A/N

Love is love! It makes me so happy that nobody has to hide anymore. All 50 states are free to be married to any gender! Anyways, since I had a lack of updates lately I wrote this one earlier because I had time. I hope you guys don't mind me changing the way things were in the movie to make things more smooth... I don't own anything, blah blah blah… Hopefully you guys are okay with me dragging it out a bit. Don't worry, it should happen soon(You know what I mean). Here's chapter six!

"You've gotten really close to that group now haven't you?" Jesse asked.

Beca sighed. It was only a matter of time until she was asked this question. "Yeah, I have. You were right when you said they would grow on me. They're not as bad as I thought."

Jesse smiled. "I knew it, it was just a matter of time."

"Yeah, we still have the same stupid set list though. Aubrey doesn't want to screw up like she did last year, so she wants to redeem herself," Beca said.

Jesse chuckled, "Yeah, I don't blame her. If something like that happened to me I would probably do the same thing."

Beca looked at the floor, "I guess, but she doesn't have to be as hard on everyone."

"If you guys have that mastered, I can see why she doesn't want to change it up. She's probably just worried that you guys can't learn a new set that quickly. Especially if the Bellas did that in the past." he said.

"That's the problem, she's too hung up on being just like the other Bellas," Beca said.

"Well, I can't say anything about that. That's her own problem." Jesse said.

"Not just that, she's being horrible to Chlo. She's acting like she's the only captain. Chloe never gets a say in the group. She acts like she'd not even there sometimes." Beca said. She raised her voice so Jesse could see how serious she was.

Jesse looked at her and smiled. "Some people are oblivious to things. Sometimes they are even right in front of their eyes," he said, not breaking eye contact.

Beca didn't understand what he meant. Aubrey wasn't oblivious to everything, but she was still aware of things that were obvious. Oh well, she thought. "I guess. Are you guys ready for the Semi Finals?" she asked.

"Yeah, we've got a really good plan," he said quietly.

"Have you heard anything about the Footnotes? I hear they got a new really good singer," Beca said.

"Yeah I did hear about that. It's gonna be a tight competition for sure," he said.

"We'll see what's in store," she said.

Beca was working on a mix of Don't You Forget About Me when someone knocked on her door. She got up to go see who it was.

She opened the door to see Chloe still dressed in her PJ's. "Hey Chlo, do you need something?" Beca asked.

"No, I don't need anything, Aubrey's just being a bitch. She won't shut up about Saturday," she said.

"Well, I don't blame her. It's in a few days so I can see why she's stressing," Beca said.

"Yeah, I can see that too, but she's acting like we didn't rehearse at all," she said. Chloe walked in and sat on the bed. Kimmy Jin gave her a death glare.

Kimmy Jin walked up to the two girls, "Why do you two always have to hog the room. Thanks Beca," she said. Kimmy Jin grabbed some things and left the room to the two girls.

"Okay then…" Chloe said.

"It happens whenever I bring someone here so get used to it," Beca said.

"Okay." Chloe said.

"Anyways, what's up with Aubrey lately? She's hating on everyone, even you. It's not cool," Beca said. It must have hit something, because Chloe started to tear up.

"I don't know. She wasn't like this last year, or like ever. It's really irritating because we used to be able to talk about everything. Now she's only worried about the Bellas," Chloe said. She sniffled a little bit.

Beca's heart tugged. She hated seeing Chloe when she cried. "It's probably just because she thinks everything has to be perfect. She wants this to be the best experience for everyone right?" Beca asked.

Chloe nodded. "But she's making everything more dramatic than it needs to be. The only thing we ever talk about now are the Bellas. We used to talk about everything, from how cute this one person was to how her chemistry class sucked," She said. A stray tear left her eye. "I want my best friend back…" More tears came after that was said.

Beca shut her eyes tight. "Hey. Look at me," Beca grabbed her chin and made her look in her eyes. She almost lost what she had to say when she got lost in those beautiful blue eyes. "You will get your best friend back. Don't worry. I'll still be here too. That's what counts, right?" Beca said.

Chloe looked her directly in the eye, "Yeah."

They continued staring at each other for a while. Chloe reached her arms around Beca and pulled her in for a long hug. Beca sighed onto it and squeezed back.

They stayed where they were. "Thank you, Beca. For everything. You have such a huge impact on everything for me right now, and I couldn't be more thankful." she said.

"It's the same for me, you were the first person I flooded my story to," Beca said.

Chloe looked at her in awe. "Really?" she asked.

Beca scratched the back of her neck, "Yeah, I just didn't have the courage to say it to anyone else, and talking to you just feels natural."

Chloe kept looking at her, "Not even Jesse?"

Beca looked back at her, "Not even Jesse."

Beca kept looking into her eyes. They were so distracting. She completely ignored her expression, her eyes were so breathtaking.

Chloe smiled. It was so unfair, there was a light coming from the window and it was hitting her face so her smile was more detailed. Her eyes glistened. Beca continued staring and didn't say anything.

Chloe didn't look away either, though. She was still looking directly in her eyes. Her eyes roamed her face and she leaned back. She pulled her eyes to the window outside.

Beca sighed. Every time Chloe was with her, they got into a sort of staring contest like they were just in.

Chloe was the first to speak up, "Oh, shoot! I have to go pick something up from my parent's house!"

Beca looked at the floor, "Oh, okay. How long is the drive?" she asked.

"About and hour there and back. I'll talk to you later, okay?" Chloe said.

"Okay. I'll see you later." Beca waited until Chloe left her dorm. She started the short walk to the apartment complex.

Beca knocked on the door and waited for her to open it.

"Beca? What are you doing here. I thought Chloe went to her parent's!" Aubrey said.

"She is. I need to talk to you about something," Beca said.

Aubrey opened the door wider. "About what?"

"Look, you need to stop worrying about this Saturday. We will do fine. Trust me, all of the girls have been working their asses off making this set perfect for you." Beca said.

Aubrey motioned for her to walk inside. "Look Beca, this is nice of you to do this, and I know that I'm stressing out a ton, but this group means a lot to me. I want everything to be perfect."

"I know. But you are too controlling. You are completely ignoring all of Chloe's ideas, and practically everything that she says. She misses talking to you. She needs you to be the chill best friend you were when you guys first started college," Beca said.

Aubrey stared at her in disbelief. "How do you know all of this?'

Beca sighed and looked to the floor, "She came to my place earlier and talked to me about it. We've gotten close lately. I probably know more than you think."

"Oh, I didn't realise that I was being so harsh to her. And I didn't realise that you two got so close. I really need to say something to her, don't I?" Aubrey said.

Beca laughed, "I think you need to do a lot for Chloe right now. It was nice talking to you, I think she's going to be home soon so I'd better get going."

"Beca," she said. Beca turned around. "I'm sorry for everything."

"It's cool, but don't say sorry to me. You've got another redhead waiting for that," Beca said. She turned to leave.

"Beca, one more thing," Aubrey said. "Is there something you can do that will give our performance a little flare? Without changing the song."

Beca looked at her in awe. "You want me to add another song? Or sing one on top?"

"One on top would be great. I think we have to do something like that in order to make it onto Finals." Aubrey said.

Beca continued to look at her in disbelief. "Yeah, I can think of something, but we need to say something to the others, don't we?"

"Yeah, I was going to during the next rehearsal. Thanks, Beca. For taking care of Chloe," Aubrey said.

"No problem. Thank you, for making this whole thing possible," Beca said.

"Okay ladies, I was talking to Beca the other day and we were saying that we were going to do something during the set tomorrow," Aubrey said.

Everyone looked at Beca. "Okay, so I don't know which song will work yet, so just be prepared." she said.

Everyone nodded their heads. Chloe was smiling from ear to ear. Aubrey must have done something before rehearsal.

"Let's run the set a couple times and we'll be ready for tomorrow," Aubrey said.

The girls had the best rehearsal they had ever had. Everyone did everything perfectly, and the song was beautiful. Beca still hadn't come up with a song, so when it came to that time, she just sang the part she had before.

"Nice job girls, I'm calling it early that sounded so good. See you guys here at 7 o'clock tomorrow. Don't be late!" Aubrey said. She grabbed her things and left the room, Chloe behind her.

The remaining girls lingered for a little chatting about the day, "Aubrey has really cooled down. What did you say to her Beca?" Stacie said.

"Oh, I just said whatever would make her happy, and she asked me to do something about the set, so that's a good sign." Beca said. She didn't want to say the full truth, if Chloe wanted to say something about that, she could. That wasn't something for Beca to say. It would be bad to do that to a friend.

"Well, whatever you said, thank you for saying it." Cynthia Rose said. The girls laughed.

They kept talking for a little while longer, then said their 'goodbye's' and 'see you tomorrows' and left.

Beca sat on a game chair in Jesse's dorm playing their newest multiplayer PC game, Borderlands 2.

"How do you guys play that game for 5 hours straight?" Benji asked.

"It's a new game. That's how it works. You get the game, and you don't stop playing it until you finish it," Jesse said.

"Okay, then," he said.

"Oh, man I don't think we're gonna make it…" Beca said. They were surrounded by high level enemies.

"Don't say that. You shoot the ones behind us and I'll get the ones in front," Jesse said.

"Okay…" Beca said. She turned her character around and started shooting at the enemies that were there. Jesse's character was shooting the ones behind her.

"There are so many…" Jesse said.

"You think you have a lot, I have an infestation," Beca said.

"We are so… close!..." Jesse said. He had almost all of the enemies dead on his screen.

When Jesse had all of his dead, he moved his character so he could loot some of them. "Dude! I still have five bosses to kill, help!" Beca said.

Jesse moved his character around to see what kinds they were. "Holy shit! Those are high level!"

"Yeah! Now help out. We'll split the loot," Beca said.

Once they had killed everything, they split the items they collected.

"Slots?" Jesse asked.

Beca checked the time. It was almost eleven. "Actually, we have a competition to be at tomorrow. At 7. I should get going," Beca said.

Jesse checked the time, "Oh, yeah. 7 isn't a nice time to wake up. I'll see you later," he said.

"Peace," she said as she walked out.

Beca groaned as her alarm woke her. It was way too early to go in a long bus ride. She strolled out of bed and got dressed. She walked to the place they were meeting.

"She actually showed up a minute before!" Stacie said. The others laughed.

"Yeah, well I just want to get this over with. It's too early to do anything," Beca said.

The girls loaded the bus. Beca sat in the chairs right behind Amy. Chloe sat down right next to her. Aubrey in the chairs across the aisle with Stacie, and the others behind her.

"Did you get a song figured out?" Chloe asked.

"Yeah, I've got something figured out. I'm keeping it a surprise though, so don't ask me anymore questions," Beca said.

"Awe, Becs, why not?" Stacie said. The others laughed.

"I've never seen Beca be so adorable before. What did you do Chloe?" Cynthia Rose said with a chuckle. More laughs.

"I didn't do anything, she eats right out of my hand," Chloe said jokingly. Secretly she was serious though.

They stopped for gas and waited.

"I'VE BEEN SHOT!" the girls heard. It was Fat Amy outside the truck. "I'VE JUST BEEN SHOT!" She opened the door to the bus and walked back to see what happened, Cynthia Rose followed her.

Amy was covered in a sauce that she didn't recognise.

"Bumper threw a big ass burrito at me," Amy said. Beca choked back a laugh. "I'm gonna finish him like a cheesecake!" Now Beca laughed quietly to herself.

Once Amy got cleaned up they went back in the bus and they drove off.

Beca fell asleep for a little while. She was woken up by the sound of Chloe singing 'Party in the U.S.A.'

The other girls started singing along, louder and louder as the song went on. They were all singing at her. Beca shook her head. They paused right before the chorus and leaned in to Beca. She debated whether or not to sing along.

"So I put my hands up! They're playing my song!" Beca belted. This song was her guilty pleasure. The girls smiled and sang along with her.

The bus made a weird noise and they started to slow down. They looked at Amy expectantly and she didn't say anything.

Once the bus was completely stopped Amy spoke up, "And we're out."

"Aca-scuse me?" Aubrey said. She sounded like she was about to see her breakfast again.

"Aca-believe it." Amy said.

"What happened?" Aubrey said.

"I may or may not have filled up the gas tank, and then got hit by flying mexican food. Okay, yeah I didn't," Amy said.

"What do we do?" Aubrey said. She got up from her chair and started pacing the aisle.

"We can call the Treb-"

"NO! We will not hitch a ride with those douche bags," Aubrey said.

Beca sat across from Jesse in the Treble bus. It was decked out with a hanging chair, the walls were lined with couches built into the wall, and was decorated with the Treble's colors.

It was definitely an awkward ride there, Aubrey gave the guys death glares the whole time. When they got to the performance center, the Bellas were the first ones out.

They walked into the building and a guy told them where to go. They went to said area and saw another guy handing out microphones. They got in a single file line and grabbed one. After, he told them that we were number 3 in line waiting for sound check.

"Okay, ladies, look. The Footnotes are good, yeah, but they don't know each other. We are family. No matter what happens, we'll still be that way right?" Aubrey said.

"Yeah," the girls said.

"Yeah, Aubrey's right. We're gonna go out there, and crush it. You guys may be twigs, but you guys are all friends with me, so I can protect you dudes from anyone that might snap you in half," Amy said.

Some guy walked over to them, "Bellas, you're up."

"Hands in girls!" Aubrey said.

They all put their hands into the circle they formed.

"On 3 or after 3?" Stacie asked. She smiled at Aubrey.

"Just forget it.." she said. They walked onto the stage.

Beca thought about what she had come up with. Bulletproof, or Locked out of Heaven. She would have to come up with it on the spot. Earlier she couldn't think of a transition, so she would have to trust her handy DJ skills. She hadn't told anyone what she had thought of, because she wasn't sure if it would work.

Aubrey blew into the pitch pipe and counted them off. She started the routine and tried to multitask.

When Aubrey started to link arms with Chloe, she had her idea figured out.

When Aubrey had stopped spinning with Chloe she started.

This time baby,

I'll be bulletproof

Chloe looked behind her and smiled. She got other approving looks from the group as well.

She kept going with the one line until the song ended. They started Eternal Flame when she instantly got another thought in her head.

Chloe started her solo and beca started Bruno Mar's 'It Will Rain'.

If you ever leave me, baby

Leave some morphine at my door

'Cause it would take a whole lot of medication

To realise what we used to have

We don't have it anymore

She stopped singing until the next chorus came up.

'Cause there'll be no sunlight

If I lose you baby

There'll be no clear skies

If I lose you baby

Just like the clouds

My eyes will do the same, if you walk away

Everyday it'll rain, rain, ra-a-ain

Beca was proud of that song burst. That song just popped into her brain right as they started the vocals.

They continued with the rest of the song. Beca hadn't been able to come up with any other song mashups, so she did her part in the rest of the song.

When they sang the last note, they definitely had more claps than usual, some judges even nodded their heads approvingly.

The Bellas filed backstage. They seemed very happy with Beca's additions.

"Beca! That was amazing! How did you think of that? I thought you were only going to do one song," Cynthia Rose said.

"I do that stuff all the time, it comes naturally," Beca said.

"I thought Bulletproof was good, man It will Rain was like, perfect for that song. I had never thought that it would work that well," Stacie said.

"Yeah, me neither, but when Chloe started Eternal Flame, it jumped into my mind and I went with it," Beca said.

"Well, I think it sounded good. Thank you, Beca," Aubrey said. Beca smiled at her. She never thought Aubrey would ever let her do something like that. It was nice.

"Let's go home!" Amy said. The girls agreed and they started to walk toward the bus. They paused when they remembered they had to go home with the Trebles.

"Amy…. Why do burritos distract you from important things?" Beca asked. The others laughed.

"Hey! That was a decent burrito. It made me hungry and I had to leave, otherwise I would have raided that convenience store," she said. The girls laughed again.

They waited for the results of the competition. Since they didn't have a bus to go home on, they ended up in the audience waiting for the other groups to finish up.

"The groups this year that are moving on to the ICCAs championship will be named shortly," the intercom said.

The girls were very antsy to see this result. The footnotes put on a great show.

"Moving on to this year's ICCA championship are! Whoa, this was a very tight competition. Coming in second place by half a point. That's right, half a point are the one and only Barden Bellas!"

The girls screamed and jumped out of their seats. Everyone started to hug each other and jumped up and down multiple times. Beca, on the other hand, felt relieved. Her songs had impressed the judges to score them just a tad higher than the Footnotes. She still smiled though, and went along with what the girls were doing, just not as excited.

The ride home with the Trebles wasn't as bad now that they were still in the competition. Her phone buzzed and she looked to see who it was.

Jesse: Benji texted me and said that the lead singer of the Footnotes was a highschool kid. He would have gotten disqualified even if they won.

Beca: Really? Wow… Well, either way, half a point wins, right?

Jesse: Yeah, you singing those other songs on top really gave it a flare.

Beca: Aubrey was the one who told me to do that. Can you believe it?

Jesse: No way!

Beca: That was my reaction when she asked me to do it.

Beca had looked at Jesse to see his reaction. His face was priceless.

The rest of the night was good. The Bellas celebrated a little bit when they got back to the rehearsal room. They all said how cool it was that they actually moved on. They asked Aubrey what they were going to do for the next competition, now that they had much more time on their hands. She said she was considering some things, and she would tell them at the next rehearsal.

Beca thought it was a good day.

A/N

Hey! So I don't own anything in this chapter, and stuff. Hope you liked this chapter! The next chapter will be out shortly. There will be some realizations in the next one for sure. I think you can already predict what that means. I'll try to update at least 3 times a week, and if that doesn't happen, then I'm sorry. Please R&R, it means lots to me and I love to read your thoughts!