I Will Never Stop Loving You
Chapter 9
"Hey Chlo, did you post that toothbrush pic on twitter?" Called out to Chloe who was getting dressed across the room
"No on Instagram, why?" Chloe replied
"I think someone wrote an article on us"
"What? Who?"
"This website… come look" Chloe walked over and peered over Beca's shoulder
"The couple taking relationship goals to the next level" Chloe read out loud
"How many photos do you post online of us?" Beca asked
"Quite a few I guess, most of the cute ones…" Chloe answered
"OK and how many followers do you have?"
"Quite a lot, almost a million"
"QUITE a lot? That's LOADS" Beca replied, stunned. Beca scrolled down and looked at the photos in the article
"Aww I like that one" Beca said pointing at a photo of them together with Christmas jumpers on holding burnt cookies from last year, Chloe giggled
"Yeah, that was right after you tried to make me cookies" Chloe smiled
"Hey!" Beca scowled, turning to face Chloe "I successfully made cookies!"
"You didn't even look up a recipe!"
"Babe, I don't need no recipe!" Beca stood up smirking
"Becs, you made like 3 cookies, put salt in instead of sugar, a TABLESPOON of baking power and burnt them!"
"Hmm you make some fine points Beale…" the brunette smiled and kissed Chloe's cheek
"Does this mean we're becoming actually famous?" Beca asked
"What the fact you can't cook? Because EVERYONE already knows that"
"Noooo… the article, the followers…"
"Oh, I suppose so…" Chloe shrugged
"Lemme get this right…" Chloe started "Taylor told you to actually post stuff on Twitter so now you need my help to do that?" The ginger finished arms crossed leaning back on one foot
"umm… Yeah" Beca answered quizzically
"and you're only doing this because Taylor told you to…"
"Pretty much"
"OH MY GOD! Becs, I've been telling you to do this for months!" Her arms unloading her arms and raising them above her head
"You have?" Beca answered lower her head looking at her twiddling fingers
"Ughhhhh! Becs!"
"Ok, ok… so will you help me?"
"Of course, I've just gotta go into set for a sec and then I will be right back"
"Hey… why don't I come with you and then we go out for coffee and use their free wifi?"
"You are so stingy!… But I love it!" Chloe leant in and captured Beca's lips sweetly
"Right then!" Chloe began, pulling away from her girlfriend and Beca sighing "you get an Uber and I'll get my things together"
"Ok, sounds good" Pecking Chloe's lips and letting Chloe slip out of her arms, then moved to the other side of the room to get her bag organised. Beca patted her back pockets looking for her phone, she then turned to look at the desk, narrowing her eyes to search for the device. She moved a few bits of paper around, looked under some notepads hmm not there either she thought. The brunette then looked in her bag, she found some spare earphones, some notes on a song she was thinking about, some chocolate bar wrappers and a set of keys she thought she had lost, but no phone. I can't have lost it again!
"Hey Chlo?"
"Yeah"
"Have you seen my phone?"
"Uhh… is it on the bedside table?" Beca's head whipped round to see her phone sat on the table charging
"It's there isn't it? Right where you left it" Chloe stated smugly
"No…" Beca lied, snatching her phone and unlocking it
"Whatever, just get an Uber here ASAP"
Beca soon found a bench in the shade after they got to set. Chloe went off to find someone… Dave? Darrell? Derek? Something like that. Beca sat with her right ankle resting on her left knee, balancing her notepad on her lap. She slipped her headphones on, put her music on shuffle and started to enjoy the sunny day and the music. She liked to listen to various different artists to get inspiration, including Michael Jackson, David Bowie and Elton John.
She was currently listening to 'Tiny Dancer' (a classic), she made a new beat by drumming on her notepad using her pencil and thumb as drum sticks. Her mind was whizzing with ideas and melodies to overlay the original. The DJ slid one earphone off her ear slightly to be able to hear her self properly, her drum solo and new melody she was humming.
In her own world she began to drum and hum louder, reaching the chorus and switched to singing along and harmonising with the Elton John in her headphones, hearing the layers build as the song progresses, and adding extra layers in her mind, feeling the music encompass her, she opened her eyes she didn't remember closing, and stopped her tapping. She instead used the pencil to furiously scribble down what she heard in her mind, she tried to put all the layers of melodies and rhythms onto paper.
The brunette pinched the bridge of her nose trying to re-hear the song as it was fading out in her headphones. She pulled the phone out of her pocket and restarted the song, listening carefully and continuing to write notes, unconsciously Beca was bending lower and lower hunching over her notepad. She didn't notice the girl standing next to her until the song ended again. Only then did her eyes flick to the right and see the bright green converse a few feet away from her own scuffed black ones. Beca looked up and smiled awkwardly to the young girl, probably about 15 years old.
"Beca Mitchell?" The girl asked gently
"Yeah… Hi…" Beca replied unsure of what to say
"Oh! Wow! Umm… I love your music"
"Uh, thank you so much! That means a lot to me!"
"No really… I… wow… it's really you!"
"Yep! All Me!" Beca said patting herself down, and knocking her notepad down into the dirt
"Oh let me get that for you!" The girl said, immediately bending down to pick up the small back book
"Thank you…" Beca paused
"Oh! Sally… I'm Sally!"
"Well it's nice to meet you Sally" Beca said brightly holding out her hand for Sally to shake, Sally took the hand eagerly. She handed back the notepad glancing at the scrawls on the now slightly muddy page.
"Woah! Are these notes for a song!"
"No… Well kinda, well this is more just brainstorming, keeps the creativity going…" Beca explained
"So will this become a song?" Sally asked wanting to learn all about her favourite artists process
"Umm… probably not… Like 80% of the ideas and songs I come up with don't amount to anything… they just get up in a draw or folder I have at home…"
"That's crazy!"
"Hey, umm… Sally? Do you want to sit down?" Beca asked the blonde who was standing awkwardly next to a sitting Beca, Beca patted the space next to her.
"Yeah sure!" She sat down and left a reasonable gap between herself and the producer. There was a small silence before Sally spoke
"So what are you doing here?"
"Oh! I'm just waiting for my girlfriend to finish a meeting or something…" Beca looked around for the redhead, but she was nowhere in sight, she then looked back to Sally who was nodding at her answer.
"So are you an actress or what?" Beca asked wondering what the girl was doing on a movie set
"Yeah I am… I'm in a fairly big movie actually… It's got Ryan Gosling and Chloe Beale in it!"
"Oh… That's great! Umm… Chloe's my girlfriend actually…" Beca muttered, feeling awkward that she didn't mention it earlier…
"NO. WAY." Sally gasped with wide eyes "I did not see that coming"
Beca laughed nervously, tucking a loose strand of hair behind her ear and looked down at her notepad thinking about the song again, Beca looked up at the sound girl and then black to the song.
"Can I ask you question?" Beca asked Sally
"Sure"
"Have you heard 'Tiny Dancer'?"
"What? Did you write it?" Beca laughed, "Yeah, I wish! In my opinion it is a song everyone should know"
"Who's it by?"
"Elton John"
"Umm, not sure, I might know it if I heard it…" Sally trailed off trying to think
"Hang on I'll play it for you" Beca got out her phone and played the song a third time that day out the loud speakers of her phone
"Yeah I think I've heard it before, but I don't think I would be able to sing along or anything…"
"Ok… Thanks that's really helpful" Beca was thinking of a new route of music, collaborating with the legends…
"Really?"
"Yeah! I think you just helped get this idea into that 20%" Beca smiled pointing at the scribbled words on the page
"That's so cool!" Sally beamed at Beca
"Becs?" Both Beca and Sally's head shot up to see Chloe standing watching the interaction between the two, smiling sweetly at her girlfriend
"Oh, hey Chlo! I was just chatting to Sally here"
"Hey Chloe" Sally blushed
"How's it going Sally?"
"Pretty great actually!" Sally grinned looking between Beca and Chloe "I've been helping Beca with her music!"
"Really?" Chloe questioned, raising an eyebrow at Beca
"Yeah! This one could be really big!" Beca's eyes sparkled. Chloe stepped forward, wrapping her arm around Beca's shoulders and kissed her on the temple
"Thats great babe!" Chloe's eyes refocused on Sally, before she blinked a few times and her memory was jolted
"Oh Sally! Their ready for you on set!" Sally looked at her watch
"Oh shit! It's already 12! I gotta go but it was so great meeting you Beca!"
"It was great meeting you too!" Beca smiled. Sally stood up and turned to leave. Just before she took a step, she turned back to Beca
"Do you think I could get a selfie with you?" She asked sheepishly
"Oh for sure! It's the least I could do with all your musical help!" Beca stood up, wrapped her arm around Sally and posed for the photo.
After they had said their final goodbyes Beca and Chloe walked off away for the set to get another Uber back into the city.
"So whats this big idea?" Chloe asked curiously
"Work with the legends and re-release some of their greatest records" Beca grinned
"Like who?"
"Elton John"
"How are you going to firstly, manage to work with Elton John, and secondly, get him to let you alter his records?"
"He'll beg me to work with him after he hears what I make with his song!"
"Really?" Chloe replied, unconvinced
"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse" Beca said in her best Marlon Brando impression
"Who do you think you are? The Godfather?" Chloe laughed. Beca smiled back
"Come on, you need to give me a Twitter education"
There it is!
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Song mentioned: Tiny Dancer by Elton John - If you haven't heard this song... What are you doing? Get on it now! Go on. It's one of my favs and I'm sure it will be yours too.
Sorry for the long waits between chapters! I know how frustrating it is!
Thats all I've got for now... so until next time!
~OddSocksForLife