A/N: Ok so this is my first attempt at a FF, though I have written several original stories before. This also happens to be my shortest story ever written, as I seem to be addicted to detail. I see an image in my head and try to share that exact image with others. I don't mind feedback and constructive criticism, but let's not be harsh about it please. Also I am my own Beta, so if you see grammar/spelling mistakes, feel free to point them out because I hate those.
I wrote this story according to the actual script of PP, but I added parts in between scenes or extended some. This is more or less what I see, reading between the lines so to speak, when I watch the movie. I hope you guys like it.
Disclaimer: I own nothing, but if I did, these "extra scenes" would totally have been in the movie.
Beca Mitchell was not looking forward to attending classes at Barden University, but her father had insisted she get an education rather than head off to L.A. to get a jump start on her career and "pay her dues" as she called it. "DJ-ing isn't a career, Beca." Her father had said when she tried to argue with him. They'd fought about it for a while now, but Beca didn't exactly have the money to move to L.A. just yet and, thanks to her father being a professor at Barden, Beca's education would be completely free.
Beca's taxi pulled up in front of the main campus and Beca took a breath before getting out. Some of the Upper-classmen were helping new students find their dorms while others were helping them carry their belongings. An older student in a yellow polo started to unload Beca's luggage from the trunk of the taxi. She hurriedly grabbed the bag that held her laptop and expensive music software. It was her lifeline in all of this. Beca hoped to lose herself in her mixes and ignore college life as much as possible.
"Hi there! Welcome to Barden University." An overly cheery girl in a green polo greeted Beca. "What dorm?"
"Baker Hall." Beca told her after removing her headphones from her ears to rest on her neck.
The greeter pulled out a map and started to explain the direction in which Beca needed to go to get to her dorm, but Beca tuned her out when a Prius pulled up alongside her taxi and the guy in the backseat was singing "Carry On Wayward Son". Beca watched the display with little interest as the attractive young man started to sing the guitar solo as he played his air guitar to her. A sardonic smile and a raised eyebrow was the most attention he got from her.
"…and your official BU rape whistle. Don't blow it unless it's actually happening. Nobody likes that." The greeter finished, handing Beca a small silver whistle attached to a green springy wrist band.
Beca quirked an eyebrow at the greeter, thinking her a bit over the top. The greeter, never losing her smile, made a short humming sound as if to call Beca a bitch without actually saying the words.
Beca enters her dorm room with her things in her hands and notices her roommate is already there. She tried interacting with the girl, but she honestly wasn't even sure the girl spoke English; she just glared back at Beca without saying a word. Beca tried to ensure Kimmy Jin understood that Beca's music was everything to her and to never touch it, but she still got no response.
A short while after setting her music equipment up, there was a knock on the door. Beca's father had come to see her and welcome her. They talked briefly about Beca's reluctance to be there in the first place before Kimmy Jin states that's she's going to the Activities Fair in perfect English, slightly shocking Beca, but she quickly tells her father she's going with her "super-good friend, Kimmy Jin".
When Beca is outside, Kimmy Jin leaves her for a group of people at a booth with a sign that read, "Korean Students Association". Beca watched her as she was greeted warmly by the others there. Beca wandered around slowly looking over each booth, but showing no interest in any particular one.
Chloe Beale stood with her best friend Aubrey Posen as they tried desperately to find at least eight girls to join their a cappella group, the Barden Bellas. Since their embarrassing performance the previous year in which Aubrey threw up all over the first few rows, they weren't very popular. Chloe had tried to recruit "Bologna Barb", who turned them down because of the way they'd made fun of the way her breasts looked in the past.
"This. Is. A TRAVESTY!" Chloe sang the last part. "If we can't get Bologna Barb, we can't get anybody." Chloe stressed.
"Take the dramatics down a notch." Aubrey cautioned her.
"You're the one who got us into this hot mess!" Chloe complained.
"We'll be fine. I'm confident we'll find eight super-hot girls with bikini ready bodies who can harmonize and have perfect pitch." Aubrey tries handing a flyer to a group of girls that happen to be walking by, but they push her aside and keep walking. "Keep flyering. We have a tradition to uphold." Aubrey commands.
"How about we just get good singers?" Chloe suggests.
"What? Good singers?" A heavier set blonde asks.
"Hi! Can you sing?" Chloe asks.
"Yeah." The blonde says.
"Can you read music?"
"Yeah."
"Can you match pitch?"
"Try me." The blonde says, pointing confidently at Chloe.
Chloe leads the girl through a few notes that the blonde seems to match rather well, if not a bit over enthusiastically. After she finishes the last note, having held it for quite some time and repeating it after a breath, she begins to demonstrate her dancing abilities, choosing to sit on the ground and flaunt her "mermaid dancing" skills.
"What's your name?" Chloe asks.
"Fat Amy." The girl replied without pause.
"You call yourself Fat Amy?" Aubrey asked incredulously.
"Yeah, so twig bitches like you don't do it behind my back." She explains.
Aubrey hands her a flyer. "See you at auditions…Fat Amy."
After Fat Amy walks off, Aubrey admits that recruiting just one person, never mind that she is not what she'd call traditional, was satisfying.
Beca finds a booth with a sign advertising for DJ's, but when she quickly approaches, she reads the poster stating that DJ's is actually for Deaf Jews. The disappointment was evident on her face. So much for that spark of hope.
"Deaf Jews. Ooohh." A strange bigger Australian blonde says, reading the poster next to Beca.
"Shalom!" One of the deaf Jews says in way of greeting.
"That's not a real word, but keep trying! You. Will. Get. There!" The blonde yells to him.
The boy looks confused and shoves the sign-up sheet towards her.
Beca can't help but laugh lightly. "Not a lot of Jewish people where you're from?"
After the blonde agrees with Beca's assumptions, Beca moves on. As she's passing a booth with a couple of girls in front of it, her eyes linger on the two. The blonde holds little interest for Beca, but something about the ginger holds Beca's gaze for longer than she intended.
Chloe caught sight of a short brunette with dark eyeliner and pointed her out to Aubrey. "What about her?"
"I dunno," Aubrey hesitates, looking the girl over. "she looks a little too alternative for us."
"Hi, any interest in joining our a cappella group?" Chloe says as the brunette gets close enough to hear her.
"Oh right. So this is like, a thing now." The girl says, stopping to look at the flyer Chloe had thrust at her.
"Oh totes. We sing covers of songs but we do it without any instruments. It's all from our mouths." Chloe explains excitedly.
"Yikes." The girl exclaims.
"There's four groups on campus. The Bellas. That's us. We're the tits. The BU Harmonics. They sing a lot of Madonna. The High Notes. They're not particularly motivated. And then there's..." Chloe trails off, gazing at the group of guys singing "Whip It" behind them. "So are you interested?" She asks.
"Sorry, it's just, it's pretty lame." The brunette says, which was the wrong thing to say in front of Aubrey.
"A-ca-scuse me? Synchronized lady dancing to a Mariah Carey chart topper is not lame." Aubrey lashes out at the girl.
"We sing all over the world and we compete in national championships." Chloe tried to smooth the situation over.
"On purpose?" The girl asks sarcastically.
"We played the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, you bitch!" Aubrey snarks.
The girl raised an eyebrow as she regarded Aubrey's words in surprise.
"What Aubrey means to say is that we are a close-knit, talented group of ladies whose dream is to return to the national finals at Lincoln Centre this year. Help us turn our dreams into a reality?" Chloe tries again.
"Sorry, I don't even sing, but it was really nice to meet you guys." The brunette says before wandering off, leaving Chloe and Aubrey alone again.
"What are we gonna do?" Aubrey asks, clearly dismayed by the lack of interest their fellow BU students were showing.
After failing to find anything of interest to her at the Activities Fair, Beca made her way over to the Barden University radio station. There she met the station manager, Luke and discovered her fellow intern was none other than the guy who played the air guitar to her from his parents' backseat when she first arrived at Barden. She tried to pretend like she didn't know him, but he didn't seem to be the type to give up easily. Beca briefly complained about not being able to play music like she wanted to. The guy, Jesse, tried to cheer her up by joking about really loving stacking CD's which was their assumed job for now. When that didn't work, Jesse tried another tactic.
"So what's your deal? You one of those girls who's all dark and mysterious then she takes off her glasses and that amazingly scary ear spike and you realize that, you know she was beautiful the whole time?"
"I don't wear glasses." Beca stated flatly.
"Then you're half way there." Jesse finished.
Beca was laying in her bed, trying to forget about being at Barden for nearly a month now when a knock sounded on her dorm room door. Her father entered before she or Kimmy Jin could answer.
"Beca. Beca, wake up." Her father said, shaking her into complete consciousness. "Funny this doesn't look like your intro to Philosophy class."
"I'm posing an important philosophical question. If I don't actually go to that class, will it still suck?"
Her father was not impressed with her smartass attitude. "Look, honey. College is...it's great. You get to create memories here, I see it every day. You just have to give it a chance. You've been here, what, a month now? Do you have any friends?"
"Kimmy Jin is my friend." Beca said offhandedly, trying to get him to back off.
But of course, Kimmy Jin had to ruin it. "No."
"You gotta get out there, Bec. You gotta try something."
"I got a job at the radio station."
"Great, that place. Yeah, it's dark and dirty and has like, what, those three weirdoes who work there?"
"Well, four now," Beca retorted.
"You gotta try something new Bec. Join one club on campus. And if, at the end of the year, you still don't want to be here, you still want to go off to L.A. and be P. Diddy, well then, you can quit college. And I will help you move to L.A." Her father said, trying to convince her to really try.
Beca was floored by his words. "Seriously?"
"Yes, seriously. But I really need to see it Beca. This is college. Join in."
Beca thought it over and decided it couldn't hurt if it meant she had his word that he would help her out when this inevitably went to complete shit.
Beca was in need of a good shower. She collected her things and headed down to the shower rooms. Having been working on a mix recently with "Titanium", Beca had the song stuck in her head and began singing as she opened the door, assuming the room was empty.
"You shout it out,
But I can't hear a word you say
I'm talking loud not saying much
I'm criticized but all your bullets ricochet
You shoot me down, but I get up
I'm bulletproof
Nothing to lose…"
Beca's singing was cut short when she heard a girl start talking to her much too close behind her.
Chloe was fooling around with her boy toy in the girls shower room when she heard a voice that she could only describe as captivating, start singing one of her favorite songs. She just had to know who was singing so beautifully and left her own shower stall to invade the shower the voice was coming from.
Chloe slowly pulled open the shower curtain to see the brunette from the Activities Fair.
"You can sing!" Chloe exclaimed.
The girl turned around and shouted in surprise. "Dude!"
The girl attempted to close the curtain on Chloe, but she pushed it back open and stepped closer. Both were naked from head to toe, but Chloe didn't seem to notice.
"How high does your belt go?" She asked, leaning past the girl to turn off the water in an attempt to hear the girl better.
"My what?" The brunette asked, before looking down at Chloe's naked flesh and turning away from her. "Oh my God!"
"You have to audition for the Bellas." Chloe said, still not realizing the uncomfortable situation she was putting the girl in.
"I can't concentrate on anything you're saying until you cover your junk." The girl said, trying to cover her own naked body with the shower curtain.
"Just consider it. One time we sang backup for Prince. His butt is so tiny that I can hold it with like one hand." Chloe gushed. "Oops!" She cried as she accidently knocked the shampoo bottle the girl had been holding from her hands.
The girl bent to pick it up quickly, bringing her awfully close to Chloe's feminine region. "Seriously. I'm nude." The girl said with her back to Chloe now.
"You were singing 'Titanium' right?" Chloe asked, already knowing the answer.
"You know David Guetta?" The girl seemed to relax a degree as she looked over her shoulder to meet Chloe's eyes.
"Have I been living under a rock? Yeah. That song is my jam." Chloe winked at the girl. "My lady jam."
"That's nice." The brunette commented.
"It is. That song really builds." Chloe could recall several times she had gotten worked up by the song playing while she was sexually flustered.
"Gross." The girl mumbled.
"Can you sing it for me?" Chloe asked.
"Dude, no. Get out!"
Chloe realized her mistake and tried to reassure the girl she wasn't trying to sex her up. Hard to get through when she had invaded the girl's shower with neither of them wearing a stitch of clothing. "Not for that reason." The girl didn't respond. "I'm not leaving here till you sing. So..." Chloe gave a dramatic yawn until the girl turned around and started singing again. Chloe joined her, harmonizing perfectly with her. When they finished Chloe wore a smile that was reflected by the smaller girl until the brunette's eyes flicked down and back up, averting her eyes.
"Yeah. I'm pretty confident about all this." Chloe said, gesturing to her naked flesh.
"You should be." The girl nodded. "I still need to shower." The girl stated, hinting for Chloe to leave now.
Chloe's boy toy turned the corner then, also wearing nothing as he complimented the girl. "You have a lovely voice."
Stunned, the girl replied with a harshly spoken, "Thanks."
Chloe seemed to suddenly realize what she'd done and jumped to leave. "Yeah. See you at auditions!" She hollered as she and her boy toy left.
Beca got back to her dorm room after her shower. She still wasn't sure the whole thing with the ginger was real. What was wrong with that girl?! Who just busted into some stranger's shower like that?!
She had a really nice body though. Beca thought to herself. Oh my God, Beca! Why would you even think that?
The thought ran through her mind without her permission. The image of the attractive, NAKED, ginger's body would likely be forever imprinted in her memory. She hadn't been able to keep her eyes from roaming over the flawless alabaster skin just inches from her own exposed flesh. It was when she bent to retrieve her fallen shampoo bottle that Beca got more than a mere eyeful of the ginger's bits. She could have moved just a little less tightly and brushed up against the girl she doubted would have even moved.
What is wrong with you?! You should not be having these thoughts! Beca mentally screamed at her mind.
Beca decided to finish her newest mix to take her mind off of the incident in the shower. With one last thought about the ginger, she figured it couldn't hurt to audition for the Bellas. The ginger already seemed to approve of her voice and it would satisfy her father. Maybe she could get away with faking it all and just slide under the radar.
Chloe and Aubrey sat in the auditorium listening to the multitude of people who showed up to audition for one of the four a cappella groups in attendance. She was starting to think the brunette from the Activities Fair and shower wasn't going to show. Everybody who'd been on the list had sang their bit of Kelly Clarkson's "Since You've Been Gone" and Tommy was beginning to wrap up auditions when Chloe noticed the girl standing next to the stage. Excitement rushed through her as she spoke up to bring Tommy's and everyone else's attention to the girl's presence.
Unaware that she had to sing a specific song, the girl confessed she wasn't prepared and Chloe cheerfully suggested she sing whatever she wanted. The girl asked permission to use the cup sitting in front of Chloe and Aubrey. When Chloe allowed her to take it the girl began using the cup as an instrument and started banging out an interesting, steady beat before adding her voice to sing a song Chloe had never heard, but the girl's voice was just as flowing and impressive as the first time Chloe heard her sing. Even Aubrey seemed to appreciate her vocal talents.
Chloe smiled in triumph as the girl finished. They had her fill out a sheet of paper with her information on it. Chloe finally knew the girl's name. Beca Mitchell. Chloe beamed at the girl before she left.
That girl seemed way too happy to see me. Beca thought to herself. Is she always that happy? I might have to watch out for her. No one should be that cheerful all the time. Maybe she's a sociopath. Beca continued to think as she headed back to her dorm.
Upon giving them her information, the two had introduced themselves to her. The blonde, Aubrey, Beca remembered from the Activities Fair when the other girl had tried to convince her to join originally. Chloe was the ginger's name. A fitting one Beca thought. It just seemed to fit her happy personality so well.
Well I guess we'll see what they thought of you later. Beca's mind seemed to speak to her as she tried to pretend that she wasn't nervous about it all.
It was after midnight when Beca heard her dorm room door open. She was sure it was just Kimmy Jin, but she couldn't figure out why her roommate had come back so late. Beca didn't even open her eyes to check, too tired from worrying about her audition for the Bellas. Suddenly the room got impossibly darker as something was shoved over her head and she was drug from her bed before she could react. When the people holding either arm drug her into the hallway, she heard the muffled, confused voices of a few other girls and relaxed a degree.
Soon after joining the other voices, they were led out into the cold night air and walked a while down the side walk before entering a dimly lit, though warm, house. Beca could tell it was a house and not another dorm building, by the way their footsteps didn't echo as loudly around them as they traversed the wooden floors blindfolded. They were steered carefully and slowly down a flight of stairs and Beca could tell she was in a basement now. She really hoped this wasn't some sex ring abduction and she was right to assume this was some strange college ritual.
"The sopranos." Beca recognized Aubrey's voice. "Jessica, Mary Elise, Lilly. The mezzos. Cynthia Rose, Stacie, Kori. And our altos. Fat Amy, Denise, Ashley and Beca." Beca looked around as the hood was removed from her face. She noted the faces of nine other girls before finding the faces of the snarky blonde and the ginger, Chloe she remembered. "We shall begin by drinking the blood of the sisters that came before you." Aubrey finished as Chloe pushed an old style looking goblet in Beca's face.
"Dude, no." She exclaimed.
"Don't worry it's Boone's Farm." Chloe whispered with a wink.
"Now, if you'll place your scarves in your right hand." Aubrey instructed when they'd all drunk from the goblet. "I, sing your name..."
Each of the girls did as Aubrey instructed, singing out their names in an unpleasant chorus of names.
"Promise to fulfill the duties and responsibilities of a Bella woman." Aubrey continued.
"Promise to fulfill the duties and responsibilities of a Bella woman." They echoed.
"And I solemnly promise to never have sexual relations with a Treblemaker or may my vocal cords be ripped out by wolves."
"And I solemnly promise to never have sexual relations with a Treblemaker or may my vocal cords be ripped out by wolves." Beca finished saying the words wondering if this was really worth the insanity she was facing.
"You are all Bellas now." Aubrey smiled as she announced this news.
A bunch of screaming happened after that.
"We did it." Chloe said, looking at the girls she and Aubrey had just welcomed into their ranks.
"I want some more of this." They heard Fat Amy say, grabbing the goblet of wine and finishing it off.
"Did we?" Aubrey asked uncertainly.
Beca followed all the other Bellas out the front door led by Aubrey and Chloe to a party that already seemed to be in full swing.
"Ladies welcome to a-ca-initiation night. Prepare to soften the beach." Aubrey announced before setting the excited girls loose.
Beca watched the antics of the others. She could see Chloe and Aubrey grabbing a few drinks towards the bottom of the bleacher-like structure she was standing on. "I don't know what I'm doing here." She said to no one in particular.
The Australian blonde who Beca came to know as Fat Amy answered her. "Just living the dream. I still can't believe they let my sexy fat ass in." Then Fat Amy ran off to join the fun.
"Beca! Beca!" Beca heard Jesse yelling as he climbed over the seats rather than walk around to get to her.
"Wow." Beca commented.
"Be-caw! Be-caw. Do my eyes deceive me or are you a Barden Bella?" He asked surprisingly without slurring as Beca was sure he had to be wasted with how he was acting.
"No."
"You're one of those a cappella girls, I'm one of those a cappella boys, and we're gonna have a-ca-children. It's inevitable." He said with a straight face.
Beca smiled in spite of her slight annoyance with his excessive friendliness. "You're really drunk right now. I don't think you're gonna remember any of this."
"No. I'm not drunk at all, you're just blurry."
After a few more words were exchanged, Jesse ran off saying he was going to get Beca a drink.
"Please be careful." Beca hollered as he left.
Chloe feeling a bit more confident since downing a couple of rather strong cups of alcohol spotted Beca standing alone and went to say hi. She couldn't quite explain why the girl was so attractive when she wasn't the friendliest person she'd ever met with how much sarcasm and disdain she used in each sentence.
"Hi." Chloe said grabbing Beca's wrists. "I am so glad that I met you." She leaned in close to Beca's face touching her nose with her own. If Beca didn't look like she'd run away Chloe might not have stopped there. "I think that we're gonna be really fast friends." She stated.
"Yeah. Well, you saw me naked, so..." Beca joked, winking at her.
Chloe giggled at the smaller girl's words. She recalled the scene and Beca's wet, naked body exposed to her. The tattoos on her back and shoulder were especially enticing. Chloe wanted to kiss every inch of them and trace their outlines with her tongue.
Sensing Beca's growing unease with Chloe's uncomfortable proximity, Chloe decided it was time to head back down to Aubrey and the others before getting herself into trouble. "Alright. I'm gonna go get a drink. This ginger needs her jiggle juice." She said turning her butt to Beca and jiggling it as she spoke before giving her hip a slap. "See you later!" She yelled over her shoulder.
"Make good choices." Beca called back.
Chloe smiled to herself, thinking she was doing well with Beca so far. At least the younger woman seemed to accept her friendly nature, even if it was more pronounced with Beca than with others.
Beca watched Chloe leave, her gaze lingering on her ass a moment too long for Beca's comfort. She told herself it was only because Chloe had brought attention to it with the wiggle and smack. Beca was talking with one of the other Bella recruits when Jesse came back up over the seats trying to sing the words to the song that was playing, but he admitted to not knowing the lyrics. He handed her one of the two cups in his hand and turned around to view the party.
"This is awesome." He said.
"It's definitely something." Beca replied dully, not too interested in it all.
"We are the kings of campus!" Jesse yelled out.
Beca was not comfortable with the attention he was bringing to himself and tried to sink into the background. When she was able, she slunk away from Jesse and the party altogether. She abandoned her drink, having hardly drunk any, at the top of the steps and returned to her dorm. Kimmy Jin glared at her, but didn't speak when she entered her room and started working on her laptop. When it was after two in the morning, Beca shut down her computer and removed her headphones. Despite the party still obviously going on, she went to bed with little difficulty.
At the first Bellas rehearsal the next day, Aubrey announced that one of the Bella recruits had already been dismissed from the Bellas due to her sleeping with a Treblemaker.
"That oath was serious?" Beca asked, incredulous.
"Dixie Chicks serious." Aubrey said as if that said it all. "You can fool around with whoever you want to, just not a Treble."
"That's not gonna be easy. He's a hunter." One of the other recruits said, Stacie Beca recalled, indicating her crotch.
"You call it a dude?" Another asked.
"Stacie, the Trebles don't respect us and if we let them penetrate us, we are giving them our power." Aubrey explained.
"Not a good enough reason to use the word 'penetrate'." Fat Amy murmured.
"So, does anyone here have anything to confess?"
Aubrey glared at each of the girls until the one Beca had been talking to at the party started squirming and confessed, stating it was an accident. Aubrey showed no mercy, telling her to hand in her scarf and go, demanding she take her chair with her. As the girl drug the chair behind her, she started to cry and the surprised Bellas watched her go. She left the chair at the far end of the room and ran out sobbing loudly.
"Was that necessary?" Beca asked, angered for the girl.
"This is war, Beca, and it is my job to make sure that my soldiers are prepped at go time with three kick-ass songs sung and choreographed to perfection. And there are only four months until Regionals. So if you have a problem with the way I run the Bellas, then you should just..." Aubrey's rant cut off as she began to heave.
"Don't stress Aubrey. Relax. We don't want a repeat of what happened last year." Chloe comforted the girl quietly.
The strange, almost silent, girl rose her hand and mumbled something that Beca nor anyone else heard.
"What are you saying?"
The girl huffed, but repeated her muted words. "What happened last year? And do you guys wanna see a dead body?"
Beca made a mental note to keep an eye on the silent girl. These girls were really starting to freak her out. Were they all crazy?
Next thing Beca knew, there was an iPad in Stacie's hands and they were all watching the puke fest Aubrey had on stage last year at Regionals.
"Ooh click on 'Guy Pukes on Cat'." One of them shouted out.
"Enough! It happened. It's over." Aubrey shouted when the video was over. "We will practice every day for at least two hours, seven days a week. And I trust you will add your own cardio."
"Why cardio?" Beca asked, not understanding what cardio had to do with singing.
"Yeah, no, don't put me down for cardio." Fat Amy spoke vehemently.
"Okay, moving on. This is a list of all the songs that we have ever performed. And you will notice that we only do songs made famous by women." Aubrey handed each of them a sheet of paper.
Beca looked over the setlist and wasn't impressed by any of the songs. She wasn't even sure she had heard over half of them.
"There's nothing from this century on here." She said.
"Because we don't stray from tradition. Now this is how we will become champions." Aubrey countered, not giving Beca another chance to argue.
After leading each of the girls through some vocal exercises, which Beca found rather strange and slightly annoying, Aubrey had all of the girls running up and down a set of bleachers in a circle. She yelled to them to keep moving and run faster.
"Come on girls! Let's go! Go, go, go! Pick up your knees! Faster, faster! One, two, one, two, one two! Knees up, knees up! Go, go! Go! Let's get it! Yes, Chloe." Aubrey gave Chloe a two handed high five while each of the others received a smack on the ass. "Nice. Amy! What are you doing?"
Aubrey had just spotted Fat Amy laying on the bleachers trying to evade notice.
"I'm doing horizontal running." Amy said, kicking her legs in a circle mid-air.
"Horizontal running?" Aubrey asked skeptically.
Next they were all in heels, learning to walk without tripping and looking like they were walking on a high wire. When Aubrey was satisfied with that, they moved on to choreography. Chloe worked with each of them individually. Stacie had problems touching herself while dancing….
Chloe tried helping Stacie learn the dance moves, but the girl had some serious issues with touching herself when she moved. The overly sexual suggestions this girl radiated was a big turn off for her as she kept removing the girl's hands from her own body.
Chloe and Aubrey demonstrated the dance for the girls again, trying to get them to pay enough attention to get at least some of it down.
Chloe went back to helping each of them work on their moves as they stood in the mirror. Most of them she just snapped her fingers to a beat and had them go through the moves as she watched for mistakes. When it was Beca's turn though, she couldn't help but look down slightly to watch her ass move. Beca seemed to have the gist of it down, but she lacked the enthusiasm that the choreography called for so Chloe stepped forward to help her.
"I know. I can do it." Beca said, trying to get Chloe to let go of her arms. Chloe ignored her though, moving her arms the way she wanted. Chloe leaned over the shorter girl's shoulder and peered down, not meaning to look at her breasts, but that's where her eyes landed. Beca didn't seem to notice though and Chloe looked back up quickly enough.
Chloe walked over to watch Stacie going through the moves with Cynthia Rose watching when Stacie bent over with one leg straight up in the air, the other and her hands on the floor. Chloe couldn't help watching the tall girl's butt and noticed Cynthia Rose looking too. Chloe smiled to Cynthia Rose, but didn't comment.
"Five, six, seven, eight. Left you all alone." Chloe sang before Aubrey gave up.
"Okay, I'm calling it." She said.
Lilly mumbled something Beca couldn't hear, but it sounded like approval.
"Nothing. I hear nothing." Aubrey said to the girl.
Beca couldn't help herself. She had to ask. "Hey Aubrey. Did we just learn the same choreography from that video?"
"Okay don't forget to pick up your performance schedules. We have a gig next week. That's right. Next week." Aubrey yelled to the girls, ignoring Beca's question.
"You guys, it's the Sigma Beta Theta's Annual Fall Mixer." Chloe added.
"Okay, hands in, Bellas." Aubrey said, as she and Chloe put their hands together. "Hands in a-ca-bitches!" She yelled when they didn't immediately join them.
After a failed attempt to sing "ahh" on three as was Bella tradition, Aubrey said they'd work on it first thing next time.
"Beca, a word?" Aubrey called before Beca could leave.
"What's up?"
"You know you'll have to take those ear monstrosities out for the Fall Mixer." Aubrey said, indicating Beca's ear spikes.
"You really don't like me, do you?"
"I don't like your attitude."
"You don't even know me." Beca pointed out.
"I know you have a toner for Jesse."
"A what?"
"A toner. A musical boner. I saw it at Hood Night. It's distracting."
"Yeah, that's not a thing and you're not the boss of me. So…"
"You took an oath."
"That oath cost you two girls already today. I'm pretty sure you need me more than I need you." Beca argued, getting agitated with Aubrey's apparent interest in making her feel small.
"I can see your toner through those jeans." Aubrey yelled as Beca turned to leave.
Beca turned back to face Aubrey, walking backwards. "That's my dick."
Chloe watched the interaction between her best friend and the younger brunette. "Everything okay?"
"We better have our shit together before SBT." Aubrey said simply.
Chloe smiled encouragingly. "I'm not worried. I think we're gonna be a-ca-awesome."