Disclaimer: I don't own Pitch Perfect.
Author's Note: So the idea for this story came when I was reading chapter 10 of Redlance-ck's "Experimentation" (which you should check out) and Chloe worries about what will happen when they all leave Barden. Then it mixed with some stuff going on in my life as I was trying to fall asleep in the wee hours of the morning (unsuccessfully, I might add), and these little drabbles came out of that. (Also, though it is inspired by that fic, this story is canon is through PP2, and does not follow that plotline.) Read and review, please?
The last month of college
Chloe knew that a lot of people, after they graduate college, don't keep in touch with their college friends anymore. She also knew, with absolute certainty, that she would not let that happen. Not to her, not to any of the Bellas. And especially not with her and Beca, despite the fact that Beca was still pushing to move to L.A. immediately after graduation.
But Chloe couldn't complain too much. After all, she was moving back to Florida herself. To her father's house in Tampa. It felt odd going back, because her parents had gotten divorced during her third year at Barden and neither had kept the house she grew up in. It had become the thing to do after graduation, after all, in this economy, unless you were in STEM, going to grad school, or being a music producer (or so Beca tells her. And she knows Beca will rock it.) She already had a job lined up - bartending - and a volunteer gig teaching underprivileged children how to sing. It would be fun, and would hopefully pad her resume since seven years as a Barden Bella apparently doesn't lead to many job interviews. But she could always rock karaoke night at the bar, the same karaoke night that she started three years during summer break. (It helped knowing people when you needed a job. And the bar was quite close to her father's house, which was the main reason she was staying with him and not her mother.)
Goodbyes were tearful at the Bella house. Everyone was going off and doing their own thing except Emily, who had to audition and train the new Bellas all on her own. Chloe made sure Emily knew that she could always call her if she needed any help, any at all. Also, Stacie was staying in Atlanta, and so could drop by whenever to help Emily run things. All the Bellas promised to email, text, Skype, chat, etc, even Beca. Chloe made sure of that, even though Beca rolled her eyes at her. But Chloe was going to make sure that they were not going to be the kind of people who lost touch with each other after college.