Rumors

Reunited And It Feels So...Weird

"Okay Beca we made it here in record time. You happy?" Stacie gripped the armrest of Beca's jeep dramatically, watching the eye roll in return from Beca as she parked in the empty school parking lot. It was early enough in the morning that the sun was just about to set and the breeze was chill-which, obviously, isn't a time that's normal for Beca to be up at. The time Beca wakes up is usually around two in the afternoon, three; or if she's lucky, noon at the earliest.

Beca took her foot off the brake as Stacie continued holding on for dear life, yanking the keys out of the ignition before opening the door and jogging to the back of the trunk. Making it to the back, opening the door and ignoring Stacie's complaints about how she doesn't have any makeup on and how she looks like, she quotes in Stacie Conrad's own words, "a giant pile of shit that shit," she pulled out her basketball duffle bag and a personal made trophy for Chloe so she could give it to her when their bus finally arrived.

Yesterday after having quite a few awkward gatherings with her dad, Stacie and now, own mother as they ate breakfast and just talked about life and stuff normal families usually do (fucking weird), Chloe excitedly called her the moment she was free of cheer, screaming on the other line of the phone and either laughing or crying (Beca couldn't really tell) that they just won nationals. Beca knew that with Chloe's routine, after seeing it so many times as the redhead rehearsed in her room when she said that it must be perfected even though she went through it a million times and watching the team practice during open gym that they would be the best team in Florida hands down. She also knew that the team would be coming back home with one of those intense banners that would be hung up in the gym of '2016 National Champions' as well as bringing home a first place trophy but, she wanted to get Chloe a welcome home gift and thought of a pretty cute idea last second.

It was a pretty decent size trophy, according to the sales guy at the sports shop when he asked how much Beca loves her girlfriend so of course, she said a lot and chose the bigger option of the many gold cheerleaders whose leg was up and hands full and extended in 'Y' form with metal Pom poms. Even carved at the bottom where usually a first place, second place or third place would be written but instead read, "#1 girlfriend on and off the court' in a fancy font Beca personally picked out.

If you had to ask her and not just because it was her big brain that conquered up this brilliant gift but honestly, she'd say it was a pretty clever idea and super cute on her part. Normally, Beca wasn't into cheesy gifts for her significant other but with Chloe weirdly, she wanted to buy the whole damn Build a Bear workshop for the redhead. Plus knowing her girlfriend, Beca knew Chloe was an absolute sucker when it came to cheesy things that came from Beca; such as good morning and good luck texts before a cheer day or the little gifts she'd drop on Chloe's desk whether it was her favorite snack or candy.

God, she was turning into a pile of mush by the goddamn second.

As far as Stacie, she went with something more eatable and Aubrey's favorite- which was a lemon- coconut with mascarpone frosting on the top, along with a 'welcome home' saying curving around the corners of the cake. She knew that Aubrey was a secret baker after remembering the cake Aubrey baked her for her birthday and what her stomach was telling and how her mouth basically watered at the memory, Aubrey was great at it. So, Stacie decided to switch roles while the blonde was down in Florida and googled her girlfriend's favorite cake, finding the easiest set of directions to bake with some help from Beca.

Not that the girl was any help from the start since Beca kept stealing swipes of frosting from the top when she wasn't looking or doing other stuff and Stacie had to kick her out of the kitchen before she ran out. Without any distractions and rodents she calls Beca Mitchell, Stacie was able to bake the perfect gift in hoping it would surprise her girlfriend when she got off the bus at Barden.