Okay, it has been a very long time since I have put any stories online or edited any stories. This plot idea kind of jumped out at me recently after watching Pitch Perfect 3 though, and it wouldn't really leave me alone so I'm going to write it out. Bailey Mitchell is an OC that I have created, older twin of Beca Mitchell. I'm attempting to keep this story as realistic as possible, despite it obviously taking place in a movie world.
As always, Pitch Perfect and it's characters do not belong to me in any way, nor does the plot of the movie that I am tying this fanfiction around. Some ideas are my own, such as the character created for this story, but that is it.
Also note, this chapter is definitely lacking in length but I wanted to give a basic idea for my OC. The next chapter will take place after the current Bella's finish their performance at the aquarium.
Leaning against the cement pillar outside of the entrance to the zoo's aquarium, one Bailey Mitchell waited for his close friend Stacie Conrad to make her way over to where he waited after she finished in the bathroom.
Both were meeting up with the rest of the graduated Barden Bella's at the aquarium. Emily Junk, current leader of the Barden Bella's, had asked them all to meet up there for a reunion. Apparently, that required everyone to be suited up in their flight attendant outfits (really, they were the traditional Bella uniforms, but in Bailey's opinion it just made them look like flight attendants). Thankfully, despite Aubrey Posen's predilection for all things traditional, she had allowed Bailey to alter the uniform slightly. While still wearing a button-down shirt and blazer, both were fitted looser and obviously designed for men, and Bailey was also wearing blue slacks instead of the pencil skirts the rest of the Bella's wore in this uniform.
It was a little unusual for a male to be a Barden Bella, after all the acapella group had a long history of being entirely female groups. It was actually a requirement to join the Bella's, they had always and would always be an all female singing group. Bailey was the slight exception to this rule. He hadn't actually broken it, per se, as when he had attended Barden he still presented and socialized as predominantly female. What he hadn't told anyone was that while he was born with a female body, he didn't actually feel like it was right. It wasn't until after college, and coincidentally the Barden Bella's, that he came out as Trans and started his transition.
Now, with the surprising help from his father (something neither him nor Beca expected due to the fact that his parenting style was honestly rather detached, considering he left them when they were little and never tried to spend any time with them), he was 3 years on Hormone Replacement Therapy and 1 year post-op on chest surgery. Looking at Bailey, one would never guess that 3 years ago he had a 34DD chest size and a soprano singing voice.
Because of these circumstances surrounding Bailey's life, he was the only male Barden Bella in existence, graduated or not.
Bailey was pulled out of his thoughts by a hand waving in front of his face, a voice that was unmistakably Stacie's saying, "Did they take your brain along with your tits?"
Used to such treatment by Stacie, who honestly couldn't conceive why someone would want to get rid of their own boobs, Bailey rolled his eyes and swatted at the taller brunette's shoulder. "No, but maybe you're just sucking my brain to compensate the one you lack," he teased back with a smirk. It was a good natured jab, everyone believed Stacie to be the dumbest graduating Bella from their group when in reality she had actually gotten her doctorate and was now a cardiothoracic surgeon in Seattle. Well, she was normally, however she was 9 months pregnant and was due to go into labor any day now and was therefore on maternity leave because the hospital didn't want her going into labor in the middle of a coronary artery surgery or some such thing.
Stacie huffed good naturedly at his jab, wrapping an arm above her pregnant stomach and just beneath her rather large boobs. "I think you just spend too much time drooling over these and your brain slowly leaks out of your mouth," she informed him, leaning forward and pushing her boobs up to further assert what she was referring to.
Shifting uncomfortably Bailey glanced away, this was a topic he tried not to think about. Honestly, he should have known that Stacie would know that he stared occasionally, despite his best efforts not to. They were best friends, had been since college, and he knew that she had some sort of radar to know when pretty much anyone was interested in 'her goods' as she dubbed it. He had never mentioned his interest in her though, she had been in a pretty serious relationship with someone since college and he knew he didn't stand a chance. The guy had been on the track for orthopedic surgeon and was rather good looking to boot. Bailey would admit that he was rather attractive himself, however much like his sister Beca he was obsessed with music and therefore didn't make nearly as much as an orthopedic surgeon would make.
"So, when did the rest of the Bella's say they would be here?" He asked, clearly trying to divert the conversation to safer waters. Sometimes he felt like Stacie brought up his attraction to her because she might be interested in him, but his internal anxieties and dysphoria usually got the better of him and caused him to try and avoid the conversation at all cost. He didn't want to find out that she thought him gross for having facial hair but otherwise mostly female anatomy.
Sighing softly Stacie gave him a small smile before wrapping her arm around his shoulders and beginning to lead them into the aquarium. It was one thing that he promised to never admit that he enjoyed, having spent his entire life having to protect and raise his little sister, he liked feeling protected in a sense when he was with girls who were taller than him. On principal he swore he hated being short, but honestly with people he felt extremely close with he rather enjoyed being short, because he felt like he was safe to be vulnerable with them.
"The girls said they would be here around 1pm, so we still have about 10 minutes. If I know Aubrey, she's already inside and has been waiting for half an hour already, and of course Beca, Fat Amy, and Chloe will be a couple minutes late," Stacie was telling him as they made their way inside the building.
Bailey chuckled, looking around the Aquarium for the blonde haired ex-captain of the Bella's. "Yeah, you're probably right. Honestly, I don't know where Beca got it from because no one else in the family is as chronically late as she is."
"It's probably her 'I don't care' personality and general lack of motivation," a voice commented to their left.
"Honestly Aubrey, she doesn't really lack motivation, it's more that she just likes to annoy you by not getting things done on time or sometimes even at all," Bailey commented, turning to face the tall blonde, only one person made comments like those about Beca after all.
"Oooh, I swear, one of these days," the blonde muttered darkly. All too quickly though she shook her head and brightened up, facing the two Bella's in front of her. "Glad you both managed to make it on time though, I was starting to get a little worried that everyone would end up late."
Stacie rolled her eyes good naturedly at the blonde, "Honestly Aubrey, Bailey and I are early, you don't have to show up places an hour before to be on time for something. It's not like showing up at exactly 1 o'clock would mean the sky was going to fall."
"In my country we once had a rainstorm that dropped fish at us from the sky," an accented voice spoke up from behind the three Bella's.
Knowing that such a comment could only come from one Florencia Fuentes, Aubrey and Stacie both turned to the Guatemalan with bright smiles. "Flo, it's so good to see you," both informed her excitedly. Honestly, sometimes Bailey wondered who the actual twins were from their group of Bella's, because Stacie and Aubrey sometimes acted more like twins than even he and Beca did, which was saying a lot considering that he and his sister had the weird twin telepathy thing.
The following 10 minutes continued along in much the same way as the rest of the Bella's showed up. Bailey noticed that Stacie pretty much stuck to leaning against the railing separating the slightly lowered viewing area where the rest of the Bella's were joining up. He knew she was worried about what the rest of the Bella's would say when they found out she was pregnant.
Rather surprisingly, no one had seemed to notice so far, as he was sure the girls would all begin gushing question after question to the brunette about how far along she was and other things like that.
A couple minutes after 1, as predicted, Beca, Fat Amy, and Chloe rushed over to the rest of them. "You're late," was Aubrey's curt statement that greeted the three. Of course, having not seen her best friend Chloe in a few years she wasn't able to hold an angry appearance for long and was soon hugging the red head and catching up on missed time.
Not even a minute later Emily Junk and the rest of the current Bella's were approaching them. Listening with only mild interest, Bailey discovered that Emily had called the older Bella's there to see how far the Bella's had come, not to preform with them. In all honesty, Bailey wasn't overly surprised, even though the rest of the Bella's seemed to be. He had to admit that the current Bella's really weren't that bad, though he didn't think they had the same sort of chemistry that his Bella's had, not that he was biased or anything.