Alex Writes Stuff
Alex_Writes_
"Is That Any Way to Speak To Your New Boss?"
Chapter 2
Wet Dreaming: Thinking that I'm smashing but I'm sleeping
It was well past midnight when Beca heard a light knock on her office door, she glanced up from her laptop startled. Usually she was the only one that stayed in the office that late so the revelation that someone else was there surprised her. As her eyes adjusted from her bright computer screen to the dark room she spotted a flash of red hair waiting patiently outside her office door.
Chloe, she should've guessed
"Uh yeah, it's open"
The latch of the door makes a click as Chloe gently presses the handle down and silently steps in to the room. Beca goes to ask what she wants but something stops her, it's hard to see in the dark room but Beca is able to just make out the look on Chloe's face and it's, unusual, to say the least. Her eyes are dark and they've taken on that same predatory look that Beca noticed at the introductory meeting a week ago.
The past week has been one of the more stressful variety. With the transition of leadership and the fact that it was coming up to July (one of the busiest release months of the year), and being one of the bigger labels with a lot of artists, this meant that there was a fuck ton of recording, editing, mastering, writing, re-writing,, promotion… etc to be done within the next couple of months so everyone was feeling the pressure. Chloe especially, since it fell on her shoulders if things didn't go as they should.
Before Beca had time to react Chloe had wordlessly made her way around the desk and was now standing over Beca. Beca swivelled her chair to face the taller woman and as Chloe moved to take a further step forward, Beca shot to her feet, beginning to feel an uneasy churning in the pit of her stomach at the other woman's unusual actions,
"Wh…"
Beca didn't even get a chance to ask Chloe what was going on, when she was silenced by the taller woman's mouth crashing down onto her own. At first Beca tensed, taken aback by the ginger's forwardness, however, it didn't take long for her to melt into the searing kiss, finding her hands resting comfortably on the Chloe's taut waist. Gripping the woman's shirt enough that it became untucked from her trousers exposing the pale skin of her lower back.
Beca's hands naturally moved to the small of Chloe's back, slipping up under her shirt, aching to feel the soft, warm, skin underneath. Chloe's breath hitched at the movement and Beca let out a quiet moan as she grazed Chloe's skin with her hands. It isn't long before Chloe's legs are wrapped around Beca's waist and the smaller woman is lifting her onto the desk, placing her down without a second thought towards her precious laptop. Their eager mouths staying connected, moving rhythmically against each other. The laptop snaped shut under Chloe's weight urging her to let out a gasp,
"It's fine, don't worry about it" Beca rushes out, carefully unbuttoning Chloe's shirt to expose the supple skin that was previously covered. Finally, their lips parted as Beca began to place a trail of wet kisses along Chloe's jawline, eagerly moving down to nibble at the red heads slender neck making sure to leave a mark.
Chloe let out a moan as Beca unclipped her bra and attached her mouth to a hardening nipple, it was then, Beca decided, she no longer despised the older woman's voice, especially not if those were the noises she'd be hearing. Losing her patience Beca moved her hands straight to the button of Chloe's jeans, fumbling in her haste to get it undone. She grinned against Chloe's breast as the button popped open, allowing her access to where she really wanted to go. Chloe hastily helped Beca remove the offending garments eager to feel Beca's touch. It didn't take Beca long to begin her decent, placing sloppy kisses in a trail down Chloe's toned abdomen, stopping teasingly as she reached Chloe's inner thigh..
"Fuck, Beca" Chloe breathed out,
"Say it again" Beca taunted, eager to hear her name fall from Chloe's mouth again..
"Beca"
"Beca!"
"Becaaa? Hey, wake up"
Beca could hear Chloe saying her name, but not the same way as before, her voice had returned to being the annoying, cheerful, one Beca hated so much. She felt a light nudge on her shoulder which jolted her awake, she lifted her head, frantically looking around the room as her eyes adjusted to her surroundings. Finally her eyes connected with Chloe's and reality sunk in,
*Fuck! I was dreaming!*
Beca's face quickly turned a deep shade of red, and she desperately hoped that Chloe thinks it's because she got caught sleeping, and not because moments before Beca (thought) she had her head between her boss' legs.
"uh I uh a e ghjkl" Beca sputtered out failing to form even a single successful word.
"What the fuck Beca? Are you having an aneurism?" Chloe laughed; clearly amused by Beca's inability to function.
"Uh, No, I, you just startled me weirdo. What do you want?" Beca snarked; annoyed that she had been woken from her dream and still fiercely embarrassed.
"Woah, I just came to ask if you wanted a coffee, which you clearly need by the way. No need to be an asshole about it." Chloe spat back; she was also feeling tetchy due to her lack of sleep, and while she would normally take amusement in Beca's frustration, she was in no mood tonight.
"What? So you can poison it?" A glare from Chloe quickly changed Beca's tone, "Coffee would be great actually, thanks."
"Okay coffee for you then, Amy what about you? Do you want anything?" Chloe chimed as she turned to face the other woman in the room.
Beca's internal monologue was going wild as she desperately hoped she hadn't been doing anything that gave away her dream.
"No thanks Chloe, I've got all I need right here." Amy opened a drawer in her desk to reveal an insane amount of chocolate, and three cases of the largest cans of Red Bull, Chloe has ever seen.
"Wow okay, I'll leave you to it then. Um, try not to have a heart attack." as she headed for the door Chloe briefly turned to Beca to let her know; "I'll be back in five with the coffee, try and stay awake till then"
Beca Sneered, but before Chloe reached the door she realised she hadn't given her, her order.
"Oh uh, Bl…" but she was cut off by Chloe;
"Black coffee, no sugar, in the largest cup they have, I got it."
"I… Yeah, Thanks…" as Beca turned to her laptop to continue with her work Chloe sauntered out of the room but not before getting a final dig in;
"Oh, uh Beca? You got a little drool"
Beca began furiously wiping at her mouth, but didn't feel any evidence of said 'drool'. Chloe sputtered out a laugh at Beca's expense before turning and heading out the door, leaving Beca grumpier than ever.
"She's lucky she's getting me coffee or she'd be dead by now" Beca growled to Amy.
"Oh c'mon, that was kinda funny"
"Dude! Whose side are you on?"
"I'm not on any side short stack, take a chill pill. In fact, I think I got some Xanax in my bra if you want one?" As Amy started fumbling with her bra, Beca just huffed and rolled her eyes.
"Aw damn, sorry B, guess I musta' had my last one… Oh! Who was ya' sexy dream about?"
Beca sputtered and choked on her saliva; "Wha..? I, I have n…no idea what you are even talking about"
"What was causing you to make all those little moaning noises then, huh?" Amy Grinned,
"Shut Up! I was not!" Beca's face returned to the deep shade of red it had not long recovered from and she shoved her headphones on, opting to ignore Amy and put an abrupt end to this conversation.
Beca was just beginning to get lost in her music when an exceptionally large coffee cup is placed in front of her face. She jumped back, startled a little, and removed her headphones. She took the cup of coffee from Chloe's outreached hand with a quiet; "Thanks" still bewildered at the size of the cup. "Where'd you find one so big?" she couldn't stop the question falling from her lips which received a small chuckle from Chloe, she found it almost cute how childlike Beca seemed in that moment and almost forgot how much of a raging Ass hat the other woman could be.
"You mean to tell me that you of all people don't know where to find the biggest cup of coffee in LA?"
"Oh, Yeah, Obviously, why else would I have asked you where you got it?" The sarcasm is dripping from Beca's reply and Chloe scoffs;
"For that, I'm not gunna tell you where I got it"
"oh come on!"
"See Ya!" Chloe chirped on her way out of the office leaving Beca with a furious growl on her face.
"Wait! Chloe, are you in ya' office by yourself? Amy asked in an almost sombre tone.
"Uh, yeah. Why?" Chloe was too tired to know where Amy was going with her question.
"Oh, you should totes come and join us in here, there's plenty of room! And I'm sure grumpy guts over there would love the extra company." This earned Amy a not so subtle death glare from Beca as she silently pleaded with her to stop inviting her new nemesis to join them.
"That'd actually be really nice, thank you Amy." Chloe's tone was softer than usual as she accepted Amy's offer, much to Beca's disdain. She shot a quick glance over in Beca's direction and gave a teasing smile, to which Beca returned a sarcastic grin, her face screwed up showing her clear contempt.
"Oh honey, you shouldn't twist your face like that, if the wind changes it'll stay that way forever" Chloe said in mock concern.
Beca's face quickly changed into a permanent scowl after that, and with a huff she threw her headphones back over her ears and got back to work, ignoring the two, now giggling women.
It had reached 4am and Beca decided it was time to call it a night, after successfully ignoring Chloe's presence and actually getting a lot of work done. Seeing no point in heading home for a few hours she decided to crash in her office. Amy had left around 2am rambling something about "beauty sleep" and "many boyfriends" and Chloe had fallen asleep on the couch an hour ago. This obviously infuriated Beca even further because she would normally sleep on the couch and now she had to recline her chair and put her feet up on her desk in an attempt to get even slightly comfortable.
And as if things couldn't get any worse, just as Beca was on the cusp of sleep, Chloe started lightly snoring, and being the only noise in the otherwise silent room, it was impossible to ignore.
She must've drifted off at some point, however, as they were both rudely awakened at 9am by Amy, barging into the office with an abundance of donuts, much to the delight of Beca who took four without even uttering a good morning, or a thank you.
"Jesus Beca where are your manners?" "Good Morning Amy, Thank you" Chloe tutted as she took a respectful total of 1 donut. "I should really get to my office and get changed out of these clothes; I'll see you both later."
"You're very welcome Gingah', see ya around" Amy nodded as she placed the tray of donuts down on the coffee table and took a seat at her desk.
Beca barely managed a grunt as she wolfed down her second donut.
Later on in the day, Chloe was on her way to the bathroom when she heard a screech that covered her body in goose-bumps:
"YOU!"
She turned to see Beca marching towards her, finger angrily pointing straight at her.
"Woah, what the…"
"I know it was you! You took it to fuck with me!" Beca half yelled.
"Took what you psycho?!" Chloe jumped immediately on the defensive as Beca stopped in front of her, furiously breathing inches from her face.
"Don't play dumb with me! Where is it?!
"I might be able to tell you if I knew what the fuck you were talking about Beca" Chloe tried to rationalise, but she couldn't hold back the venom as she spat out Beca's name.
"My fucking flash drive, dipshit! Y'know, the one with all the work I done last night on it?"
"For fuck sake Beca I don't have your flash drive! Don't you have a backup?"
"Do you really think I'd be this pissed if I had a backup?! I haven't had time to make one yet" Beca was getting frantic, she really didn't have time to do that work all over again and Chloe clearly wasn't throwing her a bone.
"Look Beca, I don't have it okay? You're just going to have to figure something out, I don't have time to deal with this." Chloe was about to march away from Beca when C.R timidly interrupted their spat:
"Yo, uh, B? Is this the drive you're looking for?" C.R was holding up a small USB to Beca with an apologetic look on her face.
"Wh.. Y.. Yeah.."
"Shit, I'm sorry B, I came in to get some files earlier and I must've picked that up too when I was grabbing them."
Beca was speechless, refusing now, to even glance in Chloe's direction. She took the flash drive from C.R with a quiet thank you, and with her head lowered, she turned and made a quick b line for her office.
Chloe, still furious, turned with a huff and continued on her trip to the bathroom, conjuring up as many revenge plans in her head as she could; she really had to come up with something big to put Beca in her place.
"Aubrey." She said quietly to the empty bathroom as she was washing her hands at the sink, knowing now exactly how she was going to get back at Beca.