Author's note: This is a continuation of Day 3. Look at me, getting out before midnight my time. I feel accomplished!

After getting the essentials and some toys for Kitty, as well as presents for her and Lucky, the four women agreed to meet at Ashley and Jessica's the next day for a late lunch. Kitty and Elle took to each other like a house on fire, frolicking about the fenced in area while the humans got to know each other.

"So how long have you two been together?" Beca asked

"Not as long as I would have liked honestly." Aubrey said, a hint of sadness in her voice. "We've known each other basically all our lives, but we've only really been together since 2016."

"It's a bit of a story." Chloe said, glancing to her wife to see if the blonde was ok with her telling it. When she received a nod she continued. "It was sort of one of those things where our timing never really lined up."

"It also didn't help that I didn't come out to everyone till we were in college." Aubrey added. "I told Chloe I was gay when we were like 13 and I was just figuring it out, but I swore her to secrecy. I had beards, fairly standard closeted gay girl stuff. Not that anything happened, I always passed it off as wanting to wait till I was married. I didn't want to put Chloe through that and worry about getting caught. When we got to college and were away from our families, I started fooling around with this girl named Leighton who was in the closet too."

"She was cute. Still is, we're social media friends." Chloe interjected. "But yeah, while that was going on, I was in a couple different relationships, and when I wasn't she was with someone. Shortly after we graduated, I got serious with a guy, Chicago."

"You lived in Chicago?" Beca asked, a little confused at what appeared to be a non sequitur.

"No, Chicago was the guy's name." Aubrey explained, at the brunettes' confused looks, she added "Seriously, his name was Chicago. I don't get it either, not my problem."

"But yeah, like I said, we were together for a few years, from late 2012 till 2016." Chloe explained. "I should have seen the red flags, but I didn't, and I was really wanting to marry him, but he was happy with the satus quo. Then in late 2015 I saw the movie Leap Year, and it was all about how in a leap year, on February 29th, a woman can ask a man to marry her."

"I tried telling her she didn't need some cheesy romcom telling her it was ok for her to propose to him, she could do it at any time. The whole notion is as silly as a Sadie Hawkins dance, but she can be stubborn, so she insisted on doing it on the 29th just because she thought it was cute."

"I know, I know, judge me." Chloe defended herself. "Anyway, so, I got him a nice watch, figuring that would be something he would wear, and I had this whole plan. I took lunch to where he worked, and when I got there, he tried acting like he didn't know who I was. Meanwhile, there was this woman who was like 'Chi, sweetie, who is this bitch?', and I just glared at her, and looked at her left hand and there was this huge diamond. The idiot was ALREADY engaged. He was cheating on his fiancée with me, and I had just ignored every single red flag. Aubrey outright hated him and it wasn't even her standard low level misandry."

"I'll admit a large portion of it was because Chloe was with him and not me." The blonde confessed. "Thankfully at that time I was single."

"Yep, I pretty much ran right to her. That night, she just held me while I cried and was so just sweet and comforting. It just clicked. I realized how much I loved her, and how she was always there for me. I kissed her. The rest, as they say. Is history." Chloe smiled, squeezing the blonde's hand.

"That's quite the story." Beca nodded as she watched the interaction between the couple. "I have a sort of similar one."

To be continued….