Okay, so my plan was to get this finished before this fiction was out for a whole year but with Uni going crazy and a serious case of writers block I couldn't come up with anything at all.

However, I am so amazed by all the people that literally joined us now at the end and I would be happy to see that those of you who've been around for quite a while still enjoy this story.

I'm kinda sad to announce that this is the last chapter and I'm not that proud of it, seems like I'm still a bit rusty. Been writing this for a month and it's still not how I want it to be. However, as I should have announced by now, there will be an epilogue and I will give my best at it, I promise. I'm already working on it.

This was a bumpy ride and now that we are this far I hope to get some feedback from you guys as this is the first multichapter fiction I actually (nearly) finished. I've got almost 100 reviews on this, I never thought this would happen. Maybe we even cross the 100 together?

Enough said (hopefully some of you read this ;) )

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Chapter 25: Decisions

Beca's PoV:

Okay, I never thought Lincoln Center was that big! I just had one hell of a day. It all started pretty early for me, having an exam at 8 in the morning but (mostly thanks to Aubrey) I should have kicked it. I actually want to have aced it. Who would have known that I would at some point start to like going to college? Okay, minus my dad.

But that's not the only thing I never imagined wanting. Standing there, just behind the stage all I could think of was beating the Trebles and finally reward the girls with the trophy we all deserve for working off our asses with this performance. To see this bunch of different girls working as a family with everyone bringing in their own quirks, that's something that I'll remember forever, believe me.

Jesse thankfully ignored me before he and his crowd went out to perform. Did they have to schedule us right after each other? Then again, I guess it's cause we're from the same college...

Benji looked nervous as hell, probably this was his first time singing in front of such a huge crowd but it wasn't like we had practise with that either, well, most of us anyway. Though, looking around and seeing all of my girls, I feel so proud. We are nervous but you can practically feel our devotion, see it in our eyes and just feel it in the air surrounding us. While I was distracted I didn't see Jesse approaching Chloe. But Amy told me he'd said some nasty things to her, probably to make her nervous. It didn't work, too bad for him. I couldn't wait for his reaction when he would hear us beat them with his favourite song. I will definitely make sure not to miss that face.

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It's done. Over. We made it to Lincoln Center, made it this far and now we hope (I hope) we made dreams become reality. Let's just sum our performance up: We kicked some ass. It was incredible, we were all feeling the buzz and we were more in sync then ever before. Jesse's face nearly fell off at hearing 'don't you forget about me' and it really gave me an extra kick to see his dumbfound reaction. Way to set him off. When we finished we couldn't contain the laughter and I found myself wanting nothing more than to hug Chloe as tight to me as possible, but I couldn't. Our "relationship" has improved over the countless practises, but we were still not really back to being friends so I hugged Aubrey as tightly to me as I wanted to with her best friend. Aubrey didn't mind, releasing her hold on Stacie for a moment and hugging me back just as fierce. I think she knew and I'm not sure but I think Chloe knew too. I went on to hug each and every one, just content with what we achieved so far.

That's when we both noticed my dad cheering for us in the crowd. Aubrey practically dragged me down the stairs to the audience and to my father but I made sure to send a wicked grin to Jesse as we passed his row. Since we were the last group to perform we went for the outer hall right away and Aubrey grabbed Richards arm to make sure we wouldn't lose him in the masses storming out for the break before the winners were announced.

Once out, dad encircled both Bree and me in a tight bear hug and even I found myself returning it with all this happiness inside me.

"Beca, I am so proud of you. That was awesome, you girls have to win. Congratulations to you too Aubrey." He hugged her another time, just for good measure. "I'm sure your father missed something tonight, he'd be proud as well." Ok, right now I kinda love my dad just for being him. Aubrey told me they are close but to me he just proved it for the first time.

"We both know he wouldn't attend something like this. He barely tolerated me doing this anyway." Aubrey seemed a bit down for a moment but then her face lit up again.

Dad's expression suddenly changes and I know that look. He seems torn so I follow his line of sight and sure enough I find Chloe, standing a few feet away from us, hesitating coming over. Her eyes find mine and I give her a brief smile and a nod before turning to my father.

"I need to make a round, can't let the other Bellas out of my sight before someone does something stupid..." with that I hastily retreat towards Amy. It's all still a bit much for me with dad being, well, my dad again.

I pass Chloe in the process and I'm almost out of her reach when she tugs on my sleeve. She doesn't hold on to me and it wasn't a demanding grab or something like that but I find my body stopping at once, unconsciously. She still does that to me. My walls are back up and still there seems to be a Chloe-shaped hole she manages to sneak through every time.

"I...er..." She takes a visible breath. "Thanks, for coming back and for, you know, getting us this far." And god, all I want to say to her is that I wanted to make all her dreams become reality but this situation is so fucked up right now.

I nod, not knowing what to say. She's already turned her back on me when I find an answer.

"Chloe!" She turns around, still hesitant. "Thanks for believing in me and getting me to join."

She returns my smile with one of hers before we both continue on our way. I may not have entirely forgiven her for what she did, but I know that someday I will be able to. Because she is Chloe, and because I am Beca. Our lives are connected.

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(huge step in time)

A new year of college has started and even though my father said he'd help me move my lazy ass to LA, I told him to wait a bit longer. I don't think I've ever seen him happier than in that exact moment. We've spent some time together, even having dinner with my mum and I must say that I now see that they're better off as friends. Mum was proud that I choose to stay at Barden and they both laughed about my new obsession with a capella, that they claim I'm talking about all the time.

Can you blame me? After all, we're the most talked about winners in a long time of a capella history.

Our feud with the Trebles should be in the past, seeing as Jesse transferred to god knows where and Bumper left way before finals, making Benji they're new captain. I'm happy for him. And we actually get along quite well, even scheduling practises and mini-offs against our groups.

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And the Bellas? Well, CR and Denise are being the annoyingly cute couple that always finishes each others sentences. They're driving us nuts but we love hem for it. I meet up with them every Sunday morning to have coffee and breakfast in that café we were thrown out of and we talk about all the crazy things that seem to happen to us.

Fat Amy and Lily always walk around with a camera nowadays, seeing as they are uprising Youtube stars with their comedy show 'Fat Creeps'. Just don't ask, you don't want to know. I just hope they don't ruin our image. (Like we care ;) )

Jessica turned out to be quite the songwriter so we're all hoping we get to perform some own songs soon, maybe at the first of many paid performances this year. Since Luke is staying for another two years in which he will have to study harder than ever he asked me to DJ more frequently, meaning I definitely need some hands with me in the station and Ashley was happy to tag along. We've never been that close but spending this much time together is great. She also seems to like stacking CDs and is faster than Jesse and I were together. Something about a photographic brain that helps her memorise everything. Not the best one to explain, me.

Stacie couldn't be happier right now, seeing as Aubrey decided to stay and become a Professor for Philosophy and Literature, (against the wishes of her father) making my dad even more proud of her. I swear he's thinking of adopting her. They're not really together, as in officially but Stacie moved into Chloe's former room, changing the Chaubrey apartment into a Staubrey apartment. Fat Amy's words, not mine. However, they seem content the way things are right now and I'm glad I didn't have to find a replacement for Aubrey to join the Bellas, at least not for another year.

That leaves Chloe. She's moved to LA (oh the irony) to pursue her newest dream. She got accepted into an art school and she's hoping on one day creating artistic interior for the whole world. Remember her Lego table? I bet that's part of what got her in. I would definitely let her choose the interior for my flat from the pictures she loaded up to our Bellas Cloud. Another idea of Fat Amy. Helps stay in contact, I can assure you.

I don't know if that is what she's going to do for the rest of her life, but that's Chloe. With her you'll never know. I would trust her to choose being a teacher or a hockey player next, or an astronaut, or something far crazier than I can imagine her doing right now.

Her moving also made her almost unreachable for us and she doesn't visit as often as Sheila and dad would like to. There are the occasional cards she does send, but not frequently. That also leads to me having to attend "family dinners" every now and then without backup, since Bree can't make it all the time. The only times I can be sure of seeing her are holidays and birthdays, but with everyone being happy to see her we never get to talk much. We're not back to actually being friends yet, but she's Chloe and I am Beca and like I said, that has to mean something.

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The End.

Okay, please don't hurt me. I know this is not the ending most of you hoped for but I knew how I wanted it to end from the start, or at least very soonish. There will be an epilogue, hopefully sooner than later that will wrap this story up completely and I think the last PoV should belong to Chloe.

Reviews are welcome and appreciated (and needed for future).