Oh, I don't normally write A/N's here. Basically, thank you for all the feedback on chapter one and stuff, I'm glad you liked it. Also, person who wrote this comment:
"can i just say how effing awesome you are!? i mean, yea, sure, you disappear for ages, but then you come back with like 10 stories and updates on everything... so that totally makes up for everything. i love all your fics...seriously...so much talent and so fun to read! please update soon! :D"
I don't even know why, I just laughed really hard, I think it was the "disappear for ages" part because unfortunitally it's so true. Anyway I'll try and keep updates on this semi-regular (or my definition of semi-regular anyway) so we'll see how that goes.
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"No." Beca's refusal was straight to the point (unlike Aubrey the brunette didn't feel the need to sugar coat it).
"Beca please!" Chloe pleaded, getting down on her knees in the middle of the young DJ's dorm, ignoring the baffled look she received from both the woman in question and her Asian roommate.
"No Chloe. This isn't something we're going to argue about." Beca informed her without hesitation, still sitting at her desk, trying to ignore the other woman's sad eyes. "There's no way you can bargain with me here, I'm not going to spend a weekend pretending to be your girlfriend for your family… you don't even know if I'm gay or not!"
"You don't need to be gay! Thus the word pretending." Chloe insisted. "Though for the record you so are… I think we both knew where you were looking that time in the shower." She added as an afterthought, having no qualms about speaking of their shower duet in front of Kimmy Jin, even though the subject instantly turned Beca fire engine red.
"Uh… Kimmy Jin, could you…" Beca mumbled awkwardly, not even having to finish her sentence before the other woman shot her a glare, grabbed her laptop and stalked out of the room.
Beca sighed once the door slammed with more force than was necessary. In spite of the fact that she had very little to do at weekends at Barden, the idea of spending a weekend pretending to be someone's girlfriend and attending a wedding was even more unappealing if at all possible. She'd gone out of her way to avoid meeting her ex's in laws in the past and now she was being faced with the proposition of doing it of her own free will for someone she wasn't even sleeping with (the entire situations was just ridiculous).
"Beca please…" Chloe's pout seemed to intensify (if at all possible) as she shimmied across the floor on her knees until she was practically leaning on Beca's lap.
"Chloe no… find… find someone else." Beca was becoming awkward now, trying to avoid the way the red heads elbows were pressing into her thighs, dangerously close to her nether regions. "Ask Aubrey!" She suggested in desperate hope.
"Aubrey cant, she has a family thing that weekend." Chloe sighed, throwing her hands up in defeat. "Look if you do this I'll do anything for you… please, please, please!"
"There's nothing in particular I want…" Beca insisted, huffing out a breath and averting her gaze as Chloe's eyes only seemed to get sadder with each word she said. "What I really want is for you to get out." She added as an afterthought.
"Fine." Chloe huffed, standing so abruptly Beca had to flinch back in order to avoid a bust nose. "This isn't over though." The red head informed her, waggling her eyebrows at the shorter woman.
"Oh my god what do you have planned…" Beca questioned, eyes going wide as Chloe turned to leave the room.
"I have plans to win this Beca Mitchell." Chloe informed the brunette over her shoulder. "And a winner never reveals her tactics."
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It was two days later when Chloe's tactic was revealed to Beca. She should have expected it really. In fact, she'd later kick herself for not having anticipated it.
Shower ambush number two came early during the day this time. A cold wind had blown outside the student accommodation building as Beca had made her way to the shower rooms. More people occupied the stalls this time but she figured this was safer. Not even Chloe would dare ambush her in a room full of people.
Oh how wrong she was.
She'd failed to spot the red head lurking (as most predators do) two rows away from her as she'd slipped into a cramped changing room to dress in a bath robe before heading for a shower. She may have noticed the same red head trailing behind her as she walked into the shower rooms if it had not been for the fact that Beca now showered during the day because it was "safer", meaning more people to mask the sound of a second set of steps. She may even have noticed Chloe slide into the empty shower cubicle next to her if not for the fact that she'd been busy glaring at the girl that had tried to slip into her stall before her.
Alas none of this was to be. The first time Beca noticed Chloe was half ways through rinsing her hair, suds stinging her eyes when they shot open at the sound of "so we meet again" to the tune of Chloe's bubbly voice.
"Jesus fucking Christ!" Beca hissed; turning blindly to the source of the noise, sure by now she was blind from the suds, and probably suffering a heart attack.
"Nope, just Chloe… but close." The red head teased, an innocent smile plastered on her face as she closed the shower curtain behind her and crossed her arms over her chest, waiting as Beca wiped furiously at her eyes.
"What… what do you want Chloe?" Beca groaned, tilting her head under the jet of water to clear the remaining suds from her hair, and to avoid having to look directly at the very naked red head in front of her, for the second time.
"You know fine well what I want Beca." Chloe prompted, her arms remaining firmly crossed.
"Is now really the time?" Beca hissed, her eyes silently pleading with the red head as she became acutely aware of where they were all of a sudden (and just how many people were around them).
"Yes, yes it is." Chloe nodded, looking Beca dead in the eye as she spoke. "Because I'm not leaving until you agree to go with me." She dead panned.
"Oh for fuck sakes…" Beca groaned, throwing a hand in the air. "Chloe, I am very naked and in the middle of showering…" She tried to insist, motioning briefly to her body and blushing profusely when Chloe's sky blue eyes followed her hand before meeting her eye again.
"Nothing I haven't seen before…" Chloe countered, her voice remaining even as the hint of a smirk curled the corner of her lips.
"That's nothing to boast about." Beca shot back, mouth falling open at just how little Chloe seemed to care.
"I beg to differ…" The red head winked subtly, once more allowing her eyes to dart down briefly.
"Oh my god, get out!" Beca hissed, making a move to push the red head out of the cubicle, but realizing just in time that she'd be putting her hands on a very naked Chloe, instead choosing to leave her wrists hanging limply mid-air. "I'm not going to win this, am I?" She questioned with a long sigh.
"Not even nearly." Chloe confirmed with a bright grin.
"I have terms and conditions." Beca caved, folding her own arms over her chest and looking the red head dead in the eye.
"Well I'd love to hear them."
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"So when you heading off?" Aubrey questioned, walking with her best friend back from the most recent Bellas practice (in which no blood was shed due to accident or squabble, thus making it a success).
"I'm driving down this weekend for a dress fitting, and then the Thursday after that I'm leaving after classes with Beca for the big event." Chloe filled the blonde in, a thin lipped smile on her face at the thought of the weeks to come.
"So you convinced her then." Aubrey sounded surprised, chief reason being because she actually was surprised.
"Mhm…" Chloe nodded simply, continuing their journey across the quad towards the dorms.
"Don't just mhm me… I need details on this." Aubrey demanded, having suggested Beca with no prior belief that the younger woman would agree.
"I have my ways…" Chloe remained vague, smiling into the fading sun of the evening as she knew how much this would wind her best friend up.
"… You invaded her shower again, didn't you?" Aubrey dead panned, shooting a disproving and un-amused look at Chloe even though the other woman failed to notice it.
"Shit…. Forgot I told you that story." The red head pouted. "Though yea, that may or may not be how I got round her." She added meekly.
"I swear to god someday I'm going to be bailing you out of a jail cell and trying to get a restraining order lifted for you." Aubrey shook her head, trying her best to remain serious though she often found that difficult around her quirky best friend.
"Wait… Are you saying that's not the reason you became a lawyer in the first place?" Chloe feigned shock as she pivoted on the spot to face the blonde.
"Oh, of course. I envisioned that someday I'd meet a crazy red headed girl that had a knack for getting herself into ridiculous and often illegal situations, that I'd befriend and later need to defend on multiple counts of stalking." Aubrey shot back sarcastically.
"That's what I thought." Chloe nodded in agreement. "Though hey it worked, so whatever."
Aubrey rolled her eyes but said nothing, simply shaking her head at the enthusiastic smile on the red heads face. They made it to the dorm building in silence, neither having much to say to one another and choosing instead to enjoy what was left of the day (or in Aubrey's case silently judge the wasters lounging about on the grass with beer cans on a Wednesday evening). It was Chloe that eventually spoke up as they pushed open the building door.
"Bree…" She sounded apprehensive, which in turn made Aubrey nervous.
"What do you want?" The blonde groaned, turning to face the red head that had stopped in the common area inside the doors.
"A teeny, tiny little favour…" Chloe mumbled, indicating with her fingers just how small the favour was that she was asking for.
"Somehow I doubt that, but go on…" Aubrey sighed, crossing her arms and staring expectantly at Chloe.
"Becakindahadtermsandconditio nstogoingwithmeandoneofthemw asthatshegettoleadapractice." She gasped for breath when she was done speaking, eyes darting away from she confused green ones staring at her.
"Was that even English…?" Aubrey's jaw had dropped slightly; amazed her best friend had the ability to speak for that long.
"No." Chloe agreed, beginning to pick at her nails – a nervous habit she hated.
"Well then… care to translate it for those of us less linguistically gifted?" Aubrey prompted; quirking a bemused eyebrow.
"Well you see… uh… Beca kind of uh… she um…" Chloe paused, taking a deep breath to collect her thoughts before making brave eye contact once more with Aubrey and continuing. "She wants to lead a Bellas practice to show you that some of her ideas are actually good, just one. Otherwise she isn't coming." She relayed the information, wincing once she was done as if she'd been pulling off a band aid.
"You… I… She what now?" Aubrey questioned, her expression being far too neutral to read, though also far too neutral to mean anything good.
"Just one practice." Chloe reminded her. "Please…" She added then, feeling the one word was a nice touch.
"You've got to be kidding me." Aubrey muttered. "Why am I the one suffering for your benefit?" She complained.
"Because I'll be suffering for an entire weekend otherwise, you just have to suffer for two hours." Chloe bargained, hopeful at the fact that Aubrey hadn't immediately denied the proposition.
"Bailing you out of prison and saving your ass from your family… this is way more than I signed up for." Aubrey rolled her eyes before smiling briefly at her friend.
"Does this mean yes?" Chloe clapped her hands excitedly, her blue eyes lighting up.
"Don't get excited. This means I'll think about it." Aubrey insisted. "Now come on, while I consider it I'm getting you to write my paper to sweeten the deal." She added, beginning to walk towards the stairs.
"Yea okay, as if you'd let me write a single word of your homework." Chloe snorted, following close at the blondes heals.
"Whatever."