A/N Well I got a lot of of positive feedback on the last couple of chapters, which was very encouraging. It sounds like you guys are liking it.
If you follow my other stuff, you'll know that I don't write epics, so here's another short chapter before the Bellas fly back home.
Beca opened the door wide and gestured for them to come in. It looked a little ridiculous as they filed in to the room, feeling a little like naughty schoolgirls being led into the Principal's office. The small brunette felt a little self conscious holding the door as they walked in, all three of them flashing her a warm smile as they passed her. Stacie, last in let her hand trail over Beca's rear as she came in, looking back over her shoulder with a mischevious glint in her eye.
All four knew quite well the situation the last time they were altogether here in this room and Beca shot a glance to the corner where she'd first caught sight of the pile of underwear. She let out an almost inaudible half chuckle.
"So..." she gestured wide with her arms to the group, who'd sat on her bed. Again, it felt a little like the Principal addressing the troupe a trouble-making students. She moved to sit on the comfortable chair facing the bed. "I guess we haven't talked about what happened on Friday." She said, pointedly looking at Chloe and sighing. "What happened on friday?"
Chloe opened her mouth to speak, but Aubrey spoke first causing the small brunette to turn to the blonde, "Beca, I want you to know," she said, pausing to reach out and take Stacie's hand on her left, and Chloe's hand on the right, "We want you to know that what happened on Friday was..erm, it was..."
"I think what the gorgeous and usually articulate Bree is trying to say Beca, is that it was beautiful," Stacie took over. "It was hot, yes. Sexy as fuck and mind-glowingly orgasmic, but it was beautiful, it was special it was - "
"A bit weird?" Interjected Beca, biting her lower lip and glancing between the three.
Chloe smiled warmly, "No Bec, not weird."
Beca quirked an eyebrow, "What, four good friends, drunk, naked and getting sweaty in bed together isn't a little weird?"
"Well you never complained when we were in college..."
Stacie snapped her head round at Chloe, her eyes wide open in disbelief, "You never.."
"We might have been in bed together drunk, but never naked," replied Beca lightly.
"You might not have been," the beautiful redhead replied coyly to splutters from the shorter Brunette.
"What, really?"
"You always were the one to sleep in - I love to sleep naked, I was just always up first, you know?"
"Well, that's.. That's not the point. We four," Beca gestured to them with her hands, "We four haven't been in to bed naked before, I never even seen Aubrey in her underwear.."
"Did you like it?" Asked Aubrey
"What, seeing you naked?"
"No not that, well, yes that too, but I mean, what we did together on friday night?" Aubrey asked gently, "Did you like it?" She squeezed Chloe's and Stacie's hands as they looked to Beca.
"I... I guess..."
Chloe smiled and jumped up to squash herself next to Beca, wrapping her arms around her. "We did too Becs. So much."
Beca turned to look at her with a half-smile. "The one thing I can't get out of my head though - I know so much more about you guys - your relationship now. I just..."
"What Beca?" Asked Chloe gently.
"Was I... Was I a toy? Was I someone else to have a bit more fun with?" Her tone wasn't hurt, it wasn't upset. She was genuinely curious.
"No!" Stacie and Aubrey shouted in Unison, the taller brunette jumped up and squashed next to Beca. "No Becs, that's not what you were, that's not what you are to us. She took hold of Beca's hand. "Um, could we all go sit back on the bed, cos I think this chair might collapse." She grinned a toothy smile at Beca and the three of them got up and onto the bed, Beca sitting between Stacie and Chloe, with Aubrey next to the redhead.
"No Becs," Chloe carried on, "Not a toy. Not at all. Oh god it's complicated."
"You're telling me," Beca sighed out.
Chloe smiled, and Stacie squeezed up to her, resting her head on the smaller brunette's shoulder.
"No, you're telling me. Like... telling, telling me?" Beca looked to Chloe.
"We will," Aubrey said from behind her. "We will, but not tonight. Tonight we just wanted to know if you were freaked out, I guess. We really haven't had a proper chance to talk away from the ladies and...well, we were running out of time. Chloe and I are heading back to New York in the morning, and we couldn't bear to leave things hanging in the air. Not when we've got you back in our lives again."
"We have got you back again haven't we?" Chloe asked, her eyes full of hope."
"Yeah. Yeah, you've got me back, but..."
"We need to talk about this kind of separately, you know, in a one to one maybe? I'm only a few minutes from your place - I was hoping we could maybe spend some time together, now we know," said Stacie looking to Beca warmly.
"Yeah, I'd like that. I've really missed you guys you know?"
"Yeah we could tell," laughed Stacie, raising an eyebrow, "I never knew you could lick pu-"
"Stacie!" Admonished Aubrey, hitting her arm playfully, "This isn't the time."
"Sorry Bree, she laughed, turning to Beca and mouthing "Not, sorry" with a wink.
"We've missed you too Beca. Five years!" Pouted Chloe
"Yeah, look. I explained about all that," Beca replied, looking apologetic and a little sad. "I've been a jerk. You guys mean so much to me. Not just you three, but Jessica, Ashley, Amy, all of you. I shouldn't have lost myself in work. I shouldn't have shut you all out."
"No, you shouldn't have Beca," said Aubrey gently, "It's OK though. You have all our numbers now - and you're back in the Group chat. We're not going to let you go anywhere." That last was said with the three of them, rather than the Bella group in general implied. It was almost predatory, but said with love and warmth.
"It's getting late," said Aubrey getting up from the bed. "We should get some sleep before tomorrow."
"I guess," said Beca getting up too. Chloe and Stacie joined them.
"Oh Becs." Chloe pulled Beca tight in a crushing embrace. "I really have missed you." She released her and then kissed her softly on the cheek.
Aubrey was next with the hug, which Beca returned as warmly. Considering what they'd done together a few nights previously, it was as if there wasn't a personal space boundary any more -not after it had been flattened by an all out battery assault. Stacie was last, and Stacie being Stacie couldn't resist squeezing Beca's butt, which elicited a cute squeal from the shorter girl.
"Well er, goodnight then," Beca said as she showed them to the door.
"Night Becs." Stacie kissed her on the cheek
"Good night Beca," Aubrey took the brunette's hand and gave it a squeeze.
"Night Bec. Sleep well, breathed Chloe in Beca's ear as she squeezed her tightly, and then let her finger trail lightly over Beca's rear and up her arm as she went out of the door.
Beca sighed as she closed the door and leaned back against it. Her mind was swimming. Her emotions were all over the place. She'd come to the reunion with just more than a little hope that Chloe might still harbour feelings for her, in the way that she did for the redhead. Those feelings that she'd oh so stupidly refused to acknowledge, but she'd come away finding out that not only were Chloe and Aubrey were a thing, but Chloe Aubrey and Stacie were a thing and not being completely upset by it all. She'd felt something else spark. Something not quite usual, maybe not quite normal, but something... what was it Aubrey was trying to tell her? Special?
She still had it bad for Chloe, she knew that much. But now she was seeing Stacie and Aubrey in a different light. "Oh yeah, it'll be the us all being naked together thing and hands, fingers and tongues being in places that... yeah... that'll be it," she thought.
She was still in a kind of daze as she went about her bedtime regime before finally climbing in to bed and clicking the light off. Closing her eyes, her mind swam with visions of Chloe smiling at her. Her senses were filled with the memory of her perfume, the way she smelled, but it wasn't she Chloe, it was Aubrey and Stacie. The combined scent of their skin came back at her, mingling in memory, and as she started to doze, and succumb to sleep Chloe's clothes had dissolved along with her own. Stacie and Aubrey were entangled, as naked as Chloe and Beca, and inviting them into the tangle, to be as one...