After yet another unnecessary rude and hateful comment from the a capella commentator, Beca had had enough. She didn't worked her ass of with her girls to be treated like second hand human beings.
"Come on girls, it's time to stand up for ourselves" she said.
The others followed her excitedly. Everyone except for one of them. If this was going to be another one of her captains famous verbal confrontation she dreaded it. It wasn't that she didn't agree with her captain, she just wanted to stay as far away from him as she could.
"Can you stop making this rude comments? It's beginning to get old" Beca asked John.
As usual the commentator ignored her. Instead he looked past her directly at me. I feared for what he was going to say.
"Jessica, do you always let your friends treat your family like that?" he asked me.
Embarrassed I didn't know how to respond. I hoped the floor would vanish under my feet, but of course that didn't happen.
"I'm sorry uncle John" I said quietly before I turned around and ran away.
"Jessica wait!" I could hear my best friend Ashley yelling at me.
But I didn't stop. I didn't wait for her. For the past two year I managed to hide that he was my uncle. Fortunately for me, Smith was a common surname. And none of the girls had made the connection.
All my life I had to endure his crappy comments so I was used to it. During our first ICCAs I had known that he would take any opportunity he could find to discourage me. That's why I never told anyone that he was my uncle.
He didn't really hate women. His hatred was directed towards me specifically. From the day I was born he had hated me. Purely because I was the first female Smith that had been born in sixty years.
I stopped running when I reached our dressing room. I took a deep breath and wiped away my tears.
"Hey are you okay?" I heard my best friend asking me.
"No, I'm not. I'm sorry for keeping this a secret" I said guiltily.
"It's okay. I would keep that a secret too if I had been you" Ashley said as she put her arms around me for a hug.
"Do you think they will kick me out of the Bellas for not telling?" I asked her.
"Of course they won't. You can't help it that your uncle is a dick" Ashley assured me.
"Well I better get changed into my normal outfit in case they do" I said.
When I came out of the shower, the rest of the Bellas looked at me.
"I'm sorry guys for not telling you. Beca, I understand if you want me to leave the Bellas" I said softly.
"Are you crazy dude?" she said.
"Is he really your uncle?" Cynthia Rose asked me.
"He is my father's oldest brother" I said.
"Man, and I thought my family was messed up" Flo said.
"Next time we're going to show your uncle how wrong he is" Chloe said.
Relieved that they weren't angry with me went back to Barden.