CH.2
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Mitchell and Conrad
Summary : Beca Mitchell, new to Barden University, joins a club and organises the music for said club. Her one mission: find someone to tear down her walls. She thinks she might have found the perfect person for the job.
Disclaimer : We don't own Pitch Perfect or any of its characters
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CHAPTER 2
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As she lays in bed she thinks about what Chloe had said to her just before she went to bed that night.
"Becs, this isn't high school. Things are different here. Things will be different here."
She thinks that maybe, just maybe, that Chloe could be right.
She doesn't know why it feels that way but she just does.
Quietly, Beca drifts to sleep, with a worry filled head and the words of Chloe trying to comfort her.
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Before they know it, it's the Thursday and auditions are later that day. Chloe has a song fully prepared whereas Beca feels that she can just sort of wing it. (In the words of High School Chloe Beale - 'You're Beca Effin' Mitchell.') They head to lunch at a coffee shop on campus that seems as though no one knows it's there and Beca is glad because she decided that she can't deal with anyone but Chloe yet, being that she only just woke up and is still half asleep. Chloe orders the order that they would normally get - a black coffee for Beca and a Caramel Latte for Chloe - and hands Beca her drink. They sit in the café for a little over three hours before Chloe gets a notification on her phone - a reminder for the auditions.
"Okay, Becs, you ready?" Chloe says as she grabs her bag.
"Yeah, I'm ready." Beca packs away her sketch pad and pencils and follows Chloe's lead as she walks out of the coffee shop.
"So you know what you're singing?" Chloe asks, a smirk plastered on her face, knowing that Beca doesn't have a song prepared.
"No." Beca smirks in return. "I'm just going to ... live in the moment." Chloe laughs and Beca joins in with the laughter.
Soon they arrive outside of the auditorium where auditions are being held to see Stacie outside with anther brunette. They seem to arguing so Beca and Chloe approach them.
"Hey, Stacie." Chloe says. Stacie turns to the voice and away from the distraught woman in front of her.
"Hey Chloe, Beca. Can you guys just give me a minute. I'll see you soon." The two girls nod and walk of to the side. They move far enough away that they can still hear the conversation that Stacie and the other brunette are having.
"But why Stace? Was it something that I did?" The woman asks.
"No, Nicole. It's not you-" Stacie is cut off.
"'It's not you, it's me'. Yeah Stacie, you've said it about ten times already. I get it. I just want to know why. What is it about you that makes it that you can't be with me?" Nicole asks again.
Stacie looks down, defeated. "Look, I can't do this right now, I have to get inside. Maybe we can talk about it tomorrow?" She asks.
"No Stacie. If we can't talk now then don't bother talking to me ever again." Nicole replies. Stacie looks up and into her eyes as she speaks.
"Nic, I really have to get in there. Please, let's talk tomorrow?" She pleads.
"No Stacie. I guess, see you around." She doesn't wait for a reply as she walks away, seemingly heartbroken.
"No you know what? I'm sick of acting like I'm the one who did the wrong in the relationship. It was you. You're the one who hurt me. I don't understand why I'm the one taking the blame." Nicole looks back at Stacie and scoffs.
"What did I do, Stacie?" She asks.
"You know what you did. Nic." Stacie says and it's the last thing she can before the other woman walks away from Stacie.
Beca and Chloe slowly approach Stacie and Chloe hugs the woman, while Beca stands next to her.
Stacie doesn't look as upset about the - potential - break up as Beca would've thought, but then again, it is Stacie who - again, potentially - ended things between the two of them.
"Hey, are you okay?" A cautious Chloe asks. She feels Stacie nod against her shoulder and, feeling the hug grow awkward, pulls away.
"Thanks." The three of them stand there, an awkward silence filling the air, before Stacie clears her throat of the emotion it once held. "Umm, are you guys ready? To go in?" Stacie says, using her thumb to point at the entrance of the auditorium, shifting on her feet awkwardly.
"Umm. Yeah, let's do this." Beca says. Chloe agreed and the three of them walked in, Stacie making her way to the rest of the people Beca assumes were already in the group, and Beca and Chloe making their way to the rest of the seats where some musical hopefuls sat.
The first half an hour was them filling in the information sheets. Answering basic questions like their name, of the instruments - if any - they play, which dorm building and room they where in or what on-campus apartment building they lived in and their experience - again, if any - with performing.
Beca was the first to finish her information sheet and handed it to the host of the auditions. For everyone else, it takes about another half an hour before everyone is finished.
Just as Beca turned to Chloe to make a joke, two guys walked to the center of the stage where one of them started to introduce the auditions and then turned to the to allow him to introduce the first act.
"Okay. We're going to introduce you using last names so ... first up is ... Applebaum." A man stepped up onto the stage and looked out at the audience. Once he sanded his song he practically jumped off of the stage.
The next person to audition was a tall brunette girl that - in Beca opinion - was way too happy to auditioning.
The auditions went on for a while like this and Beca was growing bored. Some of them were good but some of them ...
Well, let's just say they weren't the best.
One cried throughout her whole audition and another was completely off key and out of rhythm for her song. It made Beca and Chloe cringe as they endured the 4 minute duration of the song.
Chloe was called on stage before Beca was and Beca wished her good luck, not that she would need it, but it gave the redhead encouragement. Beca could see it in her eyes.
It was now that Beca actually looked around on the stage and the rest of the auditorium. It was a large space, the stage was quite large and on the stage there was a stand that held an acoustic guitar. On the other end of the stage nearer the front was a baby grand piano. It was a black wooden one and Beca knew that she wanted to play it. Not for her audition (as soon as she saw the acoustic guitar, she knew what she was going to do and, she thought, that she would, most likely, get a chance to play the piano once.) but she knew that she definitely wanted to play the instrument.
As soon as Chloe started to sing Beca recognises the song instantly.
Hate That I Love You, by Rihanna featuring Nelly.
Beca thinks that that's what it's called anyway.
It's Chloe's favourite song at the moment and she couldn't stop listening to it. It was actually quite annoying now that she thinks about it. Not the song but the fact that Chloe hasn't stopped listening to the song for the whole time they've been at college and a lot longer before that.
Other than the fact that it's the only song that Chloe has played for about a month, Beca is really enjoying her performance. She has a powerful voice, even when she wants to sound quiet. It's extremely powerful and emotive.
Before she knew it, Chloe was sat next to her, practically buzzing at the standing ovation that she just received. Beca leans over to her and whispers in her ear.
"That was amazing, Chlo." Beca says.
"Thanks." Chloe replies, blushing.
About another ten people had audition before Beca was announced.
"And last we have ... Mitchell." When Beca gets to the stage, the guy - she thinks that he introduced himself as Tommy, or maybe Tyler - whispered to her. "You're the last one, no pressure." She mumbles a sarcastic thanks before taking the stage and grabbing the acoustic guitar. No one had touched the instruments so she would be the first to use it. As she walked toward the centre of the stage - right in front of Stacie, coincidentally - she put the strap over her shoulder and tuned it. She looked out over the crowd and spoke.
"Any requests?"
Everyone looked at her as though she was completely insane. Bit when she didn't play, a blonde woman sat next to Stacie spoke up.
"Are you serious?" She asked.
"Do I look serious to you?" She retorts.
The blonde is taken aback at the retort but then returns to her previous facial expression.
"So ... Any requests?" She repeats.
Many peoples hands fly up and she looks around the room until she spots one of the people that she would choose. She points at him and asks him to tell her the song.
"Just A Dream, Nelly." He says with a smirk, thinking that Beca wouldn't be able to play the song. She then points to another person in the crowd of the hopefuls who had their hand up and asks for their song.
"Umm ... Just The Way You Are, Bruno Mars." The girl hesitates in the middle of her suggestion, confused as to what is going on.
"Great choices. Okay." And with that Beca thinks about it for a moment ahmbd then starts playing combining strumming and plucking the strings to create a complex melody with, seemingly, no effort at all.
When she starts to sing everyone in the room goes silent as supposed to the quiet mumbles that filled the voiceless melody.
Stacie, who is right in front of Beca, feels her breath catch in her throat and she cant tear her eyes away from the small brunette on stage in front of her, she couldn't even if she tried.
When Beca seamlessly blended the two songs together everyone was shocked. They didn't know what was going to happen but they definitely didn't expect it to be that.
Once her impromptu mashup was over, Beca moved the guitar around so it was resting on her back, she bowed and proceeded to walk off of the stage leaving the guitar where she had found it.
Stepping off the stage she found the host of the auditions and smirked at the expression on his face.
"Yeah, no pressure. Non at all." And she walked back to her seat next to Chloe.
The redhead had knew that when Beca asked for requests that she was serious. But she was expecting to see her preform a live mashup that she literally just come up with on the spot. She knew of Beca's abilities but she wasn't expecting for her to show off in front of the whole music department.
(Yeah the whole music department had shown up about half way through the auditions, as well as Sheila.)
Once everyone had recovered from the shock of the closing audition, Tommy? climbed back on stage and spoke.
"Umm. That's everyone. Well done. I'm sure most of you will be initiated into the group you wanted. The group will let you know by putting a letter under your door and all you have to do is meet them at the appropriate place and that's it. Umm ... You're all ... uh ... you're all free to leave." As he said that everyone filed out of the auditorium and Beca and Chloe decided to order some dinner back at their dorm room.
"Chinese?" Chloe asks.
"Yeah."
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