Hey, guys. So, I am not claiming to know anything about fortune telling or psychics. Actually, I'm claiming to know nothing about either. So I apologize ahead for the mistakes. Disclaimer: I don't own Pitch Perfect or anything associated with the films franchise.
"I just- I don't see how you can confuse my name for 'Daniel'. I'm not even a guy!" Beca complains to a giggling Chloe. They had just left Starbucks, where Beca was ceremoniously called a male's name, and were now mindlessly walking around the city, just enjoying one another's company and conversation. "I mean, come on Chlo, do I look like a 'Daniel' to you?"
"Well...," Chloe pretends to contemplate her answer. Beca gasps and playfully glares at the ginger. "I'm kidding, I'm kidding!" Chloe admits after receiving a light push to the shoulder from the brunette for her delay of answer.
They continue down the sidewalk. Beca looks down at her drink and mixes the iced coffee with her straw. "You'd be surprised by how often that happens though. My boss still thinks my name is Reggie." Chloe breaks out into laughter at the revelation.
"No way!" She shakes her head, coming down from her laughter. Beca looks at her with an amused smile, at least her friend can laugh at her frustration. "Huh, I guess some things never change."
Beca's brows furrow hearing this. "What're you talking about?"
"Remember when you started middle school?" Seeing the brunette still confused, Chloe elaborates. "Your seventh year? And everybody called you Anna the first half of the school year." Beca smiles and rolls her eyes at the old memory.
"Oh yeah." She grimaces when she recalls even her crush and teachers had called her Anna. "I'm still convinced you had something to do with that." She squints at the redhead.
Chloe nonchalantly shrugs and smirks. "I guess you'll never know. Ma- Becs!" Beca jumps at Chloe's random- rather loud- and unexpected interruption. "Look, let's go have our fortunes read!" The taller girl beams with excitement. Beca looks at the place that reads 'Psychic Reader' and she grows uncertain.
"I don't know, Chloe. These things always seem like scams. I mean, how can someone see what hasn't happened? Are we supposed to believe fate, or destiny, or whatever, shows them? It just seems pretty far-fetched."
"Come on, Becs! It's the fact that you don't know if it's real or not that makes it exciting." Chloe explains while dragging an unwilling brunette through the front door. "Trust me, this'll be great." Beca mumbles a couple things under her breath, but it's all incomprehensible to the thrilled redhead.
"Do I really have to go first?" Beca whines to the older girl. Chloe nods enthusiastically to the short girl sitting in the chair that she's sitting to the left of. When they entered the place, they were met with a very weird woman who looked nothing like a psychic. She looked like she was wearing clothes from the costume store down the street, her blonde hair was pulled into a ponytail under her hat, and she looked very surprised when the girls had entered based off of her exclamation of 'On my gosh, people!' She had instructed the girls to take a seat and she would return in a moment, probably to clean herself up from the lunch that she was eating.
"Yes, because I have a feeling you won't do it if I go first." Chloe reasons. Beca turns her head to Chloe. She supposes she can power through this for the girl who looks like a kid in a candy shop. It can't be that bad anyway, right? Just some lady saying a bunch of things that can literally apply to anyone. She's not particularly excited about the twenty dollars she'll have to pay for something that Luke could tell her, but whatever. Money comes and goes. Beca finally breakes down with a sign.
"Alright, let's do this." Chloe squeals next to her, and as if on que, the psychic lady returns from behind a curtain.
"Hello, ladies." The fortune teller takes a seat. "My name is Cara and I will be reading your past, present, and futures today." The woman tries to remain neutral, but Beca can tell she's internally throwing a party. Cara takes a seat on the other side of the table from the girls. "Who's first?"
"That's me." Beca says, barely audible.
"Fantastic!" The blonde exclaims even though Beca shows a lack of interest. She then asks for Beca's hand and turns it palm face up.
"So, you can like, do everything with just my hand?" Beca inquires.
"Yep." The woman pops the 'p' sound. After looking at Beca's hand a bit, Cara begins talking. "It looks like you came from a broken family, a tough childhood. I see anger and sadness. But then I see happiness, and red?" Beca is actually a little surprised on the accuracy of the woman, she hears Chloe express her impression too.
"That's true!" Chloe states as she thinks to Beca's past. She looks at the brunette. "It has to be the divorce, right? I have to be the red?" Beca nods with a shrug.
"That sounds about right so far."
The psychic continues. "I now am seeing a blurry image, but it looks like a short brunette woman who has a growing round belly, and I feel-"
"Uh, can you just skip ahead, please?" Beca interrupts, it's scaring her how accurate this lady is so far. She doesn't look, but she can feel Chloe's curious questioning gaze on the side of her head. She has not yet revealed that part of her history to Chloe, she'd rather her not find out this way. She hopes the redhead will forget it by the time they leave and not question her about it. Cara nods to the nervous looking brunette and closes her eyes to continue reading the palm.
"I feel a beat, which means music. And I see more. Is music your dream?" Beca nods. "Yes, you have so much passion for it. I see that you will do anything to reach your dream of working with music, and you are going to be successful. But- there are only a couple of things you would trade it all for. You would give it all away and give up for these few things, but one stands out in particular." Beca's eyebrows scrunch in confusion. What could be so important that she would give up all her work for? She can only think of one thing, but she has a feeling that Cara is addressing something else, so she listens. "I see blonde hair and...I believe it's green eyes. Yes, a lover. You would drop everything for this lover. For your love."
"Okay," Beca drawls and stands up, gaining back her hand. "This is ridiculous, I would never do something so insane for my love life! Music is my life." Drop everything for her love life!? Yeah, right. She doesn't even know a blonde with green eyes, she only knows Luke who has brown eyes. Even if Beca did believe Cara, the blonde must have meant brown eyes, it makes much more sense. She slaps a twenty on the table and grabs Chloe's hand. "Come on, Chlo. It's all unrealistic, we're wasting our time."
"Wait!" Cara proclaims before Chloe can stand. "Just try one thing before you go, I promise it will be worth it." Chloe looks at Beca with pleading eyes and a pout she knows the brunette can't resist. Beca sighs, she can never say no to the redhead.
"Okay." Beca slumps back in her seat.
"Great! This'll be free of charge, you'll be the first to use it if that's alright?" Beca has no idea what she's talking about, but she gives a tight lipped smile and nods anyway. Cara then disappears behind her curtain and returns with a black top hat. "All you have to do is was this for a few minutes, then take it off and tell us what you see." Beca agreed and took the hat offered. Seems easy enough. After what feels like five minutes of wearing the hat with her eyes closed, she opens them to find a redhead and blonde looking expectantly at her. She takes the top hat off and gives it back.
"So?" Chloe asks.
"Sorry, guys. I didn't see anything." She watches the redhead and blonde visibly deflate at her confession.
"I'm sorry if I wasted your time, ladies." Cara apologizes. "I can give you a free reading if you'd like?" Chloe quickly accepts and Cara returns to reading palms. Beca watches from her seat.
After the whole fortune teller thing and some more walking around the city, Beca and Chloe find themselves in a diner. Beca was thankful when Chloe didn't question her about the things the psychic had said, but Chloe knows the brunette will tell her when she's ready. Just like when they were younger. They catch up on old times and converse about what they're doing now. Chloe begins to wonder who the brunette that Cara said she will fall in love with could be. Beca attempts to help by saying random names since they don't exactly have the same friends, but it doesn't get them anywhere. "What if the brunette's name is brunette?" Beca, at one point, tries but even she knows that was a bad joke. Chloe, like any good friend, at least chuckles a little. But Chloe gets a text in the middle of their meal from Aubrey saying that Stacie wants to know of her whereabouts. She asks why and Aubrey explains that Stacie found a fair that was open, but today was the last day, so all the Bellas are being gathered up to go.
She tries to tell the girls that she's hanging out with Beca, but her attempts are futile. Stacie just demands that they invited Beca too. But Aubrey, for some reason unknown to herself, is a little more nervous for that. She doesn't voice her thoughts, however, and just stays silent.
"Who's that?" The brunette asks Chloe gesturing to her phone going off.
"Oh, just my friends Aubrey and Stacie bothering me."
"Aubrey? I actually just meet a girl named Aubrey yesterday." Beca says.
"Yeah, that's my friend, it's the same girl." Chloe beams remembering how Aubrey reacted to her and Stacie teasing the blonde about Beca the night before.
"Really? She's actually, uh, she's pretty cool." Chloe observes the girl.
"You think so? She's single if you're interested." Chloe tries to hide her giggles behind her hand as she watches Beca slightly choke on her soda. After a couple of coughs, Beca clear her throat and talks.
"Actually, I have a boyfriend, remember?" Beca reminds. Chloe notes how Beca didn't dismiss the idea because Aubrey is a girl.
"Right. Forgot for a second." She didn't. "Hey, Becs? Do you want to go to the fair with some friends and I? It'll be really fun." Chloe asks hopefully. She knows Beca isn't too fond of the fair because of the smell of all the weird food combinations, the kids, and the clowns too. She also knows that the brunette would never admit to the last one.
"No thanks, but you go ahead and enjoy yourself." Beca smiles. "Go have fun, Beale." Just then Chloe receives a text from Stacie stating her and Aubrey are waiting outside. She tries to convince Beca further to join them, but to no avail. Beca doesn't let her pay for their meals and she reveals with an apology that she actually has lots of work to do for the day. With promises to meet up again soon, Chloe departs and meets the other girls outside. But Chloe is wondering why Aubrey is exiting the car.
"Where are you going, Bree?" Chloe asks.
"I really need to use the toilet." The blonde gets out before she rushes inside the diner.
"Ask Beca if she wants to come!" Stacie yells before Aubrey makes it inside. Aubrey quickly makes her way to the restrooms once inside. When she's finished, she sees Beca sitting alone at the table that her and Chloe must have been at. She knows she should at least try to see if Beca will join them, but if she said no to Chloe then why would she in any way agree to her? She slowly approaches the brunette, but as she gets nearer and nearer, she realizes Beca is on the phone. And the conversation doesn't seem pleasant base on Beca's angry tone.
"No, because you need to make an effort. I'm not going to do all the work for you. It's up to you, and if you really care, you'll do it yourself. You can't just get a girl- a woman- pregnant an-" Not exactly wanting to eavesdrop anymore than she already has, Aubrey interrupts.
"Um, Beca?" The brunette whips her head around and finds Aubrey. A smile quickly finds its way onto her face.
"Aubrey? Uh, hold on one second." Aubrey nods and waits standing patiently next to the booth as Beca finishes her call. "Listen, we'll discuss this later. I have other things to do." Aubrey notices that the brunette doesn't wait for a response from the other end of the line and hangs up. She then turns back to Aubrey with her resumed smile that Aubrey finds endearing. "Hey, so what's up?"
"Well, first I wanted to thank you for bringing back my scarf last night. That was sweet that you drove all the way back just for that." Beca shrugs.
"It was nothing."
"I was also wondering if you would join us on going to the fair?" Chloe had text Aubrey that Beca now knew they were friends so there was no confusion by saying us. Beca looks at Aubrey who is waiting for an answer. She really has no reason to say yes, after all, she had said she couldn't go to Chloe. She really did have work to finish, she assumes the weird food, kids, and clowns are also valid excuses to not go. But for some reason, she finds herself standing up and replying to the blonde. The blonde who must have some secret magic powers.
"Okay, I'll go with you." She goes willingly.
A/N: Thanks for talking the time to read this, guys. I know I haven't updated this story in a while, so I hope you guys still even remember it. Please leave a review of what you thought or of any of your comments, and fav/fallow. And I'll see you next chapter.
- Nessa
