A/N: Hey guys! If you were interested in the outfit Beca wore on Thanksgiving Day in the last chapter, wms5012 on tumblr edited my original post so Beca's/Anna's face replaces the model's. It's really freaking cool! You should check it out. I re-blogged it so everyone could find it, just scroll past the original picture. I just wanted to thank everyone for all the follows, favorites, and reviews! I'm still surprised there are more that appear every week. I wanted to respond to a few people without accounts again directly below. So just skip past. As always, I hope you enjoy the new chapter!

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Anne: You just get. 100% get it! The next question is why is Chloe so hesitant. Think about it. You're already on a roll. Thank you so much for reading and reviewing! :)

Guest(Who reviewed second): I've actually seen "Faking It". I stopped watching after the first episode of Season 2b. I figured they were going to screw up everything and, from what I heard, I feel justified in my thought process. I was a big Reamy shipper and they blew my ship up. I'm not sure how I feel about the comparison. (I really dis-like Karma.) Now if you want to compare Tom to Liam I'm all for it! Hate that guy. I could rant about this for a good 20 minutes, so I'll just stop here.

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Chapter 12

The Bellas seemed to be on the same brain wave as Jesse. They had a different approach though. As soon as Beca got back from Seattle Amy, Stacie, and Cynthia Rose all texted her, enquiring about having a girl's night at one of their dorm rooms. Really all of them vying for Beca's room, hoping they could use her roommate's large flat screen TV and Beca's stereo system. Really she wanted to say no, but before actually mentioning the intended want of a girl's night, they had asked her if Kimmy Jin was going to be around. She had stupidly replied without asking why they wanted to know. As soon as they heard Kimmy jin would be out of town for some sort of scholastic competition, they took turns bombarding her with random questions, all ending in her inability to say no to hanging out, all previous answers confirming she was free. Really she wanted to hang out with Chloe, she had really missed the redhead and she still hadn't gotten her full Chloe fix, the only interaction being the night before. Well and that morning when a more bubbly Chloe left after a quick hug and kiss to the cheek. Beca had still been half asleep. Chloe wasn't in the text group though. So she had invited her, to be sure of her presence, but Chloe couldn't be there, something about monthly mani-pedis with Aubrey followed by a long night of top secret aca-strategizing. Beca was at least pleased she was still replying to her texts like normal. That was why on Friday night Beca found CR, Stacie, Amy… and Lily at her door.

Noticing Beca's confusion at Lily's presence, Amy patted Beca on the arm and told her, "She's here to tie you to a chair in case you try to run." Then Amy skipped off into the room like nothing happened, an arm full of snacks. CR was carrying a few litters of sprite and coke, Stacie had a few bottles of alcohol, and Lily, well, Lily just brought herself. They immediately all settled in, like this was a normal thing they did every week. Amy dumped all the snacks on Beca's bed before walking off towards Kimmy Jin's half of the room, specifically her TV. Stacie and Cynthia Rose lined up all the drinks on Beca's desk and then looked around for a jack to plug Stacie's phone into Beca's stereo system. Lily started looking through all of the cabinets and drawers, pausing to riffle through each drawer's contents. Beca just sort of stood there confused about what was going on and wondering how serious Amy's threat was, before finally closing the door and looking pointedly at Lily.

"What are you doing?"

No one was actually looking at Beca to see what she was referring to. So Amy answered. "I'm trying to get the picture box working. I think it's broken. I'll just give it the good old one two. Teach it to mess with an Australian." Amy couldn't find the power button and had just brought back her hand to hit the TV.

Beca's eyes went wide, forgetting about Lily, and she rushed over to stop the Aussie. "Oh my god! No Amy!" She just intercepted her. "All the buttons are on the bottom and the remote is in the top drawer of her desk." Beca pressed the power button and then went to go grab the remote.

"I knew that! I was just testing." Amy grabbed the remote from Beca and started flipping through the channels. Then she noticed the Xbox, letting out a squeal of delight before dropping the TV remote where she stood and bounding over to the game counsel.

When Beca turned around, huffing in annoyance and pinching the bridge of her nose, knowing this whole girl's night was not going to go well, a drink was thrusted into her hand by Stacie. Beca just looked at the cup of coke that was definitely laced with some form of alcohol. Stacie went off to give Amy a drink and CR was giving one to Lily, who was making a snow angle in the snacks that laid on Beca's bed. Then Stacie was standing in the middle of the room with her own drink raised. "Alright drink up! The sooner we're drunk the sooner we can get to the real fun of the night." She sent a wink Beca's way. Beca wasn't sure how Stacie did it, but everything she said, no matter how innocent, came off sexual. She was pretty sure the lengthy brunette could say she was HIV positive and make it sound like a prize people wanted. So the petite woman just gulped, taking a long swig of her drink to try and wash away all of her concerns about the night.

"Hey, Lily? I need you. This things password protected." Lily quickly walked over to Amy to crack into the Xbox.

"This is so hot, like a spy movie." Stacie said before walking over to see what Lily was doing. Amy and Stacie started to argue over who would be the bond girl out of the two of them, if they were in a 007 film, and who would be the other hot chick who didn't get as much time on screen.

CR walked up to Beca. "Hey, we were going to get a pizza. Did you want anything special?"

"No, sausage or green peppers."

"Girl, I hear you on that first one." She gave a confused Beca a fist bump before walking off to call in their order.

There was a sudden exclamation from the other side of the room by Amy. "Yes, got it pitches! Who wants to loose first? I was the Mario Cart champion five years running in Tasmania."

They all then settled down on Beca's bed, Stacie pulling Beca along after them, shoving her onto the bed before sitting down herself. Beca still wasn't sure what was happening. Noticing the smaller girl's confusion, Stacie took it upon herself to try and cheer up the girl. "You know you should consider yourself lucky."

"Oh, really?" Beca replied, incredulously.

"Yeah," Stacie's voice dropped an octave and she jutted out her chest just a bit. "Do you know how many people would kill to be in bed with me."

Beca's eyes went wide, her cheeks instantly went bright red as she took a deep pull of her drink.

"Stacie, try not to kill Beca yet. We still need her." Cynthia Rose cut in, affectively shifting the attention away from Beca.

"I was just telling the truth."

Amy cut in, as she debated who she wanted to play as. "We all know your one sexy bitch, of course not as sexy as me. Like second sexiest, but still sexy."

Cynthia Rose just hummed in agreement. Beca just sat there taking another long sip from her drink, wishing she was anywhere but there. Stacie noticed and nudged the girl next to her. "What, do you not think I'm sexy Beca?" When Beca didn't answer Stacie took the liberty to tack on a few more words with the intention of making the other girl squirm. "That's okay, I know redheads are more of your thing."

She immediately changed the subject, looking a lot more frazzled than she wished. "I'll play you first Amy. As long as I can be Toad."

"Sure thing Shawshank. How could I not let the tiniest Bella be the tiniest character?"

Beca just scowled, grumbling under her breath, and took the second remote. She was just happy the subject had changed.

Surprisingly, for once, Amy was not lying. She was actually good, coming in first every race. She even beat Kimmy Jin's best times for some of the tracks, replacing 'Kimmy J' with 'Sexy1' on the high scoreboards. Once they got tired of Amy's gloating, they switched to another game, Mortal Combat. Everyone took turns winning. Lily seemed to take a little too much pleasure in doing the special fatality kills. They all tried not to focus on that too much or the fact that she knew all of the more gruesome ones. When they switched to a dancing game, Stacie easily beat everyone, her groping actually coming in handy. CR probably would have done better if she didn't spend so much time staring at Stacie. For most of the songs available, Stacie had replaced the higher scorer 'Kimmy J' with 'TheTits'. The few CR managed to get, she just put down her initials 'CR'. Lily didn't beat any high scores until they decided to buy a first person shooter game using Kimmy Jin's saved points. When Beca protested the purchase, Amy just said they deserve it, without any explanation. Everyone else just agreed. All of Beca's concerns quickly fell away as soon as the quietest one of their group started playing. Lily was the happiest any of them had seen her and she was scary good, never missing a kill. Even when her character was sprinting or she was just using a dagger instead of the gun. When it came time for Lily to enter a name for the high score, she just left it blank. Which creeped everyone out more than they wished to admit.

Beca refused to put any record of her presence down for any high scores she got, fearing the wrath of her roommate. Given, Kimmy Jin probably would guess that Beca had touched her stuff, the new high score names not close to any of the names her roommate's friends would pick, but she could at least still feign innocence. After all, Beca's initials weren't 'CR' and her name definitely wasn't 'TheTits' or 'Sexy1'. So she felt pretty confident. Even though Kimmy Jim was sure to kill her in her sleep. Then again she had Lily, who was probably just as menacing.

The only factor that could give her away were the names that Stacie, CR, and Amy decided to put in for Beca when the petite brunette, stupidly, left the decision up to them. Amy's favorite was 'GingerMinge'. While Stacie liked 'OoohMyCap', which Beca almost protested on the simple fact that it made it seem like Beca liked Aubrey. The very person she despised, but she held her tongue, knowing the teasing she would receive if she did speak up. Especially if the words 'That's not even accurate' left her mouth, they were right on the tip of her tongue after all. Then they would all ask her what was appropriate, which would lead to a never ending cycle of embarrassment. CR was worse than all of them, choosing to put in 'C-Bear'. The contact name Beca had Chloe under in her phone. She had no idea how the other girl knew. Sure Beca had checked her phone a few to many times for new Chloe texts for it to be casual while they were all playing video games, but she was on the other side of the room. Also, Cynthia Rose's only opportunities to see what Beca was looking at was when she got up to refill everyone's drinks. Somehow she had seen it. Everyone started to goad her about it.

Amy barely could contain her laughter, slapping her leg as she proclaimed, "C-Bear! That's a good one CR. How did you come up with that?"

Stacie leaned into Beca, her voice a soft sensual timber. "So this C-bear, does she happen to be the red coated bubbly variety that likes to hibernate in your arms for warmth?"

Beca did the only thing she could do. She, probably blushing the brightest shade of red in her life, leapt from her seat and stepped in front of the TV, blocking the name, and asked, "Soooo… What do you want to do next?" She tried to ignore how reminiscent of Aubrey the clap she did at the end was.

Given the pizza had just arrived a few minutes ago and Lily's killing spree had left them all feeling a bit queasy, they were all happy for a change of activity. Well everyone except for maybe Lily. Beca was feeling more sympathetic towards Lily when Stacie pulled out 'The Notebook' and started loading the disk into the Xbox. She really didn't want to watch a sappy rom-com, especially without her bubbly redheaded counterpart. She swiped open her phone, as if by doing so the person she was longing for would suddenly appear or send her a message saving her from the two hours and four minutes of torture to come. As the beginning previews played leading into the title menu, Stacie explained that they would be playing a drinking game using the movie. The declaration certainly perked Beca up. As they started to list each time they would be drinking, Beca became more enthusiastic for the movie to come. Amy was the one put in charge of making sure that they all drank when they were supposed to, which Beca thought was a mistake and luckily CR protested to as well. So a proper list was made and tacked up on the wall.

Drinking Rules:

Anytime someone is rowing a boat

Every time the journal is read from or is shown

Every time someone does something considered romantic, but is stupid

Painting is mentioned or shown

Someone yells

The word 'love' is said

Every time someone says some deep and meaningful saying

They do something unrealistic/cheesy/or cliché that is considered romantic

The last rule quickly became Beca's favorite rule and she certainly paid for it. Her pessimistic attitude towards such things became her worst enemy, drinking far more for that last rule than anyone else in the room. Amy did not help things. She seemed to come up with random things for everyone to drink to that went outside of the rules, but she insisted were apart of them. The opening scene was a whole montage of a guy rowing a boat and birds flying. Amy made them drink for every time the camera switched from one to the other, which had to be around ten sips within the first five minutes of the film alone. Their drinks were definitely on the stronger side as well. So by the time they reached roughly the halfway point of the film Beca was drunk. Which made the whole film a lot more entertaining. She found herself laughing at the most inappropriate times, which was not appreciated by Stacie. Who, surprising, out of all of them seemed to get the most sentimental at all of the more emotional scenes. By the time the movie ended, Beca was pretty close to being in what was known as her 'DJ party Beca mode', which led to a lot poor choices and numbers she didn't know the names of the owners of in the morning. Naturally, she found herself more interested in the contact in her phone labeled 'C-Bear' and she was seriously contemplating calling her. Which would be a bad idea given it was almost 1 am and, in her current state, she was likely to talk about all the different shades of brown the freckles on Chloe's cheeks were. Although maybe very endearing, would be weird to discuss with a platonic friend.

So when the other girl's suggested a game of truth or dare, a non-drinking game, Beca was more than pleased. They all sat in a semi-circle on Beca's bed. The other four girl's seemed a little too pleased with how drunk Beca was to be normal, but Beca was too drunk to really pay too much attention to it. She was too busy trying not to let her feelings for Chloe slip. Things were going well until they got to an actual dare, having given the power to Lily. Which was fine except for the fact that no one could understand what she was saying, or at least pretended not to when they swore she dared Amy to set a car on fire. So they then gave the power of making up dares to CR, the more responsible one of the group. Only CR's fascination with Stacie, specifically her assets, became a problem. When CR dared Stacie to flash everyone for the second time, everyone agreed that a change of game might be a good idea.

After some debate, they all agreed on a few rounds of 'Never Have I Ever'. Even though it was a drinking game, Beca was actually okay with it, having had enough time to sober up over the course of truth or dare. The lap dance she was dared to give Stacie certainly helped. The game started out innocently enough, starting with basic statements about having siblings or traveled outside of the country, each person drinking if the statement applied. Lily, no one being able to understand her, was skipped and sat sulking and taking big swigs from a bottle of liquor whenever she felt like it. Quickly it became more and more clear what the other girls were fishing for information on a certain redhead and the pint sized Bella that followed her around.

Stacie had started with, "Never have I ever kissed a girl."

Everyone drank except for Stacie. They all noticed, giving her non-believing accusatory looks. She easy combated them with a reply. "What? I'm saving my first time with a woman for someone special." Her voice dropped at all the right places, causing CR to take an extra sip of her drink.

"Oh, really. Anything to do with the hunter's need for uptight blondes." Amy shot back, a cheeky smile in place. Beca and CR stared on in awe at the new information. Lily was fashioning something out of a piece of wood using a 5 inch pocket knife. Where Lily got the items, Beca had no idea.

Stacie didn't panic. She just looked at Amy, sizing the girl up. "Only if you have a thing for self-absorbed male acapella leaders."

Beca and CR's attention immediately snapped to Amy who, for once, was having trouble coming up with words. The Aussie's eyes went big as she tried and failed to throw back a comeback. "Uuuuhm, uuuuhm, Never have I ever liked a ginger." Amy finally blurted out.

Stacie seemed happy about the other girl's choice, taking a sip of her drink. Beca reluctantly followed suit, taking a hearty sip of her drink. All the other girls exchanged looks, mischievous smiles in place. Before Beca could notice anything was amiss, CR took her turn.

"Never have I ever liked a treblemaker." Amy immediately let out a not so subtle hysterical laugh, resulting in everyone giving her a weird look before they all looked at Beca expectantly. Beca never took the drink though. She didn't like a treblemaker and even when she was dating Jesse she never actually liked him. She was just using him, which she felt guilty about, but was not going to result in her taking a sip for something she had never felt. While everyone was focused on Beca, Amy took a quick sip of her drink, cautiously eyeing everyone as she did so.

Finally, after what felt like forever, everyone shifted back into their relaxed positions, ready for the next statement. Beca was just going to say something when Amy cut in again with another statement. "Never have I ever had a crush on a Bella."

Everyone, surprisingly, except for Amy drank. The other girls seemed way more pleased about it than Beca was. Which was strange. Amy let out, with a fist pump, "I knew it!"

Beca looked at her quizzically, the other two Bellas staring daggers, as Beca asked, "Knew, what?"

Amy's eyes went wide realizing her mistake, trying yet again to come up with a proper response. Only this time she was more successful. "That-That all of you have… Big lesbian crushes on me! I know I'm sexy, but I'm in love with sausages and nice hard muscular bodies."

Beca just snorted while everyone else just laughed it off. Then Stacie launched into more sexual statements, most of which she wound up drinking for herself. Beca, to everyone's surprise, actually was pretty well matched with Stacie, well when the girl on girl equivalent was included. Slowly the game disintegrated, all of the Bellas, except for Beca, seeming disappointed by the direction of the game. Beca was drunk once again, enjoying pretty much everything. So they all suggested switching back to truth or dare. Once they had all convinced Beca, they seemed to all perk up again, excited about something unknown to the smallest Bella. After a few rounds it became clear why they were so excited. Beca chose dare for the first time and Stacie had been given the honors of deciding what she would be doing. Which Beca should have known better, but she was too content to care. Stacie of course gave her a dare that the other Bellas had all been trying to direct the night towards.

"I dare you to ask Chloe out."

Beca blinked owlishly at them, not believing what she was hearing. "What?"

Stacie just smiled, leaning in. "I said, I dare you to ask Chloe out."

"But, I can't."

Stacie seemed to take a moment before speaking again. "Fine, I dare you to tell you how you feel."

Beca's eyes went wide, letting out an unintelligible sound before finally speaking actually words. "I take it back, I choose truth." She turned to CR, the person who would have given her a truth if she had picked that option, pleading with her to have mercy on her.

CR smiled encouragingly at her, instantly putting Beca at ease. That was until she spoke. "Truth: How do you truly feel about Chloe?"

Beca looked dumbly at her and then at each Bella in turn, hoping someone would help her. She even looked to Lily, but the girl was passed out on the floor, any empty bottle of vodka clutched to her chest, the chunk of wood and knife abandoned. She began to stutter. Then Amy piped up.

"Come on shawshank it's not a big deal. You can tell us. It's pretty obvious."

"Besides red likes you too. You're both like two middle schoolers that exchange glances in the hallway, but never actually do anything." Stacie tacked on.

"You'd make a really cute couple." CR added, looking like she was the one with a crush on one of the two women being discussed.

"Should we tell her Chloe's taken a dip in the lady pool? Or save that for later?" Amy looked to the other two Bellas as she spoke, as if Beca wasn't in the same room just a foot away.

It took a moment for Beca to process the comment. First her brain had to speed up to its normal processing power to realize lady pool meant experience with woman. Finally her brain had to make the connection that Chloe had done that. She had had experience with women. Her face flushed as she briefly imaged what Chloe maybe had done and the redhead doing those things to her. Then she was stuttering out, completely shocked, "Wha-What!?"

Stacie just looked down at her nails, cleaning the undersides, as if the subject was the most boring thing ever. She sighed before she spoke. "Yeah. Apparently Aubrey and Chloe got really drunk at a party freshman year and wound up making out with each other the whole night."

Beca relaxed some at the omission. After all that was what all girls did when drunk usually. Gay, straight, or bi, it didn't seem to matter in her experience. "Is that all?" She asked, both relieved and disappointed.

Stacie shrugged. "I heard there was some groping too, but yeah that's it. I would think you'd be more excited. You can now finally get your rocks off with her and put us all out of the misery of watching you two act like pubescent teenagers."

She didn't know why, but something about the statement really bothered her. Maybe it was how blasé Stacie was being about her feelings towards Chloe. Like Chloe was just someone she needed to fuck and get out of her system, which was definitely not it. If it had been Beca would have already kissed her and, if Chloe was willing, bedded her. Hell, she wouldn't still be hung up on her after six years. So Beca reacted with a lot more anger than intended. "That's it though! I don't want to get my fucking rocks off, Stacie! I'm in love with her and I can't just fuck her and be done with it! She deserves- No! She is worth more than that! Anyone who doesn't believe that can go fuck themselves! I DON"T GIVE A SHIT! I'm-I'm not you." She ran out of steam towards the end. When she looked up, she found Amy and Stacie smiling pleased at her, while Cythia Rose's expression was closer to heart eyes. That's around the time Beca realized what she had just said. Her face fell and eyes went wide as her face turned beat red. She immediately hid her face in her hands. "Shit!"

All three Bellas quickly crowded around the petite woman, placing reassuring arms around her shoulders and hands on her knees.

"Aaaw! Don't worry about it half pint we won't tell anyone you've got ginger fever. We won't let them revoke your badass membership." Amy chimed in first.

Then there was CR who spoke next. "Beca, you're a sweet kid. I wouldn't worry if I was you. There's no way Chloe will reject you."

Stacie was the last one to speak. "Besides, you really shouldn't worry now because we can help you."

Beca peeked out from behind her hands to look at the other girl. "What do you mean?"

"You want to know if Chloe likes you, right?"

"Yeah."

"Just leave it up to me."

Stacie's smile was a little too mischievous for Beca's liking, but she was too drunk to argue and figured she really didn't have anything to loose. If all else failed, whatever mess they got her into she figured she could blame on Amy and be fine. They spent the rest of the night coaxing Beca back into her normal relaxed carefree self and plying her with drinks. When it was heading towards 4 am, CR helped get Beca into bed, while Stacie and Amy woke Lily up to leave. Then it was just Beca, drunk, looking at her phone and the usual goodnight text from Chloe she had missed. She thought for a moment about just typing in a love confession like Stacie had dared her to. It seemed like a good idea in her current state. Her fingers were hovering over the correct keys, poised to type, when her body finally gave out. She instantly fell asleep, a blank text box open.

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A/N: I looked up some rules for a drinking game that involved "the Notebook" for this. Then I said fuck it, watched it (something I never wanted to or planned on doing in this life time.), and wrote some of my own rules. If you are of age and try to play it, you should wind up pretty drunk, at least by my tallies. I tried playing as I watched, but ran out of drink before the halfway point and never refilled it. So have fun if you wanted to try it. (I might just do so myself one weekend with a bottle of something.) I know Kimmy Jin had a Wii, but I know Xboxes better. Oh! And good news! I finished a few chapters over the last few days. So the next few weeks updates will be on Thursday per usual. Even next week over the holidays.