Pitch Perfect
This Fanfiction is based on one of my all-time favorite movies: Pitch Perfect starring Anna Kendrick and Brittany Snow. While I do not own Pitch Perfect or its characters, settings or events, I do claim ownership for any new OCs, ideas and events that I introduce in this story. Also, if anyone has a better idea for a title for this story, PM me, or tell me in the reviews.
Chapter 5-
When Chloe woke up, she had the worst hangover in the history of hangovers. She was sweaty, nude, covered in hers and Aubrey's cum, and the hangover made it all worse.
She felt guilty. Guilt was the worst part. Even though Beca wasn't hers to cheat on, it felt as though she had had an affair right in front of her. She felt guilty for taking advantage of Aubrey's drunken state, but Chloe had felt so vulnerable the previous night.
Chloe got up off of Aubrey, taking care not to wake her, stepped over Beca and Jesse's limp naked bodies, and walked out the door, not bothering to put her clothes back on. She felt that if someone caught her, she deserved it. She walked down to the showers, actually a bit disappointed that the universe had decide not to punish her. She stepped into the shower and turned the knob all the way to hot.
"This is ridiculous." She said to herself. "I can't even take a shower without thinking about her." The waterworks started flowing, and she started sniffling in despair as Beca walked into the shower room.
Whoever was in the shower didn't notice Beca when she walked in. At first, she thought nothing of it, obviously this was the girls' shower room, and it was used frequently, even during holidays and whatnot. But when she heard the girl sniffling and weeping, she became concerned.
Beca decided not to bother the girl, figuring that she would only make things worse for her if she tried to make her feel better. She wasn't very good with emotional confrontations, aside from last night with Jesse.
"Why did it have to work out this way?" The weeping girl asked the universe through her sobs, and by her voice, Beca could tell it was Chloe.
"Why did I have to go and fall in love with her?" The ginger asked, and Beca realised then that Chloe was talking about Aubrey.
Wait, I know they started screwing around last night. They may have slept together, but was it really good enough to make Chloe fall in love with Aubrey? Well, this should thrill Aubrey. Just wait 'til she finds out. Beca thought for a minute. No. This is none of my business. This is between Chloe and Aubrey. I need to let them figure it out.
Beca shrugged it off as best she could, still very concerned about her friend, and got in the shower. She didn't have the shower on yet when she heard Chloe start singing.
" You shoot me down, but I won't fall. I am titanium. " Chloe sang through her sobs. " You shoot me down, but I won't fall. I am titanium. "
Chloe began the song again, only this time, started from the beginning.
" Shout it out, but I can't hear a word you say. I'm talking loud, not saying much. I'm criticized, but all your bullets ricochet. Shoot me down, but I get up. I'm bulletproof, nothing to lose. Fire away, fire away. Ricochet, you take your aim. Fire away, fire away. " Chloe couldn't sing anymore, she fell to the floor weeping.
Beca couldn't believe it. Most people wouldn't have realised what had just happened, but Beca recognised the significance behind what she had just heard. She realised then that her first instinct, that Chloe was in love with Aubrey, was dead wrong.
Beca thought back to the day she decided to audition for the Bellas.
She had gone to the showers to wash off the activities for the day. In fact, if she remembered correctly, it was in the shower that Chloe now occupied that she had walked in on Beca singing. She had been singing "Titanium", because it was such an amazing song that she couldn't get out of her head, and Chloe had overheard her singing.
She had snuck up on her in the shower and made her jump three feet in the air when she announced her presence. It had been so awkward, especially when she told Beca that "Titanium" was her "lady jam", then asked Beca to keep singing it for her. It had taken some doing, but she finally convinced Beca to do it, mainly by saying she wasn't going to let Beca shower (alone) until she sang. Chloe joined in, and the way their voices sounded together had won Beca over.
Before that, Beca wouldn't have even considered doing a cappella, in fact, she laughed at those who did. But she was hooked when Chloe sang with her.
It was in this memory that the truth hid. Beca didn't bother turning the shower on. She instead slumped to the ground in disbelief. Chloe, her best friend, really her first friend, was in love with her.
Chloe finally managed to pick herself up off the floor and finish her shower. She wasted no time in getting out, getting dressed, and going back to the room.
When she finally got back to the dorm, Aubrey and Jesse were up, their faces red with embarassment. They were dressed, but it was obvious that they remembered last night as vividly as Chloe did, and that they had woken up to see each other in very compromising positions.
Chloe couldn't miss the glint in Aubrey's eyes when she looked at her. She may have been embarassed, but she definitely enjoyed last night, and probably wanted a repeat. But Chloe was NOT granting that wish. Not with how it had already affected her.
"Where's Beca?" She asked Jesse, trying not to look at Aubrey.
"I think she went to the showers." Chloe gasped. If Beca had been in the room when... "Hey, when she gets back, would you tell her that I went for a shower and that I'll be right back?"
Neither of the girls responded, but Jesse merely shrugged it off and left.
It wasn't fair. Beca and Jesse were hopelessly in love with each other, and they knew it, and they had each other. But the girl that Aubrey was in love with was in love with Beca, so both Aubrey and Chloe were doomed to die alone. Aubrey had known that Chloe was desparately in love with Beca, yet she took advantage of Chloe's weakness and grief. She had practically raped Chloe.
So she didn't blame Chloe when she refused to meet her eyes.
Jesse ran across Beca in the hall just outside the girls bathroom. She wasn't wet, so he assumed she hadn't taken a shower yet.
"What's up, showers full?"
"No, they're all empty." Jesse heard the confusion in her voice, and saw it in her face. It wasn't a usual type of confusion, like wondering why some idiot tried to jump off the roof to land on a trampoline, knowing it was a bad idea. No, this was true confusion, a confusion that altered perspectives.
"Then, why aren't you...?"
"I think Chloe's in love with me."
Jesse was surprized, obviously, but then again, now that he thought about it, it was so obvious. The way Chloe had been acting around Beca, her hesitation to do any of the dares having anything to do with Beca the night before. Even the way she looked at Jesse himself: anger, with a hint of envy.
It all made sense. Jesse sat down next to Beca, both of them silent.
"How do you know?"
"Well, remember how I told you she walked in on me showering last year?"
"Yeah."
"I had been singing 'Titanium', by David Guetta, and that's when she walked in on me, because she liked my voice. Well, I just went in to take a shower, and she was singing it, and crying."
"That doesn't mean anything. Maybe she was singing to cheer herself up."
"Just before she started singing, she was talking to herself, saying stuff like 'Why'd I have to go and fall in love with her?'"
"Maybe she meant Aubrey."
"That's what I thought at first, too. But when she sang the song, it just sort of... clicked."
"Beca, why are you so bent on proving that she's in love with you? It's almost like you want her to be in love with you."
"That's ridiculous!"
"Is it? Think about it: last night, you tell me that you're attracted to girls. Then, you watch Chloe having sex-"
"With Aubrey!"
"Regardless, you still watched her. And why bring Aubrey into this?"
"Forget it. Just forget I mentioned any of this."
"No! It's too late for take-backs."
"Fine, then just rant already! Get it over with!"
"As I was saying, you watched Chloe have sex, then I wake up this morning, and find you followed Chloe to the showers."
"I didn't follow her. I didn't even know she was in there."
"Fine, I'll give you that. But then you eavesdrop on her talking about herself being in love with a girl that may or may not be you. She sings a random song, and you take that to automatically mean she's in love with you."
"It wasn't just some random song! It was the first song she ever heard me sing!"
"It's also the song she masturbates to! Why do you care so much that your friend is in love with you, if she really is?"
"I don't! And how do you know she masturbates to 'Titanium'?"
Jesse was stumped. The question surprized him, he hadn't prepared for it. But there was no way he was telling Beca the truth. The truth was just too... upsetting.
"Don't change the subject, Beca, please. Chloe hasn't exactly been discreet with calling it her 'Lady-jam'."
"Fine. Okay, you're right. I might have been reading too much into it. She might not be in love with me. Let's just forget about it, okay?"
"Yeah, okay." Jesse wrapped Beca in a tight embrace full of tension. Neither of them moved for a while, but Beca eventualy broke the embrace and stood. She gently kissed Jesse on the lips, but neither of them felt the spark they were so used to feeling when their lips met.
Figuring that it was just an aftereffect of their argument, Beca smiled and headed back into the shower room.
"Chloe, maybe it wasn't the best idea for you to come back."
"Why?"
"Chlo, I know how you feel about Beca. You were just setting yourself up for torture by coming back here. You know she's with Jesse."
"How did you find out?!"
"Please, I'm your best friend, Chlo. I know you better than you think."
Chloe sighed as she fell backwards on the couch, then buried her head in her hands.
"What do I do, Aubrey?"
"As your totally un-biased best friend, I'd suggest you go back home, get as far away from her as you can. Apparently, one year isn't long enough separation for you. But, I know you're not going to do that, so the second best thing to do would be to somehow bring yourself to accept that she's not the one for you, and spend as much time with her as you can, just enjoying her company. Try to start seeing her as just a friend."
"Easy for you to say."
"I'm sorry, but that's the best I can tell you. You've got a choice. You can either get away from Beca, hoping that time and distance will help, or you can keep hanging around her, trying to be a friend to her, instead of a possible lover, all the while killing yourself inside every time you even get a glance at her.
"Or, you can tell her how you feel. Either she'll accept that part of you, maybe even grow to share your feelings, dump Jesse, and you two will live happily ever after." While I die every time I see you two together. "Or she'll be a total aca-bitch about it, getting all grossed out and pissed that you feel that way about her. You two will no longer be friends, you'll cry yourself to sleep and have nightmares every night for about a month, maybe more, and finally the pain will start to lessen."
"That's very morbid, Aubrey."
"Hey, what can I say? I'm a realist. I'm not optimist, or even a pessimist. So, what are you going to do?"
"I don't know. I just don't know."
Aubrey sat down next to Chloe, trying to comfort her.
"If it makes you feel any better, you'll still have me, no matter what happens."
"Yeah." Chloe smiled and hugged Aubrey as the tears started falling again.
Damn it. I'm tired of crying. That's it. I'm going to do something about it. No matter what happens, I won't cry anymore. Not about this. I've cried too much as it is.
After about two hours, both Jesse and Beca were back in the dorm room.
"Well, the original plan was for the party to last three days, but apparently, everyone was tired of it after one night." Aubrey observed.
"Actually, they didn't even last the night. Only a couple of them are still even on campus." Jesse corrected.
"Who's that?"
"Benji and Amy. I saw them sitting on a bench talking when I went down to the showers earlier. They said they were gonna go get donuts or something for breakfast, then be right up."
"Sweet." Jesse and Aubrey looked at Beca and Chloe, who were both doing their best to avoid eye contact with anyone.
"Yeah. I told them to get two dozen glazed. Figured that would be enough for all of us. I didn't know what kind you or Chloe liked, but Beca and I prefer glazed, and since it's, like, the most popular kind of donut, I figured that it was a safe bet."
"Sounds good to me. Are they getting coffee, too?"
"You know, I didn't ask them. Totally slipped my mind. But now that you mention it, why don't I go get some for all of us?"
"I'll come too." Beca hurriedly stood as if to follow.
"Nah, that's okay. I understand, Beca. You haven't seen Chloe in a long while, and you probably want to just catch up with her."
"Yeah, I'll go with him, keep him out of trouble, don't worry, Beca." Aubrey smiled a half-smile, then followed Jesse out of the room, leaving Beca and Chloe alone.
They sat there for almost thirty minutes, not saying anything, not moving, not even looking at each other.
Finally, Chloe worked up the courage.
"Beca, I have something to tell you."
"What?" Beca asked after a moment's hesitation, despite already knowing what it was.
"Beca, I'm... I mean, I... What I'm trying to say is... Oh, this is hopeless." Chloe said, frustratedly, then followed a simpler course of action. Since she couldn't manage to get the words out...
"Beca?!" Jesse exclaimed as he walked in the door to see Chloe on top of his girlfriend, their lips locked together, Chloe's tongue exploring Beca's mouth.
Beca recovered from her state of shock and pushed Chloe off herself.
"Chloe, what the hell?! Jesse, this isn't what it looks like, I swear!" Beca said, pleading with him.
"It's true, Jesse. I... kinda... ambushed her. She didn't kiss back at all, she was just in shock, that's all."
Aubrey was surprized that Chloe was backing Beca up. The way things had been going, Beca and Jesse would have broken up then and there, and the dark-haired girl would have been single. Available for Chloe. But then again, Aubrey wasn't really surprized. Being devious like that wasn't in Chloe's nature.
"From my point of view, it did look like Chloe was doing all the work, Jesse." Aubrey said.
Jesse was steaming. He was mad, for sure, but he knew not to fault Beca for Chloe's actions, and three different girls, including Chloe, were telling him that Beca was not to fault.
On the other hand, he himself had had a little warning. Had Beca not just earlier that morning told him of her suspicions that Chloe had strong romantic feelings for her? And to top that off, as soon as they were out of the dorm room, Aubrey herself had confirmed Chloe's feelings for his girlfriend. He had had plenty of warning, so he considered himself to be partially at fault as well.
But he was still pissed at Chloe.
"Chloe, what the hell was that for?" Beca asked, and no one heard anything accusing in her tone.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it to come out this way, I swear. I tried to tell you how I felt, but I couldn't get the words out, so I had to... show you." To Aubrey's amazement, Chloe's eyes weren't watery in the slightest.
Maybe she's just used up all of her tears. That might be why she's not crying.
"I'm sorry for upsetting you two, but I had to let you know, Beca."
Aubrey's heart was lying on the floor in pieces. If she didn't get out of there soon, she'd start the waterworks herself.
"Well, I'm going to, um, go to, uh, the... the little girl's room. Last night is about to rear its ugly head, and I don't want to stain Beca's new aca-mazing carpet." She excused herself. As soon as the door closed, the tears started flowing. She fought back sniffles as she ran to the nearest girl's bathroom. She ran into a stall, sat down on the seat and buried her face in her hands as she started sobbing.
So... Lots of DRAMA going on at Barden University. Tell me how you guys think this'll all play out. Will the girl get the... girl? Or will the third girl get the first girl? (Was that as confusing to you guys as it was to me?) Anyways, just tell me in the reviews!