Wow, okay. So this was suggested a long time ago and I started it when I was given the idea but then never finished it because I lost inspiration. But hey, I finally did it! I'm going to try and update these one-shots more often again. I just started Uni too so I'm going to try and work around it.
Hope everyone is safe and well in iso at the moment. Hope this somewhat long one-shot is good enough for you all to enjoy!
Hang in there everyone! Let's hope this will all be over soon!
Emily Junk stumbles her way down the stairs of her apartment in her pyjamas, almost falling off the last couple of steps. She grabs onto the handrail, catching herself before she faceplants onto the ground. She lets go of the rail and makes her way to the front door, running her fingers through her hair to get the tangles out. Hand on the doorknob, she opens the door to reveal Beca and Stacie, eyebrows raised at the younger dishevelled girl.
"Em? Why aren't you dressed?" Beca questions, taking in the girl's appearance. Emily's hair sticks in every direction, no matter how many times she's tried to tame it. She's wearing a long, worn out band t-shirt that reaches mid-thigh.
"Dressed for what?" Emily looks at them in confusion, trying to think of what the date was.
"A Bella's Reunion? Today?" Stacie reminds her. Emily's eyes go wide in realisation, mouth gaping like a fish.
"That's today?! Oh shit!" Both girls opposite her, nod in amusement as Emily runs back up to her room to get ready. Beca and Stacie both enter further into the apartment, closing the front door behind them.
"I guess I'll text Chloe to tell them we are going to be a little late." Beca shrugs, plopping down on the couch.
"Guys! I don't know what to wear!" Emily shouts from upstairs.
"That's a good idea. I'll go help Em." Stacie makes her way up to Emily's room, just in time to see Emily tossing around her clothes in the closet. Stacie walks over and shoos her away, telling her to go wash up while she finds her something to wear. By the time Emily walks back out, hair brushed down and tied up into a high ponytail, Stacie has a simple outfit laid out for her. It's a white, cropped tank top and a grey pair of sweatpants.
"Wait, what are we doing today?" Emily asks as she looks down at the outfit choice. She looks at Stacie's outfit, a simple white t-shirt with extremely short denim shorts.
"Dunno, Bree said to wear something you're comfortable in. Something that you can kind of run in." Stacie shrugs, throwing herself on Emily's bed while Emily changes. Living together in the Bella's house, they are used to seeing each other in various states of undress. The cage by Emily's desk captures Stacie's eye and she practically flies off the bed to see what's inside. "What the fuck? You got a hamster? Since when! Why didn't you tell me?"
Emily's head pops through her hoodie and looks over at Stacie. "Oh yeah, I forgot. I got him a couple weeks ago with Benji. His names Tupac."
Stacie snorts. "Tupac? Really?"
"Yup!" Emily grins as she puts on a pair of white high-cut Vans. At that moment, Beca makes her way up the stairs, phone in hand.
"Hey Becs! Em has a hamster!" Stacie beckons the shorter brunette over and Beca raises her eyebrows.
"Woah! Em, since when?" Beca gapes at the small hamster running on the wheel.
"I was going to tell you guys, but I kinda forgot. It's been a busy couple of weeks." Emily shrugs, grabbing her phone and purse as well as headphones.
"Nice." Beca nods, looking back at the younger girl. "Chloe and Aubrey should be here soon."
Emily nods then realises something. "Wait, how'd you guys get here? Are we all taking separate cars?"
Stacie smirks and shakes her head. "Bree and I drove over to Becs place. Bree and Chloe were busy organising things since they planned this whole thing. They made us walk over here and pick us up when you were ready."
Emily gapes at Beca. "You willingly walked over here?"
Beca scoffs. "Of course not. Stacie dragged me out."
"So, if only Chloe and Bree know what we are doing today, how are we meeting everyone?" Emily questions.
"Apparently, Chloe said that we are all meeting for lunch first. Then the rest of the girls will follow our car to wherever we are going." Beca says, sitting on the edge of Emily's bed.
"Oh, okay cool. Well, while we're waiting, I'm going to feed Tupac." Emily runs down the stairs to the kitchen.
"You called him Tupac?!" Beca exclaims with raised eyebrows.
"Emily! It's been so long!" Chloe exclaims as soon as the front door opens, her arms immediately wrap up the young girl in a tight hug.
"Chloe, you called me yesterday." Emily giggles, returning the warm hug.
"But it's not the same as seeing you!" Chloe whines, still hugging the girl.
"Chlo, let the girl breathe a little." Beca chuckles as she walks up behind the two girls. Chloe pouts but let's Emily go, only to attach herself to Beca. Beca rolls her eyes but steps out the door anyway.
"We have everything?" Stacie asks, throwing her arm over Emily's shoulders.
"Yup!" Beca gives a thumbs up and heads down the stairs with Chloe to the car where Aubrey sits, waiting in the front seat. Emily rummages through her bag and pulls out her sunglasses.
"Hey Em." Aubrey greets the young girl as she enters the car.
"Hey Bree! What are we doing today?" She asks excitedly as the rest of the girls enter the car.
"That's a surprise." Aubrey winks at her through the mirror and Emily groans.
"But I want to know!" She whines and they all laugh.
"Don't worry kid, no amount of bribing will work. Stace and I have tried." Beca rolls her eyes as Stacie laughs.
"What did you do? Bribe them with food?" Emily asks curiously, tilting her head to the side.
"Something like that." Stacie smirks and Emily shakes her head.
"I don't think I even want to know."
"You really don't." Aubrey says from the front of the car as they start driving. The drive was about 20 minutes, full of laughter and singing. As well as the constant teasing of Beca that kept them very amused. They sit in the diner, reading the menus whilst waiting for the rest of the Bella's to arrive.
"Em, you have to try this caramel popcorn milkshake!" Beca nudges the younger girl next to her.
"Have you had it before?" Emily questions and Beca nods.
"Duh! I mean, why would I recommend it to you?" Emily shrugs.
"Okay, I'll give it a try."
"I hope you pitches haven't ordered yet!" Four heads whip around to the front door of the diner to see Fat Amy standing at the entrance, arms wide open.
"Amy!" They all exclaim. Chloe is the first to scramble out of her seat to give the Australian a big hug. Emily manages to crawl over Beca and join in on the hug.
"Emily!" Beca groans. "Could you not?"
"Sorry!" Is all the younger girl mumbles and Beca rolls her eyes. Stacie, Aubrey and Beca remain seated and wait for the other two to untangle themselves from Amy. Aubrey is the first to give Amy a hug.
"Good to see you Amy." She smiles as she stands back.
"Good to see you to Captain. I see the hunter has done a great job at taming." The Australian smirks and everyone else beings to laughs as Aubrey goes red.
"Well of course. The hunter can do anything." Stacie smirks as she gives Amy a hug. When they pull away, Amy turns to Beca who is still seated.
"Hey Ames." Beca greets and Amy raises an eyebrow.
"You didn't forget me!" Amy grins.
"Of course not Ames, how could I?" Beca asks in confusion.
"Well, you're all famous now." Amy shrugs and Beca chuckles. "So does that mean I can give you a special Amy hug? I know you want to!"
"I'm good thanks Amy." Beca leans back into her seat as Amy opens up her arms and does a little shimmy.
"Come on Becs. Besties remember? You totally miss my hugs." Amy grins as she moves towards the smaller girl. Beca on the other hand, shrinks into the seat whilst inching backwards.
"Amy. No. stay where you are. No. Amy!" Beca squeaks as the blonde wraps her arms around her and almost squishes Beca into the seat in the process. Beca groans, "Amy!"
Emily giggles and pulls out her phone to take a picture. Beca looks up at the sound from underneath the Australian and glares at the younger girl. "Emily Junk!"
"Yes?" Emily looks at her innocently.
"Delete that!" She says in a warning tone.
"I don't know what you mean." Emily smirks a little as Chloe asks her to send her a copy.
"Chloe!" Beca whines and tries to wriggle out from under Amy.
"Sorry Becs. It's too cute." Chloe giggles.
"Hey! Where do you think you're going short stack? The special Amy hug isn't over yet!"
Beca sighs in defeat and lays limply under Amy, giving up on trying to fight the Australian but she's saved when Lilly and CR come through the door behind Jessica, Ashley and Flo. She manages to move from under Amy as the Australian runs to hug the rest of the girl's with Chloe, Emily and Stacie. Aubrey stays back a bit and looks over at Beca who pouts in the corner of the booth.
"You totally lost some badass points right there." Aubrey smirks and Beca scoffs.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Aubrey hands over her phone to Beca who's eyes widen.
"Chloe already posted?" She stares down at the photo of Beca and Amy that Emily took, posted onto Instagram with the caption:
ChloeB22:
Bestie reunion bear hug! BMitch22 TalentedAmy
Photo Creds: LegacyEmJ
"Oh my god! She's too quick!" Beca groans, sinking further into the seat.
"Come on, let's greet the rest of the girls." Aubrey physically drags the smaller brunette over.
Emily grins as she sits quietly in the corner of the booth, listening to Amy telling Beca about another one of her crazy adventures with her multiple boyfriends. They had been sitting in the diner for a couple of hours, talking and catching up with one another. Emily was content with listening to the crazy stories the other Bella's were talking about, just enjoying her time with all of them as a group. She didn't know how much she missed the group until they were all together.
"Emily?" The younger girl blinks a couple of times and realises that CR had been calling out her name from across the table, grabbing the attention of the rest of the Bella's.
"Uh, yeah?"
"You've been quiet girl!" CR comments. "You good?"
"Oh, yeah. I'm fine." Emily shrugs with a small smile. "I just miss everyone together as a group you know? I sometimes forget how fun it is to have everyone back together."
"I get you. I missed the craziness of you girls." CR laughs.
"As fun as it is to keep talking, we have a destination to go to!" Aubrey announces as she raises her hand for the waiter.
"Oh yeah, what are we doing?" Jessica or maybe Ashley asks.
"That's a surprise." Chloe winks as Beca groans.
"You've been saying that all morning!" Emily giggles and pats Beca on the shoulder when the older girl leans her head down on the table.
"Aubrey! Can't you change the station?" Beca complains as 'The Sign' comes on.
"I happen to like this song Beca."Aubrey smirks at the rear-view mirror.
"Someone throw me out of this car please!" Beca whines, covering her ears.
"Turn down the dramatics Becs, this song isn't bad." Stacie grins from the front and Beca rolls her eyes.
"Dude! You fucking hate this song just as much as I do!"
"I never said that." Stacie shrugs and Beca glares at her.
"You said it almost every day during our freshman year after almost every rehearsal."
"You have no evidence of that!" Stacie says quickly. Emily holds in her laughter as the two continue to argue whilst Aubrey ignores them both, singing along and Chloe holding Beca back from attacking Stacie.
"Up next, we have a highly requested song. This is Love Myself by Emily Junk!" Emily's eyes widen at the announcement on the radio, a large grin spreading across her face.
"OH MY GOD!" She squeals, bouncing up and down in her seat.
"OH MY GOD!" Chloe repeats, turning to Emily with a proud smile.
"This is my SONG! On the radio!"
"Hell yeah it is!" Stacie exclaims from the front, leaning over to turn up the volume to blast the song loudly through the car.
"Are we there yet?" Beca complains for probably the 50th time. Aubrey glares at her through the rear-view mirror.
"I swear Beca, if you ask one more time, I will kick you out of this car." Beca groans in frustration and leans on Chloe who sits in the middle between Beca and Emily. Chloe chuckles and simply wraps her arm around Beca's shoulder and pulls her closer. "Sometimes I wonder how you ended up with a child Chloe."
"Hey! I am a grown, mature adult!" Beca says defensively and Stacie snickers.
"From what I see? You're clearly the opposite." Beca glares at Stacie and Chloe runs her hand through Beca's hair. Beca unconsciously leans further into Chloe and her glare drops immediately. Stacie sees this and lets out a loud laugh. "Okay, so maybe your more like a kitten."
"Stacie! I swear to god!"
"Thank the lord!" Beca throws the car door open and jumps out, stretching her legs.
"Beca! The car was still moving!" Aubrey scolds the smaller brunette from inside the car.
"You're basically parked." Beca rolls her eyes and holds the door open for Chloe and Emily.
"It's dangerous!" Chloe adds, slapping Beca on the shoulder as she gets out of the car.
"Sorry." Beca mumbles as she closes the door after Emily climbs out. Emily looks around at their surroundings, trying to get an idea about where they are. Her eyes lighten up when she reads a sign at the entrance that said 'Paintball'.
"We're doing paintball?" Emily bounces up and down in excitement as she looks over at Aubrey and Chloe who both smile at her.
"Yup."
"Oh, it's so on Conrad." They hear Beca challenge Stacie behind them, both smirking at each other.
"Looks like we don't have to choose team captains." Chloe shrugs and Aubrey shakes her head at both of them.
"Let's get inside then." The rest of the Bella's follow behind, going inside where a tall guy meets them who stands next to a table full of equipment laid out.
"Welcome ladies!" He smiles in greeting. "My name is Jason and I'll be taking you through today's courses and watching over your games! So, before we start, has anyone played paintball before?"
Beca, Stacie, Emily, Amy, Aubrey and Flo raise their hands and Jason nods. He then goes through a list of rules they had to follow as well as how to use the paintball gun. They each get handed their own paintball gun and protective gear before being shown how to wear it.
"Okay, now I have two colours here. Do we know who the team leaders are?" Both Stacie and Beca immediately put up their hands and the others shrug. Jason hands Beca blue paintball pellets and Stacie gets green.
"I dibs picking my first team member." Beca exclaims, pointing at Chloe. Stacie points at Aubrey just as Beca picks Emily next. In the end, Beca's team consists of Chloe, Emily, Flo and Amy. Aubrey, Lilly, Jessica, Ashley and CR were with Stacie. Jason leads them out into the field where it was divided into 4 sections. He takes them to the far left where old, crushed cars were placed around the field as barriers. There were also a few broken brick walls.
"Alright, you will be playing 2 games in each section. Both teams start in their respective sides in a line. When I sound the whistle, the game starts. When you hear it again, the game ends. Remember, last team standing wins. I will be watching from the top, but I trust that once you get hit, you will sit out until the game is over." The Bella's nod in understanding and Jason claps his hands together. "Great, now. Blue team starts off in the far end and green starts here."
Beca and her team group up and starts to head over to the other side of the field. But not before Beca looks over her shoulder and gestures to Stacie. "You're going down."
Stacie sticks her tongue out and Beca flips her off. Chloe turns in time to see this and rolls her eyes, grabbing Beca by the sleeve and dragging her along. By the time they reach the other side, they huddle into a circle.
"Okay Cap, what's the plan." Amy questions and Beca purses her lips together in thought.
"There's 6 of them and 5 of us. Ames, you good on your own?" Amy nods with a grin. "Cool, that mean's Em, you're with me and Chlo, you're with Flo. Legacy and Chlo will be the lookouts because they're tall and Flo and I will watch from behind. Ames, you take the middle, we'll take the left and Chlo, you guys take the right."
"Don't forget, they have Lilly on their team, she's silent and sneaky so be careful." Chloe adds. "Bree also has pretty good aim with a gun."
"Are you ladies ready?" They hear Jason call from a lookout tower near the entrance on the other side and they separate. Beca sends a thumbs up and they line up, pulling down their masks to protect their faces. "Okay! The game starts in 3… 2… 1!"
The whistle sounds and the girls run off, Beca and Emily immediately crouching down behind an upside-down car. Emily raises her head above the car and quickly surveys the area. It's quiet and there's no movement. She crouches back down and signals for Beca to follow her, both running in a crouched position to the next set of cars which are placed closer to the centre of the field. Emily goes to peek again when suddenly, gun shots sound and she squeaks, ducking behind the car and facing Beca. They look over to the right to see Amy running through the middle, shooting at someone. Beca risks a look to see Jessica and Ashley hiding behind a brick wall, shooting at Amy.
"Jessley are just behind that brick wall next to the police car. I think we may be able to get them if Ames keeps them distracted." Emily nods and lifts her head up. She spots Jessica and Ashley and nods over to Beca. They both raise their guns and fire a round of paintballs in their direction. Jessica manages to avoid their shots but Ashley gets hit a few times and raises her gun in surrender, walking over to wear Jason observes the game. Both Beca and Emily high five each other. But they immediately duck when a paintball hits the car they're hiding behind. "Who was that?"
"I didn't get to see." Emily tries to take another look but another paintball fires and hits the car once again. She squeaks and drops down. "Someone knows where we are. I don't think we can move."
Beca nods and she looks around to see Chloe and Flo on the other side, hiding behind another car. Beca gestures over to Chloe and the red head nods. Beca then turns to Emily. "Okay, have another look. Chlo is going to try and see who's shooting and cover for us so we can get closer."
Emily raises her head and catches a blur of blonde hair running behind a brick wall. Suddenly, a paintball flies straight past her head and she quickly ducks behind the car, releasing a breath she didn't realise she was holding in. "I saw a blonde running, so it was either Aubrey or Jess."
"Okay-"
Another round of shots fire on the other side and they whip their heads around to see Flo and Chloe locked in a fight with CR and Lilly. They watch as Amy lets out a battle cry and charges towards CR and Lilly, firing at them. She manages to hit CR before getting shot from behind by Aubrey. Amy and CR raise their guns up and walk together outside the game to join Ashley. Beca spots Aubrey and gestures to Emily to watch her back. Emily nods and watches as Beca creeps around their hiding spot and moves closer so she can get a clear shot of Aubrey. Emily sees Stacie peeking from around a brick wall, close to Beca and raises her gun, firing at Stacie. The other brunette quickly hides, and Emily keeps her gun aimed at Stacie's hiding spot. Emily's gaze moves over to Beca to see the small brunette quietly approaching Aubrey's hiding spot before yelling an 'Ah ha!' and firing at the blonde before running as fast as she can back to Emily. The young brunette lays a cover fire so Beca is able to hide behind the car without getting shot.
Once Beca is next to Emily again, she drops to the ground and puffs. Emily giggles and says, "Maybe you should go running with Chloe. Those nights of binge eating chips is catching up to you."
Beca rolls her eyes. "Very funny Legacy. You will never catch me running with Chlo."
"We'll see after this." Emily teases. She hears running close by and raises her head in time to see Stacie run towards Aubrey's previous hiding spot. She turns back to Beca. "I just saw Stace, let's go!"
She follow's Beca until suddenly, the shorter brunette gets shot in the side. "Ow fuck!"
Beca cringes slightly in pain and they both turn to see Lilly. Emily quickly reacts and fires back, catching Lilly in the arm before running and hiding. Beca mouths to her a good luck and raises her gun, defeatedly trudges her way out. It's silent again and Emily leans back against the car to catch her breath. She doesn't know if Chloe or Flo are still in and all she knows is that Stacie is still in and maybe Jessica too. She see's movement to her right and a flash of red hair and she sighs in relief, knowing that Chloe is still there. She looks over the hood of the car to see no one in sight. Without much thought, she bolts into the direction where she last saw Chloe, weaving behind the cars. Luckily, she finds the red head hiding behind the brick wall and stands next to her.
"Emily!" She exclaims with a bright grin through the mask.
"Hey Chlo, where'd Flo go?"
"She got hit by Lilly."
"So did Becs, but I got Lilly. That means it's just Stace and Jess left." Chloe nods and puts a finger to her lips when she hears someone running. The red head looks around the brick wall, unable to see anyone so she gestures for Emily to follow her closer to the centre of the field. They run as quietly as they can behind each car and wall before they find Jessica and Stacie who fire at them first. They barely make it behind the yellow car, diving for cover and crouching down. "That was close, but now we know where they are."
Emily refills her gun whilst Chloe takes another look and fires towards their spot. Emily pockets the leftover blue pellets and joins Chloe over the car. "Come out and fight Stace!"
"I will when you put your gun down." They hear the other brunette respond.
"Not gonna happen until we win!" Chloe adds.
"If anyone's going to win, it's us!" Stacie calls out and raises just her gun above the car and blindly fires in their direction. Both girls quickly duck as a couple of paintballs hit their car.
"I might try and get closer; do you think you can distract Stace and watch for Jessica?" Emily questions and the red head nods. Emily quickly and quietly runs to the car up ahead to the left. She sees Jessica's leg stretched out from the car they're hiding behind and she grins. She lifts her gun up and fires, hitting her leg. She hears Jessica's squeal of surprise and Stacie swearing. Emily does a little dance and looks over to Chloe who gives her a thumbs up. They both nod and close in on Stacie whilst the taller brunette is distracted.
"How does it feel to lose?" Emily smirks as she stands over with Stacie with her gun raised. Chloe similarly holds her gun in front of Stacie and the brunette sighs in defeat.
By the end of the day, all of the girls were covered in paint. Their last round was a bonus free for all game that was timed so that they could all stay in and continuously fire at each other. Emily felt exhausted. She peels off the protective gear, glad that they were given it over her clothes. For one, she didn't want her clothes ruined and two, the bruises now forming on her arms aren't that bad. It could have been worse if the paint ball hit her skin directly and she didn't want to think about that. All of them had at least 2 or 3 bruises on their arms and legs. She adds the gear to the pile the Bella's had formed and they thanked Jason for the games and headed back to their cars. They all group around Aubrey and Chloe instinctively, waiting for their former captains to speak.
"I just want to thank you girl's for being able to make it out here. I know it's hard with all our jobs, especially Em and Becs." Aubrey begins. "But this was really fun, and I hope you all enjoyed it too."
The girls share their positive opinions on the day, smiling tiredly. Amy is then the first to pull everyone in for a group hug and they squeeze each other tightly. "Okay, okay, ow, ow. Watch the bruises!"
They all laugh at Beca but they agree, breaking the group hug and sadly waving at each other as they hop into their respective cars. Emily collapses into the back seat next to Chloe who sits in the middle. Beca falls into the other seat and leans against the red head. Aubrey starts the car and Beca suddenly sits up and rolls down her window and sticks her head out and shouts towards the other two cars full of Bella's. "I love you awesome nerds!"
She falls back into her seat with a pleased smile and rests her head back on Chloe's shoulder. Chloe throws her arm over Beca's shoulders and pulls her closer. Emily yawns and leans on Chloe's other shoulder, looking up at the red head with a smile. "Thanks for today's trip Chlo. You too Bree."
"No problem Ems, glad everyone had fun." Aubrey says from the front as she pulls out of the parking spot. Chloe smiles and nods, placing a kiss on the young girl's forehead. Emily gives her another tired but happy grin and closes her eyes.