It's been one year since the Barden Bellas have graduated Barden university. A lot has changed amongst all of them mainly their ability to stay in each others lives. Distance seems to be a huge factor that random text, Facebook and Twitter messages can't solve. Adulthood as most of them have found out is a balancing act. Taking on new roles of adulthood proves to be fulfilling at times while overwhelming at other times.
The legacy of the Barden Bellas has not been the same particularly because the new prospect Emily hasn't upheld her duties as its leader. Emily has since been signed over to residual heat and has been hard at work trying to figure out what she wants to say as an artist. However she has hit a few snags with her boss Jax, since she has been signed she has not been impressing him much. Despite this setback Emily truly loves being a Bella and not to mention a leader. This however has been overshadowed by her bubbly, weird and direct personality that hasn't necessarily been putting many girls in the group lately. Emily just finds it easier to perform her own songs and seek creative advice from her old leader Beca at any chance she gets.
Beca,"e'ffin", Mitchell has generally achieved her dream. She has her own little apartment which she sometimes shares with Jesse. Now that Jesse has been hired as PA for a major movie production right after college they haven't seen much of each other. She spends most of her time either at the studio producing music or at home getting rest to prepare to go back to the studio. She may not be doing the music she wants to produce but at least she is making a career out of something her dad didn't think she could do. She's finally getting what she wants to do, she should feel happy right?
"Beca", a voice yelled followed by rapid knocks on the front door woke her up from her sleep. Beca still half asleep wondered aloud who it could be as she slowly gets out of bed.
"Beca," the voice yelled now making rhythmic knocks on the door followed by a impromptu singing of, "Who Runs the World."
"That's really not going to make me answer any faster," she sluggishly called out as she looked into the peephole to find Emily Junk holding a cup of coffee in her hand.
Beca tries to see more through the peephole,like maybe some answers as to why Emily is here again and at this time?
"I know you can see me, Beca", Emily says excitedly waving at the peephole now.
Beca is seemingly annoyed since Emily has made it a habit of always trying to find her. Though Beca finds it somewhat endearing and a cure from of her loneliness since Jesse's been away.
Emily however seems to come off a little too strong for the other woman to handle sometimes.
"Can this wait like tomorrow when its," Beca backs away from the door to see the time on her kitchen stove, "Not 3:45 in the morning,"Beca says raising her right eyebrow.
"Can, you at least open the door and just listen to me for five minutes?" Emily pleads looking back at the peep hole trying to see if there is some form of movement toward the door.
"Please", Emily frowns batting her eyes. "Its a good thing you look like a doll," Beca sighs opening the door halfway.
"Aren't you going to invite me in", Emily earnestly ask. Beca opens the door more allowing Emily to prance in.
Emily quickly spins around,"Here this is for you", and hands her the cup of coffee. Taking the cup of coffee, Beca walks over to the kitchen setting it down on the counter looking up at Emily.
Emily follows her to the kitchen. Determined to lighten up the grumpy Beca, Emily tries to put on the biggest smile for three and half minutes.
Seeing Beca become increasingly annoyed she spouts off her whole reason of being here.
"OkaysoIremeberedwhatyouwetalkedaboutandhowwestillreminesceabouthowtheBellaswerenumberoneandhowfunitwasduringthosetawgahsh…", Emily starts choking as Beca quickly reaches for the coffee to give to her.
Emily coughs sporadically but manages to get some of the coffee in her mouth. As the other woman gently rubs her back.
Emily begins to feel okay after a couple of minutes, "I'm sorry this was suppose to be for you" she tries handing the coffee back." Beca shows a disgusted look when given the cup back.
"No, no,no you keep it I honestly wasn't going to drink the coffee anyways."she admits as she walks Emily over to the living room to sit. Emily sets down the coffee cup on the table in front of her.
"Okay so let's try this again, what do you remember?" Beca's says as she face the other woman.
'Alright well you know how last night we had so much fun talking about the good old days where the Bellas reigned.
"Vaguely I think I was on my third mojito," Beca says with a little interest.
"Yeah, well I was thinking since I am having a little trouble with my songwriting and you don't get to do the songs you want to do that maybe we should get the original Bellas back and start an awesome female group!" Emily says squealing with excitement.
Beca is so confused by the absurdity of what Emily just said not to mention that she has work in a couple of hours she begins to laugh.
Emily looks confused as to why Beca is laughing. "Why are you laughing don't you think that would be awesome."
"Emily please don't take this the wrong way but first off what makes you think that everyone is suddenly going to want to be apart of the Bellas." Beca states searching Emily's face for any answers.
After five minutes Emily begins to grow frustrated by Beca's quick brush off.
"I believe that the girls would love to be apart of a full time group and that the group would be amazing and how could you not know it unless your not amazing yourself?" Emily explains.
Beca still chuckles at the absurdity while trying to pinpoint exactly where this idea is coming from
Emily looked annoyed and somewhat angry at Beca's attitude towards this. Beca seeing this know she is not in the slightest bit kidding or amused, she then stops chuckling.
Then Beca stares blankly at Emily knowing she touched a nerve.
Of course Beca would love to see the girls again and reminisce about their days as Bellas; but this isn't college anymore they are adults now while Emily is still well college. Beca thought to herself
"Listen", Beca put her hand on top of Emily's hand trying to calm her down.
Beca sighs trying to find the right words to say,"I don't want you to get upset but the Bellas will always be an amazing time in our lives but everyone is living totally different independent lives right now."
Emily shakes her head slowly in agreement with her. Thinking to herself that if Beca the rebel, the leader who put the Bellas on the map says it can't, maybe it can't.
Emily tries to brush away this feeling of dread she started to feel because she definitely doesn't want Beca to know she was the cause of them. Emily sighs and tries to put on a happy demeanor.
Beca scans Emily's face once more to find if she understood what she was saying. Beca then gives her a hug while Emily stands up headed toward the door. Beca follows her out.
"Alright well it was worth a try to get the Bellas to perform again," she said in defeat as Beca opened the door for her to get out.
Feeling guilty Beca quickly blurts out, "Hey maybe we could have a reunion with the rest of the Bellas and try to actually perform one night", when Emily begins to walk down the hallway.
Emily looks back and smiles instantly as she is reinvigorated with hope. Even though she knows Beca meant a standard reunion, she just knows that this is her opportunity to get the Bellas back.
Emily looks away and scoffs thinking how could she have thought that Beca would ever call it quits on the Bellas.
Emily calls out to Beca saying, "Yeah", as she heads out of the apartment complex with ideas on how to plan the reunion.
-Two Nights Ago
"Jesse had me watch a collection of his all time favorite movies from the 80's", Beca says comfortably tucked into the couch while chewing on some popcorn .
"Except since he left I haven't been able to watch this last one he's been egging me on to watch since he's been away though."Beca says to Emily while holding the remote up and pressing play.
Beca is comfortably wrapped in a navy blue blanket as she lays in the couch. She offers Emily some popcorn but she is too busy looking at her notebook pushing the end of her pen into her head.
Emily quickly glances at Beca but goes back to her notebook,"Hey Beca what do you think of this line", Beca looks over at Emily sprawled out on her arm chair.
"Falling through the cracks, I can't find you looking baccck", Beca interrupts her tiredly replying.
"Your music is great, I am sure the song you wrote is awesome but can we please just not talk about music for now and just watch this movie."
"Okay", but do you think Jax will like that?
Beca pipes up, "Jax still calls me Reggie and forgets that I am a producer almost all of the time so if he can't get this he must be a moron," realizing what she just said.
Beca quickly switches her attention from the tv to Emily. "But Hey if you tell Jax what I just said you're so dead to me... GOT IT!"
Emily looks up from her notebook quickly, "Yeah I won't say anything", Emily starts to scribble out more stuff in her notebook." I literally remember being so much better at writing."
"Em," Beca sits up while talking to Emily." I need you to just relax and watch a movie with me that has nothing to do with work okay," Beca says calmly.
Emily takes her advice and tosses the notebook on the coffee table next to the popcorn.
"You're right," She pauses while setting the pen down. "What movie is this?" She ask while squinting at the tv.
"It's, The Blues Brothers, Jesse told me it inspired him", Beca said softly. Beca sat back quietly thinking about Jesse and what he maybe up to.
It's been a long time since Jesse took the offer to go to Columbia studios but Beca couldn't be any more proud of him knowing how hard it was for him to get the job.
"This movie doesn't seem like it came out from this time period." Emily says staring at the T.V. confused.
Beca chuckled a little at Emily's weak attempts to try to get her to focus on the movie instead of Jesse.
"It's from the 80's Jesse loves his classics," Beca explains trying to bring her attention to the movie.
Beca's facial expression changes seconds later as she focuses in on the two main characters.
"But I have to admit these guys look soooo weird ", Beca says. They both start to laugh with each other.
Beca enjoys Emily's company from time to time even when work can sometimes feel isolating and grueling. Emily got up from the arm chair and sat near Beca to get some popcorn.
Emily loved hanging out with Beca it reminded her of old times at Barden and how much of a bad ass Beca was and still is.
Emily admires Beca's delve into producing music and her ability to make them for such interesting people. They start to laugh and talk a little during the movie as the popcorn soon dwindles into kernels by the end.
Beca stops the movie while grabbing the popcorn bowl and heads toward the kitchen.
"That movie was really good, Emily exclaimed. "Yeah I was not expecting all of that at all" Beca sounded surprised emptying the kernels in the trash. Who would a thought a mission from God would lead to all of that she thought to herself.
Emily however seemed very impacted by the movie with her constant discussion about every scene in the movie. she just kept bringing up different things from the movie over and over again.
"I wonder if that was based on real life events," Emily paused thinking then quickly noticing Beca's confused expression from the kitchen.
"No, no just based on like a group of guys/girls who tried to get a band back together despite everything you know," Emily says trying hard to explain while looking at Beca who seems to be searching for something.
"Yeahhh...", Beca trails off weirdly as she hears her phone from her room start vibrating on her nightstand. She runs over to the room expecting it to be from Jax since he has her on call always.
Beca sees that it was Jax who texted her…. ."FORTY-TWO TIMES", she yells out in a panic as she quickly runs to bathroom finding anything to wear.
"What's wrong?" Emily asked hurriedly. "UGH ITS JAX!" Beca yells as she ruffles through some dress shirts. "Wait what, I thought he said you were done for today", Emily says as she hears the other women clinking about the bedroom.
"Yeah well his new artist Sweet$ wants to hire me again, ugh why didn't I take my phone with me", Beca falls down onto the bathroom floor while trying to put new pants on.
Emily gets out of her seat and walks over to the other woman's bedroom concerned, "Hey are you okay."
"Yeah I'm fine I just found out that no matter what you do gravity will always exist",Beca sarcastically yelled. Emily makes her way through the bedroom and knocks on the door of the bathroom. "Wait, what?" Emily says confused by the comment.
"Nothing," Beca says as she opens the door. The other woman brushes past Emily and grabs a light coat by the door of her apartment.
"Hold on", Emily says as she goes after her. "Do you want me to go with you?,"Emily adds excitedly.
No, don't you have class or something," Beca says to the other women. Beca quickly shuts off all the lights and heads out.
"Yeah but most of my classes are online this year. The one class I do have in person is at 6:30 pm," Emily explains earnestly trying to get Beca to allow her in the studio.
"I don't know", Beca says. Emily and Beca start walking fast down the stairs of the apartment complex. " I wish the tenets would at least fix the elevators honestly", Beca says frowning focusing on each step so as not fall.
"Please, Beca maybe Jax would want to see what new song ideas I have and plus I literally have nothing else to do," Emily says now pleading with the other woman.
They reach the last step, both out of breath but still walking briskly to Beca's car.
"Well what about recruitment of some new Bellas", Beca questioned nearing her car. The other woman could hear Beca fumbling through her keys as she leaned on the car thinking of how to explain.
"Well about that", Emily begins slightly uneased. Beca though quickly interrupts as she sees she is receiving the same message from Jax over and over again.
Beca quickly hops into her car turning on the ignition, "listen since I don't have time to drop you off, try to find a cab," Beca suggest as she start to pull out of the parking lot.
Emily half halfheartedly says, "Yeah let's see I have just enough to get me a couple miles near campus and maybe if I'm lucky I can hitch a ride with a stranger."
Beca stares out of her car window perplexed by the other woman who has now put her head down walking slowly to the direction of the bus stop.
"Okay, okay come in the car just don't talk to Jax though and remain as invisible as possible." Beca warns as Emily runs energetically towards the car.