It had been a little over a week since the disaster of a frat party and Beca had hardly seen Chloe, to speak to her, never mind anything else. She was starting to really want to see her, to feel her arms around her, her lips against her own. Which meant that Beca was starting to accept that she was really into Chloe.

Which to Beca, was a big deal. She was never that "into" other girls, she had girlfriends, fooled around and such, but never let her emotions get the best of her, and here she was, missing a certain red head who made her stomach flutter with a million butterflies when she looked at her with those bright icy blue eyes.

But with the distractions of the Bella's rehearsals, which had grown far more gruelling since the mixer gig, Beca had managed to keep her mind distracted, even when Chloe looked at her with that gaze of longing and all she wanted to do was grab her.

Currently Aubrey was running through even more harmonizing techniques, having paired up the Bella's to work with one another. Beca's heart had sank when Chloe got paired with the almost mute Lilly, she usually got Chloe to herself, but not today it seemed. But she was with Cynthia Rose, who was pretty cool, she was laid back and had a pretty wide range of shirts which Beca liked, and her voice was beautiful, Beca often wondered if Cynthia Rose would let her sample her voice on one of her mixes.

As they worked through "ooohs" and "ahhhhs" Beca let her eyes wander over to where Chloe was trying to get a noise out of Lilly, and was still having no luck it seemed. She wore a long sleeved top today, it was blue and grey stripped, just finishing above her jeans clads buttocks, which was as lovely as always, Beca smirked slightly to herself and Cynthia Rose frowned, following the shorter girls gaze,

'Its kinda obvious, you know, if your trying to hide it,' She said, making Beca jump,

'What?' the brunette shot back and Cynthia Rose smirked,

'You have a thing for Chloe, its really kinda obvious, you have like this massive lesbian boner for her,'

'Oh thank god you didn't call it a toner!'

'What's a toner?'

'Something Aubrey came up with, a musical boner or some bullshit like that,'

'Weird, but yeah, its obvious you to are into each other. Are you ever gonna do something about it? Cos I''d kinda like it if everyone stopped skirting around me for being gay and got on with it,' Beca felt her blush rise into her cheeks, dropping her gaze to the floor,

'I dunno dude, I mean, I like her, and I'm not used to liking people in the way I like Chloe, but I'm scared she don't like me the same amount, you know?'

'Hey, come on, I've been trying to get into Stacie's panties for awhile now, I know how you feel. Just lay it out flat, tell her, and don't back down!' The other girl placed her hand on Beca's shoulder, in a soft, supporting way, her smile was kind and warm and Beca couldn't help but grin back at her,

'Thanks CR,'

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They'd now moved on to stacking and sorting the vinyls in the radio station, sorting through the different era's and genres, which involved a lot of messing around from Jesse, who seemed to be determined to make Beca laugh that afternoon. He kept holding up the Vinyls to his face, and then pulling them away to reveal a different face he was pulling each time. He had that kind of face that could pull all sorts of angles and still be quite hilarious each time.

Eventually he managed to make Beca grin and he smiled broadly, perching himself on the edge of the no-sex desk,

'So how you feeling after your little alcohol adventure last week?' he asked, turning over a casset tape in his hands. Beca grimaced slightly, taking in a deep intake of breath and rolling her eyes,

'Oh you know, massively sore head for a few days, some hurt pride, not really remembering a lot of what I did,' she trailed of,

'Oh you nearly got into a fight with Chloe's ex,'

'I did?' Beca worried her bottom lip and swallowed dryly, maybe that's why Chloe wasn't really talking to her,

'Yeah and then me and Cynthia Rose and Fat Amy got rid of her. Do you really not remember anything?' He questioned, flipping the casset into the air and dropping it on the floor, at that point Luke came out of his booth, frowning at Jesse. There was a brief alpha male contest in which Luke won by simply showing off his far too toned stomach and demanding that Jesse fetched him a cheese burger.

Being the younger and slightly more squishy male, Jesse didn't have a choice but to comply, leaving Beca alone in the station with Luke. Again she worried her lip, grabbing a USB drive from the rucksack and heading towards the booth that Luke had disappeared into again,

'No freshmen in the booth,' the British male called over his shoulder as Beca put a single foot inside, she cured under her breath and cleared her throat,

'I just wanted to give you my new mix if that's okay,' Luke turned in his chair and smiled softly, feeling slightly bad that he hadn't listened to any of her other mixes as of yet, he meant to, she was cute, even if she was gay, and she worked hard, he just kept forgetting. As Beca tossed the USB in his direction, the brit caught it with ease and tossed it onto the pile of other USB's on his desk. Beca smiled sheepishly and backed out of the booth, intent on going back to the vinyls when Jesse stomped back in, he tossed a cheese burger to Beca and moved on to the booth.

The brunette couldn't help but grin when she heard Luke call out the usual line of "No freshmen in the booth" when Jesse entered, and the excited laugh over cheese burgers. Once Jesse had finally returned to the vinyl stack, Beca eyed him,

'So how bad was the drunken Beca?' she asked and Jesse smiled a little,

'Well, you had no control over your feet, or mouth, or hands. Especially not around Chloe,'

'Chloe was there? Oh my god Jesse! Why haven't you told me any of this sooner?!' Beca threw the balled up greasy paper from her cheese burger at her friend quite forcefully and he grinned wider,

'She likes you! And you like her! Oh my sweet aca-gods! Your gonna have little aca-lesbian babies! Oh dibs on uncle!'

'be serious here dipshit, what happened?'

'okay, okay, we got you back to your dorm room, tucked you all in and then Chloe stayed with you,'

'All night?'

'I assume so,' Jesse smirked and took a large bite out of his cheese burger, 'Can I be there when you ask her out?' he said through a mouthful of meat and Beca shot him a dark glare.

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The redhead slammed through the Sigma Beta Theta frat house, shoving open doors to her left and to her right, till she came across the man she was looking for. She frowned hard and punched the frat leader square in the chest,

'Where is she Tom?' she demanded, glaring at him,

'Huh? Who?' Tom replied, pushing himself against the wall he'd been cornered in, his soft eyes looking franticly scared of the raging Chloe,

'You know who. Where is Shay?' Chloe demanded once more, hands on her hips, glaring at him as darkly as she could. The redhead liked to think that she looked quite menacing right then, but she knew that standing at 5 foot and 4 inches didn't make her very menacing next to the 6 foot that was Tom, the football player she used to hook up with. But still, she stood her ground, keeping her glare in place and her hands on her hips until he gave up the information about her ex girlfriend.

Within a few minutes Chloe was striding across the Barden campus, heading into town to the bed and breakfast that Shay was staying at. She had decided the day after the frat party that she would confront the tall girl and have it out with her. To tell her to leave her alone, to leave Beca alone, to have her go back to LA and never stick her nose in her business again. But it had taken her nearly a week to bring up the courage to do so. And now she was doing it. She was heading to Shay and she was going to stand her ground.

She hoped.

Slamming through the quaint little bed and breakfast, Chloe found Shay leaving the room she had rented, suitcase in hand,

'Oh good your leaving, so I don't have to tell you to do that!' the redhead snapped and Shay blinked, shocked,

'What?'

'I don't want you to come Barden. Ever. I don't want to hear from you. Ever again. And if you go anywhere near Beca ever again, I will destroy you,' Chloe hissed, her eyes dark with anger, 'You have no part in my life any more, and never will, ever, ever again Shay. You mean nothing to me any more,'

'Well that's good to know, I suppose,' the taller woman said, a slight smirk playing on her lips. Chloe made a small noise of annoyance and threw her hands into the air, Shay, being the woman she was, took that as an invitation and ducked her head forward, brushing her lips to Chloe's. Within mere seconds, the redhead was pushing her ex girlfriend away from her with such force that Shay hit the corridor wall behind her,

'No! No, you don't get to do that! Only one person get that's now!'

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'Oh, let me guess, its that Beca girl?'

'Your damn right it is, your damn right!' Chloe called over her shoulder as she strode away from Shay, leaving her ex in the past, the determination to make Bea her future in her mind.

Chloe grinned broadly as she spotted Beca, sitting under her usual tree on the quad, Jesse was with her, the boy who had helped Chloe carry Beca back to her room the night before. They where drinking from juice pouches, discussing something in-depth, laughing at one another. Chloe strode across the quad towards them, her grin plastered to her face.

'Hey guys!' she said in a chirpy voice, waving slightly as she approached them. Jesse waved back at her, where as Beca jumped to her feet, and enveloped herself against Chloe. She wrapped her arms tight around the older girls body, hugging Chloe to her,

'I've missed you,' the smaller girl mumbled into Chloe shoulder, and the redhead grinned wider, Jesse winked at her over Beca's shoulder, giving Chloe just the right signal.

'I've missed you too Beca, far too much, I'm sorry I haven't been around much this week,' the redhead said softly, prizing Beca away from her so she could perch on the grass with Beca and Jesse, the dark haired boy grinned softly, watching the two women converse, not in the slightest bothered that they'd forgotten he was there,

'Don't be sorry! Jesse told me that you stayed with me that whole night I was drunk, thank you,' Beca smiled,

'I wasn't going to just leave you there by yourself, I care too much about you to do that,' Chloe returned the smile, her cheeks flushing almost as red as her hair,

'Oh is that right Beale?' Beca flashed her best cheeky smirk and Chloe chewed her bottom lip,

'You know its right, hey, um, you know how you wanted to talk the other week? About the relationship stuff?'

'Yeah?' Beca's voice went very soft as she said the one word, her stomach flipping over with butterflies, much like Chloe's own stomach was doing,

'I think we should have that talk. And why is there a candle here?"