Disclaimer: I own nothing recognizable. The original characters are mine though.
Warning: There is some cheesy shit in here. Don't judge me.
AN: Here is the next chapter. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it. This chapter will finish off the first movie and the next chapter will move on from there. I may also add some of what is happening back in Storybrooke, I haven't decided yet.
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Next Day
Beca's POV:
We have to be at the competition center by 11:30 so Aubrey is demanding we meet up at 10am to practice a bit more before the actual event. Stacie and I got up at 8:30 this morning so we could eat and get ready in time to get there when Aubrey needs us. After we got out of the shower we had to get dressed in these ridiculous outfits they are making us wear. I throw on some breifs and a sports bra before pulling on some compression shorts so I can wear this stupid skirt. I tried to talk Aubrey out of that but she wouldn't budge but I did manage to get her to let me wear my Vans since I am as tall as the rest of them when they wear heels when I am barefoot.
Stacie is laughing at me as I grumble about the skirt so I look up at her and pout giving her my puppy dog look. She just chuckles and says, "I'm sorry baby but Aubrey won't let you get away with not wearing it". I just pout more and she hugs me and pulls me into a sweet kiss before telling me to suck it up. I growl at her playfully flashing my alpha eyes at her causing her to do the same back at me. I finish getting dressed before going to the bathroom to do my makeup. When I see myself in the mirror I groan out loud and say, "god I look like a fucking flight attendant" causing Stacie to burst out laughing in our room.
We eventually finish getting ready and grab some coffee and bagels for everyone on the way to campus. We are in my jeep today because we have to stop for some errands on the way home, and need the bigger trunk. Luckily we brought a change of clothes so we don't have to be dressed like this in public. We pull up in front of the hall and bring in the food and drink which all of the others are grateful for, even Aubrey. After we ate and did a bit of vocal warmups Aubrey decided we were going to hit the road so we could find good parking.
The four of us that could drive the bus drew straws to see who had to drive and I got the short straw while Chloe got the second shortest, Amy the next, and Aubrey the long est. This means that I have to drive us to the competition today and Chloe drives us back and then next time Amy drives to and Aubrey drives back. We all loaded onto the boat and hit the road with pretty much all of the girls doing their own thing. Stacie was sitting in the back with Lily and Fat Amy which was bound to be an interesting conversation so I used my werewolf hearing to listen in for entertainment during the drive.
We had to stop for gas on the way and used it as a bathroom break as well while the tank was filling. I let all the other girls go into the gas station so I could fill up the tank and then had the first one back watch it for me so I could go to the bathroom. I also had Stacie get me something to drink since I wasn't going to have time to get it myself. Once we got back on the road things were going pretty good although I could hear that Chloe was having to keep Aubrey calm so she didn't puke. After about 15 minutes of driving I could feel my phone buzzing in my pocket so I pulled it out and held it up so the screen was showing behind me to Chloe and Aubrey and said, "Hey Red can you tell me who is calling me?". She said, "sure thing Beca. It says 'sis' as the contact name. I didn't know you had a sister". I laughed and said, "that's 'cause I don't" which got me some confused looks from the two, then I shouted, "Oi Stace. Nessa is calling me catch". Once I said that I threw my phone over my shoulder towards the back of the bus without looking, causing some of the Bellas to scream until Stacie caught it effortlessly with barely a glance at it. Gotta say these werewolf senses come in handy sometimes.
Stacie answered the phone and said, "Hey Vanessa" there was a pause where Nessa must have said something "yeah it's Stacie Beca is driving. So what's up?". After there was another pause Stacie got this excited look on her face and squealed into the phone, "OH MY GOD! Are you serious?". Vanessa must have said something else and Stacie told her to send lots of pictures and videos before hanging up and tossing the phone back to me getting a few more gasps of fear before I caught it. Stacie was still bouncing in excitement so I said, "Stace come one what happened to get you so excited?". She just squealed again before talking excitedly saying, "Becs, little Ethan took his first steps a few minutes ago!". This caused me to have the same reaction she did screaming "OH MY GOD!" followed by a whoop of excitement.
Lily was excited by this development as well having met the little man but the rest of the Bellas were very confused. CR spoke for everyone else and said, "Um… who are Vanessa and Ethan?" getting a lot of 'yeahs' from the others as well. I just chuckled and said, "Vanessa is a girl we met a few months ago and Ethan is her son". This caused some awes until Aubrey said, "if she is your friend why is her contact name 'sis' in your phone?". Stacie took over here and said, "when we met her we all just clicked and as we got closer we started to see her as a sister and her us. She even calls Ethan our nephew and since she has no siblings is teaching him to call us his aunties". Stacies phone then got a series of text messages and she squealed again before turning up the volume on her phone and starting a video while she and Lily watched.
Once the video started you could hear Vanessa talking saying, "Hey Ethan can you show your aunties what you learned today?". This was followed by a bunch of giggles from Ethan before Vanessa chimed in saying, "Buddy they aren't here" while laughing. The video cut off and another one started and this time Vanessa said, "Ethan can you come to mama? There you go little bug come to mama". You could hear baby babble before hearing Nessa say, "Baby I'm so proud of you!" before the video stopped. I looked in the rearview mirror and saw that all of the Bellas had surrounded Stacie while the videos were playing and were cooing at my adorable nephew. Stacie was crying tears of joy and said, "Oh Becs, he is getting so big. I'm so proud of our little man" this got a chuckle of agreement from me before she promised to show me the videos when we got to the competition.
About twenty minutes later we pulled in and Chloe and Aubrey went inside to get us checked in and find out what time we were performing at. While they were doing that I finally got to see the videos of my nephew which made me so proud of the little guy. I was looking forward to the next time we saw him and could see him walking in person. Chloe came back to the bus and said that we were the last performance of the day and that the first one was starting soon so we should start heading in.
When we got into the auditorium of the place there were people on stage singing with sock puppets which I thought was hilarious since it seemed to piss Aubrey off. After them the Trebels were on and they did a pretty decent job considering they had too much time with the leader doing all the singing. When they were done Jesse came off the stage first and started leading them towards us all the while looking me up and down causing me to shiver in disgust. No matter how many times I told this kid I wasn't interested and was very gay he just would not take the hint and kept bothering me. This caused Aubrey to get it into her head that I was interested in him so she was constantly reminding me to stay away from him, which I mean I was trying but he won't go away.
After going through our entire routine which basically put everyone asleep, until the end when Amy spiced things up by ripping her shirt open, we got the verdicts in and we came in second place. Aubrey was pissed at this because apparently we were only a few points ahead of the sock puppet people, but hey at least we got to move on to the next competition. When we headed into the lobby there was an acapella group of older men singing and trying to sell their albums. It was obvious they never moved on from their college acapella career, which is something the TrebleMakers leader Bumper took pride in making fun of. This caused an all out fight between the two groups in the middle of the lobby which Amy soon tried to join.
We tried to hold her back but Amy was very set on getting into the fight and slipped past all of us into the fray. Since I was the most intimidating Bella remaining, and the only one not in heels, it was up to me to go get Amy before she got hurt or hurt someone. I walked up to her and the guy she was fighting and tried to pull her away which just caused the guy fighting her to turn his attention to me. He threw a punch that I dodged and then went to try again so I decked him in the face knocking him out. While this happened Amy moved on to the next guy and was threatening him with a trophy. I tried to stop her but she wouldn't listen and so I had to let the alpha out a little and yelled at her with a bit of command in it saying, "AMY!". ( AN: Like Scott does to Isaac in Teen Wolf). This immediately stopped her as well as the rest of the fighting but unfortunately the security guard of the place had already noticed the fight happening.
While he was coming over Amy freaked out and ran leaving me standing in the middle of the fight with the TrebleMakers who didn't also flee. The security guard started taking peoples statements and while he was doing that the rest of the Bellas came to check on me with Stacie leading them. Stacie was checking my fist over since she is a sweet girlfriend and the security guard came over and asked if I was the one who knocked the guy out. When I told him I was he said that he was going to have to arrest me for assault and bring me in for further questioning. This caused Stacie to try to stop it with the Bellas chiming in so I turned to them and said, "guys it's okay. You guys go find Amy and I'll call my dad to come get me".
They reluctantly agreed and I was taken down to the station in handcuffs. Once we got there I called my dad to come get me and then explained what happened to the officers. After hearing that I had hit the guy in self defense they released me and let me wait in the lobby for my dad to come get me. My dad was pissed when he picked me up until I explained what happened, after that he calmed down and we just drove back towards campus. I got a text from Stacie saying that she was at the house with the car so I told my dad to just drop me off there.
When my dad dropped me off and I went inside I noticed all the Bellas sitting around my living room. When Stacie saw my confusion she said, "they showed up a few minutes ago to wait for you". I laughed as they bombarded me with questions about prison and if I became anyone's bitch. After that we sat around and talked for a while until my phone rang indicating my mom was calling. Once I got off the phone with her, in which I was yelled at for getting arrested and then asked if I was okay, I saw all the Bellas besides Stacie watching me. I was about to ask them what they were looking at me for when Ashley said, "You sound really close with your mom". I just laughed at that and told them that she is one of my best friends, then Amy cut in and asked, "What song was that for the ringtone? I have never heard it before". I told them that it was a personal mix I had made for my mom, which then prompted a brief description of what it is that I do which interested a lot of the group. When we tried to talk to Aubrey about doing stuff like that for competitions she just shut us down saying that we couldn't break tradition. After that the Bellas all had to leave to get back to campus since it was getting late and we all had classes tomorrow.
The next few months flew by and pretty soon the term was over and Stacie and I were about to head back up to Maine for Christmas break. After two days of driving we made it home and we made our way to my parents house. It had been decided a few weeks ago that Stacie and I didn't want to have to sleep in separate houses so we would alternate whose parents we stayed in after a week. Since my parents were hosting the Christmas celebrations we decided to stay with them first before going to the Conrad's for the next week since they were hosting new years.
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Two Months Later
Stacie's POV:
Spending the holidays with Beca and our families was great and Beca even got me a really pretty necklace with our initials entwined in the middle of a heart. She got a really big kiss for that one causing our parents to laugh at us and eventually I was getting the same from her after she opened her present from me. I had gotten her some new customized Vans with little music notes all over them and her name embroidered on the heel. We had also gotten matching tattoos on our rib cages, Beca got some claw marks with the words 'Her Beast' below it and I got a rose with the words 'Her Beauty'. We had decided on this one to show her boyish personality and my more girly one, but also because it is my favorite Disney movie, even with how wrong they got things, since the character of Belle was so similar to how my real friend Belle had been in the Enchanted Forest.
Regionals are in a week and Aubrey has been super bitchy and high strung in practice lately, and it is honestly starting to get on all of our nerves. We are literally doing the same set list as the last competition which is just ridiculous because no one else is going to use the same songs. No matter how many times we point this out to Aubrey she just gets mad and changes the subject, even Chloe is shut down and she is Aubrey's best friend. Anyways Beca and I are watching Ethan tonight while Nessa goes on a date for the first time in a while. He started talking last month and it is honestly one of the most adorable things in the world. His first word was 'mama' and while he has said a bit more since then his vocabulary is still pretty limited.
Beca has gone to grab us dinner so I am just playing with Ethan in the living room while we wait for her. He has been particularly clingy tonight and started getting fussy when Beca left until I sat with him and started making funny faces at him getting his cute giggles in response. This little man has Beca wrapped around his fingers and it is so funny to watch because she tries to act all badass but all he has to say is 'eca' and she melts like butter. He calls her 'eca' and me 'acy' since he still can't say our full names yet, which we think is just absolutely adorable. Pretty soon Beca is coming through the front door and the second Ethan sees her he is running to her screaming "'eca 'eca" before crashing into her legs while squealing with laughter.
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Day Of Regionals
Stacie's POV:
Regionals are today and Aubrey has been breathing down our necks all morning making sure we know what we need to do to make the performance go perfectly. To be honest all of us are extremely annoyed with her and she just won't let us do a better routine. Beca even tried to make a mix using the songs we use as a base in the background to help appease Aubrey that we used her songs but she won't even listen to it. I helped Becs with the vocals so I know it's good but Aubrey is just so stuck on winning using tradition.
Amy is driving us today and it is like a two hour drive but with 10 girls all stuck on a bus it seems longer. Beca and I are sitting in the back cuddling and Beca is asleep since she had a long night with work. Luke finally started listening to her mixes and playing them on the radio station so he lets her run some of the night shifts. She is loving it because it means her music is played and she also gets to avoid Jesse on the off chance they are there at the same time. Once Beca told Luke about Jesse's stalker type attitude he stopped scheduling them for the same shifts if it could be avoided. Honestly I am really glad that Luke is doing something about it because I swear to god that Jesse kid is going to get his ass kicked the next time he comes for my girl.
Even though I tend to be the less dominant person in the relationship Jesse's consistent chasing of a girl who wants nothing to do with him is causing my wolf to be more and more possessive. Of course our wolves act rather differently to possessive feelings towards our mate. When Beca's wolf is possessive she marks me during sex by biting over the initial bite she made last year. For my wolf possessiveness presents itself in a need to be claimed almost instantly by my mate. This means that we have been having a lot more sex than we already were, and since I am always horny the rest of the Bellas think I am some sort of nymphomaniac.
Honestly the fact that none of the others besides Lily and Amy have figured out that Becs and I are together is kind of hilarious. I mean how oblivious can people be, we are constantly touching each other in some way, we know practically everything about one another, and we treat each other's parents as our own parents. They all just think that we are best friends who moved to school together and decided to be roommates. They aren't completely wrong I mean Beca is my best friend but she is also so much more than that.
We just pulled up to the gas station so Amy could fill the tank so I need to wake Beca up so we can get her some more coffee to wake her up. Once she is up the two of us Amy and CR get off the bus to go get coffee, Amy can pay for gas and so CR can use the restroom. CR is funny, she hasn't told us all for sure that she is a lesbian but it is sort of obvious with her not so secret crush on me. She hasn't done anything about it though she just stares. As we are coming out of the gas station Amy is heading to fill the tank after paying and she gets yelled at by Bumper as the Trebles pass us and he says something about sabotage as he throws a burrito at her. Once the mexican food is splattered all over her Amy's usual dramatics come out to play and she starts saying that she has been shot and falls down to the ground like she is dying.
CR threatened her with mouth to mouth and she finally calmed down so we got her a clean shirt and got back on the bus. Amy was pretty mad so Beca sat up front to get her to calm down as we drove. Pretty soon Chloe starts to hum along to whatever is playing on her Ipod and then she starts singing 'Party in the USA' out loud. Pretty soon all of us are singing along except Beca, she knows the words but hates the song. Finally we guilt her into singing with us much to her chagrin and we are all singing until the bus starts to slow until it shutters to a stop. Aubrey asks what is happening and Amy says we ran out of gas. When she gets incredulous looks since she just filled the tanks she says she got hit by flying mexican food and forgot to actually get gas. Aubrey says, "Aca-scuse me?" and Amy winks at me in the rearview mirror before saying, "Aca-believe it!". This gets a chuckle out of the three of us who know where she stole that line from.
Eventually we end up having to call Bumper and hitch a ride for the last 45 minutes to the competition center. The ride ends up being awkward as hell with all the Trebles on one side and all the Bellas on the other just sitting in silence. Bumper tries to talk smack but gets shut down by Amy saying, "we're gonna pitch slap you so hard your man boobs are gonna concave". He just looks unsure of how to respond to that and we spend the rest of the ride trying our best to ignore the other group. Jesse keeps trying to get Beca's attention but she just keeps rolling her eyes and playing a game on her phone while I watch her.
Once we get there and go our separate ways things get a little less tense and we start getting ready for the competition. We are one of the last two groups with the Trebles as the only ones after us. After sitting through the rest of the groups we head to the side wings to get ready while a group called the Footnotes. We are all wondering where this group came from and I can actually hear one of the announcers for the competitions radio station saying that the lead singer sounds like his balls haven't dropped yet. This causes me to laugh but I can't help but agree with that as his voice is too squeaky still.
Once they are done and we go on we start our same old boring setlist again which causes most of the crowd to zone out. I can see Beca watching the judges intently and I notice they are totally disinterested in our number. As we are going through the routine Beca glances at me apologetically before she sings 'Bulletproof' while we sing 'The Sign'. I am not honestly that surprised she did that as it is part of her mix for this setlist but she is getting a lot of glares from Aubrey, I would join her if I didn't have to do background vocals for the other song. Beca continues singing the song while we finish and you can just see Aubrey seething with rage while trying to hide it.
Beca leads us off the stage at a fast pace with the rest of us trying to catch up and Aubrey trying to push her way to the front. I can tell whatever is about to happen is going to end badly but as I go to follow I knock into someone else and end up causing them to drop their papers and stuff all over the place. I stop to help them and look up to see the rest of the girls have left me behind so I just keep helping the girl with all the stuff she dropped. I was going to try to tune my wolf hearing into the group to find out what is happening but the girl keeps apologizing profusely and I am trying to talk her down which is taking all my attention.
As I finally find the girls I hear Aubrey finishing a rant at Beca saying, "... you are a grade a pain in my ass. And I know your hooking up with Jesse". I am about to cut in when Jesse steps up and tries to say that they aren't. Jesse's interruption just pisses Beca off even more and she snaps at him saying, "Oh my god. Of course you're here right now! Look dude I don't need your help. So could you just back off!?". Before anyone can react to that Benji cuts in telling the Trebles their time for performing is up. As the trebles walk away Beca says, "you know if this is what I get for trying" before scoffing and walking away, I am about to follow after her but Benji does it and she says in a voice only my wolf hearing can pick up "Stace I'm just gonna head to the bus to calm down I will see you in a few minutes".
Once she is out of sight I turn to the group and say, "What the hell just happened? I get held up for two minutes and when I come back Beca is pissed. What the fuck guys". The girls have the decency to look shameful but Aubrey starts saying some shit about how Beca ruined our chances and she knew she shouldn't have let her in the group. She says this and then she walks away and I turn to Amy and lily to find out what happened, and once she tells me I am even more mad than I already was. All Beca wanted to do was help our chances but it doesn't seem to have worked out like that. Once I have the whole story I tell Lily and Amy to follow me to Beca and tell the rest of the girls to give us some space.
The three of us soon find her outside pacing in front of the bus angrily while cursing to herself in several different languages. She tends to do this when she is mad, for some reason the cussing in several languages seems to calm her but she also does it out of habit because she couldn't cuss in english in front of her mother. She soon notices us and stops her pacing and smiles at us sheepishly before saying, "I'm sorry. I just people were falling asleep and I had to do something". We assured her that it was fine and we were just surprised because it wasn't expected. The four of us decide to get a cab back to campus and we send a message to the rest of the girls telling them we were doing that to get some space from all the tension.
We got a cab and just went to campus so we can get Beca's jeep and also so Lily and Amy can get their luggage from their dorms, before heading to the house. We decided a few weeks ago that Amy and Lily were going to come home with Beca and I for spring break because they want to meet our parents and neither of them can afford to go home for the week. Once we get to the house we make some dinner and then we take turns showering before going to bed. We have to leave early tomorrow to make the drive up to Maine before the day is done. We are all packed and prepared and we have an alarm set for like 4:30 tomorrow morning to get up and hit the road.
The next day the drive to Maine is hilarious, we rock out to different songs and play games. We even got Amy to play Never Have I Ever which she had never heard of, instead of drinking alcohol to signal having done something we had to eat a jelly bean. By the end of it Amy had a bad stomach ache from all of the jelly beans she had to eat and she was already planning to play it at a party with alcohol. We are staying at Beca's parents house because it is bigger than my parents house and has more guest rooms. When we get to her house it is like 9:30pm and we are all tired and hungry. Her parents come out to greet us and we go inside and eat a small meal while catching up a bit. Her parents then let us go to bed and we get the girls settled in their rooms before heading to Beca's old room which has become our room whenever we stay with her parents.
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One Week Later:
Beca's POV:
Spring break with Amy and Lily was so much fun and interesting. My parents love them both and find them hilarious and we had a lot of fun times. We had to tell the girls about the werewolf thing when Beca's mom sort of revealed us by accident on the second day. You see Lily is still very quiet around people she doesn't know and so while we were having breakfast with both sets of parents she was back to her near whisper talk. My mom was on the other end of the table and so she shouldn't have been able to hear what was said but when Lily cracked a joke about Aubrey being an 'Aca-nazi with a stick up her ass' my mom lost it in laughter. When she was asked about what was funny she repeated what Lily said and the girls were confused as to how she possibly heard that. Surprisingly enough they both took it very well and Amy even admitted to already having suspected that the supernatural was real. Lily was absolutely fascinated about all of it and asked if we would consider letting her join my pack either as an honorary human member or by changing her.
We told her to really think about her options and to get back to us at the end of the week once she had truly processed all of it. During the week we showed them around town to all our old haunts and even went camping at the lake. When we were swimming at the lake the girls saw our matching tattoos for the first time and they thought they were awesome and cheesy. Lily mentioned having always wanted one but being too afraid of needles. I was already planning on getting another tattoo so we decided we should have Lily watch it happen to show her it wasn't that bad. Needless to say we were all proved extremely wrong because she watched me getting the tattoo for like five seconds before passing out.
The rest of the week went by pretty quickly and soon enough we were leaving to head back to Barden. We left on Saturday very early so we could get there later that night and spend all of Sunday sleeping before classes on Monday. While we were driving Lily, Amy, and Stacie got a text from Aubrey saying that we were back in the finals for the ICCAs because the lead singer of the Footnotes who previously beat us was still in highschool so they were disqualified. I did not get a text from Aubrey but she did get one from Chloe telling her that she was still welcome if she wanted. The four of us talked it over and decided that I would come to the second half of practice so that we could see everyone else's reaction to her not being there and so that she could see what Aubrey had to say.
Needless to say the next practice was a disaster because not even an hour into it Stacie was already texting me to come by earlier than expected because things were not going well. When I got there Stacie was blowing her rape whistle while CR was grabbing her butt, which made my wolf release a low rummbing growl. Lily was doing a snow angel in what looked and smelled like a giant pool of vomit. Fat Amy, Chloe, and Aubrey were screaming and wrestling on the ground, and Jessica, Ashley, and Denise were all cowering in a corner. Once I screamed at them asking what the hell was happening Aubrey got up and started to say that I couldn't be there because this was a Bellas practice. So I did what she made the girl who she kicked off on the first day do, I started to drag a chair towards the exit to symbolize my loss of place on the team. Luckily before I made it to the exit Aubrey called out for me to wait which to which I responded, "Thank you that would have been embarrassing".
Aubrey then told us that she was sorry she had been so hard on us but she was doing what her dad taught her growing up. This caused me to realize that other than Stacie, Lily, and Amy I didn't know much about any of the Bellas at all. I brought this up and we all decided to share something with the group that the others may not have known. Stacie decided to start us off and said, "I have a lot of sex", causing most of the Bellas to say that they knew that. Stacie rolled her eyes and said, "Let me finish. I have a lot of sex with the person I have been in a relationship with for over 2 and a half years". She finishes this off smirking at some of the Bellas who look sheepish because they thought she slept around a lot.
As we continued going around we learned that Jessica was related to Benji, they were third cousins or something. Ashley is the youngest of five and the only girl. Denise was homeschooled until she was in her junior year of high school. Lily ate her twin in the womb. Fat Amy's real name is Fat Patricia. CR has a gambling problem that started after she broke up with her girlfriend. We found out that Aubrey's dad is an even bigger dictator than her and that she does occasionally know how to have fun. I told everyone that I was fluent in several languages, and that this was the most friends I've ever had. Lastly Chloe shocked us all when she revealed that she had surgery to remove her nodes and that she may never sing the same again.
This caused a lot of tears and condolences all around and eventually Aubrey stood up and asked me what we needed to do to fix this, while throwing me the pitch pipe thus making me captain of the Bellas. The first thing I did after catching the pitch pipe was send everyone home to clean up and to meet up in an hour at the pool where we had the riff off. Stacie and I went to get dinner before meeting everyone at the pool and thankfully they had all either just gotten a coat for the cold or showered away the vomit. When we got to the pool I had Aubrey choose a song and we started to figure out how to sing the acapella version of it. Finally we ended up with an awesome mashup of 'Just the Way You Are' and 'Just a Dream'. We also learned that with Chloe's messed up vocal chords she could hit the base notes now.
Over the next few weeks we came up with an amazing new routine with new choreography and a mashup of six different songs. I had the girls give me a list of songs and I figured out a way to mix some of them together to make an awesome track for us to which Stacie helped Chloe and Aubrey come up with new choreography for it. In the end the six songs we ended up with were 'Price Tag' by Jesse J, 'Don't You (Forget About Me)' by Simple Minds, 'Just the Way You Are' by Bruno Mars, 'Give Me Everything' by Pitbull, 'Party in the U.S.A.' by Miley Cyrus, and 'Turn The Beat Around' by Vicki Sue Robinson. The first time I played the finished mashup to the Bellas they were all blown away and in awe of how well it all came together, Aubrey even apologized to me for not listening to me sooner about all this because it could have helped.
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Day Of Finals
Beca's POV:
The ICCAs are in New York just like they always were so rather than driving we all bought our own plane tickets so we weren't stuck on a bus for days together. We got there the day before the competition and just hung out in the hotel with four girls to a room. Stacie, Lily, Amy, and I got to room together and so Stacie and I could be ourselves completely in our room. We have a bet going with the four of us as to when the rest of the Bellas will finally figure out that Stacie and I are dating. Stacie thinks it will next week. Lily thinks it won't be until next year. Amy thinks they already know. And I think it will take a blatantly obvious event like seeing us kiss before they get it.
That night we had dinner with Stacie and I's parents because they flew down for the competition. We all joked around and stuff and the rents even got in on our bet with the dads agreeing with me and the moms agreeing with Stacie. But they said that if either of us were wrong they felt Lily was closer in her guess than Amy, to which Amy pouted but conceded that they were likely right. All in all we had a nice dinner and then the four of us went back up to our room so we could get some sleep before the mandatory practice Aubrey was calling before the competition tomorrow.
The next morning we got up early and had breakfast with the rest of the Bellas before heading to a practice space in the hotel gym to rehearse before tonight. Once we went through the routine a few times we decided to watch movies for a while in Aubrey and Chloe's room before getting ready and heading over to the competition. Of course Stacie and I were cuddling the entire time we watched movies and still no one noticed it at all which got a few chuckles from Amy and Lily. Finally it was time to go to our rooms and get changed for tonight before heading over.
I was thankfully able to convince Aubrey to let us not wear the flight attendant uniforms and instead we all got to wear what we wanted with the colors of yellow, navy blue, black, and white as the theme for the outfits and we all still had to wear the bella scarf. I wore some black skinny jeans, my Vans Stacie got me for christmas, a black tank top, and a navy blue button up that was only half buttoned, I also had my scarf tied around my wrist. Stacie was wearing some black short shorts, a black tank top, and a white button up that was tied around her midsection, with her scarf tied around her ankle, and her black Vans that were platformed like they were high heels. Amy wore a black shirt and black pants with her shoes and her scarf like mine. Lily wore a yellow tank top, some black pants, and her sneakers, and her scarf in her pocket since she was going to tie it around her microphone. We all had our hair half up and half down.
As we were getting dressed I realized I had forgotten my compression shorts so I was really glad I wore the somewhat tight jeans that would hold my shit in place. When I said this to Stacie she absolutely lost it just flailing around in laughter and drew the attention of the others. I was about to make up something when Stacie in her flailing laughter accidentally punched me in the balls causing me to fall to the ground cupping myself, Stacie stopped laughing immediately and started to apologize profusely. While I was pulling myself together on the ground I nodded to Stacie and she explained my condition to Amy and Lily. needless to say that they were both supportive and once Stacie had told them what I had said they too lost it in laughter.
Later that night after watching a bunch of other mediocre groups perform we were waiting in the wings while the Trebles performed before it was our turn. The Trebles were there without Bumper who moved to LA to sing in the big leagues or something. They did a really good mashup of 'Bright Lights, Bigger City' by Cee Lo Green, and 'Magic' by B.O.B. with Benji as a new member to replace Bumper. While they were clearing the stage I started to give everyone a pep talk and started off by saying, "I love you awesome nerds", to which I was then cut off by Amy who finished the pep talk. As we walked out I heard the crowd murmuring about the change in both leadership and outfits and they all seemed intrigued which was very good.
I counted us in before blowing the pitch pipe and we started off with Aubrey and Chloe singing the beginning of Price Tag. we slowly built up to Lily's amazing beatboxing and went into the rest of the song with many base notes for Chloe to hit. We were dancing the whole time and you could tell we were having so much more fun with this than any of our past performances. CR totally wowed the crowd with her rapping and we had many ranges of ages in the audience happy with our song choices. The audience really liked our conga line thing while I was singing Don't You, and I was looking at my mom while singing it because The Breakfast Club is her favorite movie.
My mom and several others got the movie reference and raised a fist in the air like the ending scene just before we did it in our choreography. Stacie and I were paired together for the sexy dancing where she pretended to grind on me. Throughout everything Lily was absolutely killing it with the beatboxing and everyone was loving everything. After Amy's solo and a sort of ending sequence where each song was referenced again we finished off to the crowd going absolutely berzerk in applause. We were all panting and smiling like crazy as we walked off the stage handing our mics to a stagehand as we went down the stairs. We walked to our seats and ended up in front of the Trebles, and I ended up in front of Jesse with Stacie next to me.
dJesse kept trying to talk to me and saying stuff about how I proved my love to him because I sang his favorite song from his favorite movie. Donald was sitting next to him and was looking at him like he was crazy as were Stacie and I. I told him that someone else suggested that song and that I chose to sing it because it was from my moms favorite movie and that I didn't sing to him but rather to my mom who was a few rows behind him. He started to say I was wrong so I cut him off and said, "dude for like the hundredth time, we are never gonna happen. I am very gay and also in a relationship. I have told you this many times before. Seriously dude leave me the hell alone". Donald and some of the other boys heard me as did Aubrey and Chloe so while Stacie held my hand to calm me down the Trebles worked to get him away from me.
While all of this was happening the judges decided the winners and were about to announce who was in third place. Before they told us which group was in third Aubrey turned to me and said, "I am sorry I gave you so much shit about Jesse. I honestly didn't know you were gay or that he was basically stalking you". I told her it was okay and we listened to the judges tell us that some random group from Ohio was in third place. Up next they told us who was in second place and it ended up being the Treblemakers much to their chagrin. I mean they were happy to have placed but were sad they didn't win like they thought they would.
We all listened with rapt attention as the judges announced that the winners for this year's ICCA championships were … "The Barden Bellas!". We all jumped up and screamed in excitement before moving to the stage to accept our trophy. While we were walking up to get it, 'We Are the Champions' by Queen started playing over the speakers in the arena. When we got up there and accepted our trophy the crowd went absolutely wild and I could hear my mom screaming something about how proud she was of her baby. As we were all hugging each other in congratulations I sort of forgot where we were and when it was my turn to hug Stacie I pulled her into a deep kiss causing the Bellas to gasp around us in shock.
We pulled apart and giggled at their reaction before we headed off the stage towards the lobby. Once we got out there the Bellas minus Lily and Amy rounded on Stacie and I and said, "When the hell were you gonna tell us!?". This caused the four of us to crack up at them and it took us several minutes to calm down all the while they were glaring at us waiting for us to explain. Lily started off saying, "How the hell did it take this long for you to figure this out? I had suspected something from the beginning and have known for sure since the Riff Off". Amy agreed with her in her askance of how they never noticed and then told them that she had found out a few weeks after Lily did.
The Bellas then looked to Stacie and I so we explained to them how we had met in high school and how we had gotten together a few months later and been together ever since. We also told them that our parents had been super supportive and bought us our house. The reference to living together caused a lot of them to groan in realization that we were not just roommates. By this point Stacie and I's parents had found us and were listening in on the explanation and when we were done my mom cut in and said, "God they have been absolutely sickeningly adorable together since the beginning". This caused Stacie and I to blush and the Bellas and our moms to awe at us before laughing. Then my dad said, "Wait so the kiss on stage means that Beca won the bet on when they would figure out you both were together right? So how much money did she just win?". The Bellas asked us what the bet was and when we explained they pouted at us and then Chloe asked, "I gotta know now. How much did you win Beca?". I smirked at them all and said, "well with the money from Amy, Lily, Mom, Dad, Mama C, Papa C, and Stacie that makes about $350". This caused some groans from the losers of the bet and a resounding shouted "WHAT?!" from the Bellas.
