So here goes my first attempt at a bechloe fic :D Now if you've watched Glee you will recognised some similarities and maybe uses of some of the performances but the show won't be mentioned in the story at all.
I planned this chapter to be longer but I'm tired and I really just wanted to get it out there for you guys. Please tell me your first thoughts about the story in a review :)
It's All About Finding Yourself - Chapter 1
Beca was perched on the edge of the sofa, hunched over the coffee table as she scribbled the last sentence of the first paragraph of her English assignment. She rested her glasses that she required for reading on the top of her head and rubbed her eyes as she sat back into the couch. She knew it herself, she sucked at English. You would think since her father is a professor of English at Barden University that she would excel in the subject but not even he can help her, claiming that she's rarely pays attention in class.
"How are you getting on?" Beca jumped slightly from the sudden break of silence, tearing her hands away from her eyes to watch her father take a seat next to her, nursing his cup of coffee.
"You know, the usual" Beca shrugged. "Can't think straight to save myself, if I was making a terrible joke here you could say my mind is oh so very gay" She chuckled to herself before mentally kicking herself to shut up after her father just raised his brow at her. He grabbed her assignment and began to read over it, squinting his eyes now and again due to Beca's messy left-handed handwriting.
"You've missed out periods here, here, here and here" Dr Mitchell scooted along the couch so he could point out the errors to his daughter. Beca hit her glasses back down so she could see exactly where her father was pointing. "You've also missed out about half a dozen apostrophes and this should actually be split into two paragraphs instead of trying to make two points in one. There's also words you've mixed up the spelling of so I'm not too sure what you're trying to say" He sighed, setting the paper back down on the table. "Listen Bec..." Beca rolled her eyes, she knew what was coming. "You're in eleventh grade and your standard of English is way below what it should be. You'd be lucky if this would pass at freshman level, come on Beca you've only got this year and the next left of high school, you need to step up and concentrate harder in class so your grades improve."
"It's too difficult for me though. I'm in a class of seniors in my math class but you never seem to praise me for that because it's all about English with you" Beca folded her arms across her chest with a huff.
"English is very important Beca and if you don't start trying harder I'm going to have to have a word with your English teacher" Dr Mitchell warned as he stood up, grabbing his coffee before exiting the room. Beca wanted to slam her head off the table because nobody believed her whenever she said it was too difficult, they would always say it's just an excuse to get out of doing assignments or assessments.
"What's up short stuff?"
"Go away Jesse" Beca groaned, frowning at her cousin as he flashed her his trademark grin before throwing himself onto the couch beside her, grabbing the TV remote. Jesse had been staying with his cousin and uncle for a few years now ever since his mother died in a tragic road accident. His father had no choice but to keep his position in the army meaning Jesse only got to see his dad now and again so Dr Mitchell offered to let him stay long term since he was one of their closest relatives and since Jesse and Beca grew up together, the age difference only being a month (Beca being the older) they were comfortable enough with each other.
"What's your problem?" Jesse scoffed as he channel hopped.
"It's only been a week since schools started and I'm already stressed out" She threw her glasses across the couch and kicked her feet up onto the table.
"Hey don't be, we've got our first glee club performance tomorrow at homecoming assembly" Jesse turned to grin at Beca once he finally set the remote beside him.
"Yeah but McKay is making us do disco and that is literally social suicide. He dragged me into this I should at least get a say in what we perform" Beca muttered, fondling with her hoodie tassels.
"We all tried and he would listen. He wants us to get four more members to take us up to ten but thinks we could do that with disco which is completely impossible so I was talking to Aubrey-" He cut himself short as he watched the smug grin on Beca's face grow with the mention of Aubrey. "I don't like her okay?!" He protested.
"Whatever" Beca sang causing Jesse to roll his eyes at her before continuing.
"Anyway since we're kinda the male
and female leads of the group we came together and agreed that we should come up with our own performance behind Mr McKay's back so people will actually want to join" He explained.
"Hmm sneaky plan, I like it. I'm proud of you JJ and Aubrey to be honest, I didn't think she had it in her to rebel against a teacher" Jesse's smile grew, he originally thought Beca would just not care at all and just not bother to show up for the performance anyway.
"So are you in?" Jesse asked hopefully, sitting up in his seat like an excitable puppy.
"Well it doesn't look like I'm getting out of this show choir thing anything soon does it?"
Monday Afternoon
There was no rehearsals on a Monday so the six members of the club (Jesse, Aubrey, Beca, Stacie, Benji and Donald) met up in the choir room at lunch to discuss the issue.
"The assembly is next period, how the hell are we supposed to come up with a decent performance in fifty minutes?" Beca asked, jumping up to take a seat on top of the piano whilst the rest of the group where discussing song ideas.
"Don't push me Beca" Aubrey warned as she scribbled down the songs that Stacie was shouting at her on the whiteboard. Beca rolled her eyes and jumped off of the piano, taking the pen out of Aubrey's hand before moving her to the side leaving the blonde without words.
"Listen up nerds, we're in high school" Beca began, spinning around on her heel to face the rest of the group as she hit the pen off her hand repeatedly. "We're all teenagers" She shrugged, turning around to erase all of the songs that Aubrey had written down. "And what do teenagers want?" Beca suddenly felt like Mr McKay which entertained her a great deal especially when Benji raised his hand.
"Popularity?" Benji suggested, lowering his hand.
"No" Beca said, pointing her pen at the said boy before turning back to the board "Sex." She finally stated, writing the word in huge letters across the board. She couldn't spell a lot of words but sex wasn't one of them.
"Yes!" Stacie exclaimed excitedly "This is why you're my best friend, you get me" She stated.
"I disagree" Aubrey sauntered over to Beca retrieving her pen back with pursed lips.
"Oh I'm sorry Miss I'm sexually attracted to absolutely nothing" Beca deadpanned, taking a seat with a huff beside Stacie.
"I think Beca's got a point" Jesse voiced. Beca's eyes lit up, Jesse finally wasn't sticking up for his obvious little crush.
"I've got the perfect song!" Stacie exclaimed, jumping up from her seat. "Now I know it's like ten years old but it's the only song you do if you're singing a Britney song. That's right if we put a sexy performance of Toxic together we'll have students wanting to join for sure." She exclaimed excitedly.
"One thing Stace" Donald spoke up causing the brunette to turn around. "Our school uniform isn't exactly on the list of sexy and we don't have anything else." Everybody looked down at themselves, their uniform involved a white shirt and a maroon necktie with the Barden High logo on it.
"Trust me I know how to make our sucky uniform look sexy but I'm gonna need to swipe some bowler hats from the drama department to complete our outfits." Stacie explained, tapping her perfectly manicured nail on her chin.
"I like how you talking about stealing something seems like a normal occurrence" Beca snorted a laugh causing everyone else to chuckle apart from Aubrey who still seemed a bit pissed that she got thrown to the side.
Now I know Chloe wasn't introduced in this first chapter but as I say again I just wanted to get this one out there so I cat have a better starting point for chapter 2.
Tell me all you thoughts and who do you think will be the 4 members that join? Well you only really have to guess 2 because 1 is chloe and another is an OC but I can tell you one thing, the other two are guys. Oh and one other thing we need a name for their show choir, I have one on standby but you guys probably have better ideas.