Notes: REVISED AND EDITED. Due to much deserved criticism, I have rewritten this chapter. I am keeping with the prompt, because I still find it interesting. I'm sorry for those I upset, it was not intentional. There's still a chance there may be future similarities if the original story is updated just due to the prompts being the same. Again, apologizes to those and thank you to those who commented on my errors and shittyness. Chapter 1
Chloe, Brittany, and Kate were basically identical. Brittany, the youngest, had short blonde hair and blue eyes. Kate, the oldest was tall with long blonde locks and the same blue eyes. Then Chloe the middle child, had bright red hair but shared the same blue eyes. All three had similar faces, but the only two that were ever mixed up were the oldest and youngest. Thanks to Chloe's unique hair, the resemblance was only obvious when they were all next to each other.
They used to be best friends but as they got older the oldest sister believed she was far above the other two girls and elevated herself as such. The two younger girls remained close, and kept a bond that made the older jealous. Somewhere between middle and early high school Kate suddenly began competing with Chloe. She had to have everything that the redhead had. It even came down to simple things like rooms, which were traded continuously, and clothes which Chloe finally put a stop to by requesting to have a deadbolt to her bedroom door.
For some reason unknown to Chloe, Kate was jealous of the girl, so envious that she felt to take everything Chloe had and claim it as her own. And once they got to high school, nothing was off limits. Chloe's freshman year was when the first incident occurred. Kate was a sophomore and she was clearly one of the most popular girls in school. She had all of the boys pining after her. All of them except one, John Tucker. John was Chloe's first boyfriend, but that was short lived when Kate swooped in and stole him by feeding him lies about the sister.
After that, every boy Chloe found was taken or using her to get to her sister. Senior year, Chloe started dating Beth. She was Chloe's first girlfriend, but just when she thought she was safe from Kate's reaches, the game changed. Kate managed to take Beth and any other girl Chloe had an eye for from her. Kate was always wanted and never single. She was known and connected to nearly everyone in their high school. Soon enough Brittany and Chloe were their own entity separated from Kate.
All three girls went to Barden University after high school. Both parents were alumni and the girls wanted to continue the tradition. Kate took a year off from school and stayed home working but decided to go to Barden the same year as Chloe. Chloe hopes that college would be a new start but was quickly disappointed when she realized Kate intended on continuing her ways. As a result Chloe kept most of her relationships private in hopes that Kate wouldn't find out. It was her sophomore year when she started dating Tom, due to Kate they continued to have an on again off again fling for a while until Chloe ended things.
Now onto her Junior year and she was excited to have Brittany back at school with her. Brittany was a freshman so she had to live on campus. Chloe was in the Bellas house after she joined the acapella group her freshman year. She and Aubrey were at the activities fair handing out fliers when Brittany finally found them.
"Chloe!"
"Britt!"
"Man, mom and dad always talked about how great Barden was but this is beyond awesome!"
"Yeah it's pretty great. I'm so glad you're here."
"Me too. Hey Aubrey!"
"Hey Brittany! Wanna join the Bellas?"
"As much as I would love to I actually am going to join the theater club so that I can have it on my acting resume."
"That's great. How was moving in," Chloe asked.
"It was alright I'm in Baker Hall. I saw this girl moving in next door, her name is Beca, I think. She seems pretty cool. I overheard her arguing with her dad, turns out she wants to be a music producer, I'm hoping I can befriend her."
"Awes. Well we gotta get back to recruiting."
"Oh wait, have you seen Kate?"
"No, she's probably sleeping with some guy or girl, or pining after Luke as he is the only person at this school that won't won't date her."
"Okay. I'll see you guys later?"
"Yeah totally let's all get dinner!"
Brittany walked off and Aubrey and Chloe continued their quest of finding new girls. After being shot down by bologna Barb Chloe felt like they were hopeless. Fortunately they had one prospective freshman, Fat Amy. After she left they were scanning the busy quad when Chloe's eyes fell on the small brunette.
"Oh. What about her?"
"I don't know Chlo, she seems a bit alternative for us."
As the girl walked by Chloe ignored Aubrey and caught her attention, "hi! Any interest in joining our acapella group?"
"Oh right, this is like a thing now."
"Oh totes. We sing covers of songs and the music is all from our mouths."
"Yikes."
"We compete all over the country and perform in some local gigs too."
"On purpose?"
"We performed at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center you bitch," Aubrey stated, earning a surprised yet delighted smirk from the freshman.
"What Aubrey means is that we are a talented, close group of ladies that hope to return to Lincoln center for the finals this year. Help us make our dream a reality?"
Chloe gave a soft smile to the brunette that smiled back after looking at the flyer, "sorry I don't even sing, but it was nice meeting you guys. Good luck."
"Thanks, maybe we'll see you around sometime," the redhead added.
"Maybe, Red."
With that the small girl walked off. Beca felt bad for not offering to sign up for the singing group, but she had a plan, find an internship, get a job, get to LA. She made her way over to the tent that was labelled CAP, which stood for Career Advising Peers and quickly scanned over all of the internships they offered. She signed up for an internship at the college radio station and quickly went back to her dorm.
The next week Beca began to work at the radio station with Jesse and Luke. Luke was the station manager while Jesse and her were interns. They were stacking CDs when a tall blonde strutted in.
"Hey Luke," she said.
"Kate. What can I get you today," he said without looking up from his computer.
"I was just wondering if you wanted to go to the welcome back party with me tonight?"
"Well while I'm definitely going to the party, I will not be attending it with you."
"Why not?"
"Why don't you just go ask one of the new freshmen?"
"Whatever, I'm sure I'll see you at the party."
"Can't wait."
Beca chuckled as she watched the girl stomp out of the station. That was her first interaction with the blonde. And after that she seemed to notice her around campus much more often. She even recognized Kate in one of her general education classes. She usually sat on the quad under a big oak tree watching the students while making her mixes. While it was sad, she found it entertaining watching Kate flirt with everybody, and watching how everybody worshiped the ground the girl walked on. It was almost as if she was watching a rom-com.
It had been a month since she started at Barden and her dad was forcing her to join a club. After the talk with her dad she made her way to the showers. Meanwhile, Chloe was hanging out in Baker hall with Brittany, talking about classes and gossiping. Chloe managed to spill a drink all over her, so she also decided on going to get a shower.
Beca walked into the bathroom humming Titanium. She noticed someone else was in the shower but she didn't care as she began to sing the lyrics out loud. She turned on the shower and was facing the water. She was so focused on the lyrics and the music in her head she didn't notice someone opening the shower curtain.
Chloe knew it was weird, but once she got to the strangers shower, she stood there in awe of the girl she saw singing. Once she recognized the girl's girl's tattoo from the activities fair she decided to speak up.
Ricochet you take your aim-
"You can sing!"
"Dude!" Beca quickly spun around and closed the curtain. But unfortunately the girl barged in again.
"How high does your belt go," Chloe asked as she turned the water off.
"My what," Beca asked still trying to process everything when she noticed the girl reaching towards her. "Oh my god!"
"You have to audition for the Bellas."
"I can't concentrate on what you're saying until you cover your junk," Beca said as she tried to cover herself and avoid making eye contact with the redhead.
"Just consider it. We sang backup for Prince." Chloe was trying to show how small the man's butt was when she accidentally knocked the smaller girl's girl's shampoo out of her hand. "Ooops!"
"Shit," Beca reached down to grab it and quickly got back up and turned around so that her back was facing the other girl. "Seriously? I'm nude."
"You were singing Titanium right?"
"You know David Guetta," Beca said with a smile.
"Yeah! That song is my jam! My lady jam," she said getting closer to Beca.
"That's nice."
"Yeah it is, the song really builds," she winked at Beca who nodded, understanding what she meant.
"Gross."
"Will you sing it for me?"
Beca's eyes widened, "dude no, get out of my shower!"
"Not for that reason," Chloe said as she smiled noticing the red cheeks on the other girl. "I'm not leaving until you sing."
Beca was still facing the wall and stood there for a while, wondering what to do.
Chloe sighed and put her hand on her hips, making it clear that she had no intention of leaving.
"Okay," Beca huffed as she turned around.
I'm bulletproof nothing to loseFire away, fire away, Chloe joined in, harmonizing perfectly with the younger girl.
Ricochet, you take your aim, fire away fire awayShoot me down, but I won't fall, I am titaniumShoot me down, but I won't fall, I am titanium
As the last note echoed through the empty bathroom the two girls smiled at each other. For a short moment Beca forgot they were both naked. She smirked as she checked out the redhead's body who was also taking the time to admire hers and then quickly looked up as she felt the blood rushing to her cheeks.
"Oh yeah. I'm pretty confident about," she motioned to herself, "all this."
Beca nodded, "you should be."
"Thanks, but you know, you're not so bad yourself."
"Thanks."
Chloe turned to grab the other girl a towel and smiled once the other girl grabbed it.
"I still need to shower."
"Well you have a lovely voice…"
"Beca, my name is Beca."
"No way! My sister lives in this hall, I think she lives in the room next to you."
Beca shrugged, "I wouldn't know, I'm not very social."
"Well you should talk to her, she has a hard time making friends too, plus I might get to see you more often."
Beca nodded, "yeah."
"Oh, my name is Chloe by the way."
"Hi," Beca awkwardly replied.
"Right, I'll let you be." Chloe quickly walked out and closed the curtain. "See you at auditions!"
Beca stood there in awe trying to process what just happened and didn't turn the shower back on until she heard the other girl leave. And even though she would never admit it out loud, she hoped that wouldn't be the last time they ran into each other.
Chloe rushed to her sisters room and opened the door, "Britt, you'll never believe who I just ran into." Brittany turned around to stop the redhead from speaking but Chloe was too excited to read the girls signals. "I was just in the bathroom and I ran into Beca, God she's beautiful. And she's got a great voice. I didn't mean to barge into her shower but she was singing my jam and I couldn't help it. I just barged in and you know she's got a rockin' body I couldn't keep my eyes off of her. I thinks she's coming to auditions tomorrow and-"
"Chloe," the redhead was interrupted by the younger sister. Chloe had barely made it through the doorway with her rambling so she didn't realize there was someone else in the room. Once she walked past the wall, she instantly kicked herself.
"Hey sis," Kate said with a wicked grin.
"Kate."
"So who is this Beca girl?"
"Just some girl we are trying to recruit for the Bellas. No one special."
Kate nodded, "well I just came by to check on the baby, I'll see you two around."
As soon as Kate left Chloe hit her younger sister on the arm, "you couldn't have just stood up and said look who came by?"
"You were the one that barged in talking a hundred miles an hour!"
"What have I done? She's gonna go after Beca now!"
"Wait so who is this Beca girl?"
"She's this girl from the activities fair and we are trying to recruit her."
"So you barely know her?"
"Yeah."
"So how do you know if you like her?"
"She seems cool! Plus she's hot and she knows David Guetta. And she can sing. I want to be her friend and I don't know you should've been there, there were definitely sparks flying."
"Well that's great but now what are we going to do about Kate?"
"I guess I'm just going to have to befriend Beca first and hope that she hasn't already been in contact with Kate."
As soon as Kate left the younger girls room she headed straight for the showers of the third floor of Baker hall. Where she quickly ran into the smaller girl who had just gotten dressed. She walked up behind the girl and tapped her shoulder.
Beca spun around expecting to see Chloe, but when she saw who it was her face dropped and she put on her cold front, "what do you want?"
"Nothing I just needed to pee, but I saw you and I recognized you from the station when I went to see Luke. Just thought I'd say hi."
"Well, hi. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed." Beca quickly walked passed the girl and headed to her room.
The next day, Beca auditioned for the Bellas. She performed the cup song that she had seen on YouTube and Chloe was beaming with joy when she saw her, and she was even happier after the girls audition. After auditions were over everyone went home, waiting and hoping to be contacted by a group.
Beca was about to leave when she felt someone tap her shoulder, and the small girl turned around and smiled when she saw the older girl, "hey."
"Hi, you were great up there."
"Sorry I really didn't know we were supposed to prepare that other song."
Chloe chuckled, "it's fine, you were still awesome."
"Thanks."
"So what are you doing after this?"
"Well I guess I'm going to go to work and then wait to see if I'm contacted by any of the acapella groups."
"Where do you work?"
"Oh I got a job at the radio station."
"Oh really? I know the manager, Luke. We are super close friends."
"Yeah he is pretty cool. My favorite part of the week is when this girl Kate comes in and begs him to go on a date with her."
"Ah so you already know about Barden's most wanted bachelorette?"
"Who doesn't."
Chloe shrugged.
"Well I better go, red. Maybe I'll see you around."
"Maybe." Beca was about to leave when the redhead grabbed her arm, "and I wouldn't worry too much if I were you, I think you were aca-awesome," Chloe leaned in and gave the girl a hug and quick kiss on the cheek. "Have fun at work, Becs."
Beca grinned as she unwrapped herself from the taller girl and walked out of the auditorium.
"Cmon Luke just go out for drinks with me," Kate begged.
"No thanks, I'm busy."
"What about Saturday?"
"Work, then I'm going to the movies with some of my mates."
"Oh I love movies, maybe I could-"
"I'm just going to stop you there, as surprising as this may be, I'm not interested, and I'm not inviting you."
"Whatever," Kate rolled her eyes and stormed out of the booth, she wasn't paying attention and ended up running into Beca. Normally she would scream at whoever was in her way, but when she realized who it was she put on a smile and apologized, "sorry sweet cheeks, I wasn't paying to where I was going." She gave the girl a wink and strutted out the station.
Beca rolled her eyes and continued stacking CDs.
"Seriously, Becs?"
"What?"
"You just rolled your eyes after interacting with the Kate Beale."
"Wow, really? No way. I'll have to write about it in my diary," Beca said with a smirk.
"I'm serious, Beca. She was totally flirting with you."
"She was being Kate. When is she not flirting."
"Never," Luke commented.
"See? Now move on."
Jesse scoffed and rolled his eyes before going back to his work.
Beca walked into class Monday to find that the only available seat was next to the Barden's Princess. She rolled her eyes laughing at the situation and quickly sat down. She gave the girl a not and a grin and grabbed her things out of her bag.
"Hey there," the blonde greeted her.
"Hi."
"I didn't know you were in this class."
"Well I am."
"Remind me did I kick your puppy or do you always have this sunny personality?"
"I'm just not a morning person."
Kate leaned in closer to the girl, "then you aren't starting your mornings the right way," she said with a wink.
"Gross."
"Hey now, don't knock it until you try it."
"Noted."
"And if you ever want to try it, feel free to give me a call," she said as she slid a small slip of paper onto the Beca's notebook.
"Thanks," Beca said with a snarky tone, ending the conversation. The class went by slower than usual for Beca, she did her best to stay focused, but the blonde next to her was constantly looking at her and twirling her hair. Everytime she would look over to Kate, the girl would wink or find some way to flirt with her. Once the class was dismissed, Beca packed her things and left the class as quickly as possible. She was halfway down the staircase when she heard the girl behind her.
"Hey, wait up," Kate said as she set her hand on the smaller girl's shoulder.
"What's up," Beca asked.
"Nothing. Hey what are your plans for Wednesday night?"
Beca shrugged, "nothing, why?"
"Well my friends and I are going out to a club downtown if you want to join us."
"Are you asking me out?"
"Only if you're interested."
"Clubs aren't really my thing."
"Just consider it," Kate said.
"Sorry, I don't think so."
"C'mon please? It'd mean the world to me if you came."
"Why? You barely know me."
"Well then this can be a chance for us to get to know each other."
Beca rolled her eyes, "I'll think about it."
"Great, well text me your decision, okay? I'll be waiting." Kate winked and waved goodbye as she strutted away from the other girl.
"Shit," Beca said to herself before heading to the station for her shift.
Beca was in the middle of stacking CDs, engaging in small talk with Jesse, "so how was your day, Becs?"
"It was okay."
"How was philosophy?"
Beca shrugged, "it was fine until Kate wouldn't stop flirting with me. She even went out of her way to give me her number."
"Seriously? You're complaining about the hottest girl in school flirting with you!"
"Okay. She may be physically flawless, but that doesn't mean I like her."
"C'mon, Becs," Jesse chuckled. "You can't say it'd be a bad thing to be with the most popular girl in school."
"It's one thing to be dating the captain of the cheer team, it's another to be dating the school slut."
"How can you say that about her? You don't even know her."
"Yeah but I know her reputation."
"Bec-"
"Enough Jess, I already have her annoying me about going out with her Wednesday, I don't need you bugging me about my decisions too."
"Wait she asked you out?"
The two had basically stopped working which didn't go unnoticed to Luke, so he decided to see what was going on, "everything okay in here?"
"No," Jesse said pointing to Beca. "She's being stubborn."
"Becky? Stubborn? Never."
Beca rolled her eyes, "Kate asked me to go out with her and some friends Wednesday night, I'm not interested, and Jesse thinks I'm being ridiculous."
"Because you are ridiculous!"
"I think you're doing swell, Becky."
"Oh come one Beca, just go out with them, if she's taking friends it's not a date."
"But I don't want to hang out with her."
"Why? Because you think you may actually end up liking her as a person."
"No, because nothing good ever happens when you involve alcohol and flirting."
"Doesn't sound so bad to me," Jesse stated.
"Its bad," Luke stated dryly.
"What the hell is wrong with you two?"
"I'm sorry Jess, she's gorgeous, yeah but that doesn't take away from her arrogance and reputation."
Luke nodded, "mhm right on the dot, Becs."
"You guys need to just give her a chance."
"To be fair," Luke said defending himself. "I have given her a chance. And I have my own reasons not to like her."
"And what about you Beca?"
"I just don't want to be friends with someone like her."
"You barely know her, this conversation is over." Jesse grabbed the girl's phone off of the desk.
"Jesse what the hell are you doing?"
"You saved her number in your phone, I'd say that means you like her."
"I saved it so that I would know what messages to ignore." Jesse dodged Beca's flailing arms as he typed out a message to Kate. Once he hit send he smiled and handed the phone back to Beca. "Thank you." Beca relaxed and she searched for what the boy did, but before she found it, she received a message on her phone from Kate.
Of course, see you later ;)
She quickly went to her messages and found the text Jesse had sent, she slammed her phone on the desk and went over to Jesse and punched him in the arm, "how could you do that."
"You were being unreasonable."
"And you went through my phone and now I have to go out with her!"
"Ok, I know it seems like I'm a total ass-"
"That's a nice way to put it," Beca interrupted.
"But, I'm coming with you."
"Like hell you are."
"Look she agreed that you could bring friends, so I'm joining you. Maybe you can invite other people too."
Beca rolled her eyes and looked to Luke who was curiously watching them, "don't look at me, I wouldn't touch her with a 30 foot pole."
Beca sighed and glared at her friend, "fine, but after this no more bugging me about her."
"Fine," Jesse grinned victoriously.
Beca made her way to the diner near the station after her shift and was sitting in a booth alone working on her mixes. She looked up from her laptop when she saw a flash of red hair set down across from her with her best friend, "hey," she said as she closed her laptop and placed her headphones around her neck.
"Hi, sorry I know we might be bothering you, but I couldn't help but drop by and say hi."
"No worries, Chlo. You guys can stay if you want."
"Sure," Chloe nodded and looked to her friend. "Is that okay, Bree?"
Aubrey shrugged not looking up from her phone, "I guess so."
"Cool, so what are you doing here, Becs?"
"Just relaxing after work, I had kind of a crazy day."
"Really? I'm sorry to hear that. Do you want to talk about it?"
Beca sighed, "Jesse kind of roped me into going out with Kate Wednesday night."
Aubrey lifted her head up, now interested in the conversation, "really?"
"Yeah, but hopefully it won't be too bad," Beca said thinking to herself. "Actually, she said I could bring friends, would you guys want to go?"
Chloe grinned, "sure I would love too, what about you Aubrey?"
Aubrey shrugged, "maybe."
"Well you guys are more than welcome to. It might make the whole night less awkward."
The three sat, engaged in small talk, and ate dinner together before going their separate ways. Beca went straight to her dorm while Chloe and Aubrey headed back to the Bella house. The two girls were almost back at the house when Chloe stopped walking, "what's wrong Chloe?"
"Do you think Beca likes Kate?"
"Why do you care?"
"Because I like her, Bree."
"Hobbit can handle herself."
"Aubrey I'm serious, I really like her, I don't want Kate to use her as one of her pawns in this never ending chess game."
Aubrey sighed and wrapped her friend in a hug, "I know, even though I will never understand what you see in that little munchkin. But if it helps, I don't think Beca is into your sister."
"Really?"
"Really. I mean she didn't seem terribly thrilled to be going out with Kate. But when she asked us and you agreed, I think she genuinely smiled."
"Thanks, Aubrey. But what about Kate? She's definitely up to something."
"I mean if you go out with them you can see where it'll go. Maybe you can even get Kate to back off."
Chloe shook her head, "no, I can't wait that long." She started walking the other direction.
"Chloe, where are you going?"
"To have a talk with my sister."
"Chloe, this will not got the way you think," she said following the girl.
"I have to try. I'm tired of all of this, I need to talk to her and get her to end this."
Aubrey sighed and quickly caught up to the girl, "Chloe stop, this can wait until tomorrow," she said holding the girl's arm.
"No, Aubrey, it can't. I'm sorry I know it's late, but I need to see her."
Giving up Aubrey nodded, "okay then I'm going with you. I'm not letting you walk to her apartment alone."
Chloe grinned, "let's go."
The girls made their way across campus to the apartments that were just across the street from main campus. They got there in record time Chloe convinced Aubrey to wait in the lobby of the apartment complex while Chloe went to talk with Kate. Once Chloe got to the girls apartment, she knocked on the door.
"Chloe! What a surprise."
"Cut the crap Kate," she said walking into the apartment.
"Sure come on in."
"What the hell are you up to?"
"What do you mean?"
"You know what I mean. Beca Mitchell."
"Oh yeah she's pretty cute."
Chloe rolled her eyes, "what's your game here?"
"What game," her sister asked sarcastically.
"This game! The one where you are always taking my shit." Kate didn't respond. "I just don't understand why you feel the need to take everything from me. My room, my clothes, my friends, my boyfriends, my girlfriends." Kate still didn't respond and Chloe was becoming very frustrated. "Well?"
"As far as I knew, Beca wasn't your girlfriend. You said she was just some girl you convinced to audition for your dumb singing group."
"Yeah she is, so then why are you suddenly going after her?"
"Why do you suddenly care?" Chloe avoided the question, but her actions were all Kate needed. She chuckled, "what's wrong sis? Cat got your tongue?"
"Leave her alone."
"So you do like her."
"Please, Kate. Just leave this alone. I don't understand what happened. We used to be so close. What happened?"
Kate rolled her eyes and ignored the question, "well I have no intention on leaving anything alone. Here's a fun fact, Beca and I are going out on Wednesday night." She leaned in closer to her sister and had a wicked grin on her face, "and I will not be going home alone." Chloe had her fists and jaw clenched together and was glaring at her sister who continued to wear the same devious look. "Your move."
Chloe groaned and stormed off, "fuck you, Kate. I will not let you use Beca in this stupid game of yours."
A/N- yeah so this another story.Revised and edited first chapter. Let me know what you think. Thanks again, and as always RR much appreciated.
