Disclaimer: none of the known characters are mine and I am just using them for my own musings.
AN: this chapter is just the first segment of what is going to be included in their first year at Barden. The next chapter will either be the rest of the first year or will be just the next portion of it I haven't decided yet. Enjoy!
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Start of Term
Stacie's POV:
The move down to the new house went really well and we were able to get everything set up pretty quickly with our parents' help. As planned our moms each planned one of the guest rooms to be their rooms when they come visit us. Beca and I's room has a nice fluffy King bed and a walk in closet. We decided to do a navy blue for the walls and a cute little wall sticker with a quote on it. Our bathroom has a jacuzzi tub and a shower as well as a vanity mirror. The walls are a simple cream color and the wall in the shower is tiled.
We decided to split the office so there are two desks and each side is decorated to fit our needs. We decided on a grey color for the walls and a light color for the desks. The stickers on the walls represent each of our personalities, Beca has some music notes, a motorcycle, some headphones, and a wolf howling, I have some music notes as well and a microphone. I also have some photos of various forest scenes that remind me of the Enchanted Forest. The previous owners had remodeled the kitchen before moving so we kept that the same and we painted the living room a light green and set up some pictures of our families and us as a couple. We have a couch and a decent flat screen tv.
The garage was easily the most fun part to remodel. We decided to make it a studio on one side and a simple auto shop on the other. We set up a little recording studio and have a couch and various instruments in the studio and hung fairy lights all over the place giving it a homey vibe. The auto shop side we let our dads decorate and they set it up as a modest in home car repair area. They got some nice tools for Beca as well as some bright overhead lights so she can see better while she is working. Everything turned out just the way we wanted it and it was a lot of fun to design together.
Our parents stayed for about a week after helping us move in and decorate before having to go back home for work. After they left it didn't take the two of us long to get settled into a new area. We had obligatory dinners a few times with her dad and step mom but other than that we don't have to do much with them. We are both sort of glad that we don't have to do anything with them as things have been pretty awkward with Beca's dad. He keeps trying to pretend like no time has passed and that he never left his kid. He also just doesn't seem to acknowledge that the two of us are in a relationship, he keeps calling me her friend and he introduced me to his wife as a close friend. He also looked pretty upset when we corrected him by telling her we had been in a serious relationship for almost 2 years. We weren't sure if he was upset about us being two girls or the fact that his wife was actually super supportive and thinks we make an adorable couple.
Classes start in a few days and right now we are heading over to campus for the activity fair. We aren't sure we will join anything but it may be fun to look around. Beca is wearing a dark grey tank top and some ripped black skinny jeans and she let me do her makeup all smokey and mysterious and she has her fake gages in with her other piercings. I think it makes her look really sexy being all alternative with her dressed like this and her hair in a messy bun. I am wearing some dark wash skinny jeans and a purple crop top with some black heels, and decided to leave my hair down and do some light makeup. We decided to take her bike to campus and we got a few looks and wolf whistles when we pulled up but we shut that up pretty quick when Beca took off my helmet and pulled me into a deep kiss.
We are walking around when we notice a group of guys singing a song and advertising their acapella group. They sound pretty okay but seem to be too cocky for their own good especially the one guy who is the obvious leader. We decide to keep looking but nothing seems to be catching our eye and then Beca sees an ad for a job at the campus radio station and decides to check that out but lets me keep walking. I am looking at a flyer for a science club when I hear the girls at the stall next to me talking rather loudly.
The tall blonde is complaining about not having enough people for the singing group and that they need to keep handing out flyers. The ginger next to her points someone out and says, "What about her? She could be made cute". I look and see that they are talking about Beca who is walking to me and then the blonde says, "Are you blind Chloe? That girl is some sort of alt freak. She is so not Bellas material". I scoff under my breath because my baby is totally better than this prissy girl. Beca is almost to me when the girl Chloe tries to hand her a flyer anyways asking her if she is interested. Beca looks at me in askance for rescue so I walk over and take the flyer to look at with her. Chloe tells us what the group is and Beca makes a comment about acapella saying, "Oh right this is like a thing now". The other girl seems annoyed at this comment and I choose to ignore her and hand the flyer to Beca. When she grabs it Chloe notices her grasshopper tattoo and makes a comment about having gotten one when she was in a phase where she listened to a lot of 'Evanescence'.
The blonde girl changes the subject and says, "so are you interested?". Beca and I look at each other and Beca says, "I don't know. It seems kinda lame". The blonde girl gets all defensive all of the sudden and Chloe says that they sing and dance at competitions all over the place. Beca asks if they do this on purpose and the blonde girl makes a comment about Beca being a bitch while Beca just smirks at her. Chloe tries to calm everyone down but Beca just gives her back the flyer and says that she doesn't really sing and I say I'll think about it. As we are walking away I hear the Chloe girl say, "Aubrey come one you need to calm down before you puke again". I don't know what that is all about but those girls seem strange.
We head back home after the fair and grab some chinese food on the way for dinner. After we ate we decided to go work on our song in the studio. We were able to finish writing it and making the music for it before we left but now we are working on recording it. It is a love song duet and I really like it. Once we finish recording it Beca starts putting finishing touches on it while I sit in her lap in the chair in front of the computer. She finally says she is done and hits play while wrapping her arms around me. (song is Lucky by Jason Mraz ft. Colbie Callait).
Beca:
Do you hear me, I'm talking to you
Across the water across the deep blue ocean
Under the open sky, oh my, baby I'm trying
Stacie:
Boy, I hear you in my dreams
I feel your whisper across the sea
I keep you with me in my heart
You make it easier when life gets hard
Both
Lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
Ooohh ooooh oooh oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Stacie
They don't know how long it takes
Waiting for a love like this
Every time we say goodbye
I wish we had one more kiss
I'll wait for you, I promise you, I will
Both:
Lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
Lucky we're in love in every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday
Beca:
And so I'm sailing through the sea
To an island where we'll meet
You'll hear the music fill the air
I'll put a flower in your hair
Stacie:
Though the breezes through the trees
Move so pretty you're all I see
As the world keeps spinning round
You hold me right here right now
Both:
Lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
I'm lucky we're in love in every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday
Ooohh ooooh oooh oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooooh ooooh oooh oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
When the song was done I was really happy with how it turned out and I think Beca was as well. We saved it and then sent it to our parents because they wanted a copy when we were done with it. We listened to it for a while longer while dancing before going back in the house to get ready for bed. We had a quickie in the shower before drying off and going to bed with Beca in a sports bra and briefs while I had on panties and a t-shirt. We talked for a few minutes and shared a few brief kisses before cuddling close and going to sleep for the night.
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Three Weeks Later
Beca's POV:
I got to campus earlier than Stacie today so I drove my bike and she was going to take her car when she had her later classes. I had like an hour between classes and was waiting for Stacie when some asshole spilled their coffee all over me and just walked away. I sighed and texted Stacie to bring my gym bag from the backseat of her car and I head into the nearest dorm hall to see if I can take a quick shower before she gets here. She texts me saying she is about ten minutes away and that she will meet me with my clothes in a few.
I head into the shower room and notice that there seems to be no one else here so I grab a towel out of the fresh laundry and start singing the song that was stuck in my head. I strip down and turn on the water to rinse off while still singing. I am just about to step in the water when someone rips open the curtain and turns off the water saying, "You can sing!". I turn my head slightly to see that it is that Chloe girl from the activity fair, without any clothes on smiling at me rather creepily. I just scream at her telling her to get out but she forces me to sing with her. I stayed facing the wall and we sang Titanium and when we were done she finally left me alone after her extremely naked boyfriend complimented our voices.
After they left I took the fastest shower ever and wrapped the towel around me as I heard the door open again. I was really quiet until I heard Stacie calling out to me so I sighed in relief that it was my girlfriend with my clothes and not another weird girl about to bust in my shower naked. I finally call out to her and she comes into the stall and stays with me while I get dressed. I'm now in sweats and a muscle tee because these are my gym clothes so I throw a sweatshirt over it and we leave the dorm as we go to our classes. Luckily our classes are close together so I can walk her to class before going to my own. On the way there I tell her about the strange experience in the shower with the redhead and she laughs at me as I tell her that the only way I got the girl to leave was to agree to audition. She continues laughing until I tell her that I am going to make her audition with me since it is her fault I met the girl anyways since she was next to them. She pouts at me but agrees to it and then kisses me before going into her class.
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One Week Later
Beca's POV:
We are on our way to the auditions for this acapella group when there is a fender bender in front of us involving a young mother and an elderly lady. Since we were behind them we pulled over to make sure they were okay and it turns out that the elderly woman hurt her neck a bit from whiplash so we called 9-1-1. The young mom was really frantic saying it was all her fault and was having trouble calming down and her baby was crying so after helping move the old lady to sit on a nearby bench Stacie and I went to calm the mom down. Stacie walked her over to the elderly woman and sat with them, calming them down so I moved over to the mothers car to get her baby.
I opened the back and saw the most adorable little boy I had ever seen just crying his eyes out. I started making faces at him making him laugh before unbuckling him and picking him up. He started grabbing my face and was looking at me trying to figure out who I was and so I just kept making faces and tickling him. He had the most adorable little giggles and I just kept making him laugh so I could hear it. I then started walking to the mother who Stacie had calmed down and handed him to her saying, "Here you go little man. Here is your mama". As mother and son hugged Stacie and I checked on the older lady and she said she was fine and that she was grateful for the help.
Once the cops came they took Stacie and I's statements while the paramedics looked over the older lady. Once that was done they took her statement and the paramedics looked at the mom and baby. When the cops went to take the mothers statement the baby was about to fall asleep so I offered to hold him while she talked so Stacie and I sat on the bench watching the little guy as he slept in my arms. When the cops left we finally learned everyone's names, the elderly woman's name was Sandy, the mother's name was Vanessa, and the little guy's name was Ethan. We all exchanged numbers because we wanted to make sure everyone got home okay and then we parted ways with Sandy and Vanessa wishing us good luck at auditions.
About fifteen minutes later when we were pulling into the campus parking lot we got a text from Sandy saying she was home and that her husband Frank was very thankful for all of our help and said he wanted to meet such nice young ladies. Just after that a text from Vanessa came in saying she and Ethan made it home and also thanked us for helping. We told them everything was no problem and said that if we ever wanted to we could babysit for Ethan because he loved us. We told both of them we would be interested in either event and headed into auditions.
When we walked in the last person was singing the end of Since You Been Gone which we found out was the audition song. The people running auditions started to close things down until Chloe noticed us standing on the side and said, "Oh wait there's two more". We walked on and I said, "We didn't know we had to prepare that song", and Chloe said, "that's okay sing whatever you want". I looked at Stacie and she nodded to the cup on the table in front of Chloe and the blonde girl. I asked if we could use it getting some weird looks and then once I had the cup we sat down next to each other on the stage. I started the beat for the song with the cup and after a few rounds Stacie started us off.
Stacie:
I got my ticket for the long way 'round
Two bottle 'a whiskey for the way
Beca:
And I sure would like some sweet company
And I'm leaving tomorrow, what-do-ya say?
Both:
When I'm gone
When I'm gone
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone
You're gonna miss me by my hair
You're gonna miss me everywhere, oh
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone
Beca:
I've got my ticket for the long way 'round
The one with the prettiest of views
Stacie:
It's got mountains, it's got rivers, it's got sights to give you shivers
But it sure would be prettier with you
Both:
When I'm gone
When I'm gone
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone
You're gonna miss me by my walk
You're gonna miss me talk, oh
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone
The blonde girl was looking at us strangely when we started but she was smiling by the time we were done. We had split up the verses and harmonized beautifully if the applause is anything to go off. I saw this kid Jesse who works at the radio station with me sitting in the audience so it looks like he tried out for one of the other groups. Since we were late to the auditions we had to stay after to fill out the paperwork including our medical information, address, contact information, and class schedules. After that we were free to go and since it was a weekend we just went home after getting some groceries. We talked some more with Sandy and Vanessa and actually scheduled a lunch with them for the next day so we could meet Sandy's husband and so we could see Ethan again.
The next day we got up and had a light breakfast before doing some cleaning around the house. We were supposed to meet everyone at 1 o'clock for lunch so at 11:45 we decided to take a quick shower before getting ready. Since it was still pretty hot outside I decided on some khaki shorts and black v-neck with a white pocket. I put on my Vans and pulled my hair back in a high ponytail. I've been thinking about cutting my hair but I'm not sure yet. I go sit on the bed waiting for Stacie to finish getting ready and play games on my phone. When Stacie comes out of the bathroom I see she has decided to match me as she is wearing soke khaki short shorts and a white v-neck with a black pocket and her matching Vans.
We decided to take Stacie's car today and she lets me drive so she can pick the music. We end up getting to the restaurant a bit early and text everyone that we will get a table. About ten minutes later we saw Sandy and Frank walk in and waved them over to the table. We were just finishing introductions when Vanessa texted saying she was here and asked if someone could come help with Ethan while she got the diaper bag settled. I went out to help her and the little man seemed to recognize me and started reaching for me right away. I cooed at him and took him so she could clean up because she had dropped the diaper bag outside and it had spilled everywhere. Once we got inside and finished introductions we had a really nice time.
It turns out that Sandy and Frank have a daughter who lives in california with her family so they don't get to see their grandkids much. We also learned that Vanessa's boyfriend had left her shortly before Ethan was born. We were very sympathetic to her and even offered to watch Ethan sometimes if she needed to work or wanted to go out. While we were eating we told them some more about our relationship and how long we had been together. The girls thought we made an adorable couple and Frank gave us both the 'hurt her and I hurt you' speech. When we asked why he did that he said that he was starting to see us as adoptive grandkids and Sandy agreed with him, saying she felt the same and included Vanessa and Ethan in the statement. We were all touched by this and agreed that we saw them as grandparents and told Vanessa she was like a close friend, almost sister. It felt weird to be this close to people we just met but for some reason it just felt right and seemed to work for all of us.
Before we left Frank got a call and seemed frustrated when he hung up, when we asked he said that his car was supposed to go to the shop but they didn't have the space until a week later. I asked him what was wrong with it and what he described sounded like one of the things I learned how to fix easily when working with Seth. After checking with Stacie I told him that if he wanted he could bring the car over to our house and I could take a look at it for him. He agreed and Stacie invited Sandy and Vanessa to come over as well so they could keep talking. Vanessa seemed hesitant since it was almost Ethan's nap time so we told her we had some guest rooms just off the living room and she could lay him down in there while the girls talked.
It turns out that Sandy and Frank lived about three blocks away from us so while they went to go switch cars we drove home and had Vanessa follow us. When we got there I parked behind my jeep in front of the house leaving the driveway open and Vanessa parked across the street. When we went inside I went to change into my work clothes while Vanessa and Stacie went and got the guest room set up for Ethans nap. After about ten minutes we heard Frank and Sandy pull up so we headed out to greet them and while Frank and I headed to the garage to look at his car the girls headed inside.
About an hour later Frank and I had finished fixing his car with me doing most of the work and him helping where he could. When we got inside we heard Sandy telling a story about how one time when their daughter was little she was playing around with Frank and ran to jump in his arms and ended up kneeing him in the groin and how that was what brought up them having to have the talk with her. When she mentioned getting hit in the groin both Frank and I winced and cupped ourselves in mutual remembrance of pain. We had already told them I was intersex so when the girls saw this reaction they all laughed at us while we pouted at them.
A few hours later after they had left to go home the doorbell rang and when I opened it the blonde Aubrey from the acapella group was there. I let her in and she explained to us that they usually 'kidnap' people for hood night but since we lived off campus we had to be the first so she had time to come get us and help Chloe help gather the rest of the group. She told us where to meet them and that there was an outdoor party afterwards so to dress warm before leaving. We changed into warmer clothes that still somewhat matched and decided to leave early so we could grab a quick bite to eat. We decided to take the bike tonight and stopped at a burger place to eat before heading to campus. When we pulled up in front of the practice hall we saw Chloe and Aubrey leading a group of girls with hoods over their heads inside. Chloe stayed back to wait for us and Aubrey stayed with the girls.
After being put through some weird ceremony and pledging to let wolves rip out our vocal cords or some crazy shit like that we were led to the quad for a party. There were a few more acapella groups there too and that Jesse kid was there and drunk off his ass. While Stacie was getting herself a drink he tried to hit on me and finally backed off when I told him I was gay. We stayed for a while but I didn't drink since I still had to drive us home after this. When we got home we crashed almost immediately after showering.
The next day we had our first practice and one of the girls was kicked off in front of everyone because she broke the rules and slept with a treble. After several questions about what was serious in the oath they made us take we finally got down to practicing. They drilled us on vocals and even made us run, the best part was when this girl who calls herself Fat Amy laid down in the bleachers and pretended to run saying she was horizontal running. After several hours of practicing old ass songs we finally called it a day. Aubrey told us that we had a gig soon and that we needed to get into shape. After a failed attempt at a group cheer she let us go but called me back to talk for a second. She told me that in competitions I needed to remove my 'ear monstrosities' and that I needed to stay away from Jesse. I told her that wouldn't be a problem as I couldn't stand the guy really and she scoffed saying, "I can see your toner through those jeans". I just smirked at her saying, "that's my dick" before catching up to a laughing Stacie and leaving.
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Two Months Later
Stacie's POV:
These past few months of school and being on the Bellas have passed rather quickly to say the least. Beca has been working a bit less often at the radio station because the manager won't let her do anything but stack cds and that guy Jesse wont leave her alone. Bellas practices have been pretty grueling and we don't seem to be getting any better. Our first gig went terribly and we found out that Chloe has nodes, and on top of all of that Aubrey has been at Becas throat for a while now. I mean sure Beca likes to rile her up but Aubrey really needs to take the stick out of her ass and relax.
During one of the first practices we found out what happened last year when Aubrey puked the Bellas way out of the competition so I understand that she is trying to make up for it but my god is she going about it all wrong. I mean why use the same routines and set list that you previously used, it's like she is trying to screw us over this year too. Aubrey really just has no clue how to connect with us as a group, the riff off three weeks ago really proved that. I mean that night was the first time we had really worked together well as a group. That was also the night Lily found out about Beca and I's relationship. She is just so quiet that sometimes you forget she is there, luckily she was really accepting and actually mentioned that she had suspected we were together for a while.
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Flashback
Aubrey called an emergency meeting of the Bellas tonight and Beca and I had to cancel date night. We were already dressed for our date and just decided to go to the meeting hoping that it would be over soon and we could still go to dinner. When we got there she told us we were about to go to something called a riff off and that we needed to get to the old pool because we were running behind. Chloe tried to explain what it was on the way but only ended up confusing us even more instead of helping. When we got to the pool we saw that all the other campus acapella groups were waiting in the pool so we climbed down the ladder to join them.
Those two geeks who ran auditions were running this whole event as well and pretty soon round one began with the category of Ladies of the 80's. Watching the first round sort of gave us an idea of what we were working with, then that one girl from the high notes I think is their name totally ruined the round with her attempt at doing this while high off her ass. The second round began after the high notes were kicked out, and this time we were singing songs about sex. I decided to tease Beca a bit and joined CR when she started us off and when the Trebles cut us off I stood there listening to the song trying to figure out another song to get us back in the running. Aubrey thought I was hitting on the dude and tried to pull me away until I told her I had a song and cut back in until that Jesse guy ruined it.
He stepped up and cut me off and started singing a song all the while watching Beca as if serenading her. She was scoffing and flipped him off but I could tell he wasn't deterred in the least and continued on. She looked at me and rolled her eyes before going back to ignoring the guy until she got a smirk on her face and ran out cutting him off with a rap. She looked so sexy out there showing the guy up and it took me a minute to focus on what she was singing and once I realized it I jumped in with Fat Amy to join Becs in singing No Diggity. Beca ended up dragging the whole crowd watching into the song with us and then finished it off acting all cool.
The people running the show kicked us out because we sang 'it's' instead of 'it' which was the next word of the song Jesse had been singing. With that the Trebles won and it became obvious that this whole thing was rigged so they would win. As we were leaving Aubrey went off on Beca for ruining the riff off and then the group separated to go home. Beca and I stood there for a minute in disbelief and then started to laugh a little at how ridiculous Aubrey was being. I turned around and pulled Beca to me wrapping my arms around her neck and said, "Baby you rapping like that was really sexy. How about we go home and I show you how much I loved it when you did that". At this she groaned and smashed our lips together in a heated kiss that went on for a few seconds before we heard someone quietly clear their throat.
When we pulled apart we saw Lily standing there smirking at us and realized we had forgotten about her before our little display. We had gotten to know the girl a bit and it turns out that in a one on one situation she has no problem talking out loud albeit still quietly. So when she stopped smirking she said, "I knew it! You guys were way too close to be just roommates and friends from highschool. How long have you been together and why didn't you tell us?". We just laughed at the girl and walked her to her dorm while answering her questions. She seemed surprised at first that we had been together for a little over two years and when she asked why we hadn't told anyone Beca told her that we had wanted to see how long it took for everyone to put it together. Lily laughed at that and told us she would keep our secret and that she would enjoy being in on this prank before going into her dorm.
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Present
Since then she has come over to our house a few times and had even met Vanessa and Ethan when they came by for a visit. Lily got along really well with Ethan and he seemed to enjoy his company. For someone so quiet she can be pretty hilarious sometimes and I think Vanessa appreciated her dry humor. When Vanessa found out Lily was the only Bella to realize Beca and I's relationship she was really confused until Lily said something about all of them being too oblivious for their own good. Vanessa thought the whole thing was funny and agreed that they had to be oblivious as hell because we are 'so annoyingly in love that it was hard to miss'.
Anyways tomorrow is our first competition and luckily it is in town so we don't have to travel far for it. Beca's shift at the radio station is almost over so I'm about to make dinner for us and Lily since she is coming over. When I am on my way to the kitchen the doorbell rings so I go to get it and see that Lily is there with Fat Amy. I let them in and Lily tells me that Amy found out where she was going and all but demanded to come as well to see her 'twig bitches'. I just laughed at her and let them in and decided to surprise Beca with Amy when she got home.
We move to the kitchen and I start on dinner while Lily gets us all something to drink. We just talk while I cook and learn some funny shit about Amy's life back home. Her lack of filter always makes things interesting and she is just such a fun friend to have. I am almost done with dinner when I hear the front door open and Beca yells out that she is gonna change real quick and I tell her to meet us in the kitchen when she is done. About five minutes later Beca comes into the kitchen wearing some joggers and a tank top.
She walks up to me and doesn't notice Amy yet so I have a feeling she is about to out us to the crazy aussie. My suspicions are confirmed when she wraps her arms around me pulling me into her and kisses me before she says, "hey baby. How was your afternoon?". Just as I go to answer Fat Amy starts spluttering in confusion and Beca finally notices her. She just joins Lily in her laughter at the situation and eventually Amy calms down. Once she is calm Amy asks, "what the hell? When did this happen?". Beca chuckles and says, "Um like 2 years ago dude" causing Amy to say, "Aca-scuse me?". I laugh at her and say, "Aca-believe it!" to which everyone laughs and Amy tells me she is stealing that line.
As we eat we tell her more about our relationship and how it started with the occasional interjection from Lily telling her of the things she has witnessed in the past few weeks. We talked and shared some laughs until about two hours later when Amy checked the time and said, "we better get going. We need to get some sleep because you know Blondy is going to be calling us bright and early to make sure we're ready for tomorrow". We laugh at her and agree with that and the two girls leave to head back to campus. Once we have cleaned up from dinner we go to our room and change into our pajamas settling down for the night. After a bit of kisses and cuddles we drifted to sleep both of us mentally preparing ourselves for the craziness tomorrow is bound to be.
