Retreat

It's been two weeks, two long weeks of Stacie acting strange and Beca is reaching her breaking point. Two weeks of Stacie being short with her answers or Stacie finding whatever reason to hang out with someone other than the shorter girl. At first Beca was pretty beat up about it but now she's frustrated and ready to explode.

So here we are with all the Bellas at Aubrey's retreat trying to "find their sound" according to Chloe but Beca has a more important issue to attend to. The girls just got finished with yet another stupid team bonding exercise which had Stacie and Beca teamed up. Due to the tension, they have, it led to Beca getting hit in the lip.

"What the fuck Stacie!" Beca exclaimed spitting out blood and bringing her hand up to check on her split lip. She brought her hand down and saw the blood.

"Oh my god I'm sorry Beca." Stacie said quickly going to check on her.

Beca just stepped back and swatted her hands away "Seriously what the fuck is your problem?" Beca asked angrily.

Stacie looked at her in shock "What are you talking about? I didn't mean for you to get hurt."

By this point all the Bellas were looking on awkwardly not really knowing what to do but knowing this was long overdue.

"I'm not talking about my lip Stacie. I'm talking about the last couple of weeks. What in the fuck has been your problem with me?" Beca asked.

Stacie stood there for a second not wanting to get into this in front of everyone or while Beca was angry.

"Can we please not do this now." Stacie asked pleadingly.

Beca scoffed "Trying to avoid talking to me again? Just like you've been doing for the past two weeks. I thought I was supposed to be your best friend." Beca said letting all her frustration out.

"I'm not trying to avoid this Beca. And that's not fair, you know you're my best friend and how much this means to me." Stacie said pointing in between them.

"It hasn't seemed like that the last couple of weeks." Beca said as she wiped more blood from her mouth.

"I'm sorry ok, I've just had some things I needed to sort through." Stacie said.

"Exactly, if I'm your best friend then why couldn't you talk to me!?" Beca exclaimed.

"Should we give them some privacy?" Emily asked the other girls.

Aubrey nodded "Girls let's go to the picnic benches."

The girls all followed Aubrey back towards the benches near the tents.

"I'm sorry alright." Stacie said softly.

"Make me understand then because from where I'm standing, it seems like I did something." Beca said.

"No please don't think that I promise it isn't you. Well maybe not entirely." Stacie said.

"What do you mean?" Beca pressed.

Stacie knew Beca wouldn't stop pressing her for information, so she just let it all out.

"I love you!" Stacie shouted.

This stunned Beca momentarily.

"I love you ok. There." Stacie said.

"What?" Beca asked shocked.

"I love you Beca. It's been something I've dealt with since we were freshmen, but it never seemed like the right time to tell you." Stacie admitted.

"Ok but what does this have to do with how you've been acting the last few weeks?" Beca asked.

"Kommissar." Stacie said a bit ashamed.

"I'm sorry? What does she have to do with anything?" Beca asked confused.

"The way she talks to you and how flustered you get around her. She just rubs me the wrong way. I don't like her." Stacie answered.

Beca let out a chuckle "Are you jealous? Is that it?" Beca asked amused.

Stacie huffed "No."

Beca chuckled and raised her eyebrows "Right of course not."

The two didn't speak for a few moments until Beca spoke up.

"Why did you act like this though? I mean your usually so open and always talking about your relationships." Beca asked.

Stacie looked down before looking up and letting out a shaky breath.

"I know and I only acted like that because I didn't know how to tell you and for the first time ever, I was afraid to tell someone how I really felt." Stacie said.

Beca felt for her best friend because that was something she could relate to.

"I get that, if anyone can relate to that it's me. But you should know by now that you can talk to me about anything Stace. Even something like this, I would have listened and talked to you. You don't have to shut me out." Beca said approaching the taller girl.

"I know Beca. I just didn't want to say something and make things awkward." Stacie said.

Beca laughed "More awkward than I am?"

Stacie cracked a small smile "You may be awkward but that never affects us."

"Still." Beca shrugged.

"I'm sorry." Stacie said quietly.

Beca nodded and placed her hands on the other girl's arms "I know and it's ok. Despite my busted lip, I forgive you." Beca joked.

"I'm so sorry about that." Stacie said as she carefully brought her thumb up to the lip and ran it across it "Does it hurt?"

Beca smiled "Not anymore."

Stacie sighed in relief "I'm glad."

"I would kiss you, but I doubt you'd want to taste blood. Unless you're into that." Beca joked.

"That wouldn't bother me." Stacie smiled.

"Good because I really want to kiss you." Beca said softly looking up at her.

Stacie nodded and smiled as she slowly leaned forward and captured Beca's lips carefully as she didn't want to aggravate them.

When they broke apart, they stared at one another smiling.

"We good?" Beca asked.

"Perfect." Stacie answered.