"...still moving the flavor with the homies blackstreet and Teddy the original rump shakers," I looked through the glass at Amber, I could only see her shoulders because her head was down but they were shaking. "Why are you laughing?" She looked up with her face beet red as she laughed loudly with her mouth open, she still had a bandage on her nose and her eyes had turned a sick green color instead of black. "Amber, why are you laughing?" I whined into the mic.

She gasped for breath and leaned forward to press the button on the board that allowed her to speak to me. All I heard was her laughing for about ten seconds before she regained control. It was nice to hear and see her laugh though, she'd thrown herself into working on the album since her dad yelled at her. "Beca, were you thinking that you had a penis just now?"

"No, you told me not to!" I remembered our conversation at Chiptole. We had pushed back recording No Diggity and now we had this and our Finals performance and then our first album would be complete! She had been working her ass off in the week after the fight and it showed in the album.

"I told you not to tell me that you were, not to not do it! But I think you should, you kind of sound like a tiny white girl trying to be Dr. Dre. It's not working." She was laughing again. I stuck my tongue out and grabbed my crotch which earned another fit of giggles. "That's the spirit, bro!"

I started the song again, and although she was laughing she look pleased with what I was doing. "Better?" I asked after I finished the rap.

"Yeah...but do it again. You need to think you're like a pimp surrounded by half naked chicks. You still sound like a white girl," I think she was losing her mind. Then she added, "You know, fuck bitches get money," somehow she managed to say that with a straight face. i meanwhile was bent over from laughing so hard. "Beca, go!"

After I finished that time I looked at her with my eyebrows raised, I'd done what she'd asked. "Why are you so perfect?" she asked smiling at me.

"I don't know, its a hard life." we were laughing, then her phone lit up and her face fell as she read the name on the screen.

"I have to take this I'll be right back. Hello this is Amber Posen," she walked out of the booth looking upset as her father's voice reached her ears. I've never heard her answer her phone by stating her name until after last week. Her dad,during one of his daily calls to make sure she was being perfect, had told her it wasn't professional to answer any other way.

She hadn't said a word about what happened between her and her dad the morning after semi-finals. She just became even more dedicated to school and the Bellas than she was before. It broke my heart to see what kind of effect her dad had on her, I missed my best friend. She was always closed off now.

She walked back into my closet tight lipped and with a fire in her eyes. She sat down heavily and messed around with some buttons, "Beca, let's finish this up, you've got like an hour and a half till Jesse comes to pick you up."

I had a date with Jesse tonight, I felt kind of bad about leaving her along, but apparently Chloe and Aubrey were coming over to keep her company. "Are you okay?" I tried to ask her lightly so I didn't seem to concerned.

She smiled at me sadly, "I'm fine, Becs." She slid her headphones back over ears, as a cue for me to start singing.

"I just feel bad about the whole thing," Jesse was staring past me with a worried look on his face. "I mean I don't know how she's dealing with her dad screaming at her like that, it was awful! And she won't talk to me about it and I don't know why!" He patted my hand.

"Just give her some time, she'll come around, I mean Aubrey did, didn't she?" I was impressed with him, he was so sweet when it came to Amber, they were practically brother and sister. "Just when the time comes, do your best, I hate seeing her like this too."

"You're the most amazing person in the world, Jesse Swanson!" I grinned broadly at him as I leaned across the table to kiss him on the cheek. "And I love you."

He flashed his goofy smile, "I know and I love you too. Now come on I have a surprise for you!" he left a tip on the table and grabbed my hand and dragged me with him out of the restaurant.

Aubrey

"We brought brownies!" Chloe ran into the apartment with a pan, she streaked past Amber into the kitchen and came back with three forks. "We also brought cream soda and extra sheets to make a fort!" she placed the brownies on the ground and stabbed the forks into them. "Now come hither and hug me because I got a new job!" Amber tackled her in a hug and they fell back laughing onto the couch.

"Hey be careful you're still hurt!" Amber waved her hand with its wrapped up wrist, bruised knuckles, and broken fingers at me to shut me up. She continued to kiss Chloe on the face repeatedly and tickle her with her non-injured hand. Chloe was laughing like a five year old as was Amber, I couldn't help but join in. I placed all the folded up sheets on the floor next to the brownies and went to go get more out of the linen closet.

As I walked back into the living room they were arguing over what movie we were going to watch, "Clueless!"

"Mean Girls! Aubrey, tell your sister we're watching Mean Girls!" Chloe looked at me with puppy dog eyes.

"You two do know that we're spending the night so we can watch them both?" I turned my head from one to the other.

"Oh, right, okay we can watch Mean Girls first then." Chloe whooped and then grabbed the sheets out of my hand.

We started building a fort like the little kids we are, it was really actually very impressive. After we were finished we sat propped up against the couch sipping cream sodas and shoveling brownies out of the big pan. Chloe and I had made sure we had tonight off because Beca had called me and told me about our dad and that Amber was acting weird. She seemed pretty normal to me, but she probably thought Chloe and I didn't know.

"So when do you get your stitches out?" Chloe asked after swallowing a big bite of brownie.

"In three days. Then I get to take this off tomorrow," she motioned to the white bandage over her nose. "but I'm stuck with these for like 3 more weeks," she waved her right hand in front of Chloe's face. "Now these black eyes and bruises need to go away and then I'll be able to go out in public without people staring at me!"

"PROGRESS!" Chloe yelled with a laugh.

"When's Beca coming home?" I asked her.

"Umm. Jess told me he had a surprise for her so it probably won't be until late."

"Oooh what is it?"

"He didn't tell me, because apparently he doesn't trust me with secrets."

"Okay close your eyes and then open them when I tell you to!" I promptly shut my eyes knowing it would be easier to follow his orders than fight them. we drove for about ten minutes. "Okay open them!" he sounded really excited.

When I opened my eyes I looked around me confused, there were a whole bunch of people walking around the street, I couldn't figure out what the surprise was for the life of me. "Um, Jesse...I don't know what to say..." I turned to him in my seat and my eyes grew wide. He was holding a box and smiling like a fool. "Oh my God, Jesse, what...what the...WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?" I finally yelled at him in my shock.

He burst out laughing and opened the box, it had a ring pop in it. "Oh my God that was priceless. God, Becs, you're hilarious." He pulled out the ring pop and gave it to me.

"You're and asshole! But thank you for the ring pop," I slipped it on my finger and started eating it. He laughed at me again.

"Okay time for the real surprise! Here you go!" he pulled two tickets out of his jacket pocket and handed them to me. I narrowed my eyes as I flipped them around to see what they were for, my mouth opened as I read them.

"Holy shit, Jesse! Oh my God I'm sorry for calling you an asshole you're not oh my gosh I love you so much! This is amazing!" the tickets were for the Paramore concert tonight. I was practically jumping in my seat from excitement, I'd loved Paramore since All We Know Is Falling. "Jesse, oh my God, oh my God." I hugged him tightly.

"Well we better get going or we're gonna be late!"

Chloe had crawled out of the fort to go to the bathroom, I leaned over to Amber who was laying on the ground clutching her stomach regretting eating a third of the pan of brownies. "Are you okay?"

"I think I'm about to vomit everywhere."

"That's not what I'm talking about, Amber."

"Well, I don't want to talk about what you're really talking about," okay Beca was right, she was acting weird, usually she would talk to me about our dad no problem.

"Why?"

She raised her head off the floor and locked eyes with me, "Aubrey, drop it okay. I don't want to talk about it."

"Your act-"

"This fort is a motherfucking boss!" Chloe yelled as she ducked under the entrance.

I stood at the door kissing Jesse. It was about 12:30, the concert had been amazing! "Mmm, Jesse, how'd I get so lucky?"

He kissed me again, "I don't know," I could feel him smiling as he kissed me. "Did you have fun tonight?"

"YES! It was awesome! Thank you so much!"

"Anything for you, but go talk to Amber now, she's probably still up if Chloe and Aubrey are over." He kissed me one more time before he left. "i love you," he said over his shoulder as he walked away.

Smiling I unlocked the door and stepped in. I could hear the TV on but I could only see the glow of it as the three of them had made a giant fort out of our living room. I tossed my keys on the counter and laughed at them. I walked around the edge for a second before I found the entrance and ducked in through the sheets.

I looked around blindly as my eyes grew accustomed to the glow of the TV. Chloe was laying with her leg wrapped around Aubrey and her face pressed into her hair and Aubrey was clutching an empty bottle of cream soda. They were both passed out. I searched the small space for Amber. She was laying on her stomach propped up on her elbows reciting the lines to Clueless. "You're a virgin who can't drive...That was way harsh, Tai." Laughing to myself I laid down beside her and accidentally scared her.

"Hey, Cher, having fun?" I smiled at her.

She tilted her head to the side and smiled, "That depends are you Dion or Tai?"

"Umm I can't pick."

"So what was your surprise?" she rolled on her back and put her hands behind her head, "Whoops sorry!" she accidentally elbowed me in the head.

I rubbed the spot before I answered, "The Paramore concert! Oh my gosh, Amber, it was amazing!"

"You lucky fuck," she pouted at me then her face split into a smile. "Did he pretend like he was gonna ask you to marry him?"

"Yes! It scared the shit out of me too!"

"I thought it would, that's why i told him to do it," she laughed like she had this afternoon in the booth.

"Hey you two, shut up or go somewhere else," Chloe picked her head up out of Aubrey's hair for a second and then dropped it back down and pulled her closer to her. Within a couple seconds she was asleep again. we laughed and then army crawled out of the fort, I picked up the left over brownies on the way.

I led the way to my room because I knew Amber couldn't deal with the possibility of crumbs on her bed. I shut the door with a snap behind her as she walked in and plopped down on my bed. I turned the TV on as she curled up and looked over at me sleepily.

"Amber?"

"What?"

"Can I ask you something?"

"Suuure," she shifted uncomfortably.

"Why haven't you talked to me about your dad?"

Sighing she stared up at the ceiling for awhile, "Because...I'd rather deal with it on my own. Like Posens are supposed to do. Posens are supposed to be self-reliant, and proud, and they're not supposed to cry, or talk out of turn, or get B's or get into fights, or talk about their feelings. God as I'm saying it I'm realizing how fucking bad it sucks to be a fucking Posen." she delivered this speech to the ceiling.

I stood there shocked at all that she had just said, "You don't have to be a Posen around me, you know that. I want you to talk to me, all this quiet is turning you into someone else," I pulled at a loose string on my comforter. "I miss you."

She rolled over and stared at me, her eyes looked dead, like this conversation was draining the life out of her. "I'm just trying to be what my father wants me to be," she whispered, she didn't break eye contact. I couldn't look away either, I don't think I realized until right then how much pressure was on her and Aubrey. Aubrey, her father yelling at her was turning her into an Aubrey like before we sang Just the Way you are in the pool. Aubrey had managed to get away though, when she decided that what she wanted to do she should do. Amber was still just a kid though and couldn't do that.

"Well...you're dad was sort of an ass to you, and you didn't deserve it. I loved you how you were before that fight, I loved you during that fight, and I love you now even though it's killing me to see you like this! It's killing everyone, Amber. Jesse, Aubrey, Chloe, all the Bellas, hell even Lilly came up to me to ask what was wrong!"

"You know my parents were never really on me as much as they were Aubrey. And I kind of felt bad that she was the one with all the pressure on her, but i guess I had pressure on me too I just didn't take it the same way Aubrey did. When she left dad's firm I was so happy for her, she was finally doing what she wanted and I was so proud of her! But now it's like all that pressure that was on both of us is now just on me because dad cant control Bree anymore. That doesn't mean he still doesn't scare the living shit out of her though." She rolled over so her face was in the sheets. "Beca you don't understand."

"Yeah, I don't, but I have a pretty good idea. Why can't you just stand up to him?"

Her head lifted up and she looked at me as I sat down next to her. "You heard him! He said he'd beat me if I did anything wrong again! That includes disobeying him! It's always been like this but I never really cared until now, and I just can't deal with it. Plus that night Lincoln came over and he said he wanted to talk but I made him go away and I don't know why because I miss him so much," she completely broke down then and started crying.

I pulled her waist and brought her closer to me and we just laid there trying to figure everything out. "Why don't you just talk to Lincoln then?"

"Every time I see him, he avoids me now...I just want this school year to be over so I can stay with Chloe and Aubrey over the summer and not have to worry about everyone else!"

"You mean I'm not gonna see you all summer? You're gonna have to come with me to visit my mom and you can stay with me at Dad and Sheila's sometimes too! And Collin loves you so I'm sure they wouldn't care! You know, like just sometimes because I'm sure Aubrey and Chloe won't be happy to lose you for the whole summer!"

"You can come on road trips with us too," she smiled as we spent the rest of the night making summer plans.

Woah that was a long chapter. Well anyway Paramore's album dropped today, so Beca attending their concert is in honor of that. You guys should definitely go buy t because it's amazing and will change your life! Thanks for continuing to read, its pretty awesome of you guys!