Chloe took a step forward, getting impossibly closer to Beca. Beca felt Chloe's eyes on hers she felt the same rush of adrenaline she felt earlier at the match, Chloe was getting closer and closer to her face and Beca's heart beat was getting faster and louder with every inch Chloe was advancing. At last Chloe planted a kiss on her cheek, lingering for a moment. Beca's heartbeat stopped for a second and she felt like she was going to melt. Chloe took a step back and waved at her before getting in the car with Aubrey and driving away. Beca was rooted on her spot.

Her life had definitely changed today.

Chess Match

"Welcome tennis fans to Indian Wells tennis Garden where the most expected match of first round is about to take place, after yesterday big upset brought to Daniels by new comer Beca Mitchell, the question that everyone has in their minds is 'will there be a surprise today?' What do you think Gail?"

"Hi John, I think everyone has big expectations for this match, Maria Simons is the current number one player and she has beat Jenna Jonkova at every opportunity she has had in the past, however with Mitchell's impressive upset yesterday the underdogs have found a new source of hope."

"Well Gail, I include myself as one of the many impressed by her amazing result yesterday. Daniels was completely erased from the match at the third set"

"Oh I think she was erased way before that, if you ask me Mitchell had the match in her hands, win or lose it was up to her. The rumors say that Daniels is so mad about the loss that she fired her coach and is now looking to work with guess who John?"

"Is it me? I would certainly have no problems coaching that, if you know what I mean"

"Well John, I really hope I didn't. The coach she's aiming for is Mitchell's current coach, Nigel Simons. I think the claws are out, do you think Nigel will stay with the new girl or will he succumb to the world's number two?"

"This is getting better and better, stay tuned to see how this ends."

"One thing is for sure, today we'll watch some high level tennis."

Aubrey and Chloe were walking towards the stadium, Maria's match was the main event of the day and she was given the main court, the place was packed just like the day before. Chloe quickly spotted Beca and her friends at the entrance of the stadium, Aubrey and her made their way towards them.

"Hey guys" Aubrey greeted the group.

Amy and Luke nodded towards them, both sporting big sunglasses to hide their clear hangover, when everyone went to bed the two of them stayed drinking to see who was the better drinker "Aussie vs Tasmanian the Ultimate Battle" Amy had announced before both got so drunk they just passed out, the winner was unknown as none of them remember a single thing about the night before.

Chloe engulfed Beca in a tight hug which caught the brunette off guard, it took Beca a couple of seconds to hug the girl back, when they let go both had big smiles on their faces.

Jesse and Stacie quickly grabbed Aubrey's attention by complimenting her on her looks for the day, the blonde blushed at the two friends words.

"So, Chloe here tells me you invited her to Maria's box" Aubrey told Beca. The girl nodded and looked at the ground.

"There's only one tiny problem about it" she scratched her neck nervously "You see, I didn't know that Maria's sponsors where coming as well and sitting on her box, we.. we don't have any more passes left" she grimaced.

Chloe smile dropped for a bit, she was really looking forward spending some time with the brunette but quickly recovered showing off a big smile and waving her hand "It's ok, don't worry, I'll watch the match with Bree then"

"You can have my sit!" Stacie and Jesse exclaimed at the same time before Chloe could finish the sentence properly.

"No guys, it's ok. Thank you but that's your seat. I don't mind watching the match with Bree" Chloe stated.

"No it's not a problem" Jesse offered giving his most charming smile at Aubrey "besides, I would be delighted to watch the match with Aubrey"

Amy, Luke and Beca chuckled at Jesse, they knew there was no way Stacie was going down without a fight.

Stacie narrowed her eyes at Jesse, she turned to Chloe giving her a friendly smile "I would gladly give my seat to you Chloe, it's not an inconvenience at all." she then directed her attention to Aubrey "It would be my pleasure to watch the match with you and unlike Jesse" she said shooting daggers at him "I actually know what's going on in the match and wouldn't bring up that awful Wimbledon movie every ten seconds"

Aubrey was blushing, having Jesse and Stacie fight for who could seat with her was flattering. Chloe was laughing at the situation and Beca knew they needed to be stopped before things could get really messy.

"Ok you two, could you please figure this out fast?" Beca urged her friends, they both nodded and walked away just enough to be out of earshot of everyone else.

"Ok Swanson, enough of your 'puppy charming smile' it's not going to work with her"

"Really? because she smiled back at me. Admit it Conrad, you can't top my charming smile"

Stacie took a step closer to Jesse who immediately retreated under the glare of his friend, Stacie could be terrifying when she wanted to "Listen to me Swanson" she said poking Jesse's chest with every word "I'm going to sit next to Aubrey at this match and you going to suck it up, keep looking for someone else to live your movie fantasies with because Aubrey is mine"

Jesse scoffed "yours? please, she has only been polite at you. I'm where her real attention is on"

"You are so wrong but if you feel so sure she's into you then me sitting next to her at this match wouldn't change anything right?"

"HA! nice try, you think I'm going to fall for reverse psychology? No way!"

Stacie huffed "It was worth trying, Ok then let's solve this like the two adults we are ok?"

Jesse nodded. "rock, paper, scissors" both exclaimed. Jesse pulled rock while Stacie pulled paper

Stacie jumped like a little kid "ha! I won. Have fun watching us" she winked at Jesse.

"NO! You cheated. This was fixed" he whined.

"Don't be a baby, I won fair and square"

"whatever, enjoy your little victory. It won't matter when Aubrey chooses me"

Stacie laughed "Yeah good luck with that Swanson 0-Conrad 2. You know how this things are right? There's no third set baby. You are out"

Stacie walked back to the group with a beaming smile.

"And the chess match continues" Jesse said under his breath walking back to the group with his shoulders slumped.

When Stacie reached the group she interlaced a hand with Aubrey "Looks like I'll be your company Miss Posen, if you'll have me, of course" she said putting her most innocent look. Aubrey blushed.

"Yeah, of course. We'll have to go now though"

"After you m'lady" the tall brunette motioned causing the group to chuckle and Aubrey to blush once more, before they disappeared into the crowd Stacie sent a wink on Beca's direction, who only shook her head at her friend's antics.

"well, we better get going as well" Beca said loud enough for everyone to hear. They made their way to the box, Chloe and Beca sitting next to each other at the front row of the box"

"Wow the view is better from here" the redhead exclaimed.

"yes, you should see the view from one of the ends of the court though, it's like 4d technology" Beca joked earning a laugh from Chloe.

"Born in Miami, Florida. Winner of the golden career grand slam and three times Indian Wells winner, ladies and gentleman please welcome the number one player in the world... Maria Simons!" the announcer said as the crowd cheered for the blonde beauty, she was waving and smiling at the crowd definitely used to the attention and enjoying every moment of it.

Her opponent was announced and the crowd clapped as well. Both warmed up and received the last indications by the chair umpire.

Soon the match had begun and was looking good for Maria.

"that's right!" Beca yelled after Maria won her first game. The blonde turned to her box sending a wink towards Beca. Ever since she was a little kid whenever Beca got the chance to be at Maria's matches she was the loudest supporter of the blonde, Maria loved having Beca cheering for her.

Chloe grinned and high-fived Beca when Maria broke Jonkova's serve.

During one of the end changes Chloe and Beca were singing along Radioactive, both girls grinning at each other.

When Maria won the first set everyone was on their feet clapping and cheering loud.

"YEAH! that's what I'm talking about" Amy boomed.

"Wow, she's playing flawlesly"Chloe commented.

Beca shrugged "she's doing good. We were confident about this match"

"You said you treat all your opponents with respect, where you just having a good PR moment?" the redhead questioned Beca.

Beca's eyes widened, she realized how much of a jerk she must have sound like "no! I do respect the other players, it's just Maria is a beast when she wants to and this girl has never been close to win against her in their previous matches"

Chloe giggled "Your panic face is too cute for words." Beca rolled her eyes "I was just messing up with you. Aubrey told me that Maria could win this match with her eyes closed"

"well, that's one way to put it. In theory yes, but you never know. Yesterday no one believed I could win"

Chloe looked intently at Beca until their eyes met "I did" she stated simply before turning her attention anywhere but at Beca.

Beca was left speechless, she fought the smile that was creeping into her lips and decided to check on Stacie and Aubrey instead.

"look" she told Chloe nudging her to look at her friend.

"they look so cute together" Chloe said smiling.

Jesse heard her and scoffed, causing the rest of the group to chuckle at him.

"Stacie has a major crush on Aubrey" Beca explained to Chloe "she and Jesse can fight for hours, even days about who is better for her. Don't tell her that though or she might just run away from both"

Chloe laughed "I think she's enjoying the attention way too much. "

"I just hope she knows what she's getting into"

"Do you think Stacie and Jesse will stop being friends if Aubrey picked one of them?"

"Nah, sure the loser would be whining for a while but they'll get over it. If you ask me I'm secretly rooting for Stacie but don't tell Jesse I said that"

"Taking sides huh? Not a nice thing to do to your friends, don't you think?"

Beca shrugged "I love them both, I honestly do. But Stacie is my sister, she has a heart of gold, she might seem a little crazy and wild but she's a real sweetheart. That's a side of her not everyone knows though"

Chloe smiled, after Beca and Stacie assured her there was nothing romantically going on between them she was able to see how much the girls loved each other, it reminded her of her relationship with Aubrey.

"That's the same way I feel about Aubrey. She deserves someone who makes her happy and put her first. She has dated the most unbelievable douchebags you can imagine, they have been with her for her looks or the position, none of them has taken the time to get to know the real Aubrey, after she got her spot at Inside the Lines she just gave up, she focuses on her work, that's part of the reason she is so amazing at what she does but sometimes she needs someone at her side."

Beca nodded, both girls could only hope her best friend could find their special someone soon.

Maria was close to winning the match with no problems, Jonkova was lost, there was nothing she could do to return Simons brilliant shots. The blonde was having the time of her life, she loved the way the crowd supported her, she loved to hear her friends at her box excited at a good point.

The match ended with a solid 6-1, 6-0 for Maria.

Beca and her friends clapped for Maria as the player point them out and winked at them.

Nigel was the first to hug her once they made their way to the v.i.p area.

"Great job darling. That backhand was on fire today" he told his daughter.

"Thanks dad" she beamed.

Beca stepped in "Not bad Simons, I didn't think you still had it in you" she joked receiving a slap on her arm from Maria.

"I hope you took notes Mitchell, next time I'll charge for the lessons"

the group laughed at the player's banter. They always behaved like that around each other, it was a welcome escape from the stress that involved the tournaments.

Stacie managed to invite Aubrey for lunch after the blonde finished covering the press conferences of the players. Aubrey's coworker would cover the rest of the matches of the day.

Amy and Luke excused themselves as soon as they congratulated Maria, both needed to sleep the hangover away. That left Jesse, Chloe and Beca. Beca was trying to hint that she wanted to grab lunch with Chloe alone, Jesse seemed oblivious to the many hints the brunette threw his way, or maybe he just decided to ignore them. One way or another the three of them headed for lunch at a place a friend of Chloe recommended a couple of days back.

"I can't believe you let Stacie take Aubrey for lunch Beca, that's an irresponsible action. She's a public figure, who knows what shady place Stacie is going to take her!" Jesse exclaimed as soon as they were seated.

Beca rolled her eyes at the boy "Seriously? get over it Jesse. You are just jealous is not you with Aubrey"

"Well yes, but only because I'm concerned at Aubrey's well-being"

"really? just admit it Jesse"

"whatever, if I didn't know better I'd say you are actually rooting for her"

"Jesse" Beca said grabbing his hand "both of you are my friends and I love you both but this thing is getting ridiculous. I get that Aubrey is your celebrity crush or whatever you call it, but she's not a trophy. You have to stop acting like Stacie stole your favorite toy because first of all Aubrey is not a possession, she's a person with feelings and capacity of deciding who she wants to hang out with and who she doesn't and secondly weren't you all head over heels about that Kate girl last week you called me?"

Chloe was silently watching the exchange, noting the words Beca was telling Jesse.

"yeah but she's Aubrey Posen! Kate is.. she's nice"

Beca sighed retracting her hand "look J, all I'm saying is don't throw what could be a nice relationship for this nonsense competition you have with Stacie."

It was Jesse's time to sigh "I guess you are right" he admitted, just then his phone started to ring, he looked at Beca like she was some sort of alien "What kind of sorcery is this? It's Kate!"

Beca grinned "I'm just awesome like that" he winked.

Jesse excuse himself and walked to a little patio in the restaurant to answer the call.

Chloe spoke for the first time since they entered the restaurant "You handled that really well"

Beca shrugged "I know he really is into this Kate girl, he drunk called me three times to tell me how beautiful her hair is" she snorted.

"How are you still single Beca Mitchell?"

Beca raised an eyebrow at Chloe's question "Oh no, here we go again with the stalking, Who says I'm single?" she challenged.

"Well, are you dating someone?" Chloe asked begging the brunette was still single.

Beca remained silent for a moment "no" she said in a little voice.

"yes!" Chloe exclaimed earning a questioning look from Beca "I mean, yes I knew you weren't dating anyone" she offered nervously, Beca didn't seem to buy her explanation but let it slide.

"so back to my question, how are you still single?" Chloe tried again.

Beca shrugged "I don't know. I guess I don't have time to distract myself with relationships"

Chloe nodded "I get it. But don't you feel lonely sometimes?" she asked.

"I don't know. I've never..."

Chloe gasped "You've never been in a relationship?"

Beca blushed and looked down she only managed to shook her head.

"Oh my! Are you serious? Beca I can't believe that"

"Gee thanks for making me feel better"

"No, that's not what I meant. It's just you are smart, funny, talented, your voice is amazing and you are really gorgeous."

Beca blushed even more "I.. thanks" she said awkwardly.

Chloe lifted her chin so their eyes were connected "You are welcome, I mean every single word"

Beca smiled, she remember she didn't know if Chloe was dating someone either, the mere thought sent a unseateling feeling to her stomach.

"what about you?"

"Oh, I've dated"

Beca laughed "good for you, but I meant if you are dating someone at the moment"

Chloe sobered "no, I haven't been in a relationship for the last five months. Things ended pretty bad"

Beca squeezed Chloe's hand "I'm sorry about that. Whatever happened he is the asshole"

"she" Chloe corrected her.

"Oh, sorry. I didn't know"

"It's ok. But you are right, she was an asshole"

"What happened? You don't have to tell me if you don't want to"

"It's ok. I'm over it now. She was after the spotlight, I was her bridge to fame. Aubrey warned me to take things slow but I didn't want to listen to anyone, I was sure everyone was wrong, just a healthy tip, when the whole world is telling you someone is taking advantage of you, you should really listen." she laughed.

"I can't believe there are people like that. I don't get how they can sleep knowing they are hurting someone just to get their way"

"Hollywood is full of those. People forget who they are as soon as they arrive."

"You aren't like that though"

"Oh trust me, I lost myself once or twice, lucky for me Aubrey was around to call me on my shit."

"Well, I'm glad she was around then"

Jesse joined the girls again and the three of them ate sharing a conversation about Maria's match.

While they were waiting for the dessert because Jesse refused to leave a restaurant without eating dessert, the conversation transitioned to how the two friends met.

"We met at the school radio" Jesse explained "Beca was in charge of the music and announcements, being the gentleman I am, I volunteer to help her"

Beca snorted "Gentleman? please, you had a crush on me Swanson"

Chloe raised her eyebrow at the information.

Jesse raised his hands "guilty" he said the turned to Chloe "You have no idea how many boys she turned down, she was one of the prettiest girls in school"

"I thought you never dated"

"Well, I didn't lie, I never went out with anyone, I never said I wasn't asked out" the brunette pointed out.

"Anyway, there was this guy in match class who had the biggest crush on Beca, he would go to all her matches to cheer for her and everything. One day he came to class wearing a red tux and he interrupted the class breaking into a song and singing to Beca asking her out"

"Oh my! please don't remind me of that, I think my ears are still bleeding from the most awful rendition of Can't fight this feeling"

Chloe laughed at Beca's reaction, she was highly entertained knowing about the brunette's past.

"Or what about that time in P.E when Matt tried to show off and end up with his face cover in mug" Jesse said between laughs.

Beca was laughing at the memory while Chloe was laughing at Beca and Jesse's reactions.

"Remember when Glen asked you out though? That was the best!" Jesse said, Beca stop laughing right away.

"Ok, Jesse. That's enough stories for the day"

Jesse was still laughing uncontrollably "But that was the best, you see Chloe, Glen called Beca pretending to be a DJ from a famous radio show and got Beca to agree to meet up with him at this bar kind of place, Beca being the anti-social she is didn't know there was a band from school playing there that night, everyone was there, as soon as Beca entered the place, Glen stole the microphone from the host and proceeded to dedicate a poem to Beca. I still remember the whole thing it went like... ow!"

Beca kicked Jesse under the table.

"Why do you always hurt me?" Jesse said rubbing his leg.

"Because you don't know when to shut your mouth!"

Chloe laughed at them.

"I think we should leave before one of you ends up in the hospital" she told them. Beca was glaring at Jesse, he was trying to put an innocent face.

The trio return to the tennis garden, Beca got ready to practice, Jesse went back to the house explaining he had reached his daily quota of tennis for the day. Chloe was invited to join Beca's practice.

She was beaming at the opportunity to watch the brunette in action up close.

Beca was focused on all the pointers Nigel would give her, she understood that there was more pressure on her now that she had taken Daniels out, her next opponent was world's number five, a small player like her with much more experience than her. Nigel made sure Beca practiced her smashes, she did an awful job with them at her match against Daniels.

Chloe often forgot Beca was only playing a practice match and she would clap of yell when the brunette won a point against her hitting partner.

Beca approached Chloe in one of her breaks.

"I see you are enjoying the practice" Beca said taking a seat at the floor next to the redhead who was sitting on a chair.

"Won't even deny it. You seem to be enjoying it as well"

"I live for this. When I'm hitting the ball is just feels so free. Have you ever played?"

Chloe shook her head.

"What? how is that even possible? come" she said standing up and reaching for Chloe's hand.

"What are we doing?" The redhead eyed the younger girl.

"We are going to play tennis" Beca told her.

"But, I don't know anything about it! And won't your coach be mad because you are wasting your time instead of practicing?"

"He'll survive. Here, you are right-handed right?"

"yes"

"ok, so this is the grip, you have to grab your racket like this" Beca explained her while showing Chloe how her hands should be on the racket. "Good, so now to hit a forehand shot you move it like this" Beca made a shadow of the movement and Chloe mimicked it. Then Beca showed her how to hit a backhand shot, when she was satisfied with the way Chloe was doing the shadows, Beca walked to the other side of the net.

"Ok, we'll take it easy. Try to hit the forehand ok?" she then threw a ball at Chloe's right side so the redhead could hit it, she failed to do so the five times Beca sent a ball her way. Beca went back to Chloe's side.

"I see why you can't hit them like you are supposed to" Beca then moved behind Chloe, her hands were over Chloe's hands, guiding them, she brought the racket that was still on Chloe's hands back and made the motion of hitting the forehand.

Chloe was desperately trying to pay attention but with Beca pressed up at her back she was completely distracted, feeling the brunette's toned arms around hers, she was feeling a little dizzy. Her mind was going places it shouldn't and her breath was giving her thoughts away. Beca smirked at the flustered look of the redhead. "You ok there Beale?" she whispered making Chloe whimper.

Beca realised the girl and kept smirking while Chloe tried to regain her composure.

"And you call me devil" the redhead retorted.

Beca put on her most innocent look "I have no idea what you are talking about"

"sure sure" Chloe glared

"Sorry, but being in a tennis tournament and not playing tennis at least once it's unacceptable. It needed to be fixed"

Chloe smirked now "well I'll let you fix that if you let me fix something too"

"and what would that be?" Beca asked curiously.

"Let me take you out on a date"

A.N: Thank you sooo soooo much for your feedback on last chapter, as promised Staubrey will be a thing. Someone mentioned they loved the love battle between Stacie and Jesse so I decided to write a bit more about it.

I feel like a real jerk for making you wait for this chapter and it's not really long or super exciting but I will make it up to you :) Hope you guys enjoy this chapter.
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