Girls! I finally got our drinks, Chloe can you help me out here?! God it was barbaric down there, speaking of there was this monstrosity girl.." as the blonde handed out the drinks she had finally taken notice of the extra people standing amongst the group, one among them made her face drop.
"Noooooooooooo… you have got to be kidding me" Beca's mind whined at the bitchy blonde's presence even more so that she was some how affiliated with them, as the blonde stared back at her with daggers once more.
The unaware cheery Chloe made the introductions, as she helped with the distribution of the drinks.
"Everyone this is Aubrey Posen, Aubrey this is Cynthia, Amy, Jesse and Beca. They're in the music industry and have worked with Stacie and Jess" The blonde taking a sip of her drink through the straw, smiled as she then said hello to everyone, Beca receiving a curt nod. Aubrey then addressed Chloe, Jess and now Stacie who had walked over to join in on the conversation "We should go dance!".
Chloe looked towards Beca giving an apologetic look once more, as she now had a drink, no need for her to accompany the brunette to the bar. The red heads eyes snapped to someone else though that must've been behind Beca. Following her eye line she turned around to see Ellie with her boyfriend. Beca made the introductions for everyone before they all turned to go downstairs to the dance floor. Beca followed behind, as she wanted to go get a refill, Ellie for the idea, tagged along.
Before breaking away from the group Chloe turned and called out for Beca, "Hey! You should come find us dance floor after, we'll probably be up the front".
"I'll just look for your red hair" Beca joked; receiving a laugh in return from Chloe before Aubrey dragged her away once more.
Beca turned back towards the bar with Ellie, "Hey do you know of that group I just introduced you to?"
"Not really, well of course I know Jess and Stacie. I've only seen the others on TV or in some movies, your redhead bffl has been in some pretty big movies, she's good. Really in the spotlight at the moment too. Along with her blonde friend, Aubrey? Yeah she's in a pretty big hit vampire TV show at the moment"
Beca half laughed, "I only just met them myself, the red head bumped into me and my phone got smashed, " Beca's face faltered in her smile, changing to a sarcastic tone "and as for the blonde, well, she is just a barrel of friendliness!"
Ellie laughed, "What did you do?"
Feigning shock towards Ellie "And why would you just immediately assume I did something? ... never mind but no, for some unknown reason she's just acting like a total bitch towards me. However my total care factor towards that resembles this empty glass in my hand".
"Hm nice one" Calvin spoke up taking the last mouthful of his drink. Beca had nearly forgotten he was there he was being so quite. Him and Ellie have been a dating for a couple of months now, that Beca can recall. Nice guy though and great DJ. Beca had gotten to know the DJ through multiple festivals that they had played at together.
Waiting through the amount of people, which didn't take long as they ordered their drinks and received them. Walking a short distance away form the bar, Ellie asked Beca, "Wait, what happened to your phone?"
Beca smirked taking a huge gulp of her beverage, "Exactly what I said, I got knocked by Chloe Beale, by accident but um" producing her phone to show for the umpteenth time "yeah it's fucked".
Ellie and Calvin couldn't believe the extent of the damage by the look on their faces. They laughed about it though all agreeing that she can easily get a new phone once back on mainland. Calvin then spoke about the upcoming festivals the three of them would be playing at, agreeing that they should be huge! Ellie sarcastically adding "Should invite your bffl and Aubrey!"
Beca scoffed not really registering the question but going straight to her new dislike of Jessica's career choice and friends "Why would Jess want to go into acting in the first place? It doesn't completely baffle me, I suppose I should have seen it coming knowing her personality but... ugh seriously?"
Ellie shook her head smiling "Have you spoken to her about this? I mean it's Jess here, she's not going to quit singing she's just taking a break. Having a go in the acting industry"
"Wouldn't a certain superficial uptight blonde for example, and those actress slash actor types completely deter you though? I would be really surprised if Jess turned into one herself, she's not like that so why would she want to hang out with people that are?"
"Well her friend Chloe doesn't seem like that at all" Ellie chimed in "You should go meet them on the dance floor, Rihanna is performing shortly"
"Yeah I suppose" Beca lingered on the thought of the red head for a minute, quickly followed by what Ellie had said "Hey wait aren't you both joining me on the dance floor?"
"Maybe soon, Calvin has a few people he wants to talk to and that I want to meet"
Beca rolled her eyes "Fine" taking a mouthful of her drink "more room for me to make a fool of myself anyways" about to make her way through the crowd Ellie caught her attention again, "Hey Beca, take it easy okay?" conveying a slightly worried look as she pointed to the near empty cup in her friends hands. Not bothering to look down at the cup she waved off Ellie and made her way towards the front.
Aoki had finished his set and the crew was now setting up for Rihanna's performance. Making her way past people saying hello to those she knew, she spotted the sight of red hair a couple of feet away. Coming up behind the group, she stood beside Stacie. Huddled in a group they were all chatting away, Jess, Stacie, Aubrey and Chloe along with a couple of guys Beca had been introduced too before. They were off some vampire show but Beca couldn't recall their names. Meh.
Receiving a smile from Chloe, Beca pointed to her red hair, implying that's how she found them. Chloe giggled and shook her head in response. Jess turned abruptly seeing who had joined them "Beca! Good we were just discussing the TV show Aubrey is on. I honestly can't wait to see the next episode Aubrey!"
"Great a riveting discussion ahead I'm sure," Beca thought to herself as she forced a smile.
"Yes I mean 7 seasons now and we are stronger than ever, the show has such a huge following, this season is massive there is so much drama and plot twists!"
"What's the character like, that you play?" Beca asked a little flatly, feigning interest and for own amusement to annoy the girl again. It worked.
Aubrey had a combined look of disgust, shock and offence towards Beca. "So just the usual look", Beca thought as she inwardly smirked. Jessica spoke up "Sarah Newlin, a bit of an uptight Christian, hates vampires and is out to destroy them all!" In her best southern accent she continued, "It's on the HBO channel but there aren't just vampires in Bon Temps!"
Beca just nodded, trying to not laugh, as she thought to herself "What a stretch it must be to become the uptight Sarah New-whatever". Beca had no idea what Jess meant with the last part and why she had said it in an southern accent, Jess then added "Beca's not one for many TV shows or movies, have to get her the box set for Christmas!" Jess joked.
Much to Beca's chagrin at the prospect she forced a smirked at the joke. With so many responses, mostly negative and sarcastic running through her mind she looked over to where Chloe was smiling at her not wanting to look like the bitch Beca decided to instead give a thumbs up to Jess as she was taking a drink.
"You like musical theatre though?" Chloe suddenly asked. Obviously recalling the drunken story Jess had retold.
Beca's face dropped a little, but composed herself quickly with a forced tight lipped smile, simply replying "Mmhm, suppose" ignoring the confused look on Chloe's face, Beca took another drink, instead directing her eye line to the stage just behind the red head. "Have you seen Rihanna perform before?" asking the group. Instead of an answer Beca found that the group had turned over to talk to others. Chloe was still engaged in the conversation however, responding to the question Beca looked back towards her.
"No I haven't seen her live before, I hear she is fantastic though and that she is doing some acoustic versions which should be great. You've worked with her though right?"
Beca walked closer to the red head so as to continue the conversation without having to try and compete with everyone else's talking and straining to hear her. Coming to a stop in front of Chloe she replied, "Yeah I did, only on a couple of songs but they turned out really great. She was great to work with too."
"I saw you both perform at the Grammy's last year on TV, looked like so much fun for you performing up there. I would be a nervous mess" Chloe laughed and conveyed a scared face as she thought of the situation.
Seems to know more about me than I do her. Ellie may be right she doesn't seem so bad. Just innocent/pure. Probably won't like my lifestyle very much. Beca thought tp herself, before answering.
"I did actually, it was great up there on stage. That was my second time performing at the awards, I would be lying if I said I wasn't a little bit nervous. Once I hit the stage though, all focus, thoughts, emotions, everything it's all on... It's kind of like that all goes on hold. Instead I'm on a high of energy, fun and awesomeness from the music. That sounded pretty lame but it's a feeling that's hard to describe" Towards the last part of her sentence, Beca hadn't really been looking at the red head, instead at the drink in her hands. When looking up to Chloe she had a look of… perhaps admiration or maybe understanding towards Beca.
"Sounds great, I love music also, it can be healing. I can't completely compare of course but, acting brings on a whole new persona. Emotions I had before turning into the character, it allows me to channel those into the role or take on something completely different that the character is facing. It's fun to kind of morph yourself into this person."
"Yeah sounds... challenging"
Chloe laughed at Beca, who was obviously trying to comprehend acting all together "Yes well I enjoy it, very much like you do music" staring at each other for a short moment, she continued "I have to tell you, I'm a huge fan of your music. Pretty sure I have every song you've done or worked on, on my phone"
Beca felt her smirk getting a little too big at the remark, dimming it down a little "Thanks. I've been working on some new stuff"
"Can't wait to hear it!" Chloe interjected "can you say anything yet about the rumor of you working with Justin Timberlake? I worked with him on a project a while back and couldn't help but ask when he might go back into music. Said he was keeping it a secret, the tease"
"What are you a reporter, or perhaps just acting as one?" Beca sarcastically asked with a mischievous look directed at the red head.
Chloe laughed "Or.. just maybe, I'm really into music and am keenly interested in whether or not you are helping JT bring his sexy back"
Beca shook her head, smiling at the somewhat lame connection of her remark, "That's funny, well yes actually I worked on and helped in his new upcoming… song."
"Song? Meaning one? Yeah right, it's going to be a new album right?!" Chloe clearly excited at the possible prospect.
Beca stayed stone faced as she watched the stage and took the last mouthful of her drink "Mm not able to say, perhaps if I had another drink"
"Pshh you tease" Chloe spun around to one of the men standing next to Aubrey. Slide glancing Beca saw an exchanging of words between the two. The next minute Chloe spun back around and handed Beca a new glass of drink.
"Impressive, did you just take his drink?"
"I'm persistent" Chloe stated factually as she quickly raised her eyebrow and smiled at Beca. "Now spill"
"What was the question again?" Beca tried her hardest not to smile but was letting a small grin appear. Teasing the girl was appearing to be quite amusing.
Chloe smiled as she stared back at Beca dead in the eye, with a huff crossing her arms "Beca, oh sweet, Beca would you pretty please tell me if Justin Timberlake will be releasing a new album?"
Smirking at the girls' overdramatic sarcasm, she took a step closer towards the red head as Beca got in close, checking to both her left and right making sure no one else may hear her. Locking eyes with Chloe, Beca leaned in inhaling a little just to stall and annoy the woman more. She was going to answer her but instead, "Shhh Rihanna is about to start!" moving to the side of Chloe as the crowd started to move forward, all began clapping to welcome the singer on stage.
Beca smirked and side glanced at the scowling face she was receiving, Chloe leaning in to Beca so as she could hear "This isn't over!"
Their attention was turned to the performance as Rihanna started to sing.
Jess came up behind the girls and started to dance along with Chloe as they sung the words. A few songs in and Beca finally gave in, as both of the girls had been pleading for her to join in with them singing the lyrics. Shaking her head she turned to the two and decided to join in on the fun they were having, putting effort in behind her voice, she burst out singing along with the girls and the rest of the crowd. Beca actually felt like she was having fun, which was reassured as the overgrown smile the red head was showing towards her was now replicated on her own face.