"C'mon Becs, please?" Stacie huffed and sat incredibly close to Beca on the couch with puppy dog eyes. Beca's best friend since college, Stacie Conrad, was begging the smaller girl to come as her plus one to a holiday work party. "We both know you make an amazing wing woman," Stacie trailer her fingers along Beca's jawline before she quickly swatted them away.

"I was already gonna say yes," Beca shrugged her shoulders, "I just wanted to hear you beg for a little bit". Stacie took that as a challenge and was about to open her mouth before Beca stopped her, "I didn't mean that as a challenge. Keep it in your pants, Stace".

"Tease," Beca heard Stacie mutter under her breath as she got up from the couch. "As a reward for agreeing to be my plus one, did you want a beer?"

Beca answered and rested her head on her hand, "I think I'm gonna need a few those if I'm gonna survive being this holiday work party you got going on".

Stacie returned to the couch and passed the cold beer to Beca, "It won't be that bad, Becs. Promise".

"That's what you said about the halloween party last year," Beca deadpanned, trying to forget the shenanigans she got herself into with her best friend.

Stacie tilted her head back as she giggled at the memory, "Okay, that was my fault. How was I supposed to know he was engaged? He never brought it up".

Beca pointed her finger at Stacie, "Are you forgetting the part where his fiance came to your apartment and thought I was the other woman and bitch slapped me?"

Stacie snorted, "Oh. My. God! Best day ever".

Beca sighed exasperatedly, slowly regretting her decision on accompanying her to another one of her work parties. But there wasn't anything Beca wouldn't do for Stacie and vice versa. They had met in college during freshman orientation at Barden University and have been inseparable ever since. Beca was pretty much a loner throughout her life, but found herself in a small group of friends once college was over, all thanks to Stacie. The taller girl had brought it upon herself to bring Beca out of her shell so to speak, but it didn't quite work out as she hoped. Beca wasn't as closed off compared to their years in college and was much more outgoing on some days, but Stacie knew that was all she could do for her friend.


Beca stood in front of her closet, struggling to find an outfit for Stacie's work party. She decided to FaceTime her best friend in hopes of her figuring out an outfit for the night.

"Stace?" Beca asked before she could close her eyes to a half naked Stacie. "Warn a girl next time!"

"Don't act like you haven't seen lady parts before you jerk," Stacie replied as she purposefully leaned into the camera so her cleavage was in view. Beca couldn't help but smirk because Stacie's comment definitely wasn't wrong.

"Can you just help me figure out what to wear before I don't end up going?" Beca huffed. The smaller girl flipped the camera on her phone to show Stacie what she currently had in her closet and pulled out each clothing item to show her best friend.

So far, not much luck.

After twenty minutes or so of back and forth arguing, they agreed on on an all black pantsuit accompanied with black pointed toe pumps. At first, Beca wasn't sure if she should wear a blouse underneath the jacket of the pantsuit, but Stacie heavily vouched for Beca not to. The smaller girl thanked her best friend and finished getting ready. Before she left her apartment, Beca packed her suitcase in her car for her red eye flight to Maine where she was going to spend the holidays with her family.


Earlier that evening.

Chloe heard a soft knock on the door while she was putting the finishing touches of her makeup.

"Just a second!" Chloe called out to whoever was on the other side of the door as she applied her lipstick. She gave herself one final look in the mirror and opened it.

"Wow Chlo!" Aubrey greeted her best friend with a hug, "You look amazing!"

Chloe motioned for the blonde woman to come inside her cozy apartment. "It's not too much?" She had picked a just above the knee, teal dress and accessorized with gold hoop earrings. Her hair was pulled back in a simple, wavy updo.

"Absolutely not," Aubrey answered and wiggled her eyebrows, "Who knows, maybe you'll find someone to kiss underneath the mistletoe". Aubrey was desperately trying to set up her best friend, Chloe Beale, on numerous dates but most of them didn't end up going further than the first date. The redhead had just gotten out of a two year relationship but didn't feel the need to jump in the dating pool for she was enjoying her time being single.

Chloe rolled her eyes, "I'm just going because my best friend's boyfriend left early to spend time with his family for the holidays and there's an open bar".

The two girls left in their Uber towards downtown LA to the Ace Hotel for Aubrey's holiday work party. What the redhead didn't know was that patience and love was finally aligning the stars and the signs for her. If you have patience and love, you only need one other thing: timing. But as Robin Scherbatsky from How I Met Your Mother says, "Timing's a bitch".


A/N: Hang tight guys. It's gonna be a ride.