Beca was the first one to wake up, to everyone's surprise. She went quietly to Stacie and Aubrey's room and opened the door, peaking inside to see the three girls in bed, Charlotte hugging Aubrey tightly in her sleep. She smiled and couldn't help but take a picture. Then she went to the kitchen and started making breakfast before Chloe showed up and started helping her.
They were in the middle of flipping a pancake when Charlotte walked in, smile wide as she ran for her mothers, hugging their legs.
"Baby! Oh my God, we missed you!" Chloe smiled, picking Charlotte up and kissing her. "Stacie and Aubrey said you were a very good girl last night."
Charlotte nodded and smiled proudly.
"We missed you." Beca kissed her daughter's cheek. "Are you hungry?"
Charlotte nodded.
"Okay, you and I are gonna change while mommy finishes breakfast okay?" Chloe said before turning to Beca and giving her a kiss. "We'll be right back."
Beca smiled and nodded.
"Guess where we're going today?" Chloe asked, walking down the hall to her and Beca's room.
"Pool?" Charlotte asked.
"No, we're gonna go the beach today!" Chloe smiled.
"Yay!" Charlotte exclaimed loudly.
"Shhh! The others are sleeping." Chloe said. "Come on, let's change."
Charlotte giggled as Chloe put her down.
oO0Oo
Some of the Bellas were sitting on the sand while some were sitting on chairs. Chloe was sitting on a waterproof blanket with Charlotte as the toddler played on the sand with multiple toys.
Beca was sunbathing, enjoying the hot sun against her skin as the other Bellas were in the water.
"I have the cutest picture of you and Aubrey!" Beca said, her hand covering her eyes from the sun, looking at Stacie beside her.
"Huh?" Stacie asked, confused.
"You and Aubrey sleeping and Charlotte sleeping between you two." Beca said.
"Aww! I wanna see that picture!" Chloe said.
"I know, Charlotte crawled into our bed." Stacie said with a chuckle. "Did you have fun last night, Char?"
"Yes." Charlotte said, without looking up from her plastic shovel.
Stacie smiled.
"Pay here." Charlotte said. "Mommy, I caped!"
"You did what, sweetie?" Beca asked.
"I caped the Bellas!" Charlotte said. "I at the beash."
"You escaped the Bellas and came to the beach?" Beca asked, sitting up from her chair. "When?"
"Ast ight." Charlotte said triumphantly.
Beca looked at Stacie, who went pale.
"Stacie.."
"We were giving her a bath, then I took her out to dry her then the next thing I know she disappeared." Stacie confessed. "We looked for her for a long time and found her running around naked."
"What?!" Beca all but barked.
Chloe was becoming angry too, but she was glad Charlotte was okay. She was angry that the Bellas hadn't said anything to her or Beca.
"Aubrey was pretty pissed." Stacie said.
"Bad wod!" Charlotte said with a gasp.
"Sorry, Char." Stacie said.
"Chloe, I think you better take Charlotte away for a second." Beca said, fuming.
Charlotte looked scared, but remained quiet while Chloe picked her up and took her to the house.
"You're saying my daughter was walking alone, naked on the beach?!" Beca yelled. "What the fuck is your problem, do you know how dangerous that is?! She's a baby!"
Stacie stepped back, never seeing Beca so angry.
"We thought the doors were locked, we don't know how she got out." Stacie said as the other Bellas came to see what's going on.
"What's up?" Fat Amy asked.
"Charlotte just told us how she went for a walk last night on the beach!" Beca said. "How can you all be so irresponsible?!"
"We didn't see she-" Ashley started.
"You were eight nineteen to twenty-one year olds! Charlotte is not even two!" Beca said, yelling each time louder.
"Beca, we're sorry, we got her-" Stacie started.
"Do you know what could've happened to her?!" Beca said. "I can't believe you guys! I thought Chloe and I could trust you!"
"You can!" Fat Amy said.
"Doesn't look like that to me, Amy. I found out my so called 'friends' can't take care of a one-year-old." Beca said.
The girls remained quiet. Beca finally calmed down a little bit before she noticed Chloe was walking around the pool, trying to calm down a crying Charlotte. Beca almost started crying herself as she ran back to them, picking Charlotte up and hugging her tight.
"Beca, I know what happened is beyond terrifying but Charlotte is fine. The Bellas stopped her on time and I bet they already feel awful." Chloe said as softly as she could. "Charlotte feels bad, too."
Beca looked at Charlotte, whose little body was still shaking from the sobs. She wiped her own tears before she looked back at Chloe.
"I guess beach day is over." she said simply, going back inside the house.
Chloe sighed, watching the other girls make their way back to her.
"Chloe, we're sorry." Fat Amy said.
"I know. Just give her time, she'll cool off." Chloe said.
The girls slowly made their way inside, Aubrey was last. She just looked at Chloe and handed her the blanket and Charlotte's toys.
"Thanks Bree." she said.
Aubrey didn't have to speak for Chloe to know she felt awful. She just gave her a side hug and they went inside.
Chloe went upstairs to her and Beca's room and found the brunette with jeans shorts on and a tank top over her bikini sitting on her bed, looking at nothing.
"Beca?" Chloe asked softly as she sat down beside the brunette and placed a hand on her thigh. "Beca, they feel awful."
"I know, it's just.. Charlotte could've been kidnapped, she could've drowned.." Beca sighed. "I was just so scared."
"I know, babe and I was too! But look Charlotte is okay, the Bellas have learned.. everything's okay. We should forgive them and move on." Chloe said. "They all learned something from it, including Charlotte."
Charlotte came in at the sound of her name and looked at Chloe.
"What mamma?" she asked.
"You learned from what happened, right? You're not supposed to get out of the house alone, ever." Chloe said. "That was not cool what you did."
"Sowwy mamma." Charlotte said, looking down.
"You promise you won't ever do it again?" Chloe asked.
"Pomise." Charlotte siad.
"Good." Chloe said. "Now give me and mamma a hug."
Charlotte hugged Chloe then moved to the bed and raised her arms in Beca's direction. The brunette looked down at her and her heart melted at the sight. She immediately picked her up and hugged her tightly.
"I love you so much, Char. Please don't ever do that again." Beca said.
"Otay. Sowwy mommy." Charlotte said.
Beca smiled and kissed her before putting her down.
"See?" Chloe said with a soft smile. "How about we eat lunch and go back to the beach later?"
"Sounds good." Beca smiled.
oO0Oo
Beca and Chloe were sleeping, they knew the sun had come out already but they were so tired from the beach.
A little head showed up at Beca's side, just Charlotte's eyes showing. She carefully poked her mother's stomach twice before she did it again when nothing happened.
"Mommy!" she whispered, poking her again. When Beca didn't get up, she moved to Chloe's side, crawling onto the bed and sitting beside Chloe. She frowned when and hit her mother's square on the butt, getting a sleepy groan from the redhead.
"Mamma!" she whispered, hitting her again repeatedly with her open hand. "Mamma!"
"Mm Beca stop." Chloe mumbled in her sleep and turned her head to the other side.
Charlotte got out of bed and out of the room. She opened the door to Aubrey and Stacie's room and ran towards the bed, crawling on it and poking Aubrey gently on the hip.
"Aubee!" she whispered. The blonde stirred.
Charlotte lifted her shirt and brought her mouth to Aubrey's stomach, like Chloe would do sometimes to her, but since she didn't know how to do it, she just blew hot air on Aubrey's stomach and giggled. She tried again and heard someone else giggle beside herself.
"Hey Char." Aubrey said.
"Aubee!" Charlotte said with a grin. "I'm hunggy!"
"Oh yeah, me too. Wake Stacie and let's go have some breakfast." Aubrey said, putting on her slippers.
Charlotte turned to Stacie and looked at her position, thinking of her possibilities. She raised both hands and hit Stacie square on her boobs, making Aubrey gasp laugh while Stacie shot right up.
"Shit Aubrey that hurts!" Stacie said, massaging her boobs.
"Bad!" Charlotte said with a frown.
"Oh.. hey Char." Stacie said, rubbing her eye. "So that was you, huh?"
"Yes!" Charlotte grinned proudly.
"Okay but don't touch the goodies again, alright?" Stacie said.
"Otay." Charlotte said. "I'm hunggy!"
"Come on." Aubrey said, grabbing Charlotte's hand. "Come on, Stace, let's go make breakfast."
Stacie groaned but got up anyway.
Charlotte was eating her second chocolate chip pancake when Chloe and Beca finally showed up.
"Hi mommy! Hi mamma!" Charlotte said.
"Hey Char!" Chloe said, kissing the top of her head. "Aubrey is making you breakfast, huh?"
"Yes!" Charlotte said and offered her a piece of her pancake, which Chloe accepted with a 'thank you'.
"Char woke you guys?" Beca asked.
"Yeah. She tried blowing air on my stomach, right Char?" Aubrey asked and the toddler nodded. "It was so cute."
"The way she woke me was cuter." Stacie said and Aubrey laughed.
"How was that?" Beca asked, sitting down beside Chloe.
"She hit me on my boobs!" Stacie said.
Beca and Chloe laughed.
"On boob!" Charlotte said, throwing her hands in the air with a giggle.
Stacie groaned and crossed her arms but couldn't help but giggle. It was impossible to be mad at Charlotte, she was just so cute.
"Did you try waking us?" Beca asked.
"Yeah." Charlotte said. "Oke mommy."
"I didn't feel that, baby! I'm sorry!" Beca said.
"It mamma butt." Charlotte said.
"Oh, that was you? I thought it was Beca!" Chloe said.
Beca giggled and shook her head.
"It wasn't." she said.
Charlotte grinned and giggled.
"What are the plans for today?" Aubrey asked.
"I was thinking we could visit the town before lunch." Chloe said.
"Sounds cool." Beca said.
"Yeah, we can't go far though because of Charlotte, so we can just go downtown." Chloe said.
"Yeah sounds good." Beca said.
"Good." Chloe said.
"Okay so I'm gonna go wake the others." Stacie offered, since she was almost done with her breakfast.
"Okay, we're gonna get ready." Chloe said.
Stacie went to wake the others while Aubrey cleaned the kitchen but left the food on the table and went upstairs to get ready, while Chloe and Beca did the same.
Chloe was happy the brunette was doing okay and wasn't mad at the Bellas anymore. She was so looking forward to the next two weeks there. She was kinda suspicious about the way Stacie and Aubrey were being towards each other, though, they looked like a couple taking care of Charlotte.
