A/N: Thanks for all the feedback on the last chapter. Sorry this one is a little late. I had writer's block (it kinda followed me into the chapter) and I am on vacation. Because of my vacation, the next few chapters might come out a little more slowly. Sorry about that, guys. But again, I hope you enjoy!


After hanging up with Chloe, Beca decided to shoot Emily a text and ask her how things were going with auditions. She knew they weren't going well, but she decided to let Emily tell her that. A few minutes of mindlessly scrolling through her phone, Beca received a response from Emily.

"Hey, Beca! Things are going… ok here. It's kinda stressful trying to put everything together. But Benji has been visiting me and trying to help. He's really been really sweet about all this stuff."

Beca didn't really expect that kind of response from her. She figured that Emily was probably losing her marbles after the way Chloe described her situation. But Beca had forgotten about Benji, kind of. And the fact that he was there with Emily really made Beca happy. She liked the two of them together. Beca was close with Benji through association of Jesse and she really grew to like his awkward adorableness. And Emily was the same way. She said things that normal people probably wouldn't say, and that made her especially likable in Beca's eyes. The fact that the two were just so weird is what made them a cute couple.

Beca thought about a response and just simply typed out, "That's good. Just call if you need any help." She wasn't really the one to help with those sort of things, and she had just realized that. When she mentioned it earlier, she was more so hoping that Chloe would be the one to offer the assistance, so Beca could seem caring without really having to lift a finger.

After not getting a response from Emily, Beca decided to shower and get dressed. She figured she might as well leave the house and do something since she has nothing to do. When she was all ready, she headed out to a local coffee shop. She ordered a black coffee and sat down at a table in the corner and pulled out her headphones and laptop.

Yes, she was one of those people. She would sit in a coffee shop for up to two hours, lost in her mashups. Only when a barista would ask her about a refill or how long she's planning on staying would Beca realize that she had been sitting there for way too long and leave. So thats what she was going to do. She pulled up her software and just began mixing songs together. She started with Beyonce's "Flawless" and weaved Taylor Swift's "Shake it Off" in with it. It started out pretty cool, but then she needed one more song to really bring it together. She tried to think of something, but for some reason she was blocked. While she was sitting there, trying to think of a song, she saw her phone light up. It was a text from Chloe.

"Hey, don't forget to text me the details of your big party. I wanna come see you perform." Beca smiled at the sight of the text. She began to picture Chloe at the club, watching her with that same smile she gave her when she auditioned for the Bellas back when she was just an insecure freshman. She loved that smile. It made her feel like Chloe was caring, cheering her on. Like she knew what Beca was capable of and when she performed to that capability, Chloe felt Beca's accomplishment almost as if they were her own.

Thinking about Chloe at the club, she thought about all the times they went out together, either as friends or in a group as the Bellas. They went to countless clubs and bars. They liked (well rather Chloe liked and Beca followed) to do a sort of a bar crawl when they went to new cities for competitions or for their tour of the US after being ICCA champions. They almost always had a really good time. When it wasn't a good time, it was usually because either Chloe would find some random dude to hook up with and sort of leave Beca, Chloe was usually hammered in these situations. Or it would be because Jesse was being very needy and wasn't liking the idea of Beca being out at bars in a strange city, even though she could handle her damn self, she would think to say to him.

When they went out, Chloe often got much more drunk than Beca did. Beca didn't really mind having to be the responsible one out of the two of them. She actually thought it was kind of funny to see Chloe like that. She was all chatty and friendly. And her dancing was the best part. The typically well-choreographed and clean dancer, became an animal on the dance floor. She barely had rhythm, and when she did, she danced so dirtily that Beca couldn't help but pull her off of some people. However, whenever Chloe was dancing like that on Beca, she couldn't manage to push her away. She liked Chloe like that. She was a free spirit.

The best of these nights were when they found a karaoke bar. A karaoke bar to Chloe what a Chuck E. Cheese's is to a little kid. She would run inside, super excited and she could spend hours there. She didn't even have to be singing to have fun. Chloe just loved watching people perform. She loved the ones that really knew what they were doing, like her, she loved the people that were so drunk they couldn't even read the words off the screen, and she loved the tone deaf people that thought they were doing so well, but were utterly failing. The whole experience was something amazing to Chloe. Beca, on the other hand, didn't really care about them. I spend all day singing and dancing at Bellas rehearsals, why do I have to do the same thing here? She would think when Chloe offered up the idea. But the fact that they made Chloe so happy was the only reason Beca dragged her ass into those bars.

When it was Chloe's turn to sing, she would always choose the same song. "Gangster"s Paradise" by Coolio. That, for some reason, was a blast for Chloe to sing. It wasn't the ballad-type that would be assumed of Chloe. It was a loose, relaxed rap song that she just had so much fun singing. She didn't even have to be drunk to perform it, although it did make the performance more enjoyable, Beca thought.

"That's it!" Beca said out loud in the coffee shop, breaking her reverie of Chloe in bars. A few people looked around at her, probably judging her for her outburst. But Beca didn't care. She had thought of the perfect song to add to her mashup. No more mixer's block. She was going to add "Gangster's Paradise" into her mix of "Flawless" and "Shake it Off". After she thought of that song and finished that mashup, the flow of new songs and mixes was unstoppable. She went on for a while, longer than her usually coffee shop stay. And she finished about three mixes by the time a barista came up to her. Beca was proud of the progress she had made. And it was all thanks to her inspiration- Chloe.


A/N: Again, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. Hopefully my writer's block didn't make it sucky. Please leave a review. Thanks so much for reading.