The Bella's had arranged themselves so they all stood behind Chloe and Aubrey stoop alone. The two co-captains where facing off, eyes narrowed, glaring at one another,
"I only joined this group so I could hang with a bunch of broads I thought I could trust. But this is some horseshit. I don't want to be like those skinny bitch girls on the wall!" Fat Amy grumbled, waving her arms wildly,"
"Yeah! I want to be who we are now, we're different, and we could be awesome," Cynthia Rose practically stamped her foot behind Chloe, throwing all sorts of shade around. The girls murmured in agreement, and Chloe couldn't help but look smug, holding her chin high,
"I guess we should have listened to Beca," the red head very nearly stuck her tounge out, she felt mischief running through her blood, rebellion sweeping over her, confidence oozing and she wondered, did Beca feel like this all the time?
"Oh, so it's my fault!" Aubrey said with a roll of her eyes, setting her hands to her hips,
"No, that's not what I'm saying," Chloe felt her composure drop alittle, she hadn't been accusing Aubrey of that, just that she was abit unfeasible when it came to the set up,
"Well that's what you're all thinking, right? I'm the jerk. The girl obsessed with winning!" Aubrey growled and stopped, hand shooting her mouth,
"You're too controlling, Aubrey! It's ruining us! All of us!" Chloe shot back, Aubrey met her brilliant blue eyes and pulled her hand from her mouth, straightening herself,
"Hey, I can lose control if I want to! I can let go! This time I'm not going to choke it down!" the blonde set her gaze on the Bella's opposite her, her hand massaging the lowest point of her stomach, pressing and rubbing hard. Chloe blinked then realised what she was doing, gingerly stepping back slightly,
"I think she's gonna hurl!" Cynthia Rose cried out, staring wide eyed,
"Here it com-" Aubrey yelled triumphantly as she let go of everything and coveted the floor with the insides and lining of her stomach. The Bella's screamed around Chloe, running from the sheer amount of vomit that was supernaturally coming from Aubrey.
"We could have been champions! We could be champions this year!" Chloe yelled over the sound of Aubrey hurling her guts up, her eyes never leaving the hunched over form of the blonde. Though the auburn haired girl would admit it was pretty gross to watch, but she refused to give up her confidence now. It didn't take long for Aubrey to completely empty her stomach and Chloe took that moment to strike.
The red head pounced, lunging for the pitch pipe that Aubrey had managed to keep a firm grip on. The blonde shoved her hand into Chloe's face, the other out stretching with the pipe as far as she could away from Chloe flailing arms, "give me the pipe, you bitch!" Chloe cried, struggling against the vomit soaked Aubrey,
"Never!" she cried as large, strong arms clasped around her middle, lifting her into the air. Chloe caught her footing before she loaded in the vomit pool and found Fat Amy holding Aubrey aloft, like she weighed nothing,
"Get off me you Mermaid freak!" Aubrey cried, battering at Amy's arms as Lilly joined the fray, her teeth bared, arms wrapping around Fat Amy's neck. Chloe couldn't help but snigger, before she remembered her plan and saw the pitch pipe. She dove at it again, trying to climb Amy to grab Aubrey's hand, which still held the pipe tight. The other Bella's screamed around them, diving away from the vomit or heading into the weird tower the others had created. It was complete and utter mayhem,
"GUYS! GUYS! GUYS, STOP!" it was Beca's voice that called out, making them all FREEZE and Chloe's heart jump.
She came.
"What the hell's is going in here?" the brunette asked, staring around at the Bella's. She took in Stacey, Cynthia Rose, Jessie and Ashley fleeing up the bleachers, while across the vomit pond Fat Amy held Aubrey in a beat hug, Lilly straddled her head and Chloe gripped her arm. The blonde captain met Beca's eyes and glared,
"Nothing that concerns you," she shot out across the pool of vomit. The girls stepped away from one another and Aubrey stumbled slightly. She righted herself and brushed down her puke covered front, "This is a Bella rehearsal," Aubrey declared,
"Im aware of that," Beca shot back with a raised eye brow, watching as the Bella's regrouped together. She noticed that Chloe was a good distance from Aubrey and not meeting her eye, even though just seeing her sort of girlfriend made her breath catch. She looked gorgeous, wearing a floaty red top, tight light jeans and knee high brown leather boots, Beca would willing drop to her knees right then, crawl through the vomit and beg forgiveness if she'd asked it. The brunette took a breath as the Bella's looked to her, "Okay, here goes. I blew it. What I did was a dick move. I should never have changed up our set without asking the group, and I should never have walked out. I let you guys down, and I'm sorry. Aubrey, if you'll have me, I want back in," Beca knew she should have been focusing on Aubrey, but her eyes where trained on Chloe, who still wouldn't look at her. It felt like an eternity of silence had passed between them all and Beca knew she had to do something drastic. Her brain flashed back to the first ever Bella practise when Aubrey had made one of the newbies leave by dragging her chair behind her. Beca knew she was going to feel humiliation, but even still, she grabbed one of the metal chairs and turned her back, dragging it loudly towards the main door. She counted her steps, it took 19 to reach to the door, 19 steps till Aubrey cried out,
"Wait," the one grumbled and Beca span around instantly, sighing in relief,
"Oh fuck, thankyou, that would have been mortifing to go any further,"
"Look I know I've been hard on you, Beca. On everybody. But I'm my father's daughter. And he always said, 'If at first you don't succeed, pack your bags.'" Aubrey said with a firm nod, Beca stared at her, a little unsure what to think,
"Er, I get it. Mine gets on me, too," she said softly as she reappraoched the Bella's,
"I'll be honest, I got scared. You've got this natural talent to lead, and you can do all that mixing and what you did at semi finals, I just got scared. Then there's you and Chloe...um.." Aubrey trailed off as she looked to the red head, who's cheeks where starting to burn as red as her hair,
"Bree that's not up for discussing with the Bella's. Besides there are more pressing matters at hand, we've fallen out of sync, we're on the finals now and we can't fuck this up," Chloe's tone was determined, her posture was confident and Beca was so damn turned on by it,
"Alright, Chlo, Chloe is right, w e have stuff to do. But I have an idea first, we're out of sync, so let's realign, tell each other something we don't know about ourselves," Beca said with a shrug, trying her hardest to see what her father meant by being open and friendly. It wayward and it made all the girls look puzzled but as Beca took a seat on one of the metal chairs, the rest followed suit, forming a weird circle.
"Well I'll share something about myself that none of you know," Stacie said from her seat besides Beca, smiling broadly, "I have a lot of sex," she said with a nod, grinning wide, ignoring every eye roll in the room. That was no real news there,
"See, this is a good idea. That was a terrible example but a good idea. Let's go around the room. Everyone say something about yourself that no one knows," the Bella's murmured an agreement and all shifted in their seats, noone wanting to go first. With a huff Cynthia Rose stood,
"Okay, I have something. This is hard for me to admit to you guys. For the last two years... I... have had a serious gambling problem," the short haired woman said with an exasperated sigh. Fay Amy stared, mouth agape,
"I thought you where gay..." the Tasmanian muttered,
"It started when I broke up with my girlfriend.." Cynthia continued with a glare to Amy,
"There it is! Pay up Posen," Fat Amy laughed as Aubrey tried to deny the bet, but still slipped the other blonde 20 came Lilly, who Beca was pretty damn sure she said something about a twin and eating. It was alittle disturbing. But that was when the brunette realised it was her turn. There where alot of things she could say, and when she felt icy blue eyes land on her she panicked,
"Er, my..my mother is an alcoholic and in afraid I'll turn out the same way," she muttered, hanging her head,
"I've been in love with Jesse for all year now," Beca's eyea snapped to Aubrey, along with every other Bella,
"What?!" the brunette practically yelled by accident. That came out of nowhere, she really, really hadn't expected that,
"I'll never acted on it because of the oath. But I've wanted him ever since the riff off," she muttered sadly, gazing out over the lake of puke,
"Aubrey! You and Jesse should be together if that'll make you happy. And forget that stupid oath, Beca said reassuringly, smiling sadly, she couldn't help but wonder what her best friend would think to this.
"What about you Fat Amy?" Beca asked and the Tasmanian shrugged,
"I'm an open book. For God sakes, you all call me Fat Amy. If I'm not being honest, I'm not living," she shrugged again, then sighed, "My real name is Fat Patricia," Chloe stood then, her head high, cheat puffed out once again,
"My turn. Over spring break, I made the courageous decision to remove my nodes. The doctors tell me I can't sing for five weeks," as soon as she said it she knew Aubrey might burst,
"What?!" her best friend cried, mouth dropping open,
"I thought. The season. Was over," Chloe sniffle as she dropped back to her chair. Beca fought the urge to go to her, wrap her in her arms and kiss the tears away. But Chloe had said it earlier, their relationship wasn't on the table right now.
"It's time for the nuclear option. Beca?" Beca looked up, like a deer in headlights, "How are we doing this?" Beca blinked for a moment, taking it the words before she saw the Bella pitch pipe sailing through the air towards her. Surprisingly she caught it and a smile crept across her face, then she remembered the slowly drying pool of puke,
"Not here."