Leaving campus had been hard for both Chloe and Aubrey, it was a tear filled morning, even though they were staying close, they knew everything was changing faster than the graduates were ready for. The morning looking for apartments had dragged on, Aubrey not liking this or that. When they finally did find the perfect apartment they both were so exhausted from all the tours and talking. Since they had packed up everything from Barden, they went ahead and moved everything in, sure they needed furniture still, but that night instead of going home to visit family they had both decided to camp out on the living room floor together watching movies, a slumber party just like from their childhood.

Three weeks had passed since that first night, three hectic weeks that were full of visiting home and packing up more belongings that they never took to the too cramped dorm rooms, finding discount furniture to make their first apartment their own. They had really put it together nicely, of course their mothers both had helped quite a bit with house warming gifts and random gift cards for places to get anything else they might have missed.

Chloe was sitting on the couch they had recently found, complete with a pull out bed, they chose it in case any of the Bella's ever needed a place to crash secretly hoping it would be used more often than not. She was flipping through the channels trying to find something decent to watch. "Aubrey, what are you doing? Want to watch a movie tonight with me, order pizza one last time?"

Aubrey came in and flopped down on the couch next to her best friend, "You know eventually we are going to have to start cooking, after all we do have all those new pots and pans from your folks."

"I know, but tonight I am exhausted, we finally have everything put together and moved in. I just want to watch a good movie and eat some pizza."

"And text Beca right? When did you last hear from her?"

"It's been a couple of weeks, I guess her and Jesse decided to do a little road trip, so she's been busy with that. I know the last we spoke she felt like it was moving too fast for her and that she missed him as her friend, but they must have worked through it."

"And you are still okay with it?"

"I'm okay with it as long as he is making her happy. I want her to be happy, if that means being her friend, then I guess that's what it means. I know I care about her a lot, I know just talking about her I light up, but I mean it scares me all at once too. I never have liked women before, and I know it doesn't mean anything because I like her but it's just…"

"It's different, and it scares you."

"Exactly, so pizza and a movie?"

"Well, it's only 4 right now I'm not quite ready for dinner, but I am okay with pizza and a movie. I think though we should text the girls, see who is still around invite them over, say 7 ish?"

"Yeah we can do that, an impromptu come see our place party, it could be a lot of fun. I wonder who all is still around Barden or close enough to show."

"What you really are wondering is if Bella is around," Aubrey said while gently hitting her best friend with a pillow as she got up to grab her phone and sent out a mass text to the Bella's.

It was six when Aubrey came out of her room ready for the evening, Chloe had started to pull out snacks and put them into bowls to get ready for the evening, she had even decided to pop in some cookies in the oven, nothing fancy just frozen cookie dough, her secret stash. The apartment was of course full of adult beverages, but Aubrey had also told the girls they could always bring their own and invited them all to stay over afterward if they needed to, Aubrey would never have let anyone who had been drinking, even one, leave and drive back.

"Chlo, how many pizzas should I order?"

"Who all confirmed they would be here for sure?"

" Stacie said she would come by a little after 7, as long as she could stay over since she has a bit further of a drive, Cynthia Rose said she could make it and is bringing Lily with her. Fat Amy of course will be coming over. And so far that's it, I think everyone else is out of town for the summer already."

"Still a pretty good last minute turn out, and of course in the fall we can have a mixer of sorts with the trebles. I would say three should be plenty; we have chips and dip, cookies, and other snacks. So we should be covered plus we have a couple frozen pizzas if we need to make them later."

"Okay, I'll call and order. I am so excited to see everyone again." The new recruits of the Bella's had grown on Aubrey so much, especially after she had let go of control. Aubrey had never really enjoyed the old Bella's too much, she loved Chloe of course but she just felt even more pressure then she already felt from her father by being in the group. But the new group was different and while they were never what she was originally looking for, she was glad she listened to Chloe's request to just find really good singers.

Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves, even though they were all still around Barden, no one had seen each other since classes ended. Fat Amy of course was cracking up jokes, making everyone laugh even Aubrey. Aubrey and Fat Amy had become good friends toward the end of term when Chloe was spending her time avoiding Beca, since it hurt a bit seeing her with Jesse all the time. So Aubrey had gravitated towards Amy since like Aubrey she was always happy and laughing, the two things that Aubrey valued most about her best friend since no matter how much Aubrey tried she just couldn't be as carefree as her friend.

The pizza had been gone almost immediately, Stacie claiming that the hunter, well he required a lot of energy, this eliciting a lot of giggles from the group. Chloe recalled when the group was first introduced to the hunter and that he was indeed male, Beca of course had commented. Chloe had wished Beca had been in town, but no one had heard from her for weeks, all must be well in Jesse/Beca world they all assumed.

The movie choice was difficult since no one could agree on anything. They had settled on watching the Hunger Games since it was on the TV and since most of the girls had crushes on Liam, still not believing he was actually dating Miley. Chloe was okay with the choice; she liked the books after all.

Just as the tributes were getting ready to start, there was a knock on the door. Aubrey jumped up to get it, everyone wondering who it could be.

Chloe knew who she wanted it to be, that's why when Aubrey opened the door and Beca was standing there her jaw dropped, she couldn't believe she was really there.