A/N: I have a new name here on FFN. I changed it to match my Tumblr account. It's still me. I'm just not using AmyP91402 on FFN anymore.


It was Friday evening, and Beca and Chloe had invited Sam to stay with them for the weekend. Dr. Mitchell dropped Sam off after he got home from work.

"Bye, Dad!" said Sam.

"Bye, Sam! Be good for Beca and Chloe!"

Beca smiled. "Have you gotten used to him calling you Dad yet?"

Dr. Mitchell said, "Just about. Every once in a while it still catches me off guard. Are you and Chloe sure you want to keep him all weekend?"

Chloe answered, "Oh, totes. We have a lot of fun stuff planned."

"Okay. Don't give him too much junk food. And please call me or Sheila if you have any problems," said Beca's dad.

"We got this, Dad," said Beca. "Go!"

"Can I see the ring first?" he asked.

Chloe held out her left hand.

"It's beautiful."

"Thanks, Dr. Mitchell."

"Chloe, I'm about to be your father-in-law. Just 'Dad' is fine."

"Careful, Dad, everyone's going to end up calling you that," joked Beca.

"No, just you three," he said, wrapping Beca, Chloe, and Sam into a hug.

"Okay, Dad," said Sam. "You can go."

"So, I guess that means you want me to leave so you can hang out with Beca and Chloe?"

"Yes!" exclaimed Sam.

"Okay, bye," said Dr. Mitchell. "Do you want us to pick him up on Sunday?"

"We'll drop him off," said Chloe, looking over at Beca. Beca nodded in confirmation.

Dr. Mitchell gave everyone a wave and left the apartment.

The oven timer beeped, and Chloe pulled a lasagna out of the oven.

"Sam," Chloe said. "This is my mom's lasagna recipe. Your sister loves it, so I hope you do too."

"Yum," said Sam. "I love lasagna!"

The three ate while Sam excitedly talked about school and his adventures with his friend Michael.

"So, what do you want to do tonight?" asked Beca.

"Do you mind if we just hang out here?" asked Sam. "Maybe we can watch something."

"Fine with us," said Chloe. She pulled up Netflix on their TV. "You pick."

Sam went through the list and chose Sing.

"Well," said Beca. "If I'm going to sit through a movie with you two, at least it has animals and singing."

The three of them watched the movie, laughing at the animals' antics.

After the movie was over, it was time to get Sam to bed.

Beca and Chloe headed to their bedroom, talking quietly so they wouldn't wake Sam. They went over the weekend plans, not wanting to talk about them in earshot of Sam.

Chloe pulled up the aquarium website on her laptop to order tickets when she gasped.

"What's the matter, Chlo?"

"Look who's performing at 6 tomorrow at the aquarium."

"The Barden Bellas? Why didn't Legacy tell us?"

"Do you think we should surprise her?"

"Yeah. I think Sam will get a kick out of the performance, just as long as he doesn't miss the sea lion show. He came to a few Bellas performances when we were in college."

"I bet Stacie and Aubrey would want to join us."

"Text Aubrey and ask, and please ask her to remind Stacie we'll have my 11-year-old brother with us. Sheila and my dad will kill me if she teaches him anything inappropriate."


The next morning, Beca got up and headed to the kitchen to see Sam. He was at the table, reading the first Harry Potter book.

"Morning, buddy. Have you been up long?"

"Nope. I didn't want to bug you guys, so I thought I'd read for a while."

"Thanks. What do you want for breakfast?"

"Do you have eggs? Mom and Dad taught me how to make them myself. Can I make scrambled eggs?"

Beca thought for a second about whether or not letting her 11-year-old brother use the stove was a good idea. "Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I promise I'll be careful."

"Okay, go get some eggs out of the fridge and I'll get a frying pan."

To Beca's surprise, Sam got the eggs, grabbed a bowl, cracked the eggs, and scrambled them with a fork like he'd done this hundreds of times. Beca put the frying pan on the burner and heated it up, but Sam did the rest.

"Wow, Sam, how long have you been doing this? You look like an expert."

Sam shrugged. "Mom taught me a while ago. I'm still not allowed to use the stove without an adult around, but I do it by myself when I make them."

Chloe walked into the kitchen as Sam was finishing his eggs.

"Morning, Sam. Did Beca make you some eggs?"

"No, I made them myself." Chloe looked at Beca.

"He did," said Beca. "I just watched."

"That's cool, Sam. Would you like to help me make some brownies this afternoon?"

"Yeah," said Sam. "What else are we going to do?"

"Well," said Beca. "We were thinking of going to the aquarium. There's a sea lion show."

"I want to see the sea lions!"

"I knew you would," said Beca.

"Maybe Beca's penguin admirer will be there," said Chloe.

"You have a penguin admirer?" asked Sam, furrowing his brow. "What's that?"

"I don't. Chloe's just teasing me because a penguin was following me when she took me there shortly after we started dating. I'm not even sure which penguin it was."

They continued to discuss the day's plans. They'd hang around the apartment in the morning and head to the park at the apartment complex for a picnic lunch. They'd come back, bake brownies, and then go to the aquarium and catch a late dinner downtown.


Sam spent the morning playing his Nintendo 3DS and chatting excitedly about his game to the girls. Neither one was familiar with the game, so they couldn't follow what he was saying.

Chloe packed a picnic lunch, and they walked over to the park. Sam ran straight for the playground, heading straight for a group of kids his age. They seemed to become friends instantly, and Beca watched in awe.

"How did he do that?" Beca asked Chloe.

"Do what?"

"He just walked up to those kids, and now he's joined their game of...whatever it is they're playing."

"You never did that as a kid?"

"Nope. I felt like my walking up to kids caused them to stop playing."

"I'm sorry that happened."

"It's okay," said Beca. "I'm just awkward, I guess. It wasn't until high school that I really had a group of friends. I had one or two friends in elementary and middle school, and that was it. I found a friend group in high school."

"And in college, you had the Bellas."

"Yeah," said Beca.

"Do you think we'll ever get Sam to sit down and eat lunch?" asked Chloe.

"The boy loves food. I'm sure it won't be a tough sell," said Beca. She turned toward her brother. "Hey, Sam! Come and get some lunch!"

"Coming!" replied Sam.

Sam sat down. "This park is fun," said Sam. "You have a lot of cool kids around here."

"We do?" asked Beca.

"Yeah," said Sam. "They're really good at playing tag."

"Cool," said Beca.

Sam finished eating. Beca told him he could play for another hour before they headed back to the apartment.

The three of them headed back to the apartment, the promise of helping Chloe bake brownies proving to be enough to entice him to leave his new friends.


They went back to the apartment, and Beca went to the bedroom for a bit while Sam and Chloe made brownies. Their kitchen was small, so there wasn't room for three of them to make brownies, and Beca knew she'd just be in the way.

Beca walked out of the bedroom and saw Sam and Chloe playing Uno in the living room.

"I win!" exclaimed Sam. He got up from the couch and began a victory dance.

"Am I the only person in the world who doesn't break out with a victory dance for winning a game?" asked Beca.

"That might be because you never win," said Sam.

"Hey!" exclaimed Beca, crossing her arms in mock offense.

"Sorry," said Sam.

"I'm just kidding, dude. Good job beating Chloe at Uno."

"Thanks," said Sam. The oven beeped and Chloe took the brownies out of the oven.

"Hey, Sam," said Chloe. "We'll let you have a brownie when they cool down since dinner will be late."

"Thanks. You guys are so cool," said Sam. "Can we play another game of Uno while the brownies cool down?"

"Sure, bud," said Beca. "All three of us this time." She shuffled and dealt the cards. Chloe won this time, breaking out into a victory dance.

"You're so weird," said Beca.

"You love me," said Chloe, planting a wet kiss on her cheek. Sam made a face.

"I do," said Beca. She teasingly stuck her tongue out at her brother.

Chloe cut the brownies, asking Sam to pick his piece. He insisted on a middle piece. Chloe chose an edge piece, and Beca went for a corner.

"These are so good!" exclaimed Sam.

"Thanks for helping me make them," said Chloe. "I'll let you take a few of them home tomorrow so you can share with your parents and Michael, okay?"

"That's cool. What time are we going to the aquarium?"

"We have tickets for 4:00," said Chloe, checking the time. Let's head down now so I can park. I know you want to catch the sea lion show. Aubrey and Stacie will meet us there."

"Who are they?" asked Sam.

"They're friends of ours, former Bellas. You'll probably recognize them when you see them," said Beca. "We found out the new Bellas are performing at the aquarium, so we invited them to join us. You don't mind, do you?"

"No, that sounds like fun. As long as we're still going to the sea lion show, it's okay with me."

"Of course we're going to see them," said Chloe. "Let's go."


They headed to the aquarium. Sam loved the sea lion show.

They headed down to the area where the Bellas were due to perform, finding Aubrey and Stacie already sitting at a table.

They spotted them and immediately sat down.

"Sam, this is Aubrey and Stacie," said Beca, pointing so he'd know who was who. "Aubrey and Stacie, this is my brother Sam."

Sam smiled and shook their hands. "Hi, it's nice to meet you," he said.

"We're glad to meet you too, Sam," said Aubrey. "Hey, there's Emily!"

All five of them turned to see Emily with a group of girls, all wearing the same gold sequined jacket, gold sequined top, and black miniskirt. They all had sparkly gold sneakers with black laces on their feet. When they got closer, Beca noticed they each had a Bella scarf tied around their wrist.

Emily immediately spotted the Bella alumnae, and said, "Hey, Bellas. What are you doing here?"

Beca replied, "Chloe and I are taking my brother Sam for the weekend. We saw on the website that the Bellas were performing, so we thought we'd invite Aubrey and Stacie and surprise you."

"Well, you definitely surprised me," said Emily. "Hi, Sam," she said, shaking the boy's hand.

"Hi," said Sam.

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you. I just thought you guys were so busy with your awesome jobs and amazing lives. I should have told you about the performance. I'm such an idiot. I'm sorry."

Before Emily could say anything else, the announcer called, "Coming up next, the Barden Bellas."

"Well, we should probably go get ready, but you guys. I'll see you guys after, okay?"

The new Bellas stood in front of the tunnel and began to sing Sit Still, Look Pretty with Emily taking the lead.

Their singing and dancing were different from the previous year when Beca, Chloe, and Aubrey had led the Bellas. The four alumnae weren't sure what to think.

"They're so bright and shiny," said Sam.

"It's definitely not the way we used to perform," said Aubrey.

Emily waved to her old friends as the song ended.

After the performance was over, they walked Sam around to the other exhibits. This time, no penguin followed anyone, and Sam was disappointed. "Oh man, I was hoping to meet your penguin admirer," he said.

"Me too," said Beca. "You would have gotten a kick out of it."

Emily caught up with the group. "Hey, can we go get some dinner? I'd love to catch up."

"It has to be somewhere we can take Sam," said Beca.

"How about the pizza place we went to last time?" asked Chloe.

"I think that's good. Is everyone okay with Max's Coal Oven Pizzeria?" asked Beca. Everyone agreed. "Okay, Emily, we'll meet you there in an hour."

They finished walking around the aquarium and headed to the restaurant. Beca and Chloe stopped at one point. "Hey, Beca, this is where we had our first kiss," said Chloe. She put her arms around Beca and began to kiss her deeply.

"Ewwww," said Sam, accompanied by gagging noises from Aubrey and Stacie.

Beca and Chloe broke the kiss and laughed. "Okay, guys, we get it," said Beca.

The group got a table at the pizzeria, and Emily joined soon after they were seated.

"Guys, I am so sorry. I should have invited everyone to watch," she said.

"No no no," said Chloe. "You guys were so great, and this was a really nice chance for us to get together."

"Hey, Beca," said Sam.

"What's up?" asked Beca.

"How come Aubrey and Chloe have rings, but you and Stacie don't?"

"I don't know, buddy," said Beca. "I guess that's because Aubrey and Chloe didn't buy them for us."

Sam thought for a minute and asked, "But you're still engaged, right?"

"Of course," said Beca. "I don't need a ring for that."

"Neither do I," said Stacie, giving Aubrey a peck on the lips.

"Ewwww," said Sam. "More kissing!"

Beca smirked and kissed her fiancee.

"Gross!" exclaimed Sam. The five women laughed.

"Enough, dude," said Beca. "We'll stop. Eat your dinner."

After they finished eating, Sam was starting to yawn.

"We'd better get him home," said Beca. "This was really nice."

"I'm glad I got to meet my sister's friends," said Sam. "Even if there was way too much kissing."


Beca and Chloe dropped Sam off after lunch the next day. They'd managed to catch up with a lot of the same kids he'd been playing with earlier, so he was glad to play one last game of tag before heading home.

Beca walked into her dad's house with a tired-looking Sam.

"What did you guys do?" asked her dad. "He looks wiped out."

"Game of tag at the park in our complex," said Beca.

"I hope he wasn't too much trouble," he said.

"Not at all," said Chloe.

They said goodbye to Beca's family and headed back to the apartment.

Chloe's phone pinged with a text. "Beca, Aubrey wants to go shopping. Do you mind?"

"No, go have fun," said Beca.

Chloe came home with some shopping bags. She put her things away in the bedroom and walked out to meet Beca, who was in the kitchen cooking dinner. She handed her a jewelry box.

"Chloe, is this about what Sam said?"

"Well, yes," said Chloe.

"You know I don't mind, right?"

"I know you don't, but I do. Open it."

Beca opened the box to reveal a white gold ring with a round cut diamond, with white and black diamonds on the band.

"Chloe, I love it. And I love you," said Beca.

"And you say I'm the cheeseball?"

"You are," said Beca. "I guess it's contagious."

Chloe slipped the ring onto Beca's finger and then put her arms around Beca and pulled her in for a deep kiss. Just then, Beca's phone pinged with a text from Stacie. Beca smiled when she saw the message was just a picture of what she'd assumed was Stacie's hand.

"So, you and Aubrey went ring shopping together, didn't you?" said Beca, more as a statement than a question.

"That's what Aubrey texted me about. We hit the jewelry store before going to the mall."

"Aubrey did a good job," said Beca. The ring was white gold with a round cut diamond and some pretty detail on the band.

Beca took a picture of the new ring on her finger and sent it back to Stacie as a response.

Legs: Our girls did a good job.
Tiny Music Producer: Sure did.
Legs: I plan on thanking Aubrey all night.
Tiny Music Producer: I did not need to know that.
Legs: You going to thank Chloe?
Tiny Music Producer: Maybe
Legs: You are.
Tiny Music Producer: Shut up
Legs: [emoji with tongue sticking out]

Beca was blushing beet red while reading the text. Chloe snickered at her fiancee. "What's got you blushing?"

Beca wordlessly handed Chloe the phone. Chloe began to type a response when Beca snatched the phone away.

"We are not answering her," said Beca. "But I will do what you typed." Beca winked at Chloe. She deleted the line Chloe typed and put her phone away.