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thank you so much for the feedback, guys!

(hey, I had already watched anna with jane in unbreakable kimmy schimidt and have to agree, hilarious!)

this is, like, the second piece I wrote for this series. I was planning on posting it on Halloween but then I woud have to rush the timeline here too much. In case you guys are confused or something, by this chapter, it's been over year since Chloe and Aubrey met again, so everything I posted here happened in the between.

I hope you guys enjoy it!


"Okay, rule number one, we can't kiss tonight." Aubrey said finishing her French braid by the bathroom's mirror of Chloe's bedroom.

"Well, I totally understand where you are coming from." Chloe replied, putting her boots sitting on the end of her bed.

Aubrey came from the bathroom, holding out her blue cape's end.

"You look cool." Chloe said, smirking.

"Must I say the same, Miss Twin Braids?" Aubrey retorted.

Emma entered the room with her Olaf costume on, dragging her stuffed Sven. Chloe yelped (and if Aubrey was the kind of person who yelped, she would had done it too) and fussed over her daughter, completing her looks and kissing her cheek and the little girl giggled.

For Halloween, Stacie was throwing a dinner party at her new house she just bought with her fiancée, Alex. All the Bellas who were still living in the city were going to be attending, very much like a family party. (Aubrey had reconnected with them too. She never felt so sorry in her life. Bellas are for life and she was still forgiving herself for abandoning it.) Since they all adored Emma and Gisele was out there doing whatever teenage girls do in Halloween nights, Chloe and Aubrey decided to take Emma with them.

Chloe thought it would be "cute" if they all had matching costumes, and since they are a blonde, a ginger and a very tiny human being, they decided - two votes against one (Aubrey lost) - that they should go as Frozen characters. Emma loved the idea so much, she didn't shut up about it until the day she could finally wear her costume.

So, when Halloween day came, Aubrey left work earlier, picked Emma up at Chloe's parents' house and took her home. She dressed Emma on her costume and took her to some Trick or Treating around the neighborhood still in her work clothes while Chloe didn't get home (Halloween always ended up being a busy day at the school; something about pranks, Chloe told Aubrey). When Emma's plastic pumpkin was full of candy, they went home and Aubrey checked, with a very impatient Emma, what the little girl was able to eat and what she wasn't – everything with peanut went to the bowl with candy Chloe left by the door to give the kids.

Aubrey lowkey liked Halloween, so she didn't even bother pretending she was annoyed by the whole situation.

(She hadn't grown up in the warmest household, but she had nice memories about her holidays. Easter was when she would proudly excel at egg hunting; at Fourth of July her family would stay at a lake house in the country, and she loved to watch the fireworks, sitting by the lake; Thanksgiving was very cozy, spent at Grandma Posen's, and had her favorite food; Christmas meant expensive gifts, snow and being allowed to be between the adults at the traditional Christmas' Eve party her parents thrown every year to their closest peers; Halloween was tagging along with Williams and James during Trick or Treating, and being frightened by the idea of having to trick someone and end up in jail for vandalism.)

When Chloe got home they began putting their costumes on, helping each other with the hair and the make-up, while Emma wandered around them, having the time of her life and desperately looking for the stuffed Sven that Aubrey bought her one day they went to the mall alone. (Chloe knew letting those two going out on their own always ended up like that. Emma would make puppy eyes and Aubrey would just give her things. The blonde couldn't help it, she was a sucker for the little girl's puppy eyes as much as she was for her mother's.)

Properly dressed as Princess Anna, Chloe took several pictures of an Aubrey properly dressed as Queen Elsa with Emma in the Olaf costume and her stuffed Sven, amused with the way they looked together. Then, when Gisele (dressed as Tinker Bell) appeared by the door to bring her mother's pumpkin cupcakes to Chloe, and the ginger asked her to take some pictures of the three of them together - it would look great in her fireplace console with the pictures of baby Emma, she thought.


They got at Stacie's when everyone was already there. Beca and Jesse, Amy, Lily and Donald, Cynthia Rose and her wife, Jane, Jessica, Ashley and her boyfriend, Sam, were all hanging out in the backyard. Apparently, Chloe's obsession with photos got them a little bit late. Being late was still not Aubrey's favorite thing in the world, but she learned that it's okay to not be on point sometimes. It's just their friends – actually, practically family.

Alex, a handsome tall, dark-skinned guy, welcomed them in wearing a baseball player costume. He gave Emma some candy and complimented her outfit then guided the three to their backyard. It was a large space with cute picket brown fences. They had put a low table in the center of it, with pillows as seats, and Halloween decorations and thematic foods on it. Fairy lights were extended over their heads, making everything so warm and familiar. They greeted their friends – all of them in costume, because Halloween is weirdos' favorite holiday – and sat by the table.

They had a lovely dinner and, being yet the only Bellas' kid, Emma was never so pampered. Aubrey watched with a smirk as Emma kept insisting that Beca did the Cup Song all over again several times. She would go and distract Emma with something else, but she allowed it for the one and only reason that it was Beca Mitchell wrapped around a five-year-old's little finger.

After the meal they all danced and sang together, like old times. Aubrey missed them so much, how stupid she had been for shutting everyone out for years. She pulled Chloe closer and kissed her as a slow song played in the background, swaying slowly through the improvised dance floor, ignoring Amy making some joke about Aubrey being whipped. (Oh God, she was right, Aubrey thought. Aubrey Posen was whipped.)

A moment like that was something she would never let herself do in front of anyone in college, not even if her palms were burning only with the thought of holding Chloe or if the redhead's figure was the only clear thing she could see in the middle of everyone. So, she can't really blame the curious eyes of their friends when she demonstrates affection for her girlfriend publicly.

Maybe she was just thinking of that, getting herself a drink, when Rey from Star Wars approached. Oh, wait, it was just Beca.

"It looks like you made amends with movies." Aubrey commented with a smirk.

"Star Wars was never that bad." Beca replied, rolling her eyes. "And I wasn't the only one making some amends."

Aubrey gave her a guilty look before taking some time to look around.

Jesse had Emma on his shoulders while she attempted to put the basketball in the basket while Alex, Donald and Sam cheered with their beers in hand - seeing the little girl's smile was a privilege Aubrey was happy to have. Ashley and Stacie were laughing hard, leaning on each other, at something Amy said, while Cynthia Rose dared Jessica, Ashley and Lily on a beer pong game. Chloe was chatting with Jane in a corner, with that expression that means that she is enjoying the conversation, fidgeting with one of her braids with one hand and nursing a wine glass in the other one. Okay, looking at Chloe under the fairy lights with that smile made her regret the "no kissing for the night" rule she made.

"I made some stupid choices in the past." Aubrey said, apologetically.

"We all did, Aubrey." Beca said in a comprehensive tone. "You have to stop being so hard on yourself about it, we don't blame you. We are all glad you're back."

They shared a sympathetic smile.

"No one is happier than Chloe, though." Beca added. "I swear to God, Aubrey, if you leave her-"

"You will murder me in my sleep. I know." Aubrey said in a monotone tone. "You tell me this every single time we met. You even text me to say it sometimes."

"Just making sure you are aware."

"I am, Beca. And you have no idea how I appreciate how much you care about her and Emma." Aubrey said, turning to her small friend. "But I am here for the long-term thing. I am not leaving them. As long as she will have me, I will be here."

"Well, then you are never leaving." Beca chuckled.

"That's the plan, Mitchell." Aubrey grinned.

Beca watched Aubrey for one or two seconds. People are crazy, they change so much.

"Uh, hide that cup, Aubrey." Beca said, taking the cup out of Aubrey's hand and throwing it away as she saw Emma wandering in their direction.

The little girl came to steal Aubrey from Beca, so they could find some chocolate without peanut for her to eat. Beca watched as Aubrey picked the kid up and walked to where the candies were. Watching Aubrey sitting by the table with Emma on her lap, brought a little smile to the brunette's face.

The little girl kept eating her chocolate sitting there, while Aubrey had her arms looped around her. They were chatting about something Beca couldn't listen, but just the view entertained her for a while. She watched as Chloe approached them and kissed Aubrey's cheek before sitting by her side with a slice of pumpkin pie. She fed Emma, but the little girl was more interested in the chocolate, then she fed Aubrey and then herself. It looked like some kind of family picture, Beca thought.

"What are you looking at?" Jesse asked, hugging her from behind.

"Just thinking…they are the cutest family ever. We should just give up, we'll never top them. It's so unfair." Beca said with a fake pout. Her face suddenly became serious. "I hope they don't kiss wearing those costumes. It would be super weird."

"You talk like Rey kissing Frodo is normal."

"Shut up, nerd." Beca smirked, turning on her heels to kiss him.


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