Stacie was lying across Beca's bed, her legs hanging from the edge while Beca was at her desk working on a mix. Stacie had spent a lot of time with Beca that week. Maybe it was the fact that neither of them really wanted to be there but they had fallen into an easy friendship. If they were in Beca's room, Beca would work on her mixes while they talked or Stacie did her nails until Kimmy Jin came in and glared at them. Stacie had even stopped by the station once. She spent the whole time there sitting on the desk, teasing Jesse about his hopeless crush on Beca and flirting with Luke. Beca didn't think it was possible to see the senior flustered but Stacie could turn even the cockiest frat boy into a blabbering mess.

"Why hasn't she called? It's been a week." Stacie whimpered. As much as Beca had seen Stacie flirt this past week, she knew she wasn't really serious about anyone. She would catch her checking her phone regularly with a small frown or looking around whenever they crossed the quad.

"I don't know, she seemed interested." Beca shrugged. "Chloe said she was straight though."

"That girl was not straight." Stacie snorted. "Besides, I don't believe in straight people."

"What? They're not unicorns, they're not something you believe in." Stacie shrugged.

After a moment of silence, Beca looked up from her mixing board. "What's it like?"

Stacie, who had been listening to the music with her eyes closed, opened her eyes and looked at her. "What's what like?"

"Being with a girl." Beca turned back to her computer to hide her blush.

"I think about the difference between being with guys and girls like the difference between driving and automatic car and driving a stick. Guys are the automatic car, everything's easy, you step on the right pedal and they go all the way. But girls are more complex, you have to learn how to handle them, learn when to change gears, not force it. It takes more work but the feeling is incomparable." Stacie lifted up on her elbows. "Thinking about asking out the hot redhead?"

"Her name is Chloe. And I don't know, maybe. I've never been with a girl, I've never even kissed one." Beca hid her face in her hands and leaned on the desk.

"Oh I can fix that." Stacie sat up and ran her hand up Beca's arm.

Beca shrugged her off and jumped back. "Dude, no! We're friends, don't make it weird."

Stacie jumped back on the bed laughing. "I wasn't really going to do it, I just wanted to see your face."

"You're not even my type." Beca crossed her arms and glared at her.

Stacie rolled her eyes. "Please, I'm everyone's type."

"If you keep staring at that it's going to burst into flames." Chloe stepped into Aubrey's room. The blonde was sitting on her bed with the paper with Stacie's number in front of her. She sat at the foot of the bed. "I don't even know why you keep looking at it, you've probably memorized it by now."

Aubrey shrugged and ran her fingers over Stacie's name on the page. The paper was practically falling apart from all the times she had folded and unfolded it. "Why don't you just call her?"

"I can't! She's too hot for me and I don't know how to do this whole going out with a girl thing. I don't even know if she's interested anymore, it's been a week." Aubrey hid her face in her hands. She hated feeling this vulnerable but liking a girl wasn't something that happened to her often, especially having the girl flirt shamelessly with her and giving her her number. She wasn't the type of girl who made the first move, or the second, she had noticed early on that boys were intimidated by girls like her so she usually let them take the lead.

"You won't know unless you call her but I doubt she's not interested anymore. She was throwing herself at you at the activities fair." Chloe poked her until she dropped her hands and looked up. "Come on, Bree, it's just a date. If you hate it you don't have to see her again."

"I'll think about it." Aubrey looked down at the paper again.

Chloe rolled her eyes. "Fine, stay keep staring at her number. Just know that if you don't do it before auditions and she gets into the Bellas, you're going to have to see her every day and wonder what might have been."

Beca knocked on Stacie's door. "Yo, Stace, I'm going down to the library, you wanna come?"

Stacie opened the door and let her in. "I don't know, I'm studying."

"Yeah, I think that's allowed in the library." Beca pulled her sleeve. "Come on, I don't want to go by myself, it's boring. I have this stupid paper for my lit class and if I want to keep my dad off my back I need to at least get a C."

"Alright, I'll go." Stacie started packing her things slowly. Going to the library meant Beca finding out who she was. She was pretty sure it wouldn't change anything at this point. 'Beca might not even care that I am the only heir of a super rich family of huge Barden donors and that my mom is on the board and is basically her dad's boss, right?. Maybe she won't notice the huge Conrad Library sign, or maybe she'll just think it's a coincidence.'

"Come on, I want to be done before my shift at the station." Beca whined from the door.

"I'm going, geez." Stacie finished gathering her things and slung her bag on her shoulder, ushering the shorter girl out. Stacie had been trying to figure out how to tell Beca the whole way over, she saw the steps leading up to the library and panicked. "Beca, I think you should-"

"Hi guys!" Stacie looked up to find Chloe with a huge smile on her face, Aubrey was standing behind her and gave her a tentative smile when they locked eyes. Chloe stepped aside and dragged Beca away, leaving Aubrey and Stacie alone.

"Hey." Stacie didn't know how to act. She didn't really know how to handle rejection, usually when she asked someone to call her, they called. She looked down at her feet.

Aubrey took a step closer, her stomach dropping at Stacie's dejected look. "Hey, I'm sorry I didn't call. I've just been busy."

"No, I get it, no worries." Stacie looked up and half smiled at her. "I've been busy too, you know school and shit. I guess I'll see you around."

"Wait, Stacie." She reached out and took Stacie's hand making her stop. She moved closer and squeezed Stacie's fingers. "If you're still willing, I'd love to take you for that coffee you mentioned."

Stacie looked up at Aubrey and smiled widely. Aubrey stopped breathing, she didn't think she'd ever seen a more beautiful smile and she couldn't believe she was the one who had put it there. "I'd like that."

"How's tomorrow afternoon?"

Stacie nodded. "I think I'm free."

"Good." Aubrey let go of Stacie's hand and stood there awkwardly, she quickly looked at Chloe and Beca who looked away and pretended they had been having a conversation which only resulted in both of them talking at the same time. Aubrey rolled her eyes. "I'll text you the details."

"You haven't lost my number?" Stacie raised her eyebrow at her and smirked but Aubrey could see Stacie was still a little hurt she hadn't called.

"No." Aubrey took a step closer to her and put her hand on Stacie's arm, looking at her in the eye. "I really did mean to call you."

Aubrey dropped her hand and walked over to Chloe and Beca.

"-finish this paper so we were heading to the library." Beca motioned with her head at the building behind Chloe and that's when she saw it. Stacie noticed Beca's eyes widen and she saw her mouth 'Conrad Library'.

"Yes! Your paper! We should totally go do that. I mean, you do that, I'll do my studying." Stacie grabbed Beca's arm and started dragging her away from the other girls. "We'll see you guys later, tomorrow, I'll see you tomorrow, Aubrey. Bye."

Stacie dragged Beca to the side of the building despite the shorter girl's protests. She finally let go when she was sure there was no way Aubrey and Chloe could overhear or see them. "What the hell, Stacie?"

"I'm sorry! I had to get you out of there before you started asking questions." Stacie leaned against the building with her arms crossed looking at her feet and waited.

"Oh, so it's not just a huge coincidence that the biggest library in Barden is the Conrad Library or that you have a single room or that the dean sends you cookies?" Beca was more upset about being manhandled in front of Chloe than about whatever Stacie was hiding but she wouldn't tell Stacie that.

"It's not." Stacie sighed. "My family donated the money for the library, and for a lot of the things here, that's why I got a single room and why the dean sends me stuff."

"Whoa so you're like Barden royalty? Why didn't you tell me?" Beca crossed her arms.

"I didn't want you to think I was a snobby rich kid who got everything handed to her." Stacie looked up at her and shrugged.

"So you basically own this place and you let me pay for coffee like three times this week?" Beca smirked.

Stacke pushed off the wall and slapped Beca's arm. "Shut up, Mitchell."

Beca laughed and started to walk back to the front of the library. "So wait, is there like a special Conrad only study room we can use?"

"Well…" Stacie smiled.

"No way! Dude, you're so cool." Stacie laughed and shook her head remembering how worried she was about Beca finding out. She guessed being 'Barden royalty' as Beca put it, wasn't so bad after all.