Chapter 2
Thanks to my Pink Power Ranger beta: blue-wasabi24 for helping me with everything ^_^ Without you I would be doomed :D
Ich liebe dich, Aishiteru, Te amo ~I Love You Girl:)~
"How did she... When... Why.. And how?!" Kommissar slammed the desk with her fist.
"What's wrong?" asked Pieter worriedly.
"Later," said Kommissar looking around, "I will tell you later."
"Ah, it's a secret, ja?" He instantly looked curious.
"I said LATER!" she hissed. With everyone's eyes on her, she continued, "It's more important that we sign the papers, and start working on our performance. Sadly, we've just arrived here." She now said to the Bellas. "We don't know your city. We need to find a studio to practice the choreography."
"Wait, just a second!" said Chloe, "Who said we're gonna join you guys?!"
"Well, if we're gonna be in this thing, we're gonna see this hot chick pretty often," Cynthia Rose said dreamily, still referring to The Revengers leader.
"Okay they're good and they looking amazing but if we work together we can beat them and win the money," said Emily.
"What do you think Beca?" asked Stacie.
Beca mulled it over for a few moments. "If we do this, we risk our jobs and everything we've worked for. I honestly don't know what to do. Let's have a meeting at my place and we can talk about this."
She had mixed emotions: half of her wanted to hate Kommissar, and the other one wanted to jump on her and kiss her senseless. But she needed to act professional, and at the very least she'll try. " Okay, here is the thing: meet us at Sunday afternoon at my place. That's two days from now, so you guys can get comfortable with the time zone change" She said to Kommissar, "Chloe will give you my address. Is 4 pm good?"
Kommissar smiled genuinely. Nothing like the smirks Beca was used to seeing. "Liebling, that would be wonderful; I would love to see your place," She moved closer to Beca and whispered into her ear, "And your bedroom too," Beca face flushed immediately.
"Silly maus," she chuckled at Beca's red face. "You're so cute when you look like that, it's endearing"
John looked at the papers and spoke up, "If you finally decide to pair up, you'll need to know the conditions," And with that he gave Beca the notebook.
"Study it carefully because one bad action will cause disqualification".
"Like what kind of action?" asked Amy.
Beca opened the notebook and read out loud, " If there is any reason to suspect that the two parties are not in a romantic relationship anymore ( be that any viable and legitimate evidence is produced) the group will be investigated and may lead to disqualification."
"Ah so that means you can't cheat. At least no one should know about it," said Cynthia.
Beca closed the notebook loudly and turned to John and Gail. "But you forget that we really not together at all! That was all made up by the press. Who would seriously believe this shit?!" While she said this she took one of the magazines on the table, opened to the first page and showed them. On the page there was a picture of Jesse yelling at her,some pictures of their argument and, of course, her flustered and shocked face right when Jesse yelled that she was with The Kommissar behind his back.
"Well at least everyone knows who you are. Maybe you will get a few new recording jobs," said Amy.
"That is not the point here Amy," said Chloe. She turned to Gail. "Like if the all of us hanging out in the bar and a hot looking guy comes and asks Beca out, would we be disqualified?"
"Well the thing is, it should be seen a romantic relationship. Like if she kisses someone else somewhere and someone takes photos of it, then my answer is yes."
"Oh, so I was right!" yelled Cynthia happily, "You just need to do it the sneaky way."
"That still doesn't answer my question!" Beca started to get angry now. "Why would anyone believe this?"
"Well I guess back at Worlds, none of you read any magazines right?" asked Gail.
" No... we didn't," answered Amy "Why?"
"Well according to last year's sources, many people thought you two," she pointed to Beca and Kommissar, "had something for each other. For example, when you talked with the German team back at the car show, various pictures were taken and it clearly showed you guys checking each other out. We also have some footage recorded of your failed insults."
"What, they spied on us?!" Amy was surprised.
"OMG," said Chloe as she smacked her forehead, "DSM is famous! They were on an advertising car show! Of course the place was packed with people taking photos and videos."
"So basically the past week's news was no surprise to any of us," said Gail.
When Beca turned to face Kommissar, she winked at her. Beca flustered immediately and pointed her finger to her and said, "You are the hottest thing on Earth.. But that still doesn't mean I like you." When she realized what she just said she looked at the Bellas hurriedly, "Umm... so Chloe will send you the address... We should go now, girls. Bye!" And with that, she practically ran out of the room.
Chloe wrote the details on a paper and gave it to Pieter. And with that, the Bellas left the place.
"She is still so into you," Pieter said happily.
"Ja, the little Maus has fallen for me," said Kommissar, smirking, "But I do wonder what happened, she's feistier than usual."
Pieter turned to the table and asked for the magazines Gail was referring to all day. They packed up, left the school and headed to their hotel.
The Bellas reached Beca's place. She had a luxurious penthouse on the top two floors of her building. When they entered the room, Amy immediately jumped on the couch.
Beca's place was huge. She had four bedrooms (because most of the time the Bellas stayed there all night chatting), a large kitchen, two bathrooms, and one study. And on the other floor of the apartment she had her own dancing studio. And this was just one place! The second place she owned was one floor under, had three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a huge study. She only bought the second apartment because in her penthouse, her ex neighbor always yells about the noise. She barely uses that one, but she still pays the cleaning company to keep that place clean.
"Omg, these shoes are killing me!" said Amy as she rubbed her foot, "I think someone owes us an explanation and a good amount of food," she looked at Beca.
"Fine, but let's make this short. I'm really tired," said Beca as she walked to the kitchen. They talked as they prepped the food.
"So Becs, what happened?" asked Chloe as she grabbed milk from the fridge to make cookies.
Beca frowned a little. "Well, as you and the whole planet already knows, Jesse broke up with me; I haven't slept for days."
"Just one sec," said Stacie as she diced up some vegetables for the grilled salmon. "I thought you guys were cool."
"I was surprised, too," said Beca, "I have no idea what's gotten into him. But the strange thing was that he mentioned The Kommissar. I never brought her up since Worlds. He even accused me of secretly texting her behind his back."
"What the hell? He's such an asshole," said Stacie.
"We should get back at him," added Amy.
"I have poison darts," whispered Lily.
"Guys, guys," Beca interjected, "It's fine, really. I'll get over it. I've gone through breakups before." She paused, took a deep breath, and looked around. "But you know... this apartment reminds me of him a lot. How about we go shopping tomorrow and give this place a huge makeover?
"OMG! I'm so in!" yelled Flo, "I'm gonna order everything I see."
"Chill girl. Don't forget that DSM comes here on Sunday. We can't get this place ready that soon," said Aubrey as she tasted the cream she made for the cake.
"Oh, we totes can!" said Chloe with her usual cheering voice and she ran to the study.
"What on Earth does she have in mind? We can't order everything this late; it's 5 o'clock. And it's not gonna get here by tomorrow morning. We need to get the old furniture out of here," said Amy
Chloe came back with Beca's laptop. She put it on the kitchen table and said, "We need some serious teamwork for this to work by the time DSM gets here."
"And how is that going to happen? Beca's neighbors won't be so happy about all the noise." said Stacie.
"Believe me, it's super simple" Chloe winked whilst tapping away on the laptop. "Emily, I need you to get the new Bellas and the Troublemakers here immediately. I know Benji is still the leader so we shouldn't have any problems." She continued before anyone could speak up. "We'll have to split up. Everyone will split up into 2-3 pairs and go to the local stores for decorations and old the thing that we will need. Oh, and paint. This wall color is so not cool now.
"Emily and Lily, you guys will stay here and order stuff from Etsy and Amazon that will be perfect for the apartment(or penthouse whatever you want to call it). Be sure to pay for overnight shipping."
"Excuse me what? I am NOT l paying for this!" interrupted Beca, but she was silenced by Chloe.
"Shush Becs! I'm not finished yet! Aubrey, call the school and tell them to open the garage and the storage room. We're going to send all the old things there." Chloe was super excited now, like back in camp a year ago. "Beca, go on Twitter and tweet out that you'll be having a huge garage sale at Barden University. Believe me, the fans will come and buy all the stuff. We can give some of the money to Barden for letting us use their lot, and we'll use the rest to buy the stuff for the apartment. I know you have your own money because of all your hard work through the years, and of course I've just checked your bank account, so- "
"Sorry, you what?!"
"Oh chill, Beca. I've seen you naked. I'm pretty sure looking into your bank account is not that bad."
"But that's... That's not the point. How did you-"
"Okay, so let's get this straight," said Amy. "We need help to get all the stuff out and send it to the school. One half of the group will buy online and help the workers here and the other half will go to every home and decor store thats open in town and buy everything. And we're gonna work all weekend."
"Yes! And the most important thing is Beca's credit card," Chloe looked at her and opened her palms, "If you want this Beca give us the money," she said it with a smile.
"God you guys, what have I gotten myself into," Beca grumbled as she rummaged through her bag for her card.
"Okay now everyone pair up and let's get everything. Phones should be in hand because I'll gonna need to give you the card details." And with that Chloe started to search on the laptop.
"Becs, you never log out of your email?" she asked.
"No, I'm too lazy for that. Besides, I have nothing to hide," she said
"Yeah, I understand that, but if anyone gets your laptop, they could look into your data and emails."
"Chill Chloe, no one would look through my email, especially not my Bella email. I've had that for four years now. That's the account where we always got the performance invitations."
"You don't delete anything!? exclaimed Chloe as she saw over 2000 emails in the inbox.
"Nope, I'm too lazy for that too," answered Beca
Emily came running back into the kitchen. "Everyone is on their way here!" she said as she jumped up and down, then stopped for a moment. "Umm guys.. what's that burning smell?"
"Oh no! Amy and the others left everything in the oven!" Beca hurried to the kitchen and pulled out the burnt cake. "They totally forgot about food," She laughed.
"Hey Beca, you said you never got an email from Kommissar, right?" asked Chloe
"Yeah, she never got in contact with me," answered Beca while turning off the oven.
"That weird, because when I typed the store's email address to send the details out, her email address came out as a suggestion."
"What? That's impossible, unless…"
"Unless you did receive an email from her, and Google saved the address," said Chloe
"No way! I swear I even looked in the spam folder. I never got anything from her!" Beca argued.
Chloe searched for the email but nothing came up. "Hmm... maybe someone deleted an email from your inbox. You definitely received at least one from her because Google saved the address. "
"Could it have been Jesse?"
"That would answer his weird outburst about you keeping in contact with Kommissar behind his back." said Chloe
"But I didn't-"
"I know. This only means that Kommissar sent you something, and Jesse saw it."
"And he deleted it!" Beca said angrily.
"Speaking of the German, what's going on between you guys?" Emily asked out of nowhere.
"I don't know. I mean, of course she's gorgeous, attractive, and smells like fresh baked cookies..." Beca said in a dreamy voice, but cleared her throat as she continued, "but nothing's going on. Nothing. At all. I swear."
"Oooh someone has a cruuussshhhh," Chloe sing-songed.
"No, I don't, I mean I was with Jesse, I like boys.. right?" Beca asked.
"But what do you feel around The Kommissar?" Emily asked.
""I don't know... I mean, I feel warm, I guess? Maybe confused? I just... It's like I have no filter around her. Like I just need to tell her everything that's on my mind. It just comes so naturally, and I can't help it but say the first thing that comes to mind. And it doesn't help that she's fucking gorgeous," she tried to explain, muttering the last bit under her breath.
" Girl, we get it that you're into her" she winked at her, "but you're sudden outburst back at the school said the total opposite."
"Well, I was mad. I felt like a total loser for being dumped and everybody knows it. The press put me up with Kommissar when I know she doesn't feel anything for me. It was pretty embarrassing."
"Well, with the way she looked at you even when you yelled the shit out of everyone back there, I would say she cares about you," said Emily.
"Definetly! She got so mad when those Germans touched you. I thought she was gonna kill them on the spot," Chloe pointed out.
"Yeah but don't forget about the money. And they are in a different country. What if she's in it for the money?"
"Maybe, but didn't she act really strange back at Worlds? She was looking at you all the time; she even touched your face." said Emily.
"Yeah... Oh, I don't know. I'm tired. Let's just drop this for a while" said Beca.
"If we're going to do this, we'll be working closely with DSM. Getting out The Kommissar out of your head won't be that easy," reminded Chloe.
"I don't want to get her out of my head," said Beca, blushing slightly, "I said I needed a little break from all the work. I'm exhausted."
"Yeah, we will need all our energy and focus if we want to beat The Revengers," Emily added.
"Their leader is... she's just... wow," said Chloe. "Like really wow!"
"Doesn't she look a little bit like the Kommissar?" asked Beca.
"Yeah I saw the resemblance, too.." Chloe agreed. The doorbell rung before she could continue.
"Ooh!" squealed Emily as she ran to the door, "They're here!"
"Awesome! C'mon Beca! Show time!"