The trio hung out for a couple more hours until Stacie and Aubrey decided that they should head home to get ready themselves. They agreed that Chloe would pick them all up at 8pm before heading over to Bumper's house for the party. Chloe walked down to the front yard with the two when something caught their eyes through the window in the front yard.
There was a tiny brunette on a riding mower with huge DJ style headphones riding back and forth cutting the grass.
"That must be the Rebecca my mom was talking about," Chloe offered to the two.
"She looks like trouble," Aubrey said taking in the little brunette wearing some well broken in jeans, and a black 80s band tshirt that she had cut the sleeves off which showed off multiple tattoos.
"I think she looks like a sexy little badass," Stacie interjected.
Aubrey and Chloe both looked over to Stacie who just shrugged at them in a "what?". Chloe laughed and then ushered them over to the door pushing them out and saying see you later. As the two girls walked to their cars, Beca looked up from the mower for a second taking both girls in. She then looked over to the door where they came from to see Chloe who gave a small wave to her friends before she looked over to connect eyes with Beca. Beca jerked her head down quickly again returning her attention to mowing the grass.
Chloe turned back into the house with the intentions of heading up to her room when she was passing the windows again. She stopped again as the girl mowing the lawn caught her attention yet again. Chloe tilted her head in thought, she didn't remember this girl at all even though her mom said she went to school with her. She racked her brain and took in the girls appearance again.
Stacie was right that the girl definitely looked badass and she would never admit it out loud…but she thought Rebecca was…in Stacie's word…yeah it won't make it weird if it was Stacie's words and she was just not really disagreeing with her thoughts…just merely agreeing. Chloe took her in more in detail trying to still place the girl. She took in the girls toned arms which Chloe figured had something to do with the lawn work she's had to do for her mom, she couldn't make out what the tattoos were from the distance but she was intrigued to see them closer absentmindedly rubbing her thumb of her left hand on her right wrist where she has a ladybug tattoo. Chloe could only smile as the little brunette nodded her head and along to whatever she was listening to and every now and then mouthing the words her hands drumming along to whatever beats and rhythms were pumping through her big headphones.
She was brought out of her stupor by her phone going off in her pocket chiming that she had a new text. Chloe shook her head and reached for her phone in her butt pocket to swipe to see a message from her mom.
"Have fun tonight! Stay out of my closet!
Chloe shook her head and laughed a little bit at her mom's message before sending an "ok :)" back.
She trudged up the stairs to her room and looked at the outfit she had laid out on her bed tilting her head from side to side thinking about what she could wear for shoes with it. Walking back over to her walk-in closest she went over to her shoe shelf and scanned all her shoes not seeing anything that really went well with it. A pair of black pumps caught her eye so she grabbed them to try them on. Chloe huffed out in irritation as she realized that they were one of her older pairs so they didn't fit very well anymore. She pulled them off and tossed them out of her closet and turned back to the rack.
She was tilting her head from side to side when she heard the doorbell ring. A sigh left her lips as she was a little thankful for the little brain break and pushed herself up from the carpet to go answer the door.
Beca kept nervously shifting her weight from foot to foot as she stood outside the Beale house. She knew Chloe was home since she saw her earlier when her two friends Stacie and Aubrey were leaving. She also knew that Chloe's mom had left and to get her money for her work today she would have to actually talk to Chloe, which is something that had never happened in all the years the two have gone to school together or the many classes they have shared. Beca always just kept to herself and avoided her. She wasn't sure what kind of bumbling idiot she would turn into in the redheads presence, she frowned as she heard footsteps because she knew she would soon find out. She couldn't help the slight flutter she felt in her chest and stomach though at the thought of being so close and finally having a chance to talk to the redhead though either.
She kicked her foot absentmindedly as she looked down pensively drowning in her thoughts, her hands tucked into her pockets. The door opened suddenly and Beca's vision was met with bare feet. Her eyes pop up quickly to be met with the friendliest bright blue eyes Beca has ever seen in her life.
The bright eyes were met with stormy blue surrounded with heavy eyeliner. Chloe smiled at the girl in front of her. The girls dark blue eyes holding so much in them that Chloe couldn't quite define at one quick glance. She knew though after getting a better look at Rebecca that she's had classes with her in the past and now and that the girl has never once said anything in any of the classes, always keeping to herself or having headphones on or around her neck. The girl must have felt Chloe's eyes shift to her headphones because she quickly fumbled to pull the headphones from her ears to let them rest around her neck.
"Hi!" Chloe chirped "You must be Rebecca? My mom left your money on the counter in the kitchen. Hold on a second." Chloe turned to head to the kitchen to grab the envelope with cash for the girl.
"My name is Beca," Beca mumbled as she waited out on the stoop the front door open widely in front of her.
Beca couldn't help but appreciate Chloe's choice of clothes while at home, which were a pair of short black exercise shorts with bright blue accents and a razor back tank top that hugged the girls curves. The thought of how she was slightly acting like a teenage boy made her eyes break away to look elsewhere. Beca let her eyes take in what she could of the Beale house from where she stood. She had to admit that the house was pretty nice from what she could see with a nice open interior. Her eyes also watched as Chloe made her way to the kitchen to grab her payment.
Chloe didn't quite hear what she said but knew something was said so when she came back she made sure to ask.
"What did you say?" Her voice friendly.
"I said," Beca's tone slightly sarcastic and harsher than she meant. "My name is Beca."
Chloe's face dropped to a frown. "Oh! I'm so sorry! I didn't know." She reached out to touch Beca's shoulder, but Beca stepped to the side to avoid the contact.
She reached down and grabbed the envelope from Chloe's hand that held her payment and looked up as she took a hold of it. "There's a lot you seem to not know," she mumbled as she pulled it out of Chloe's hand who just stood there in shock. "Thanks." Beca said smirking and turning and walking away.
Chloe stood there in complete shock watching after the small brunette.
Chloe scoffed at the rude little brunette and decided to shake off the icy attitude. The grandfather clock in the corner of the livingroom chimed and Chloe turned to see that it was already 7pm. She had only an hour to get ready for the party so she turned and headed back towards her room.
The thought of not having shoes to wear hit her again as she walked down the hallway to her room. She was passing her mom's room when a sudden thought came to her and she turned to the door. Sure her mom had told her not to go into her closet, but this was a crisis. It wasn't like she wouldn't take care of what she borrowed and she would be home far before her mom so she would never know if she borrowed a pair of shoes. She reached forward and grabbed the handle and turned it. She brushed off the slight guilt and pushed her way into her mom's room and headed over to her closet. She flicked the walk-in closets light on and smiled at the collection of her mom's shoes. Her eyes scanned over all the different pairs in appreciation until a box caught her eye.
Jimmy Choos?! Her mom didn't tell her she got a new pair! She gingerly picked up the box handling it like it was made of gold and walked out of the room and over to her mom's king size bed and set it down. Chloe lifted the lid slowly and her mouth dropped open. Her mom had one of the latest and newest pairs that practically cost $1,000. She knew she shouldn't but Chloe knew these lacy black heels would match per outfit perfectly. Reaching out she tenderly picked one up and daintily put her foot in it.
She a happy sigh left her as she marveled at the perfect fit of the shoe. Looking up she silently thanked a higher being for letting her have the same size foot as her mom. She frowned a little and contemplated what to do. Chloe knew she was overthinking it, even though her mom told her not to borrow anything from her she couldn't deny the serious need to be able to wear these shoes tonight. She was in a fashion crisis! She would take care of them and have them back in the box tonight before her mom got home! She would never know!
Chloe reassured herself with a nod and got up from the bed putting the one shoe back in with its mate before making her way back to her room to take a shower and get ready for the party finally.
Chloe pulled up to Stacie's house and honked the horn to let the leggy brunette know that her and Aubrey were in her driveway waiting.
Aubrey turned to her redheaded friend, "So have you heard from Tom yet tonight since his interview?"
Chloe sighed and shook her head. "No, but I'd rather not dwell on it." She paused for a second. "I mean he's been really stressed and they've been working him pretty hard since he's a freshman there and all."
Aubrey nodded a little not replying, not really trusting what could come out of her mouth. She was saved a little bit by the fact that the front door opened revealing a very revealed Stacie. Stacie waved at the girls before turning and yelling something back into the house and shut the door before sauntering over to Chloe's car. Aubrey rolled her eyes at the girl as she got into the car.
"Hey girls!" Stacie got into the car carefully.
"Jesus Stacie, if your dress was any shorter everyone would assume you were from Australia like Fat Amy since they'd all know what was going on down under," Aubrey scoffed.
Stacie let out a chuckle and Chloe giggled a little bit reversing out of the driveway to shift into drive to start on their way to Bumper's house.
"Oh Aubrey, if you've got it, one has got to flaunt it," Stacie replied.
"Well you're doing a little more than flaunting it…" Aubrey deadpanned.
Chloe cut in defusing whatever sort of retort Stacie had thought up, "Heeeey now, we're almost there no fighting tonight guys!"
"Didn't start it," Stacie mumbled sitting back into her seat a little bit crossing her arms over her ample chest.
Aubrey was touching up her lipstick in the passenger flip down mirror and glared at Stacie. She flipped it up roughly and mirrored Stacie's posture of arms crossed over her chest.
Chloe sighed, these two seemed to always fight about the weirdest things at times. She hoped the two would keep themselves in check tonight at Bumper's party. The idea of trying to defuse the two all night as they argued gave her a headache just thinking about it. Old married couples had nothing on this friendship duo.
It wasn't long or far before the trio pulled up to Bumper's driveway, which was packed. They clambered out of the vehicle. The driveway was packed with cars and so was parts of the front lawn since people had parked there also. Stacie started laughing as they passed one station wagon that was shaking.
"Well looks like station wagon is getting good use of the trunk area," Stacie observed. She stopped when they got close to it and knocked on the window. "Be safe! Let me know if you need a third."
Before either person could reply, Chloe yanked Stacie to follow her and Aubrey. "Stacie, at least make it into the house before you let the hunter loose."
Stacie laughed at Chloe's comment and shrugged. "Sorry, we all know I'm a bit of an exhibitionist."
Chloe sighed and shook her head before letting out a laugh. "I don't know about you sometimes Stace."
She pulled the girl a little closer as the three trudged up the steps onto Bumper's front porch. It was only when they were finally in a lighted space and because Stacie had looked down to double check where her tight short dress was hitting on her upper thighs that she caught glance at Chloe's shoes.
"OH MY GOSH!" She shrieked. "Chloe, when did you get those Jimmy Choos?! They're like his newest ones and cost nearly a grand!"
Before Chloe could even answer Aubrey cut in, "Did Tom send them to you!? You said that he had told you he was sending you a suprise!"
Chloe felt the guilt in the pit of her stomach. She didn't want to lie to her friends, but at the same time she didn't want to let on that Tom was kind of lacking as a boyfriend lately and she wanted to paint him in a good light. Aubrey has been on her case lately about how he was a terrible boyfriend. So to ease the situation she nodded.
"Yeah, the UPS man dropped them off after you two left," Chloe lied.
"Girl you better be careful in those tonight!" Stacie's voice full of concern. "I mean those shoe's are great, but I don't know if I would have worn them out for the very first party of the year. You know how rowdy Bumper's house gets."
Chloe waved off the concern. "Don't worry about me, they and I will be fine tonight. I mean no one is passed out on the front lawn yet like last year, so I think maybe everyone has grown up a little bit and matured for senior year."
Aubrey and Stacie rolled their eyes as Chloe opened the door to the house.
"They're you're shoes," Stacie mumbled as they got sight of the party once the door opened.
To say Chloe's thought of the party being more mature and tame was an understatement. As soon as they opened the door their eyes were filled with half naked bodies riding on cooking sheets down the main stair case by the stairs. Chloe screamed out as one of the party goers came crashing down almost taking her out. She had almost lost her footing, but Aubrey had fast reflexes and was able to get a hand out to catch and steady her.
Chloe turned and gave her a grateful smile and signaled for them to get further into the house. They headed to the kitchen to find some drinks and they were met with their good friend Fat Amy.
"Heeeeeeyyyy Acabitches!" Fat Amy bellowed stumbling over to give them all hugs. "You all made it! Come on and follow me for some of my famous 'Down Under Jungle Juice.' My uncle's friend's brother's cousin taught me the recipe and it's amazing!"
The trio followed their friend over to the punch bowl Amy's concoction was in and excepted the cups Amy handed them. At first sip Aubrey spat half out in shock.
"Shit Fat Amy, what the actual hell did you put in this?!"
"Oooh you know, it's a secret recipe so I'd have let you wrestle a croc and win before letting you know."
"Wrestle a cock?" Stacie asked clearly mishearing.
"No you silly in heat dingo, CROC!"
Stacie's mouth fell into an "o" of understanding and she nodded before mumbling, "It would be more amusing to see tight ass wrestle a cock…"
Chloe heard her and sent her a warning gaze.
"Well come on let's go show these twits how to boogie like kangas!" Amy boomed heading into the living room where people were busy bumping and grinding on each other to the heavy beats of the party music.
The girls danced for a while each one having multiple guys approach them. Chloe had never really had to deal with so many guys like this in previous years since Tom was usually around. Now though since Tom was gone it was like every guy was taking their chance with his absence. After a while Chloe needed to get some space as well as air so she signaled to her friends she was going to go out on the back porch. Aubrey nodded and followed her while Stacie stayed and kept grinding on her dance partner.
The two made it onto the back porch and finally Chloe was able to take a deep breath of some cool air. She walked over to the railing with Aubrey still following and the duo looked around at the party goers hanging around the pool. A few people were skinny dipping and a few were doing questionable things in Bumper's hot tub.
"I'm surprised that the teen pregnancy rate isn't higher at our school," Aubrey scoffed in disgust.
Chloe giggled at her friend's remark. Right as Chloe was about to say something back someone came barreling out of no where knocking into Chloe and throwing her off balance. Chloe tried to remain on her feet but it seemed that one of the heels got stuck somewhere in the wood of the porch and the next thing she knew she was being helped up from Aubrey.
"What the hell kid! Watch where you're running next time!" Aubrey screeched yanking the kid off her ginger friend not caring if she was manhandling the kid.
The scrawny kid scrambled to his feet and ran off not looking back as he dashed off.
"Yeah! You run kid!" Fat Amy hollered coming out just in time to see what had happened she rushed over to where her two friends where. "That kid is lucky I don't have my vertical running shoes on."
Aubrey rolled her eyes as she kneeled down next to Chloe giving her a hand to help her sit up. "Are you ok Chloe?" Her voice was soft and full of concern.
Chloe nodded and used her free hand to push some hair out of her face as she sat up completely.
Meanwhile Fat Amy was glancing over the scene seeing if Chloe was bleeding or broken anywhere. Her eyes caught something and she picked it up.
"While Chloe might be ok her shoe doesn't seem to be," She held one of the heals up in front of the other two friends while the heel point dangled from the main part of the shoe.
Chloe's stomach dropped as tears built up in her eyes. The only word that seemed to escape her lips was:
"Shit."
A/N: Hey Everyone! The first chapter gained some reviews or interest so I'll keep this going! If you know the movie be prepared for there to be some changes...or a lot of changes. I'm thinking of trying to intertwine some ideas from both story lines as well as adding my own ideas, so be prepared for these changes. Let me know if there are some ideas or directions you'd like to see happen and I'll see if they fit in with where I'm heading. Thanks for taking the time to read!
