May 2025

Santana came home to find Brittany shuffling around the kitchen in a short dress and heels.

"Cooking some dinner for my lady." The blond sang into a spatula, unaware that Santana was there.

Santana set her briefcase down and took off her jacket. "Not that I don't appreciate it, but what's the special occasion, Britts?"

Brittany nearly dropped the pan in her hand. "Oh, you're home."

Santana came up behind Brittany and wrapped her arms around her. "Uh-huh. What's going on?"

"Uh…well…"

The brunette unwrapped herself from her wife. "B, what did you do?"

"I may or may not have agreed to watch Penelope and Dylan for a week while Puck and Quinn go to the Bahamas." Brittany looked at the floor the entire time she spoke.

"You're telling me we're going to have three five year olds and a fourteen year old in our house for a week?"

Brittany looked at Santana sheepishly.

Santana sighed. "You're going to owe me so much sex."

"You would get that even if I didn't agree to do this." Brittany winked.

Santana came limping into the living room with Penelope and Dylan each tucked under an arm and Charlie wrapped around her leg. "The plane's crashing!" she shouted. The twins screamed as they were thrown onto the couch.

Santana plopped down next to them and Charlie unwrapped herself and scrambled into her mom's lap.

"When's Mrs. Brittany comin' home?" Dylan asked as she played with one of the rings on Santana's hand.

"Here I am!" came a voice from the front of the house, "and I brought ice cream!"

Suddenly all three kids were up and across the house.

"Amazing. You say ice cream and suddenly the kids disappear." Santana mused.

"You didn't know ice cream has magical properties?"

"Hmmm. I'll keep that in mind." Santana said slyly.

Charlie pulled three dolls out of her toybox and presented them to the twins. "These are my favorite Barbies. You can pick the one you wanna be."

Each girl grabbed a doll.

"I'm Nora." Dylan held up her Barbie.

"This is Ashley." Penelope said.

"Mine is Pepper and she loves Ashley." Charlie pushed her doll towards Penelope's.

Penelope smiled and clapped.

Suddenly Dylan dropped her Barbie. "I don't want to play anymore," she stood up, "come on, Penelope."

Penelope looked at Charlie with sad eyes before following her sister out of the room.

"Wait! We don't have to play Barbies!"

"She's my sister." Dylan told Charlie.

"Have you noticed Dylan being distant towards Charlie the last few days?" Brittany asked as she handed Santana a coffee and sat down.

"I'm sure it's nothing. Probably fought over a toy or something. They're kids."

Brittany worried her lip between her teeth. "Hmmm. Okay."

"We shouldn't be gone too long. Just dinner and a movie, okay?" Brittany said.

Lily nodded. "Got it, momma."

Santana ruffled the twins' hair and Brittany kissed her children's foreheads before they left.

"Alright, squirts," Lily said as she rounded on the kids, "I've got a lot of homework to do so I want you to pick a movie and only bother me if you really need something."

"I'M PICKING OUT THE MOVIE!" Dylan shouted as she ran toward the television.

"Okay!" Charlie said cheerily, sitting down next to Penelope.

Penelope played with Charlie's hair as Charlie smiled and put her head in Penelope's lap.

"I pick Tangled." Dylan turned around and glared at her sister and Charlie. "Scoot apart. I want to sit in the middle."

Lily heard all of this and made a mental note to let her moms know about Dylan's behavior.

"Girls," Brittany called, "could you come in here for a minute?"

Dylan, Penelope, Charlie, and Lily came into the room.

"Oh not you Lily. Just the little ones." Brittany specified. "Dylan, it's come to my attention since you've been here that you might have a little problem with sharing."

"What? Nuh-uh! I share good!" Dylan protested.

"I don't mean sharing your things. I mean sharing your sister."

"Huh?"

"You've been a little mean to Charlie when it comes to Penelope. You don't like them to do anything without you and if Penelope pays more attention to Charlie, you throw a fit."

Penelope and Charlie shifted uncomfortably.

"She's my sister!" Dylan said.

Brittany nodded. "I know that, sweetie. But she's also Charlie's friend, and you are too. I'm not asking you to give her up. You girls are twin sisters and you share a bond that no one else will ever have with either of you. But you need to learn to let Penelope have other friends. And you need to be a better friend to Charlie. Do you understand what I'm saying?"

Dylan twisted her mouth. "I think so." She said slowly.

"Good. Now let's all have ice cream floats." Brittany said as she stood up.

"How were they? Any trouble?" Quinn asked as she picked up Penelope.

"Oh no. Dylan had a little problem sharing Penelope with Charlie, but we had a talk and I think we're okay now." Brittany winked at Dylan.

"She's my sister, but I'm real good at sharing now." Dylan said proudly.

Puck grabbed Dylan and turned to Brittany and Santana. "We really can't thank you enough. The wife and I had to have a little get away."

"No problem, Puckerman. But now you owe us." Santana said.

When the Puckerman clan left, Charlie hugged Brittany. "Thanks for that talk, momma. They're my best friends."