Carly was sitting at a table in the backyard. She was waiting for her friends, if they will ever show up. She was out there for ten minutes, waiting. Phoebe, Jane, and Jeffery were waiting with her. They had four wooden tables and ice chests set out. On one of the tables has bowls of pasta, salad, and bags of chips with condiments laid out.

A car door closed and Carly went to the fence. Freddie, Abigail, and Max were walking up to the fence. Carly was relieved. At least she could sleep easily now.

"Hey, Carly. This is my son Max and my wife Abigail," Freddie introduced.

"This is my husband Jeffery and my daughters, Phoebe and Jane." Carly said, shaking Abigail's hand.

"Hi, nice to meet you," Abigail said, smiling.

"So, what do you do?" Carly asked, curious.

"I'm the manager of an accounting firm," Abigail explained. "What do you do?"

"I'm a model and Jeffery owns a bookstore." Carly said, motioning to Jeffery.

"It also has a café in it," Jeffery replied.

Max looked at his pictures. "Can I visit his bookstore someday?"

Freddie looked at his son. "Yes, you can." Max smiled.

Five minutes later Gibby, Caroline, Gabby, and Gabe appeared. Sam, Jordan, Ricky, and Melissa showed up.

"These are my kids, Ricky and Melissa." Sam said to everyone. "This is my husband Jordan."

"These are my kids Gabriella and Gabriel. Gabriel is older than Gabriella by five hours," Gibby said. "This is my lovely wife Caroline."

"These are my kids Phoebe and Jane." Carly introduced, "This is my husband Jeffery."

Freddie reintroduced his wife and son.

The girls migrated to each other as the boys went to their own table.


"So Freddie, did something interesting happen on set?" Carly asked, as took a drink of water.

"Yeah," Freddie said. "I was filming a movie with these four thirteen year olds in the mental hospital and they were running down the hallway. They were getting chased by the 'monster.' The youngest member instead falls down the stairs. We stopped filming and went to make sure he was okay. He was fine and didn't have any broken bones. He laughed it off and later went back to making his TV show, after he got killed off."

"Jesus Christ Freddie. What movie did you make that kills off thirteen year olds?" Sam asked, horrified.

"A horror movie called Haunted Asylum. It comes out in three months," Freddie said.

"Wow. How did those characters die?" Sam asked.

"No spoilers," Freddie said. "I want it to be kept secret until the movie comes out."

"Damn," Sam muttered.

Freddie shrugged, "To bad, so sad. Did anything happen to either of you?"

"I met Mango Fandango," Gibby said, proud. They looked at him.

"Who?" The parents, minus Caroline, asked confused.

"She's an exotic dancer," Gibby said, nodding.

Caroline nodded, "But she stopped showing up when we have Gabe with us."

"It's such a shame, actually. Gabe really liked her," Gibby said.

"Remember when we filled Lewbert's cupboard with golf balls, just to watch him freak out?" Carly asked, lost in memories.

Sam started chuckling, "Yeah. Remember when accidentally blew him up?"

"You blew up a person?" Jordan asked, horrified.

"He lost his wart, that's all," Sam said, patting her husband on the shoulder.

"Remember we tried to make signs and ours said 'Pee on Carl?'" Freddie asked.

"And Carl turned out to be the police officer that arrested Spencer," Sam said.

"Good times, good times." Carly said, smiling.

"Remember how we tried to find that pie recipe?" Freddie asked.

"I tried to make people sing a 'fun song when people die.'" Carly said, using air quotes.

"And Spencer had to date that nasty woman." Sam said in disgust.

"Poor Spencer," Freddie said. "Where is he anyway?"

"He's making a sculptor with his wife Julie. They're really busy and couldn't make it. I think their son Timmy was helping them."

"What are they making?" Freddie asked, honestly interested.

"I think it's a family statue made out of rubber," Carly replied.

Sam was confused, "Rubber?"

"Tires, Sam!" Carly shouted.

"That's what I thought. I'm just wondering why he would use tires," Sam replied.

"So, Abigail, are you planning on having anymore kids?" Caroline asked.

Abigail shook her head. "I can't have any kids. I'm surprised I even had Max."

Sam was confused, "Why not?"

"I don't know," Abigail replied.

"Have you considered adoption?" Carly asked, confused.

"Loads of times," Abigail replied.

"Remember when we had to parachute into Japan?" Sam interrupted and looked at Abigail. "Sorry." She really meant her apology.

"You pushed me off the plane," Freddie accused. He tried not to remember that.

"You did what?" Jordan asked, confused.

"He had a parachute on." Sam said, waving her hand.

"Remember that truck the splashed mud on us when we were in Japan?" Carly asked and shudder.

Freddie nodded, "Or how I got that black eye?"

"Or when I had to rub lotion all over Sam's mother?" Carly replied, "And those chicken pox were everywhere."

"This isn't a competition." Gibby said, finally speaking up.

"That's true," Jordan replied. He looked to see where his kids were. Ricky was at a table talking to Max and Gabe. Melissa was with Gabby, Phoebe, and Jane.

"I mean, I accidentally flashed America. That outranks all of you," Gibby replied.

"You just said that this wasn't a competition," Sam replied.

Gibby shrugged, "I just wanted you to stop arguing about what was worse."

"He does that a lot, when we argue," Caroline replied. "He claims that he has the worse problem and I can't argue against it."

Melissa walked up to Sam and Jordan. "I'm hungry. When are we going to eat?"

Sam looked at Carly, who stood up. "I'll go get the food." She led Jeffery inside their house.

Two minutes later, Jeffery returned with a bag of coal, matches, and lighter fluid. Carly was holding a bag with meat and buns.

They went to the table and Jeffery poured charcoal in the grill and poured lighter fluid on the charcoal. He struck some matches and put the matches on the charcoal.


A/N: This was going to be a two-shot, but I decided to make it a little longer by letting Carly, Sam, and Freddie have their own chapter.

Sorry for the 'reintroduction' of the characters, but Carly, Sam, and Gibby didn't know who the kids were.