"Okay, how do I look?" Stacie walked into Beca's room and twirled. Beca's jaw dropped. Stacie was wearing a white shirt, the top three buttons open to reveal her breasts barely covered by a black undershirt. Below that she was wearing a black skirt that ended at the top of her thighs.

"Like you forgot the rest of your clothes? Stace, it's a coffee date, you're not going to a nightclub."

Stacie rolled her eyes. "Have you ever even been to a nightclub?"

"I don't see how that's relevant here." Beca crossed her arms and leaned back on her chair.

Stacie flopped on the bed facedown. "I'm such a mess."

"Hey, you're not." Beca sat down next to Stacie and patted the back of her leg awkwardly. "Why don't you change that skirt for some jeans and close another button. Besides, if you show up looking like that, Aubrey will have a heart attack. Killing someone on the first date is really bad form."

"Fine, I'll change the skirt." Stacie's words were muffled by the bed.

"Are you telling her your last name?"

Stacie turned and looked at her, worrying her lower lip with her teeth. "Do you think I should?"

"I don't know. Maybe just play it by ear, but don't lie to her."

"Ugh I must really suck if I'm taking relationship advice from you." She pressed her face to the mattress and groaned.

"Fine, lie to her, see if I care." Beca grabbed a pillow and hit Stacie's back. "Don't come crying to me when it blows up in your face."

Aubrey hated cliches. She liked to think she was original enough to avoid them. But sometimes, she had found, they were unavoidable. This time, however, she didn't even notice she had become a cliche when she spotted Stacie walking toward her from across the street and time seemed to slow down. It was like a montage in a sappy romance movie: Stacie waved at her and took off her sunglasses, her long hair flowing behind her, she turned her head to look for oncoming traffic and bit the leg of her glasses; she turned to the other side and crossed the street, her long jean clad legs moving with impossible grace on top of high black heels; the wind blew her shirt against her body, clinging to her in all the right places. Aubrey wasn't sure how she was still standing because she was pretty sure her legs had stopped working. She didn't really notice when it happened but suddenly Stacie was standing right in front of her smirking. "Hi."

Aubrey swallowed trying to do something about her suddenly dry throat but failing. "Hi." It came out squeaky so she cleared her throat and tried again. "Hi."

Stacie smiled and waited for her to move, when she didn't she tilted her head and chuckled. "Shall we go in?"

Aubrey snapped back to reality. "Yes! Yes."

She turned and opened the door, holding it open to let Stacie pass and earning her a small smile that made her heart flutter. They went up to the counter to order. Aubrey had picked a small cafe outside of campus. The place was small enough to be cozy but it was never too crowded and you could always count on finding a free table. They found a table near the back and sat across from each other.

"So…" Stacie said not really knowing where to start. Aubrey smiled tightly at her, clearly as lost as Stacie. "I don't really know anything about you other than you being the captain of the Bellas."

"I don't know anything about you, Stacie." Aubrey chuckled.

"Okay, let's fix that." Stacie took a sip from her coffee. "I'm Stacie, I was born here in Atlanta. When I was 10, my mom and I moved to Pennsylvania and I hadn't been back here until I came to Barden."

"Why did you move?"

Stacie looked at Aubrey not expecting to be interrupted. She looked down at her coffee. "Well, after my dad died we didn't really have anything to keep us here, all of my mom's family was up north so we left."

Aubrey reached out and squeezed Stacie's hand. She left her hand on top of Stacie's and rubbed circles on the back of it with her thumb. "I'm sorry, Stace."

Stacie shrugged. "It was hard at first but we were okay. My school in Pennsylvania had a great arts program so I really got into ballet and music." Aubrey smiled at her. "Yes, I'll audition for the Bellas."

Aubrey laughed. "I didn't say anything!"

"You didn't have to, your face did." Stacie stuck her tongue out and moved her hand, lacing her fingers with Aubrey's. "What else? I love animals, all animals. I haven't picked a major yet but I have a couple of options. And I think you're really cute."

Aubrey blushed and looked down. Stacie chuckled and tugged on her hand. "Your turn."

"Right." Aubrey took a deep breath and looked up at Stacie. "I was born in South Carolina but we moved around a lot, my dad is in the military. This is probably one of the places I've stayed in the longest. I've been a Bella since my freshman year, I met Chloe there and she's been my best friend ever since. I'm a bio major and I'm applying to vet schools next semester so I'm glad you said you loved animals." Stacie bit her lip and smiled.

Aubrey disentangled their fingers and crossed her arms leaning back on the chair. Stacie missed the contact but didn't say anything. Aubrey looked up at her and then looked down at the table. "And I think you're really cute too but if I'm being completely honest I'm really nervous about this."

Stacie stiffened at the unexpected comment. "Why?"

"I've never been with a girl. I mean, I've liked a couple of girls and I've even kissed a few, but I've never done it sober and I've never dated one. I don't know how this works." She played with the edge of her napkin nervously, refusing to look at Stacie.

"This works anyway we want it to. We don't have to decide anything now, it's our first date. And maybe we'll never share a Netflix queue or have a song of our own but I want to find out." She paused but Aubrey still didn't look up. "Unless I'm completely misreading everything and you want to end this right now."

"What? No." Aubrey exhaled loudly. "I'm doing this all wrong. This is just new to me."

"This is new to me too. What I'm saying is that, if you want, we can try to figure it out together." Stacie placed her hand palm up on the table and looked at Aubrey with her eyebrows raised. Aubrey smiled and settled her hand on Stacie's.

"We can do that."

"Mind if I walk you to your dorm?" Aubrey smiled sweetly at Stacie as they exited the cafe.

"I thought you said your apartment was just around the block."

Aubrey blushed. "It is but I'm not ready to say goodbye yet."

A smile split Stacie's face. She reached out to take Aubrey's hand and pulled her lightly back to campus. Her smile widened when Aubrey laced their fingers together. "So, would you like to maybe go out on Friday?"

"Sure, what are we doing?" Aubrey swung their clasped hands lightly.

"It's a surprise."

"You have no idea, do you?" Aubrey laughed.

"I have an idea." Stacie scoffed. Her voice lowered. "It involves you and me, maybe more hand holding." Stacie's fingers tightened for a second.

"That sounds like a good plan." Aubrey ran her thumb up and down Stacie's thumb making her shiver.

They got to Stacie's building faster than either of them would have wanted. Aubrey turned to face Stacie and smiled. "I had a great time."

"Me too." Stacie pressed the fingers of her free hand to Aubrey's elbow and ran them down her arm. When she got to her hand, she moved their clasped hands to Aubrey's hip. "Text me when you get home"

She leaned down and pressed a soft kiss to Aubrey's cheek. She looked into Aubrey's eyes before letting go of her hands and walking to the door.

Stacie jumped on Beca's bed and landed on her back, making the smaller girl sitting on the edge bounce and fall off. Beca pulled herself up by the edge of the bed, her headphones hanging half off her head. "Dude, warn me when you're gonna come charging in like that."

She glared at her but her expression softened when she caught the grin on Stacie's face. "You might wanna lose the shit-eating grin, Stace, you might hurt yourself."

"I'm not even going to bother with your snark right now. I'm too happy to care." She looked at Beca for a second before looking back at the ceiling. "The most beautiful girl in Barden agreed to go out with me again on Friday."

"You're gross." Beca scrunched up her face in disgust.

"Please, like you wouldn't be just as happy if Chloe asked you out"

Beca shrugged and turned to hide her smile. "I wouldn't be this disgusting."

"We'll see." She sat up and squealed loudly into a pillow.

"Dude, stop acting insane!" Beca tugged the pillow and Stacie lifted her head, the grin still plastered on her face.

"I really like her, Becs. It's not just that she's gorgeous, she's smart and cute and she has the softest hands in the entire universe. I think I could totally fall in love with her." She pressed her face to the pillow again.

"You've been on one date, you can't be in love with her."

"I didn't say I was, I said I could, in the future. Especially if that a capella thing means she's really good with her tongue." Stacie said seriously.

"Stacie, gross! You're being weird, go be weird in your own room." Beca took her pillow and put it back at the head of the bed.

Aubrey closed the door to her apartment and leaned against it with a sigh, closing her eyes and thinking about Stacie's lips on her cheek. She bit her lip and held back a squeal.

"That good, huh?" She opened her eyes and found Chloe smirking at her with her eyebrow raised.

Aubrey gave her Chloe a wide smile and nodded. "She's amazing, Chlo. She's smart and funny and nice and she loves animals."

Chloe chuckled. "And I guess it doesn't hurt that she's super hot."

Aubrey blushed. "Yeah, that's nice too. I don't understand how someone can make jeans and a shirt look so hot."

Aubrey got a far away look in her face and Chloe snapped her fingers in front of her. "Hey, come back from the gutter, you minx."

Aubrey's blush intensified and she hid her face in her hands. "I don't understand what she does to me. I've never felt this way before." She looked up at Chloe. "Every time she looked at me or smiled at me my stomach flipped, my heart rate went up when she touched me. I think I might die if we ever kiss."

"Aw, sweetie." Chloe hugged her. "I think you'll be fine." She rubbed her back comfortingly.

A/N: So, I'm pretty sure that if you're reading this you've already gone through most of the Staubrey stuff there is but if you haven't, or you just don't know where to start, you should really check out ACamp-toner and make-good-choices, they have some super cool, ongoing main Staubrey fics. And if you still feel like you need more, maybe you can try writing one. There isn't enough stuff out there and everyone will appreciate it (at least I will).