A/N- This is a relatively short Bechloe story (like 3-4 chapters) about the age difference between the two of them. Mostly cute and fluffy.
"Remind me what the rule is with freshmen, not until October?"
"November." Aubrey chuckles, "No freshmen until November."
Chloe bites her lip but nods.
"They're like puppies, you don't want to let them into the house until they're potty trained. Otherwise they'll pee on your carpet, and that smell never comes out." Aubrey lectures, trying to get a tall brunette girl to take a flyer for the Bellas.
Chloe looks at her friend, the analogy had held up right until the final stretch, "I'm pretty sure that carpet bit wouldn't actually happen with a freshman."
Aubrey grimaces pointedly at some boys horsing around on the green with a frisbee, "I wouldn't be so sure."
They let the subject slide while they continue passing out fliers for the Bellas- or rather trying to pass out fliers, they aren't exactly in high demand. It only pops back up that evening while the two are eating Chinese take out in the apartment they share just off campus.
"Tell me you aren't interested in one of those frisbee toting numbskulls." Aubrey asks out of the blue.
"Aca-scuse me?"
"The freshman you were asking about!" Aubrey clucks, pointing an accusatory chopstick at Chloe, "At the org fair, you totally were checking someone out."
The redhead blushes, "No, of course it wasn't."
"Then which piece of freshmeat caught your eye?"
Chloe shrugs, "It's nobody."
Aubrey spares her best friend one final measuring glance before nodding and dropping it for now. She knows that if it should come to anything, she'll be the first person Chloe tells.
…
Chloe doesn't tell Aubrey about the broody brunette she had talked with at the Org Fair. She doesn't bring up the way the girl's eyes looked right through her. Chloe doesn't say anything about how adorable she found the way that the girl would duck her head and blush.
Chloe does tell Aubrey about Tim (or is it Tom?). He's a freshman from Texas, and Chloe easily adds him to her collection of booty calls. Aubrey rolls her eyes at the news, and laughs as Chloe details how his abs on the left side are larger than those on the right and his junk is 'impressive but a little crooked'.
She doesn't ask Chloe for further explanation.
Tim (Tom) is the reason that Chloe finds herself in the dorm showers. Ever since moving out with Aubrey in their junior year, she had been determined to never return to those unsanitary communal hellholes, but she is a woman with needs. As much as she hates to admit it, Aubrey is right about freshmen being clingy, and Chloe always finds it best to keep them on their own territory rather than bring them onto hers.
She is laughing, happily breaking the 'two feet per stall' rule of dorm showers with Tim (Tom) when she hears someone with an amazing voice singing her lady jam. She is almost content to just listen to the building of the song and keep having her way with the muscular freshman until the sudden thought of Aubrey pops into her head- which, she'll admit is a weird thought, but they're best friends, and she's not thinking of the blonde like that. But all morning Aubrey had been grouching how they still hadn't recruited enough girls to audition for the Bellas.
So without a second thought, she presses a hot kiss to Tim's (Tom's) mouth and pats him on the cheek before stepping away, "Don't go anywhere." She winks and quickly makes her way to the adjacent shower stall.
She bursts in with a smile only to be confronted with the object of her Org Fair affections blushing and trying to cover up. Chloe watches the younger girl turn deep red and try to preserve her modesty, it's adorable. The sight makes Chloe want to pinch the girl's cheeks and push her up against the wall simultaneously. It's a confusing feeling for the redhead.
Later that day when she is recounting the story of how she got a potential new Bella to Aubrey over dinner, the blonde doesn't bat an eyelash at the beginning of Chloe having a steamy shower encounter with Tim (Tom). It's not the first time she's listened to the Sexual Adventures of Chloe Beale, and she's sure it won't be the last, but when Chloe then goes on to say how she barged in on Beca's shower, Aubrey has to interrupt.
"You did what to her?"
"Nothing!" Chloe replies immediately, "I didn't even touch her! I just had to talk to her and get her to audition."
Aubrey tries, and fails, to keep herself from rolling her eyes. She drops her head into her hand as Chloe just keeps going, "She said she would audition."
"Brilliant."
…
Beca auditions, and she gets into the Bellas easily. On Hood Night, Chloe gets hammered. Partly, she wants to blame her desire to drink so heavily on the stress that the first week of classes has brought upon her (senior year is proving more difficult than she had anticipated), but mainly, Chloe knows she's drinking so desperately to forget that when she pulled Beca's hood off her head during initiation, the brunette was just the perfect height for Chloe to swoop in and press a kiss to her lips (which she didn't do).
For the social being she is, she doesn't normally get this drunk unless it's at one of their Bellas only bonding nights, and Aubrey does her very best job of babysitting the redhead. She does her best job of babysitting all of the Bellas really, it's the freshmen's first college party and the aca-boys are not to be trusted.
Beca does not get wasted. She has one lukewarm beer delivered curtosey of Jesse, and spends most of her night talking with Stacie and the other Bellas. She is standing near Aubrey on the steps when Chloe comes up to her, unsteadily. She grabs Beca's hands and leans in entirely too close.
Beca doesn't exactly hear what the redhead is telling her, because all she can process is that she can feel the warm puff of Chloe's breath against her face, and she can smell the woman's perfume and it should be illegal for people to smell that good, and the senior is touching her. Not just touching her, but holding onto her with a firm grip Beca isn't sure she could get out of if she wanted to.
When Chloe finally moves away, and Beca tells her to 'make good choices', Aubrey can't help but smile. Because even if her best friend is three years older than this girl, she's clearly not the more responsible one tonight. The smile doesn't last long though, as she watches Chloe turn and shake her booty a little at the freshman before sauntering away with a look that she knows all too well.
A/N- Next chapter to come soon, let me know what you thought.