A/N: Hey all! This is something a little different than my usual stuff; it's a multi-chaptered fic! What's better is it's a ten years later AU for the Belcher family, with my take on what happens to the kids after they get out of high school. Chapters will be prety short on average, since they'll be split up into three parts, one from the POV of each kid. But to counteract that, I'll try to update a few times a week, so stay tuned by following me OR the story. Hope you enjoy!

On September second, Tina awoke to the sound of a cell phone ringing.

"Tinaaaaaaaaa," Josh complained, shoving a pillow over his face, "Get the phoooooone. My ballet class doesn't start for another hooooooooooourrrrr." The twenty-three year old sat up with a teasing smirk playing on her lips and smacked her boyfriend's butt through the blankets, picking up her phone in one hand, answering it without even looking at the caller ID.

"Hello?" Tina asked, digging around under her pillow with one hand, searching for her thick glasses.

"Hey T!" The caller greeted. Tina's brow furrowed minutely.

"Louise?" Tina rubbed her temples and Josh was immediately on high alert, sitting up in bed so fast he got a head rush. Any call from Louise was usually bad news. He could still remember the last call: Hey T! It's me. So look, Mom and Dad are out of town and, see, I need maybe eight hundred dollars and can you come bail me out of jail?

"What's wrong this time?" Tina asked her crafty youngest sibling carefully, mentally preparing herself for the answer.

"Nothing!"

"Louise…" Tina warned, but shook her head at Josh. Not a major emergency, at least. Josh flopped his head back down, already almost asleep again.

"It's Mom and Dad's anniversary tomorrow you know. And it's the restaurant's tenth anniversary since their grand re-re-reopening. So I thought we would have a party!"

"A party? That actually sounds really cool," Tina affirmed, nodding into the phone, returning to fishing back under her pillow for her glasses. When she found them, she slid them onto her nose deftly.

"That's what I thought! So I thought maybe you could come down tonight and stay until the fourth? I figured you wouldn't be doing much anyway."

"Hey!" Tina protested, but it was true. She attended a writing seminar every other week for up and coming authors, but didn't work at a regular job. Josh took care of that, living off campus on his parent's dollar, since he got a full ride to a prestigious dance academy in Chicago. Josh's parents had met Tina a few weeks before their son had left for school and immediately fallen in love with the still socially awkward twenty-something. They were, surprisingly enough, thrilled to let her live with their son, and didn't fuss about any extra food bills.

"Pleeeeease Tina?" Louise pleaded into the phone, and Tina could sense that her youngest sibling was trying to project puppy-dog eyes to her.

"Hold on a sec, okay Louise?" Tina asked, and quickly relayed the information to Josh, after violently shaking him awake. He sleepily nodded an okay and gestured vaguely that he would manage after Tina asked him about lunch and dinner plans. Going to school full time meant that Tina ended up doing most of the cooking, and she wanted to make sure that he wouldn't completely starve to death while she was gone.

"Yeah actually," Tina said into the phone, "That sounds perfect!"

"Awesome!" Louise said. "Start packing! I'll see you in a couple hours, okay?"

"Sounds good," Tina said, and hung up the phone. She immediately sat up and walked to her closet, grabbing bags from her closet, shoving random blue skirts inside. The only particularly special thing she grabbed was a spare yellow hairclip and her manuscript for her book: Love in the Times of Zombies, which was pretty much exactly what it sounded like.

"Josh, I'm heading out," she said, kissing his nose quickly. She ran to her car parked out front and climbed in, readying herself for the long drive ahead of her.