Chapter 5 – A kiss with a fist is better than none (Part 2)
Mina followed Beca as she wound her way across the dance floor, clearly intent on the doorway leading off to the side of the main room. It really did feel as if her brain was going insane, her heart seemed to be flopping between despair that her one and only chance with Beca was when she was tipsy and vulnerable after breaking up with Ken doll boyfriend, and elation that the klein mouse had even responded to her.
Her lips were tingling and the kiss was looping endlessly in her head. Mina was so screwed. Pieter kept throwing her worried glances as they followed Beca through the doorway into a surprisingly rowdy room.
The majority of the Bella's were sitting over the far side of a long, business style table while DSM were sitting closest to the door. Apparently Fat Amy had just said something insulting to DSM as most of the two groups were on their feet shouting while she gestured obscenely. Mina glanced over to Beca, even the Kein mause was taken aback by the racket. This sort of behaviour was unacceptable.
Mina's eyes flashed, she donned her best scowl and sucked in a breath.
"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS COMPLETE AND UTTER CHAOS" She yelled.
The room instantly froze and donned a startled deer expression at the sight of a furious Kommissar. Mina flared her nostrils.
"Somebody has exactly 10 seconds to explain why two professional groups of international standing have decided to disgrace their honour and act like infants" She stated firmly while glaring at the group.
The red head Chloe moved forward slightly and cleared her throat.
"We proposed a drinking match playing 'never have I ever'. Last team standing wins. Fat Amy inferred that Germans couldn't hold any thing but fancy beer and well it escalated from there" She finished with a grimace
Mina frowned and thought hard. They did have room in the schedule to cut a little slack tomorrow. She glanced sideways a Pieter. He had a slight smile on his face and a raised eyebrow, looked like he was more than game to beat the Americans twice in one night. She turned back to the group and nodded sharply
"Terms and rules of the wager" She demanded Chloe swallowed in surprise that the strict taskmistress of DSM was agreeing to the wager.
"Rules: Each person makes a statement such as 'never have I ever flown on a plane' if that statement is true for anyone else at the table then they have to take a drink. If you are the only person that statement applies too then you drink twice, if no one else drinks to your statement then you drink twice, if it is an embarrassing admission then you must drink twice" Chloe stated firmly
Mina smirked "You are... how do you say it?...On"
Mina strode forward to take a seat on DSM's side of the table and the group settled into seats across from the Bellas. Beca walked over to Chloe with wide eyes and hissed something into Chloe's ear. Mina watched unobtrusively as Chloe shrugged of Beca and forced her into a seat next to her, drink in hand. Beca scowled at the drink Chloe forced on her before placing it on the table and crossing her arms petulantly.
Mina bit her lip gently. The mause looked so cute when she's grumpy, but at the same time she worried that Beca completely regretted the hottest moment of Mina's life. She looked pretty unhappy much to Mina's sadness.
The Bella's finally settled with their drinks as Pieter passed Mina hers. Chloe smiled evilly at DSM before speaking
"We'll start of easy then…never have I ever kissed a boy" she said with a smirk
Mina rolled her eyes and downed a decent swallow of her drink with the rest of her group. Kissing Pieter while very drunk was not the most pleasant of memories. Chloe turned to her right towards Fat Amy
"Never have I ever passed gas and blamed it on someone else" Fat Amy smiled before taking a sip of her own drink. Mina smirked superiorly over the fact she didn't have to drink before catching a glimpse of Pieter as her raised his glass to his lips. Her eyes widened in shock.
"Nien, you didn't!" Mina gasped
Pieter reddened slightly at her outburst as quietly murmured
"Remember that one night in a van when I claimed a skunk got in…well I wasn't feeling myself after Mexican the night before…" he trailed of in embarrassment
Mina's mouth fell open in surprise
"That was you!" she exclaimed as she wacked him on the arm "That was horrible!"
Pieter ran his hands through his hair in embarrassment "Sorry" he murmured back before turning his attention to the next person for the game.
Stacey was up next and had a wide smirk on her face
"Never have I ever had a sex dream about someone of the same sex" she said
Mina rolled her eyes and went to reach for her drink when she noticed that the little Mouse's face was brick red and she also had a drink in hand. Mina grinned, she couldn't help herself; she had to tease her embarrassed little mouse at this stage. Mina smirked at the other girl and toasted her as she drank. She thought it was totally charming that the brunette girls was this sexually shy and watched as Beca nearly choked on her own drink in response.
Stacey's eyes covertly followed the interaction between the two and gave Chloe a meaningful look. The red head had a very evil grin on her face as she patted Beca on the back to assist her.
Eric their beat boxer was up next. He grinned widely
"Never have I ever had a sexual fantasy about a woman in black leather"
He chuckled as most of the guys on the team drank including Pieter, but the real surprise was that about a third of the Bellas also drank, including Beca, who's eyes seemed to flick guiltily over to Mina. She filed that thought away for later as she deliberately leant back in her chair pulling the shirt material tighter over her chest. She watched as Beca glanced over guiltily again, though her eyes seemed to linger a little more hungrily this time. Mina's lips curled up slightly. Maybe the klein mouse was a little more interested than Mina though. She watched as Beca bit her lip slightly as she continued to observe Mina from the corner of her eye.
The game continued as Mina began to feel a pleasant buzz. Beca seemed to be a bit happier and Mina couldn't help but look at her when she laughed at some of her team's more ridiculous antics. Mina was still watching the klein mouse as she tried to control her tipsy giggles when her turn came up. She pursed her lips in thought.
"Never have I ever has sex with a girl" She said impulsivly.
The DSM guys groaned and drank along with 3 of the Bellas and Mina.
The klein mouse's face was brick red again as she watched Mina lift the drink to her mouth. Mina couldn't resist locking eyes with her in a more than suggestive manner. She couldn't help her lips turning up at the rather interested look Beca was giving her.
It was obvious from the kiss before that the mouse was interested but from her lack of answer to Mina's statement it seemed like she was just unexperienced and a little shy. She would have to go slowly but Mina thought she could work with that. After all she couldn't stop thinking about their earlier kiss.
The game moved a few more people down to Marc, one of their backing vocalists in DSM. He was starting to look pretty messed up as a result of the alcohol.
"Never have I ever been cheated on" he croaked before emptying his drink and slamming it onto the table, swaying slightly.
Mina frowned; Marc was obviously still hurting that his girlfriend of 4 years had cheated on him, during one of their more extensive tours last year. He was clearly not coping well and Mina subtly signalled two of her more sober members to take him home.
Mina glanced back over to see an angry looking Beca downed two drinks in rapid succession before scowling at the table. Klein mouse was also obviously still hurting over her stupid ex-boyfriend. Mina grimaced; alcohol and emotions did not make a good mix. DSM should leave before any drama started but Mina was reluctant to concede victory to the Bella's who all looked to be varying degrees of inebriated already.
Chloe was now patting Beca's arm as she lean on her shoulder in an effort to comfort the other girl. Mina felt a small spike of jealousy before she looked away. She needed to get a grip on herself, maybe get laid at some point.
The door directly behind her burst open and a group of men in purple velvet tumbled in with a loud cry and lots of laughing. Mina's head whipped around and everyone stared as the pile of drunken men struggled to separate themselves. Mina watched as the ken doll ex-boyfriend extricated himself from the group and staggered up-right. His eyes locked on Beca as he broke out in a stupid grin.
"There's the ice bucket I need" He called out jubilantly "Boys you could all put your drinks near her and they would be icy cool in no time" Jesse staggered closer as his team mates started picking themselves of the ground. One of the boys was frowning and had started to try to pull the stupid idiot away. Mina couldn't help her growing anger over the crass and insensitive words this dumkopft was spewing out of his mouth. .
She glanced over at Beca to see how she was taking this. She was staring down at the ground, looking furious and embarrassed. The Bella's all looked as outraged as Mina was. Jesse didn't appear to notice the danger he had unwittingly put himself in. He staggered closer towards the table they had all been sitting around and pointed at Beca;
" I swear if you got any colder my balls would turn blue and drop off" He stupidly laughed at his own inept joke while the room looked stonily at him, even the Treble Makers behind him were shifting uncomfortably. They liked Beca and Jesse was turning into a mean drunk tonight. Some of the more sober members made a valiant attempt to drag him away but the damage had already been done. Jesse swayed on the spot and pointed at Beca
"Frigid emotionally retarded girlfriends will always make you cheat" He slurred
Mina had had enough. This person was not going to make Beca doubt herself more than she already did. She took two long strides over to the drunk before slugging him in the face as hard as she could. Jesse hit the ground with a bleeding nose and there was a stunned silence as everyone processed the idea of a normally in control Kommissar loosing her cool over some drunken idiot. Mina shook her now very sore hand out with a hiss
The split second of silence was broken by shouts of anger from the Trebles as some of the newer and more inebriated team members mistakenly attempted to defend their leader and attempted to charge Mina. She barely had time to process this as the shrieking form of Fat Amy launched herself from the top of tables behind them and sailed past her surprised face. She landed straight on the three drunk idiots, tackling them down to the ground.
In the next second it seemed like bedlam had broken out as the rest of the Bellas came charging round the tables in order to attack the rather alarmed Treble Makers, who had started to assist their injured friends off the ground. At the same time some rather depressed Tone Hangers had just entered through the door and realised a brawl was in progress.
"It's a fight! It's a real fight!" On of them called out as they all jumped into the chaos as the three groups collided.
Mina stood in shock as room descended into a mass of flailing, hair pulling, girly screams and awkward wrestling for apparently no reason. This was getting out of control. She was just about to try and regain control of the room when Beca brushed past her intent on Jesse' bleeding form. She came at him like a woman possessed and even Mina could hear the audible crunch as her foot connected with his genitals. The noise seemed oddly distinct amongst all the drama and Jesse ended up curled on the ground for the second time that night.
Mina started to intervene when a loud bang issued from the doorway. The room froze in surprise as their bald host entered the room.
"What in tarnation is going on here!" he screeched "You loose cannons are ruining my party and I'm calling the police !" before rapidly scooting out the door.
Mina glanced over a Peiter who had a similar look of horror on his face. She placed her face in her hands in defeat. This night couldn't have ended much worse; their manager was going to kill them.
-Page Break –
Mina was sitting on the curb in the road staring off into space as the red and blue lights flashed in the darkness. Pieter was currently being questioned by the police at that moment; thankfully he was one of the last of DSM that hadn't been spoken to yet.
Mina sighed, tonight had been a mess, and they would be lucky if this didn't hit the news and damage their tour bookings. She rested her head against her knees and watched the ambulance crew help Jesse into the back of their vehicle. His face was a mess of blood and snot and he was walking with a distinctive bow leg, apparently severe testicular bruising was a thing.
A police officer had informed Mina earlier that they were not going to press charges this time, which was a small mercy. Strangely he had looked oddly dishevelled and his shirt looked like it had been hastily tucked and was caught by his zipper. He had been talking to that Stacey chick before so Mina figured she had made some sort of legal argument in their favour, which was nice.
Mina was still lost in thought when Beca softly sat next to her.
"Here you should put this on your hand" Beca said quietly as she passed her an icepack "would hate to see your beautiful hands damaged"
Beca groaned and hit her head against her knees
"Pretend I didn't say that" she whimpered "I'm smooth I swear…ahh forget I said that too"
Mina stared at her in surprise and slowly took the icepack of her. Beca blushed under the scrutiny and ducked her head again.
"It was the least I could do after you defended me" she explained quietly "Thanks for that" she smiled at Mina
Mina couldn't help but smile back.
"It was nothing" she demurred
Beca's face took on a stubborn look.
"I was not nothing to me" she said quietly but firmly "You are the first person to stand up for me besides the Bellas, so thank you, it means a lot"
This time is was Mina's turn to blush
"Well then you are welcome, I will be happy to defend any amount of tiny mouses" she replied with a gentle smile
Beca smiled and looked down causing her hair to fall over her face. Mina couldn't resist and slowly brought up her good hand to gently tuck the hair back behind her ear. Beca's eyes widened in surprise and turned her head to look directly at Mina. Their eyes met in a strangely vulnerable moment and they couldn't seem to look away. Mina's heart was beating a hundred miles an hour but she couldn't loose what little time she might have with Beca. Mina gently cupped Beca's delicate face
"I'm sorry that idiot hurt you" She said while her thumb gently stroked her face
Beca looked a little out of her depth and overwhelmed but Mina was not going to let her back out of this because she was shy. Beca bit her lip and seemed to rally
"The only thing I care about is whether you hurt yourself punching him" She said with a blush.
They could both hear the Bella's starting to call out for Beca in an attempt to find her. Mina felt a squeeze in her heart that their time was running out before it even started. She dropped her hand away from the brunette's face and broke eye contact.
"Your friends are looking for you, you'd best go find them before we have another riot on our hands" she teased gently.
Her heart was breaking slightly though that this girl seemed to have broken though so many of her walls yet their teams and nationalities made it near impossible for them to be together.
Beca glanced guiltily behind her before turning back to Mina with a determined look. Leaning forward quickly she kissed Mina before smiling cheekily
"My hero" she stood up and turned to walk away "Text me?" she threw over her shoulder before attempting to confidently walk away. She was mostly successful; she only stumbled over flat ground once.
Mina smiled to herself, maybe there was hope for them yet