This chapter is a little short guys but I like it since its basically all just Bechloe dialogue.
Hope you enjoy it and tell me what you thought :)
It's All About Finding Yourself - Chapter 7
Jesse had dropped Aubrey off at her house on the drive back home. Chloe on the other hand was invited back by Beca to their house to go over the math question she was still having trouble with.
"Dad, we're home!" Beca called out, closing the front door behind Chloe as Jesse went upstairs to his room. There was no response from her father. "He said he'd be home." She mumbled under her breath. "Anyway, welcome to my humble abode. This is where the magic happens. I'm kidding, forget I said that I made it sound like a whorehouse." She rambled, shaking her head at her non-existent filter.
"You're so weird." Chloe laughed quietly under her breath, thinking Beca couldn't hear her as the brunette led her down the hall.
"I'm a weirdo with good hearing so watch what ya say." Beca said jokingly sending the redhead a look over her shoulder. Chloe smirked when Beca turned back around. "Where art thou father?" Chloe giggled at the brunette's silliness as she opened a door to what she assumed was the kitchen. "Oh you're here." Beca wandered into the kitchen to find her father and Sheila sitting at the dining table, surrounded by papers scattered over the table.
"Hi, honey." Dr Mitchell greeted his daughter, not bothering to look up. Sheila also greeted Beca before taking a sip of wine.
"Guys!" Beca clapped her hands, startling the two adults at the table.
"Jesus Bec-Oh hello, you must be..." Dr Mitchell removed his glasses once he realised that Chloe was in the room and then turned to his daughter for guidance.
"Chloe." Beca filled in. "Chloe, this is my dad and you know Rachael?" Beca asked and Chloe nodded. "Well this is her mom, Sheila aka my dad's fiancée." Chloe had to take a second to process that. Beca and Rachael were going to be step-sisters?! Chloe smiled at the two nevertheless.
"It's nice to meet you Chloe." Sheila said politely with a smile.
"Beca has talked a lot about you, moved here from Florida didn't you?" Dr Mitchell asked the redhead. Chloe turned to Beca with an amused smirk on her face, couldn't stop talking about her huh?
"Yeah, that's right. My dad's a businessman and he got a promotion in which he had to move over here so he could be closer to the head office." Chloe explained before Beca stepped in, clutching two bottles of water.
"Hold on a sec, does your dad happen to know a Colin Posen?" Beca asked, handing Chloe a bottle.
"Yeah that's his boss..." Chloe said slowly, not quite catching on. Dr Mitchell stood up with a chuckle and took his and Sheila's empty glasses over to the sink.
"His entire life is dedicated to work that one." Dr Mitchell chuckled once more.
"Wait you guys know him too?" Chloe asked confused.
"Who else do you know has the same last name as your dad's boss?" It took a second before Chloe's eyes lit up. "Mr Posen is Bree's dad."
"Wow, really? The way my dad describes him, he's pretty hard going." Chloe unscrewed the cap of the bottle and took a sip.
"Oh trust me he is. He totally hates me." Beca shrugged.
"Beca, he doesn't hate you, he just..." Sheila was lost for the right words.
"He does so! He looked so offended when he first saw my ear piercings and he says I swear to much to be allowed in his house."
"You do swear too much." Dr Mitchell slipped in as he leaned against the counter.
"You can talk." Sheila scoffed. "It's you she gets that from, you're both just the same person." Beca and her dad looked each other up and down.
"Anyway, why do you think Aubrey's so tightly wound half the time? Her dad's an asshole." Beca said. "I tell you if Jesse ever wants to ask her out, he better steer clear of her dad." Beca chuckled but then realised she said that out loud.
"Jesse likes Aubrey?" Chloe and Dr Mitchell asked in unison.
"Whoops. Uhm we're gonna go upstairs now, come on Chloe." Chloe was about to protest but Beca's hand on the small of her back shut her up.
"Wait Beca, I need your opinion on one thing." Beca turned around and nodded for her dad to continue. "For a date for the wedding, we were thinking New Years Eve. That means since your uncle Jason always manages to get back for Christmas and New Year, he'll be able to attend the wedding."
"Yeah sounds good but only on one condition."
"That being?"
"You buy me a few drinks from the bar on the night." Beca chanced her luck with a smirk.
"Beca you're seventeen, you can have a couple glasses of wine and that's it." Dr Mitchell pointed at her warningly, taking his seat back beside his fiancée.
"Oh my god, you're such a dad." Beca groaned, turning around. "It's fine, I'll just use Stacie's fake ID." She ushered Chloe out of the kitchen, not bothering to close the door behind.
"You certainly will not!" Dr Mitchell called down the hall after his daughter.
"I'm kidding!" Beca rolled her eyes as she began to lead Chloe up the stairs.
"I take it your uncle Jason is Jesse's dad?" Chloe asked and Beca nodded, opening her room door.
"And this is my room." Beca dropped her skate bag at the bottom of her bed and kicked off her shoes. "Just throw your stuff anywhere." Chloe dropped her bag next to Beca's and took her shoes off before looking around her surroundings. Beca's room was covering in band posters and the parts of wall you could see, it was painted a dark purple colour. She looked over at her desk where her laptop and mixing equipment sat comfortably.
"Wow, did you draw this?" Chloe walked over to her desk and leaned over it, pointing at the hand drawing of Hayley Williams.
"Uh no, actually Jesse drew that. He wanted to keep it because he thinks she's so hot but I stole it from him." Beca explained with a laugh, walking over to Chloe.
"But she is hot." Beca laughed at the redhead practically drooling over the drawing. "He's a really good drawer though." Chloe wasn't aware of how close Beca was behind her until she could feel the brunette's warm breath on her neck. Chloe kept receiving mixed messages from this whole situation, Beca had told her that she was straight but she would beg to differ judging by the way she acts around her. Chloe wasn't one to judge so she was going to keep this to herself.
"Shall we get started with this?" Beca asked, opening her drawer and pulling out her math equipment.
"Yeah sure." Chloe took a seat on Beca's bed and brought her legs up so she could sit cross-legged. "Are you looking forward to invitationals on Friday?"
"I dunno." Beca shrugged, flipping through the textbook. "I've never really properly performed before nevermind in front of that amount of people" She admitted quietly. Chloe felt sorry for her but couldn't quite relate because ever since she was a kid she always said she wanted to become a performer.
"You'll be awesome. I saw you in rehearsal today, you're a really good dancer. By the way Jesse and Stacie were really good dancing together, they looked so cute and comfortable." Chloe smiled widely. Beca smirked. "Why have they never gone out?"
"They're friendship is way too close for that. I even think Jesse's that tiny bit more closer to Stacie than I am." Beca explained, removing her glasses from their case. Once Beca had put her glasses on, something caught her eye on Chloe's wrist. "Hey, I never noticed you had a tattoo." Beca reached forward and turned Chloe's arm over, revealing her ladybug tattoo.
"Yeah I got it back in March for my sixteenth."
"Aw you're still sixteen?" Beca teased. Chloe looked up and pouted at the smirking brunette. "Are you sure you're a junior? Shouldn't you be a sophomore with Luke and Rachael?" She teased further earning herself a playful slap on the arm.
"Yes I'm pretty sure I'm and junior, if I was born any later then I would've probably been a sophomore plus the only seventeen year old's in glee club are you and Stacie so shut up." Chloe laughed.
"I've got a tattoo that got for my sixteenth too. Do you wanna see it?" Beca asked, fondling with the hem of her shirt.
"Sure." Chloe smiled but that smile disappeared soon enough when Beca grabbed the hem of her shirt and began to remove it. Chloe was wondering why the brunette was performing a fricking striptease in front of her. Maybe that's what all this was about, maybe Beca had the fact of Chloe being bisexual in the back of her mind and was leading her on. Or maybe Chloe was overreacting. Beca fully removed her shirt leaving her in her black bra. Beca didn't know herself why the hell she just stripped her top off in front of her bi friend maybe it was because her, Stacie and Aubrey had been changing in front of each other for years but those two are straight.
Chloe tried to avert her eyes away from Beca's chest but it was pretty difficult due to the distracting size. 'Holy shit' was the only two words repeating in the redhead's head. Finally Beca turned her back to Chloe and looked over her shoulder. "It took a lot of work trying to convince my dad to let me get a tattoo but since he's a big fan of the song he let me get this." Chloe's eyes ran over Beca's back until she came to the tattooed words.
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one - Imagine, John Lennon" Chloe read "Oh my god I love it. Does it mean anything in particular to you?" She asked as Beca pulled her shirt back over her head.
"Well it was the first song my dad taught me how to play on piano." Beca shrugged, adjusting her glasses.
"You're cute."
"I'm not cute."
"You are so! With your cute little sentimental tattoos and your cute little RayBans."
Beca narrowed her eyes. "I'm so close to kicking you onto the floor, Beale." She lifted her foot up warningly.
"Aw you even have cute little feet since you're a cute little hobbit."
"Oh come on!" Beca through her hands up in the air making Chloe giggle. "Since when were hobbit's cute? And FYI Aubrey has smaller feet than me." Beca stated smugly. Chloe's brow furrowed.
"What the hell?!" Chloe exclaimed, laughing as she dodged Beca's feet. "I need some scoop on someone in school." Chloe said after they had calmed down slightly.
"And who would that be?" The plan to study had been thrown out the window apparently.
"Tom O'Riley?"
"Football douchebag, O'Riley? Oh god what do you want to know?" Beca groaned, pushing the textbooks off the bed, having an idea of where this was going.
"Well just what he's like." Chloe shrugged. "We started talking in our history class and he seems like a pretty nice guy." Chloe needed to find a way to get her mind off of Beca and Tom seemed like the easiest route at the moment.
"Oh no no, I wouldn't go there if I were you." Beca shook her head as she spoke, trying to prove her point. "Been there before." Beca mumbled under her breath.
"What?!" Chloe exclaimed causing Beca to flinch as the volume. "Beca Mitchell dated the quarterback?!"
"Not exactly." Beca pointed at Chloe with two fingers. "We just kinda fooled around once, yeah he's got a banging body but he's a fucking douche, don't go there dude."
"I dunno." Chloe shrugged, smiling down at her fingers. "He's kinda cute and he was really sweet to me."
"One word. Womaniser."
"You're impossible." Operation create a distraction from Beca was now in session.
So Chloe's trying to distract herself from Beca knowing that she can't love someone who can't love her back.
What did you think of the dialogue?
And I know in some fics Beca normally has a rough relationship with her dad but I kinda like giving them dad/daughter banter.