Beca and Chloe were finally ready. They had procrastinated, packed, thrown in last minute things and they were now finally on the road. Beca was driving and Chloe sat beside her, in charge of directions and music. Beca let her mind drift away from the car and thought about Chloe. She had decided that she liked her... probably. She was pretty, beautiful even but something was just not quite there yet. Even if she told Chloe she'd probably have to tell her about reading her diary and Chloe would break up with her before their relationship even started!
"Take a left at the intersection up here."
The sound of Chloe's voice made Beca jump.
Chloe smiled. "Did I scare you? Poor wittle Beca Weca."
Beca punched her lightly on the shoulder before changing lanes so she could turn left.
After more bickering and missed turns they finally arrived at Barden University. Chloe checked her phone to see a message that Aubrey had sent them, instructing them to go to Beca's old dorm that they would be sharing for the competition. They lugged their suitcases up the stairs and into the room.
Someone had come before them and put fresh sheets on the beds and two keys were on the table by the door. Other than that the room was pretty bare.
"I wonder if anyone else is here yet." Said Beca, putting her suitcase down and unzipping it.
"I'll text the group chat." Chloe got out her phone and started tapping out a message. She sent it and Beca's phone dinged from her back pocket.
"We could take a walk around while we wait."
"Okay, race you to the courtyard!" Chloe ran from the room, laughing. Beca rolled her eyes, grabbed a key from the table beside the door, closed and locked the door then made her way down the hall.
...
After a long walk around Barden, Beca's phone (Chloe had left hers in their room) finally dinged with a message.
Aubrey: Just getting here, where are you two?
Beca showed Chloe the message and then replied to let her know their room number. The two headed back and were met with Aubrey who squealed and hugged them. All three crashed on Chloe's bed and started watching 'The Wizard of Oz'.
They were just getting to the Tin man's song when all three phones dinged. Beca got her phone from her pocket and read aloud the message.
Emily: hey pitches
me and cr and lilly just met walking in. can we join you in bechloes room
Another message came through almost immediately.
Fat Amy: im already heading up there with drinks and CHOCOLATE
Beca: yr all welcome to come up here
bring food tho cause we have nothing
also it's not bechloe
Fat Amy: 🙄
yeah yeah
Stacie: nrly at barden
Jessica: me and ash are 10mins away
Flo: coming up
Just then, the door flew open as Amy barged in and nearly flattened them as they scurried over to give her some room to sit. Flo came shortly after with snacks and the rest of the Bellas came with more food and drinks.
...
"Okay Em," Beca slurred, a bottle of beer in one hand, "truth or dare."
"Can I pass?" Emily asked. She hadn't had much to drink and had the sense to realize neither option would yield a good result.
"Fine. Ames, truth or dare?"
Amy was even more drunk than Beca and answered slowly "Dareeeeee Becaaaaa."
Beca thought for a moment and Chloe yelled out "Get her to jump out the window!"
"I don't think-" started Emily before she was cut off by Cynthia Rose.
"In her underwear!"
"Guys maybe not-"
"Do it, do it, do it."
Amy stripped off her shirt and jeans and rolled out the window onto the plants below. Emily popped her head out the window to look down below.
"Are you okay Ames?"
"Urrgh, yeah. I'll come back up now."
"Ummm, okay."
The rest of the girls were laughing their heads off inside.
"Guys maybe we should watch a movie?" Emily suggested, hoping they would fall asleep.
"No, not yet!" Ashley protested, "Flo, truth or dare?"
"Truth."
"Okay, what is your deepest darkest fear?"
"That I'll have to leave America and live with chickens."
Some of the girls halfheartedly laughed at this. There was a short silence which Chloe filled.
"Okay Beca, truth or dare?"
"Truth, I don't fancy jumping out the window."
"Hmmmmm." Chloe fixed her with a stare and Beca could see her mind ticking over. "Okay, who's your crush?"
Beca opened her mouth to tell off Chloe when Amy barged in, waving a white envelope.
"Guys look what I found!"
The game was forgotten as they all crowded round. Amy tore open the envelope and passed it to Legacy to read.
"The Bellas are hearby invited to an Aca-initiation/riff off! The event will take place in one day at the empty pool at 8pm. A list of all groups are below."
"Read out the groups!"
"Okay, there are 5 other groups. 2 are younger than us and there are 3 older groups. All Bellas! Guys, this is really cool! There are so many Bellas!"
"Yeah yeah," Fat Amy started, "We haven't got all night Legacy, keep reading!"
"Okay, okay!
The current Bellas are a group of eleven girls. I won't read all the names, I don't recognise any of them but the leader is called Elsie Neils.
The Bellas that I was the leader of in senior year are their own group because I'm with you guys. They're all really nice and you'll love them. Anyway the leader was my co-captain and she's called Campbell Park. We just called her Bell for short.
Then there's us and then the older groups of Bellas. Do you guys know any of them?"
"Bree and Chloe will-"
"They were awful." Aubrey butted in.
Chloe nodded in agreement.
"Okay" Emily continued, "The leader is Alice Williams and there's 10 girls in total."
"Gosh I hope we beat them." Chloe mutterd to Aubrey.
"The second oldest group has 13 ladies. The leader is Bernice Hall. The oldest group has 9 and is led by Imogen Popple."
"That doesn't mean anything to me." Lilly still sounded sober, even after at least ten drinks.
"Maybe we should all watch a movie?" Emily tried again.
This time the Bellas seemed to grudgingly agree and started to position themselves on the two beds for a movie night. Emily picked the first movie she saw just so she could make sure they all stayed put.
Gradually the girls started drifting off to sleep. Beca turned her head to see Chloe curled up against her stomach with her head resting on her shoulder. Beca stroked her hair softly before snuggling up too and falling into a deep sleep.
