I'm terrible, i know... But i did warn y'all about my terrible updating schedule. I think. I feel extra bad because my awesome beta sugarlandaddict23 got the next two chapters ready and i am posting just now. I'm sorry!

Disclaimer: All characters belong to Pitch Perfect.


"Have a good weekend," Kimmy-Jin stated as she grabbed her bags and moved towards the door.

"Thanks… you too?" she answered, taken aback. It was probably the first time the Asian girl ever addressed her in a non-hostile way since they started the semester.

For the first time in a while Beca was actually excited. She had been busy all week with classes, homework, her jobs and the Bellas rehearsals, but today Elise and John were driving down with Ryland and she honestly couldn't wait to spend time with her little rebel.

She had been mixing for a couple of hours when her phone's screen light up with a text. She smiled brightly before taking off her headphones and sprinting to the parking lot.

"Guys!" she smiled as she saw Elise, John and Bailey with Ryland clapping happily from her aunt's arms, all huddled near their SUV.

"Hey Becs!" John smiled, hugging her tightly before allowing Elise to do the same. She went to greet her sister but the man stopped her, "So… we did something…" he paused. "Don't get mad, but yeah… I'm sick of driving this one around," John smiled sheepishly as he pointed at Bailey and handed Beca a set of keys "See that black Audi A3? It's yours," he pointed to the car parked next to the Bailey's white Golf GTI she'd been using.

"What?" she looked at the car shocked, "Guys that wasn't necessary. I can use the bus here if Bailey needs her car"

"Nonsense, sweetie. You need a car to drive up every weekend. And you got rid of your old one for Ry. Enjoy it," Elise smiled, rubbing a hand on her back.

Before finding out she was pregnant, she used to have a car just like Bailey's, but decided to sell it in order to afford the things her baby would need, and had used the bus back home through most of her pregnancy, getting rides from Jesse and eventually Bailey whenever she needed them.

"Guys…" she was barely holding back her tears, and she was glad her sister knew of her aversion to crying.

"Can we like… go to your dorm?" Bailey asked, walking toward the entrance with Ryland still in her arms, "I wanna see where you live now… And this one is getting heavy."

"We brought some stuff for you, but they are in your car, so you can fetch them whenever you feel like it. There's enough to share with your roommate" Elise smiled, rolling her eyes at Beca's 'Not happening,' comment.

/

Beca had to admit that having her family come over was nice. She wasn't that far away from home like Stacie, who's from California, or Amy, who came from Australia, but she missed her family dearly, although she would never admit it aloud. So getting to see Bailey pretty excited to attend Barden the following year and looking into the prospect of even joining the Bellas put a smile on her face. And that was without including her daughter, because she knows Ry would make her smile any day, anywhere.

And being in a clingy mood, Ryland was more than happy to cuddle with her mom most of the time, but was currently perched on her aunt's lap as the girl toyed with Beca's mixing equipment. Her sister was into music as well, but she was more interested in playing instruments and doing covers than making herself a proper recording artist.

The group had spent a good part of the evening walking around campus and teasing Beca for her terrible dorm before Elise and John decided to go get some dinner and check into their hotel. The sisters stayed at the dorms with the baby, seeing as John had installed Ryland's playpen before leaving. She was having fun, and they were set on working on a few songs when a voice froze them in place.

"Beca?" Warren knocked, and both girls groaned. Bailey had made it clear she didn't wanted to see their dad during this trip, and as such, Beca had made it her mission to avoid their father during the week to prevent this from happening but after her gig last night, she was not surprised he'd come to make sure she was sober.

She was about to answer when the door opened, and the smile on his face turned into a shocked expression.

"Hey! Oh… What- Uh… What are you guys doing here?" he asked, confused.

"Hi dad, nice to see you. I'm pretty sure there's nothing in the Barden student code that prevents Beca from having family visit her on campus," Bailey stated, rolling her eyes at her father before turning around on Beca's chair, placing Beca's headphones on Ryland so she wouldn't be upset over the conversation she knew was about to take place.

"No, but you could've told me. You even brought her," Warren stated, having seen the child, which caused Beca to snap.

"Ryland can come here whenever they can bring her over. She's my daughter; I have a right to see her."

"Beca that's not what I mea-" he tried to talk but Beca didn't give him a chance.

"Then what is it?" she tried to hold back on the screaming, because she knew there were many students in the dorms nearby, but now she was livid. "Are you worried people will find out you have a grandchild? Or that Sheila will freak out?" she spat, angrily. "Don't worry, if you can keep from telling people I'm your daughter, no one will know how much of a shitty dad you are."

"Beca, that's not fair!"

"What do you know about fair? Bailey grab Ry and let's go, we're not staying here."

The younger girl gave her father a pointed look before the girls made their way towards the parking lot, hopping in Bailey's car and driving silently to the hotel Elise and John are staying.

Beca smiled sadly when Elise opened her hotel room door for them.

"Uh oh, I know that face Beca, what happened?"

"Dad and Beca being dickheads," came from the younger Mitchell as they made their way into the room and the adults rolled their eyes.

"Bailey…" Elise scolded, taking Ryland from Beca's arms.

"Seriously mom, the only thing I like about being his kid is that Beca is my sister. He's helpless when it comes to her," she pointed at her sister. "And she's awful when dealing with him. Would it really kill you to talk to him? Just once?"

Beca glared at her sister, and John took it as his cue to intervene before the girls started arguing with each other.

"Okay, this is where you and I go for a walk. C'mon Bailes, I saw a Taco Bell on the way here," he said, pushing the girl out of the door as she continued her rant, at a hushed voice.

"He's awesome. You are lucky you met him," Beca smiled at the retreating duo as she sat on the bed, sighing.

"I am. What did Warren do?"

"He didn't like seeing Ryland on campus. He probably doesn't want his colleagues to find out about her," Beca shrugged, caressing her daughter's cheeks.

"Did he say it?"

"Well, no. But-"

Elise sighed, "Beca, for the sake of your daughter you need to actually sit down and talk to him. Warren is not a stellar dad but, he's trying. He's trying really hard to reconnect with both of you."

"He left. He left me and my mom. He left all of us… I just can't- I won't fail Ryland like he failed us."

"I know you won't," the woman smiled, deciding not to push for now. "How was college this week?"

"I joined an acapella group the other day."

"You what?" Elise asked, shocked and it made Beca smile. "Didn't you say it was lame?"

"Jesse kinda dragged me and yeah… It's not that bad, I guess. Practices are annoying but it could be worse," she smiled. "The girls are pretty cool too; except for Aubrey, our captain. She's a dictator."

"Well, you've never liked authority."

"Ain't that the truth," the women laughed.

/

Their performance at Sigma Beta Theta's mixer was a disaster, to put it mildly, and Aubrey was livid. Beca was sure the girl was about to have a seizure, or one of her projectile vomit episodes the closer they got to their bus.

Somehow, Aubrey decided they would be singing telegrams as the money they usually got from SBT's party paid for their regionals trip, and then went on a rant, berating Chloe for fumbling her solo, which lead to Chloe revealing her struggle with vocal nodules, and how it was clear that she wouldn't be hitting those high notes any time soon.

She felt bad for the redhead, she was a little ball of happiness and everyone could tell that not being able to sing properly was affecting her, so Beca decided she'd try her hand at getting Aubrey to let her tamper with the arrangements, if not to modernize them, then to help Chloe.

But that wouldn't be happening anytime soon, it seemed. Even when she made it clear she could simply alter the key of the song to help Chloe's vocals, Aubrey absolutely refused. She'd have to try harder at their next rehearsal.

"So… I've been thinking, and I wanna have a business minor," Jesse stated as he plopped down next to her on the grass a few days later, tossing a juice pouch her way. "If scoring doesn't work for me, then I'll run your future label. What are you doing?"

"Right. I'll keep that in mind…" she rolled her eyes, scoffing as he started pulling movies out of his backpack. "I'm making mixes that suit Chloe's vocals now that she has nodes. What are you doing?"

"Just because we're in college it doesn't mean your moviecation is over. C'mon, scoot."

"Jesse, I'd rather claw my eyes out before watching your awful movies," she rolled her eyes.

"You saw the Little Mermaid last weekend!"

"Ryland was here!" she groaned, "I'm never watching movies with Bailey again."

"Don't be dramatic. And fine, we'll reschedule… So how are the classes going?"

"Well… classes are awful, and adding to the shift at the shop, the radio and the Bellas rehearsals which are always-"

"Are you guys ready for the Riff Off?" he asked, raising a brow.

"What the hell is a Riff Off?"

/

Apparently the whole point of a Riff Off was not preparing for it, and you also needed a big musical knowledge to compete in it, something Beca thought was actually pretty cool. If it weren't for the fact that she had mismatched the words and the Trebles had won. This of course, did not sit well with Aubrey.

After a good half hour of telling the girls everything she thought they did wrong (and glaring at Beca because Jesse just had to point her out during his performance), she finally let the girls go home and Beca being Beca, wasted no time moving away from them. Her dorm was the furthest from the empty pool, and most of the walk she would be doing it alone, so when Chloe hugged her from behind and looped their arms together, she nearly screamed.

"Dude, you can't go around doing that," she tried to scold the girl, but Chloe was smiling so brightly Beca couldn't find it within herself to stay mad at the redhead.

"I'm sorry! I just wanted to say… What you did back there was soo cool! I don't think we've ever harmonized like that before. We were in sync."

"Sorry I lost us the battle though."

Chloe laughed, waving her hand "Oh don't worry. We have a Riff Off at the end of every trimester," she smiled. "So how did you do that? Like… I've been a Bella since my freshman year and I haven't been able to come up with a song like that."

"I don't know, I just… feel the music and it… I don't know but it kinda speaks to me… And when Jesse started singing, I had to jump in. Besides, he absolutely hates No Diggity, so I kinda had to do it," Beca shrugged, trying to hide her smile when Chloe bumped her shoulder with hers.

"He seemed to like it… and you."

"Oh not you too," Beca rolled her eyes "Can you keep a secret? He's not my boyfriend. He's my best friend and we know each other from home. It just annoys Aubrey so we play it up," Beca laughed, missing the relief that crossed the redhead's face at the revelation.

"Oh okay… You do know Aubrey would totes make you run less laps if she actually knew that, right?"

"Nah, if she knows I actually made myself a friend, she would see I have a heart. I'd rather she thinks I don't have one," she laughed.

"I'm your friend," the redhead pointed out.

"You saw me naked, Chlo," Beca laughed. "And fine, you are my friend, but you befriended me, not the other way around. And not being your friend should be a federal crime."

"You are sweet."

"I'm badass."

"Right," Chloe laughed while rolling her eyes, "Can you show me more mixes? I liked the ones from the Treble party but I don't think I remember much from then."

"I wonder why," the brunette chuckled as Chloe gave her a light shove. "Sure, let's go."

The duo finally made it back to Baker Hall and Beca was relieved that her roommate seemed to be out for now, so she motioned for Chloe to sit on her bed as she set up everything.

"I like your room. The contrast between you and your roommate makes it interesting."

"Is that your way to call me messy?" Beca deadpanned.

"It's my way to say your roommate has no personality."

"Well, she hates the world. That has to be a personality trait, right?"

Chloe laughed, and Beca smiled as she quickly put on her headphones, searching for the right mash up to show the redhead. Once she found what she wanted, she played it and began twisting it with her board.

"I create a new bass line and lay up the tracks, then I figure- wait, I'm talking really loud aren't I?" Beca winced as she took off her headphones, Chloe laughing at her expression.

"Don't worry… mind if I listen to it?" Beca simply nodded before handing her the headphones, waiting patiently for the redhead's reaction. She didn't know why, but for some reason she wanted, no, needed Chloe to like her music. After the song was over, Chloe finally took off the headphones and smiled brightly at her.

"I know I said it before but this is actually really good, Beca! You are incredible! Do you think this could be done in acapella?"

The brunette shrugged, "I could adjust it to make it work… I doubt Aubrey is going to agree tho…"

"Oh don't worry about Aubrey… I have a plan for that."

"Should I be worried?" she asked, and the sickly sweet smile she received should've told her not to do it.

"It depends… How much do you trust Lilly?"

"Oh god."


AN: I like cars, and to be specific about them. And yes, Bailey's parents have enough money to buy their girls fancy cars. We'll make progress with Chloe, but she has to learn about Ryland first! Don't forget some feedback! -OHP