Chapter One

Beca Mitchell was not an easy girl to deal with, everybody around her knew that. After she finished High School, it was extremely hard for her parents to convince her to attend college, especially where her father was a professor.

Sometimes, Beca still thought if agreeing was the answer, but she then remembered both her parents wanted her to get at least one year of college education before she could head off to LA.

At Barden, Beca barely unpacked and started working on her mixes right away, before her dad interrupted her trying to be all funny. Hearing him was one of the last things Beca wanted to do, so when her mute roommate announced she was going to the Activities Fair she jumped at the opportunity.

Beca wasn't at all interested in anything in the fair and she had no problem hiding it. She was suddenly approached by a smiley redhead and a blonde, well more the redhead actually, about an a capella group, but she had to stop herself from laughing at the two girls. She dismissed them the nicer way she could think of, she didn't know exactly why she did it, and left.

A month into college, Beca wasn't going to any of her classes, instead she chose to work on her mixes pretty much all the time, and work in the radio station along with another freshman, who was sweet although very annoying. Of course, her father entered her room, waking her up and asking her why she wasn't going to classes and trying to convince her to 'join in', whatever that meant. Beca rolled her eyes and looked up at her dad.

"Dad, I don't want to join in, I want to move to LA, I didn't even want to come to college!" Beca said.

"Beca, we've talked about this, I will not have another high school fiasco happening anytime soon. I want you to have at least one year of a proper study before you can head off to LA." Dr. Mitchell insisted.

"Dad, why is it so important to you that I get 'college education'?" Beca used air quotes with a roll of eyes.

Dr. Mitchell crossed his arms as he looked at his daughter. He wanted to tell her exactly why, but Beca's weird roommate was in the room and he didn't want to embarrass Beca by doing it.

"I just want to see you trying, Beca." He said. "College is great, you have to give it a chance."

Beca rolled her eyes once again.

After Dr. Mitchell left, Beca decided to at least try. She grabbed her backpack and went to one of her classes, but that was it. She made sure she was seen by her dad leaving class before she grabbed her lunch and headed back to her dorm.

After coming back from the station after midnight, Beca decided to take a shower before she could head off to bed. She put on her robe, grabbed her shower kit and headed off to the showers, humming one of the songs she was working on for a mix, Titanium.

Beca turned on the water as she sang the lyrics, knowing there wasn't anyone else there at this time. When the water was warm enough, Beca was about to step under it, when she heard a voice behind her.

"You can sing!" Beca turned around and saw the same redhead she'd seen in the Activities Fair with a wide smile on her face, naked.

"Dude!" she said and grabbed the curtain and closed it.

"How high does your belt go?" the girl asked, turning the water off. Beca was more than surprised.

"My what?" she asked. "Oh my God!"

"You have to audition for the Bellas." She stated as if it was something Beca would actually do.

"I can't concentrate on anything you're saying until you cover your junk." Beca said, looking anywhere but at the girl in front of her.

"Just… consider it! One time, we sang backup for Prince." The girl came closer. "His butt is so tiny that I can hold it with, like, one hand." For a moment there, Beca saw her eyes drift down to her body and she dropped her bottles and sponges, that were miserably trying to cover her body. She bent down to pick them up, but gave up and turned to face the wall, trying to cover herself as much as possible.

"Oops!" the girl said, and Beca almost wanted to giggle at how cute that sounded, but given the circumstances, she didn't even smile.

"Seriously. I am nude." She said, but the redhead seemed to ignore her. Her fast and furious heartbeat wasn't helping either.

"You were singing Titanium, right?" the girl asked. Beca looked back at her and she was staring straight at her eyes.

"You know David Guetta?" she asked, her heartbeat slowing down.

"Have I been living under a rock? Yeah." She said. "That song is my jam." She came a bit closer to Beca with a smirk. "My lady-jam."

Beca's heartbeat increased again.

"That's nice." She turned to the wall again and chuckled nervously.

"It is. The song really builds." The girl said. Beca looked at her.

"Gross."

"Can you sing it for me?" she bit her lower lip.

"Dude, no! Get out!" Beca said.

"Not for that reason!" she said. "I'm not leaving here until you sing, so…"

Beca looked at her and she sighed, waiting. Noticing the girl was telling the truth, Beca decided she would do it. She'd seen everything there was to see after all. Beca slowly turned around, trying to cover herself, trying to look at the girl's blue eyes, but her own eyes would look somewhere else.

"I'm bulletproof, nothing to lose." She sang, watching as the ginger's lips curved into a smile as she joined her. "Fire away, fire away."

Beca heard her voice and she began to smile too. She suddenly forgot she was naked and wet, singing in front of a complete stranger. As they continued singing, Beca's eyes would drift to the girl's body, quickly, but she managed to stay focused on her eyes. Her beautiful blue eyes…

When they stopped singing, the two had wide smiles on their faces. Their voices harmonized and fit perfectly together. Beca then remembered they were still naked and looked down at the girl's body before biting her lips and looking high up at the ceiling, making an uncomfortable face.

"Oh yeah." The girl looked at herself then at Beca. "I'm pretty confident about… all this." She indicated her body proudly. Beca looked at her and nodded.

"You should be." She said.

The ginger smiled at her and handed her the white towel, looking down at her body before Beca covered herself.

"Still need to shower." She said when saw a boy appear from some other stall, also naked.

"You have a lovely voice." He said.

"Thanks." Beca said. Do these people know what 'privacy' means? She thought to herself. The boy smirked at the girl before they both left the stall.

"See you at auditions!" the girl said, knowingly.

Beca was so surprised she was scared somebody else might show up and interrupt her shower. Before she made sure she was the only one left in the showers, she continued showering.

oO0Oo

Chloe entered the Bellas house and went straight up to her room with a satisfied smile on her face. Auditions would be held tomorrow and she was almost sure the brunette she'd met in the showers was going to show up. She knew her friend Aubrey wouldn't be too happy about it, but she had the feeling that girl could do some good for the Barden Bellas.

"Brey? You back from class yet?" Chloe called into the house. She found the blonde in the kitchen, eating a banana while she scrolled through her phone.

"Hey." Aubrey said without taking her eyes off of her phone.

"Hey. Nervous about the auditions tomorrow?" Chloe asked, knowing the answer.

"I think we have some girls to audition, but only have eight, we need one more." Aubrey said, looking up from her phone to her friend, who had a smile on her face. "What?"

"I think I may have found the tenth girl for the Bellas." Chloe said.

"Really? Please tell me this girl isn't another Fat Amy?" Aubrey asked. She had no problem with fat girls, especially because she knew the Bellas needed as many girls as they could get, but by tradition, the Bellas were hot girls.

"No." Chloe shook her head. "She is, as you'd say, a super-hot girl with bikini-ready body who can harmonize and have perfect pitch."

Aubrey raised an eyebrow. There was something about this newly found girl.

"How do you know?"

"I sang with her. Her voice is absolutely amazing! And she told us she didn't sing…" Chloe shook her head and rolled her eyes.

"Wait!" Aubrey said. "Is she that alt-girl you saw in the Activities Fair?" she knew something was up.

"Uhmm, yes…?" Chloe said, not really wanting to label the girl as 'alt'.

"Chloe! She's not a Bella!" Aubrey said. "I have a feeling about this girl, she so isn't a Bella."

"Aubrey, you haven't even heard her, give her a chance!" Chloe said. Aubrey crossed her arms and eyed her ginger friend up and down.

"I knew it." Aubrey said. "You're into her."

"What? Aubrey, no!" Chloe said. "Come on, we need ten girls, we have nine, she's the tenth girl we need." Aubrey looked at Chloe and thought for a moment.

"Okay, I guess I can at least hear the girl." Aubrey said and Chloe smiled.

"Yes! You're gonna agree with me, she has an amazing voice!" Chloe said.

Aubrey rolled her eyes, thinking this new girl would be a pain.

oO0Oo

The auditions went weird that year. Sure, many of the kids could sing, but they were all a bit weird, there was a girl who mouthed her sentences, because nobody heard her, a girl who was practically groping herself onstage, and Fat Amy was a good singer, but she sang too loudly and it ruined her voice. She could be a Bella, but she'd have to learn how to use her voice properly.

When the auditions ended, Chloe was inwardly disappointed the brunette didn't show up. She was actually expecting her to show up, her voice was perfect! She wanted to get to know this girl better, she didn't even know her name.

From the corner of her eye, Chloe saw the girl standing at the door nervously, staring at her. She immediately smiled and waved at her to come forward.

"Oh, wait, there's one more!" she said to Tommy and Justin, who watched the brunette make her way across the stage. She smiled as she waved at her.

"Hello." The girl said, waving at everyone, but still staring at Chloe.

Aubrey watched her and couldn't stop staring at how many things she had on her ears, her makeup and her clothes. That girl was so not a Bella, but she wanted to hear her voice.

"I didn't know we had to prepare that song." She didn't even sound guilty as she stared at Chloe.

"Oh, that's okay, sing anything you want." Chloe could barely contain her smile.

The girl stood in front of them and spotted something. She bent down and reached for the yellow plastic cup that had pens and pencils.

"May I?" she asked.

"Oh." Chloe nodded and the girl carefully placed the contents of the cup on the table and sat Indian style on stage, placing the cup in front of her.

Aubrey was now a bit curious to know what the girl was going to do with a cup for her audition.

Chloe smiled as she watched the brunette clap and use the cup to create drum-like sounds and sing. Her voice was absolutely amazing. She also stared at bit at the girl's cleavage, giving she seemed oblivious to this fact.

When she finished, she looked at Aubrey then at Chloe with an expression that could mean she knew she was amazing.

Chloe had the biggest smile on her face as she stared at her and nodded slightly, then looked at Aubrey, who was clearly still not convinced.

oO0Oo

Beca wanted to laugh at the oath the blonde girl made them take. She didn't want two girls to tell her who she could or could not sleep with, not that she even wanted to sleep with one of the 'Treblemakers'.

Aubrey turned on the lights and the girls all squealed and celebrated. She watched the brunette girl, who she now knew was Beca, look around at the girls with a smile, but she knew that smile meant she was inwardly laughing at all of them.

"We did it!" she heard Chloe say to her in a low voice, proudly.

"Did we?" Aubrey said with a little bit of confidence as she watched the new Bellas.

Beca felt lost in that place, she felt like she didn't belong there, with a bunch of screaming girls in an a capella group. She was almost leaving, when Aubrey interrupted everyone's activities.

"Ladies, I need you all to follow me, we have an event to be in." Aubrey spoke proudly. She loved singing and she loved being a Bella more than anything else in the world.

The girls followed Aubrey and Chloe out to campus to a place where the same people who were in the theater were dancing and talking, although the music wasn't that loud. Beca decided she might as well try to socialize. She spotted the blonde she talked to in the fair, the one with the Jews and she thought she might as well try to strike up a conversation.

"I don't know what I'm doing here." She said.

"Living the dream." The girl she now knew was called Amy, but called herself Fat Amy, spoke. "I still can't believe they let my sexy fat ass in." she followed the girls down to the middle, the 'dance floor' while Beca stayed between the stone seats.

"Beca! Beca!" Jesse, the boy who worked at the station with her, was calling her, walking above the seats. "Be-caw! Be-caw!" he laughed at the end.

Beca knew he probably had been drinking and decided to let it slide, but she hated when people created other nicknames for her, and this one, 'Becaw' made her feel ridiculous. She already hated her name to being with, who names their child 'Beca'? Not even Rebecca or Rebeca?

Beca blinked and chuckled.

"Do my eyes deceive me or are you a Barden Bella?" he asked.

"No." she shook her head, not really wanting to speak to him. She found him rather annoying.

"You're one of those a capella girls, I'm one of those a capella boys and we're gonna have a-ca-children." He said. "It's inevitable."

"You're really drunk right now, I don't you're gonna remember any of this." She said. She wanted to be his friend, he did seem like a good guy.

"I'm not drunk at all, you're just blurry." He said, making her chuckle.

"You okay?" he nodded. "Yeah? You almost fell over?"

"No." he said.

"You could pass a sobriety test right now?" she pushed him lightly, but he came back up. "Can you stand up straight?"

"Yep." She pushed him again and he went further, but came back.

"See how I come right back?" he went down and came right back again. "And I come right back." She looked at him and gave up trying to make him feel like he was completely wasted. "Can I get you a drink?"

Beca wasn't much of a drinker, but this day had been crazy for her, so she couldn't deny it now.

"It sounds great." She nodded.

"I'm gonna get you a drink."

"Go for it." She actually just wanted to go back to her dorm and work on her mixes.

"I think you need to get on to this level." He said and left.

"Please, be careful." She called after him, but she wasn't sure he even heard her.

The redhead girl came to her and, without any warning, grabbed Beca's wrists and pulled them to her waist, actually Beca felt her hands go a bit downer than her waist, but seeing the girl was a bit drunk, she decided to let that go too. As the ginger pulled Beca close to her, Beca felt her personal space being invaded, but she suddenly didn't mind, as her forehead touched the other girl's.

"I'm so glad that I met you." She said. Beca wasn't sure how to answer to that, but before she could open her mouth, the girl spoke again. "I think that we're gonna be really fast friends."

"Yeah." Beca heard herself say.

"Yeah." The ginger nodded.

"Well, you saw me naked." She winked at the girl. "Pretty hard not to bond after that." The girl giggled.

"I'm Chloe, by the way." She said, feeling she hadn't introduced herself properly.

"Hi." Beca said.

"You don't wanna dance with us?" Chloe asked. Beca felt weird because Chloe didn't release her hands yet.

"Uhm… I'm fine." She said. Chloe giggled and stepped back a little.

"Well, you should. It's your night too, you know." She said.

"I'm not much of a dancer. But thanks, though." Beca said.

"Okay." Chloe stopped back, rubbing her hands up and down Beca's arms. "I'm gonna go get a drink. This ginger needs her jiggle juice!" she started shaking her ass in front of the brunette, and saw the girl's eyes go to her ass. She slapped ass and snapped her fingers, pointing to the dance floor. "See you later!" she turned and started to walk.

"Make good choices!" Beca said.

Justin put on a song and Jesse came back with their drinks. He seemed more excited than any of the boys and the alcohol was making its way into his system.

"This is awesome." He said after he took a sip from his red cup.

"It's definitely something." Beca nodded, sure he didn't hear her.

"We are the kings of campus!" he screamed, but was ignored by everyone.

Beca wanted to hide herself between the seats as she spotted Fat Amy with one foot on each seat, in the aisle, dancing weirdly, and ahead of her, Chloe was making out with some random guy Beca didn't know. She felt weird inside, she didn't like that sight, but somehow she couldn't take her eyes off of it for a moment.

oO0Oo

The next day, the Bellas were reunited for their first rehearsal. Beca, Fat Amy and Cynthia Rose were staring at the wall of photos of the old Bellas. Cynthia Rose seemed to be nodding along to the photos.

"Man, the old Bellas was hot!" she said.

"Well, they kept it tight." Fat Amy said.

Beca didn't have any comment, except she was not wearing that flight attendant costume to perform. A capella was already embarrassing enough.

Aubrey gave them all a speech about how they must not have sex with the Trebles, she made a girl with short hair and glasses leave, the girl was sobbing when she left.

Beca didn't pay much attention as Aubrey explained why it was so important not to let the boys penetrate them, then she giggled quietly when Fat Amy made a comment about Aubrey's use of the word 'penetrate'.

Aubrey made them run up and down the stairs for their cardio, walk in heels since that was what they would be wearing for their performances, learn the words to the songs and the choreography. Aubrey was helping half of the girls while Chloe was helping the other half.

Beca was trying to do it, but she found it rather stupid. She did a part but didn't know where to go from there and she thought if it was Aubrey helping her, she would've given up on her. Chloe sighed and approached Beca.

"Here, let me help you." She stood behind the smaller girl and grabbed her wrists, helping her with the choreography. Beca rolled her eyes, but she felt warmer feeling the other girl's soft hands on her own.

Chloe couldn't help it, she did feel something for the small girl and she just jumped at the opportunity of physical contact.

"I know. I can do it." Beca said with eyes closed.

The rest of rehearsal went by uneventfully and tiring. Beca still didn't know why she joined the Bellas. She was starting to think it had something to do with the naked, wet redhead girl who barged into her shower, but she didn't want to admit it to herself.

The next afternoon, Beca was sitting on the quad, but she wasn't studying, like her father would want, she was on her laptop working on her mixes.

She felt satisfied by what she accomplished so far and decided to take a nap. She laid her head on her backpack and closed her eyes. It felt like 5 seconds later, she was woken up suddenly.

"Hey!" Chloe said sitting down next to her. Beca sat up and noticed her mix wasn't playing anymore and that her laptop was turned off. She looked around herself and noticed it was darker.

"Man, what time is it?" she asked.

"Almost seven." Chloe informed her.

"Guess I overslept." Beca said.

"Yeah, I was leaving my class when I saw you sleeping alone on the grass, I thought I'd wake you up." Had it been anyone else, Beca would snap at them and tell them to get the hell away from her, but with Chloe, she was kinda happy it was her to wake her up.

"Well thanks. I'd stay here until tomorrow morning." Beca said.

"So, I was on my way to get some pizza, wanna come?" Chloe asked.

"Sure." Beca said. "I have to be at the station at ten."

Beca packed up her stuff and Chloe helped her standing up.

"What were you doing on your laptop?" Chloe asked. "Some paper work?" Beca laughed, but it was because Chloe was actually serious.

"No. I was just listening to music." She answered.

Chloe nodded and the two made their way to the pizza place Chloe talked about. It was very close to where they were so getting there wasn't exactly difficult and the walk was filled with a comfortable silence.

The two sat at a table and ordered and then just talked while they waited.

"I can't believe your uptight friend even let me in, yesterday she seemed to want to throw me out because of my 'ear monstrosities'." Beca used air quotes and rolled her eyes.

"Aubrey is a little…" Chloe tried to think of a good word to describe her blonde friend. "misunderstood. She wants the best for the Bellas, but sometimes she doesn't see these songs and traditions might actually not be 'the best'."

"Tell me about it." Beca said.

"But I actually talked to Aubrey about letting you in. She said you were alternative, but I was sure that you'd do some good for the Bellas." Chloe said.

"Well, thanks." Beca said. "And what is it with the word 'toner'? Can't you guys just use normal words like 'boner'?" Chloe laughed.

"We just love the a capella world, sometimes we forget to use normal words." She said. "Why? Do you have a toner for someone?"

"No." Beca rolled her eyes. "But Aubrey seems to think I have one for Jesse."

"And… you don't?" Chloe didn't know why she felt relieved when the girl denied it.

"No! I mean, he is a good guy, but he's too…" Beca thought of a word to describe him. "I don't know, he wants to be around me all the time! I don't like him, just in a friendly way."

"But you don't have your eyes set on someone?" Chloe asked.

"I barely leave my dorm, I don't know many people except for the Bellas, Jesse and Luke, who keeps calling me 'Becky' by the way." Beca rolled her eyes. "Besides, love sucks."

"What?" Chloe asked. She didn't know someone could actually think this of love. Chloe was a believer, she believed she'd find someone who'd be right for her and they'd live happy together.

"Love sucks." Beca repeated.

"Why do you think that?" Chloe asked, wanting to know the true reason why this girl didn't believe in love.

"My parents." Beca said. "But that's not a story I'd like to tell right now."

"That's okay." Chloe said.

They finished their pizza talking about many things, Chloe didn't push Beca to share things about her personal life, she felt the girl didn't like to share these kinds of things, so she was okay with it.

Chloe was walking Beca to her dorm, when a tall, brown haired man spotted them and walked towards them.

"Beca, hi." He said, not sounding happy at all.

"Dad? What are you doing at the campus at this time?" Beca asked, surprised.

"You know, I had a meeting with some of the other professors. Some of them told me you haven't been attending some of your classes." He said. Beca rolled her eyes. "I'll have you know, Beca, that you will not repeat your high school fiasco." Beca rolled her eyes again as she crossed her arms.

"This will not repeat, dad." She said.

"No, it won't! 'Cause I don't want you doing that again, Beca, you know what that can do to you. You won't stupidly follow this road because of something as ridiculous as LA!" Dr. Mitchell said.

Beca's mouth widened as she stared at her father.

"No, dad, I won't be stupid enough to do this again!" Beca nearly screamed, pushing her father and entered her dorm. Chloe followed her awkwardly to her room. Beca didn't mind being followed by Chloe, she actually kind of wanted her to, she just hoped the redhead wouldn't ask her what her dad was all about.

"Are you okay?" Chloe asked, putting her hands on Beca's shoulders.

"Yeah. Life isn't life without some family drama." Beca said. "I have to get ready to stack CDs for a few hours with Jesse. I'll see you tomorrow, thank you for the pizza."

"Okay. If you need to talk, you know where to find me." Chloe said.

Beca nodded and watched the redhead leave.


Well I just bought the Pitch Perfect DVD and I watched it for the first time and I fell in love with it, I watch this movie 24/7 now and I can only think about it. I'll get back to updating my HSM fics, obviously, but by now, I'm working in this story.