Beca stared at the rows and rows of tents that had been lined up on the college grass as a part of the activities fair. Nothing had jumped out at her. Actually, the only reason she had come here was to get away from her step-dad and all of his chit-chat about her future so really, she didn't have any grand hopes for this place to start off with. As her eyes glazed over the various tents, with a group of stuck up college boys strolling by and yelling about some sport, her eyes drifted to a white and blue set up near an old tree As she looked over at the tent more closely, she could make out three distinct figures. One of them being a rather large lady who seemed to be doing some form of dancing, another blonde lady (Barden University seemed to have a thing for blondes) who was trying to get her to calm down or stop what ever she was doing and a ginger. As she looked at the third woman standing at the tent, her mouth dropped. What she had just seen was better than anything she had ever invisioned. Unlike the other two girls at the tent, this one had striking features. She was stunning. Beca stared at her for a while until she realises that people had began yelling at her to get out of the middle of the path. As she looked away from the ginger, her eyes spotted a DJ tent, hoping for a distraction, Beca walked over.

The DJ booth was a bust. Apparently no one did music here as DJ was more commonly reffered to as 'Deaf Jews'. As Beca had just about had enough, a flash of red caught her eye. She looked back around and saw the ginger from before pointing at her and against all Beca's better judgement, she found herself walking towards her

As Beca arrived at the booth, a cheery voice filled her ears. As she looked up, she saw the ginger haired woman looking at her. Those eyes. Those big blue eyes. They drew her in, almost making her lose focus on what had been said.

"Hi would you like to join our acapella group?"

The ginger asked with so much innocence in her voice. Beca stared in awe. She was gorgeous. Stunning.

"Oh, so this is like a thing now?" Beca asked with a hint of rudeness in her speech. She didn' mean for her aura to come off this way but after everything she had gone through, it was inevitable.

The conversation continued with the blonde haired lady (whose name had turned out to be Aubrey) calling her a bitch but with the ginger always coming to her aid. Beca sighed and blatantly lied to the two women standing infront of her, just wanting to get away so her chest didnt explode and so she could finally breathe again.

"Sorry but I don't even sing." Beca said as she walked away back to her dorm room.

Beca sighed after a long day. She ended up signing up to be an intern at the radio shack on campus but then when she got there to produce music, all she ended up doing was stacking CD's. To make matters even worse, only 3 peiple worked there. The deat clerk, Luke the station manager and somw kid named Jesse whi was also interning. She sighed after a long 30 minutes of stacking Cd's, she called it quits. Beca reeked of dust. As she began to walk towards the showers, a tune began to form in her mind for a new mix and before she knew it, she was singing titanium with a little pep in ber step.

As the hot water hit her back and the song reached it's climax, she remembered all the good moments this song had given to her. Her thoughts however disnt last long as a voice could be heard from behind her.

"You can sing!" The voice exclaimed. Before Beca turned around to see who it was, she quickly grabbed the shower curtain and pulled it over herself to cover her naked body.

"Dude!" Beca exclaimed before looking back to see two of the most gorgeous sapphire blue eyes she had ever seen. As she was in her trance, the ginger drom earlier swung the curtain back.

"How high does your belt go?"

"My what?" Beca was shocked. There in front of her stood the most gorgeous woman she had ever seen.

"My names Chloe by the way. I just realised that we had never actually introduced ourselves."

Beca was stunned. There infront of her was everything she had ever wished for and yet more than anything, she willed herself not to look down. As Beca smiled, she could feel the heat rising in her chest when all of a sudden, she dropped her shampoo on the floor. She shouln'tv'e bent down to get it but she wanted to see where this little conversation was going. When Beca came back up, she saw Chloe's eyes dart around. Beca smirked. Chloe was so checking ber out. Chloe cleared her throat before averting her eyes to the wall behind Beca.

"You were singing Titanium right?" Chloe should've stopped speaking right then and there but her mouth decided otherwise. "That song is my jam... my lady jam"

Beca smirked once again. This ginger haired woman who she had only met a few hours proir had just yold her the song she climaxed to. As she turned around to look at Chloe, those blue eyes of hers were fixated somewhere else.

"um hello, Earth to Chloe?" Beca said, still looking at how the ginger was definetly checking her out.

"Oh um..." Chloe looked flustered. Her eyes quickly darted back up to meet Beca's. In them she thought that she would see disgust but instead saw amusement.

"It's ok really" Beca said, once agin smirking and beginning to realise that smirking was her signature move.

"You have beautiful eyes" Beca stated to cease the awkward silence.

"Oh um.. thanks. I..I wasnt checking you out before I swear..." Chloe began but when she looked up to finish her apology, the small brunette was laughing

"Sure sure bud but I'm guessing you didn't just come in here to tell me your fappy song."

"Oh um... Can you please come audition for the Bellas? We really need a strong vocalist like you right now..." Chloe was shunned into silence. Duh she was checking that girl out. Chloe was openly straight but this girl seriously questioned that when looking at the short badass.

"Fine" Beca grumbled as Chloe quickly skipped out if the shower but not before yelling "see you at auditions!"

Beca groaned. Chloe was stunning. STUNNING. They even did the deed to the same song. Co-Incident or fate?

As Beca went back to her dorm that evening she looked around to check if Kimmy-Jin was there. No. Thankfully not. As Beca moved toward the kitchen, she had a thought about earlier that evening. Chloe. It was all Chloe. But as her mind drifted further and further back into the morning, Her mind settled on an earlier conversation with her mum. Her mum called up only to make a fool of her. Beca's 2 older step brothers graduated College in only 1 year and that to Beca' step-mum was worth sharing to Beca. It reminded Beca that she was a faliure. When Beca's Dad passed away a few years proir, she has lost control. Control of everything. Her step-mum becam a bitch while her step-dad and actual mum never cared. Her step-monster, Shiela, who was no better that Becas own mother when it came to supporting her, constantly tormented her. Saying how Beca waa never perfect and thar she shoulve been the one who died. She inched towards the knife block.

Chloe.

If she wasnt perfect for her own family then why would Chloe have a second thougt about her.

Chloe.

She blinked as tears formed into her eyes. She grabbed the largest cerated knife from the block and placed it on her wrist. She sobbed. As she roughly slid the knife down her arm, she thought of Chloe but that only made her cry harder. She felt so alone. By the time she had felt like she was really broken and numb, it was 8.30. 1 hour later. As she sat on the kitchen floor, crying her small heart out, She glanced at her arms. Bloody and ruined, just like her.

The next morning was Bella tryouts. Beca was hesitant because of her episode last night but decided to go along anyway. Anything to see Chloe. As she entered the auditorium, she heared everyone singing 'Since You've Been Gone'.

"Shit" She thought. She didnt even know the first word let alone 16 bars of it. As the auditions closed, she waited and just as she was about to go out to perform, the aircon turned off.

"Double shit" she said under her breath. It was a hot February, 40C some days and today was unfortunately one of those days. She looked around. Nobody else cared. They were all wearing 'summer appropriate clothes'. As she pulled at her jumper, a voice rang out from tbe croud.

"Beca! You came!" It was Chloe.

As Beca awkwardly walked onto the stage, while people stared at her. Fuck them, all she cared about was being near Chloe.

"Beca do you want to take that jumper off?" Chloe asked with a light laugh. Beca sighed as tears formed in the corner of her eyes, thinking about what her parents had said.

"..no" Beca responded quietly, quickly looking down at her feet. Chloe understood immediatly what had happened but waited to see if the small brunette broke down.

"Can I please sing something else? I didn't know we had to prepare that song"

"Of course!" Chloe replied with a cheery disposition, trying to help the poor girl. She felt her own memories flood back to her as she watched Beca sit on the stage.

Beca stared. Her heart pounding. As she sat down, she asked if she could use the yellow cup that was ond the desk next to

Shit. Aubrey.

As Beca grabbed the cup, she accidently rolled up one of her sleeves. It was too hot and her mind was not fit to be working. Chloe gasped. As she realised what had just happened. The wirhout a second thought she called the rest of the Auditions off. Chloe had that power over people.

"Beca, i've already heard you sing its ok you're a shoe in. AUDITIONS OVER YOU CAN LEAVE!" Beca was confused. Then she realised. She began to cry. Thankfully everyone had already abandoned the auditorium as they had begun to feel the heat. Chloe got up onto the stage and hugged the crying girl.

"Beca..." but her voice trailed off as she felt the younger girl cry harder into her. Chloe sat there in silence, stroking Beca's hair. That seemed to calm her down a bit but he girl was still very much unconsolable. As Chloe looked around the auditorium, she saw Aubrey in the wings. Chloe gave her a nod and with that, Aubrey was off. Chloe looked back at Beca. She knew what it was like to be in this place. She knew it better than anyone else.

A/N: So this is my first ever fan fiction and yeah I hope you would want to read more. The first few chapters are going to be a little depressing as both girls help eachother but I wil make it lighter towards the end. This story is kind of based of something that I went through so I wanted to just write it out. Oh yeah and a side note; I live in Australia so 40 is sweltering and February is summer. I know its weird but meh.