A/N: This is a follow up of one of the Staubrey Dates, so you might want to go and read that first so this makes sense. Enjoy :)
Everyone knew what happened when Aubrey got nervous, and this was one of the reasons why Aubrey never wanted this situation to happen and one of the reasons why she never told them. But this time it didn't happen, she thought it would, but it never did. Not a week before, not a day before, not even the morning of.
"Good morning" Stacie mumbled as she woke up from her slumber and rolled over to see that Aubrey was very much awake, she was lying on her back staring up at the ceiling. Stacie expected Aubrey to be nervous, well more nervous than she was.
"There's not much good about it" Aubrey responded, she really did not want today to happen. The whole entire week that it had been planned she had been hoping that for some reason they would cancel, or that the closed minded version of her parents, well more specifically her mother, would not turn up. But it had happened before, she had introduced someone to her parents and they had taken an instant disliking to them, Chloe was just about the only person who has actually met her parents more than once, whenever they visited her at Barden they never liked anyone else.
"We'll be fine" Stacie put her arm round Aubrey's stomach and put her head onto Aubrey's shoulder. "If they don't agree with it we will get through it" Stacie placed a light kiss to Aubrey's shoulder. "We better get up, they'll be here soon"
"Ugggghhhh" Aubrey groaned "I don't want to Stace, they're going to make our lives a living hell for a weekend" Aubrey sat up and faced Stacie who was choosing something to wear.
"No they won't. You're their only daughter, they wouldn't want to lose you over something as silly as this."
"They will. And I don't even know how they're going to take it. And I haven't even figured out how to tell them yet" Aubrey grunted and fell back onto their bed with a flop, she covered her face with her hands. "What if it all goes wrong, they're staying here and it's going to be aca-awkward" Stacie moved over to where Aubrey was laying and grabbed her hand to pull her up and off of the bed. Aubrey was now up and her face was inches away from Stacie's. Stacie placed a quick kiss on the blonde's lips.
"We need to get ready now, you don't want them to catch us like this do you?" Stacie smirked and walked towards their bathroom.
"Well it would be easier…"
"Aubrey!" Stacie shouted from the bathroom
"Okay, I'm getting dressed now"
Two hours later Aubrey was sat on their sofa, she was nervous, her parent's flight was slightly delayed and this only added to her current nervous state. Her foot was bouncing up and down and this made Stacie even more anxious than she already was. Aubrey had a habit of showing that she was nervous, whereas Stacie very much tried to keep it all inside of her, after all it is Aubrey's parents that were visiting and she needed to show her that at least one of them wasn't about to have a nervous breakdown.
"I knew I should have gone to pick them up from the airport, I could have explained it to them on the way and then they could come in here and meet you and it wou-" Aubrey was cut off by Stacie's lips on hers. Stacie's hand moved to the back of Aubrey's neck, just as Aubrey was about to deepen the kiss Stacie pulled away. She started to speak before Aubrey even had the chance.
"Will you shush for a minute? We've talked about this, you can call me over once you've told them. You do not have to tell them straight away and you need to do it in whatever way that makes you the most comfortable. If you haven't called by like half two I'm going to come back, I don't think I could last much longer than that. Okay?"
"Okay. Now do we get to finish that kiss or not?" Stacie giggled and put her arms around Aubrey's neck while Aubrey placed her hands on Stacie's hips. Aubrey moved to close the gap between them but as soon as there was less than an inch between them Aubrey's phone went off. She removed her hands from Stacie's hip and moved over to the edge of the sofa where her phone was. She picked it up and saw a message from her Mother.
Mother:Hello Darling, Your father and I are just in a taxi on our way to see you. We hopefully will not be too long. X
"Oh god" Aubrey started to panic "They're nearly here. What are we going to do?" She started to pace up and down the length of their living room, her hands were at either side of her head and she stopped for a minute and then spoke.
"What if you don't leave?" She turned round to face Stacie
"What? Bree I thought we talked about this."
"Hear me out. What if you're here when they arrive and I just tell them you are my roommate or something if they ask, then we can tell them together and then the fun begins"
"That sounds pretty crazy, but okay if it's what you want to do then we'll do it." Stacie moved over to hug Aubrey and then she noticed something. "Oh Shit" Stacie exclaimed.
"What?" Aubrey moved out of their hug to face her girlfriend, she held her shoulders and held her at an arm's length away, trying to fathom what on earth Stacie could have seen.
"Our pictures, they're all around the apartment. I meant to put them away this morning, if we don't plan on telling them straight away then they're going to see them and I'm pretty sure they can guess from them. "
"Oh crap" Aubrey quickly moved over to the coffee table where there were several photo frames full of photos of herself and Stacie. She grabbed them and gave them to Stacie to put into their bedroom whilst she moved to the hallway to grab the rest. "We can leave the ones up from the Bellas and from Beca and Chloe's wedding, otherwise they'll notice the bareness even more" Just as she grabbed the last few the doorbell sounded throughout their apartment.
Aubrey froze for a second or two then she straightened up, brushed down her skirt and moved towards the door. She tried to make this walk last as long as possible before she met her parents behind it. She rested her hand on the lock and began to open the door. She put on a smile before the door fully opened.
"Hello Mother" She moved to hug her as her Mary Posen entered Aubrey and Stacie's apartment. Aubrey's mother was very much like Aubrey, they both had the same blonde hair and they both had the same stubborn attitude that Aubrey was known for. "How was your flight?" She asked her mother.
"It was not that bad, it would have been better if there was not that annoying couple behind us. They could not keep their hands off one another"
"It wasn't that bad Mary, you're just exaggerating because the flight was delayed" Steve Posen entered behind his wife and moved to give his daughter a hug. "This is a nice place you've got here Aubrey"
"Thanks Dad." Aubrey hugged her father and closed the door, she had no idea where Stacie had gone. Once she heard the knock at the door all thoughts just went completely out of the window.
"It's looking very bare in here Aubrey my darling, I thought you would have some more pictures or artwork up" Mary commented. Of course she comments on the lack of decoration.
Trust me it's better than the alternative, Aubrey thought to herself. Typical she hasn't even been her five minutes and she's already making snooty comments.
"I think it looks lovely" Steve added "If this is how she likes it Mary then that's how she's going to keep it" Mary just shrugged it off and moved to look round the living room.
"I'll just take your bags to the spare room, it will get them out the way" Aubrey moved towards the front door where her parents had deposited of their luggage on their way in. She stopped for a second to breathe before she turned round and headed to the spare room.
On her way back to her parents Aubrey found Stacie pushing a box under their bed, she presumed she had found a hiding place for all of their photos.
"Stace" Aubrey whispered as she walked past their bedroom "Will you give it five minutes before meeting them? I kinda need to talk to them first"
"Of course"
Aubrey walked back to where her parents were currently sat on the sofa.
"Would you like a drink?" She asked, hoping she could avoid talking to them for just a little bit longer.
"Tea please Aubrey" Her mother responded, she moved into the kitchen and then heard her dad walk in behind her.
"Is it alright if we look around, it will save you giving your mother the guided tour?" Steve suggested
Without thinking Aubrey agreed with her father and before she knew it he had left the kitchen and Aubrey had registered with what she just said. "Shit" she muttered as she raced to catch them before they got to her bedroom. Before they got to Stacie.
"Who do we have here?" Her mother's voice rang out through the apartment, so that Aubrey who hadn't even left the kitchen knew that the inevitable had happened. They would have passed their bedroom first as it was one of the very first rooms you got to, but she thought she could catch them before they got there.
"Aubrey why didn't you tell us you had a friend here?" Her father asked as she caught up with them.
"I didn't get time to mention it. Mother, Father this is Stacie." She introduced "She's my roommate"
"I was not aware that you had a roommate." Mary interjected
"I've had a roommate for a while now Mother, I suppose I just didn't get time to tell you" Aubrey spoke. She looked at Stacie and found her in some sort of conversation with her Father.
"You haven't told us a lot by the looks of things" Mary spoke sharply.
"Mary…" Steve whispered "We said we wouldn't talk about this." His conversation with Stacie was cut short by his wife's antics.
"Wouldn't talk about what?" Aubrey was getting angry now, how dare her mother come into her own home and make snide little comments like that. "What was that meant to mean?"
"The supposed person that you are seeing. No wonder the apartment is so bare, she doesn't even live with him!" Mary spoke and moved towards the living room.
"Mary this is not the time to talk about this, Aubrey can tell us about her own life in her own time" Her Father's voice was stern this time. Aubrey had just about had enough. She knew her Mother was the worst for prying into her life, but this was taking it to a whole new level. She had invited herself here, insulted their apartment and slated her love life and she hadn't even been there an hour.
"I don't need to keep you informed all of the time of my love life Mother" Aubrey spat. "Why are you even so interested anyway?"
"Because you need to find yourself a nice man to settle down with, you've been out of university for years now. You are not going to get anywhere while you still have a roommate hanging around the place"
This really got Aubrey wound up, now she was telling her how to live her life. Well she wasn't going to take it.
"What if I've already met someone and I haven't told you because you would just go on like this!" Aubrey shouted "I didn't tell you because you wouldn't even bother to try and get to know them. Like you always do" Aubrey moved over to where Stacie was standing in the corner of the room, this wasn't how she necessary wanted to tell them but that's how it looked as if it was going to go. "I didn't tell you because you are such a narrow minded person that you wouldn't look past it and at least try."
"How dare you accuse me of such a thing!" Mary was shocked, never did she expect to hear all of this actually said to her. "And why would I be so narrow minded?"
"Because" Aubrey breathed out, slightly intimidated. Then she remembered who was sitting behind her and her confidence quickly grew back and she grabbed Stacie's hand, Stacie had no idea what her girlfriend was about to say. "Because I have been in a relationship with Stacie for the past couple of years, and you would never accept it" Aubrey pulled Stacie closer to her.
"And do you know what?" Aubrey could feel all eyes in the room on her just waiting for whatever she was going to say.
"I love her."