Aubrey opened her purse to find a small giftwrapped box. She frowned, sitting down and looking around the rehearsal space. Most of the girls had already left, and the rest were on their way out. No one looked like they were lingering, and she hadn't seen anyone go near her things. Whoever her Secret Santa was, they were taking the secret part to heart.

She sat down, taking out the box and studying it. It wasn't very big or heavy, the paper was standard Christmas wrapping paper: green with little candy canes. She picked off the edge of the tape holding down one of the corners, biting her lip and peeling it off. She removed the paper carefully, smiling when she saw the chocolate box inside.

She lifted the small card with her name on it that was taped to the top, her brow furrowing confused when she read it.

Chocolate is supposed to be good for studying and I know these are your favorite.
Good luck on your finals!
-Your secret Santa ;)

She didn't think anyone knew these were her favorite chocolate, and they didn't sell them in Atlanta so she could only have them when she went back home during breaks. She'd never brought any with her, and she didn't remember mentioning them to anyone, maybe just to Chloe. Maybe Chloe told whoever left these for her, or maybe they were from Chloe.

Aubrey looked at the card again. It didn't look like Chloe's handwriting but maybe she'd gotten someone else to write the card for her. It would totally be a thing Chloe would do to throw her off. Aubrey smiled and shrugged, she'd find out soon enough.

She put the box back in her bag and left. She really did have to study for her finals and she had to go home to pick up her books before going to the library.

A while later, she was dropping her books on her favorite library table.

"What took you so long?" Stacie asked, barely looking up from her book.

"I got distracted." Aubrey sat down, barely containing the urge to sigh at the sight in front of her. Stacie looked adorable all focused on her book with a crease between her eyebrows and the tip of her tongue peeking out between her lips. Not to mention how hot she looked with her glasses on.

She finished taking out her books, hesitating before taking out the box of chocolate. "Do you want some chocolate?"

"Sure." Stacie looked up smiling fleetingly at her and grabbing a piece. She popped it in her mouth, humming approvingly. "These are good, where did you get them?"

"My secret Santa."

Stacie snorted. "Well your secret Santa is way better than mine. All I've gotten so far is a candy cane, and it was tiny."

Aubrey looked at Stacie, trying to suss out if Stacie knew anything about it but she had gone back to reading her book. Aubrey guessed Stacie being her secret Santa would have been too good.

Don't lose these.
-Merry Xmas xo

Aubrey frowned looking at the gloves she found in the pocket of her jacket after rehearsal. She had lost one of her gloves a few days prior and she had told Chloe about it before rehearsal started. She figured any of the other girls who were there already could have heard her.

She tried on the gloves. They were really soft and they fit perfectly. They certainly didn't look cheap.

She walked over to where Chloe was standing waiting for her. "Are you my secret Santa?"

Chloe scoffed. "That's not how this works."

"Chloe," Aubrey protested.

"Did you like your gift?" Aubrey frowned. "I want the credit if you did and nothing to do with it if you didn't."

"You're the worst." Aubrey groaned. "Let's go."

"So what did you get?"

Aubrey didn't know whether or not to buy Chloe's innocent act. "Chocolates, those fancy lozenges I like, and these gloves."

Aubrey held out her hand and Chloe touched it. "Oh these are nice. Whoever got them for you must really like you."

"Well that rules out Beca." Aubrey grumbled. "Do you wanna go to the mall? I need to get my present."

"Sure, what are you getting?"

"I'm not telling you, what if it's for you?"

"Ooh can I pick it?" Chloe asked with a huge grin.

"No."

Aubrey dragged Chloe around the mall for a while. Chloe was happy enough to do it, except shopping for Christmas presents had left her with almost no money so she couldn't buy anything which made it less fun. Aubrey finally decided on a gift and was trying to come up with a way to ditch Chloe even though she wasn't her secret Santa, just to keep up appearances, when she spotted someone familiar.

She grabbed Chloe's arm and pulled her behind a column. "Is that Jessica?"

Chloe peeked from behind the column. "And Ashley."

"Do you think they're getting their secret Santa gifts?"

Chloe nodded. "Maybe it's for us? We should follow them."

"That feels wrong." Chloe arched her eyebrows. "Okay, just for a bit."

They followed them to a store where they stopped at a rack with scarves.

"That's the same color as your gloves." Chloe whispered. "Maybe one of them's your secret Santa."

"Maybe." Aubrey didn't think either of them particularly liked her, at least not enough to go through all this trouble. "We should go before they see us."

Unsurprisingly, she found a package with the scarf outside her door the next day. She smiled sadly, she had still hoped that Stacie was her secret Santa, that she had been the one to pay attention to her favorite things and her lack of glove. Now that she knew it was either Jessica or Ashley, while extremely thoughtful, the gifts seemed rather odd. Especially the request on the card to wear the scarf to their Christmas party.

Aubrey shrugged and put it on. The party was at their rehearsal space, the girls had told Chloe and her that they'd handle all the preparations this time. Aubrey wasn't very confident on their ability to plan anything, so she was pleasantly surprised when she arrived and the place was covered in Christmas decorations and Beca was DJing next to what looked like the result of a liquor store raid.

Stacie skipped over to her as soon as she spotted her and pulled her behind the bleachers. "You're here."

Aubrey chuckled nervously, her heart speeding up at Stacie's proximity. "Yes. What's up."

Stacie bit her lip and her eyes shifted away from Aubrey's for a second. She raised her arms above Aubrey's head and pulled a hat on her. "Merry Christmas."

"What-" Aubrey shook her head and reached up to take off the hat and look at it. It was the same color as the scarf and the gloves. "You?"

"I know we were supposed to wait until the final gift exchange to reveal ourselves but you looked really cute with the scarf and the gloves and I couldn't wait."

Aubrey shook her head. "But I thought-" She narrowed her eyes. "I saw Jessica and Ashley getting the scarf."

"I had a final yesterday so I asked them to pick it up." Stacie smirked.

"How did you know about the chocolate?"

Stacie mumbled unintelligibly and scratched the back of her neck.

"What?"

Stacie sighed. "I asked your sister. She sent them to me, she said you loved them." Stacie hurried to explain herself when Aubrey frowned confused. "I wanted to give you something special so I got your sister's number from Chloe and then I had to bribe Ashley to trade her name with me."

"Why?" Aubrey tilted her head.

Stacie chuckled. "Because I like you?"

"You like me?"

Stacie had barely nodded when Aubrey threw her arms around her neck and kissed her. Stacie responded, holding Aubrey's waist mostly to hold herself steady while the shock wore off.

Aubrey pulled back after a few seconds. "I'm sorry, I just-"

Stacie shook her head and leaned forward again. "Don't be."