Chapter 2:

Sure Chloe and Beca had shared lots of life together, they had been Bellas together for 4 years, even living in the same house for 3 of those. After college, they shared a place just the two of them for a year until Jesse and Beca were married.

On the wedding day, Chloe was standing there besides her as her best friend and her chief bridesmaid. Next to Chloe had been Stacie and Fat Amy (although choosing those 2 had been Beca's hardest job as she could have chosen Emily or Aubrey to be there too). Jesse had Benji as best man, that was a given, he was Jesse's roommate for all 4 years of college and stayed in constant contact after college too. However the biggest surprise of the wedding was Bumper, who at the end of first year of college no one would have guessed to be buddies with Jesse. Because of Fat Amy, however, Jesse and Bumper spent more and more time together as they were thrown together by the girls on a regular basis. It seemed a little lop-sided to have 3 women standing on Beca's side, and only 2 guys standing with Jesse. However, Jesse had spent so much of his time after college chasing jobs scoring movies, that he didn't have much time for people. He was glad to have the 2 of them still beside him, since he wasn't close to most of the Trebles anymore, and didn't have anyone at work yet who he was that close to. All the Bellas had of course come to the wedding, and they had all of Jesse's family there. Beca's parents managed to be in the same room for the night, even her step-monster behaved.

Jesse and Beca had settled down in Atlanta. That's where Beca's company "On Pitch" was based, and also where most of the Bellas still lived. With Jesse working on movie scores, he was only needed occasionally on the sets (mostly in LA, but sometimes in Montreal, or New York), the rest of the time he could work in the studio, any studio, so the one that they had set up in their house specifically for him was perfect. He was away for only a few months of the year, and neither of them was sad to not have moved to LA, even if it was their dream once upon a time.

Beca had worked for "Residual Heat" for a few years. Once she felt that she had the confidence and experience she needed, she struck out on her own. She took Emily with her as her first artist, since it was Beca who produced her in the first place when she was just an intern. She wasn't really on her own, but instead ended up working with most of her Bella sisters. She rightly figured that she would need the help, and the collaboration, just like she did with the Bellas' competition sets. Whilst she was blessed with amazing musical talent, there is nothing quite like collaboration, and that was why after a few years, she had almost all of them working with her on various things. Chloe, however, was her business partner, having been there the whole time. After graduation, Beca and Aubrey convinced her that dancing exotically, while it would gain her lots of money, did not have the future that she wanted. Instead they encouraged her to try her hand at teaching kids to sing. This worked out well. Even if Chloe wasn't really rolling in money, she loved life and the spark that flowed out of her everyday was still there. Singing, and teaching others, turned out to be a passion that both Chloe and Beca knew was vitally important to Chloe. When they started the company, they made Chloe part-time so she could continue to teach. As a bonus, one of her original students later joined their books and went on to be reasonably successful. Knowing that Chloe was helping produce the stars of the future as well as just allowing people to enjoy music and have fun singing was awesome. This is why their business arrangement worked so well for them. That, and that Beca and Chloe knew each other backwards, and were so comfortable with each other.

But Beca now found herself wondering if maybe they are too comfortable?