A/N: Alright, the story is pretty much back to a T rating from this point on (at least I don't have any plans for another M chapter). I think there may only be one more chapter in this one, we'll see.
Remix-this: I told you we'd have a talk before this chapter. Thanks for giving away plot points in your reviews, I've been planning that for over 3 chapters now. :P Hopefully I've added enough of a twist on it to keep it a little fresh though.
Notice: PP and PP2 belong to others, not me, not ever so don't even think about it (whatever that means).
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Beca woke up in the morning to find herself spooned around Stacie. She smiled as she breathed in the scent of her hair, she could get used to waking up like this. Her movements must have woken the other girl because she turned in Beca's arms and gave her a long kiss, "Morning baby, did you sleep well?"
Beca kissed her nose, "I haven't slept that well in a long time."
Stacie smiled, cuddling into the smaller girl, her head against her bare chest, "Good, me too."
The two girls lay like that for a few minutes before Beca started squirming a bit. Finally she pushed Stacie a little, "Up baby, I've gotta pee."
Stacie laughed, "Thank God, so do I. I just didn't want to be the one to get up first."
Beca walked over to her dresser pulling out two long t-shirt pajamas. She tossed one to Stacie as she slipped the other one on. She laughed as she looked at her girlfriend. The shirt that went to below mid-thigh on her barely covered anything on the taller girl, "Damn you look hot in my clothes. Meet you in the kitchen? First one there starts the coffee."
Stacie nodded as she headed to 'her' bathroom while Beca went to the one just outside her room. Beca went through her morning routine; washing last night's make-up off, brushing her teeth, running a brush through her hair. She was a little surprised that she beat Stacie down to the kitchen. She started the coffee brewing and then sat at the table, putting her head down in her hands. She didn't get up when her girlfriend came in, so Stacie walked over and gave her a small kiss on the back of her neck. She walked over and grabbed two mugs and filled them with coffee, bringing them back to the table. She set one down in front of Beca as she sat down next to her.
Beca sat up as she smelled the coffee next to her. She took the cup and sipped the hot liquid. Without looking she reached over and took Stacie's hand in hers. When the taller girl laced their fingers together, Beca smiled. Stacie pulled their linked hands up to her mouth, kissing the back of Beca's hand, whispering, "Thank you Beca."
Beca took a small sip before turning to her girlfriend, "For what?"
Stacie shrugged, "For last night. For being patient with me. For understanding. For being you. Take your pick."
Beca used their linked hand to pull the other girl to her, giving her a soft kiss, "Well if we are thanking each other, then thank you."
Stacie gave her a puzzled look, "For what?"
Beca smirked, "Let's just say I couldn't feel my toes for five minutes after you were done with me last night."
Stacie pulled her back in for another kiss, this one deeper. As she pulled back to catch her breath, Stacie tried to give Beca one of her own smirks, "Only five minutes, I can do better than that."
Beca set her mug on the table and stood up. Still holding Stacie's hand, she started walking out of the room, pulling Stacie up from her chair in the process. Stacie laughed, "Where are we going?"
Beca just looked back over her shoulder as she walked, "To let you try to beat five minutes." And damn if Stacie didn't try to beat it.
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The girls spent the 29th just enjoying each other. The spent part of the time in the bedroom, slowly exploring each other's bodies and they spent the rest of the time on the couch, cuddling, talking, and binge watching Netflix while eating popcorn. They talked about telling the Bellas and decided to do it on the 2nd. They figured everyone was going to be too hungover on the 1st to pay attention to anything, so the 2nd it was.
They spent their last night alone reveling in each other's bodies. While their love making the previous day and night had been almost desperate, tonight they took their time, making slow, passionate love, drawing the experience out. Wanting the other to feel every breath, every touch, every soft caress, every kiss. They knew that they wouldn't be alone like this for a while, so they took advantage of it.
They woke early the next morning, much to Beca's dismay. But it wouldn't be good for one of the girls to come in and find the two of them laying in Beca's bed wrapped naked around each other. Stacie unwrapped herself from Beca, who lay there with the most adorable pout, "Do we have to get up? Just five more minutes, pleeeease."
Stacie sighed as she pulled the smaller girl's arms back around her, snuggling back into her warm embrace, "Fine, five more minutes. You're lucky you're cute Mitchell." Beca kissed the top of her head as she wrapped her arms more firmly around her girlfriend thinking she might be more convincing if she wasn't grinning from ear to ear
The two girls finally drug themselves out of bed and Beca started coffee before jumping through the shower. The two girls were dressed, ready and working on their second cup of coffee when Jessica and Ashley arrived back at the house. After that, there wasn't much time for them to be alone with everyone catching up as they arrived. Chloe was the last to arrive back at the house, getting in just after noon on the 31st. When she got through the door, the first thing she did was drop her bags and run to Beca to pull her into a hug. Beca returned the hug but noticed a frown cross her girlfriend's face as she did. She made a note to herself to talk to Stacie about it and remind her that she had nothing to worry about, Beca wasn't going anywhere.
The girls spent the next couple of hours listening to Chloe talk about her break and then she wanted to hear about everyone else's. Because they all wanted to spend some time together, they decided to actually cook dinner instead of ordering in. The kitchen was organized chaos as the girls went about their chores, some cooking, some washing dishes as they were used and others getting the table ready. When it was finished, the girls all sat around the table smiling at each other while they ate. They were all happy to be back together.
After cleaning up the dinner dishes, the Bellas started to get ready for the evening. With only three bathrooms and nine girls, it took a bit of time and organization to get everyone ready in a reasonable amount of time. They met in the living room as everyone finished up. Surprisingly, they actually had fifteen minutes to spare before the Treble's party started. So Amy decided they should start a bit early and toast the New Year by themselves. She pulled out a bottle of whiskey and poured shots for everyone. They held up their glasses as Beca made a toast, "To a New Year full of good friends, good surprises, and happy memories." The girls lifted their glasses and downed their shots, laughing and hugging one another.
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Cynthia Rose was doing one of her favorite things, watching Stacie. She knew she shouldn't be, what with her and Denise starting to talk about possibly giving themselves a second chance. But Stacie was her kryptonite because 'Damn' that girl was hot. Almost immediately upon getting to the party Cynthia Rose noticed a change in Stacie. She was walking around with more confidence, although it was subtle, and it made her even sexier. Everyone might say she was confident before, but it was almost an overcompensating, in your face, confidence. This wasn't that, this was an 'I'm sure about myself and I don't have anything to prove' confidence and damn if it didn't suit her. Cynthia Rose noticed one other thing about Stacie that evening, she didn't really even acknowledge any of the guys trying to hit on her. She just kind of kept to herself or would hang out with the two captains.
Chloe was getting nervous. She had been trying to monopolize Beca the entire evening, and she had pretty much succeeded, except that Beca seemed distracted. She didn't exactly pull away from Chloe, but she didn't melt into the hugs or hold hands like she usually did. That made her nervous because she was going to kiss Beca at midnight to see if there were any sparks between them. They were so close, even closer than even her and Bree were. But she didn't know if that translated into something more. Sometimes she thought it might, but at other times she thought that they were just really good friends. Well tonight she wanted to find out if there might be something more between them because she didn't want to wake up in ten years regretting that she never took the chance to find out. Now, Cynthia Rose was having similar thoughts as Chloe, New Years is a perfect time to kiss someone without any real repercussions.
Someone called out 'One minute to midnight," and Stacie looked across the room at her girlfriend, wishing she could kiss her at the stroke of midnight. Then she looked next to Beca and saw Chloe standing there biting her lower lip looking at Beca. Stacie thought, "Oh hell no, she isn't going to kiss Beca at midnight," and started across the crowded room.
So that's how they found themselves at the stroke of midnight. Chloe turned to Beca right as Stacie walked up and wrapped her arms around her girlfriend, pulling her in for a deep kiss. Beca was taken by surprise, but quickly melted into the kiss. When they finally broke for air, Beca looked up at Stacie, "I thought we were going to wait until the New Year to let everyone know."
Stacie smirked at the smaller girl, "Technically it is the New Year."
The other two girls were having completely different reactions, although they stared out looking the same. Both girls' mouths were agape as Stacie pulled Beca in for a kiss. Cynthia Rose then got a big grin on her face before a look of panic appeared. Chloe on the other hand, looked completely shocked. As the kiss ended, Beca heard two things simultaneously.
From Cynthia Rose, "Oh shit Cap, I had no idea. I'm sorry about the other day if I would have known I never would have done that."
From Chloe, "I need some air," her voice sounding like she was about to break down.
As Chloe rushed from the room, Beca turned to Cynthia Rose holding out her hand with her index finger up, "Hold that thought for a minute." She then leaned in and quickly kissed Stacie, "I've got to go after her." As she turned and headed towards the door Chloe had left through she looked back, "And there's no need to be jealous of anything, I love you Stacie Conrad." And then she was gone, leaving a very speechless Stacie behind.
Beca found Chloe sitting on the front steps, crying. Beca sat down next to her and took her hand, just holding it as the redhead cried. Chloe finally looked over at her, "I was going to kiss you tonight, you know?"
Beca turned to her, wiping a tear off of her cheek with her thumb, "Why were you going to kiss me tonight Chlo?"
Chloe shrugged with a sad look on her face, "I don't know, because maybe I wanted to see if there was some kind of spark between us."
Beca smirked, "Sweetie, don't you think we would have known about a spark back in my Freshman year when you walked into my shower, naked?"
That got a small laugh out of the older girl, "Well maybe, but we've gotten so much closer since then. You're my best friend and I feel so much around you, I just didn't want to wake up in ten years and regret not knowing."
Beca pulled Chloe into a hug, "You will always be my best friend Chlo, I love you more than words can say. But I'm not in love with you. I'm sorry."
Chloe held onto Beca. At least now she knew if there was anything between them or not. It did still hurt a little, but she knew she wasn't truly in love with the smaller girl, but she had kind of hoped. So speaking in a soft voice she asked, "Do you love Stacie?"
Beca rested her cheek against the top of Chloe's head, "Yah, I do love her Chloe."
Chloe suddenly pushed back from Beca and slapped her arm, "And I'm just finding out about this now? Some best friend you are. Why didn't you tell me?"
Beca looked at the redhead with a bit of shock, "Ummm, we didn't tell anyone because we wanted to see where it was going to go first. We were going to tell everyone tomorrow, I promise."
Chloe smiled at her, "So how long have you guys been dating?"
Beca pulled Chloe's hand into hers, "A couple of months now and it's been awesome. But it has kinda sucked having to keep it from the Bellas."
Chloe smiled at her best friend and then used her hands to shoo her away, "We can talk about this tomorrow, and yes we are going to talk about it because you are going to tell me all of the details. But now you need to go find your girlfriend and bring in the New Year properly."
Beca pulled Chloe in for a quick hug before shooting to her feet and running back into the house. She stopped in the doorway to the main room, scanning the room for Stacie. She was still with Cynthia Rose in the same spot she had left her. Beca strode across the room, ducking around people. She finally reached the two girls and as she walked up Cynthia Rose stood there with her hands clasped in front of her as she looked at her feet and started apologizing again. Beca simply placed her hand on Cynthia Rose's causing the other girl to stop talking and look at her. Beca smiled at her, "I know CR, and I'm sorry for snapping at you because you didn't know." She then gave the other girl a smirk, "But you keep your hands off my girlfriend from now on, hear me? I may be small, but I'm deadly."
Cynthia Rose grinned at the smaller girl, "Sure thing Cap."
Beca finally turned to Stacie and pulled her in for another kiss, "Miss me?"
Stacie pressed her forehead against Beca's, nodding, "Is she going to be ok?"
Beca pulled back and smiled, "Yah, she's going to be just fine. It just took her by surprise."
Stacie leaned back against the wall, pulling Beca around to stand next to her with their arms touching, their hands linked. They were both looking out at the crowd and without turning her head Stacie asked, "So, you love me, huh?"
Beca blushed, looking down at her feet like they were the most interesting thing in the world at that moment. After a few seconds she squeezed Stacie's hand, "Yah, I do love you Stacie Conrad. I hope that's ok."
Stacie stepped in front of Beca with a small frown on her face, "No, it's not ok Beca Mitchell." When Beca started to get a panicked look on her face, Stacie leaned down to kiss her. As her head moved down Stacie said in a soft voice, "It's so much better than ok. It's the best thing that's happened to me this year."
Beca couldn't help but sass back after they broke their kiss, "But it's only like 10 minutes into this year."
Stacey groaned, "You're impossible Mitchell, it's a good thing I love you too."
