AN: Thank you guys for the support and wonderful reviews. I'd also like to thank you for being patient and waiting on chapters. It has been a hectic month, but I hope to be posting more soon. I know this story hasn't been everything everyone has wanted but I promise it's going to get better. I also want to thank BeChloeIsLegit for all her help and advice while writing this. If you haven't gotten a chance to read HER Bechloe fiction, do yourself a favor and go do so! It's amazing!
With that said, enjoy this. It's more STAUBREY than Bechloe, but it'll all tie together. I promise.
P.S. I do not own Pitch Perfect, the characters or material therein. All rights of ownership go to the screen writers and production team that made Pitch Perfect. I am just a humble fan, offering his meager thoughts and visions to this wonderful storyline.
Fat Amy lay in bed lingering in that zone between half awake and half asleep. Her body longed to remain in between the comfort of her blankets but her mind fought a losing battle to awaken and begin her chores for the day. Slowly as she began to pull the covers back to reveal her "Wiggles" t-shirt, her phone rang.
Clumsily she fumbled around the bedside table for it. The sound of various items crashing to the floor seemed to echo around the apartment before her fingers wrapped around the sleek, pink case of her phone. She brought it to her ear and groggily said hello.
"Amy? How are you still in bed? It's ten in the morning?" Aubrey's frantic voice came through the ear piece and seemed to pierce Amy's ear in her half wakened state.
"Easy for you to say when you went to bed before five in the morning." Amy protested as she slowly sat up and pulled the underwire of her bra down to give her chest more comfort.
"I need your help." Aubrey said, sounding almost pleading. It was an unfamiliar tone for the woman who was always in control of everything, and to Aubrey, it was not a welcome feeling. She felt powerless and panicked and she felt as though there was nothing she could do. She had always been on good terms with Amy, even friendly. She remembered one of their first conversations, where Amy mentioned that at least one of the Bellas was a lesbian. Turns out that Amy's estimations were way off as they already had three, and another one was about to be added to the ranks.
"Aubrey needs help?" Amy asked, her voice sounding more awake as she stood and walked over to the coffee maker and flipped it on, "Is the world ending?"
"Amy this is serious. I'm freaking out and I don't know what to do about it." Aubrey said, "I'm always in control, always know what the right move is and right now, I'm completely clueless and I don't like it."
"Well, alright. What's going on?" Amy asked.
"I… I'm in love with Stacie." Aubrey admitted.
Amy sighed, "Am I the Bella's match maker or something? I literally had this phone call with Beca like three days ago." A smirk came to her face though, "And like I told her… yes Aubrey. We know."
"Wait… how do you know?" Aubrey asked, completely thrown aback by the fact that this was apparently public knowledge. Aubrey felt a bit of nausea in her stomach but closed her eyes and took a couple of controlled breaths.
"Everyone knows." Amy replied, pouring herself a cup of coffee.
"How? I didn't even know until recently."
Amy rolled her eyes, "Oh for fuck's sake. De Ja Vous Amy." She shook her head, "Look, there have been a ton of signs over the years. Hell, remember when I told you that one of us was a lesbian and we looked over and saw CR looking down Stacie's shirt?"
"Yeah? So?"
"CR wasn't the only one enjoying the view. I saw how the hair on the back of your neck stood up and you took a quick breath and let it out slowly and controlled." Amy explained, "Then when we were prepping for all those sets? The way that she was the one person you were always checking on. Even more than Chloe. And the biggest thing of all is that when you get upset, Stacie is the only one who can calm you down with just a few words." Amy finally finished and took a sip of her coffee, "Face it, Posen. You love her."
Aubrey sat in silence on the other end of the phone as Amy explained, and even after she was so stunned because it was as though Amy had completed a puzzle made of the fragmented moments scattered around her mind. The picture was clear now and more than that, the picture of why she'd been acting even more strung out than usual over the past few weeks, began to take shape. Aubrey was then faced with a horrifying realization: she had been absolutely horrible to Beca. She had treated Beca so cruelly when confronting her about her feelings with Chloe. Aubrey had been upset for what Beca had done at the concert, but her wrath hadn't been a defense of Chloe as much as it had been a lashing out of her own emotions. She had been yelling at herself, while projecting her feelings onto Beca. She owed Beca an apology.
"Aubrey?" Amy asked through the phone.
Aubrey was pulled from her silence, "Oh God!" She cried.
"Look, I know you're excited about Stacie, but I don't need to hear that part of it." Amy said, slightly troubled.
"No!" Aubrey replied, "I've been so horrible to Beca because I've been afraid of facing my own feelings."
"It happens." Amy replied, "All you can do now is try to make things right with her, and decide what you want to do about Stacie."
"I love her. I want to be with her." Aubrey said.
"You better mean it," Amy said, "She has baby Bella now… she doesn't need someone who's going to flake out on her. So if you are saying you want to be with her, that means you have to be there for her, and for Bella. You're looking at becoming a mom as well as a girlfriend. Are you ready for that?"
Aubrey sat on the other end of the phone before smiling that trademark Posen smile that told everyone that she was going to be strong and was going to go for what she wanted, "Yes. I'm ready to be a part of her little family."
"Then go get it Posen." Amy said, "Let me know how it goes. A bunch of us are meeting at McClaren's Pub later tonight if you want to meet up and fill me in."
Aubrey smiled, "I'll be there."
With that Aubrey and Amy hung up. Aubrey looked at her phone and sent a text to Stacie, "Hey, Skype in an hour? I have something important I want to talk to you about." She pressed send and was rewarded with a near immediate thumbs up followed by: "B will be asleep by then."
Aubrey ran around her house and tidied things up, did her hair, fixed her make-up and made sure everything was absolutely perfect. She had to stop several times and reduce the urge to vomit, but she knew that this was the right thing to do. She had to do what she had mistakenly yelled at Beca to do, she had to sack up and tell Stacie how she felt. She could do this, she was Aubrey Posen, nothing could stop her.
She opened her computer and turned on her skype. It chimed and soon was receiving a video message request from "BellaGurl69" Aubrey clicked the accept button and smiled brightly, her eyes focused on Aubrey's beautiful face, long brown hair, and bright eyes.
Aubrey had made sure to wear a nice button up shirt, as though this were a job interview. Stacie contrasted this by sitting on her couch in a set of capri-cut sweatpants a pink tank-top that displayed her cleavage, and her black bra straps could be seen. Aubrey did her best to ignore the two large distractions teasing her from the top of Stacie's shirt.
"What's up Aubrey?" Stacie asked. She looked rundown, but that was to be expected since she was still wrestling with a two month old baby girl.
"I just wanted to check up on you and see how things were going with you and baby Bella?" Aubrey asked innocently, smiling sweetly at the woman she loved so much.
"Yeah we're great here." Stacie said, "I just put her down for a nap. She was getting cranky. We're almost to sleeping through the night, but like clockwork at one and four in the morning she is up, and then she's up for good around six. But we're getting there. She's growing so fast."
Aubrey smiled, "That's so great to hear."
"What's up with you? You said you had something important to talk about." Stacie said leaning forward a little, giving Aubrey an even better view of her large breasts.
Aubrey swallowed hard as a result of the new view but quickly gathered her thoughts, "I… um… was wondering what you would think of me moving there?"
"Moving where? Back to South Carolina? That'd be amazing!" Stacie said happily, "I feel like I've lost touch with all the Bellas since everyone moved so having you back here would be great!"
Aubrey smiled, "No, Stace… you're not getting it. I mean move there, with you."
"With me? Why would you want to…" Stacie started before Aubrey cut her off.
"I love you." Aubrey said quickly and then waited for Stacie's response.
Stacie sat quietly for a split second as the reality of what Aubrey just said to her sank in, "Wha… wow." She stammered, "I love you too."
"You sound unsure? Did I freak you out? I'm sorry, I…" Aubrey started to crack and suddenly felt like she had said the wrong thing, that this was all a mistake.
"No, Aubrey, it's fine." Stacie replied calmly. She'd always found it somewhat cute when Aubrey lost control. She smiled, "It's perfect." She said softly, "When were you thinking of coming down?"
Aubrey shrugged, "As soon as I can if you'll have me."
Stacie smiled and nodded, "Of course. Come whenever you want. It'll be amazing to have someone here to help with baby Bella."
"I could head down the beginning of next week." Aubrey replied, "I've got a bunch of money saved up and I've already applied to the business school down there."
"Wow, Aubrey. That's amazing. I know you hated that job at the lodge." Stacie replied sympathetically, "But it'll be great to have you here."
Aubrey couldn't help but smile, glowing almost. She hadn't felt this good since the Bellas won nationals her senior year, "I'm so excited. Thank you Stacie. I should go give my land lady my two weeks. I have an open ended lease so I can get out of it any time."
"Yes, go do that. I should check on Bella." Stacie said.
"Ok…" Aubrey said, looking slightly awkward at the screen.
"Ok. Go. I'll talk to you later." Stacie said giggling, "Love you."
"I love you too." She smiled and kissed her fingers before holding them to the screen, "Bye, hon."
Aubrey turned off the Skype call and stood in her living room feeling as though she were on cloud nine. It was a huge step to take. She'd be moving from New York to South Carolina, and becoming a mom on top of a budding new relationship. It was a lot of pressure, a lot of things to think about, but for Stacie, nothing was too much. Now all Aubrey had to do was apologize to Beca. She would make that right tonight, but for now she had to prepare for her move.