A/N: Hey guys! Guess who's back… back again?

Sorry for that weird intro and and being gone for a while, it's been a tiring April…

Anyways, here's chapter 6! Still busy with work and all but making time to write and update! Check out the end notes for the update schedule.

For now, here is Stacie and Amy taking note of the weird things happening with Emily and Beca and their own hypotheses!

Also sorry for the short update. I'm still slowly getting settled back into writing this story. :P

I don't own pitch perfect.

Stacie doesn't exactly know what to think of the two new Bellas. Emily was, well, Emily. There was no other way to describing her other than being Emily. She was like this epitome of incorruptible goodness that she sometimes felt bad when she walks into one of the Bellas crazy shenanigans – which happens on an hourly basis. She was the definition of enthusiasm and innocence too and while Stacie does adore her like a little sister, she wasn't entirely sure how to interact with her on some occasions. Especially at times when Stacie ends up saying something that causes Emily to blush.

Then there was Beca. Beca who Stacie would only see when she drags herself to class in the morning, at Bellas practice, at random times on campus, and late in the evening returning from God knows where. Stacie knew she had a radio station gig, and that she'd sometimes hang out with the not-so-bad Treble, Jesse Swanson, but that was that. She barely talks to anyone else. The only time she ever sees her speaking with anyone at the house was whenever Chloe's around. Beca seemed to be warming up to her and she's most definitely gotten Chloe's attention. But that was the most she's seen Beca interact with others.

Well, that and her seemingly regularly scheduled exchanges with Emily. Exchanges that were starting to get more and more suspicious as the weeks went by. There were hushed reprimands from Emily from time to time after practice, the sometimes motivational speeches on why Beca should embrace being a Bella when she's stuffing her face with cookie late at night in the kitchen and everyone else seemed too busy with their own things.

And then there was that weird thing just the other night. The Bellas were having a movie's night in and Emily tried to convince Beca to join them. Beca occupied one of the armchairs by herself, isolating herself as much as possible from the group as she snuck headphones on and started listening to music. Not being a movie fan was obvious, but Stacie did notice that she stuck around, and looked up once or twice to sneak a peek at what's on the screen just before stealing a glance at Chloe. She saw Beca smiling softly to herself whenever Chloe would react one way or another to what was happening in the movie, and chuckle softly when Chloe would seem teary-eyed at a heartwarming screen.

So not a movie fan, no, but perhaps a Chloe fan.

But that was beside the point.

It was near midnight. Beca practically leapt out of the armchair and ran up the stairs as soon as she realized something – the time perhaps? – and disappeared after that. It caught Stacie unaware as Beca seemed to have just reacted drastically to what seemed to be nothing at all.

"Maybe she needed to pee?" was Amy's explanation.

Although Amy had to admit to her the next morning that something indeed was odd. Amy rushed after her to make sure she was okay and from what Amy said she simply shrugged the whole thing off.

"Except she was rubbing her arm for some reason, like it stung." Amy had told her. "I don't know what that's about cappy."

"Amy, what did I say about you calling me that?" Stacie had reprimanded before prompting her to go on.

Hence the 'Beca Mitchell investigation' had begun. A totally unsanctioned, possibly born out of their paranoia, examination of the day in a life of Beca.

It's been a full week since the two of them plotted how to go about things. Because something was most definitely up and Stacie won't rest until she gets to the bottom of things.

Hence why she packed her things from the nice shade she was sitting under in the quad and slowly made her way through campus, keeping a safe distance away from a grumpy Beca Mitchell stomping through the university.

It's been… well… Amy wasn't really paying much attention to the passage of time.

She was, however, paying attention to her grumpy bite-sized mysterious new roommate.

There's something about Beca that Amy just couldn't put a finger on. Whatever it was, it has been decided that all the Bellas feel some sort of pull form her. Like she was something they've been missing out on all this time.

There was one Bella in particular that Amy just knows is feeling just that, at least from her observations, but for now, she's keeping her need to meddle at bay.

Because there was just something about Beca Mitchell, and while Amy feels a natural connection with her, she was still a Bella first. Which meant she needed to figure out what Beca's deal was before any meddling happens, they can't let their forever fearless leader hurt after all.

For the most part, Beca kept to herself. This despite Amy's constant attempts and breaking through her shell. She's gotten her to chuckle at a comment once and that was the most progress she's made since Beca joined the Bellas. There always seemed to be on her mind and it Amy thinks it was distracting her for the most part.

She'd have guessed it was Chloe based on their interaction and the fact that she was someone Beca just didn't seem to shut off from. If it was Chloe who comes knocking, Beca would answer her door and talk to her, even just briefly.

She and Stacie have been trying to figure out what her deal was for a while now, especially after the movie night incident.

From what she's gathered so far – mostly from her and Stacie tailing Beca – the DJ had very little friends. There's Emily. There was Jesse, the nicest Treble of them all, and then the weird kid Treble who does magic tricks. Most of what Amy has seen were brief exchanges really. Beca's got classes, like every one, and sometimes she'd actually hit the library to study. Stacie did note that she always almost gets frustrated with a few things sometimes, and they couldn't understand why.

Like that one time Stacie saw her talking to Benji, with Beca looking annoyed. Or Beca marching through the quad after she looked to be deep at thought about something. It would usually be preceded or followed by talking to Emily.

She had a radio station gig, although based on what Amy overheard with her last conversation with Jesse, she was slowly passing more responsibilities to him with her having to juggle too many things now that she was a Bella.

Amy figured she was talking about her internship.

No, Beca hasn't told her anything about it, and no Stacie hasn't heard about it either. It was something Amy just recently discovered while going through Beca's stuff the other day to "borrow" money.

The badge said 'Residual Heat' and Amy decided to look it up. Beca had an internship at a recording label.

Which made her stressed out demeanor all the more reasonable.

It was late that afternoon when Amy tried to approach Beca about it. She looked much worse for wear trying to call Jesse – or so she assumed, she didn't really here much of the conversation but she said something about the radio station. Amy tried to reach out and talk to Beca about and it seemed that she might actually succeed at taking a crack at Beca's walls when all of a sudden her phone rang again, Beca was more frantic this time, and before Amy knew it, she got up, got dressed, and got out the door in record time leaving a confused Amy behind.

Wanting to try and keep her progress, Amy decided her men can be without her one night. She could focus on building this relationship with Beca. Hence why she waited for her. Well, she grabbed pizza with the Bellas first but then she marched right back to their room and waited!

And waited, and waited, until Amy dozed off herself.

Amy wasn't sure what time Beca got back. She heard some ruffling sound while she drifted in and out of sleep a few times. But then all of a sudden she heard Beca jumping out of her own bed, or more like falling as she hurriedly ran into their bathroom and slammed the door shut.

Amy woke up with a jolt with the sudden noise. She felt for her phone, checked the time, and saw it was a minute until midnight. Still slightly disoriented, Amy slid off her own bed and made her way towards the bathroom door, wanting to check on Beca.

Was she feeling sick or something? Amy wasn't sure. She was just about to knock on the door when she heard Beca stifle a scream. And Amy nearly broke down the door but stopped herself short when her eyes landed on the glowing light appearing from the cracks of the door.

It was suffice to say that Amy fully woke up after that, pinching herself as she stared all wide-eye at the glowing lights that slowly disappeared.

And then silence.

Afraid that Beca would step out at any moment and catch her snooping, Amy practically jumped back to bed and pretended to still be sound asleep. She shut her eyes close and as tight as possible until she heard the squeak on Beca's mattress that let her know she was back under the covers.

After that, well, Amy just stayed up all night, hiding under the covers with her phone at the ready to search 'strange glowing lights'.

She was too spooked to go back to sleep and still too shocked to talk to Stacie about things. Besides, Stacie might actually just tell her she was dreaming s she had to think things through.

All Amy could think about was one thing.

What the aca-hell is going on?

A/N Pt 2: Okay, now, straight to business with the update schedule! I'm currently doing stuff (other than work) that keeps me a bit busy the first half of the week. For now, update schedules would be Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. If a chapter update is long I might skip a day but I'll let you know ahead of time from the previous update. ;)

On that note, I've been thinking about things regarding future fics. Once I have my mind made up, I'll let you know. It's def either one of three possibilities, but I still need time to decide.

UPNEXT: The investigation continues! And Beca ponders about life in general… plus a Bechloe moment?