Ten minutes later I was still struggling to take steps with an unconscious Beca draped over me. I wasn't even half way home yet and every muscle in my body was burning.

Lights suddenly flooded the side walk and road in front of me, a car zoomed by. It was thrown promptly thrown into reverse and skidded to a halt where I was.

Oh great, now I was gonna get murdered, I was covered in Beca's mystery and this was how I was going to die.

The tinted window of the SUV rolled down-there's going to be a gun I know it, maybe I'll use Beca as a shield I thought she probably wouldn't notice anyway. I looked up tiredly ready to face the inevitable.

Instead of a gun barrel I was met with a familiar smiling face. "Need help there, Posen?"

"That would be nice, Bennet" I returned his smile, repositioned Beca, and started to slowly drag her towards his car.

He jumped out of his car before I took two steps. "Who's this?" he easily lifted her up and I opened the door to the back seat. After dumping her into the seat he opened the passenger door for me with a bow.

"You're ridiculous" I laughed at him, "but her name is Beca. She's the Bellas captain."

"So you're following in your sister's footsteps?" he got into the driver's seat and put the car in drive.

"Yep. She'd lose her mind if I didn't, but actually I really like it so it's okay." I leaned back into the leather seat relaxing my aching muscles.

"That's cool." He scrunched up his nose, "One of you smells like they took a shower in vodka."

"Probably me, Beca practically dumped her entire drink on me."

He registered the upset look on my face, "I'm guessing this was your first party?"

"Mhm. I have no intention of ever going to another one anytime soon."

"That bad?"

"Yes. Beca face planted, I think she's okay, but God I can't deal with drinking."

He burst out laughing at Beca's misfortune and glanced back at her. "She must have a pretty hard head because there's no marks. Anyway its kind of nice to be friends with a girl who I know isn't gonna be out partying every night."

"Well, that's definitely me." We sat in a comfortable silence for a few minutes, every once and awhile Beca snored loudly.

"What are you doing out at 2 in the morning anyway?"

"I'm a bartender." He pulled into his parking space and turned the car off. "I'll just get Beca then." He carried her to the elevator while I pressed the button.

When I unlocked my door he followed me in. "Alright, where do you want her?"

"Um..." I looked around, "you can just put her on the floor for now." Laughing at me he carefully laid her on the foyer floor. We walked to the door, I went out with him and shut the door behind me. "Thanks for everything."

"You're welcome, I'm just glad I could help" he grinned down at me. "You're gonna want to get some advil in her when she wakes up" he motioned to my door.

"Definitely. Maybe we can go out or dinner sometime as a thank you?" I plucked up the courage to ask, instantly blushing.

"Oh!" Lincoln was also a nice shade of red. "I would love that!" He gave me a hug, said good-night and we went our separate ways.


Locking the door, I turned to deal with Beca. Luckily she was laying on a rug so I grabbed the corners and slid her down the hallway to the second bedroom. I lifted her up on to the unmade bed. I pulled her shoes, socks, jacket, and shirt off leaving her in a tank top and jeans. Oh please be wearing underwear, please, please, please. I went to peel her skinny jeans off of her. Thank God she was.

I went to the linen closet and grabbed a towel and a wash cloth and set them on the dresser. Then I got a glass of water and my bottle of advil and put them on the nightstand. I threw a quilt over her, scooped up her clothes, turned off the light, and shut the door.

I went straight to my bathroom and threw her clothes into the dirty clothes hamper. Finally I got to take a shower and wash all the alcohol and sweat off me. I definitely washed myself 4 times trying to get the stench off. 40 minutes later I was wearing a big t-shirt and sitting on my couch watching re-runs of Boy Meets World. My phone rang, the only reason I was still awake, "Skype?" I hung up.

A minute later the person I missed the most was smiling at me from my laptop.

I sighed happily at my sister. I'd missed her and Chloe who showed up a minute later. "It's the newest Bella!" Aubrey beamed at me.

"Aw shucks" I faked embarrassment.

"How was the initiation? Did Beca do everything right?" of course Aubrey was already concerned with Beca's leadership skills.

"Well...she took the Trebles ban out of the oath."

"Are you serious? I'm gonna call her and..."

"Don't do that! She's in an alcohol induced coma right now. Plus she's still dating Jesse."

Aubrey's mouth formed a thin line, "Fine."

"Anyway!" Chloe broke the tension. "How was the party? Was it lacking a certain amazing and sexy ginger?"

"It was alright." I then started recounting my night to them. They both laughed at Beca's face plant and sympathized with my walk home. There was a squeal of delight from Chloe when she found out Beca was at my apartment.

"What do you mean you only walked half way home?" Aubrey looked puzzled.

"My friend that lives across that hall saw me and drove us home."

"Ooooh who's your friend?" Chloe asked saucily.

"Lincoln Bennet."

I watched their jaws drop, "HE IS SO HOT!" they said in unison.

"I know! I know! I think we have a date too!"

Aubrey smacked her hand over her mouth and her eyes bugged out, she gulped and took a deep breath then squealed, "I'm about to vomit, this is so fucking exciting!"

"NO. Keep it in! Aubrey, do not throw up!" I couldn't deal with that.

"I choked it down..." She said meekly.

"So you gonna get some?" Chlo asked.

I winked in reply. Bree slammed her hands over her ears. "I am not listening to my baby sister talking about having sex!"

"Come off it, Aubrey, you know I'm not a virgin." She squirmed uncomfortably, I was enjoying this. "Hey, Chlo, how many times have you walked in on Bree and a boy toy?"

"Oh just about 20. HAHAHAHAHA" she was rolling around on Aubrey's bed laughing. "She's really flexible."

Bree's face was roughly the color of Chloe's hair. She coughed, "So we we're thinking about coming to visit next week?"

"Great!" my face split into a huge smile. Chloe sat up gulping for air.

"Woohoo! We're coming next Tuesday!"

"That's the day of our first Bella's practice."

They nodded their heads at the same time. "So you'll be here until...?"

"Sunday!"

"Okay! Well this has been fun, but I need some sleep."

"Alrighty, love you!" Chloe vanished leaving me alone with Aubrey.

I smiled. "Night, Aubrey. I love you."

"I love you too and I miss you! Now go to bed so you can help Beca with her hangover tomorrow."

"Yes, ma'am." I saluted. "Night."

"Peace out Girl Scout!"

It was kind of nice to fall asleep knowing I wasn't the only one in my apartment I thought as my head fell towards the pillow. By the time it hit I was already asleep.