Prettier With You
Going to start off by saying thanks to IK, you did an awesome job going over this for me and getting it back to me so quickly. that being said now the more technical stuff.
I own nothing all characters belong to the creators of this amazing movie.
"Hi, welcome to Barden university," a bright voice announced as Beca stepped out of her cab. "Here is your official BU Rape whistle, don't blow it unless it's actually happening," the cheery girl informed. Beca rolled her eyes as she continued to collect her belongings from the car. Taking the whistle between her teeth Beca grabbed her belongings and headed towards her dorm room, cursing her father once more for forcing her to get a degree, instead of allowing her to go to L.A to start her music career. There was only one benefit of going to Barden, and that was a certain red-headed sophomore who had arrived the day before.
Ten minutes later Beca was entering her dorm room for the first time, glancing around at the stark white walls, groaning as she realized she was stuck here for the foreseeable future. As Beca looked around the room her attention was drawn to a sullen looking Korean girl who was already unpacking her belongings.
"Hi, you must be Kimmy Jin," Beca greeted trying to be friendly, frowning when all she received in return was a scowl and a glare. "No English?" Beca inquired, receiving another glare in return, "Yes English? Just tell me where you are on the English thing." Realizing that Kimmy Jin wasn't going to respond anytime soon, Beca placed her things on her bed, pulled out her headphones and began the arduous task of unpacking, starting with the set up of all her DJ equipment. It took Beca 10 minutes to fully assemble all of her equipment. She had just opened a file to begin one of her mixes when she heard a knock on the door. Glancing over at Kimmy Jin, Beca realized that the other girl had no intention of moving. Sighing, Beca took off her headphones and made her way over to the door, not bothering to hide her displeasure to see her father standing on the other side.
"Hey Becky," he grinned, pushing his way into the small dorm room.
"Hello," she mumbled, "I told you not to call me that, I hated it when I was ten and I still do." Her father pretended to ignore her as he began to rummage through Beca's belongings, looking at the vast collection of CD's with barely concealed disdain.
"Why would you bring all of this? It just takes up room and the majority of it is junk" he questioned barely keeping the contempt from his voice, making it clear exactly what he thought about Beca's dream to move to L.A and focus on her music.
"You can say what you want but I'm not getting rid of it. It may be junk to you, but you have no taste. That and I don't really give a fuck what you think, so let's agree to disagree," Beca stated trying to keep her voice even and calm, not bothering to mask the sarcasm that seeped through.
"Fine, I just came to tell you that Shelia and I want you to come over for dinner this Saturday," he informed, silencing her protest with a glare, "And you will come, I don't really care whether or not you want to."
"Oh goody," Beca replied, "I can't think of any better way to waste my Saturday, than to spend it with you and the step-monster. What if I already have plans?"
"You don't even know anyone here, that was the only reason you agreed to even consider coming here, remember?" he questioned grinning because he felt as though he had won the argument.
"That might not be entirely true," Beca mumbled.
"Sorry, what was that? I couldn't hear you."
"I said that I do know someone here, and I have plans with that person on Saturday night so, sorry but I have to decline your offer."
"Bring this person over too if you want, I want to meet your friend," he replied refusing to give Beca a way out of dinner.
"Fine, I'll bring her but can you please get out of my room." Beca pleaded desperate to get her father to leave, knowing that Chloe would be there any minute.
"Fine, I'm going. Be there at 6:30 on Saturday and don't be late." Turing around Beca's father made his way towards the door, pausing as he opened it. Beca walked over to see what had made her father stop, confused when all she saw was two guys holding hands as they walked towards their dorm room. "I can't believe that this university lets their type in, it's so wrong" He grumbled.
"Dad stop, everyone is entitled to some happiness." Beca said cringing at her father's words.
"That may be true, and if they have opposite sex partners I have no problem with it, but god did not intend for them to be this way. It just goes against nature." With that Beca's father left, leaving Beca alone with her thoughts. Beca had always thought that her father was cool with same sex relations. In their small town he hadn't been one of those people to make much of a fuss if someone came out, at least not as big of a deal as some of the other people but still. If that was how her father reacted with random people he didn't know, how would he react when his own daughter informed him that she had been in a relationship with the same person for the past year and a half, and that said person was also a woman. Beca shook her head deciding to dwell on those thoughts another time.
Bzzz bzzz bzzz Beca was pulled out of her thoughts by her phone as it vibrated signalling the arrival of a new text. Walking over to her phone Beca picked it up and smiled as she realized who was texting her.
Hey babe :) are you at school yet? I can't wait to see you; I miss you so much :( Beca smiled and shook her head once again amazed at how easily the red head could get her to smile with just a simple text.
Hi beautiful, I got here about an hour ago, considered trying to find your place but thought I should get rid of my junk first, that and I have no clue where your apartment on campus is :P Beca replied, her mood continuing to lift as she spoke to Chloe.
Are you done unpacking?
I might be, why? What do you have up your sleeve Beale?
Who me? Nothing just wondering
As Beca finished reading the latest text a knock could be heard at the door, when Beca made no move to get it, still engrossed with her phone, Kimmy Jin rolled her eyes and went to open it.
"Hi, you must be Beca's roommate, I'm Chloe." Rolling her eyes, Kimmy Jin pushed past Chloe and out into the hall, disappearing down the stairs and off to probably find her own friends. Beca's head snapped up from her phone, grinning when she saw that Chloe was standing at the door. Standing up Beca swiftly made her way over to Kimmy Jin's recently vacated spot. Pulling Chloe out of the hall Beca closed the door and turned to face Chloe.
"What are you doing here? I thought you were helping Aubrey prepare for the activities fair thing." Beca questioned.
"Oh, I was only helping 'till noon." Chloe replied smiling as she moved closer to Beca. Normally the disregard for personal space would have bugged Beca, but with Chloe it was just something that she did and Beca loved her even more for it. Pressing her lips softly against Chloe's, Beca smiled, as she revelled in the feeling of Chloe against her. They hadn't seen each other for two weeks due to family vacations, and moving into the dorms. As they parted Chloe and Beca smiled at each other. "See, if I had stayed to help more we wouldn't have gotten to do that," Chloe chuckled
"That is very true," Beca mumbled.
"Oh, I made reservations for our date Saturday; remember you promised, so there's no backing out," Chloe said her smile falling slightly at the upset look spreading across Beca's face. "Babe what's wrong?" Chloe asked gently, "Did I do something?" Beca shook her head which put Chloe slightly more at ease, but she was still worried about her girlfriend. "You can tell me anything."
"I have to cancel on Saturday," Beca said, her heart breaking at the look that covered Chloe's face.
"Oh, that's fine. I guess," Chloe stated, hurt evident in her tone of voice
"I don't want to, Chloe but I don't really have much of a choice," Beca replied glumly.
"What do you mean you don't have a choice, you always have a choice," Chloe said more harshly than she had intended.
"Not this time. My dad was here before you, and he is insisting that I have dinner with him and the step-monster on Saturday," Beca informed.
"Did you tell him you had plans?" Chloe questioned, curiously.
"Ya I did, but you know my dad, he asked who they were with since I didn't know anyone here. When I said that I did, he told me to bring whoever it was for dinner with me, because he wanted to get to know my friends better," Beca said sadly. Chloe nodded encouragingly knowing that Beca's father wasn't exactly the warmest person on the planet. "So I was wondering if maybe we could do our date after dinner at my dad's place," Beca asked, desperate for Chloe to agree because she didn't think she could go through dinner with her father alone.
"Okay that's fine. Do you plan on actually eating there? I know you hate your step-mom's cooking, so I can just push the reservation back a few hours, no big deal. But the second we leave your dad's, you are mine for the evening, no laptops or headphones, got it?" Chloe said, ginning as she watched Beca nod her head in agreement.
"There's one more thing Chlo," Beca said nervously.
"What's that?" Chloe asked wondering what new information her girlfriend was going to impart on her.
"Like I said earlier my dad was here before you." Beca took a breath, "And you know how we thought that out of both sets of parents he would be the one to be okay with us dating? You know the whole liberal arts professor thing, hopefully opening him up to the idea of same sex couples?" Chloe nodded confused as to what Beca was getting at. "Well when he left my room he saw two guys walking to their dorm room and they were holding hands. He said something along the lines of, 'they shouldn't be allowed at the school, and they don't deserve to be happy if they aren't with the opposite gender," Beca said her voice quivering slightly. Chloe wrapped her arms around the smaller woman and started to mummer comforting words in her ear.
"It's going to be okay Becs, I promise. We haven't told him yet so we don't know how he's going to react. Remember when we told my parents we thought for sure they were going to flip, but they were totally cool with it. He might surprise you, but if he doesn't, I will be here to support you, okay?" Chloe soothed, smiling lightly as Beca nodded her head. "Good, now seeing as you're fully unpacked come help me finish, I have no clue how to set up the sound system my dad got me," Chloe said sensing the need for a new topic. "It's super complicated, but it supposedly has aca-awesome sound."
"It's probably simple to set up, you're just hopeless when it comes to sound systems babe, remember when I let you try my mixing equipment?" Beca teased.
"That was not my fault, how was I supposed to know that you can't spray the screen with cleaners, it was smudged and I was just trying to clean it for you." Chloe pouted.
"I know Chlo, I know, but next time, please leave it," Beca smiled.
"Hey I did buy you a new laptop to replace your old one," Chloe pointed out.
"That is true, and it is amazing," Beca agreed.
"You know it," Chloe responded confidently, her confidence reminding Beca of something else she had been meaning to ask.
"Chlo, would um….would," Beca stuttered.
"Just spit it out Becs, can't be worse than your father possibly being homophobic." Chloe replied lightly.
"Would you be okay if we came out to my dad and step-mom on Saturday? I just don't want to hide anymore, you are way too important to me to do that. Besides we're not back home anymore, it seems that people here are a lot more open then they were at home in Texas," Beca said, sounding unsure of herself.
"I would really like that Becs, I don't want to hide any more either, we've been dating for a year and a half on Saturday and I'm not going to hide anymore. Besides my parents know and are cool with it, and your mom will be too, and if not, don't you have a gay aunt?" Chloe asked.
"Ya, Aunt Vivian is amazing, I'm not worried about my mom, I'm worried about my dad, he could make it miserable for us here, but I'm willing to take the risk if you are." Beca asked still unsure. Chloe took a step closer to Beca.
"I am one hundred percent sure of you Beca Mitchell. Everyone else can go to hell." With that Chloe placed a quick kiss on Beca's lips and pulled away to make eye contact with a still nervous Beca, "Come on, you need to distract yourself and I need a sound system, if we go over to my place we have both, besides, Aubrey will be at the fair all day, and I've missed you." Taking Beca's shocked look as approval, the red head led them out of the small dorm room and over to her apartment, where neither of them worried about the upcoming weekend for the rest of the afternoon.
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