A/N: Hey sorry for the delay here! I started a new fulltime job so I'm adapting to the new weird hours...but! I have high hopes for everything I'm working on! So! Please bare with me! This is a little bit of a shorter update, but I wanted to give you all something for now, until we get the good times rolling!

Chloe was confused at what was happening. One moment she was walking out of the store trying to calm herself down as tears ran down her cheeks, the next moment she is being stopped and led back into the shoe store. If it wasn't confusing enough at what was happening, then it got even more confusing when she tried to process who was pulling her along.

Literally 24 hours ago the girl had seemed to not want to even talk to Chloe as she tried to make little conversation with her. She wouldn't admit it out loud but today at school she saw Beca for the first time, which kind of made sense to how she had never noticed the girl at all before. It was a little weird, but the girl was practically in ALL of Chloe's classes, but kept to the back of the classrooms and out of the way. Beca kept to herself and didn't even try to make conversation with people.

Chloe found it a little strange but she didn't really know the girl so who was she to really place a judgement on her. She had found herself just observing the girl at times which had served as a good distraction from her worries during the day to not think about her mom's broken shoe's that she had to magically try and fix before she noticed them gone. The distraction that Beca provided with trying to figure out the small brunette proved to get Chloe through a couple of her longer classes, but here she was now being pulled along behind the mysterious girl.

Chloe's confusion spiked when they got to the counter and Beca grabbed for the shoe box she was holding with her mom's broken heel. Beca opened the box, cocked her head as in thought then nodded her head dropped the lid down and pushed the box towards the worker.

"Can I help you?" The workers voice as snoody sounding as his attitude.

Beca rolled her eyes, "What do you think?" She pushed the box closer to him.

"Sorry little missy," The guy sighed clearly annoyed with the two girls and gave them a pointed nasty look to match.

Beca scoffed clearly a little pissed at the man's tone and use of the word missy.

"I already explained to your friend here that exchanges are not permitted with these shoes," He pushed the box back towards Beca and glaring down at her. "She has to buy a new pair, no exchanges."

Beca met his gaze clearly not backing down and she set her own box down on the counter and laid one of her own hands on top of Jimmy Choo box stopping the man's push.

"Look here SIR," her voice dramatically dripping with sarcasm as she said sir. Her eyes holding a hard edge meeting the rude worker. "I am willing to pay for another pair of these exact same shoes."

She lifted the lid of her box and the worker's eyes cut from hers to look in and his eyes widened a little in shock, as well as Chloe's. Neither Chloe nor the worker were expecting to see so much money in there. Chloe's eyes shot open wide and her mouth dropped open in shock as she tried to stop whatever it was that Beca was doing, but Beca turned to her and gave her one hard look that read, "Don't even think to say a word."

Beca turned back towards the worker. "Although I am tempted to take our business elsewhere since you have proven only to be nothing but a presumptuous asshole with an ego bigger than the Pacific Ocean."

The man started to stutter clearly trying to find words to stop Beca as she slammed the lid of her box closed and turned to Chloe grabbing her hand to start to walk out of the store. Chloe had no idea what Beca was doing, so she just followed. Her eyes drifting down to her hand being clasped by Beca's. It was warm and soft compared to the upset brunette's attitude. She didn't know exactly why but she found herself trusting in the warmth and softness of the girl's hand as she followed along.

The worker finally broke from his stuttering stupor clearly not wanting to let the girls go especially since one had a box full of cash. He must have known his superiors wouldn't be too pleased if he chased away a customer who was willing to pay for the newest Jimmy Choos. He scrambled around from behind the counter.

"Wait!" His arm up in the air as if trying to grasp a rope to pull the two girls back.

Beca stopped by the doors and Chloe could make out a hint of a smirk on the smaller girls face before she settled it into a hard and slightly annoyed gaze and turned back to face him. Chloe walked around to stand next to Beca since the girl hadn't dropped her hand when she turned and watched at the girl arched an eyebrow expectantly at the man in front of them.

"If you'll give me a moment please I'll go to the back to grab another pair?" His voice was uncertain and wavering a little not wanting to lose this business after seeing all the cash the brunette had. "Size 8 right?"

Beca looked over to Chloe who gave a small nod of yes. She turned back to the guy to give a, "Yes."

With that the man disappeared quickly through a door to retrieve the new shoes. Beca led Chloe back up to the counter and Chloe just stared at her in shock.

"Why are you doing this?," Chloe's voice soft.

Beca turned to look at her it was then that she realized she was still holding Chloe's hand so she let go as Chloe set the old shoes on the counter slowly. She stood there and tried processing why exactly she was doing what she was doing. What exactly was she doing? She wasn't exactly sure, other than having the ringing words of Jesse still echoing through her mind.

This was her opportunity to try something different this year. To not be unknown and to maybe live a little before going to LA next year. As hesitant as she was to jump on this popularity idea Beca knew that if she ever wanted to make it as a well known DJ she would have to start somewhere with connecting with people. She wanted nothing more than to be able to mix it up in the clubs and produce music one day. The mixes she made now had quite the following on youtube, but no one knew it was her. She was an anonymous DJ with only one person who knew of her talent and that being Jesse.

Her dad knew she made mixes and liked music, but he considered it to be just a hobby and nothing more. He didn't even realize how popular the music was she made or to the extent of how good it actually was. Since Beca's mom had died when she was in middle school, her dad never really took the time to really get to know Beca. Beca's mom was where she got her love for music. Her mom had been a music teacher as well as she did private piano lessons so when Beca was little she had always been surrounded by it.

Beca had been her mother's best student with a natural knack and love for music. She had started tinkering with the piano with her mom practically before she could walk and by the age of 5 she was playing piano music that most her mom's best students took weeks to learn. Beca had been gifted with talent to be able to hear a song and be able to sit down and play it perfectly and this was discovered when Beca was around 6 or 7.

Piano was the first way that Beca had started mixing and meshing songs together. Her mom would just sit beside her and encouraging her with a huge smile. After her mom died in a car crash though, Beca didn't really mess with music for a while until Jesse was able to break through and had shown her a DJ software online. Her piano playing hasn't really happened since the accident though, the memories were just too raw at times when she looked at pianos.

She was pulled from her thoughts though when she wasn't able to reply quick enough to Chloe and the girl continued on after an awkward silence between the two.

"I mean I totally appreciate this, but I don't think I can accept." She paused and looked down and then up into Beca's eyes again. "This is like the nicest thing anyone has ever done, whatever you're planning though I don't think I'll ever be able to repay you though and I can't just let you spend all your money like this."

Beca didn't let her eyes waver from the redhead's and kept them locked trying to let her eyes speak where sometimes her words wouldn't work. It wasn't working though so she cleared her throat looked down to get some confidence built and then looked back into the clear blue eyes that have been haunting her for so many years now, but now she was able to see them up close.

"I know we don't know each other very well, but please let me help you and maybe you can help me in return?" Her voice was soft by the end.

"How could I possibly help you enough to even come close to the cost of a pair of Jimmy Choos?" Chloe's voice whispering in reply and eyes darting over to the back room to make sure the worker wasn't coming back out yet.

"Be friends with me." Beca's eyes opened wide in shock as she realized what she blurted out without thinking. Chloe's head tilted to the side and gave Beca a slightly amused and confused look back. She quickly tried to explain, "I mean like help me be popular? Just by being seen as a friend of yours I think I'd be able to have people actually start to notice me."

Chloe was taken back for a second, not really believing what she was hearing from this girl. She would pay for a new pair of Jimmy Choos for her to be friends with her? Was she nuts? That was like not even fair.

"Are you serious right now?" Her voice light and a little disbelieving.

"Dead serious." Beca looked down. "A friend recently told me to give this year a try and if the opportunity presented itself to make something of myself this year, to take it." She looked up and met the bright blue eyes again. "I mean we don't have to hang out after school everyday and braid each other's hair or anything, but if we can like be seen as friends at school and maybe hang as friends at popular places outside of school I think it could work."

Chloe thought it over in her head. She was desperate to get her situation fixed with her mom's shoes, but she just couldn't help but think she was getting off too easy by simply being this girl's friend for popularity. Looking into Beca's navy blue eyes though, she was met with an honest gaze that was confident in her deal as well as begging her to say yes.

Before Chloe could say anything in reply the worker came running out with the new Jimmy Choos. He gently placed the box on the counter as if they were made of the finest glass, which in Chloe's mind the heels almost were since they snapped so easily the other night.

"Here you go miss!" He slowly lifted the lid off the shoe box as gently as possible so the girls could see the new pair laying perfectly in the box.

Beca looked over to Chloe seeing the girl gnawing on her bottom lip in deep thought. Chloe tore her eyes from the shoes and met the small brunette's eyes.

"Do we have a deal?" Beca asked gently.

"For how long?" Chloe asked softly in return. She didn't mean it as anything negative because she felt like she would be the girl's friend forever if she asked her to be.

Chloe thought she saw the girl stiffen a little and wasn't able to explain that she didn't mean it in a negative way before Beca threw out "one month."

"One month?" Chloe gasp. "Doesn't that seem short?"

"Two?" Beca questioned.

"Ladies," the worker interrupted. "Are you going to get these shoes or do I need to put them away?"

Beca looked over to the worker to give him a pointed look and then looked back over to Chloe and quirked an eyebrow for the girl to answer. Chloe looked between the shoes and Beca a few times and then took a deep breath.

"Deal."