Ugh sometimes I hate when real life gets in the way because all I want to do is write, but then I realize I have to actually like go to work so I can pay rent and stuff. Major bummer. Anyway, my apologies. I would like to send a HUGE thank you to Coolerthanadesert, mitchii2506, DaDa, apple-jacs, and EAV13 for your reviews. They truly motivate me. And to BrittanaBechloe are soulmates, I prefer vanilla with chocolate frosting ;)

Chapter 4

Practice had been more successful than the first. Beca had managed to control the group long enough to make it through warm ups and a few song selections before they started to call out what they wanted to sing, resulting in many attempted mutinies. Figuring that there had at least been a little bit of progress this time around, Beca had dismissed them with 2 songs to come prepared with for next week. Exhausted, Beca began to clean up the chairs and papers left in the auditorium.

"It wasn't that bad…" Chloe said from across the room as she helped stack chairs.

"Are you kidding me? It was near impossible to reign them in once they started off on their own ideas." Beca shrugged. "Maybe I was a poor choice for captain."

"I managed to do it last year! You can so do this!" Chloe said positively, placing a hand on the shorter girl's shoulder.

Beca chuckled and rolled her eyes. "Hate to break it to you Red, but had you been completely in charge we'd have never even made it to regionals. Posen was the iron fist last year."

Chloe pulled her hand back in mock hurt. "How could you say such things? After all the hard work I spent coaching you all."

With a snort Beca turned to face the redhead. "Oh? Please remind this silly ungrateful girl of what you have provided for her." Beca quirked an eyebrow but then blushed lightly at her own thoughts of the older woman 'providing' a lot more for her. Head out of the gutter Mitchell, this is you're best friend your thinking of. Your unavailable straight best friend you are thinking of.

The brunette was brought out of her musings by a chuckle beside her. "Honestly Becs, I would love to know where you go in that head of yours sometimes."

Beca blushed and just shrugged. "Sorry... But seriously, I'm doomed."

"Beca you're not-"

"No she's right." The pair turned to see Aubrey was standing by the doorway.

"See!" Beca threw her hands up in the air and gave a look to Chloe that said 'told you so.'

"Bree, stop being so overdramatic. Beca is doing fine. It's only the second practice, which you weren't even here to witness. So how would you even know!" Chloe looked pointedly at her former co-captain, who matched her stare.

Beca, in attempt to releave some of the tension and break up the weird staredown that had begun, started to theatrically look around the room like a crazy person.

Aubrey was the first to break the glare-fest and rolled her eyes at the younger girl. "What are you doing?"

Without stopping her silly antics, Beca responded. "I'm looking for the mics and hidden cameras you had installed."

Chloe snorted and Aubrey cracked a small smile, so the brunette continued. "Don't act like you wouldn't! I know how much of a control freak you are. I woundn't put it past you to install some in here…or all over campus. Did you put a camera on my bag!?"

Beca grabbed her bag and started to dump stuff out of it. Aubrey made an exasperated grunt and threw her hands in the air. "I honestly don't know why I put up with you."

"Alright," Chloe smiled feeling a little more comfortable in the situation. "Since Beca is now probably going to spend the entire night scouring the practice room for cameras, I'm going to head out and get ready for my date tonight. Bree, I'll see you at home. Becs, clear your Friday night for some quality time with your favorite redhead."

Beca paused her actions and looked at the woman. "You're the only redhead I know." Aubrey smacked the girl across the chest. "Ophffff! I mean, favorite yes! You had some major competition too!"

Chloe's smile brightened and Aubrey just rolled her eyes at the pair.

"Later Red." Beca called after the girl as she passed through the double doors. Beca stared after the woman, slightly upset that she was rushing off for a date. She had told the woman she was happy for her to be dating, but it didn't make it hurt any less when Chloe looked so happy to be running off to spend time with someone else.

After a few moments, she turned back to the blonde who was now looking at her curiously. "What?"

"Nothing!" Aubrey quickly turned and made her way over to the dry erase board to examine it, trying not to let the brunette on to what she had been thinking.

Beca quietly made her way over to the board. "Hey Bree, I wanted to uh, thank you for last night. It was just tough being there with Jesse and all after breaking up.."

"Yea, okay." Aubrey rolled her eyes at the comment, completely aware that Jess was not the reason the brunette had been so upset the other night.

Beca's eyebrows shot up. "What's that supposed to mean?"

"Nothing, nothing," Not wanting to bring up what the younger woman was clearly not ready to talk about she changed the topic. "Alright short stack let's go. We've got a lot of work ahead of us."

"Huh?"

Aubrey pointed to the board and made a face. "You need some help here. And instead of barging in on your practices, I thought it'd be better to help you come up with a gameplan and give you some coaching outside of rehearsals. The girls will never respect you as a leader if they constantly see me correcting you."

Beca mumbled, "It wouldn't be constant."

The blonde snorted, "You've got your work cut out for you, short stack. Come on, we'll grab food and start planning back at my apartment."

With that she dragged the shorter girl out of the building and to her car.

"I'm surprised you didn't make it to rehearsal today." Beca said in between bites of her pepperoni pizza.

Aubrey looked over at the other girl from her spot on the couch. They were currently back at Aubrey and Chloe's apartment gorging on pizza and fries. They had successfully broken down Beca's rehearsal plan from that evening and fixed it, Aubrey pointing out the many areas she had gone wrong, and had started on a semester long rehearsal by rehearsal schedule. The session was interrupted when Beca's stomach erupted in a growl. Ten minutes of bickering over where to get food, the pair had managed to come to a compromise and ordered from the pizza place down the block. Now they were sitting on the couch eating pizza and making small talk with a Lifetime movie on for background noise.

The blonde took another bite of her pizza and chewed before responding. "I do actually have other things to do you know. But I may have caught the end of your meeting..."

"You did?" Beca smirked at her.

"Yea and I opted to not butt in and I just watched from the doorway. Despite what you may think I'm not this evil, horrible person out to torment you all the time."

The shorter woman couldn't stop the snort that escaped. "Could have fooled me."

A crumpled up napkin flew across the couch and hit Beca square in the face. The brunette's open mouthed shock caused Aubrey to break into a giggle.

"I wanted to see how you handled it on your own smartass. You know, without me just jumping in and taking over. I know I'm not the captain anymore, you have to be able to take care of the Bellas without me."

Beca looked at the older woman inquisitively. It was weird, but the relationship between the two was different than before. They still fought, but it was more of a banter now and Aubrey seemed more and more like a normal person. Not this crazy control freak that Beca was used to. It's nice…she's nice…and she's kinda hot with that smirk on her fa—WAIT what! No. No no no no no. Mitchell stop right there. There is no way you can think AUBREY is hot. That smirk is definitely not hot! And neither is that laugh, the way the laugh brightens up her eyes. No her laugh is not beautiful and her eyes aren't amazing or anything...wait why was she laughing at me?

Broken from her minor panic attack, Beca looked over at Aubrey questioningly. "What?"

"Chloe's right, you do get lost in your head a lot." The older woman stood from her seat and made her way to the kitchen while calling back. "I'm grabbing a beer, you want one?"

"Uh sure." Beca started to fidget with her napkin. Get it together Mitchell.

Aubrey made her way back over to the couch and handed a beer to the suddenly nervous girl, before sitting back down. "So what were you thinking about that caused you to space out?"

Beca's eyebrows shot up. One: people normally didn't ask her what caused her to retreat into her own mind and two: there was no way she was telling the blonde that she was thinking about how hot she looked, and those inquisitive, blue eyes. How have I never noticed how great her eyes are... oh god there you go again. Beca quickly responded with a very small "Nothing," before downing half of her beer.

Aubrey just gave her the same look she gave the brunette earlier when she lied about being upset about Jesse, but dropped the subject. She made her way over to the fridge and grabbed a few more beers and sat back down on the couch. Not wanting to make the tiny brunette even more uncomfortable, even though it was kind of fun to watch her squirm, Aubrey turned her attention to the movie that was on the television.

"Honestly, I don't know how people enjoy watching these things!" The blonde shook her head at the movie.

Beca was grateful at the change of topic and turned to look at what Aubrey was talking about. "What Lifetime movies?"

"Well, yes, but I mean movies in general! Ninety percent of all movies are just so predictable. It's a waste of time if you ask me." She finished her miniature rant before finishing off her beer and grabbed one of the extra on the table.

The brunette, on the other hand, was just staring open mouthed at her. "Seriously?!"

Aubrey turned and looked at the shocked woman. "Oh don't tell me you're some movie geek and I've mortally offended you."

"No I've just never met anyone else who thinks that. Everyone thinks I'm so crazy when I say I don't like movies." Beca was in utter shock at the new information.

Curious about this, Aubrey stared at the girl. "Why don't you like movies?"

"Like you said, all movies are just so predictable. It's such a waste of time!"

Aubrey held up her hand in protest. "Uh uh, I said ninety percent of movies."

"Yea okay, so what's this other ten percent?" Beca quirked her eyebrow and looked at the older woman. "Porn?"

The blonde just smirked back at Beca. "No, been there, done all that. Those endings are very predictable."

Beca gulped and stared at the suddenly very, very hot older woman that was sitting in front of her.

Aubrey moved her body a little closer towards Beca and leaned her face in a few inches before whispering to the younger woman, "Scary movies are the bomb!"

Beca blinked a few times and shook her head. "What?"

Aubrey smiled, "I said scary movies are aca-awesome! Really good scary movies, you never know what's going to happen or if something's going to jump out or if someone going to die. They're great. Especially Japanese movies, they do it right."

Beca let out a breath and chuckled, "Right." Glad that the tension she had been feeling was gone, Beca looked back at the blonde. "I've never seen one. So, I wouldn't know."

Before Beca even realized what was going on, the lights were turned off and Aubrey had queued up a movie. "You never know until you try!"

The brunette just rolled her eyes and tried to sound displeased as the opening credits began on the screen. But as the movie started and Aubrey threw a blanket over the pair "in case she got scared and needed protection," Beca couldn't help but smile at the situation. What the heck is wrong with you Mitchell?

Whoop there it is!

One - So we don't really know Aubrey's view on movies and she totally seems like a movie hater. 'Could spend your time doing more productive things' kinda girl. Two, I promise this is eventually Bechloe I'm just a huge fan of angst and drama soooo it might take some twists and turns before we can get there. Three, I had a major battle with myself on where to end this chapter. I couldn't decide if it should be a fluffy ending or more of a cliff hanger. So this is what you got. The positive side, I've already started the next chapter :)

Let me know what you think, I enjoy reading what you have to say, whatever you have to say. Even if it's a story about your cat.