstack," Amy said. "What changed?"

Beca just shrugged. She couldn't exactly pinpoint why she never ended up in LA.

The conversation turned to Jesse and how he was doing, what he was working on, and then to the upcoming reunion which, as it turned out, only Fat Amy was planning on attending. An hour later and Denise was finishing her story about the first time she'd encountered Cynthia Rose's parents since they'd rekindled their romance.

"Speaking of," Fat Amy said. "Do you remember the first time Chloe came back to visit?"

"Oh my God, that was an interesting weekend," Jesse said.

"Shut up," Beca said.

"But you were so awkward!" Jesse said.

"Do you remember Olivia?" Beca said.

"Of course," Jesse said.

"Well imagine sitting between her and Aubrey when you were dating Olivia," Beca said.

"Point taken," Jesse said.

"That weekend was torture for me," Beca said. She turned to face Chloe. With her eyes locked on Chloe's she said, "But I wouldn't change it for the world, because if it hadn't happened, I wouldn't be sitting here with you right now, and that would be a tragedy."

Chloe smiled and kissed her wife gently.

"Aww that's so sweet," Stacie said.

"So what happened that weekend?" Aubrey asked.

"Chloe showed up to hood night," Jesse said. "I remember talking to Beca and Leah and seeing Chloe over Beca's shoulder. Chloe came up to say hi, and Beca was so awkward. Chloe reduced her to a stuttering mess! And Leah was glaring daggers at Beca."

"Yeah well she may or may not have been standing next to me when I saw Chloe across the quad…and I may or may not have fainted…"

"You fainted?" Chloe said.

"Well I mean, we hadn't heard from you in years and suddenly you were right there. You didn't see me. My heart was beating wildly out of my chest, and it wasn't from my girlfriend standing next to me. I guess it must have overloaded my senses because the next thing I know I'm in the fucking hospital with Leah looking worriedly over at me."

"Whatever happened to her?" Fat Amy asked.

"I broke up with her when she told me to forget about my dreams of going to LA and to run away to Iowa with her," Beca said. "It was three days after Chloe left. She clearly had no respect for me if she was going to tell me to forget about my dreams. Also what the fuck is in Iowa?"

Jesse laughed. "Dude she was dogging me for days asking me how to get you back," he said.

"Whatever," Beca said. "New topic? Please?"

"What happened to Lilly?" Chloe asked suddenly.

"Last time I heard from her was at her wedding," Beca said. "It was beautiful, but she and Donald went off the grid. I don't think anyone's heard from them since."

"I'm not sure I want to know what they're up to," Aubrey said. "She always said disturbing things whenever I could manage to hear what she was saying."

"Remember Benji's wedding?" Jesse said.

"Yeah, who would've thought Benji would be the one to have a shotgun wedding?" Stacie said.

"He's cool," Beca said, "and he's happy. Leave him alone."

"Remember when Beca thought she was a badass?" Aubrey said.

"Hey, I am a badass," Beca said. "Was then, am now."

"Of course you are," Chloe said to placate her wife. "Now will you all please stop picking on my badass wife?"


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