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Justin: Welcome to the Riff-Off!
Aubrey: Finally someone gets it right! The dissapointing thing was that it wasn't even a Bella, but a sexist pig!
Chloe: Aubrey,calm down.
Beca: *stares at Aubrey* Well…. This is awkward. shadowx and shadex does not own Pitch Perfect or it's characters.
Chapter 9: The Riff-Off and Sibling Troubles
Beca just received a text from Alice, telling her to come meet her in the quad so that they could 'talk'. And yes, Beca did not like the sound of that. But Beca went anyways.
Beca goes down to the quad and sees her sister there. Beca walks over to Alice, who beckons her to follow. Beca rolls her eyes, but follows at a distance, half-hoping that no one would think that they were sisters. Or even that they were heading in the same direction.
Alice leads Beca into a park a couple of blocks from campus. She turns to Beca with a pissed off look on her face. "What the hell, Beca? "
"You showed up at SBT. Why? Cause you're hot boyfriend was there and you wanted to laugh at me?"
"Seriously? This is your response to me being at Sigma Beta Theta? Did it ever occur to you that maybe I wanted to see my sister performing, and that alone?"
"Yeah… no." Beca shook her head, "That's not you Alice. You're cold, sceming, and don't give a flipping crap about anyone from Before."
"Oh Beca, grow up. You're my sister, and yes, it was probably wrong of me to leave you and Mom with little less than 'bye', but please see it from my point of view. Alright? I saw my -our-Dad leaving and saw a chance to get away from everything, to get into the city for a chance."
"But you left me." It comes out softly, bearly a whisper. Almost a cry, of the 9 year old who didn't understand why she was loosing both her father and her beloved older sister, why they were leaving her for the city, for another woman, for another girl. Like Beca and her Mom weren't good enough.
A look of frustration passed over Alice's face, going unnoticed by Beca. "Yes Beca. I left. Now get over it. Grow up, surpass me, become a better person. I don't know, use your experience to be a better parent to your kids, or something. But please, can we just bury the hatchet, and leave it as water under the bridge, and become sisters again."
Beca gives Alice a look. "You left me for Aubrey Phylis Posen. You're going to have to a lot more to earn my forgivness." With that, Beca turns away and walks back to her dorm to get ready for the next Bellas practice.
Behind her, Alice sighs, looks sadly at Beca's retreating form, and pinches the bridge of her nose.
Beca walks into the Bellas practice room. She looks up to see Chloe smiling at her, and Aubrey… giving her the usual glare she receives, so Beca ignores Aubrey and makes ambles her way to her chair.
"Hey Becs, for once, you're almost not late," Chloe teases. "Oh shit. Guess I'm too early. Don't worry, next time I'll make sure I'm at least 10 minutes late," Beca smirks. Chloe chuckles, Beca's heart beats a little faster.
"Well you better not be." Beca looks up to see Aubrey still glaring at her. Was it possible, or was Aubrey's glare even more intense than before?
"And acutally it's a good thing you're hear on time. The riff off is tonight, and I want all of here to be ready to win it!"
"Gee, chill out Aubrey. You're like way too intense for this," says Stacie.
"Yeah, calm down, How hard can this 'riff off' be?" questions Cynthia Rose. Aubrey looks like she might blow an artery- or vomit. Which ever comes first.
"Acutally guys, the riff off is taken very seriosly by all the acapella groups on campus," says Chloe the mediator.
"Thank you Chloe!"
"Do you guys want to set a bus on fire?"
Everyone stares at Lily. "Okay…."
They spend the entire rehersal preparing for the riff off.
Beca can't believe this is being held in an abandoned pool. Such a big fuss was made for a competition - in a pool?
"Welcome to the Riff Off!"
Everyone turns to see Justin looking excited to start the night off. They go through the rules. To Beca's annoyance, Jesse is flirting with her through out the whole thing. Beca would've walked away, but with Chloe pressed against her side, it was some what hard to do that.
Beca almost laughs when she sees the flashlight with the categories spinning 'wheel of fortune' style. "Ladies of the 80's!" "Oh!" Aubrey gasps, and she runs into the center…only to be cut off by Bumper and his crew of cabbage patch kids. They all stare at the Trebles.
"Oh Mickey you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind hey Mickey!"
So everyone's surprise, one of the _ jumps in. Wow. This was truly getting interesting. And then Beca does laugh, when Aubrey jumps in with Hit me With Your Best Shot. Aubrey's ridiculous moves are hilarious…despite the fact that Beca's still somewhat wondering what was going on.
And then the High Note breaks in. And the chick is litterally a high note. As she tapers off, Beca hears one of the guys saying 'stoney baloney'.
Beca is still smirking as she watches the Wheel of Fortune flashlight rotates to 'Songs About Sex'. She hears Aubrey gasp "Sex?". Does Aubrey even know any song about sex? Beca wonders.
She watches as Donald get ready to go forth, and Cynthia Rose starts with S&M, and Stacie follows quickly. And this a song that Beca does not mind backing up. They were actually just getting into it, when Donald jumps in.
Stacie, though, does great to interrupt… only to just have the pest Jesse interrupt her. Again, he flirts with her. She sarcastically blow kisses the kid, tired of it.
Then it comes. Her opportunity to jump in, which she does. No Diggity was the way to go. "It's going down…".
She couldn't help but notice that no one jumped in with her. Her voice drops off, "The original rump shakers". She had to admit, the one good thing Jesse was good for was encouragin her to continue with her song.
"Shorty get down, good Lord." To her greatest relief, she hears Fat Amy join her. Beca smiles to her self, letting her smile widen when she hears Chloe, Stacie and the others to join in.
They rock. They rule the pool. Everyone is dancing along, the other groups jump in… and if Aubrey doesn't know the lyrics, well that's just a great plus.
They finish with a great "We out!" Beca can't resist taunting the Trebles, "I mean, you're welcome!"
To her horror and disappointment, Justin says that they did not win… due to her substituting it's for it.
She can't help but feel glad that Aubrey is backing her up, as her step sister shouts "I've never heard of that rule before!" This was clearly a case of the Patriarchy, where men win all the time.
And when Aubrey suddenly does a 180, Beca an't help but defend her choice in song. "Calm you're pits Beca. We still lost." Beca can't help but notice the disappointment on Aubrey's face, and sympathise with her. Aubrey sends them all to their dorms, with the task to make a list of all the things they did wrong.
Beca scoffs at the idea, but when she gets to her dorm, she does do it… but she'd never reveal to anyone.
Beca walks into the rehersal room, and can't help but notice that Beca was upset, and the fact that Beca did not want to talk about it. Se instead, Chloe decides to distract Beca.
They joke about Beca's tardiness, and are interrupted by Aubrey. Oh well...
They spend the entire rehersal practicing for the riff off… which set her throat on fire for the rest of the afternoon.
Chloe has always loved the riff off. Always a great chance to see the other groups, and test how well your group and the other groups did at improv.
Of course being pressed against Beca didn't make matters worse.
The songs were the normal boring stuff, with the most interesting song being S&M with Cynthia Rose and Stacie leading. It was great…until Donald and Jesse interupted.
To Chloe's great surprise, Beca comes up with a song- that throws everyone off. It honestly takes her several lines to get the song. And until Fat Amy joins Beca, and Stacie joining her that lets Chloe join in the song.
As she watches Beca rap, Chloe feels her attraction to Beca grow even more. Beca was really an amazing person.
They sing, and completely take over the pool. Despite the slightly sore throat, Chloe sings anyways. It was way too much fun to stop.
When the Trebels win, is was totally unfair. It was definatley a show of sexism- male favourtism. Chloe feels some pride for Aubrey when Aubrey defends Beca-albeit distantly- but still. And that pride quickly vanishes when Aubrey says "Calm your pits Beca, we still lost."
Chloe personally things that part of the reason Aunrey was so upset with Beca was the fact that she did not know the song.
Chloe flirts with Beca some more, which she's pretty sure went right over the other girl's head, before they disperse and go to their rooms.
Chloe goes to sleep that night, dreaming of Beca, rapping, and has some very interesting dreams.
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