Updated- 22/6/17
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Taming Beca Mitchell- Chapter 4
"We welcome Lilly"
"The excellent Aubrey"
"And the aca-mazing Chloe"
Beca read out the names of the new Bella's with a grin as Fat Amy tore off their pillowcases and Chloe's blindfold.
"Here are your Bella bracelets." Beca handed each girl a woven bracelet of blue and yellow. "We used to have scarves but that was lame."
"Repeat after me. I- sing your name."
The girls repeated and sung their names although no one could hear Lilly.
"Promise to be an awesome contribution to the Bella's and try super hard at practice and competitions."
Chloe's face scrunched at the line. She totally thought this was a traditional and super serious occasion.
"And I solemnly swear to never have sexual relations with another Bella's partner." Fat Amy added in after Beca. Aubrey and Chloe looked at each other then back to Amy.
"We had some trouble with it when we first joined." Stacie answered for the confused freshman who slowly nodded. No one had noticed but Lilly had moved significantly closer to all the candles that were lit around the girls.
"Whatever, you're all Bella's now!" Fat Amy yelled at popped some confetti cannons.
Chloe and Aubrey couldn't help but squeal. With the ceremony over, the girls all turned to mingle with each other and make their way out of the hall and to the concrete court for the real party.
Aubrey had squeezed Chloe's shoulder and had weaved through the girls to get to Lilly who was back with the candles. Her face was almost touching the flames and she had this crazy look in her eyes.
Chloe continued walking with the girls humming a happy song for her victory. She couldn't believe it, she got into THE Barden Bella's!
"So... No hand holding this time, red?" Chloe looked to her right and of course Beca was there with a mischievous glint in her eye.
"It was just 'cause I couldn't see and I didn't wanna get hurt." Chloe mumbled. "And thank you.. For choosing Aubrey and I."
Beca waved her hand dismissively. "It was all you two. Your voices are amazing."
"Thanks." Chloe blushed a bit and hoped Beca didn't see.
"Aww, am I making you blush?!" Beca smiled triumphantly.
"No.."
"Uh-huh, you are!"
"No I'm not..."
"Can't hide it forever Chloe." Beca nudged the red head's side and walked off to Cynthia-Rose.
Aubrey soon came back and looped her arm through Chloe's. They walked behind the other girls, anticipating their first college party.
The place was crazy. All the other acapella group were there, pouring out alcohol and pumping music. The Bella's arrived and ran off to the makeshift dance floor or the table with the drinks. Chloe and Aubrey lingered back observing.
"I don't know, Bree." Chloe moved closer to her friend's side looking at the half wasted aca-people.
"Don't worry, Chlo. I'll stay with you. Want a drink?" Aubrey led them through the mass of bodies to the drink table where Stacie and Cynthia-Rose were.
"Heyyyyy guuuurrllllliieeesss." Cynthia-Rose slurred. "Can I get you some magic tonight?"
"W-What?" Chloe leaned forward a bit.
"Can she bed you?" Stacie turned to the red head and rolled her eyes.
"Oh. N-No thank you." Chloe stepped back a bit.
"Here you are Chlo." Aubrey pushed a cup into the shorter girls hands. "Drink up!"
"Soooo, what do you think of the newbies?"
"Point them out for me?" Jesse took a sip from his cup.
Jesse joined the Treble's the same year Beca had joined the Bella's. They'd met when they were interning at the radio station. There had never been anything romantic between them, it was a sibling like bond.
"There's Lilly over near the bonfire. She's Asian and is wearing a green jacket." Beca pointed in that direction.
"Oh yeah, the mad beat boxer." Jesse nodded, approvingly.
"Yep. And then there's Aubrey over at the drinks. She's blonde, tall and is wearing a yellow jacket."
"Yeah, I served her at Penny's." Jesse nodded again. "She can sing?"
"Uh huh. She was actually Amy's shoo in."
"And the last one?"
"The red head standing next to Aubrey. That's Chloe." Beca stood and watched Chloe talk with Stacie and couldn't nag that bubbling feeling building up inside of her.
"Ohhh kay." Jesse looked at Beca who was staring at the red head. "Oh my god, Beca! You like her!"
"What? No!" Beca quickly shit back but looked around in case anyone had heard. "She's a freshman."
"So? That's even worse." Jesse teased. "But, a tiny bit cute."
"Shut up, Jess." Beca scoffed.
"Alright, I'm going to go and introduce myself then." Jesse started off in the direction of the drinks table.
"Wait!"
"Sooooo... If I drink too much tonight, can I count on you to hold my hair back when I puke?" Stacie had her hands on the table and was leaning towards Chloe giving her an eyeful.
"Ummm.. S-Sure?" Chloe nodded hesitantly, blushing.
"Good. I need someone who can.. help me out." Stacie grinned.
"What up Bella bitches! Fat Amy has arrived!" Fat Amy grinned and walked over to the esky and pulled out a bottle of vodka. "Shots!"
"Whoa there, party girl. Maybe you should wait for a Friday or Saturday night. You know, so you have time to be hungover." Stacie swooped over and tugged the bottle out of the blonde's hand.
"But Staccccceeee.." Fat Amy whined.
"What are we whining about now?" Beca and Jesse had come over to the drinks table.
"Thank god you're here, captain. This bitch won't even let me drink!" Fat Amy ran around the table and grabbed the shorter girl. "Please? One shot?!"
"Amy. If you think you can take a shot, take a shot. I'm not your baby sitter." Beca rolled her eyes. "And I certainly won't be tomorrow morning."
"YES. Just one, kay boss?" Fat Amy snatched the bottle back and put her lips to the bottle despite everyone screaming at her to stop.
She pushed the now 3/4 full bottle into little Chloe's hands and screamed "WE ARE THE KINGS AND ACA-QUEENS OF CAMPUS!" She then proceeded to climb on top of two rows of seats to stand with her legs apart, blocking the isle and start dancing. She was totally wasted.
"She is totally wasted." Aubrey giggled a bit.
"Yeah." Chloe grinned but put the bottle of vodka back on the table.
"Guys, this is Jesse. Jesse, you know Cynthia-Rose, Stacie and of course Fat Amy. Meet our fresh faces, Aubrey and Chloe." Beca gestured to the red head and blonde.
"But we've met!" Jesse smiled at Aubrey. "You came by Penny's today."
"Sure did. Oh, and was that you who gave this one a few extra cookies?" Aubrey nodded to Chloe.
"Pffft, no. That was this one." Jesse patted a now blushing Beca on the shoulder and Aubrey grinned triumphantly.
Beca mumbled something that sounded like a threat but Chloe was shyly smiling at her.
"Told you." Aubrey bumped her hip against the ginger's.
"Hey, cutie." Stacie had returned without a red cup this time. "Wanna dance?"
Chloe looked from Stacie who was grinning at her to Aubrey whose eyes darted to Beca then back to her with a mysterious glint. Chloe then turned to Beca who was wearing a slight frown.
"Sure." Chloe tentatively smiled at the taller brunette and took the hand which was offered to her. "Let's dance." Chloe and Stacie then moved off over to the makeshift dance floor.
"Well... Not that this isn't fun, but I'm going to go see what Lilly is up to. I don't like her near fire. Do any of you guys feel like that?" Cynthia-Rose who was just standing there awkwardly, hastily wobbled off.
Beca nodded, absent-mindedly whilst craning her neck to see into the crowd in which Stacie had dragged her favourite red head.
"I'm going to go hang with Denise for a bit." Aubrey grabbed a cup from the table. "See you guys later!"
"Later." Jesse waved at the blonde.
"Hmm?" Beca turned her head away from the dance floor. "Oh right. See you. Don't drink too much." Beca waved and Aubrey just gave her a smirk before getting lost in the crowd.
"What the fuck." Beca frowned a bit.
"So how are you going with your mixes?" Jesse asked whilst taking a sip.
"Yes." Beca had turned back to keep an eye on the notoriously handsy Stacie and the little innocent ginger. Well, she wasn't looking that innocent after a few drinks. She was dancing like a stripper on roofies.
"What?" Jesse lightly hit the brunette's arm.
"You asked if I was going to mix you a drink." Beca turned and scowled.
"You like her." Jesse grinned as the brunette kept glancing at Stacie and Chloe who were on the dance floor.
"I do not!" Beca turned to Jesse and took a sip from her red solo cup.
"Then why do you keep looking at her?" Jesse asked in a teasing voice.
"I- I just don't want Stacie to try anything." Beca stumbled over her words. It was half true though. It wasn't that she didn't trust Stacie, it was just that the girl had some... History.
"Right... If you're so on edge, why don't you just swoop in like a Becaw and whisk her away?"
"Uhh.. Maybe because I don't like her?" Beca fought back but to no avail as Chloe popped up beside her with a gigantic grin from the buzz of alcohol and adrenaline of dancing.
"Beca, come and dance." Chloe started to tug at the brunette's sleeve. "It's so much fun!"
"No thank you, Chloe." Beca replied which earned a frown from Jesse and a pout from the ginger.
"But.. Why not?" Chloe looked into Beca's eyes, not letting go of the girl's sleeve.
"Yeah, Beca. Why not?" Jesse imitated Chloe's pout but the red head was oblivious.
"What about Stacie?" Beca slowly asked looking down.
"She went to get me a drink." Chloe kept grinning and started tugging at Beca's sleeve. "One dance?"
"Glad to know alcohol gives you a confidence boost, red." Beca rolled her eyes but nodded.
Chloe squealed and led them both onto the dance floor.
"Make good choices!" Jesse called out after them.
Chloe and Beca stayed on the edge of the dance floor as neither wanted to be surrounded.
'Kiss You' by One Direction came on and Chloe squealed that she loved this song.
They started dancing with some distance between them but Beca stepped closer.
Chloe wasn't fazed, she simply grinned and kept moving her hips.
As the chorus started, all the aca-people started jumping up and singing along.
Beca couldn't take her eyes off of the freshman. She was a goddess on the dance floor. She thanked the creator of alcohol for letting Chloe let loose.
The alcohol was blurring the brunette's mind as she stepped impossibly closer to the freshman and started moving her hips against her. It surprised the junior when the other girl grabbed her hips and continued to dance.
"Glad to also know that alcohol makes you a tad handsy." The brunette brought her lips to the red head's ear, smirking.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Chloe smiled mischievously and pulled Beca's hands around her own waist and turned around so her back was against the shorter girl's front.
Beca almost stopped breathing as Chloe lost herself in the beat of the song. Her hands hung loosely on the ginger's waist half unsure if they should stay there or back away.
"Take me home... Baby say yeah yeah yeah yeah. Yeah yeah yeah and let me kiss you." Beca sung along softly into Chloe's ear as the song came to a finish and everyone started hollering. She felt the red head tense in her arms and she brought her head back to be in front of the freshman. Beca smiled and Chloe looked down at her feet.
"Here you go, cutie." Stacie came back with a red cup in and handed it over to the freshman who moved to Beca's side.
"Thanks, Stacie. This ginger needs her jiggle juice." Chloe grinned, pressed into Beca.
"Hey, captain! Didn't know you and Chloe were dancing together or I would've gotten another drink for youuuuu!" Stacie said as apologetically as she could despite alcohol slurring her words together.
"It's fine, Stace." Beca pulled Chloe closer as her arm was still around the freshman's waist. "Just dancing."
Chloe felt Beca squeeze her waist ever so slightly and suddenly it was really hot. Outside. In the courtyard. Which was outside. In the OPEN. With lots of air. Because it was outside.
"I-I need Bree." Chloe said to no one in particular, looking down at her feet.
"Sure sweetie. I think you had a bit too much tonight." Stacie said to the ginger. "Let's go find Aubrey."
Stacie offered her hand out to the red head with kind and sincere intentions.
"Okay. Thanks. Bye Beca." Chloe un hooked herself from the brunette's side.
"Uhhh. Alright. See you tomorrow." Beca gave the freshman a half smile but the red head kept her head down. 'Take care of our Bella, Stace."
"Aye- Aye, captain."
Beca watched as the taller girl led the freshman away through the crowd. She couldn't help but notice that the red head had mixed emotions.
Why had she suddenly left? Do I make her dizzy? Was it just the alcohol? Beca had all these thoughts running through her mind as she made her way to the drinks table and picked up a cup. She turned to the stairs and saw Aubrey hooking her arm around Chloe as they both made their way back to the dorms. Chloe turned back to the party and caught Beca's eye. She just pursed her lips and nodded as before disappeared.
Beca brought her drink to her lips and they curled into a smile.
"Game on, Red."
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