The filming of Charlie's Angels in London was successful, in fact, they ended up finishing a week earlier than expected so they were able to go and film in the next location, Paris, where they are now.
They were supposed to start filming in 2 days, but they decided to fly earlier to finally get the break that all of them deserved before flying to Norway, then back to Los Angeles where they will help Isabella and Paige move to their apartment.
Now, they were at this cafe around the corner of their hotel getting breakfast. Santana, Scarlett, Michelle, Christen, and the twins were sitting outside, just soaking up the sun.
"Remember when you out up a popcorn shop here in Paris with your ex-husband?"
Scarlett snarked at her, causing the girls to laugh.
"Don't even remind me. That was interesting."
They ended up finishing breakfast after 20 minutes, but now they were just sitting there, telling stories. Michelle looked up from where she was sitting and noticed a familiar blonde walking all alone.
"CLAIRE!!!"
Her cousin turned around and grinned when she saw Michelle. She jogged towards where they were, pulling Mitch in a hug, followed by Christen, Scarlett, and Santana, kissing the cheeks of the twins.
"What are you doing here? Where are the rest?"
"Oh, Dad is gonna accept an award for the closet company. But Phil had to stay for a while cause he had a client, Dad, Mitch, Cam, Gloria and Many are somewhere and the kids stayed home. I heard they were going to your house for a party."
Michelle hummed and nodded her head, scootching over so Claire could sit in between her and Santana.
"Yeah, last day with friends before headed to college. So what do you have planned?"
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Isabella and Paige woke up at the crack of dawn so that they could start preparing for the party they were going to have.
It's like a "farewell" even though they were all for sure going to see each other soon because she works with almost half her friends again but it was going to take a while before she could come back home with training and college and this was her way of formally introducing Paige to most of them.
"How many or vegans?"
"I think it's only Billie, but you know them, they prefer vegan options."
"So we should make maybe 3 cauliflower pizzas?"
Isabella hummed and nodded as she checked over the checklist they made since she wanted to make everything by hand. This is what her mother did everything she hosted a party, make sure that everything was gourmet. She can't serve wine since most of them are still under the age of 21, so she had to make sure that the food was decent.
Stephanie walked into the kitchen, holding a bunch of bags of groceries where a bunch of ingredients was there.
"Here you go, boss."
"Thank you so much Steph, you are a literal lifesaver."
Paige walked over to Staph and grabbed some of the bags from her hand.
"Anything for you Izzy. So Rui and I will be going on our date night, but you could always call any of us when you need anything more."
Isabella nodded, hugging Stephanie as she started walking out, saying goodbye to Paige. They went back to prepping for their party.
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Michelle, Santana, Claire, Michelle, Scarlett, and the twins ended up spending their time together. They decided to walk around, just so some sightseeing.
"Ah, I remember spending my time here during college."
"Yeah, you followed me here."
Michelle chuckled and bumped into her cousin as they walked beside each other, the rest of the girls were walking ahead of us as we reminisced their time here. It wasn't during the same time since she went to college first, but they had a pretty similar experience.
They were both categorized as fuck girls.
"How about that Ryan dude you hooked up with. How long did that go on?"
Claire hummed, as she tried not to smirk but Michelle could see right through her.
"A week? He was too clingy. How about that Audrey girl? Heard she was good in bed."
Michelle snorted and shook her head.
"Yeah, good in bed. Her snore was loud as fuck, I couldn't sleep. Had to end that one quickly. That Claud guy would have to be the longest right? You even told him to meet you at that coffee shop after 30 years."
"I don't quite remember. But I do remember you saying practically the same thing to Natalie."
"Yeah, but she knows it was a joke-"
"CLAIRE!!!"
We both stopped walking, only to see Claud and Phil standing together, looking at each other in disbelief. They both let Scarlett, Christen, Santana, and the twins go around as they both approached the two men.
"Color me stokes, we got ourselves an immaculate conception will you look at that. It is true when they say, speak of the devil and the devil shall appear."
Claire smacked Michelle on the shoulder making Mitch flinch. The look of disbelief on her face stayed as they both walked towards the,
"Phil? What are you doing here?"
"Claire."
"Gee?Oh my god. What are you doing here?"
Michelle stayed behind, her hand covering her mouth as she watched the chaos happening in front of her, kind of expecting this to happen to her cousin. Phil made eye contact with Michelle and she just shrugged.
"Claire, you know this Gee?"
Claire looked in between the both of them, not knowing what to say.
"Uh... I used to. What are you both doing here?"
"I came to surprise you. You know the guy with all the face bandages. That was me."
Michelle looked at him like he was crazy.
"Are you serious, face fucking bandages?"
Phil gave her an offended look, but before Michelle could say any snarky comment, Claud spoke.
"Claire, do you not remember asking me to meet you at this cafe exactly 30 years after we parted."
She looked at the man unsure.
"Uh vaguely."
"I was crazy to think this would work out. Of course, a woman as magnificent as you would be married."
Michelle could see how flattered the blonde woman was making her chuckle. This was like college Claire all over again.
"I don't want to interfere with your day of romance. I will wonder Paris all alone and I will return to my hotel in the ghostly embrace of our memories. Bye Claire, Bye Michelle."
Mitch tilted her imaginary hat before Phil pulled the both of them away. You could really see how jealous Phil was being and Michelle found the situation hilarious.
She walked beside her cousin as Phil walked faster in front of them.
"Of course this shit would happen to you."
"Oh, you'll stop laughing when you see Natalie here as well. That girl was hang up on you."
Michelle shook her head confidently.
"Not gonna happen. Besides, Paris is huge, what are the odds right?"
"MICHELLE!"
They heard 2 girls scream out for her. They both turned around, Mitch's eyes widening when she saw who stood there by the gift shop.
Christen and Natalie.
They both eyed each other, weirded out that they called you at the same time, while Michelle and Claire's faces turned red.
Claire from laugher and Michelle because she was flustered.
"Oh fuck me."
"I'm pretty sure both of them already did."
Michelle watched Claire in disbelief while she just smugly walked over to the 2 women, Santana and Scarlett awkwardly pulling the twins closer to them as they watched everything happen intriguingly.
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Back at the Press Manor in LA, the couple already finished cooking half of the food. They were starting on another batch of pizza when the doorbell rang.
"Do you mind getting it, my love?"
Paige nodded and kissed Isabella's flour-covered cheeks, and go to the door. She heard a few people speaking making her curious. She peaked out from the kitchen and her eyes widened when she saw Paige standing by g=the door and Billie looking at her judgingly.
She quickly wiped her hands on her apron and walked over there.
"Billie, hey! You're here early."
Billie awkwardly smiled and nodded her head.
"You told me to come here earlier so that we could celebrate my album release and I could help you cook."
Isabella awkwardly nodded, forgetting that she offered that.
//
"I forgot that I invited Billie early but in my defense, I didn't think she was coming here this early but it was okay since I could finally introduce Paige to her."
There was an awkward pause before she sighed.
"I already know that she does not like Paige, which is stupid because she hasn't met her until now. She's being immature right now."
Harold gave Isabella a sympathetic look.
"How did you know she doesn't like her?"
"The tone of her voice when I said I was seeing someone, I already knew she was going to hate the thought of me being with someone else. Plus, Mom told me about the phone call she had with Billie."
She shook her head and pinched the bridge of her nose.
"This is such bullshit honestly."
There was a small pause until Isabella took a deep breath.
"And I told Paige all about it too."
//
"Oh yeah, Billie, this is my girlfriend Paige. Honey, this is one of my best friends, Billie."
They both did an awkward handshake, giving each other forced smiles. It was silent until Isabella decided to break it.
"Anyway, we have a lot more food to make so please, make yourself at home."
She gave them both an exaggerated smile before turning around and going back to making those pizzas. When her back was turned, Paige and Billie gave each other the stink eye.
"She's mine."
"Not for long."
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Christen looked at the French girl beside her curious;y as her wife and her wife's cousin started walking towards them.
"Hey, love."
Michelle kissed Christen's cheeks then turned to her ex-fling. The one she never thought she would be seeing ever again, and especially not like this.
"Natalie, what are you doing here?"
"I live here. De plus, il y a 22 ans, nous nous sommes promis que nous nous reverrions ici. So, here I am." (Plus, 22 years ago we promised each other that we would meet each other here again.)
Michelle's eyebrows rose as she looked at the woman in front of her in disbelief. She did not think that this was ever going to happen to her.
She took time to study the woman she hadn't seen in 22 years. She still looked the same, the only difference is that her hair grew longer and she looked more mature.
She slowly nodded her head, glancing at Christen (who looked confused) before back at Natalie.
"Uh oh yeah. I remember. But can I be honest here? Je ne pensais pas que c'était sérieux depuis quand nous n'étions pas sérieux tous les deux quand nous étions ensemble. I'm sorry." (I didn't think it was serious since when the two of us were not serious when we were together.)
Natalie looked at her understandingly, nodding her head as she kept her gaze on the floor.
"Je voyais bien comment ça pouvait se passer comme ça, en plus je sais que tu es marié, qui ne connaîtrait pas ta femme. Mais je suppose que je pensais juste que j'avais cette chance ou quelque chose du genre, mais c'était stupide de ma part." (I could see how it could come across like that, plus I know you are married, who wouldn't know your wife. But I guess I just thought I had this chance or something, but it was stupid of me.)
Michelle immediately shook her head, inching closer to her.
"Non, non, vous n'êtes pas stupide. C'est juste... Tu es une femme attirante et n'importe qui serait chanceux de t'avoir, mais tu sais que toi et moi n'étions pas censés être liés de cette façon." (No, no, you are not stupid. It's just... You are one attractive woman and anybody would be lucky to have you, but you know you and I were not meant to be linked that way.)
Natalie nodded her head and gave her a sad smile.
"C'était assez toxique, n'est-ce pas?" (It was pretty toxic, wasn't it?)
"Pas aussi toxique que Ria." (Not as toxic as Ria.)
Michelle turned back to Christen, who seemed to have pieced everything together.
//
"It didn't take me a while to realize that she was one of Michelle's past relationships. Claire had told me some of the adventures they both had during their college days, but it doesn't bother me."
Harold looked at her doubtingly, but Christen just chuckled.
"Every day I am surrounded with people who my wife had dated, I mean look at Santana. And need I say, my wife has good taste, I mean look who she married."
She wiggled her eyebrows at the camera making Harold, who was behind it, chuckle.
"Plus, I just remind myself that out of all these amazing women that are into her, she chose to marry me. Now, look at us, happily married with 3 amazing daughters and our dream careers. Nothing more fulfilling than that."
//
Christen watched her wife's hand wrap around her waist, pulling her closer as she sent her wife a loving smile.
"Claire, this is an old friend of mine, Natalie. Nat, this is my w=beautiful wife, Christen."
Natalie reached her right hand forward, going in for a handshake, and Christen reached out and shook her hand, giving her the award-winning smile that people are very familiar with on the field.
"Nice to meet you, Natalie."
"Nice to meet you too Christen. May I just say that you are very beautiful. Michelle is lucky to have you."
Christen looked at her wife with a slight curse, making Michelle playfully roll her eyes, but the smile on her face widened.
Michelle's gaze went back to Claire, who looked at her in disbelief because Phil still had that jealous look on his face, both of the men glaring at each other. She walked over to where her cousin was standing, Scarlett and Santana were already talking to Natalie at this point as well and gave her a pat on her shoulder.
"How did you do that?"
"I just have a great taste of women I guess. Plus, I got lucky with Christen. She is amazing."
Claire's phone rang so she pulled it out. She noticed that it was Gloria calling her so she quickly put it on speaker so that Michelle could hear it as well.
Gloria: Hello?
Claire: Hey Gloria. You're on speaker, Mitch is with me.
Gloria: Mitch? What are you doing here?
Michelle: Filming for Charlie's Angels
Gloria: Oh okay. But we have a problem.
Claire: Yeah, so do I. Apparently, I'm into nerds.
Michelle: And my wife and my ex seem to be best friends now all of a sudden.
They both looked back to see Christen and Natalie talking with Santana and Scarlett, the twins were in their hands as Diana played with the necklace Natalie had on her.
Gloria: It's Jay. He's not getting the award.
Michelle and Claire looked at each other concerned.
Claire: What?
Michelle: Oh my god.
Gloria: There was this kind of mistake, he found out, and now we can't find him.
Claire: Oh god, okay, we're on our way.
Claire and Michelle looked at each other, communicating with their eyes. Claire nodded and Michelle nodded back, making her turn around and start talking to her best friends and her family.
"We have to go, there's an emergency. It was nice seeing you again Natalie."
"Tout va bien?" (Is everything okay?)
Michelle nodded her head as Diana reached out for her mother, so she got the 5-year-old from Natalie's hands.
"Yeah, Mon oncle vient de s'enfuir et nous devons le retrouver." (My uncle just ran away and we have to find him.)
All of them said their goodbyes, promising to meet each other again before they fly to Norway for a personal tour guide around Paris, and started making their way to possible places where Jay could be found.
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All three of them just finished cooking everything that they needed, so now Paige and Isabella are up at their room to shower and change before the rest of their friends arrive. So far, only Alycia, Rae, and the rest of OTV were there.
//
Isabella fidgeted with the bottom of her top as she stared at the wall beside her.
"It was the most awkward 4 hours of my life. I was so close to diving into the oven with all of those pizzas."
//
When they came down, almost all of the people were there. Paige leaned down, kissing Isabella's cheek as she squeezed her hips.
"Looks like we enjoyed our alone time a little too much."
Isabella let out a snort, as she hit Paige's chest lightly.
"Get your mind out of the gutter."
//
Paige smirked and wiggled her eyebrows at the camera before chuckling.
"We were just on our phones and cuddling. I just love teasing her."
//
Hailey, Luke, and Alex walked over to her, pulling the couple into a hug.
"There's my favorite cousin."
Isabella chuckled and shook her head.
"Lily will hear about this."
They quickly stole Paige, leading her to the living room where the rest of the guests were, while Isabella went over to the front door, welcoming the new people coming in.
Her eyes caught Bailey, Kacey, and Sean so she made her way over, giving the three of them a hug.
"How are you guys?"
"We're great, thanks. And did you and Page make this Cauliflower pizza? It tastes amazing."
30 minutes later and the party was in full swing. It wasn't wild, since there was no alcohol involved, but conversations happened left and right as each one of them started getting to know each other.
Alycia, Lauren, Hailey, and Paige were on one side of the couch, the two of them made it their mission to get to know their little sister's girlfriend.
The streamers, Kaycee, Luke, and Bailey were by the pool where a ping pong table was set up, vlogging as they placed bets.
Finneas, Alex, and Sean were at the other couch, talking about future projects.
Leaving Billia and Isabella standing there, watching everyone.
Isabella looked over at the singer and nudged her lightly.
"You still going to perform one of your new songs?"
Billie hummed and nodded her head.
"Want me to perform it now?"
The younger girl nodded and started walking out to the pool to call them, but Billie stopped her by grabbing her hand. Isabella looked back and gave her a questioning look.
"I just... Listen to the lyrics clearly. Okay?"
Isabella gave her a weird look but nodded nonetheless.
"Oh yeah, sure. I'll just call everyone in."
Billie nodded and watched Isabella skip to the door outside and call everyone else.
Once they were sure everyone was there, Isabella walked over to Paige, giving her a huge smile as she plopped on her lap. Paige leaned down, giving the younger girl a kiss, making Isabella's smile widen.
"I love you."
"I love you more."
Alycia and Lauren cleared their throats making Isabella playfully glare at them. They turned their attention to Billie, who sat by the piano, getting ready to perform one of the songs from the album.
"I just want to say before I perform this, this song has a special place in my heart. It's one of the fewer songs that Isabella there didn't actually help me with."
Because this is about her.
The people chuckled and waited impatiently for her to start, taking out their phones because this was literally a free concert.
Billie cleared her throat, glancing jealously at Paige and Isabella, watching the woman she loves lean back into her purple-haired girlfriend, both of them making googly eyes to each other. She sighed and pressed the opening keys to the song.
I don't want it
And I don't want to want you
But in my dreams, I seem to be more honest
And I must admit you've been in quite a few
Isabella tilted her head as she listened to the lyrics intently like what Billie told her to do, her eyes meeting Billie's. She could feel Paige stiffen behind her so she held her hand and giving it a squeeze.
Halley's Comet
Comes around more than I do
But you're all it takes for me to break a promise
Silly me to fall in love with you
Everybody awkwardly looked between Isabella and Billie as she basically serenaded Isabella in front of
I haven't slept since Sunday
Midnight for me is 3 AM for you
But my sleepless nights are better
With you than nights could ever be alone
It was obvious that things did not work out between the both of them, but they also knew the reason why since the people in that room are part of Isabella's close circle and they watched the hope in Isabella's eyes fade away.
But they also watched it come back stronger. They came back because of Paige.
I was good at feeling nothing, now I'm hopeless
What a drag to love you like I do
Finneas giving her an apologetic look since he did not know that Billie was going to sing it. If he knew, then he would have stopped her.
It did not help that Billie made it clear that it was about Isabella, so all her assumptions were right.
I've been loved before, but right now, in this moment
I feel more and more like I was made for you
For you
Isabella shook her head and scoffed, wanting to all of a sudden leave. She glared at the wall in front of her, crossing her arms.
I'm sitting in my brother's room
Haven't slept in a week
Or two (Or two)
I think I might have fallen in love
What am I to do?
Isabella stood up, walking out into the pool area to get some air because she felt like the walls were closing in.
Paige gave Billie a glare before following her girlfriend out the door.
"Hey baby, wait up."
Isabella turned around, her eyes watering as she looked at the love of her life.
"I'm so sorry about her, if only I knew that she wrote a song about me and was planning on singing it I would have not let her perform at all."
Paige pulled her closer, pulling her into a hug, holding her tight. Isabella rested her head on her chest as she sobbed. Once she was able to compose herself, she looked up and gave Paige a frown.
"I'm sorry, I should be the one comforting you. That was a huge disrespect on your part."
Her girlfriend shook her head and just rested her hands on Isabella's cheeks.
"You're the heartbroken one here, with her leading you on and shit. And I am gladly here to pick up the pieces honey."
Isabella smiled and tip-toed and gave Paige a kiss.
Someone clearing their throat pulled them out of the small bubble that they are both in making them pull away, only to see Billie standing there shyly. Paige gave her girlfriend a reassuring smile.
"Talk to her, she's still your best friend."
Isabella took a deep breath and nodded her head. Paige gave her one last smile before walking back inside to join everyone in the party.
She took her shoes off, then dipping her feet into the pool, Billie sitting beside her, making sure that there was space between them.
"I'm sorry that song was uncalled for-"
"You think?"
Billie looked at Isabella, sighing because she knew that the younger girl was pissed.
"I just. I love you and-"
"You are so insensitive doing that in front of all those people, especially my girlfriend, who you knew I had by the way. You are so selfish in thinking that just by singing that song I will run into your arms and fucking ride into the sunset. And you had the audacity of calling my mom when they both met Paige?"
"I just... you could do so much better?"
Isabella scoffed and shook her head.
"And who is the right one for me? You? The person who led me on for months, telling me how much you care about me, serenading me for hours on end, making me fall in love with you, then gaslighting me, going on multiple dates, then flaunting it to me once you come back, telling me how they might be the one. You gave me mixed signals and I waited for you."
Billie sat quietly, letting Isabella rant knowing she needed that.
"Then Paige came and she is the sweetest, most understanding human being ever. You just started making assumptions about the girl so who are you to tell me who the right person is for me?"
She let out a tired sigh, looking up at the stars, letting the sound of the water calm her down.
"I'm sorry, I was just.... I was scared about what other people would say about me once they find out I am gay and it took me losing you to another person to make me realize that I don't care about other people and I was and am the happiest with you."
It was silent for a while, with Billie joining in on looking at the stars.
"I just want to know, did you love me."
Isabella took a deep breath and nodded.
"I did... or I think I did. I had strong feelings for you. But then Paige came and that's when I realized what true love felt like. That my feeling for you was just small compared to how I felt about her. With you, I felt butterflies, and I would grin at the thought of you, and the world would freeze. But with P, I felt the whole fucking zoo. My smile could not be wiped out of my face and the world did not freeze no."
She took a deep breath, her heart beating so fast at the thought of the 6'3 purple-haired woman that was handling the party inside for her while she and Billie were talking it out.
"It went fast forward into our future. With her waiting at the end of the aisle for me in a white dress and I was walking down the aisle with a beautiful bouquet of flowers. It fast forward to both of us owning our own place and growing our own family together. To me scoring goals and pointing at her every time I do. I imagine my future with her, something that never happened when I was with you, and that's when I knew that she's the one."
Billie let out a breath of air, feeling heartbroken and guilty at what she had done a few minutes ago. How she humiliated the pair and how bad she treated Paige, glaring and giving her looks the whole day. All of the threats she let out.
"Oh..."
Isabella faced Billie and sighed.
"Look, you are one of the most important people in my life. And I see you in my life in the future too, but sadly only as my best friend. I'm sorry."
She shook her head and gave Isabella a sad smile.
"I'm sorry."
"I know you are, it's just frustrating... And I'm sorry too."
It was silent between the both of them before Isabella saw Billie out her pinky up at her.
"How about this, I promise that I will be a better friend and be your supporter. Let's pinky promise on this."
Isabella giggled and nodded her head,
"Fine, but you should stop pulling all this bullshit again."
"Promise."
They connected their pinkies together, smiling at each other they stood up.
"You think we could go and enjoy the rest of the night?"
"Yeah, I have some apologizing to do."
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M
ichelle, Christen, Aquila, and Diana sat in the restaurant with Claire, Phil, Gloria, Manny, Jay, Cam, and Mitchell as they had dinner. They decided to skip the awarding and go out for dinner instead.
Jay clinked on the wine glass, catching everyone on the table's attention. He decided to just tell his speech in front of his family.
"45 years is a long time to spend in one industry and I have accomplished a lot. Whisper hinge has brought serenity to the American bedroom. My glow knobs revolutionized getting dressed in the dark. And I let the charges on the angels of shoe racks. But the thing that I'm the proudest of, is my family."
They all let out aww's as they grabbed their wine glasses.
"Thank you for being here. I love you all. You're my lifetime achievement award."
They raised their glasses, clinking them all together. It was all great until they heard 2 people behind them.
"Claire Pritchett?"
"Michelle Martins?"
The two cousins looked back, in shock to see that two of their exes stood there once again, nut in waiter's clothes this time.
"Jean Luke?"
"Audrey Jane?"
Christen and Phil made eye contact with the camera. Phil looked like he was so done with everything and everyone knowing her wife, while Christen looked more amused since she knows how Michelle panicked.
//
Mitch and Claire looked at the camera and nodded their head, giving it a shy look.
"We had a lot of fun in college."
//
After dinner, Christen walked over to Mitch with a nervous smile.
"Babe, I need to tell you something."
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A/n: Longest chapter yet but it's the second to the last chapter for season 4 so I thought, why not. Don't expect the next chapter to be this long though KEKW.
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