"Oh my God." Stacie groans out slowly as she pulls the blanket over her head. "Morning drunkie." Beca jokes as she puts a glass of water and two Tylenol on the bedside behind Stacie. "Mmm thankyou gorgeous." Stacie yawns out as she stretches, realising she is in Beca's room she sits up rapidly causing her pounding headache to pound harder. "Beca? We didn't?" Stacie asks as she pulls the blanket up and sees she still has her clothes on from last night. Beca stifles a laugh. "No Stacie we didn't. You were pretty hammered last night and refused to tell me where you lived so I brought you back here to make sure you were okay overnight." Beca replies, sitting on her desk chair, her elbows firmly placed on her knees. Stacie smirks. "Thankyou Beca. I'm lucky to have come up and say hi to you hey?" She asks. Beca lets out a half laugh. "Yeah I guess you were. Go back to sleep, I'll wake you up for Bella's practice." Beca replies as she turns around and starts working on her lyrics for her new song. Stacie drifting off to sleep again.
Stacie wakes up again a couple of hours later and listens to Beca on her piano. She was playing a tune that she had prepared over the time Stacie was asleep. Stacie sits up on the bed and listens as Beca starts to sing.
All alone she was living
In a world without an end or beginning
Baby girl was living life for the feeling
But she don't mind, she don't mind
And all the wrongs she committed
She was numb and she was so co-dependent
She was young and all she had was the city
But she don't mind, she don't mind
And I know that she's capable of anything, it's riveting
But when you wake up she's always gone, gone, gone
In the night she hears him calling
In the night she's singing to relieve the pain
She'll never walk away
I don't think you understand
In the night when she comes crawling
Blame and guilt ridden tears keep falling down her face
She'll never walk away
I don't think you understand
He sang a song when he did it
He was cold and he was so unforgiving
Now she listens to the song on the minute
Yeah, all the time, all the time
It made her weak when she hear it
And it got her on her knees like religion
She was young and she was forced to be a woman
Yeah, all the time, all the time
And I know that she's capable of anything, it's riveting
But when you wake up she's always gone, gone, gone
In the night she hears him calling
In the night she's singing to relieve the pain
She'll never walk away
I don't think you understand
In the night when she comes crawling
Blame and guilt ridden tears keep falling down her face
She'll never walk away
I don't think you understand
In the night she hears him calling
In the night she's singing to relieve the pain
She'll never walk away
I don't think you understand
In the night when she comes crawling
Guilt and tears keep falling down her face
She'll never walk away
I don't think you understand
"I knew you were good but I didn't think you were that good." Stacie comments making Beca jump and turn around immediately. Stacie pouts. "Sorry I didn't mean to scare you." She adds as she notices how close she came to giving Beca a heart attack but she also notices that Beca isn't calming down, her breathing still rapid and laboured. "Beca?" Stacie says as she gets off the bed and moves over to her friend, wrapping her arms around her. "Beca, it's Stacie, you're having a panic attack. I need you to listen to me and slow down your breathing, like me, come on sweetie." Stacie says as she takes in deep breaths. Beca follows suit and starts to slow her breathing down. "Please let me go." She labours the words out and Stacie lets her go immediately. Beca opens her drawer and grabs her prescription bottle along with one of Tom's tin and runs out the door before Stacie can speak again.
Beca makes it into the toilet stall before vomiting up the contents of her stomach. She knew something like this was bound to happen again eventually, she hadn't had a panic attack in nearly nine months. Beca looks down at the prescription bottle in her hand and opens it, emptying the content of the bottle into the toilet and flushing it. Beca then turns to Tom's tin, she opens the tin and takes out two ecstasy pills, swallowing them without any issues. Beca takes deep breaths to calm down, the drugs in her system helping her body to restore balance internally. Beca gets up and leave the toilet block, heading back to her room to see that Stacie hadn't left. "Hey, I just wanted to make sure you were okay." Stacie says with a small, curious smile. Beca could see the regret and guilt in her eyes, she knew that Stacie blamed herself for causing the panic attack but Beca realised that this was the first time someone had actually stuck around, this thought made Beca smile a little. "I'm all good Stacie. Thanks for not leaving." Beca replies, her smile growing into a grin. Stacie points to the desk where the keyboard and laptop sit. "That song was beautiful by the way. What was it about?" Stacie asks quietly. Beca looks down and then back up as she feels Stacie's finger under her chin. "It's uh about a girl who has been through so much and nobody understanding her pain, her suffering." Beca replies, gazing into Stacie's hazel eyes. "Is the girl in the song you?" Stacie asks, her face drifting ever closer to Beca's. Beca shakes her head. "No, it was about someone I used to know." She replies. 'You think you can try and forget about the past, about us and become a new person. Nice try.' Warren's voice appears in her head. Stacie's lips are less than an inch apart when Stacie speaks again. "You are something else Beca Mitchell and a good person." Stacie smiles before leaning in the rest of the way, her lips connecting with Beca's. Beca freezes in place for a moment as all the forced kisses she had experienced in the past played over on repeat in her mind until she realised this wasn't forced, she knew Stacie was leaning in and she didn't stop her. She wanted this to happen and she was glad it did. Beca starts to react to Stacie's kiss, their lips blending together but sadly put to a stop as Beca's phone buzzes. Beca pulls away and grabs her phone realising her father was calling. 'Fuck, it's like he knew what just happened.' She says in her mind. "You going to answer that?" Stacie asks. Beca looks up at Stacie, and Stacie can see the tears brimming on the edge of Beca's eyes, ready to pour out at one blink. "No, no I'm not." Beca says as she puts her phone down and paces over to Stacie, she grabs the taller brunette's cheeks and pulls her down into a kiss.
Beca and Stacie arrive to the first Bella's rehearsal and notices that the other girls are checking out some photos of the old Barden Bella's groups. They join the group and gaze at the photos. "Man the old Bella's were hot." Cynthia Rose comments, her gaze shifting from photo to photo. "Yeah they kept it tight." Fat Amy replies. "Okay, Sopranos in the front, Altos in the back." Aubrey orders, clapping her hands together. All the girls move and take their seats quickly out of fear of Aubrey's wrath. "As you can see Cory is not here with us, she was treble boned and she has been disinvited from the Bella's." Aubrey says, pointing out the empty seat before grabbing it and taking it away. Stacie looks back to Beca with an eyebrow raised. "That oath was serious?" Beca questions. Aubrey puts the chair down harshly, causing a loud clatter as the metal hits the floor. "Dixie chick serious." Aubrey replies, scaring Beca into her cave. "You can fool around with anyone you want to, just not a Treble." She adds as she walks back to the front where Chloe stands, her eyes on Beca's and Stacie's interaction. "That's not going to be easy, he's a hunter." Stacie comments sarcastically, her hands pointing to her crouch. Beca stifles a laugh. "You call it a dude." Beca grins wildly. Stacie looks back and winks at Beca. "Stacie, the Trebles do not respect us and if we let them penetrate us, we are giving them our power." Aubrey replies to Stacie and Beca's jokes with dead set seriousness, scaring the both of them. "Not a good enough reason to use the word penetrate." Fat Amy chimes in making Beca and Stacie laugh but a stare from Chloe makes them almost choke on them. Beca watches as Chloe stands up straight, her eyes looking at Beca but not at the same time, almost as if she were looking through her and that made Beca feel vulnerable. Beca feels her phone vibrate in her pocket and brings it out to find a text from her father saying he was outside. "Um I'll be right back, this is kind of really important. I'm sorry Aubrey." Beca says, rushing out of the room. Stacie turns and looks at Chloe who glares back at Stacie.
"Warren." Beca says as she walks outside of the rehearsal space, she notices the area is completely abandoned, not a person in sight. "What did I tell you about calling me that?" Warren grits between his teeth. Beca stands up straight and crosses her arms over her chest. "Not to but you forfeited the right to be called father when I was eight years old." Beca replies confidently. Warren steps back with one of his eyebrows raised. "Look at you, finally grew a spine I see." Warren replies with a smirk and a clap of his hands. Beca remains expressionless, shrugging her shoulders. Warren paces up to Beca before grabbing her by the throat and pushing her hard against the brick wall behind her. Beca hitting her head on impact. She groans as Warren face gets within an inch of Beca's, his grip tighten on her jugular. "You belong to me so lose the attitude right now or so help me I will put you back in the hospital." He whispers harshly. Beca leans into her father's hand on her throat. "I don't belong to anyone." He smirks. Warren growls in anger as he punches his daughter in the face. He continues to beat his daughter until she begs him to stop. "Stop please." Beca cries out, holding her hands over her face, her figure struggling to get up from the ground. "Please, I'm sorry dad, I won't give you attitude again." She pleads. Warren stands over his daughter, his knuckles bloodied. "That's a good girl, now come with me." He says, pulling his daughter up harshly from the ground and carrying her to the public toilet across the walk, he drops her on the ground and shuts the door, locking and barricading it before turning back to his broken daughter, trembling in fear. He grins uncontrollably at the sight before unzipping his pants.
Stacie and Chloe both look to Beca's empty chair and Aubrey fumes when she looks too. Beca had been gone for half an hour and she had missed all the drama, Mary Elise getting removed from the Bella's for sleeping with a Treble also, the video about Aubrey vomiting at the Championships the year before and being handed the song choices they use which Beca would have commented on as none of the music was from the noughties. "Alright ladies, this is how we are going to become champions." Aubrey says as she turns over the whiteboard, on the unrevealed side was a massive flowchart discussing points on how to win, some important like song choices, choreography and some not so important like diet and relationships. "Okay everyone up, let's start." Chloe says, her voice less enthusiastic as she was worried about where Beca was and if she had left the rehearsal or left the Bella's completely.
Four hours later, after Bella's rehearsal was finished, Stacie was the first to leave, bee-lining it to Beca's room. As she got to the room, she knocked on the door. "Beca?" She calls out compassionately and soothing. "Go away Stacie." Beca painfully replies. Stacie detects the pain in her voice and reaches for the door handle, the door is unlocked and Stacie opens the door. "Beca." She says again as she looks to the lump on the bed facing the wall. "Stacie please just go." Stacie heard Beca mumble, almost sounding as if she was or had been crying. "I'm not going anywhere, not until I know that you're okay." Stacie replies, slightly firm but still comforting. She sits on the bed and puts her hand on the lump under the blanket that is Beca Mitchell, feeling Beca jump under the blanket and pull away. "Beca please talk to me." Stacie pleads. She feels Beca take a deep breath under the blanket. "Stacie, I'm really tired so please can you go." Beca mumbles. Stacie's worry for the shorter brunette escalates. "Not until I see you are okay." She replies and she feels a shift under the blanket. Beca realising that it was useless trying to get Stacie to leave decides to just show her. She removes the blanket and sits up being careful of her potentially broken ribs. "Oh my God." Stacie puts her hand to her mouth.
Will Beca tell Stacie the truth? Will Stacie bolt on Beca? Will Stacie tell Chloe and Aubrey what's happened to Beca? So many options! Let me know what you think! I know I went a little off track with the rehearsal and didn't follow the movie storyline but when Beca goes back to the Bella's rehearsals, it will pick up from where I left off in the story plot where they are learning the choreography and different sounds (the Starships part) so you don't miss out on sarcastic Beca and pissed off Aubrey.
If you guys don't like what is happening with Stacie and Beca, my only is answer is to wait for it, Stacie and Beca will always be really good friends though, besides I kinda think Stacie and Beca would be a cute couple but of course BeChloe is better.
If you don't know the song then you deserve to be shot (joking!) It's my favourite song, In The Night by The Weeknd, in acoustic format of course and some of the lyrics changed to suit Beca's situation. I have so many directions to go in with this story and I'd love to hear from you guys would like, a lot have said that Chloe and the Bella's beat the crap out of Warren which would be pretty fun to write but it probably won't happen, he will definitely get what's his though.
Also in case you guys didn't know, Beca is starting to grow confident, standing up to her father or at least trying, this began when she met Chloe, Stacie and the Bella's. This will continue to grow as the Bella's become better friends. Beca and Jesse's friendship will also start to grow too because let's face it, their friendship is pretty adorable.
Okay lovelies, in the next few chapters some stuff will begin to be more understandable about Beca's past, not to Stacie, Chloe or the Bella's but to you readers. You'll find out more about what happened to Beca with her father and how that started, what happened after her mother died and the ever so mysterious Alex, he will be explained.
Stay Beautiful.