Two Chapters in two days? Yeah, I just did that. Be aware, more Bechloe ahead! The next should be another Chloe chapter, but don't fear too much Chaubrey love!
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Summery: Stepmonster 2.0
Beca grew up with her mum after her father left them. She lost contact to him a while ago but now he wants to bond again. Why? Well she has to find out, but why does she have to go to Barden, where he's teaching when she wants to have a go at being a DJane in LA? Bonding, with her father and his new family? Now that is something she doesn't want to do, more so since she knows that her stepsister, or how she prefers to call the unknown girl, stepmonster 2.0 is attending Barden as well.
Pairing: Beca/Chloe and Friendship: Chloe/Aubrey and Jesse/Beca
Disclaimer: If I would own Pitch Perfect, there would be Bechloe!
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Chapter 10: Mental Notes
Beca's PoV:
That is the story how our first 'girls night' started. It really didn't take that long for Amy, Stacie, Denise, Lily and me to get the gym to look like there haven't been 10 crazy young girls in there. I realised after a few minutes that the girls were kinda strange to me, but I didn't get why. Right before we left the building Denise pulled me over, now that was strange. Normally the only ones really talking to me are Fat Amy, well really she is talking all the time; Aubrey, who is like, constantly bitching at me; and then there is Chloe, I mean she talks to everybody, making conversation and focusing on their problems that most of the time I don't even know exist, but then she does that with me too and her smiles...
"You okay?" Denise sounds genuine and I feel bad for mostly ignoring her all those weeks.
"Yeah, sure. I mean, why wouldn't I be?" That didn't even convince myself.
"You know, we're all worried about Chloe. I mean who will keep Aubrey at bay when she leaves?" She tries to joke, but I feel myself getting angry. Why is this suddenly about us when it should be about her?
She looks a bit taken aback, not having witnessed me shouting before, but then again I never wanted to say it out loud.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like that. I wanted to lift the mood, guess that backfired. You can talk to me, you know. I'm a pretty good listener and I had a friend with your problem once. Dealing with attraction is hard, not only on you." She looks down at her feet for a moment and then it finally hits me. I haven't been subtile at all the last few weeks, have I? Ohmygod, everybody knows about my crush for Chloe by now! Shit- I'm sure she knows it too, their all laughing about it, I just know it. How could I be so stupid?
"Don't look panicked, I don't think the others have noticed it yet. I mean I can't tell about Lily, but who can? Amy gossips about everyone, no big deal. CR is occupied with eyeing Stacie up who, isn't the brightest and the others only talk about TV shows and stuff."
"Right, and Aubrey is always bitching about me having a toner for Jesse, yikes!" I do feel a bit relieved now, maybe talking isn't so bad. Though it should better be someone not involved with the Bellas, Jesse maybe. First I talk to mum, seems like the safest thing to do.
"You see, everything is okay. If you need someone to talk to that keeps shtum, just talk to me." She is giving me a smile and I think I appreciate being part of the Bellas for the first time, other than spending time with Chloe, that is.
"Could you do me a favour? Please tell me when I'm being too obvious about, you know, all this."
"Sure, we need a code word though- or something like that." She is bright, huh? What in the worls is she studying?
"Just tell me we need to re-watch Rocky together, again."
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"Where in the world have you two been? We thought we would have to drag you out there. Seriously, one more minute and Lily would have eaten all the damn sweets!"
"Err, if I remember correctly you helped Lily with that, Fat Amy." CR fills us in about the whole truth.
Denise tells the others some story about me spilling some water and helping me wipe it up, CR looks a bit weird our way for a second as we start our way over to the shared apartments of the head-bellas. The whole way we laugh about Amy denying having anything to do with the amount of chocolate that's missing and really, it's so much fun listening to the Bellas arguing, especially when Lily joins and you can't hear a thing while Amy gets louder by the seconds passing by.
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We reach the apartment and right on cue, everyone is silent. The lights are on, but they're dimmed. We have a debate about who will ring and announce us, of course in whispered shouts as not to announce us beforehand. Stacie gets chosen after she exclaims that she doesn't get where the problem in ringing is.
The speaker at the door starts to make an ugly noise before we hear Aubrey's voice echoing through it.
"Bree, it's me, Stacie. You forgot something at the gym." Smooth Stacie, I'm impressed.
Aubrey lets us, well technically only Stacie, in and we make our way inside, stopping at their flat door. We kind of hide a bit and as Aubrey opens the flat door and asks Stacie what it is that she forgot I can see Chloe sitting on the couch through the clearance between the dorr and it's frame, looking away from the door.
"You forgot your friends." At that Aubrey looks confused for a second but Stacie just steps inside, heading over to Chloe and we use this distraction to head right after her. I'm the last to walk in, having my hands free and closing the door behind me. Aubrey looks at me and I can actually make out a smile. For the first time I feel that we are on common ground, we both look charmed by the 'family' we got ourselves there.
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Chloe was happy, really happy. She smiled, a whole evening of smiling. She didn't talk at all, writing the most important things on a paper and showing it around, but really, she didn't have to. We were all happy just spending time together and for once, it didn't stay at the topic of a capella. At ten Aubrey got the idea to order pizza and we all looked quite shocked that she was the one to suggest it. Jessica gave Ashley 5$ with a frown on her face and I imagine they were betting on Aubrey never eating 'unhealthy' food.
Needless to say we ate a lot, drank quite a bit after it and were now ravishing the remains of the sweets we brought. It turned out that Chloe isn't a chocolate kind of girl, to our amusement as we thought back at the argument on our way over and Jessica gladly informed Aubrey and Chloe about why exactly we were laughing like maniacs.
Amy went out to buy some more booze and I tagged along, declaring that no one should walk around alone at night. I had been scared enough myself quite a few times by now, thank you. Then there was the fact that I had learned through the evening that Chloe is totally obsessed with Skittles, Aubrey always handing hers over to her, but I wouldn't walk through the dark, cold streets for twenty minutes with a half drunk Amy rambling beside me just because I wanted to get Chloe some more Skittles. I mean it, I wouldn't...if I wasn't intoxicated myself.
We all were intoxicated though, except for Chloe who had taken pain meds, that is. There is something you should know about me. I am a total lightweight, like seriously. When others start to feel it I normally am well smashed. I remember that while I walk through the night and make a mental note not to drink much more.
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Remember me not to go shopping with Amy ever again, not clothes, not shoes and especially NO FUCKING BOOZE! She flirts with the store guy, quite successfully may I add, but still it's gross. I wander off, buying some other sweets as well, you know, not to look like I was only out for Chloe, which I wasn't. Out for Chloe- I start to giggle at my own joke as I come to a halt next to Amy at the counter and she and her...flirt?...look at me weirdly.
Next mental note of the evening, never go to that store - ever again- even if it's the one closest to your dorm and normal route through college.
"Yeah babes, no more booze for you, tiny one." Amy is laughing her ass off, making fun of me the whole way back and I find myself whishing for some thieves of kidnappers along the way. Needless to say that whishes never come true, at least not mine.
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The evening is full of mental notes but I fear most of them I won't remember the next day. CR, Stacie and Aubrey are smashed as we arrive with the goods. They're giggling and rolling around the floor and that's when I remember that as much as I hate Aubrey, she is just a human, not some alien sent to earth to drill everyone to death with her workouts.
Jessica and Ashley had it the worst though. Poor girls had early classes tomorrow. Seriously, who holds early classes on a saturday morning, must be the devil itself. I would sleep till noon, when my shift at the station would start. Stacking CD's being a reason to get out of bed was shitty as well but at least I could do it with a hangover.
When they announced that they had to leave the only thing I hoped was that no one would call the evening off, but Chloe wrote them a 'thank you for coming' and 'sad you already have to go' kind of note and I was happy that I would get more time with her. Denise approached us and asked the girls to take CR with them as they were living in the same dorm. She was nursing a beer herself but didn't seem drunk at all. She was being reasonable and Chloe nodded along with her, I started to as well as I gave one last look to a totally drunk CR.
The three made their leave and CR didn't even protest to much after hearing that we would look out for Stacie and Bree, who were by now sleeping on the floor. Denise went back over to Lily and Amy who were playing a game of cards and by the look on Amy's face I would guess that Lily was winning.
That also meant that Chloe and I were left alone, sitting on the couch and staring at each other. It was awkward, with it always being her that kept the conversation going I never imagined such a degree of awkwardness was possible with her. It took every nerve I had in me to start a conversation myself and yes, being tipsy helped. I started rambling about how nice I found the flat and th interior. Chloe pointed at different objects, like the small table in front of the tv, that was made out of big Lego pricks, and then at herself. Clearly she wanted to tell me what she made. There was a wall with pictures of mostly Chloe and Aubrey but some she took at practises as well, showing the other Bellas. To my surprise she pointed at Aubrey and I felt my eyes going wide, what only made her smile grow. Maybe bitchiness was Bree's way of showing affection.
I told her something about Kimmy Jin and how bad my luck was for ending up with her as a room mate. She had to stifle a laugh as I told her about all the koreans she always had over when I wasn't around, thinking that I wouldn't be back that early.
I didn't even notice when I started getting touchy, I absolutely never do that and I would deny it when you told me that I did, Chloe just smiled and munched her Skittles. This went on for quite some time before Denise called my name, making me look over to the trio I had forgotten even sitting at the table. Amy and Lily obviously stopped playing in order to give me some strange looks and by strange I mean that Amy was gaping and Lily looked like she just killed someone.
"Beca, I just remembered that we wanted to re-watch Rocky again sometime."
The others looked confused between me and Denise, clearly not having expected that we have been hanging out, which was true. I just gave her a smile and a nod before turning around to Chloe and subtly clearing some space between us.
Chloe's look was priceless. She's the only one of the Bellas that nows about my dislike in movies after it came up in a conversation. I had to hide a smirk and distracted her by handing her some more skittles. It was good to have someone watching out for me, having my back. Again, a first for me. Maybe Barden really wasn't that bad.
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The rest of the evening passed really quick, I mean, I was occupied with Chloe and not letting my...crush...show. After Amy finished the last bottle of beer and declared Lily a cheater we got our stuff and made our way over to the door. Chloe seemed tired and Bree and Stacie still hadn't awoke so we just threw some covers over them and let them sleep.
By the time I got to my dorm I was totally spent, we had to half carry Amy across campus but I think between Lily, Denise and me we made it. Kimmy Jin was already asleep and believe me, nothing could wake her after she fell asleep. She never changed the ring tone of her alarm, it being obviously the only thing that could wake her up. Needless to say I was thinking about turning it into my phone ring tone for messages AND incoming calls...
I fell asleep pretty fast only to awake shortly after, having dreamed about Chloe and me, having a holiday at a beach. I'm so done for.
The last mental note from that evening was to never look at the profile picture she put on my phone by herself again before sleeping, never again. It clearly isn't my fault that it is one of her blowing me a kiss. I made a witty remark about it when she took it, telling her I would change it to a monkey. Needless to say I couldn't bring myself to do it, right? She wouldn't want me to anyways, right? Right?
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End Chapter 10
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