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Updated 19/06/17
Taming Beca Mitchell Chapter 2
Beca poked her head out from under a girl's arm to watch as the two freshmen walked away. She smiled at Chloe's retreating back and slunk back in with the girls who were tugging at her tank top. "Yes, I am willing to sign boobs." She proclaimed to the group and was met with squeals.
"Damn, we gon' get some fine ladies this year." Cynthia-Rose grinned and hi-fived Stacie who was wearing a matching grin.
"Yeah, that red head was so cute." Stacie chuckled remembering the furiously blushing girl.
"Mhhhm, but I think Beca is already set on that one." Cynthia-Rose rolled her eyes. "That poor girl does not know what she's in for."
"So, how did you get into singing?" Aubrey was examining the various groups and clubs around the courtyard.
"I really love Disney movies. The Little Mermaid was my favourite." Chloe examined a brochure on a pottery club.
"No way! That's my favourite too!" Aubrey smiled. "We will have to burst into song together. But maybe in the privacy of our room."
Chloe smiled and nodded along. "Look at this stuff... Isn't it neat?" Chloe quietly sung while she traced her fingers over the Astronomy club stall's brochures with a smile playing on her lips.
"Chloe!" Aubrey giggled and hip bumped the shorter girl. "I said privacy of our room!"
"I just feel really comfortable around you already, Brey." Chloe smiled at the blonde. She really meant it. Chloe was a very shy and reserved girl who had only gotten close to a few people over the years, purely because she was too shy to go and talk to anyone. It was incredible that she'd warmed up to Aubrey in a few short minutes.
"Well, I'm glad that they put us together as roommates!" Aubrey grinned back and dragged them off to see the 'Women of Power' club.
Chloe sat in the audience with about fifty other people waiting for the auditions to begin. She knew there were four groups on campus. The Bellas, Treble Makers, High Notes and the BU Harmonics. There were about twenty-five girls and Chloe knew that only three or four would get into the Bellas. Everyone was humming or tapping their feet out to random beats, anxiously waiting for the auditions to commence.
"Hey, you alright?" Chloe turned to Aubrey who was smiling at her kindly. "Don't worry Chloe, you and I are going to get in hands down. Look at the rest of these numb nuts,"
The red head smiled lightly back. "Thanks, Brey. I'm just kinda freaking out."
The last couple of days had progressed well. Aubrey and Chloe spent a lot of time together, decorating their main living area and getting to know each other better. Aubrey was a proud Law student who had intentions to fall into corporate law, as her father had done following time serving in the army. Chloe had her heart set on education, particularly mathematics and was planning to test out a minor in Psychology.
"Calm down, they've already seen you sing. I bet you could totally botch this audition and they'd STILL take you."
"Aubrey! You're gonna jinx me!" Chloe squealed and lightly hit the blonde's arm.
"Welcome to the acapella groups auditionssss!" A large boy wearing a letterman jacket walked onto the stage followed by a scrawny kid with dark hair.
"Hello everyone, I'm Justin. I'm tone deaf and I hate myself everyday because of it!" The large boy yelled to the crowd. "I can tell you now, there should be fifty-eight of you here. I'll tell you how many new members the groups are looking for. BU Harmonics want six. Treble Makers are looking at ten. The High notes.." Justin frowned at the paper in his hand. "I think it's a marijuana sticker so let's just say five. And the Bella's, fresh off their third consecutive nationals win are looking for three, and only three new girls!"
There was a murmur throughout the group of students, no doubt all weighing their chances of getting in.
"If a group wants you, they will contact you directly. Now, my equally vocally challenged boy Tommy will be collecting your information."
The scrawny kid, Tommy, looked at the hopeful group of students. "If you guys think that this is some high school club where you can confuse sexualities," his eyes went wide as he made some flappy hands in front of his crotch. "Think again. This shit is real life! So don't just bring it, SING it! Let's go!"
"Alright ladies. We have nineteen potential new Bella's waiting in that room. As a group, does anyone wanna 'nominate' a girl who they think should get in, regardless?" Beca looked around at her Bella's. They were all looking at each other, daring to speak. "Like, was there anyone at impromptu auditions that really stood out?"
Fat Amy, Stacie and Cynthia-Rose all put their hands up. Ashley, Denise and Jessica just shrugged as they weren't at the activities fair.
"Fat Amy?"
"I really liked the posh blonde one. I thought she could really belt it."
"So..." Beca flicked through all the candidates' information. "Aubrey Posen?"
"That's the one. She's like me, but skinnier. And I have a better complexion." Fat Amy said as only she could.
"Alright, well I think she'd be a good addition. Also her cutie pie ginger friend." Stacie said and shot Cynthia-Rose a wink who smirked back.
"And that would be.. Chloe." Beca didn't even shuffle through the stack of papers to find the red head's name. The rapping ginger had been on her mind since the activities fair.
"You think so too, boss? I mean, you remembered her name." Cynthia-Rose raised her eyebrows at the short brunette.
"I only remember her because she sung my ultimate jam." Beca shot back, slightly red.
"Whatever, girl. We all know that she's next of your toner list." Stacie grinned then did a very inappropriate gesture with her hips to which Cynthia-Rose snorted at.
"Oh girls, leave Beca alone. She has her seductive ways and she'd bed that ginger like that." Fat Amy snapped her fingers and flicked her hair.
"Moving on. So that only leaves seventeen girls fighting for that one spot." Beca told the group who nodded. "Well, let's go pick us a Bella."
The doors to the auditorium opened on all sides. From the back came the Trebles with the Superman theme song. They hopped over the rows of chairs and sat down closest to the back. Most of the boys that had come to the auditions started whooping and clapping.
The BU Harmonics came in from the East doors to Madonnas 'Vogue' and sat there to a smattering of applause. From the East doors as well, the High Notes came stumbling in vaguely mumbling 'The Circle of Life' from The Lion King. As they fell upon chairs in front of the BU Harmonics no one cheered for them.
Then, the doors to the West side opened with a bang and David Guetta's 'Who's that Chick' was heard as the Bellas floated in through the seats to take position at the front of the stage. Chloe heard Aubrey audibly swallow and was visibly shaking herself. The leader Beca, she remembered, caught her eye and winked. That made Chloe slam back into her seat leaving the older girl to chuckle and turn around.
"And here's the first one up." Tommy finally stopped going on about being rejected from the army and the auditions began.
"Hi, I'm Phoebe and I'm auditioning for the Bellas."
The Bellas nodded at the girl who then belted out 'Take Me or Leave Me' from the musical 'RENT'. Chloe sat looking at the girl who was hitting notes all over the place. Chloe slowly turned her head to Aubrey who looked like she was hyperventilating. As Phoebe finished, the audience clapped but not too enthusiastically. Most of the crowd were shifting uncomfortably whispering their own lyrics to themselves. The Bella's put their heads together and Cynthia-Rose wrote something down on the girl's profile.
The next few auditions were by boys. Half of them were trying to rap and make acapella noises through their noses and the other half were sing Madonna songs and bringing themselves to tears.
"Aubrey Posen!"
Aubrey shakily stood up and made her way up on stage. Chloe gave her an encouraging smile and Aubrey opened her mouth to sing. She sung the first verse of Katy Perry's 'Firework' and Chloe saw all the Bella's nodding their heads at each other. Fat Amy stopped Aubrey after the chorus and gave her a thumbs up. Everyone clapped and Chloe clapped loudest.
"I wasn't off key, right?" Aubrey came back to her seat and Chloe looked at her friend bewildered.
"No way! You were probably too good so they stopped you because they have to get through a lot of girls. You're gonna get in, Bree!" Chloe smiled at the blonde and started breathing deeply.
"Hey hey!" Aubrey sage whispered to the red head. "Calm down, I think Beca already has a toner for you so I'm positive you will get in without even trying. She's been staring at the back of your pretty head since she came in." Aubrey smirked at Chloe and they both turned to the back where the Bellas were.
Sure enough, Aubrey was proven right when Beca broke away from the discussion and whispered "That was great!" to Aubrey as there was another audition happening. Before she straightened up in her seat, she grinned and sent another wink to Chloe who went as scarlet as her curls.
The auditions went on and on until it looked like Chloe was the only one left. Beca had stood up on many occasions to stop the girl from singing after the first verse and told her that they had heard enough. It looked like a bad sign whenever she did this.
Throughout the auditions, four people had fainted on stage and two had run out of the auditorium crying. Chloe noticed Lilly, the weird girl from orientation day, go up onstage and whisper things into the microphone that only sounded like buzzing. She then layered beat boxing into the buzzing and everyone was nodding their heads along to the beat. She got a rather large applause and it scared Chloe even more.
"And the last one for today, Chloe Beale!"
Chloe stood shaking but Aubrey grabbed her friend's hand and squeezed it encouragingly. Chloe walked to the stage and turned to the audience.
"I'm Chloe and I'm auditioning for the Bellas."
Chloe looked from Aubrey, who was nodding at her to the Bellas and noticed the girl she remembered as Stacie, grinning and nodding as well.
There's a fire, starting in my heart;
Reaching a fever pitch and it's bringing me out the dark.
Chloe glanced at the Bella's who were now all smiling at each other and nodding. Chloe had a pulled out her alto voice and it matched the song perfectly. She was about to continue when Beca stood up and Chloe stopped breathing and started to panic. Had she messed up the words? Maybe she only sounded good in her ears?
"Ladies and gentlemen. I will now close this year's auditions. Your chosen groups have your contact information and they'll come to you if you are successful. Have a great year and we'll see you on initiation night!" Tommy came out from the curtains and started clapping.
The Trebles, Harmonics and even the High Notes got up and started exiting the auditorium. The Bellas all rose too, whispering among themselves. Chloe watched them head to the door and noticed that Beca was grinning. Like, smiling as if she thought something was amusing. Was her voice really that bad?
"Ummm.." Chloe nervously stood on the stage. She'd only sung two lines of the song and now everyone was leaving. What was going on?
Aubrey was the only person left sitting in the audience and she was frowning. What had happened? Chloe had sung even less than her. That wasn't fair, Chloe had an amazing voice that should've been heard. Chloe awkwardly placed the microphone on the ground and shuffled back to her seat and Aubrey embraced her in a comforting hug, whispering words of praise and encouragement to her friend.
"We'll be in touch with you, bitches!" Fat Amy yelled from the door to the two freshmen who were still wrapped together.