So I had this idea, what if Pitch Perfect was a TV show? It would be kinda like Glee, but every episode there's a new riff-off and the whole episode is their problems and them practicing sort of, and at the end the riff-off would happen and the categories used would coincidentally match up with what they needed to get off their chest.
Also, there's a few differences, like everyone's basically in the same grade, and Luke's a part of the Treble's.
So ya, I made this. This is episode 1. Each chapter is a new episode, so enjoy. And sorry I keep making more projects it's just once I get an idea I have to write it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Pitch Perfect.
Beca Mitchell, she had been a loner, closed off until she met Jesse, a movie loving nerd who changed for the better. She was now, along with her friends, ready for her second year in high school. She had joined the Bella's this year, for some reason all the acapella group's had their auditions during the summer. They sang in some competitions but it was mostly friendly 'riff-off's as they called them against the teams also at the school.
There were three teams, The Bella's which included Aubrey and Chloe, the captains, Beca, Fat Amy (Don't ask), Stacie who happened to be her best friend and right-hand-woman, Lilly, Jessica, Ashley, and Cynthia Rose. Each were different in their own unique ways yet all got along so well, it was truly incredible.
The second team were the Trebles, and all male team including Jesse, Benji, Luke, Donald, Bumper, and Tom. There were others but no one exactly cared about them.
Then there was the third group, the Harmonics, but they were unpopular and no one knew any of their names except each other's.
At the tryouts that summer, Chloe, the co-captain, was sick and could not attend, so she had yet to meet her.
"Hey Becs, you ready?" Stacie called from across the street, running towards her.
"I guess, it's just the first day of school. Once it's over we have a whole year of learning." Beca shrugged.
"Wow, way to ruin a good day." Stacie mumbled out. "Anyway, now that I'm out and proud it's time to help me scope out some lesbians!"
"First off Stacie, I'm straight, second, I have a boyfriend, and third, you're the only one out except for Cynthia Rose who already has a girlfriend."
"Oh yeah." Stacie responded blankly. "Denise, right? She goes to that other school or something."
"Yeah, and anyway, there's no fresh meat for you. But aren't you like pansexual or something? Can't you go for guys too?" Beca asked. When Stacie had come out she hadn't exactly understood all the sexualities but after a thorough explanation she had most of them down, including polysexual, omnisexual, pansexual, bisexual, and just plain homosexual. She was now more educated on the subject than Cynthia Rose which made her proud, but she chose not to use the knowledge, nor had she ever needed to.
Stacie only shook her head. "Sure I could, but they're all just looking for sex. I need someone who wants me for me and not some meaningless hookup."
Beca's eyes grew wide. Stacie wanted to somewhat settle down? She never thought that would happen, but she patted her friend on the back. "So you're done with your promiscuous lifestyle? I gotta say, I'm proud Stacie. I mean, you only started last year, but we were so young I was hoping you'd stop soon."
Stacie scoffed and feigned hurt. "Wow, thanks." she muttered, earning a chuckle from her friend.
When they entered the school, they brought out their schedules and compared. They had first, second, and third period together, lunch, and sixth. Beca smiled, it was nice to be with someone she knew, unlike last year when the only class she could enjoy was English where the teacher was the biggest philosopher and most obnoxious person she had ever met. Instead of listening to his life story, she would pass notes with Stacie and make fun of him while pretending to pay attention.
She also had first with Jesse, which happened to be English, they had talked about it yesterday and apparently the Bella's captain herself, Aubrey Posen.
Not a lot could be said about Aubrey from Beca's perspective, but from what she did know, her dad was a hardass and raised Aubrey to be a prude. She wasn't prone to suggestions, she hated how Beca dressed based on how strict she was raised and spat out lines from her father constantly about giving up. It was sad, but Beca decided she could never change the girl nor wanted to try so she'd just have to deal with it.
Entering the room, she noticed an empty seat next to a redhead, and sat down. The first thing she noticed was her eyes when she turned towards Beca, they were like the sky yet aqua, almost piercing into Beca's sole. "Hi!" her energetic voice called out to the brunette who had just sat down next to her. She stuck out her hand, "I'm Chloe!"
Beca was mesmerized by the view of the beautiful girl, but quickly shook it off. She was straight, right? Then again she could be bisexual but she hadn't felt for any girl before. And it couldn't be demisexual because she hadn't had a bonding moment with this girl yet. Sexuality was confusing.
"Chloe? Like, co-captain of the Bella's Chloe?" Beca asked, hoping she was right so it wouldn't be so embarrassing.
"Yeah! Are you a new member?" the redhead asked.
Beca nodded. "Cool! You're going to have a lot of fun in our group, singing is like, the best." Chloe responded, not waiting for Beca to speak.
"Yeah." was all Beca could think to say, and turned to the front where the english teacher had appeared.
"Welcome students, I take it you all had a good summer. Now, let's get down to business. The person to the left of you is your new partner, but since that's a little confusing I'll fix it." Beca smiled, that cliche where the two people who just met get paired together was about to happen, but very well knowing that it usually ended in love, she was excited. Unknowing though, her best friend Stacie had been right next to her, to her left, and she got paired with her instead. Chloe was paired with Tom, the school quarterback and 'heart throb' who happened to be the biggest douche bag Beca's ever seen.
Beca smiled though when Chloe rolled her eyes at the selection and hesitantly turned to the grinning boy.
"Beca, we're partners! Aren't you excited?" Stacie smiled a toothy grin.
"Yeah dude, we're gonna own this class!" Beca fist bumped her friend as the english teacher began to explain how the projects would work.
Each month the partners would read a book and then create a powerpoint on what they thought the message the author was trying to portray was and how they think it impacted societies point of view.
It sounded terrible, but with Stacie she assumed it wouldn't be that bad.
*theme song, just picture Beca with Jesse but then Chloe comes over causing Beca to smile some love sick grin and Jesse gets mad which pans to Stacie drooling all over Aubrey who then walks off with Luke, and Fat Amy comes with cake to cheer her up, and then Donald and Lilly talking when Bumper comes along and takes him away, which pans to the Bella's all together in a group and trebles all in a group facing each other with crossed arms with titanium playing in the background*
At lunch Beca sat with Fat Amy, Lilly, Jesse, Benji, and Stacie. Jessica and Ashley were no where to be found and Cynthia Rose ate outside to talk to her girlfriend over the phone.
"So then during science, when he was trying to show us how everything worked he broke the thing off of the burner and he couldn't stop it from burning so he just left it and then it caught on fire like ten minutes later, we had to throw it into a huge sink and smash it with a hammer!" Jesse explained what had happened during his second period while Beca had History, and was now bummed she missed out on it while Fat Amy high fived him since she had been the one who had gotten the hammer for the teacher.
"I just can't wait for when acapella practices start, the riff-offs are gonna be awesome!" Stacie exclaimed.
Each week there would be a riff-off with the three school teams going up against each other, the categories were somewhat easy since most were new to this. Beca imagined this would be somewhat challenging but based on her vast musical knowledge she should be able to bring her team to victory at least once this year.
"Honestly I just wanna see Stacie date someone this year. I heard how popular gay shippings were and I wanted to give it shipping one a shot." Fat Amy revealed, causing everyone to laugh. "No seriously, I'd make a tumblr page and everything while the closeted lesbians at this school can make fanfictions."
Stacie laughed along. "That sounds amazing actually." She said in between laughs.
"I'm telling you, everyone's doing it." the Australian explained.
After lunch, Beca and Stacie went their separate ways, but both had free period next and decided to meet up. Beca had a few questions for her tall friend that couldn't wait.
"Stacie, I think I'm bisexual." she blurted out when they found a spot in the library.
"Really? Who's the girl?" Stacie asked, now fully invested in her friend's problem.
"Chloe, co-captain of the Bella's. She's beautiful and I just met her but... Wow. But I'm dating Jesse! I can't think these things about other people while I'm with him!" Beca exclaimed. She didn't want to hurt Jesse, they had been dating for almost a year after being friends for five, she couldn't lose him.
Stacie sighed, it was quite the situation. Finding out you're bi while dating a guy everyone calls your high school sweetheart? Not good. But, she had to help and the only way to do so was to show her she wasn't alone. "Well, I have some feelings for our head captain so don't feel so bad. It happens to everyone." Stacie patted her back for comfort, but Beca shot up.
"What? Feelings? AUBREY?" she yelled.
"Shh! Not too loud, someone could hear you!" Stacie pushed her friend on the shoulder to show she was mad but not too serious.
"Sorry, it's just, she's kinda a prude." Beca mumbled the last part but Stacie still heard it.
Stacie scoffed. "So? She's hot and smart and she actually talked to me during fifth period."
"Dude, she has a boyfriend. And second, I'd you want to get the girl you have to use beautiful, not hot, girls take it better. Okay?"
"Alright. Thanks for the advice. As for Chloe, if you like her then obviously Jesse isn't doing it for you." Stacie informed her friend.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It means if you so easily had feelings for this girl then Jesse isn't enough and he might never be enough." Stacie explained.
"Oh, that makes sense. But what do I do? I still really like him." Beca asked her, still so confused on what to do.
"It's been almost a year and if you can't say 'love' still then there's something wrong." Stacie mused.
"I think I'll just stay with him. Unless my feelings for Chloe grow stronger I think I'm fine." Beca shrugged, deciding that was the best plan for herself. "As for yourself, Luke's a dick. Aubrey will probably dump him soon and then you'll get your chance. That's if she's not completely straight, though. So good luck."
"Thanks, and you too." Stacie fist bumped her friend as they left the library for their last period.
*first commercial break.*
Beca had just finished researching the sexualities and right now bisexual seemed right but she wasn't sure. It was right after school and she had Bella's practice in a hour so she was at Jesse's house. "Be right back, I've got to go to the bathroom." Beca told him, standing up.
"Alright." he mumbled, looking through movies on netflix. He decided to look up some good ones on Beca's laptop, but when he saw her recent history, which was all on questioning her sexuality, he closed it, wide eyed. "Shit." he whispered, lying back.
When Beca came back in he tried to play it cool, and Beca didn't question his some what deflated demeanor. She only shrugged and sat back down.
XxxxxxX
"Alright Bella's, first practice so I'll go over the basics then you can chat with your fellow teammates. Don't forget there's a riff-off tonight so be ready for that." Aubrey started as Beca zoned out.
Stacie slapped the brunette on the arm minutes later and when she refocused her attention the blonde's eyes were on the both of them, and while Beca was somewhat frightened, Stacie for the first time in her life gave a shy smile. What Beca didn't expect though was that the blonde smiled back at Stacie. As if she was glad one person was paying attention to her.
After another lecture about dating Treble's, which Aubrey said was okay for her since she was the captain, she claimed it was not good for anyone else because they didn't respect them. Stacie raised a hand.
"But Luke doesn't respect you. Why is it different?" She asked, Aubrey's face going red with embarrassment and anger, the rest of the Bella's "oooo"-ing.
Chloe stifled a laugh and gasp, and Aubrey cleared her throat. "No comment." She mumbled, and called a five minute break for the girls.
"Dude, not cool. I said break them up, not be a dick." Beca said to her friend.
"Sorry, I just think she should rethink who's she dating. Anyways, so you think we'll do good in the riff-off?"
"Yeah, me and you listen to all types of music, we'll win it for the team."
XxxxxxxX
"Welcome to the riff-off!" Justin, an acappella enthusiast yelled in the middle of the empty pool at the school.
"If you suck, if you sing the wrong lyrics, or if your song doesn't match, you are-"
"CUT OFF!" most of the acappella veterans yelled.
"Alright, it's time for our first category..." he spun the projected wheel. "Sexuality songs!"
One of the Harmonics jumped in, starting to sing.
She says I smell like safety and home
The rest of her group joined in as the tune and background vocals.
I named both of her eyes "Forever" and "Please don't go"
I could be a morning sunrise all the time, all the time yeah
This could be good, this could be good
And I-
Then Beca cut them off, rapping one of her favorite songs.
I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me
Have you read the YouTube comments lately?
Chloe and the rest of the Bella's watched with round eyes, Chloe mostly, at how well Beca could rap, the. When their shock ran off they joined.
"Man, that's gay" gets dropped on the daily
We become so numb to what we're saying
A culture founded from oppression
Yet we don't have acceptance for 'em
Call each other faggots behind the keys of a message board
A-
Jesse made the zipping motion and started.
a pretty girl faster than I can
Tells me that she loves me but I'm tryna' understand
His group joined in and Beca watched with wide eyes, scared based on the song.
I think my girl is
Bi ay ay ay ay ay
Should I say goodbye?
Should I give it a try?
I think-
Next thing she knew a Harmonic cut in, it was most likely the most they've ever contributed to a riff-off from Aubrey's memory, but their song choice was off.
I think I could understand
How it feels to love a girl
I swear I'd be a better man
I'd listen to her
'Cause I know how it hurts
When you lose the one you wanted
'Cause he's taken you for granted
And everything you had got destroyed.
"Sorry Harmonics, that song, though sounding transgender, is about a breakup. You are-"
"CUT OFF!" The rest of the groups yelled.
"Alright, Bella's vs the Trebel's, and the category is... Breakup songs!"
Chloe ran to the center, looking at no one in particular though Beca did see she looked at her for a split second.
Cause there'll be no sunlight
If I lose you, baby
There'll be no clear skies
If I-
She was cut short by Bumper, the douchebag head of the Trebles.
I... will always love you
I will always love you
I will always love you
I will always love you
I-
Beca jumped in, singing her sound towards everyone around her instead of exactly at Jesse. It didn't exactly explain how she'd feel if she broke up with him but it would help them win so she went with it.
I supposed to do when the best part of me was always you?
And what am I supposed to say when I'm all choked up and you're OK?
I'm falling to pieces, yeah,
I'm-
Luke came in with a song and Aubrey looked up, seeing if he would feel bad if they had broken up but her hope fell as douche number 2 as Beca and Stacie called him started singing.
I'm putting on my Shades to cover up my eyes,
I'm jumpin in my ride, I'm heading out tonight,
The rest of the Treble's joined him, Tom and Bumper most enthusiastic.
I'm solo, I'm riding solo, I'm riding solo, I'm riding solo, sooloooo.
I'm feeling like a star, you can't stop my shine, I'm loving cloud nine, my head's in the sky.
I'm solo, I'm riding solo, I'm riding solo, I'm riding solo, sooloooo.
"Sorry fellas, but the category was breakups, your song was about a time getting over a breakup, and not caring anymore, so you are-"
The Bella's, smugly smiling at the boys finished for him. "CUT OFF!" They yelled, smiling.
All except for Beca who was afraid Jesse had found out about one of her biggest, newest secrets yet.