Beca P.O.V.
I walk away from the radio station booth at the activities fair. Looking down at the paper I was given, I decide to put in an application for an internship during the year. Suddenly my phone dies, I sigh and take my headphones off of my ears so they rest around my neck. I continue aimlessly walking around for a while. A flash of brilliantly red hair disturbs my thoughts. There is a ginger at a booth for some group called the Bellas. I walk closer while observing the girl a little bit more. While she talks animatedly, using her hands to gesture, it doesn't seem to change the mood of the blonde who is also at the booth. The blonde looks like her face is stuck in a sour expression as she turns away from the gorgeous ginger and looks out at all of the people walking around at the activities fair. I look back over at the girl with red hair and find her looking back at me. Staring back at me are strikingly bright blue eyes. It seems to me I have no choice but to go over to their booth now that we have made eye contact, otherwise I would just seem rude. She says something to the grumpy looking blonde who glances in my direction as I make my way over to them. Somehow she her frown seems to deepen, as she takes in my appearance, shaking her head she tries to tell her friend something desperately. The ginger ignores her and when I finally reach them she sticks her hand out and introduces herself.
"Hi! I'm Chloe and this is Aubrey, we are the co-captains for our acapella group, the Barden Bellas." I shake her hand as she speaks and she drops hers to quickly grab a flier and puts it in mine before i can remove it from midair.
"I'm Beca it's nice to meet both of you. I uh I'm not sure I really know what acapella is so." Aubrey takes this as a sign for her to launch into a speech about the history of not only the Bellas but acapella in general.
"So you see in order for us to actually consider taking you into our group, you have to be able to sing well and do the dances. We want to win this year and we can't have people who don't know what they are doing get in the way." She finishes with a slight grimace towards the end. Chloe seems shocked for a second at her rudeness before she begins trying to fix what the blonde just said.
"What Aubrey means to say is, this is our senior year, this is our last chance to try and win at the ICCA's. Help make our dreams a reality?" Her voice trails off at the end with a questioning tone inflicted into the last part. Almost unconsciously I find myself starting to nod at her pleading look. I stop before the slight nod becomes noticeable to them.
"I'm sorry but I don't even sing. Maybe I'll see you around though." Chloe seems saddened by this but before I could walk away she reaches out and grabs my hand, stopping me from getting away.
"So I know that you aren't going to be a Bella, but that doesn't mean we can't be friends. How about you give me your number and we can get coffee and maybe talk about this tattoo?" She rubbed her thumb over my headphone tattoo as she says this, sending unnoticeable shivers down my back. I clear my throat nervously and nod to her.
"My phone died a little while ago so I can just give you my number if that's alright with you?" She frowns slightly before replying.
"I don't have my phone on me right now. Oh! Wait here I can just write my number on your wrist with this pen." Chloe takes a pen off of the table, uncaps it, and reaches out for my hand. Without thinking I lift my right hand out to her. She grabs it and writes her number on it, the glide of the pen and the gentle way she grips my hand made the hair on my arm stand up. As she goes to recap the pen, she seems to see my grasshopper tattoo.
"Oh my god no way! You have a bug tattoo? So do I, I knew it, we are going to become best friends. We already are bug tattoo buddies." I chuckle slightly and say goodbye to her, walking away I give a slight wave. Looking down at my wrist, I smile to myself. After her number, she wrote: The Sexy Redhead xoxoxo Call me :).
Sorry I haven't updated in a while, but I'm almost done with school so hopefully I will be able to update more often. I was going through a slight bout of writers block when I was trying to get this chapter out so this one is shorter then the others. Hope you enjoyed.
-J