Sorry for not updating earlier. Well, tomorrow (today, technically) I'm traveling and I won't be updating for about a week, any of my stories, but I'll still write them! Oh and thank you for your nice words, keep them coming!
After the drinks, the three girls went outside while they waited for their cars.
Chloe was about to say goodbye when her phone started ringing. Beca made a joke about it being her drug dealer, earning a slap on the shoulder from the redhead and laughed.
"Okay, please put her on the phone." Chloe said, putting one hand on her hip. "Are you kidding me right now? You know I feel about you selling your brother's stuff on eBay!"
Beca looked at Chloe, alarmed. She approached her and told her to take that in the car, but Chloe just shushed her and continued talking to her daughter.
"Alright, I will deal with you when I get home, young lady!" Chloe said and hung up with a sigh. She turned to Beca, frustrated. "I mean, you would think…" she trailed off when she saw the look on Beca's face. She looked at her, confused.
"You have kids?" Ryleigh asked.
"Hmm?" Chloe asked her.
"You have… children?" Ryleigh asked again.
"We have… sort of… a little bit of children." Beca said.
"When were you planning on telling me about these kids, Beca?" Ryleigh asked.
"Well you know what? I have to go back to those little munchkins." Chloe said. "Ryleigh, it was really nice to meet you." She smiled and shook the blonde's hand again. "Beca…" she just looked at Beca and turned around and entered her limo.
Back at the bar though, Beca was praying to God that Ryleigh wouldn't finish her after this revelation. She was surprised to see the blonde with a huge smile on her face when she looked up at her.
"Aren't you mad that I didn't tell you?" she asked cautiously.
"I'm not mad, I love kids! I just never pictured you with kids."
"Oh, I'm- I'm a huge kids person." she shot back, happy that Aubrey hadn't slapped her or dumped her on the curb. "I love kids. Kids, kids, kids, that's my thing. That's my bumper sticker."
"I want to meet them!" Aubrey smiled brightly and Beca had to stop herself from screaming Chloe's name in annoyance. It's all her fucking fault!
Instead she sighed and put on a fake smile. "Of course you do"
oO0Oo
Beca took a sip of her Coke as she sat in front of Mikayla and Kyle inside of Pizza Hut.
"So our mom doesn't know that you took us today?" Mikayla asked.
"Not yet." Beca shook her head.
"You know this is kidnapping?" Mikayla asked.
"Stranger danger." Kyle said, staring at Beca.
"No! I'm not a stranger, you know me and I know you!" Beca said. "So here's the deal: how would you like to be my pretend children for one afternoon?"
"Why don't you just tell that poor girl the truth?" Mikayla asked.
"What? You know?" Beca asked, surprised.
"Mommy tells us everything. Wedding ring girl." Mikayal smirked. "Oh my goodness, did you see my skirt? I think it could be a lot shorter so I can-"
"No, she's not like that." Beca cut her off. "Your mother is presenting her in a weird, weird way."
Mikayla continued to smirk at her.
"I'm just saying, telling the truth is not in the cards right now." Beca said. "I thought you'd be excited to have an acting job!"
"If it's an acting job, we should get paid." Mikayla spoke with an usual 'Chloe' grin.
"Yeah, you're gonna get paid in experience." Beca said.
"I wanna actually get paid." Mikayla said with confidence.
Beca rolled her eyes but looked back at the little girl.
"Alright, what do you want?"
"Six hundred dollars for the day, plus overtime if we go over eight hours." Mikayla said. "I'll do my own hair and makeup and I want you to pay for the six-week intensive acting camp that mommy can't afford."
Yep, Mikayla was definitely Chloe's daughter.
"Fifty dollars for the day and a two-week acting class at the YMCA nearest you."
"Five hundred dollars and a four-week acting class." Mikayla said.
"Three hundred dollars and a three-week class." Beca offerend.
"Done." Mikayla smiled and shook Beca's hand.
"I would've done it for five hundred." She whispered to the little girl.
"I would've done it for the experience." Mikayla smirked and crossed her arms as Beca groaned.
"Kyle, you're up." Beca said. "Opener?"
"I want you to take me to Hawaii so I can swim with the dolphins." Kyle said with one of his sweet smiles.
"You're not gonna let that one go, are you?" Beca asked as he shook his head. "We're not going to Hawaii pal, anything else?"
"Find someone else, then." Kyle said as he filled his cup with more Coke and drank it, staring at Beca.
"Ooh, the mafia stare down. Very good, Kyle." Beca nodded. "We're here to negotiate. Do you have anything else you might like?"
"I want a talking kangaroo." Kyle said.
"I want a talking kangaroo, too, Kyle, but they don't exist." Beca said.
"Then I want a regular kangaroo and I wanna name him Carl." Kyle said.
"How about a PlayStation 4 and we name him Carl?" Beca asked.
Kyle raised an eyebrow.
"Keep talking."
"We'll include four video games." Beca said.
"Five games." Kyle said. "And I want the meeting with blondie to be at J.D. McFunnigan's."
Beca raised her eyebrows. He was good at negotiating too.
"And I want unlimited tokens. If I can spend them, I wanna have them. I don't wanna be like playing Skee-Ball and all of a sudden run out of tokens." Kyle said.
"Alright, I can make that happen." Beca nodded and looked at him and Mikayla. "So do we have a deal?"
Kyle smiled sweetly.
"Deal."
"Deal." Mikayla smiled too.
oO0Oo
"My kids?! Have you completely lost your mind?" Chloe asked, clearly furious.
"Are you kidding me right now? You're the one who picked up your cell phone!" Beca said and looked at Sidney. "Okay, Sidney, let's do it again."
Sidney nodded and she began singing again.
"I can't believe you're doing all of this just so you can get some." Chloe rolled her eyes.
"I'm not trying to get some, I already got some." Beca reminded the redhead. "And yes, I'd like to continue getting some. I'm pro me getting some."
Beca sighed and she smelled something. The same smell she could smell when she and Chloe were shopping. She looked at the redhead and frowned.
"Are you wearing a new perfume?"
Chloe looked at her and didn't answer.
"Maybe." She said and looked back at her paperwork.
"What, you got a date or something?" Beca asked.
"I don't have a date. I have a lunch." Chloe said, not looking up from the paper.
"You got a lunch? Who you got a lunch with?" Beca asked.
"It's this artist, if you must know everything, her name is Hilary." Chloe said.
Beca nodded with a smirk. It's been a while since she saw Chloe with someone and she knew from the beginning that Chloe was bisexual so that wasn't a surprise to her.
She was getting nervous to know what the twins would say to Ryleigh. She knew they were only six, but they just showed her they were way smarter than that.
"It's gonna be one afternoon! Why are we making such a big deal out of this?" Beca asked.
"Because you're trying to get my kids involved in your dysfunctional, sick little, pathetic, twisted web of lies." Chloe said.
"When I was negotiating with your son, Kyle, he had the biggest smile I've ever seen on anyone's face." Beca said.
"Did he really smile?" Chloe asked.
"I swear to God, the sweetest little smile." Beca nodded. "Mikayla too. She was very excited."
"She was?" Chloe asked, surprised.
"She was. Don't do it for me, do it for the children." Beca said.
Chloe shook her head and sighed, knowing everytime Beca mentioned her kids she couldn't do anything but agree with her.
"Alright." She said.
"Yeah!" Beca said.
oO0Oo
Beca was waiting in the parking lot of J.D. McFunnigan's as Chloe dark grey car approached the spot.
"Come on, you're late! What are you, in character right away?" Beca asked. "Come on, let's go! She's inside!"
The twins got out of the car as Chloe grabbed her purse and got out too, wearing a very beautiful black dress and heels.
Beca felt something different. Again, the redhead looked stunning. She wished she could look like that everyday at work. Wait, what?
"What?" Chloe asked.
"Oh, nothing, nothing." Beca shook her head and turned to the twins. "You ready guys?"
Mikayla nodded.
"The first rule of improv is always accept the information. If someone says something, just go with it, no negating." Mikayla said to everyone.
"That sounds smart." Beca nodded.
"In my acting class, when someone says 'no' in scene, the whole class yells 'die'!" Mikayla said.
"Well, no one will say 'no' then, yet don't yell 'die'." Beca said. "Alright let's go already, you ready there mafia?"
"Hell yeah." Kyle said.
"Let's do it." Beca said and the four of them went inside.
A bunch of kids were running around, playing and yelling. Chloe smiled, used to that scene since she was a mother, yet Beca didn't seem that used to it.
"Stinks." Beca said. "It smells like kids' feet and like skidmark underwear."
"Happy Mother's Day." Chloe smiled at her.
A girl was running, but she tripped on another kid's foot and hit her face on Beca's front, making the brunette groan.
"Mommy! That woman put her girl parts on my face!" the girl ran, yelling, making everyone stare at Beca.
"What? She put her face on my girl parts!" Beca said.
"Beca! I don't think that matters!" Chloe said as Kyle and Mikayla laughed.
Ryleigh approached them with a huge smile. She kissed Beca's cheek before hugging Chloe.
"Aubrey. Thank you so much for bringing the kids today." Ryleigh said.
"Well, they are my pride and joy." Beca smiled. "Ryleigh, I'd like to introduce you to the one and only, Mikayla, who came out at nine pounds four ounces." She then looked at Chloe. "Yeouch." She giggled. "And then the whopper, we call him, Kyle, because he was a twelve-pounder and… they did some damage."
"Hi, guys!" Ryleigh said.
"Hello Ryleigh, we heard so much about you!" Mikayla shook her hand and smile huge. "So you're the bird that's been giving Mamma the old slap and tickle?" she nudged the older woman.
Ryleigh was very surprised to hear that from a six-year-old.
"She's very much like Aubrey." Beca said, giggling.
"Well, it's a pleasure meeting you, Mikayla." Ryleigh smiled.
"I wish I could say the same." Mikayla sighed. "You see, before you, I had myself my Mamma. I was the apple of her eye. It was all giggling and chasing butterflies in the meadows and what have you. And now what do I get? An hour and a half every other week at J.D. McFunnigan's wit her and her whore."
"Mikayla!" Beca and Chloe said at the same time.
Mikayla pretended to cry and she ran off.
"Wow, she's in such pain!" Ryleigh said, not offended.
"No, that's the pills that she took out of her mother's bureau." Beca said. Chloe slapped her arm and glared at her. "Alright, let me go see her." She rolled her eyes and followed the little redhead.
"How are you doing, sweetie?" Ryleigh asked Kyle.
"I'll be better when I start seeing some tokens." Kyle said.
Beca caught up with Mikayla as she walked between the children.
"Excuse me! Yo! What was that all about?" Beca asked, clearly not happy at all.
"That was raw and real and in the moment. You know, I feel very good about it." Mikayla said.
"You do? Well, I don't. So if you wanna get your money and your acting classes, you better start doing things right from now on." Beca warned. "No more sob stories, got it?"
"Got it!" Mikayla said.
"Now hug me and laugh and let's get back into the show!" Beca said and Mikayla hugged her and started laughing.
The two pulled apart and looked down at Ryleigh and Chloe.
"You're not a whore, Ryleigh!" Mikayla said.
"That's so nice. See what they do, they fight then they make up and it's good." Chloe said.
Mikayla continued fake laughing as a boy passed by Beca and sneezed into her shoulder. The brunette looked very annoyed as Mikayla bit back a laugh.
oO0Oo
The five sat down and were eating. Ryleigh was sitting beside Beca while Chloe was sitting beside the twins, who were eating quietly.
"I think we forgot napkins." Ryleigh said.
"Alright, I'll go get the napkins. I know she's not gonna get up and do it because she doesn't like to get up and do anything." Beca said, pointing at Chloe who just smiled at her. "Everybody be cool."
Ryleigh giggled and looked at Kyle.
"So, Kyle, your dad tells me you like to go to the bathroom." She said.
"When I feel it, I do it." Kyle said.
"What else do you like?" Ryleigh asked.
"Kangaroos." Kyle smiled.
Ryleigh expected more conversation from the young boy. Chloe giggled.
"That's our Kyle. A man of very few words." She smiled as she stroked Kyle's hair.
"Maybe I'm upset." Kyle looked down at the table.
"Upset about me and your mother dating?" Ryleigh asked.
"No, you make Mamma happy and that's cool, but…" Kyle sighed.
"But what?" Ryleigh asked as Chloe eyed the boy, not knowing what he was up to.
"Nothing." He said, looking down.
"Hey, I want you to feel comfortable telling me anything." Ryleigh said softly.
"I just hate that she broke her promise to me." Kyle said.
"What promise?" Chloe asked, curious.
"She promised me last year that she would take me to Hawaii to swim with the dolphins." Kyle said.
"What are you doing?" Chloe whispered to her son, who ignored her.
"But without warning, Mamma canceled the trip." Kyle said, his voice breaking.
"Why?" Ryleigh asked.
"Because she met you." Kyle looked down and pretended to cry.
"She did what?" Ryleigh asked, looking at Beca as she came back.
"No!" Beca said.
"Die!" Mikayla pointed at her.
"No, no, no! You misread what I said! I said we have to go to Hawaii earlier." Beca said. "Because I'm excited for all of us to hang out there. We're going to Hawaii!"
Ryleigh looked at the brunette and so did Kyle, who smirked at her before he continued to fake cry.
Beca looked at him and glared while Ryleigh wasn't looking.
