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Acapella.
Fucking acapella.
Beca's trying to escape Stacie's grip since the tall brunette told her what kind of group they're looking for.
"Stacie please. Really?! I can't even sing!"
"Oh shush. There!"
Beca follows Stacie's index finger that is pointing to a stand next to a blonde girl.
"Oh she's cute"
Beca scrunches up her nose and she needs to run to follow the tall girl who is walking fast towards the blonde and she's still drgging her.
The blonde looks up from the flayers in her hands when she hears someone getting close to her. She sees two brunettes. One really gorgeous and the other…too alternative for the Bellas. She hopes that girl isn't interested in her group. They're almost in front of her, she smiles and hands a flayer towards the tall brunette.
"Hi, any interest in joining our acapella group?"
Stacie smiles and takes the flayer before replacing it with her hand.
"Hi! Yes, we're interested. I'm Stacie and this is Beca"
Amazing.
The blonde thinks while she tries to keep her smile in place, which dropped at the "we" and when the alt-girl said hi to her.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Aubrey. Can you sing?"
"Yes"
"No"
Aubrey glares at the small girl.
"She's joking, she has an amazing voice. We can sing, trust me" Stacie says with a bright smile and a wink.
"What are you doing?! You don't know it. Stacie what-" Beca angrily whispers at the tall brunette. Stacie shushes her placing her hand on her mouth. Beca's glare being totally ignored as Stacie keeps smiling at Aubrey who is watching them with a frown.
"We'll see that at the auditions. I just need you to sign…where is it? Chloe! I need the list" Aubrey is looking around for something or someone when a redhead runs towards them. Stacie feels Beca's mouth open in shock under her hand which she removes quickly fearing the brunette will start drolling any minutes by now.
Wow.
This is the only thought Beca has when she sees the redhead. She has long and curled red hair and blue, crazy blue eyes, blue like the ocean and she loses in them. She stares at the girl that now is talking to Aubrey and then she's smiling at her and oh boy that smile just kills her.
"Hi! I'm Chloe"
Beca keeps staring at her, her brains might be fried. Might. Just a little.
"Beca! Stop drooling, she's talking to you" Stacie whispers to her. Beca blinks a few times before she trusts herself to talk.
"Sorry. Hi, I'm Beca"
Chloe chuckles, she hopes that this girl will become a Bella so she can see that blushing face every day.
"Are going to jo-"
"Watch out!"
Beca eyes dart from Chloe to her right.
A guy with a monocycle is riding towards them yelling and he's directed against Chloe. Beca tries to grab her to move her away but she's too far and she just thinks about being able to reach her when it happens. Chloe is in her arms as the guy crushes in the stand and where Chloe was a few second ago.
Her heart is racing. Did she just…? Yes, she did. Luckily for her only the redhead is aware of what just happened, Stacie and Aubrey were talking to each other and they turned only when Chloe was already in Beca's arms.
The redhead's eyes are wide. "How did you…?" she whispers and Beca needs to find something to tell her. Like now. She's looking at the redhead trying to say something, but she has nothing. They were too far to say that she managed to grab her and the look in Chloe's eyes says that she knows that too and Beca is screwed.
"Uhm…I…well…" She's so fucked. Luckily for her the redhead is still between her arms and that has to mean something, that has to mean that she's not scare the hell out of her or that she's too scared to move. But Beca wants to think about the former. Around them Stacie and Aubrey are yelling incomprehensible words at the guy after they checked first on Chloe and then on him assuring he didn't hurt himself. The guy walks away saying sorry to Chloe and the other girls. Aubrey and Stacie turn to Beca and Chloe that are still pretty close looking at each other. Not that Beca is complaining, but she's too busy trying to figure out how she'll survive this thing without revealing her secret, that she keeps her arms around Chloe's waist mindlessly.
Stacie smirks at them and Aubrey quirks an eyebrow before clearing her throat announcing their presence. Beca removes quickly her arms from Chloe's waist and the redhead steps back without interrupting the eye contact with the brunette missing the touch of Beca's arms.
"Are you ok Chloe?"
The redhead looks from Beca to Aubrey a few times like she's thinking about telling her or not what happened, she even doesn't know what the hell happened. A moment she was getting hit by a monocycle and a moment later she was in the brunette arms, really soft, warm and strong arms, smelling her sweet perfume… but that's not the point. She looks at Beca for the last time and sees the worried look on her face. In that moment she decides to put a smile on and nod.
"Yes Bree, I'm ok. Beca pulled me out the monocycle's trajectory just in time. Thank you, by the way"
Everyone looks at Beca who is wearing an embarrassed smile.
"It's nothing"
Chloe keeps her eyes on the girl like she'll do something strange at any moment and Beca feels her cheeks burn and keeps her eyes on her feet avoiding the redhead's. Her vision blurs a little and she starts to feel numb. She needs and wants to be alone to process what the hell just happened and what she'll have to deal now.
Aubrey looks suspiciously between the two girls and in particular at Beca that now looks strange, like she's about to throw up. The blonde looks at her friend that is watching carefully the brunette and when she meets her eyes she knows that the redhead notices it too.
"Alright then. Beca, Stacie sign this and we'll see you at the auditions." Aubrey hands them the signature list to sign it. Beca runs away after signing and saying a quick goodbye and she hopes Stacie doesn't follow her. But of course she does.
"What was that?"
Stacie is right next to her while they walk back through the yard towards their dorm. Beca doesn't look at her, she feels more and more tired and she's becoming desperate to find a quiet place to be alone. She needs to get rid of Stacie.
"What was that what?"
Stacie laughs "Don't play dumb, you know what. You and the redhead, do you like her?"
Now Beca looks at her. Stacie notices the change in the brunette's look. She seems tired, like sick tired and pale dead.
"What? I've known her for like ten minutes and you for like an hour so excuse me if I'm not going to talk to you right now. I need to be somewhere. See you later, maybe" She knows she's being an asshole and that Stacie is just asking because she's a nice person, but her instinct took over her and she really needs to be alone and to calm herself.
Beca leaves a very confused Stacie behind while she walks away, where, she doesn't know, but she needs to be alone right know.
Little did she know that a certain redhead was following her.
