Chapter 20: the last day part 2
Emily POV
We walk in to find all of the Bellas running around with boxes and suitcases trying to get everything done by this afternoon, which I don't know why since we have all day to pack. Beca made the announcement and everyone slowed down and we even went into the dining room to have a community breakfast. Filled with chatter and memories of their time at Barden and what I should expect and look out for in the next three years. When we all finished, we cleaned up and ran upstairs and into our separate rooms to get all of our shit together and damn did time pass. With occasional dance breaks and chats in the middle of packing, I managed to finish by 1ish.
My parents won't pick me up till 4 so I had time to help my friends and hangout for a bit. I walk into Beca's room to see if she needed any help and what I find was her sitting on her bed looking at her laptop. She's only got a few things done and she wasn't even close to being done with packing. I knock her door so she knew I was there and she looked up with tears in her eyes. I walk over to her and bring her into my arms which willingly accepted and she sobbed into my shoulder. I look at her computer and she had photos of her past 4 years here at Barden and I could tell she was reminiscing. We separate and continue to look at the pictures as she told me the story of each one. Her sobs slowly dissipated as I kept my embrace around her waist. We arrived at the pictures of this year and noticed there were a lot of pictures that I was included in. Me and Beca and the girls all smiling during rehearsals and at the world's... Beca did a really good job at capturing every moment. We smile at each other when we finished everything and just had a moment. A moment of being together and I knew Beca had her peace.
I helped her pack, occasionally going downstairs to see someone off. First it was Jessica then one by one all of the Bellas left the house. Tears were shed and it was just me and Beca in the house finishing her packing. The doorbell rang and I looked at the clock to see it was 4 exactly. I look at Beca and take her hand telling her. We walked downstairs hand in hand and answered the door to see my mom and dad smiling brightly ecstatic to see me. I hugged both of them and so did Beca. I invited them inside and they sat at the dining room table waiting for us to join them. We finally joined them and decided a while back that when it was time to tell my parents about us it would be together. Now was that moment. So I said nervously, "so mom, dad, you may know that I've grown really close to these girls over the year." My mom opens her mouth and says, "well I hope so! Remember what I told you about these girls and how they would be a sys-" I interrupt her by saying, "yes, mom I know. But I may have gotten closer to some girls than others. Like really close" My mom looks at me confused and I look at Beca and she nods. We take our joined hands out from underneath the table and show them. They look at our hands and I say, "we're together now, and we really, really, really care about each other and would rather not split up so please mom be okay with this. This is the biggest thing I will ever ask you and I just don-" my mom starts laughing.
I look at Beca confused and she has the same expression and we both just look at my parents who were laughing pretty obnoxiously. I say kind of annoyed, "what's so funny?" My mom looks at my serious expression and says still laughing, "oh sorry honey, it's just you're really cute when you ramble." Beca starts laughing now and says, "that's exactly what I said!" My mom's laugh slowly dissipates and says, "honey, we don't mind that you have an attraction to girls. If it was meant to be, then we can't stop that. I could tell you guys would click from the beginning and I just hope that this" she puts her hand on top of our joined hands and adds, "will be as true as love can be. If you're happy here Emily, I'm happy too." I'm surprised and everyone could tell by my expression. Next thing I knew I run over to my parents giving them both HUGE hugs and them being surprised by my actions. Beca laughs and next thing I do is run into her and give her a huge hug and kiss too. My mom speaks up during the kiss and says, "woah! PDA will have to be limited around us though. Hand-holding and hugging are fine, just keep kissing on the DL though." I laugh and look back at Beca and see her smile getting wider and wider.
My dad finally speaks and says, "we should get going, everyone is waiting for you to get home." I nod sadly and Beca goes up to finish what's left and we both brought our stuff down and loaded them into our cars. We finished loading and go back to the front to give the house one last goodbye. A tear trickles down both of our faces, Beca's symbolizing an end of an era and mine symbolizing the start of one. We lock the door and walk hand in hand to our cars. Beca joins both of our hands and says "I'll call you later?" I nod sadly and look at our joined hands. She brings my head up and says, "I'll see you soon babe. I promise." I nod again and she gives me one last kiss before we hug it out and separate. Before I go into the car she says, "Emily." I turn around and see her mouth "I love you." I smile and mouth "I love you too" and enter the car. I close the door and see her waving me off as we start moving. I keep waving until I can't see her anymore and I just sit in my seat remembering my chaotic but amazing freshman year in college.