STAUBREY

Stacie was woken by the sound of Bella babbling away to herself in the cot beside the mother's bed, and decided to pull her phone out and record her baby girl as she continued. Stacie was convinced she would do music as the tall brunette had and was positive that the young girl's babbling was her attempt at singing.

Aubrey had been getting ready for another day of helping business' employees and other teams bond when her phone chimed and caught her attention. 'Snapchat from Stacie Conrad' was the notification that appeared on the screen and Aubrey couldn't help the smile that formed.

The blonde immediately opened the snap and her heart began to swell watching the tiny girl crawl around her cot while "singing as beautifully as her mom" Aubrey replied to the video, accompanied by a picture of the Blonde still looking half asleep.

"I don't know whether to be offended that you think I'm as talented as a 2 and a half year old, or to be ecstatic that Bella can sing" a laughing emoji finishing the message off, and Stacie sent it back, with a picture of her looking sceptically at what Aubrey had said.

Aubrey replied quickly "I meant that your voice is beautiful and Bellas is too!" Worried that the girl on the receiving end believed that Aubrey thought she couldn't sing, relieved when another message came through "I'm joking Bree, you never would of let me into the Bellas If I couldn't sing, even if my body would've convinced the judges to give us the title anyway" Stacie had said, a few winking emojis added through the message.

Aubrey thought back to the day she had first heard Stacie singing outside of the Bellas. She had been walking down the hall of Baker hall trying to locate her best friend who was likely in that alt girl Beca's room when she heard an angelic like voice drifting down the hall. Aubrey tried to ignore it, focusing on the task at hand but the part inside her that lived for music forced her to continue past Beca's room and follow the voice until she came to the door that blocked her from fully appreciating whoever was on the other side.

She knocked on the door lightly only to come face to face with a tall brunette she had paid so much attention to since she joined the Bellas. "Was that you singing just there now?" Aubrey asked the other girl. "Yea, I was just messing about though" Stacie trying to play down what had just occurred.

"It was incredible, you should try singing more like that in practices rather than trying to make everything super sexy, not that I don't like when you're being sexy." Aubrey said before realising what she had revealed to the girl when Stacie simply raised her eyebrow. "I mean, it definitely brings something a little more forward than the Bellas normally have, so yea it's cool" Aubrey tried to back track on what she had said but Stacie wasn't going to forget what the blonde had said, but had decided to let the girl away with it, smiling softly at the older girl.

Aubrey swiftly left the Brunette's room, completely forgetting why she had been there in the first place, her cheeks tinted red, unsure how she felt after hearing the most beautiful voice in the world, in Aubrey's opinion.

"You could've won those competitions hidden in a cardboard box you're voice is that incredible" Stacie told the younger girl honestly, a full length picture of the blonde in her uniform, finally ready for work.

Stacie was drawn away from her phone by the sound of Bella calling out for her and holding herself up with the bars of the cot, letting her mom know she was hungry and ready to play. The brunette crossed the room and reached down to pick up her baby girl and headed to the kitchen if her parent's house, where made both her, and her daughter a bowl of cereal and placing the smaller bowl in front of the child, who was situated in her high chair.

Watching her toddler feed herself, although making some amount of mess in the process, filled the brunette with pride as she had watched the girl grow, and develop abilities like this in her few short years of life. Stacie pulled out her phone again and positioned herself so her face was beside Bella and began to take another photo to send to Aubrey.

As she took the picture, Bella had turned her head and placed what she deemed a kiss. (it may not have looked that way to anyone else, but Stacie knew her daughter and this was definitely her way of showing her mom love) The brunette decided not to change add anything to the photo and saved it before sending it to Aubrey, and a few seconds later, as Stacie had grown to expect, the notification "Aubrey Posen took a screenshot!" Appeared again, filling the girl with something she couldn't quite place, but she felt as though she could tackle anything.

"Ready to have some fun baby girl? Let's go get you dressed" Stacie told her daughter after they had finished eating and picked her up, carrying her back to their bedroom to pick out Bella's outfit for the day.

Aubrey and Stacie continued sending snaps back and forth to each other all day until after Aubrey's last group had left and she pulled her phone out to let Stacie know before noticing something beside the other girl's name.

A small yellow heart appeared on the right hand side of the screen, beside the number indicating their 3 day streak the girl's had obtained. "What's the deal with the heart beside your name?" Aubrey asked Stacie, assuming she would know. "You have a heart beside my name, Awk Aubrey love you too!" Stacie replied, poking fun at the older girl before sending another photo with the message "just joking Posen, I think it means we're each other's best friend on here or something"

Aubrey was relieved she didn't have to respond to the Brunette's first message "hm, that makes sense, I definitely talk to you more on this than I do anyone else" the blonde replied honestly before following up with "so what did you and Bella do today?" The older girl asked, genuinely interested in what the other girl was doing, trying to ignore the fact that the only other person she had cared about their day was Chloe.

"Not much really, just played for a bit this morning before I had to go to work, I hate having to leave her" Stacie replied and Aubrey's heart had started to hurt a little, not fully understanding what it would feel like to have to leave your child for any amount of time, but remembering what it was like when her father had to leave for work duty.

"It must be so tough, going more than 5 minutes without seeing her beautiful wee face" Aubrey told the tall brunette. "Yea, but I want to work so she can have everything she wants when she's older" Stacie admitted, a small tear in her eye. "By the way, I've decided I'm gonna go to the resort!" Stacie added, wanting to lighten the mood between the two again.

"Omg yay! This is gonna be aca-awesome cause you're going now. Let me know what airport you're going out of and I'll fly in to meet you." Aubrey told told the Brunette, more excited to go now that she was going, though Aubrey refuses to admit this to herself.

"No way I can't ask you to do that Bree, I'm sure me and Bella will be fine" Stacie didn't want the blonde going out her way just for her and her daughter. "I promised you I would, besides I don't want to be sitting next to some rando for the whole trip, I'd far rather have a break between flights and get to see Bella before the others do." Came Aubrey's reply instantly, followed by "if that's alright with you that is" worried that she had been too forward with the Brunette.

"Of course I want you to meet Bella separate from the other girls, it'll give her another face to recognise when she's surrounded by so many people" came the reply from Stacie, touched that the blonde wanted to meet her daughter outside of the rush that is likely to happen when the other Bellas meet the girl that was named after them.