◣THAT TREBLE◥

⎼⎼⌞chapter fifteen⌝⎼⎼

"Let's get working!" I heard Aubrey yell from inside the practice room. I took a deep breath before quickly opening the doors causing heads to snap towards me.

"Is that Cassie?" I heard all the girls break out into whispers as Aubrey remained rigid.

"Yup, it's me. Don't cream your pants." I said nonchalantly as I made my way over to everyone

"What are you doing here?" Aubrey asked as she approached me with her arms crossed against her chest, a scowl present on her lips.

"I wanted to see if you would let me back into the group." I said as everyone's attention shifted towards Aubrey, anticipating what she would do next. Aubrey began awkwardly shifting around as she noticed everyone waiting for her response.

"I guess, since you didn't actually do anything wrong, you can be back into the group." She said after taking taking a deep breath, I sighed in relief as all the girls around me began squealing in excitement and rushed to pull me in a group hug.

"Ladies!" I heard Aubrey shout as we all halted in place, turning our attention to her.

"This is game time. This is life or death. We have a week before the ICCA's, we need to be on top of everything. Now, places!" She shouted as we quickly fell into our spots and began singing after Aubrey blew the pitch pipe.

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We were half way into our fifth time rehearsing before Aubrey quickly shouted at us to stop before making her way to stand in front of all of us.

"Okay, what is happening to us? Chloe you sound like you smoke three packs a day. Staci, you're behind in the choreography. And Jessica and Ashley, it's like you haven't been around all year!" She shouted as the rest of us began getting frustrated.

"Aubrey, really?"

"We've literally been here the whole time!"

"Aubrey, please just give us a break. It's kinda not the same without everyone here." Amy said softly as she glanced around at us all.

"We need Beca." Cynthia Rose said as we all nodded along with her.

"Maybe if Aubrey loosened the reigns a little bit." Chloe said, as I raised my eyebrows in shock at her standing up to Aubrey.

"Okay, shut it Chloe!" Aubrey said angrily as she folded her arms, Chloe quickly turning towards her in shock.

"Woah." Staci said folding her arms as she gave Aubrey an annoyed look.

"Aca-Awkward." Amy said quietly under her breath.

"I'm sorry, that was rude. Chloe, could you please get your head out of your ass? It's not a hat." Aubrey said softly at first, before her tone quickly shifted to one of anger. Chloe gasped as we all watched the scene in absolute shock.

"This is some serious horse shit. Phew. What's that smell? Stinks Everywhere." Amy said as she flailed her arms around.

"I don't want to be like the old Bella's!" Amy exclaimed as she stormed off to the chairs to get her stuff

"Yeah, I wanna be how we are now." Cynthia said nodding as she followed Amy. Lily quickly following her as well.

"Should of listened to Beca." Chloe said as she also followed, Staci grabbing my hand as she followed Chloe in suit.

"Oh so it's my fault?" Aubrey said turning around angrily.

"That's not what I'm saying!" Chloe yelled, tossing her hands up in the air frustrated.

"No, no, no. That's what you're all thinking isn't it? That I'm the jerk! I'm the girl that's obsessed with winning!" Aubrey said raising her voice as she watched us all putting on our coats.