Life at Barden
by bxbblegumbxtch
"Alright nerds! Let's go with... Riptide by Vance Joy!" said Beca, the new leader of the Barden University Bellas after Aubrey and Chloe had graduated. Her and Jesse had been together for six months, ever since the kiss they shared at the end of the ICCA's. Her life had gotten better and she refused to move to LA and decided to stay at Barden.
"And here's the first one up" said Timothy, leading out a petite girl with long blonde hair and a black dress on. Beca nodded at her to begin her audition.
After all of the auditions had ended, the Bellas gathered to decide their new recruits.
"I really liked Claire, Tacie, and Lucy. What about you guys?" said Amy.
"Yeah, they were good. We only need two new recruits, so how about Claire and Tacie?" said Beca, looking around to see everyone's reaction. Everybody nodded in agreement and Beca smiled.
"Okay, you're all free to go. Remember to be at rehearsals by 8:00 so we get introduce the new recruits to everyone and go to Hood Night." Beca said, getting up from her chair and walking over to the Trebles.
"Hey weirdo" said Jesse, looking up at her with his dorky grin. "We were just finishing up."
"We're only getting two new people, how about you?" asked Beca, sitting down on Jesse's lap.
"Probably only three, since Donald got held back. We were thinking Chris, Kyle, and Nick- what about you?" asked Jesse, signaling the rest of the Trebles that they were free to go.
"Probably Claire and Tacie. We need someone to replace Aubrey's extremely high pitched voice." said Beca, laughing and wrapping her arms around Jesse's neck for a kiss.
"GET A ROOM!" shouted Fat Amy before she left and shut the door behind her. Beca laughed and stood up.
"Wanna go to the food court before we kidnap people?" asked Jesse, standing up beside her.
"Sure" she nodded, and grabbed her bag and followed Jesse out the door.
"Let me guess- Taco Bell?" He asked, grinning.
"You know me well." she replied with a smile. He grabbed her hand in his and held it tight."
"Wow, you really love making it known to everyone you're dating, huh?"
"Yeah! It's fun because I can finally show those guys from my philosophy class last year that I'm no longer a virgin." After hearing that, Beca burst out laughing.
"Oh my god, you were a virgin?!" she nearly shouted, laughing hysterically.
"I thought it was obvious to you!" he said, laughing with her too now. She smiled and kissed him on the cheek.
"You're a weirdo, Jesse Swanson."
"And you're a nerd!" he said as they entered the food court and walked to Taco Bell.
"I hope you know that you're paying" she said, nudging him in the arm.
"As always, Ms. Mitchell." They placed and collected their order and sat down. Beca's face when she bit into her taco was priceless.
"What? I'm hungry." she said after noticing Jesse laughing.
"You eat like an animal" he said, biting into his griller.
"So do you" she said, nearly spitting out half of the taco. He burst out laughing and started choking.
"Oh my god, now who eats like an animal?" she said, balling up the wrapper and throwing it away. Jesse just laughed and did the same.
That night...
"You are all Bellas now!" said Beca, handing Claire and Tacie their Bella scarves.
"I'm so excited!" said Claire, jumping up and down. She was the long haired blonde girl who was the first to audition. Her big brown eyes complimented the highlights in her hair.
"Me too! What's next?" asked Tacie, wrapping her scarf around her wrist. She had curly brown hair and wore skinny jeans and a pair of orange Converse.
"We have a huge drinking party at the outside theatre" Amy said, clearly excited. Beca led the girls out of the rehearsals area and outside to Greek Theatre. Stacie pushed past everyone and walked up to Donald, wrapping her arms around him. They had hooked up over the summer. All the Bellas went their own ways while Beca, Claire, and Tacie all stayed together.
"So have you gotten everyone's names down? There's Amy, Stacie, Cynthia Rose, Jessica, Lily, and Ashley." said Beca pointing to each of the Bellas as she said their names. Tacie and Claire both nodded.
"Have your eyes on any of the Trebles yet?" Beca asked them. Tacie shrugged and Claire nodded excitedly.
"That one" she said, pointing at Benji. Beca smiled.
"Him? That's Benji. He was roommates with Jesse, my boyfriend. Go talk to him!" said Beca, pushing Claire out of her seat. Tacie got up to get a drink when Beca noticed Jesse walking towards her.
"BECAW!" he shouted, making Beca laugh a little.
"Hey nerd" she said, kissing him on the cheek.
"I got you a drink."
"Thank you." Beca took the drink from his hands and laughed.
"Damn, Benji and that girl Claire are really hitting it off." he said, pointing at them talking and laughing.
"Yeah, I kinda forced her to go talk to him."
"Well good, maybe Benji will stop bothering me about his love life." Beca laughed as Justin started playing "Maps" by Maroon 5 from his laptop and everyone went up front to dance while Beca sat down with Jesse.
"Shall we dance?" Jesse said, putting his drink on the seat.
"Sure, dork." Jesse grabbed her hand and pulled her into the crowd while everyone sang and danced together.
The day after Hood Night was the first official rehearsal for both of the groups. At 8:00am sharp, all the girls gathered in the same auditorium they practiced in the year before.
"Alright everyone, welcome to our first rehearsal of this year!" said Beca as the girls cheered.
"So, I'm working on the mix but I have most of the choreography done for regionals. The riff off is next week, and for the girls who don't know about the riff off, it's a singing competition in the empty pool between us and the other groups in the middle of the night. It's a blast." she said, rolling her eyes.
"So our schedule! We will practice every day for about two or three hours, with five minute breaks every hour." Beca said, handing out the schedules to everyone.
"I also placed the order for the new Bellas uniforms and a special surprise. Those will be here probably by next week, if we're lucky." Lily raised her hand.
"Yes?"
"Will we have lunch breaks?" she whispered.
"What are you saying?"
"Will we have lunch breaks?" she said a little louder and Beca nodded. "And I also killed my mother by putting nail polish remover in her iced tea" she said. Nobody must have heard the second part.
"Alright everyone, let's begin practice!"
Meanwhile, at the Treble house, Jesse was trying to control his group since they had drank way too much last night and were all way too out of it to be paying attention.
At the Trebles house...
"Guys... Guys, we need to get something done. GUYS!" Jesse shouted over and over again. Donald was half asleep on the couch, Chris was upstairs puking, Unicycle was so tired he couldn't stand. Kolio, Jesse, Hat, and Benji were the only ones without a terrible hangover. He was about to call it when he heard a knock and Beca walked in. She stopped when she saw how everyone was.
"Woah. What's going on?" she asked, with a shocked look on her face.
"Everyone has a bad hangover from last night and we've gotten nothing done within the past hour. I've given up. What about you?"
"I cut them a lunch break. Wanna come with?" Jesse looked over at his group and noticed they had all started ignoring him.
"Yeah, let's go." he said, taking the keys to the house and leaving with Beca. He took her hand as the walked through campus to the food court.
"The new Bellas are amazing. Tacie's kinda quite, but she gets along with all the girls well. Claire's a lot like Chloe, she has a really bubbly personality. Speaking of which, did her and Benji hook up?"
"Yeah. I've honestly never seen Benji any happier. Piggyback ride?" Beca smiled and jumped on his back as he carried her the rest of the way.
"So I was thinking about asking for a Bellas house, for more privacy. But I have no idea how we could raise the money.." Beca said with a huff.
"You could do a bikini car wash!" Jesse said with a wink.
"Jesse Swanson! No! What makes you think I would do that?!"
"You do look nice in a bikini."
"You're a pervert."
"And you're a weirdo."
"I know I am."
That night, Beca sat in her dorm room with her laptop in front of her. She had been working on the mix for regionals when she heard a knock nk the door.
"Come in!" Chloe opened the door and ran in.
"Chlo! I'm so happy to see you!" Beca said, standing up to hug her best friend from the year before.
"You too! I decided to come visit to see how you're doing and to meet the new Bellas."
"Well, there's a perky blonde named Claire and she just got together with Benji, and the other is a quite one named Tacie. They're both really good singers."
"Good! How's the mix going?"
"It's okay. I'm trying not to make it super extravagant like the finale one, it's looking to have about two songs so far."
"If you need help with the choreography, Aubrey and I will always help. Speaking of which, we got an apartment together 20 minutes off campus!"
Beca smiled. "I'm so happy for you guys! You two seem so happy together."
"Yeah! Well, I should probably get going, it's a little late. Aubrey and I will be at rehearsals tomorrow!" she snapped her fingers and left. Beca was happy knowing she still had Chloe and Aubrey there to help when she needed it.
The next day...
"And that's a wrap everyone!" Beca shouted as she finished the choreography. Aubrey and Chloe sat together in the chairs watching politely.
"Okay guys, go ahead and take five." Beca shouted. She pulled out her phone and sent a text to Jesse:
B: everything good over there?
J: yeah. they're not all hungover so we got some work done.
B: good. call me or text me when you're done.
J: okay, love you ;*
B: nerd.
She put her phone away and sat down with Chloe and Aubrey.
"So what did you guys think? Was it good?"
"You did amazing, Beca." said Chloe, squeezing Aubrey's hand.
"That was pretty good. Now do you understand how much stress I was under?" she said giving Beca a serious glance.
"Yeah, yeah. Whatever."
Just then, Beca looked over and saw Stacie, Amy, and the rest of the Bellas gathered around a sheet of paper on the table.
"Hey, are these the new uniforms?" Cynthia Rose asked.
"They better make my boobs look good like last year's did." Stacie said.
"I think the skirt could be a little shorter, but eh" said Amy.
"I'm afraid it'll show my fish gills" whispered Lily, and clearly nobody heard her. Beca got up and walked over to them.
"Yes those are the new uniforms. I ordered one of each in everyone's size, and also a Barden Bellas hoodie for everyone. It was supposed to be a surprise, but I see you've all figured out." Beca laughed. The new uniform consisted of a blue sparkly miniskirt and a blue crop top that said "BU BELLAS" on the front, black pleather jackets, and black shoes of your choice. The Barden Bellas jackets were blue and white and said "BELLAS" on the black in white letters.
"What do you guys think?" she said, taking the sheet of paper and bringing it to Chloe and Aubrey.
"That's really nice!" Chloe said and Aubrey smiled and nodded.
"I'm happy with how the Bellas have changed." she said.
"Okay everyone, break's over. Back to business!" Beca shouted, and everyone groaned.
A/N: Okay so this is my first time writing fanfiction, so if it sucks I'm sorry. So this is how I imagine Claire and Tacie would look like:
pin/467107792572931412/ Claire
/brunette-hair-style-christina-guevara-she-reminds-me-of-u-but-with-blue-eyes-not-as-pretty-ofcorse/ Tacie