Barden & Beyond Chapter 10: New Years Eve, a pitch perfect fanfic

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Chapter Ten

"I'm so excited for the New Year's Eve party tonight," Maxie said excitedly as she skimmed through the rack of dresses.

"You like any holiday that ends with 'eve', don't you?" Beca asked.

"Best parties ever," she said as she passed a dress to Beca. "Try this one."

"It's see-through," Beca said as she look at the sheer dress Maxie held in her hand.

"Fine," she sighed. "I don't understand how you don't own a party dress."

"I don't understand why I need one."

"The party tonight! Everyone's going to be at our house, partying and getting drunk and looking like idiots."

"Are you still going to puke in the street?" Beca asked with a smirk.

"Haha," Maxie rolled her eyes.

"So, by everyone," Beca began to say, as nonchalantly as possible, as she looked through the dresses. "Does that mean Jesse's friends from high school?"

"Bree will be there," Maxie said, knowing who Beca meant. "Her parents are friends with my parents, so she kind of has to be there."

"Great."

"Get a really hot dress and show her up."

"Have you seen her legs?" Beca asked as she raised her eyebrow at Maxie.

"I have," she sighed. "I wish I had them. But, we can't have everything. I have a charming personality, you have the boy she wish she had, and she has the personality of the Wicked Witch of the West."

"Who?"

"Oh right, you're movie illiterate."

"Right," Beca said. "How about this one?"

Beca found a navy blue strapless, a-line dress that had an open back and a sweetheart neckline. Maxie nodded as she pushed Beca into the dressing rooms. She quickly changed into the dress and was surprised how much she actually liked it.

"Beca? Is that you?" someone called out her name when she stepped out of the dressing room. Beca turned around and was shocked to find Cassie standing there.

"Oh my God, hi!" Beca said, hugging her. "I didn't know you live around here."

"Yeah, I live like twenty minutes away. I thought you were going to your mom's?"

"Change of plans," she said and Cassie nodded.

"I'm Maxie, Jesse's amazing little sister," Maxie introduced herself.

"I'm Cassie, I'm one of the Bellas. Noelle's in here somewhere."

"You two should totally come to our New Year's Eve party tonight!" Maxie said excitedly. "It would be so much fun. Jesse's friend from school is coming in too."

"Yeah, we didn't have any plans. What friend?"

"Benji," Beca said.

"Too bad Laci went away with her parents over break. I bet they miss each other."

"Is that Beca in a dress?" Noelle asked when she walked into the dressing room. "I'm sure Jesse would love that, but I think he would like you to reappear in that corset again."

"Corset?" Maxie asked, smirking at Beca's blush. "My brother's a freak, that's good to know."

"No," Beca said loudly. "It was for a performance."

"In the bedroom," Noelle said with a wink.

"Dude, the only performance that went on that night was him singing the Spice Girls."

"And I thought my brother couldn't get any weirder."

"He has a sister? Any other siblings I could talk to for blackmail?" Noelle asked.

"Shane. You'll meet him tonight at the party. There's also my twin, Brayden, but he's too nice."

"Party? Good, I thought I was going to have to sneak vodka into dinner tonight with Cassie's parents again."

"We'll see you later then. I'll text you," Beca said as she stepped into the dressing room to change out of the dress so she could buy it.

"I like them," Maxie said as they left the store and got into Beca's car to go home. "They're interesting."

"And they're the semi-normal ones. You should meet the rest of the Bellas," Beca laughed. "Biggest bunch of misfits you will ever meet, trust me."

Beca's phone rang when they parked in front of the house. Maxie grabbed the shopping bags to bring them into the house so Beca could answer.

"Hello?"

"Why did you not call me since you got to New York?" Chloe yelled into the phone. "I had to find out from Fat Amy who found out from Noelle who saw you today!"

"Well, that was quick," Beca noted. "It's been really crazy, I honestly didn't even think of it."

"Bad maid-of-honor," Chloe scolded her like she was a small child, or a dog. "Now that that is out of my system, what happened?"

Beca went into the whole story of what happened, listening to Chloe comment at the appropriate times.

"Jesse's a really good guy, Beca," Chloe said. "You're lucky."

"Yeah, he's the best I know," Beca said with a smile.

"Did you tell him?"

"On Christmas," Beca said, having to pull her phone away from her ear because Chloe squealed so loud. "Now that I have no hearing in my left ear."

"I'm sorry, I'm just excited for you. My little Beca all grown up – not scared anymore."

"Shut up," she laughed. "I have to go. Happy New Year."

"Happy New Year. I expect you to call me soon, and when you're back at Barden so we can go bridesmaids dress shopping!"

"Joyous." Beca mumbled before hanging up. She grabbed her stuff out of the car and headed into the house and up the stairs.

"How was shopping?" Jesse asked as she walked into his room and found him lying on his bed watching TV.

"Good. We ran into Cassie and Noelle. Maxie invited them tonight."

"That should be fun," Jesse laughed. "Benji called, Shane went to go get him."

"Shane should get a job as a chauffeur," Beca laughed.

"I told him that, but I don't think the signs he makes will sit well with clients He wrote Benji as 'cape boy'."

"That's hilarious," she said as she sat on the bed next to him.

Jesse opened his arms so Beca could lie in them. Just as she got comfortable, Maxie burst into the room.

"Can you do me a favor and text Cassie and Noelle to tell them to come now. They can get ready here, I just need people I like to hang out with while you and Jesse do whatever," Maxie said, rolling her eyes at the end.

"Yeah, sure," Beca said as she grabbed her phone and texted Cassie the address. "They should be here soon.

"Fantastic, thanks."

"So, how big is this party going to be exactly?" Beca asked.

"Just a few people," Jesse shrugged.

"A few people like Christmas Eve a few people, or actually just a few people."

"A few people like Christmas Eve," Jesse said quietly. "Give or take a few more."

"Okay. Just preparing myself for the massive amount of people in your house."

"Well, we'll all be in the game room in the back and my parents and family and their friends will stay in the living room," Jesse explained.

"Mass quantities of alcohol will be involved?" He nodded. "Good. I'm happy."

"I'm so glad you're easy to please," he said as he pulled her closer.

"If you want to please me even more," she said as she moved so she was straddling his waist.

"Hey guys, oh," Benji said as he opened the door to Jesse's bedroom, finding his friends in a compromising position. "I could, uh, come back."

"Hey Benji," Beca sighed as she moved off of Jesse. "How was your flight?"

"Good. How was yours?"

"I drove," she said simply.

"Beca's the adventurous type," Jesse joked, saving Beca from any questions Benji might ask. "I'm going to take a shower, if anyone would like to join me, feel free."

"I'm good," Beca said, rolling her eyes at him.

"I was actually directing that toward Benji, but I mean it was an open offer," Jesse said as he walked out of the room.

"We don't do that," Benji said quickly.

"Who am I to judge? Chloe saw me naked in the shower, now we're best friends," Beca said with a smirk. "How was your Christmas?"

"Good, I got some cool magic stuff I can bring to Barden and some new Star Wars collectibles."

"Have you talked to Laci?"

"She's still in Aruba with her family. I'm going to meet her parents a few days before we start school again since she's only an hour away."

"That's really good," Beca said sincerely.

"Aca-bitch, we're here!" Beca heard Noelle yell from the front door. Her and Benji went to the stairs and saw a confused Shane standing by the door.

"And Jesse does have attractive siblings," Noelle said as she winked at Shane. "How do you do?"

"Very well. Who are you?"

"This is Noelle and Cassie, they're in the Bellas," Beca explained. "Maxie and I ran into them in the mall and Maxie invited them here tonight."

"Is this like a problem?" Cassie asked, feeling uncomfortable.

"Not at all," Shane said with a smile. "Any friend of Jesse and Beca's is a friend of mine. We can be best friends if I get to hear embarrassing stories of them."

"We're going to be the best of friends then," Noelle said with a smirk.

"Oh good, you two are here!" Maxie said excitedly as she ran down the stairs. "Come up, we can get ready in my room."

"I have to pee really bad, where's the bathroom?" Cassie asked.

Cassie walked in the direction Maxie pointed in and wasn't paying attention when Jesse stepped out of the shower, only in a towel. Cassie bumped right into his chest and paled when she realized who it was.

"Oh my god, I am so sorry," she said quickly, putting her hands on his chest but quickly removing them like it burned her. "I, uh, I have to pee."

"Nice to see you, Cassie," Jesse laughed as he moved out of her way.

"What the hell was that?" Maxie asked.

"Our little Cassie is nervous around the leading Treble-boner over there because she thought it was love at first sight until she found out Beca was the only one he was penetrating from the Bellas," Noelle explained.

"That word needs to be banned from the English language," Beca cringed. "I thought she would have gotten over that by now, it's been months."

"I hope she never does. It's hilarious," Noelle laughed.

"Right," Maxie said, shaking her head. "I'll be in my room."

"Speaking of boners," Noelle said with a smirk as she eyed Jesse in his towel. "One swift tug on that towel and we'll be able to see what makes Bad-Mood Beca turn into Mary Sunshine."

"Uh," Jesse said awkwardly as he inched into his room.

"Come on, I wanna know. I won't tell anyone," she said as she walked closer to him.

"I'm going to have to pass," he said as he ran into his room and shut the door so he could get dressed.

"Stop," Beca laughed. "He's convinced you're going to violate him in his sleep one night.

"Maybe I have already, you'll never know," Noelle said, finishing with an evil laugh.

"Is Brayden around?" Benji asked, wanting to get away from the conversation that was happening in the hallway.

"In his bedroom," Beca said, pointing to the door across from Jesse's. "You can hang out with Jesse, I'll go in with Maxie."

"I obviously interrupted something when I showed up. I'll hang out with him later," Benji said with a smile as he knocked on Brayden's door.

"Can I watch?" Noelle said.

"Go away," Beca laughed again as she went into Jesse's room and locked the door behind her to keep Noelle out.

"She scares me," Jesse admitted.

"She should," she said with a smirk as she climbed onto his bed, going back to the position they were in before. "So, Maxie has Cassie and Noelle in her room and Benji is with Brayden so we can continue with what he interrupted."

"Really," Jesse asked, cocking his eyebrow. "I suppose we could do that."

"Good," she said as she leaned down to kiss him. "How quiet can you be?"

"Beca, you look beautiful," Claire said as Beca walked downstairs with Jesse. "I love that dress."

"Thank you," Beca blushed.

"Everyone is in the game room already," she said, giving the couple a knowing smirk, causing Beca to blush even more and Jesse to clear his throat awkwardly. "Have fun, you two."

"Awkward," Jesse mumbled as they walked through the house. He swiftly snatched a bottle of champagne for him and Beca to share.

"If Bree's back here already, we're going to need something stronger than champagne."

"Shane has all that ready," Jesse said as he opened the door to the game room.

The room was filled with Jesse's family and friends. Beca saw Noelle talking to Shane over by the makeshift bar; Cassie, Benji, and Brayden sitting on the couch; Dylan and Asher in the corner talking to some other kids Beca assumed they knew from high school; and Bree, talking to a group of girls that Beca did not expect to like.

"Oh good, she's here, with friends," Beca said sarcastically as she gratefully took the drink Noelle got her.

"I went to school with all of them," Jesse said. "That little one is Gretchen Wieners. Gretchen Wieners knows everybody's business, she knows everything about everyone. That's why her hair is so big, it's full secrets."

"Dude, and you wonder why we question your manliness all the time," Noelle said loudly. "You just quoted Mean Girls!"

"Oh, that's what that's from? I was gonna say, I would hate having the name Gretchen Wieners," Beca said as she took a sip of her drink.

"You two make some pair," Noelle said incredulously. "You," pointing at Beca "have never seen Mean Girls which is like the one movie every girl has to see because of its amazing lines to stay. And you," pointing at Jesse "have probably seen more chick flicks than the entire female population combined."

"That's why we work so well together," Jesse said as he wrapped his arm around Beca's waist and pulled her close.

"You two really are a match made in heaven," she mumbled before walking away.

"Jesse? There you are!" a blonde girl in a purple dress said excitedly as she walked over to him. "I've been looking everywhere for you!"

"Beca, this is Gabi. She was my best friend from when we were little," Jesse said. "Gabi, this is Beca."

"I've heard so much about you," Gabi said genuinely.

"Yeah, I think Jesse's mentioned you once or twice," Beca said, glaring at her boyfriend for not telling her really anything about his friends from high school. "He doesn't really tell me much of anything about his old friends."

"Figures," Gabi laughed. "Well, we used to be neighbors so our parents would make us hang out together all the time. There was this one time after we watched Tarzan that he wanted to swing through the trees in his backyard."

"I think you're the only kid who would play Tarzan and Jane," Beca said as she laughed at him.

"Oh no, she wasn't Jane," Jesse explained.

"No, I was the gorilla, Terk. Because Terk and Tarzan were best friends and me and Jesse would never, ever date each other."

"That's hilarious," Beca laughed loudly.

"Now it's pretty funny," Gabi giggled. "Back then it wasn't because I broke my arm when I fell from the tree."

"Yeah, still sorry about that," Jesse said awkwardly. "You got your revenge though."

"I did," Gabi smiled sweetly. "I made him play Peter Pan in the school play that year."

"He had to wear tights?" Beca asked with a smirk.

"Oh yeah."

"Please do not let Noelle hear that. The things I'm going to have to do once she finds out," Jesse said as he pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Maybe I will tell her, just to find out about those things," Beca said, her smirk getting even bigger.

"You two are so cute," Gabi said. "Bree was telling me how much of a bitch you were to her on Thanksgiving and all this stuff, but she's just jealous. Jesse would tell me all the time how great you are, even when you two weren't dating."

"She is pretty great," Jesse said.

"Bree's the bitch," Beca grumbled.

"She thought she would be able to win Jesse back. She didn't expect there to be any competition."

"I'm going to have to punch her, aren't I? Beca sighed.

"Settle down, Million Dollar Baby," Jesse said. "Not yet."

"Right, you went to jail," Gabi said, like it was the most normal thing to do. "Well, let me know if you're going to do that. I love a good show."

"Will do," Beca said. "Did you tell everyone I got arrested?"

"It uped my street cred," he shrugged.

"You're such an idiot."

Jesse and Beca joined Benji, Cassie, and Noelle who were sitting on the couch, talking about how they can't wait to get back to Barden.

"My parents won't let me practice any of my magic tricks because they're worried I'm going to injure myself," Benji said sadly.

"That is a genuine concern," Cassie said. "Didn't you get stuck in that sword box for two hours once?"

"Yeah, but I was fine. Jesse got me out."

"That's what roommates are for," Jesse said as he clapped Benji on the back.

"How was your Christmas?" Beca asked Cassie and Noelle, leaving Jesse to catch up with Benji.

"Good, quiet," Cassie shrugged. "Well, as quiet as it could be with Noelle around."

"How come you didn't stay with your family?"

"Paul and Tina are so boring," Noelle said, calling her parents by their first names. "They handed me an envelope with $1000 in it and said Merry Christmas. So I flew up here and invaded Cassie's home."

"That's fun. Have you talked to Chris?"

"He called me last night. We exchanged gifts before we left for break," Cassie said with a smile.

"You've got him wrapped around you finger. He got her a Tiffany bracelet and they're not even dating," Noelle said.

"I do not. So, how'd you really end up here, Beca?" Cassie asked, knowing that plans didn't just change for Beca. Beca would usually feel uncomfortable telling so many people what happened, but the Bellas had become the family she's secretly always wanted.

"My mom has a crazy boyfriend who made me really uncomfortable. I left and came here, and then I'm going down to my dad's soon."

"Crazy boyfriends are my favorite," Noelle said as she stared across the room. "Who's the whore in the white dress?"

"That would be Bree, Jesse's ex-girlfriend," Beca explained, rolling her eyes. "She thinks she can win Jesse back or something, who knows."

"Does she know you were arrested?"

"Possibly, Jesse likes to tell everyone that," she said and shot him a dirty loo. "Oh no, she's coming over here."

"Jesse!" Bree squealed as she pulled Jesse up out of his seat to hug him. "I've been looking all over for you."

"Right, that's why you haven't moved from that corner for the past hour," Beca said, sarcasm dripping from every word.

"Oh, you're back," she sneered. "Don't you have your own family to be with?"

"No, I was raised by wolves. They don't really celebrate any holidays."

"Explains a lot then."

"Okay," Jesse said loudly, wrapping his arm around Beca to keep her from lunging at Bree, because he knew that was bound to happen sooner or later.

"Karaoke machine, sweet!" someone called out from the crowd. "Who's first?"

"Who the hell got a karaoke machine?" Beca said as she looked at Jesse. "I hate karaoke."

"Jesse, want to sing with me?" Bree asked, batting her eyelashes at him.

"No thanks. I'll sing with Beca."

"Can she even sing?"

"Are you stupid or something?" Beca asked. "I'm the leader of an acapella group, of course I can sing."

"That doesn't mean anything," Bree said quickly, trying not to sound stupid but failing miserably. "I'm a great singer. Watch and learn."

"You know, I can like make her sit in wine and tell everyone she got her period," Noelle said conspiringly.

"Wine turns purple when you sit in it, you need something darker," Beca said.

"I'll figure something out. In the meantime, lets enjoy this train wreck."

Bree began to sing Lady Gaga's "You and I" and Beca wanted to rip the extensions out of the girl's hair. Jesse cleared his throat awkwardly, since he knew the song was for him.

"Does it help the situation if I tell you I never slept with her?" Jesse whispered in Beca's ear, seeing how pissed she was getting as the seconds passed.

"I'm going to make her eat that fake hair she has sewed on her head," Beca said nastily.

"You frighten me sometimes," Jesse said before leaning closer to her. "I find it kind of hot."

"How am I going to shut her up?" Beca said, ignoring his attempts of flirting because she was that annoyed.

"Last year's riff-off," Jesse simply said. "You got this."

"I do got this," she said as she kissed him before walking up to Bree and taking the microphone from her when she was finished.

"Top that," Bree said before walking away and going to stand by Jesse, who quickly moved next to Benji.

"Yeah, Beca!" Dylan called out from the crowd.

"Make her look like an ass!" Asher said.

Beca winked at Jesse before she started:

It's going down, fade to Blackstreet

The homies got RB, collab' creations, bump like Acne

No doubt, I put it down never slouch

As long as my credit could vouch

A dog couldn't get me, straight up

Tell me who could stop when Dre making moves

Attracting honeys like a magnet

Giving them eargasms with my mellow accent

Still moving this flavor with the homies Blackstreet and Teddy

The original rump shakers

Shorty get down, good Lord

Baby got them open up all over town

Strictly biz she don't play around

Cover much ground, got game by the pound

Getting paid is a forte

Each and every day true player way

I can't get her outta my mind

I think about the girl all the time

I like the way you work it