Aubrey Posen was a mystery stuffed into an enigma and wrapped in a little blonde riddle. She was prim and proper, neat and tidy, hyper focused with a drive to succeed in every sense of the word. She was cold, as many Posen's were, she never under any circumstances wore her heart on her sleeve and to get her to say how she truly felt was like yanking teeth. She didn't have friends, she had acquaintances until her need for them was gone and she had gotten what she wanted and then she would cast them aside like she didn't even know they existed. She cared for nothing other than music and singing, the only two things that gave her genuine joy. That was, until Chloe Beale came along, smashing through all the walls that Aubrey had put up over her life time with free laughs, gentle smiles and a voice that could damn near break a heart when she sung. Chloe Beale was the complete opposite of Aubrey, she was an open book practically begging everyone she met to read her. She was informal and careless, disorganized and chaotic, preferring to take whatever life gives her over working towards a goal. She talked about her feelings like she was talking about the weather and she made friends with everyone that glanced at her. Chloe knew that despite everything that Aubrey said and done, the way she acted, she knew that Aubrey was a mess inside and Chloe loved mess.
"How are you and Aubrey friends?" Beca asked, sitting under the shade of a tree with the red head by her side
"She's Aubrey" Chloe said it like it was the simplest thing in the world and to her, it was
"Exactly" Beca said, looking at Chloe out of the corner of her eye and smiled when she seen the red head laying on the grass with the sun in her face and a smile brighter than a star and once again wondered how the girl was friends with the ice cold blonde, "You're like, complete opposites"
"Mm, not really" Chloe hummed
"She's like a block of ice and you're a fire" Beca commented
"She needs someone to warm her up so she doesn't crack and I need someone to cool me down so I don't burn out" Chloe shrugged, opening her eyes
"That was weirdly philosophical for you, Beale" Beca grinned and laughed when Chloe sat up to push her
"Whatever" Chloe laughed, "Oh shoot, it's time for rehearsal. We better hurry or Bree will blow a gasket"
"Hey Bree" Chloe smiled, entering the auditorium and kissed Aubrey's cheek in passing
"You're late" Aubrey commented off handily, glaring at Beca
"By five minutes" Beca rolled her eyes
"Every minute counts" Aubrey clenched her
"Will you just chill?"
"Come on, Bree" Chloe said softly, stoking Aubrey's back when she seen the look on the blonde's face "Let's just start"
"Fine. Whatever." Aubrey huffed
"What's on today's agenda, Cap?" Fat Amy asked over the snickers of the other girls
"Half an hour cardio, half an hour strength training, half an hour vocal exercises and half an hour of going through songs for the ICCA's" Aubrey said
"Is cardio really necessary?" Fat Amy asked
"We go through this every time, Fat Amy" Aubrey sighed, Fat Amy along with Chloe were the only two people that Aubrey couldn't seem to get mad at, no matter how hard she tried
"Just checking to see if you changed your mind" Amy stood up with a loud groan, followed by the rest of the girls as they started jogging
"I can't breathe" Beca gasped when they finally stopped with the vocal exercises an hour and a half later, starting to bend over when she felt a hand on her shoulder stopping her, "What's your problem?"
"Bending over makes it worse." Aubrey replied snippily, "Put your hands on your head and take deep breaths instead of short ones"
"Whatever" Beca grumbled, bending over anyway and getting a stitch almost immediately
"I told you" Aubrey said when she seen Beca wince in pain, "Anyway, Chloe composed a list of songs that she thinks we should sing."
"Isn't that your job?" Stacie asked
"Chloe wanted to do it this time" Aubrey replied, a smile tugging at the corner of her lips when the girl in question came bounding over to flip the white board to the side she wrote on
By the end of the last half an hour Aubrey was one more annoying comment away from blowing up and not any closer to choosing songs, it really shouldn't take this long to choose three songs from a list of fifteen songs and yet here they were, half an hour over her scheduled Bella's time and she couldn't stop looking at her watch; the feeling of being behind on her studying nagging at the back of her mind
"Enough" Aubrey yelled, silencing the girls, "All we need to do is choose three fuc- songs from a list of fifteen."
"Were you about to drop the eff bomb?" Beca teased, "You totally were"
"No, I wasn't" Aubrey snapped
"Yes you were. We all heard you"
"Oh my god" Aubrey muttered, pressing her fingers against her temples
"Alright" Chloe decided to defuse the situation, "Why don't we leave you girls to think on it and you can text one of us in the morning and whatever songs get the most votes wins"
"What if all the votes are equal?" Jessica asked
"Then I'll choose three" Aubrey snapped, "Dismissed"
"You okay?" Chloe asked, rubbing Aubrey's arms when the girls had left
"I'm behind on studying for my anatomy class" Aubrey murmured, knowing Chloe wouldn't give up until she got to the bottom of why Aubrey was more tightly wound than usual
"You could ace that class in your sleep" Chloe said, knowing that anatomy was one of Aubrey's favourites, "How about this, you don't have any classes tomorrow or Bella stuff that needs to get done so tonight we go home, watch some Netflix and eat shitty food and drink wine and in the morning you can wake me up at the ass crack of dawn to go for a jog and then I'll help you study. Sound good?"
"Yeah" Aubrey didn't want to admit how perfect that sounded to her
"Cool. Race ya home" Chloe took off with a wink and giggle, forcing the blonde to let out a laugh of her own before racing after her
Disclaimer: I don't own any rights or characters that involve Pitch Perfect.