Beca didn't have any time to deal with Emily's problem properly. The list seemed to divide and destroy the Bellas slowly.

Before she could focus on the Legacies problem the list had made a new victim.

The next Bella or Bellas who acted strange were Jessica and Ashley.

Nobody could exactly pinpoint the moment it had started, but something was definitely wrong between them. Normally the two girls were joined at the hips, but somehow they had drifted apart.

It started with Ashley who refused to look Jessica in the eyes. And when she did she had a guilty look. Jessica who normally could read Ashley like a book, couldn't understand her best friend anymore.

Then came the fights. The two were the most calm Bellas but now they screamed at each other when they had to communicate. Nobody understood what happened or what caused the friction between them.

It didn't help that Ashley kept acting weirder and weirder. To the point she moved from their room and moved into the haunted basement.

The only one who could say what happened was Ashley, but she kept her mouth shut. She only left the basement for Bella practice and her classes.

It killed her she had hurt her best friend, but she couldn't exactly say what she had done. Having secrets for Jessica didn't do her any good but she felt she had no other choice. She had betrayed het best friend. Only her best friend didn't know about the betrayal.

Now that she was alone she thought about everything she had done. She couldn't explain why she had chosen number 21 of all the things on the list.

Number 21 was something to purposely destroy your best friend. Jessica didn't deserved to be hurt like that. She was always supportive of Ashley. They never had a fight before.

Now she had messed up big time because of one thing on a stupid list. She should've had listened to Beca all those months ago.

21. Take your best friends most beloved possession and sell it to a pawn shop.

She still didn't know why that number had called out to her. But it had. And now she had made the biggest mistake of her life.

She regretted her decisions the moment she stepped out of that pawn shop. But that wasn't the worst thing she had done. She despised herself for the things she had done before she went to that shop.

Three weeks ago when she read the list, she had been alone. Jessica had been to her class. She just felt a bit lonely when she was doing her homework in their room. Then she found the list. And then things escalated completely. It was like a voice that told her to go for number 21.

And so she did. Right in that moment she had the chance to take Jessica's beloved locket. It had belonged to the blonde's great grandmother. It was gold with little sapphires on it. But she didn't take it that moment.

Because Ashley was a coward. She had waited till Jessica was back. And then she waited for the blonde to sleep. She listened as the blonde's breath evened out. Then she got up and took it from Jessica's jewellery case.

She had waited a full week before selling it. She had a full week to undo the things she had done. But she hadn't done it. And now it was to late.

She went back to the pawn shop to buy it back. But the shop owner had raised the price. She was desperate to get it back and tried to steal it from the rest of the Bellas. But she couldn't do it. Ashley wasn't a thief and she couldn't understand how criminals did that on a daily basis.

But the saddest part of this all was that Jessica didn't even thought that she had anything to do with it. Jessica simply thought that she lost it while wearing it. That only made it worse.

The guilt was eating her alive. It made her only acting stranger and stranger. To the point that she rather lived in the haunted basement than face her fellow Bellas.

She needed to talk to someone about what she had done. She was convinced that the list had a bad influence on everyone who had it. She knew she slowly got paranoid. She had burned the list but it didn't make her feel any better.

The only way to feel better was when she confessed everything she did. And she had to make everything right what she did wrong.

The only person she could talk to beside Jessica was Beca. She collected all the courage she could find and texted her captain to ask if they could have a talk.

When Beca responded that she could, Ashley suggested to meet at a cafe on campus. She really didn't want that the rest of the Bellas heard what she had to say.

She had forty minutes before she would meet Beca. She used the time to shower and change her clothes. When she had fifteen minutes left she went on her way to her meeting with her captain. She hoped her captain wouldn't judge her when she told her the truth.

When she arrived at the cafe, Beca was already there. They ordered drinks and when the waitress had come back with their orders their conversation could begin. Ashley asked Beca to wait until she finished her story.

She told everything what happened since she read the list. What she had done. And how she had felt when she first read the list. And how her feelings went downhill after the things she had. She also told Beca that she had burned the list.

To her surprise, Beca wasn't angry or disappointed in her. She even promised Ashley that she would get the rest of the money so they could buy the locket back.

After their conversation Ashley felt better. She hoped they would be on time to get the locket back. And when they did she would tell Jessica the truth. She hoped that her best friend could forgive her what she done. Their friendship was more worth than that stupid list.

But Beca kept thinking about what Ashley had told her. She noticed the similarities between her and Emily's story. She needed to find out what that list exactly did. Because it was clear it let people do things they wouldn't normally do. And with that thought she started her investigation.