Stacie stretched and turned, pulling Aubrey against her front. She planted kisses on Aubrey's shoulder without opening her eyes. After a few kisses she felt the blonde stirring in her arms.

Aubrey groaned. She turned around in Stacie's arms and buried her face in her neck, kissing it lazily. Stacie grabbed her by the ass and pulled her closer. She slipped her leg in between Aubrey's and moved up her hands, rubbing circles on her lower back. She pushed her leg up making Aubrey gasp and lift her head. They locked eyes and Aubrey nodded, moving forward to capture Stacie's lips. Stacie pressed her leg up again, using her hands to guide Aubrey's hips down onto it. Stacie's leg got too slick to give Aubrey the friction she needed and she whimpered. Stacie moved her hand in between their bodies and moved her leg away, replacing it with her fingers.

Aubrey reached down and parted Stacie's legs, entering her. She moved her fingers out and circled her entrance before plunging them in again. She broke the kiss and moved her head back, using her other hand to sweep Stacie's hair off her forehead to look into her eyes. She could feel herself getting closer. Stacie's movements were getting more erratic, telling her she was close too. Stacie seemed to regain her focus and moved her fingers purposely making Aubrey tumble forward with a strangled moan. Her fingers curled and uncurled inside of Stacie. Aubrey pressed the heel of her palm up making Stacie cry out.

"Fuck, I love you." Stacie panted in her ear as she arched her body against Aubrey's hand. Aubrey could still hear her blood pounding in her ears. Her forehead was resting on the pillow next to Stacie's head, her fingers still buried deep inside the brunette.

She willed her head up and looked at Stacie. Her eyes were closed and she seemed to be trying to control her breathing. She extricated her fingers slowly, a small frown crossing Stacie's face. She didn't really look any different, not that Aubrey was expecting her to look different, but she had just told her she loved her for the first time.

Stacie opened her eyes slowly and smiled at her, her beautiful green eyes taking Aubrey's breath away. She smiled back and cupped her cheek. "Morning."

Stacie laughed. "We should totally wake up like that every day. That was amazing."

Aubrey nodded. Did she not realize she said she loved me? Stacie kissed her. "I love" Aubrey held her breath. "That sound you make right before you come."

"Oh?" Stacie was kissing up her neck. She nibbled her earlobe and whispered in a husky voice. "I wanna hear you make that sound over and over again."

Aubrey squeaked and felt heat pooling between her legs again. She could wonder about what Stacie said or didn't say later.

"Stace?" Stacie kissed Aubrey's neck. She had one hand on the door next to Aubrey's head and the other one on Aubrey's back pulling her close. "Stacie."

"What, babe?" Aubrey's hands were cradling Stacie's head. Stacie scraped her skin with her teeth and then ran her tongue over it.

"Umm" She struggled to remember what she was saying when the hand on her back moved to her front and sneaked under the t-shirt Stacie had lent her. "Stace, maybe we should take this inside."

"Mhm." Stacie mumbled against her neck, her hand moving higher and cupping her breast over her bra. Aubrey threw her head back, not caring when she hit the door with a loud thump. Aubrey grabbed Stacie's face and pulled her up to kiss her, leaning back on the door.

Suddenly, the door opened and they went crashing to the ground, Stacie landing on top of Aubrey. "There you are!" They both looked up guiltily at a fuming Chloe. "Do you have any idea how worried I was when I woke up this morning and you weren't here? Did it occur to you to text me when you decided to stay with Stacie? Or this morning?"

Aubrey pushed Stacie off her and stood up. "Chloe, I'm-"

"I had to call Beca and ask her if she'd seen you because both your phones sent me straight to voicemail!"

"You have Beca's number?"

"That's not the point here, Stacie!" She waved her arms and turned to Aubrey "The point is you could have let me know you were alive." She stormed away. Aubrey and Stacie looked at each other in shock, Stacie shrugged at her.

"I'll go see if I can fix this." Aubrey said and kissed Stacie, wrapping her arms around her waist.

Stacie nodded. "Wanna do something later? Oh shit, I told Beca we could do something with you and Chloe." She looked sheepishly at Aubrey. "Call me when you talk the angry redhead down, see if she wants to go out?"

Aubrey chuckled and nodded kissing Stacie again. "Bye."

Aubrey sighed and walked to the living room, sitting down on the couch next to the seething redhead. She laid her head on Chloe's shoulder. "I'm sorry you were worried, Chlo, I should've texted you."

Chloe relaxed a little. "Yes, you should have. I mean, my first thought was that you had stayed Stacie but then I thought what if she didn't? What if she's dead in a ditch somewhere and no one knows?"

Aubrey squeezed Chloe's hand and she rested her cheek on top of Aubrey's head. "So, how was it?"

Aubrey pushed off Chloe's shoulder and looked down blushing. "It was good. It was really good. She asked me to be her girlfriend." Chloe squealed. "And then we went to her room and things happened. And then again this morning. And they might have happened in the hallway if you hadn't opened the door."

"Oh my god! She turned you into a sex maniac!"

"What? No!" Aubrey bit her lip. "She's just really good with her hands and her lips and her tongue and her everything."

Chloe laughed. "She totes did."

Aubrey grabbed a cushion and hit Chloe's shoulder. "Shut up."

Aubrey leaned back on her shoulder and they fell into companionable silence. After a while Aubrey spoke. "Something weird happened though." Chloe raised her eyebrow and looked at her. "This morning we were having sex and she kinda told me she loved me."

"What do you mean kinda?"

Aubrey hid her face in her hands. "Well we were in the middle of it and she said 'fuck, I love you' but I don't know if it was one of those things people say during sex or if she meant it. And she didn't say anything about it after. Do you think she meant it?" She turned to look at Chloe, vulnerability etched on her face.

"Do you want her to have meant it?"

"I don't know! I mean, I don't want her to not mean it. But I don't know if I'm ready to say it back." Chloe looked at her with a maniacal smile. "What?"

"Nothing." Chloe hugged her tightly. "Nothing."

"Hey, Becs, we're meeting Bree and Chlo at 6!" Stacie pounded on Beca's door. After a couple of seconds the door opened.

"Oh, it's you." Kimmy Jin opened the door and turned away. "Beca went to the bathroom, I think."

She went in and jumped onto Beca's bed. "I'll wait here." She turned to face the other girl and leaned on her elbow. "You know what would be hilarious? If Beca came in and found us making out on her bed." She licked her lips exaggeratedly as Beca walked in the door.

"Your friend is sexually harassing me again, Beca." Kimmy Jin got up to leave.

"Come on, I was kidding!" Stacie yelled at her. "That girl does not know how to take a joke."

Beca laughed and dropped her toiletries on the bed. "Maybe your girlfriend will think it's funny, why don't you ask her?"

"I'm gonna ignore the fact that you're being an asshole and enjoy that you called her my girlfriend." Stacie leaned back on the pillows.

"Changing." Stacie put her hand over her eyes. She thought it was ridiculous that Beca made her close her eyes every time she changed, or that she covered her own, blushing profusely whenever Stacie started to change without announcing it, but it was pointless to argue. "What are we doing, anyway?"

"I think we're getting dinner and then I don't know." Stacie shrugged. "Aubrey probably has a plan."

Beca snorted. "I'm sure your anal girlfriend has the whole evening planned out."

"I'm glaring at you from behind my hand." Stacie flipped her off. "Please be nice, Becs. You can be a little... caustic sometimes."

"I'm always nice!" She put her shirt on. "You can look again."

Stacie dropped her hand and sat up. "Just try, please? She really wants to get to know you."

Beca rolled her eyes and sat on the bed next to Stacie punching her shoulder lightly. "I'll try to keep my sarcastic comments to a minimum. Even if she adds aca before every word she says."

Stacie scrunched up her face and bumped her shoulder before dropping back on the pillows with a sigh. "I think I might love her."

"You think?" Beca smirked at her.

"I'm pretty sure! I've never been in love before." Stacie shrugged. "I just really like being with her, even if we're doing nothing; and I can listen to her talking about a capella for hours even if I don't really have an opinion on it; and I don't really feel that heart skipping, clenching in my stomach I felt at the beginning so much, it's more like a constant warmth that intensifies when I'm with her."

Beca looked away covering her mouth with her hand. "I'm sorry, I just puked a little in my mouth."

Stacie crossed her arms. "I can never have a serious conversation with you about my feelings."

"I'm sorry!" She turned to face Stacie seriously. "You know feelings make me uncomfortable." She poked Stacie's leg. "I'm really happy for you."

Do I love Stacie? I like her a lot. It's too soon to be thinking about forever so let's focus on now. Right now I don't want to be with anyone else, or without her. I love being with her. Is that the same as loving her? I love Chloe, but I guess that's a different kind of love. I don't want to hold Chloe's hand, or kiss her, or have sex with her. I want to do all of that with Stacie. All the time. I feel better when I'm with her, even if I don't necessarily feel bad when I'm not, she just makes good things better and bad things good. We haven't really had any big bad things happen so far though. But do I need to know how she'll make me feel in the bad times to know that I love her now? It felt good when she told me she loved me, but is that just because I want someone to love me or because I love her back? Maybe I can't rationalize this because love really isn't something you think about, love is just a word that describes something too big to be put into words. Maybe love is just wanting to fall asleep in her arms, or knowing that she'll be there to hold my hand when I need it. Maybe it's not caring when she buries her cold feet under my legs when we're watching a movie, or listening to her talk about that horrendous show she likes and actually trying to understand why she's yelling at the TV. Maybe it's the way my heart skips when she smiles and how I'd do anything to make her do it, or all the little things she does to make me smile. Maybe it's feeling like I'm going to burst from all the things I feel for her. Maybe I love her. I love her. I love Stacie.

Stacie bounced on the balls of her feet as she waited for someone to answer the door. Beca rolled her eyes. "Will you chill? It's like you haven't seen her for weeks, not hours."

"It feels like weeks." The door opened and Aubrey immediately felt herself being lifted and pushed against the wall. She wrapped her legs around Stacie's waist and responded to the kiss, holding herself upright with her hands on Stacie's shoulders. Beca stood awkwardly outside the apartment looking at her feet.

"Hey." Beca looked up and blushed. Chloe rolled her eyes at Stacie and Aubrey. "Do you wanna come in? That might be a while."

"Umm sure." Beca sidestepped Aubrey's knees and walked into the livingroom.

Stacie kissed down Aubrey's neck. "Hi, baby."

Aubrey moaned. "Hi." She pulled Stacie back up and kissed her. "I need to talk to you."

"Guys! I'm hungry!" Chloe yelled from the livingroom.

Aubrey dropped her feet from around Stacie without breaking the kiss and pushed away from the wall. "We need to stop this."

"You said you needed to talk." Aubrey kissed her again and then pulled back.

"It can wait." Stacie searched her eyes to get an idea of what Aubrey wanted to tell her but was satisfied when the blonde smiled at her warmly. She gave her a quick peck and grabbed her hand to walk into the livingroom. "Hi, Beca, sorry about that. It was Stacie's fault."

Stacie sat down on the couch and pulled Aubrey sideways onto her lap. "I didn't hear you complaining." Stacie ran her hand up Aubrey's leg.

"Are they always like this?"

Chloe laughed and nodded. "They're usually not this bad though. I guess it's the sex."

Stacie was whispering something in Aubrey's ear making her blush. Beca shook her head. "I don't know how you stand being around them so much."

Chloe shrugged. "They're cute. And Aubrey's never been happier so I just try to ignore the inappropriate touching as much as I can."

Beca looked at them again. Stacie laughed and kissed Aubrey's cheek, her thumb rubbing small circles on the side of her leg. "Yeah, Stacie does seem happier when she's with her."

Aubrey seemed to step out of her Stacie haze for a second. "So where do you guys want to go for dinner?"

"We can go to that Italian place around the block." Chloe suggested.

"Oh yeah, that's good. And Beca hasn't been there."

Chloe turned on the couch and grabbed Beca's hands. "Oh my god, we have to go, you'll love it."

"Okay…"

Chloe squealed and gave her a quick hug. "I'll go get my purse."

Beca sat on the couch too stunned to move. Stacie was looking at her trying not to laugh and Aubrey smirked at her.

"Let's go!" Chloe yelled from the door. Beca stood up and followed her.

Aubrey tried to get off Stacie's lap but Stacie wouldn't let go of her. She looked at Aubrey and the blonde thought she saw something she hadn't seen before cross her eyes. She cupped Stacie's cheek and ran her thumb over her lower lip. "What is it?"

Stacie kissed Aubrey's thumb and smiled. "Nothing, you're just too beautiful."