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Today I have two questions for you:
1. I've been switching PoV's as you've maybe seen ;) Which one do you guys like better? That really is something I would like to know.
2. There is no Aubrey Stacie thing planned in this story, but if you want I could give you a chapter in their PoV that tells you a bit more about the aftermath of their One time thing.
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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 12: Parents, Frenemies and Friends
Beca's PoV:
I feel like something crawled into my stomach and died there. Alcohol and me sure are no buddies, somehow I didn't put up a resistance against it in High School. One would think that at my age you could at least handle some fluid toxic...
At least this shitty feeling I have since I woke up from Kimmy Jin's alarm this morning allowed me to make a plan for today. The riff off will be at midnight, so that leaves me enough room to actually have a phone call with mum. I swear that when she starts talking she will go on for hours and hours. Jesse texted me earlier this morning that we have a lunch date at 1, sharp. I think he tried to sound as Aubrey, what is kinda funny. With a glance at the clock I told him to meet at 2pm, instead of noon. As I said, my stomach is not up for anything other than herbal tea right now, needless to say that I don't own something like that.
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"Heart residence, Carmen speaking."
"Mum, I know that you know that it's me calling. You don't have to do that speech all the time, I know our shitty little house and you cant call it a residence!"
Jeez...she really has a strange kind of humor. Now you know why I am how I am.
"Oh, says my sarcastic bitch of a daughter." She is laughing hard and it feels so good to hear that again. I really should call more frequently.
"Good to hear you mum."
"What? My daughter not being sarcastic? That sounded pretty honest, you're loosing your touch."
I really don't know what to say to that. You always hear about that kind of mum who can read their daughters like books and mine really is one of them. She doesn't even have to see me to know that something is wrong.
So the next thing she asks shouldn't surprise me. I never call, she always has to so she knows something is fishy. The thing is, while I'm normally pretty direct about my approach, she tries to smoothen the air a bit beforehand.
She asks about my courses and extra activities and she nearly faints from all the laughing as I tell her about the Barden Bellas. When she starts talking about my dad I block her and tell her to change the topic.
"Okay, then how about you tell me the actual reason behind this call?"
So I do. I tell her about the activities fair, where I've first been asked to join the Bellas, the shower I took and how bluntly this one girl violated my privacy. Then I tell her about the practises and her nodes and how she just fights and never gives up. The Bellas became my friends and they stick up for me and I tell her about them and their behaviour, then about the rivalry with the Trebles and my friendship with Jesse, which is still a bit sore.
She only has one question for me though, and it's the one that I've been dancing around all the time. Do I love Chloe Beale? I do, I really think that for the first time someone else is more important than myself or my music. Hello? I joined an a capella group for god sake!
Mum is silent but after a long breath she just tells me to describe her and I start telling her all about her behaviour and her beautiful eyes but I don't tell her her name. She has phone conversations with dad from time to time and I don't need him to know. I mean, there is a great chance that he actually has her as a student! He can't keep shtum about anything.
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I'm 15 minutes late by the time I make it to my lunch date that Jesse assured me of was not an actual date and I want to believe him. How do you say? Benefit of the doubt?
He didn't lie, it's a small corner restaurant and he knows everyone there or so it seems. We order some burgers and fries and I feel relieved that the awkward tension that surrounded us the last time is nowhere to be, well you know, felt.
He seems exited about something and when it finally bursts out of him I feel really proud that he is my friend. There is this small film production group near campus and he scored a job there over spring break. Not that much money, but he get's to do what he dreams of. I still haven't written any applications for clubs even though I wanted to do that a month or so ago. My mind really seems occupied.
We talk about the job for a bit until I finally decide to tell him about Chloe. He is the only one on campus I can talk to, I figured. Obviously I could talk to the other Bellas, but Chloe is their friend too and I guess that if they had to choose sides they would pick hers.
At least Denise is on my side and I can use the second pair of eyes and if Jesse would help me out as well then maybe I could plan something to reveal my feelings in a not totally embarrassing kind of way.
His whole face lights up and for a moment I think that he got something wrong.
"Beca, I sure thought that you just pretended to like women to reject me. Thank god, I'm not that bad."
We had a laugh, for the second time since I met him he actually was funny and not, you know, his usual self. He promised to help me out and yet again I feel like Barden really isn't that bad.
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The riff off is over, the trebles won. How could this be? We were so damn good. Chloe didn't interrupt anyone and I feel like that has to do with the fact that her throat still hurts or maybe she was afraid that her voice would break again. I still could hear her in the background if I focused enough and with Jesse trying to encourage me to sing I made a hasty desicion and started ' No diggity'. It was a blast. All the groups, except the Trebles of course started to join us and it made me feel a rush I didn't know being possible.
Needless to say that Aubzilla wasn't pleased with us not winning but I couldn't care less. We had fun and for once we didn't sing that shit on her stupid list. We didn't even do that one two three – aaaahh thing, or was it one two – ahhhh ? You see what I mean. With Aubrey being the dictator she is we will never be a good group.
I left with Jesse after arguing with Aubrey, mostly because I know that that would get her even more furious but then again, I wanted to show him something about me, something I never showed anyone before. It felt right after all the things he tells me about him. He wasn't that interested in my mashups, he didn't get how it works, but he liked them and that is all I can ask for.
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Mum interrupted our movie, not that I minded, I didn't even want to watch it but after Jesse listened to me it was the least I could do.
She wanted to ask how the evening went and she told me that she would be at sectionals. I was right, she did call dad and he offered her to stay at their guest room for that weekend. How can she be so okay with that? It feels like I'm the only one still hating him for what he did.
At least she will be at sectionals, if we make it that far with Aubzilla, that is something I'm looking forward to. She never was that found of me making music but she seems to be proud of me joining the Bellas. Somehow I can't shake the feeling that it has something to do with the fact that she wants to meet the people that changed me, especially that red headed goddess that I've told her about.
Maybe I exaggerated a bit at the phone but it felt good to let out all those bottled up feelings.
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Aubrey isn't just a tyrant or a bitch. She so is an aca-bitch forcing us to do everything she wants! I will forever call her Aubzilla. Shit, why do I even care so much? These girls have could so rock the stage if we could just use some up to date music and do a meshup but no – Aubzilla won't have it.
Chloe, sweet sweet Chloe, who can't do the solo what is a big down, because her voice is so beautiful actually suggested me to take her part. She believes in me, of all the great singers we have she just choose me and it felt so fan-fucking-tastic that she spoke up to Aubrey for me. The best part is, that though I've never showed her my mixes she just stuck up for me and told Aubrey that my ideas are good. She just makes me fall in love with her more and more and that scares me.
It's when I get home, plopping onto my bed, that I realise that she is the one person to crush me. I mean, I've spent all those years since my old man left us building up these walls so no one could reach me, especially not emotionally and not on that level.
Yet here I am, in love with a Barden Bella, having friends for the first time since I was little and I can count on them. I'm happy that Fat Amy got the solo, I'm sure she could pull at least some fun thing that would make us stand out.
I hear the melody to 'Bulletproof' through my dorm room and Kimmy Jin looks up from her books. Wow, now I know that she does hear something when she learns. Normally, she just ignores everything around her.
"You're not jumping up to get your phone, does that mean that it's not from the one that makes you go crazy?" Maybe I did jump up and ran to the phone whenever 'Titanium' started to play. Great, now even Kimmy Jin knows that there is someone I'm interested in. who would have thought that the creepy girl actually pays attention?
I just answer her with a huff and grab my phone, opening the text message.
"Crazy white girls..." I ignore her statement.
Hey, wanna do something tonight? I could grab pizza and come over.
Oh, and I printed you a summery of Rocky so if anyone asks, you at least know what it is about ;) - xD
As if someone would actually ask me about that stupid movie. I don't have to go to the station this evening, so I guess having a friend over is only normal student behaviour and I'm trying to be just that, right? No. I'm never gonna be like that.
As long as you don't bring a movie with you. Be aware, Kimmy Jin is here. - xB
Sure thing. Will be over soon, maybe we can get rid of her? - xD
"Err, hey Kimmy Jin. I don't know if you can actually hear me but I'll be having a friend over."
She just looks at me like I'm some sort of freak and tries to stare me down for a good minute.
"I'll sleep at a friends then, just promise me that you will have no funny business on my bed."
With that she stands up and leaves. I never thought that it would be that easy to get rid of her.
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Denise arrived 2 hours ago and I'm still not bored. We released some of our anger over Aubrey and ate a very delicious pizza. We have a lot in common and that surprises me.
I still didn't get her to talk about more private things but right now we're telling funny stories of our time at Barden. She doesn't believe me when I tell her how Chloe made me audition and then she just burst out laughing when she realises that this is so Chloe do to something like that.
She asks me about my parents and I tell her a summary of it, not really wanting to go into detail. I think her situation is even worse, she's in love with a girl too, but when her parents found ot she had to end it. My mom really is the best, it wasn't an issue at all when I told her about it yesterday.
Before I know it Denise is crying and I have to comfort her. She told the girl that she never wanted to see her again when really she just was too afraid to speak up against her parents.
I can't handle emotions well and fortunately she stops crying pretty fast, even going so far asbeing embarrassed that she cried at all. We change the topic to lighter themes again and the rest of the evening is pretty awsome.
She likes my mixes which run in the background the whole evening and I like the pictures she draws. She's an art student and she never leaves her room without something to draw on. She's been drawing on and off through the whole evening, drawing things in my room and there are some of me. We decide that it's best if she sleeps over, you know, Barden by night is creepy and her dorm is by far the creepiest, at least that's what Amy said to me who is in the same building.
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Before we went to bed I did my nightly routine of working on my mixes for at least two hours and Denise just plopped herself on the floor and started drawing. I could get used to this. Maybe if I stay at Barden we could share a room next semester.
Shit, did I just think about staying?
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End Chapter 12
