I have no excuses for why it has taken so long. I just hope you are all still interested.
Disclaimers can be found in later chapters.
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CHAPTER 4
'Stupid dad thinking he knows everything!' Beca rants in her head as she walks towards the showers. She decides to do the one thing that always seems to calm her down. She sings. She doesn't have her music with her so she makes her own.
The words to 'Titanium' flow freely and easily. She walks to a shower stall and hangs her robe and towel. She hangs her bag of shower supplies on the hook and turns on the water.
She catches the scent of two others but figures they are nobodies and just continues on. Something about one of the scents is familiar but she shrugs it off a she waits for the water to warm up. Being a werewolf her body temperature is already pretty high so she never needs to shower in hot water. But the feeling over sore joints is amazing.
What Beca doesn't expect is for the curtain of her shower to be pulled open and she sure as hell was not expecting Chloe freaking Beale to be the culprit.
"You can sing!"
Her heart stops at the sight of the breathtaking red head. It must be the light and the steam because Chloe looks positively stunning. She's practically glowing.
"Dude!" Beca throws the curtain shut.
Chloe tosses it aside and steps further into Beca's shower. "How high does you belt go?"
"My what?!" Beca attempts to cover herself up as Chloe reaches past her to shut off the shower. "Oh my god!"
"You have to audition for the Bellas."
"I can't concentrate on anything until you cover your junk!" Beca shouts as the wolf within her growls at her. Beca really isn't complaining. But she is trying to be polite. It is rude to ogle someone's naked body without consent. But she is right there!
"Just consider it!" Chloe says stepping further into the shower as she starts telling some story about touring with Prince. Beca grabs at the curtain and covers herself with it. Chloe knocks the bottle of body wash out of Beca's hands and Beca releases the curtain and turns dropping down to get it before realizing what level she is at and jumps back up with her back to Chloe.
'Cool tattoos.' Chloe thinks as she trails her eyes over them reading the words inked into Beca's back.
"Seriously, I am nude." Beca says trying not to look at Chloe's nakedness.
"You were singing 'Titanium' right?"
Beca smiles. "You know David Guetta?"
"Have I been living under a rock? Yeah." Chloe asks sarcastically. "That song is my jam." Chloe grins. "My lady jam."
Beca fights to keep her desire and blush under control. She is so not thinking those things right now. "That's nice." Beca says kicking herself afterwards. At least she didn't say it like some love sick fool. Seriously, Chloe is invading all her senses right now. Her sight, smell and touch if she keeps coming closer.
"It is." Chloe nods. "That song really builds." Chloe winks and Beca tries not to look at her.
"Gross." Beca whispers trying not to think about it. But then of course the image Taylor forced into her head a month ago resurfaces and her curiosity peaked. She hasn't taken a good look at Chloe and she doesn't plan on it either but the curiosity is getting the better of her.
"Can you sing it for me?"
Beca's eyes go wide. "Dude! No! Get out!"
"Not for that reason!" Chloe defends and Beca relaxes. 'Thank god.' "I'm not leaving here until you sing so..." Chloe stands her ground. Beca looks at her to see if she is serious and Chloe lets out a sigh letting Beca know she is patient enough to do it.
Reluctantly Beca covers herself the best she can and turns around to look at Chloe. In the face. She reminds herself so not to travel and figure out if the image Taylor gave her is real or not. She would much rather learn her own way. Preferably in bed and Beca being the one who pulls every article of…ENOUGH! Beca stops her thoughts and takes a deep breath and begins singing.
Chloe soon joins in and Beca is in awe of her voice. 'Like and angel.' Beca thinks as she continues singing.
They fade out in unison and Chloe smiles at her. Beca can no longer contain her curiosity and chances a look down then up. 'I'm going to kill Taylor.' Beca thinks as she confirms that Taylor has in fact seen Chloe naked.
"Oh! Yeah." Chloe says looking down at her naked body. "I'm pretty confidant." She motions to her body. "About all this."
Beca nods trying to keep the smile of her face. "You should be." Because damn the girl has abs!
"Oh!" Chloe turns and grabs Beca's towel and hands it to her.
"I still need to shower." Beca whispers.
Beca covers herself up as the second scent makes itself known. The owner is a very handsome man with a nice body.
"You have a lovely voice." He smirks wiggling his eyebrows.
"Thanks!" Beca snaps sarcastically. She isn't dumb she knows what the two of them were or may have been doing or were going to do. She doesn't like this guy.
Chloe smiles at both of them before remembering they are all still naked.
"See you at auditions!" Chloe calls over her shoulder grabbing the guy and walking away.
"How did you get so many people?" Aubrey asks as she walks in with Chloe and Taylor.
The hopefuls were moved into the wings after their info was collected and the four groups made their way into the house taking seats in the audience.
"I have my ways." Taylor grins. Manipulation, bribing, striking the fear of God into them… "I know. I'm awesome." Taylor says taking a seat next to Chloe.
No one could hear Lilly but Taylor could loud and clear. They were roommates and it didn't take much convincing, Lilly was going to audition anyway. Fat Amy made Taylor laugh and Taylor knew who she was vouching for.
Then a familiar scent hit her nose and Taylor tensed up. She knew they could potentially bump into one another here but she just didn't think it would be here. She turns to Chloe.
"I have to pee." She says and before Chloe could reply she was out of her seat and out the door in a flash. She knows she should be more careful but she couldn't risk it. She waited until she heard her start singing and started singing along in her head just to make sure and once she is off stage Taylor walks back in.
When Benji auditions Taylor cheers for him, glaring at anyone who laughed, silencing them with fear. Oh yeah, she still got it.
"Thank you. Preforming live gives me such a rush." Taylor face palms. He would have been ok if he hadn't opened his mouth. But that dork is like a brother and no matter how nerdy he might be Taylor will fight to the death for him.
Beca's audition is flawless and Aubrey doesn't seem to like her at all and Taylor grins. She has been avoiding Beca since the shower incident and Beca confronted Taylor about seeing Chloe naked. Taylor enjoys getting under Beca skin and has avoided telling her the reason she saw Chloe naked.
Chloe and Aubrey invited Taylor out for Aca-initiation night but she declined. She would be there and Taylor and she agreed. They would ignore each other's existence when they had to.
So Taylor was hanging out with Benji taking advantage of the empty room and he was entertaining her with magic tricks. Actual real, magic tricks. Not those illusions he shows people. See Benji is a hybrid. Half werewolf half wizard.
"So, don't tell Beca." Benji starts and Taylor raises an eyebrow. "But I think I might have found my mate." Benji is expecting her to shout, tease him or use sarcasm. What happens next he doesn't expect.
Taylor lets out an extremely girly scream and hugs him tight. Then Taylor seems to compose herself as she realizes what she just did. "Tell anyone and I'll castrate you." Taylor warns as Benji nods.
"Not a soul." Benji agrees.
"So who is she?" Taylor asks and Benji smiles.
"Her name is Jessica. She's a Bella." Benji says and Taylor's eyebrows shoot up.
"Seriously?" Benji nods. "What is wrong with us?" Taylor asks flopping onto her back on Benji's bed.
"What are you talking about?" Benji asks.
Taylor chuckles. "All three of us fell for Bellas." She laughs loudly this time and Benji looks at her concerned.
"Bella and the Beast." Taylor says letting out a sigh.
Benji smiles softly at Taylor and pats her thigh. "You'll work it out."
Taylor shakes her head. "Don't worry about me Benji, let's start working up your wooing plan to get the Bella." Benji smiles as he pulls out a pen and pad of paper.
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