AN: I have now re-read and re-corrected every single chapter of this story. If you find any mistakes, please PM me! Thanks!
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"Laser tag now, normal pool day tomorrow?" It was an honest suggestion. A week of fun was often hard to schedule and could easily get messy.
Beca glanced at her FitBit and nodded, "it's 9:13 now." Sighing, she added, "we got here so damn late. I vote Laser Tag, then bed. The pool is closing soon anyways."
One thing Beca hated about her few childhood visits to the Dells was that the pools always seemed to close early. For real, though. The whole city was built up on these rides and pools, and they couldn't keep any open past ten? It was all so ridiculous.
Chloe, noticing Beca's slight annoyance, grinned and wrapped a drunken arm around her girlfriend. "I'm gonna laser-kick your butt," she teased.
The smile was instantly returned by Beca, who playfully pushed into the ginger. "I don't know, Chlo. You can barely stand."
"Not true," Chloe moved herself to the front of Beca and got extremely close. "See?" Her breath tickled Beca's nose, "I'm standing right now."
Beca's stomach did a little flip from Chloe's close confrontation, "ah, yes. I can see."
The redhead began to close in even more, "can you?"
Grey eyes widened as Beca feigned being disturbed. (Anything to make this odd, but welcome, pleasure from rearing it's pretty little head into her conscious feelings...) "Yep."
Taking a step forward, Chloe laid a quick peck upon Beca's lips. "Gonna kick your butt," she repeated, "standing or not."
At this, majority of the Bellas gave small cheers and obnoxious "ooooooh"s at the interaction. Beca simply shook her head at the sequence of it all.
"Whatever you say."
The Bellas winked as they passed both Beca and Chloe on their way to the showers. It was a unanimous and unspoken decision to cleanse themselves from the stank' of the day's pool adventures and car ride. To be quite frank, everyone smelled like baking soda and wet feet; one could only imagine what a turn-on that was for them all. Even Beca was disturbed by the fact that her normally flower-scented girlfriend managed to be stripped of her arian scent.
"Try not to drown on your way out," Aubrey sighed, earning small smiles from Chloe; who quickly took Beca's hand in her own.
"I'll try to keep that from happening," she promised. "We'll be right there."
As Aubrey exited through a small makeshift door, the duo found themselves alone in the outdoor tub. A warm buzz fell unto Beca as Chloe's piercing blue eyes met hers.
"What's up?" The brunette found herself asking.
"Do you think this will be a good trip?"
Beca relaxed immediately, "of course it will be. Why wouldn't it be?"
"I just want to make this special for all of us, you know?"
"We have a whole week in a giant waterpark and city of attractions. We'll be fine." Beca offered a reassuring smile.
"What about you? Are you having fun?" The look of utter concern that crossed Chloe's features nearly shattered Beca's heart. This girl was too sincere for her own good...
"Absolutely. And the trip hasn't even started." Beca leaned over and kissed Chloe's cheek. "Are you having fun?"
Chloe returned with a smile. "Do you even need to ask?"
"Then let's go!" Beca's free hand gently pushed her girlfriend forward and into the waterpark. "We have some laser tag to play."
Chloe grinned and dropped her empty glass off at the bar. "Prepare for the loss of the century."
"Right. The whole laser-ass thing," the brunette mused.
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As the duo entered the showers, Chloe dropped Beca's hand and poked her nose, "should I join you in the shower again?"
A wink.
"... For old times sake?"
"You're drunk," Beca huffed, pushing the redhead away from both her locker and shower zone. "Plus that one experience in the shower was more than enough."
"Shower experience?" Cynthia Rose seemingly popped out of nowhere and rose a suggestive brow. "Damn, Mitchell. You work fast."
"It's not-" The DJ began to retort, only to be cut off by Chloe.
"Oh, yes she does."
"Chloe!"
"What?"
Beca rolled her eyes and grabbed a towel before sauntering away to take a shower. "Dork," she huffed.
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As the group neared the Laser Tag Complex, all eyes fell onto the digital scoreboard above the door.
"Damn, they actually score this shit?" Cynthia Rose gave the television a bewildered and disturbed glance. It was all a little much for something that was supposed to be sporadic and fun, in their opinion.
Fat Amy, being the odd one out, cracked her knuckles. "Awesome, now I can prove how much more athletic I am than all of you aca-wannabes."
Some retorts of, "yea right" surfaced; showing that the scoreboard would probably be a welcome thing in the end.
Beca crossed her arms and looked (with a hint of distaste) towards the Laser Tag Vests visible through the complex's doors. She couldn't believe that (along with a few drunk weirdo's) she was about to play laser tag at ten o'clock PM.
Aubrey, who was now mimicking Beca's motions, was more disturbed by the actual vests than the situation ...They looked like garbage and were most-likely covered in sweat. Why was she doing this, again?
Oh, right...
'For fun', she reminded herself.
"Five Dollars, and the next session is in four," the man at the front desk informed. Five dollars seemed like an appropriate price to pay... So, the group of Aca-Ladies each singularly handed the man his cash without question and prepared themselves for the adventure ahead.
"~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~ ~~~."
A soft murmur suddenly erupted from the area behind the group. All eyes flew to the direction of Lily, who had now mysteriously appeared from lord-knows where.
Aubrey looked the most concerned, "what?"
"I shot several men in the mafia," the Asian repeated; this time no louder than the last.
Fat Amy shrugged, Stacie shook her head, and Aubrey sighed it off. Beca, however, had heard and was more than slightly concerned. What in the world was wrong with this girl?
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With a snap of their vests, each member of the group was hooked-up and ready to go. The lights dimmed and indistinct chatter died down as eyes flew to tiny TVs that explained the rules: Hit individual targets on your enemies bases for small points, or hit their beacons and other players for the larger quantities. Beca narrowed her eyes at Chloe, whose vest was a bright blue; rivaling the red of her own.
Partnered with Chloe was Aubrey, Cynthia Rose, and Ashley.
On Beca's team- Stacie, Fat Amy, Lily, and Jessica.
An interesting setup, no doubt.
"You Aca-Bitches ready to get your butts kicked?" Cynthia Rose shot a challenging glance towards Stacie, whom rolled her head sassily in response. Fat Amy began hitting her stomach, probably to mimic a war-drum, and Lily fake-shot all of the people on the Blue Side- along with herself.
The countdown began at once, and all players exited the doors to take their spots at their bases. The setup was much like a maze, full of awkwardly and stealthily placed walls and objects to hide behind and pop out from. And as if the walls weren't confusing enough, the whole room was pitch-black. The only things giving off light were the walls themselves and the girls' vests.
Content with her spot behind a corner wall, Beca prepared for the countdown to end and for the game to begin.
"You stay here," Stacie commanded, "I'll use my sexibility to get to the Blue Base."
"... You mean flexibility?" A shadowed brow of Beca's rose suspiciously.
"Same thing," she shrugged.
Beca returned her attention to the open arena with minimal interest as Stacie stalked away.
At that moment, the countdown ended; powering up their guns with small vibrations and twinkling lights. "Here we go," the brunette breathed.
Screams and laughter echoed throughout the arena, signaling the enjoyment and shock of her fellow Bellas. These shouts were more than enough to start the adrenaline pumping through her veins. For once, Beca was actually excited to do something as immature as laser tag.
Seconds ticked by without any movement before Beca saw it: a small flash of Blue in the corner of her eye. Whoever it was, they were headed for the Red Base... Which they would never reach, as long as Beca was on the prowl.
Beca shuffled over to the next plane and readied herself; gun fixed on the spot beyond the wall whoever-it-was was behind.
In the blink of an eye, the blue resurfaced and Beca fired; successfully hitting the target until their vest twinkled yellow. "Darn," Ashley whispered, looking dejected. She played with the trigger of her gun for a few seconds before squinting through the darkness to see Beca. Upon seeing her face, Ashley broke out into a wide grin. "Found you," she breathed before trickily pivoting and dashing away.
Oh, God. Why had she been looking for her? Was it just a statement, or was there a bounty on the Brunette's head?
Beca gulped and moved two walls down, closer to her base and further from her previous spot.
What the hell was happening?
A loud thunk came from the left of Beca, followed by a raspy, "shit." Fat Amy, no doubt.
"Hey, how many points do you have?"
Beca showed the Blonde her score.
"Damn, you must've hit someone?"
"Ashley."
Fat Amy mouthed slow, "oh," before offering up her own score.
"Nice," Beca breathed.
"Yeah. If you want to get some targets, go ahead. I'll hold down the fort here. I need to rest," she slumped to the floor, "too much cardio."
Stealthily maneuvering herself around the wall, Beca took the offer and began hunting for targets in the spots Amy had suggested.
After a few more scuttles, the DJ found a target on the back wall to the left of her; which she shot and made blink. Beca looked back and fourth, watching to make sure she didn't have any visitors, before shooting the target again as soon as it turned blue.
"Cheating, now. Are we?" The familiar melodic tone of her girlfriend sent a shiver down Beca's spine.
Shit.
Beca turned around, only to have a gun to her chest.
(Shot through the heart, and you're to blame...)
"I'm not cheating," Beca airily lied, throwing her hands up in surrender as she did so.
"Oh, really?" A perfect brow arched, successfully signaling that Chloe did not believe her lie.
Cherry-gloss covered lips nearly brushed the skin of Beca's ear, which earned a small gasp from the brunette.
A small, "mmm," was all she could manage in return.
Ever so slowly, Chloe began to pull on the trigger; causing the sound of a coiling spring to scratch the air between the two. At the same time, Chloe's lips moved from Beca's ear to the corner of Beca's mouth. The DJ couldn't do anything but shudder.
And then, suddenly, out of nowhere, Chloe's vest twinkled yellow as her gun vibrated and shut down.
Beca's eyes shot open and she grabbed her own gun, preparing to make a quick getaway. Without so much as a "goodbye", she took her chance and ran away from the redhead. (As well as her sexual tension.)
...And then, out of the corner of her eye, Beca saw her. Lily, perched up on an impossible-to-reach platform. Fucking crazy bat-girl.
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"RED, RED, RED!" A chorus of cheers and chants echoed throughout the lobby of the Laser Tag Introduction Room. Red had won (undoubtedly thanks to Lily), and they were more than content with themselves.
"It's not fair, you have the ninja on your team," Ashley groaned.
Jessica laughed at her Best Friend's words before wrapping her up in a hug.
"Third place," Beca mused while looking at her score, "not bad."
"Second," Fat Amy taunted while making the (possibly accidental?) 'fuck you' gesture with her index and middle fingers.
Chloe pursed her lips, upset by the loss she had encountered in front of her crush/girlfriend.
"Fifth? That's not bad," Beca reassured. "But you didn't kick my laser-ass, like you had promised."
"But I was damn close!" Chloe gave a jokingly exasperated sigh, "if only Lily hadn't got in the way."
Lily perked up at the mention of her name and continued fumbling with... Whatever it was in her hand.
"Maybe next time," Beca teased.
As the group unclipped themselves and shuffled out of the room, Chloe bent close and brushed her lips against Beca's. "You owed me that," she chastised.
A small knock on the window told the duo that their small act of affection was seen by the entirety of the Bella Cast.
"Get a room."
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AN: All corrected and such! Hope y'all enjoyed. Please review! 3