"I still can't believe you want me to come with you to your parents' twenty-fifth wedding anniversary." Chloe said as she and Aubrey waited for their flight to be called. "As far as they know, I'm just your best friend slash roommate. They think I'm going to be having my own room. It's like that old joke about the gravy ladle."
"What joke is that?" Aubrey said, looking up from copy of Newsweek she was absent mindedly reading.
"The one about the two women who share an apartment." Chloe started recounting the joke. "One of their mothers comes to dinner and can't help but notice how close the two are acting. Her daughter notices she's watching them and says 'I know what you're probably thinking, but I assure you we're just good friends.' The mother just nods and they carry on with the dinner. The next day, the other woman notices that their silver ladle is missing and mentions it to the first woman who sends off an email saying 'I'm not saying you did take our ladle and I'm not saying you didn't take it, all I'm saying is we haven't seen it since dinner last night.' She gets a reply back saying 'I'm not saying you do sleep with your friend and I'm not saying you don't, all I'm saying is if you slept in your own room last night you'd have found the ladle.'"
"That's kinda funny." Aubrey says as she processes the joke. "But we're safe, they haven't even met you. The only one that knows for certain about us is Jan and she would never tell them. All I told my mom is that you didn't have any kind of plans at all this summer. When she heard that she said I could bring you along."
"So it's a pity invite?" Chloe asked, a little hurt at the notion.
"Don't look at it like that sweetie." Aubrey said, taking Chloe's hand and giving it a gentle squeeze. "She said it works out anyway because they want to meet you. And I want them to meet you, because one day they will know."
"Really?" Chloe asked, looking hopeful
"Yes really." Aubrey said smiling at the redhead. "I love you Chloe."
"I love you too." Chloe said, kissing Aubrey's cheek. "You know when I fell in love with you?"
"When's that?" Aubrey asked. In the relatively short time they'd been together, they hadn't really talked about it.
"Well, I first got a little crush on you when we were at the activities fair." Chloe explained. "When I saw how excited you got over a cappella and the Bellas, I knew you were something special. But it was hood night that I realized it was something more. You had let your hair down and you were having fun. I'd never seen anything so beautiful in my life. But my gaydar must really suck, because I had no idea you were into girls. Though I should have realized it when you wanted nothing to do with that Treble with the unicycle that kept hitting on you."
"Ugh, those Trebles are pathetic." Aubrey said, shuddering and rolling her eyes. "They were all over the other Bellas and all the other girls at the party too. I swear, when I'm in charge of the Bellas, I won't tolerate them coming anywhere near us."
"See, I love when you get so passionate about the Bellas." Chloe giggled. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw bustle of activity that indicated their flight would begin boarding soon. "Let's get our things together, in about an hour and a half, I'll get to meet your parents!"
Author's note: Not a lot to say. Hope you liked it. If you did, leave a review, it'll help me get the next chapter out quickly. Fun fact, I considered using the joke as the basis for a possible Chaubrey with Beca in place of the mother. Anyway, s I've said I'm going to be pretty busy through the Fourth of July, but after that I'll be largely good till late August, at which point I'll get real busy for awhile, but I'll still have time to get stuff out. Regardless, have a great whatever it is whenever you read this and stay tuned for chapter 4!