Chapter 4

Over the next few months Beca slowly began to become more independent. Her speech was practically impeccable and she was surprisingly smart for what Aubrey assumed was a basically six month old puppy in a human body.

With beca's new found humanity came a lot of questions directed to Aubrey about certain aspects of human nature that Beca did not understand.

For example "why is Chloe pressing her face together with that guys?" or "Chloe told me to ask you what sexy time was", both occurrences caused Aubrey to flush a bright tomato red and led to further question such from Beca such as "why does your face turn so red sometimes?"

Beca had also developed a keen interest in music, now that she could differentiate between the loud howls of a dog and the equally loud howls of pop music singers. In Aubrey's opinion none of the music today could compare to the greats like ace of base.

Beca however disagreed, Aubrey and Chloe had managed to get Beca to talk about music for hours on end when they were initially teaching her to speak and this sparked a lot of debate over what Beca called Aubrey's 'last century' music taste.

Aubrey often found Beca awake till the late hours of the night watching online tutorials on how to mix songs and play various instruments.

Aubrey had slept on the couch in the living room for the first few nights while Beca took her bed until Beca became smart enough to realise that she was taking Aubrey's place after which she had refused to allow Aubrey to sleep anywhere but in her bed while she took the couch. Beca was oddly chivalrous for a six month old puppy-human.

Today Aubrey was sitting in the couch reading the assigned chapters from her archeology text book when she heard the sounds of Chloe and Beca returning from their trip to the supermarket, Beca always volunteered as she enjoyed the walk.

"Aubrey, Aubrey, Aubrey, Aubrey, Aubrey!" She heard the chant of an excited Beca from around the hall then the thudding of her footsteps running around the apartment searching for Aubrey. She then heard a large crash and groan from somewhere in the kitchen.

Sighing Aubrey marked her page in the text book before making her way to the kitchen where she found Beca sprawled on the floor where she had tripped over the small step at the doorway once again.

Beca flipped over still groaning but when she spotted Aubrey she instantly jumped up with a wide grin forgetting her pain easily.

"Aubrey!" She squealed happily pulling to taller girl in for a hug "you'll never guess what happened, Chloe tell her she'll never guess. Chloe!" She yelled for the red head.

"You'll never guess, Aubrey" Chloe remarked with a happy smile.

"Well if I'll never guess then I suppose you'll just have to tell me" Aubrey stated deciding not to get too excited as the last time Beca had come back this happy it had been over the two squirrels she had seen.

"I got a job! Well Chloe got me a job, but it pays in money and I get to make music" she told Aubrey as she bounced on the balls of her feet.

"Wow Beca that's aca-amazing" Aubrey exclaimed with a proud smile causing beca's smile to widen at the praise "where are you working?"

"At the radio station, I only get to stack CD's now but Luke said that if I worked hard enough I could play the booth eventually, isn't that great" Beca grinned but her smile slowly began to drop after Aubrey stayed silent for a while.

"Who's Luke?" Aubrey questioned Beca quickly.

"Umm, well he's-" Beca started but was cut off by Chloe "he's this super hot blonde dude" she sighed dreamily "he even showed us his six pack" Chloe told her staring into space.

Aubrey could feel a deep bubbling jealousy in the pit of her stomach. Beca couldn't work with this six-pack Luke she might be taken advantage of, she was far too innocent to be pressured into whatever unthinkable activities somebody that worked at a college radio station would be interested in. She wouldn't know any better.

"I don't think you should take the job" Aubrey cut into to Chloe's ramble over their predacious 'Luke', causing beca's face to fall further.

"What do you mean Aubrey! Of course she should take the job!" Chloe interrupted shooting her an incredulous look.

"I just think that maybe Beca should find a more respectable job, you know barely anyone listens to that station" Aubrey argued becoming irritated.

"You know that's not true, the entire campus listen to that station and beca's lucky to be given a shot" Chloe told Aubrey her voice raising in pitch towards the tail end of her speech.

"Beca should be concentrating on finding a course to enroll in instead of this 'job'" Aubrey yelled angrily glaring at Chloe.

"Well then maybe we should ask Beca what she wants, hmm?" Chloe snarked.

They both turned to face Beca at the same time, Aubrey shooting Beca a warning look and Chloe giving her a encouraging look.

"Uh, well I think it would be worth a shot, it's only part time so I'll still have enough time for college" Beca said carefully eyeing Aubrey as if afraid of her reaction.

After not hearing the answer she wanted Aubrey huffed before spitting out "whatever" and storming out of the kitchen and into her bedroom slamming the door behind her.

Beca watched her go with wide eyes before turning to Chloe "I shouldn't have said that, I'll go tell her I won't take the job" Beca said quietly making to move towards Aubrey's bedroom.

"No, Beca listen to me." Chloe urged grabbing beca's sagging shoulders and twisting her so they were face to face. "Aubrey is stubborn, but she's only worried about you okay? You've only been human for six months and she's very overprotective. She just doesn't want you to get hurt" Chloe reassured receiving a confused nod from Beca.

"I'll talk to her, but whatever you do don't quit the job, if this is what you love you have to carry on" Chloe told her with a smile.

"And then maybe we can sign you up for some music classes or something, then you can join the bella's" Chloe said excited at the idea she had just had.

"Okay, I don't Aubrey to be mad at me" Beca said sadly causing Chloe to coo in sympathy.

"It's okay I'll talk to her" Chloe repeated "now go do whatever it is you do" Chloe smiled pushing Beca out of the kitchen by the shoulders and giving her a slap to the butt, causing Beca to yelp in surprise.

"Knock, knock" Aubrey sighed at the cheery voice at her door she was about to tell Chloe to go away when the girl in question waltzed into her room.

"You know there's no point in saying 'knock knock' when you're just going to come in anyway" Aubrey mumbled crossing her arms tightly over her chest.

"Well yeah, but where's the fun in that" Chloe laughed nudging Aubrey over so she could sit next to her on the bed. "Beca said to give you these" she said handing Aubrey a packet of jerky "she said it always makes her feel better" Chloe informed.

"Ugh, I messed up didn't I?" Aubrey groaned staring down at the packet of jerky.

"Yup, but it's fine. Beca can't hold a grudge anyway" Chloe told her in bubbly voice. "But that doesn't mean you can just do things like this" Chloe warned "Beca needs independence and to do that she needs a job, and this is something she enjoys" she adds like a scolding mother.

"I know, I'm sorry" Aubrey apologises her head lowering in shame from her earlier outburst.

"I know that but Beca doesn't" Chloe chides receiving a nod of understanding from Aubrey. "So... Want to tell me what got all of your feathers ruffled earlier" Chloe questions teasingly "was it something to do with Beca drooling over Luke's sexy six-pax"

"What? Was she really drool-" Aubrey started in a panicked voice before she cut herself off "I mean no, why would I be mad about that, Beca can drool over who she pleases even someone like Luke" Aubrey comments nonchalantly although her nose wrinkles towards the end of the sentence.

"So you wouldn't be even slightly upset if Luka had asked for beca's number?" Chloe asked with an amused smile.

"HE WHAT?!" Aubrey Screeched jumping up from then bed "I'm going to kill him" she growls heading for the door but it pulled back into the bed by Chloe.

"Relax Bree, I was kidding. Although if you ask me it looks as if somebody's been bitten by the love bug" she teased Aubrey putting on a baby voice.

Aubrey didn't dignify Chloe's ridiculous comments with a response instead choosing to stand again. Straightening her back she walks proudly to the door "I'm going to talk to Beca now, Mabye you should get your own love life instead of prying in mine" she snarks walking out of the room.

"I already have, how do you think I know so much about Luke's sexy abs, mmmm" she hears Chloe shout causing Aubrey to snort to herself.

Aubrey walked into the living room and sighed at the sight she saw, Beca was sitting in the corner of the sofa listening to music from Chloe's iPod.

Aubrey could just make out the soothing tone of Adele blurring loudly out of he headphones. Aubrey had noticed that the music Beca listened to almost always reflected her mood, unless it was 'who let the dogs out' which Beca seemed to listen to at least three times a day.

Walking closer she could see that Beca was staring into the distance with her brow furrowed, obviously distressed and Aubrey felt a pang in her gut from knowing that she was the cause of beca's sadness.

Hesitating slightly, Aubrey reaches out and taps Beca on the shoulder causing her to jump.

Once she turns around and spots Aubrey she immediately averts her gaze taking of the headphones.

"Yes aubrey" she asks quietly still not looking at her.

"I was wondering if we could talk?" Aubrey asks nervously then sits down after receiving a shrug in reply.

"Listen Beca, I was wrong to tell you not to take the job, I was being selfish and overprotective" Aubrey rambles "I'm sorry" she adds.

"It's okay" Beca sighs "but I really want to take the job" she says in a pleading voice.

"I know and you can, you can do whatever you choose" Aubrey assures "Am I forgiven?" She asks cautiously.

"Of course!" Beca yelps excitedly lunging forward to lick Aubrey's face, she had not been able to stop Beca from doing this when she felt overly affection so she had stopped bothering.

"Okay, okay" Aubrey giggled struggling to move under beca's strong hold.

"Hey lovebirds, what should we have for dinner?" a smirking Chloe asked from the doorway causing Aubrey to groan and Beca to shout.

"JERKY"

Woo-hoo quick update, thankyou so much for all the reviews and favourites/follows. You guys are great :)

To the reviewer who mentioned there were a couple of mistakes in the last chapters i went over them and couldn't find them so could you let me know where they are and i'll edit them, thanks :)

There was a bit of a time skip at the start of the chapter, i hope you guys don't mind i just felt like the scenes would be more boring to write with beca learning the basic's and so on.