Long time no see! I know it's been like years but I've been really busy over Christmas and I've been doing exams at school but im back now and inspired to write! I need motivation from you guys though, I need to know your thoughts :)
"Do you trust me?" Beca held the eyeliner pencil in front of Chloe's face. It was finally the evening of the show choir's invitational performance and everybody was getting ready in the choir room. Stacie and Beca were placed in charge of hair and makeup so the day before Aubrey agreed she would let the girls try a few different styles out on her.
"Well you've managed to make your own eyeliner really pretty so yes, I trust you." Chloe mgiggled which made Beca smile before she began applying the eyeliner to the redhead.
"Well I only learn from the best."
"That would be me." Stacie sang from beside them, curling Aubrey's hair as she did so.
"How's everybody getting on?" Mr McKay entered the choir room, pushing a clothing rail in front of him with the girls' dresses hanging on it.
"Great." Jesse replied on behalf of the other guys who were basically all ready, only having to tie their red ties which matched the belt of the girls' black, strapless dresses.
"Awesome! What about you girls?"
"Me, Beca and Rachael have our hair and makeup finished so we've only got Aubrey and Chloe to go." Stacie filled in, cursing under her breath as she accidentally burnt her finger on the curling iron.
"Okay dresses are here, ready and altered." Mr McKay parked the rail beside the piano and began flicking through the dresses to double check. "Aubrey, Stacie, Chloe. Oh."
Beca and Rachael glanced at each other. "Oh what? " They both asked carefully since their names were still to be said.
"These last two don't have your names on them and you girls are too similar in height to tell the difference just by looking." He held up the two dresses side by side and Beca and Rachael walked up to take a closer look.
"Looks like I'm not the only hobbit." Beca laughed at the blonde. It was true though, Rachael would always make fun of Beca's height but she wasn't much taller herself.
"There's a simple way to fix this." Stacie voiced, handing Aubrey the curling iron before walking over to the current situation. "Well Beca's chest measurements were clearly bigger so just get her to try a dress on and if it doesn't fit over her chest then we know that's Rachael's dress." Stacie shrugged, taking one of the dresses out of Mr McKay's hand.
"Excuse me?" Rachael folded her arms over her chest and looked rather offended at Stacie's statement.
"Dude you can't be serious? You may be that tiny bit taller than her but you're never gonna have bigger boobs than her." Stacie shot back, earning a snigger from Chloe in the background who was turned around in her chair, watching the scene before her.
"Girls, sort this out without fighting please. Now take this, I'm going to see how the auditorium is going." Mr McKay handed Beca the other dress before exiting the room. Stacie dragged Beca behind the panel screen that was set up so the girls could get changed.
"Your fucking wolverine claws scratched me!" Beca exclaimed, rubbing her arm.
"Boohoo. Now strip."
"You not gonna take me on a date first?" Beca smirked as she unbuttoned and unzipped her jeans before shimmying them down her legs. Stacie just rolled her eyes.
"Watch the hair." Stacie warned as Beca began to remove her shirt.
"I'm watching." Beca huffed. Once she was completely stripped down to her underwear, Stacie helped her into the dress. "I can already hear my boobs screaming to be freed from this prison and it's not even zipped up yet."
Stacie laughed, turning Beca around to face her after she had zipped the dress up as far as she could. "Well obviously this one is Rachael's."
Beca rolled her eyes "Well no shit." Stacie unzipped the dress and helped the shorter brunette out of it. "I'll finish Chloe's makeup first before I put my dress on." Beca started getting dressed into the clothes she was wearing previously.
"Okay girls come on out." The five girls emerged from behind the screen only to be met with the clapping of hands and a few whistles from the boys.
"You all look gorgeous." Jesse voiced, his eyes lingering on Aubrey for longer than he intended.
"Yes, everyone looks amazing but let's get this show on the road!" Mr McKay exclaimed leading his show choir through the halls to the auditorium.
"Oh shit." Beca hissed as she took a peek behind the curtain, taking in the image of the auditorium full of people including her dad, Sheila and surprisingly her and Jesse's grandma. "Hey Jesse, Grandma's here." Beca came away from the curtain with her hand on her forehead, beginning to freak out about the amount of people.
"Awesome!" Jesse exclaimed, taking and way peek behind the curtain.
"Mr McKay can I talk to you for a second?" Beca asked, pulling him away from the rest of the group who were chatting and stretching.
"Yeah sure, is something wrong?" He asked with concern.
"I don't think I can sing in front of that many people." Beca shook her head and pinched the bridge of her nose.
"Bec please don't drop this on me now, I need you out there in a few minutes belting out the last note of Somebody To Love." Mr McKay ran his fingers through his hair and exhaled loudly.
"Stacie has a decent belt. You read the show choir rule book, not all members need to perform every song. Seriously Mr McKay if I try to belt that note I'm going to vomit everywhere." Their conversation was interrupted by the unenthusiastic tone of the school principal, Ms Hastings introducing their glee club onto the stage. Mr McKay quickly caught Stacie before the curtain was opened.
"Stace, I need you to take Beca's belt."
"What? Why?" Stacie became flustered, casting her eyes over at Beca who was pacing back and forth. "What about the next song?!" She hissed.
"I still need to figure that out." Mr McKay jogged back over to Beca at the side as the curtains were opened and the music began. "Beca if you're not gonna do this I'm going to have to get a replacement." He shrugged helplessly.
"I know, I know. It's just there's a lot of people out there y'know?" Beca peered around her teacher and could see the confusion on her dad's face, wondering where she was.
"And that's not going to change, Bec. If anything, the crowds are just going to get bigger and bigger. I know you have some confidence issues because of your dyslexia but as soon as you start singing, nothing else matters." Mr McKay explained, placing a hand on her shoulder. Beca sighed heavily. "I'll tell you what. I'll get Stacie to sing your parts with you?" He suggested and Beca nodded.
"Thanks Mr McKay." Beca smiled before she continued to try and calm herself down before the others finished the song.
The crowd cheered as the song came to an end and the teenagers were making their way behind the curtain. "Hey, Beca why weren't you out there?" Chloe approached the brunette, breathing heavily as she tried to catch her breath.
"I haven't sung in front of that many people before." Beca admitted quietly and glanced over to Mr McKay who was talking with Stacie, probably telling her to sing along with Beca.
"Trust me you'll be amazing." Without warning Chloe threw her arms around Beca causing them to stumble slightly. "Just look at me when you're singing, I'll help you through it." The redhead whispered which surprisingly comforting for Beca.
"Okay everyone take your places!" Mr McKay called out. "Chloe, Beca, Stacie are you girls ready?" He asked, the three girls nodded and Beca exhaled shakily. All she had to do was sing with Stacie and keep looking at Chloe.
Chloe, Beca and Stacie stood together as they waited for the music to start. Chloe could sense Beca's nervousness and decided to run her hand down the inside of Beca's arm until her fingers slipped between her's. She could feel the shorter girl looking at her but Chloe just kept her eyes ahead, attempting to hide the smile on her face. Chloe was supposed to be creating a distraction from her growing crush on Beca but it was becoming difficult for the redhead.
The music began and Chloe made her way out on stage by herself, catching her dad and Emily's eyes.
[A/N: Listen to "We Found Love - Glee Cast" whilst reading]
[Chloe]
Yellow diamonds in the light
Now we're standing side by side
As your shadow crosses mine
What it takes to come alive
It's the way I'm feeling I just can't deny
But I've gotta let it go
The rest of the Barden Majors came out on stage including Stacie and Beca who joined in singing with Chloe for the chorus.
[Chloe, Stacie and Beca]
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
Beca took a deep breath before starting the second verse. It took her a second to realise that Stacie wasn't singing with her anymore, as soon as she realised this she caught Chloe's eye and the smile on the redhead's face gave her confidence. Beca lifted her head and smiled out to her dad as she lifted her voice, showing her confidence.
[Beca]
Shine a light through an open door
Love and life I will divide
Turn away cause I need you more
Feel the heartbeat in my mind
[Chloe]
It's the way I'm feeling I just can't deny
([Barden Majors] I just can't deny)
[Chloe with Barden Majors]
But I've gotta let it go
[Chloe and Beca with Barden Majors]
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
[Chloe]
Yellow diamonds in the light
([Beca] In the light)
And we're standing side by side
([Beca] Oh)
As your shadow
[Chloe and Beca]
Crosses mine...
[Beca]
We found love!
[Chloe with Barden Majors]
We found love in a hopeless place
([Beca] Ooh)
We found love in a hopeless place
([Beca] In a hopeless place)
We found love in a hopeless place
([Beca] Oooh-ooh)
We found love in a hopeless place
([Beca] Hopeless place)
We found love!
[Chloe and Beca with Barden Majors]
We found love in a hopeless place
([Beca] Ohoh)
We found love in a hopeless place
([Beca] We found love)
We found love in a hopeless place
([Chloe] Ooh)
([Chloe and Beca] We found love)
We found love in a hopeless place
As soon as the sing finished Chloe threw her arms around Beca. "I told you, you could do it!" She exclaimed, trying to make herself heard over the cheering of the crowd.
"It's official guys! We are now officially Barden High school's very own show choir!" Mr McKay cheered as he swung the choir room door open dramatically before walking in, followed by his adrenaline pumped glee club who were way too excited for their own good. "I told you that you'd be amazing, Beca"
Beca was surprised that she had managed to gain her confidence out on stage just by taking Mr McKay's word and look at Chloe. Beca glanced over at the redhead as the thought crossed her mind, she was really talented and confident out on stage and it seemed to rub off on Beca.
"Whose parents are here?" Mr McKay asked and there was a chorus of 'Mine's' or 'Mine are at work' in response.
Jesse untied his tie as he walked over to his teacher who was standing at the piano, sorting through some sheet music. "We actually spoke to them earlier and told them to come here after the show if that's alright Mr McKay."
"That's great actually, I can go over a few things with them and tell them the dates of the competitions." And as if on cue Dr Mitchell, his mother and Sheila walked in the door followed by Stacie's parents and siblings (making her roll her eyes at the fact her mom and dad brought the whole gang with them).
"Do I look like I give a fuck - what?" Beca had her back turned to the door and didn't realise who had came in, she was mid sentence when she saw Stacie bite her lip.
"I've never known my granddaughter to use such language." Beca's eyes widened and turned around slowly, taking her lower lip into her mouth with her teeth. "You're just like your dad." Beca couldn't help but laugh at her grandmother, as she was growing up she would always get told time after time that she was so similar to her dad.
"Hi Grandma, you weren't supposed to hear that." Stacie sniggered as she brushed past Beca and hoisted her two year old brother up onto her hip. Beca wrapped her arms around her grandmother, probably the only person in the room that was shorter than her. "Dad didn't mention you were coming." Beca furrowed her brow as she pulled away and dragged two chairs over for them to sit.
"I wanted to surprise you and JJ since I haven't seen you both in a while." She shrugged. "I'll tell you something that your dad won't tell you now that he's with that one." She motioned over to Sheila who was standing next to Dr Mitchell, who was talking to Mr McKay. Beca sniggered. "You look just as beautiful as you mother did on her wedding day honey, dolled up like you are now." Beca smiled at the woman, she always had that Grandma way of making you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
"Thanks Grandma." Beca smiled down at her hands.
On the other side of the room, Aubrey was sitting on a chair by herself scrolling through her Instagram, trying not to look up at the sight before her. Luke and Rachael were too busy sucking face to realise that people had actually walked into the room and the way she was sitting on his lap and the way his hands were way too low for this situation sickened Aubrey. She had wondered that maybe the reason why Luke broke up with her is because the furthest they had gone was a little making out. That wasn't a bad thing right? She wasn't ready to go any further so why should she for some stupid boy that cheated on her anyway, after realising this she didn't understand why her eyes were stinging with threatening tears.
Aubrey felt relieved once her mother walked in the room with who she had only presumed was Chloe's dad and little sister due to the redness of hair.
"Aubrey sweetheart, you were outstanding." Aubrey stood up as her mother walked towards her with open arms.
"I see Dad didn't show up." Aubrey sighed, accepting the much needed hug from her mother, unfortunately over her mom's shoulder was the image she had been trying to avoid for the past five minutes.
"You know what he's like, Bree I tried to convince him to come but he said he was too busy with work." Rose Posen pulled away from her daughter and gave her an apologetic smile but she didn't receive it, she looked distracted by something over her shoulder. "Aubs are you alright?" Concern crossed Rose's face as she noticed her daughter's watery eyes and decided to follow them.
"It's nothing Mom." Aubrey tore her eyes away from Luke and Rachael and sniffed hard in attempt to stop the tears.
"Nope. It's boy trouble. Sit, I'm your mom I need to know everything." She pushed Aubrey down onto her chair by the shoulders and pulled another chair over in front of her.
"I don't want to talk about it, Mom." Aubrey whined, wiping her eye only to notice the black stain it left on her finger. "There's nothing to tell anyways."
"There is so, you wouldn't be crying if there wasn't something up. Is it that you like Luke or what?"
"No I hate him right now actually. Mom listen, I didn't tell you this because of Dad but Luke and I used to date until he cheated on me with Rachael." Aubrey confessed and a few tears managed to escape which she inwardly curse at.
"Aw sweetie, why don't you tell me things like this?" Rose stood up and helped her daughter up with her hands and wrapped her arms around her.
"Because of Dad! All I want to do is be a normal teenager and make mistakes but have my mom and dad there to help me fix things like all of my friends do in this room!" Aubrey pulled away from her mother. "Why can't I have fun with my friends instead of having to worry about my grade point average twenty-four seven or how I have to start thinking about law school?" Aubrey asked helplessly.
"You can have fun Aubrey, just ignore your dad when he goes off on one of his rants. You don't have to tell your dad stuff like this just as long as you tell me. I want to know what's going on in your life, I want to know which boys you're crushing on." Aubrey smiled a little as her mother said the last part with a playful push of the shoulder.
"It's not just that Mom." Aubrey looked over at Stacie, Beca and Chloe who were entertaining Chloe's little sister. "I can't even have the girls round for sleepovers because Dad hates Beca and Stacie for stupid reasons. One time he said Beca looked like a lesbian just because her eye makeup was so heavy, like does that even make sense?" Rose reached forward and rubbed her daughter's arm soothingly.
"He doesn't hate them, sweetie and I'll tell you what, you can invite the girls over tonight and if your dad says a word, I'll deal with him." Aubrey smiled at her mother.
"Thanks Mom." Aubrey quickly hugged her mother one last time before wiping her eyes as she walked over to the other girls.
Stacie was the first one to notice Aubrey's presence along with the evidence that she had been crying. "You okay?" The brunette wrapped her arm around Aubrey's waist.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Aubrey forced a smile at Stacie before looking down and Chloe interacting with her sister whereas Beca had no acknowledgement of the world as she was too busy scrolling away on her phone.
"Hey Em, this is my other friend Aubrey." Chloe stood up but the six year old refused to let go of her older sister's hand. Aubrey smiled down at the shorter version of Chloe who was now clinging to her big sister's side.
"She's a bit shy, you should've seen her when me and Beca came over." Stacie filled in with a whisper to Aubrey and the blonde nodded. "Be prepared for her asking if you're Chloe's girlfriend." The brunette added with a quiet giggle.
Aubrey dropped down to her knees so she was shorter than Emily so she wouldn't seem as intimidating. "Hey Emily, you know your sister talks about you all the time." She spoke softly trying to get Emily to warm up to her. Aubrey loved kids and her friends were always confused as to how quickly her personality would change as soon as it came to interacting with children.
"She does?" The little redhead asked, easing her way away from Chloe.
"Yeah." Aubrey nodded. "She's always going on about pretty and cute you are." Emily smiled shyly at Aubrey who smiled back. Chloe was right, she is adorable and beautiful at the same time. Chloe managed to sneak away without Emily noticing and stood beside Beca, seeing what she was up to whilst Aubrey entertained her sister.
"You have really pretty hair." Emily stepped forward and took a lock of Aubrey's hair between her fingers which had fallen out of the multiple bobby pins which had been keeping the girls' hair up.
"Well I'll let you in on a secret." The redhead's eyes lit up at the idea of knowing a secret. "This isn't my natural hair colour, I started dyeing it in the seventh grade."
"What?!" Chloe overheard the conversation and exclaimed in disbelief in true Chloe fashion. Stacie and Beca smiled knowingly in amusement at the redhead. "What was your natural colour?" Aubrey nodded her head towards Beca and Stacie. "No way! I can't imagine you being a brunette."
Beca was biting her lip in attempt of keeping her laugh in as she scrolled through her camera roll on her phone. "Here." She flipped her phone sideways and handed it to Chloe.
"Aw you guys are so cute, when was this?" The redhead asked and Stacie and Aubrey looked over her shoulder to see.
"Uh first year of middle school." Beca filled in, moving closer so she could see. Chloe examine the photo more; it looked like a class picture but with more kids, then she noticed the board that who she presumed was a teacher was holding."What's 'The Barden Academy of Music'?"
"As you've seen, the music department here is really big and well it's the only school around here which has a Music Academy. You can get in when you're in middle school but it's pretty difficult to get into, you have to audition with your preferred instrument and basically it's like private lessons during the week instead of being in a normal music class." Aubrey explained.
"Kinda like how the guys go to basketball practice instead of P.E." Stacie added. Chloe nodded, understanding.
"Wait so you three plus Jesse are the only ones from glee club in the academy?" Chloe asked, glancing over at Jesse after looking at the three girls hovering around her.
"Yep." Beca confirmed. "My instrument is guitar, Jesse plays piano, Bree plays violin and Stacie plays the cello."
"That's pretty cool. Do you guys like, perform?" Chloe held Beca's phone out for the brunette to take it but before she could; Emily ran into Chloe's legs, making her stumble, causing Beca's phone to slip out her hand onto the floor. It was as if the whole room went silent as fragmented glass scattered onto the floor with a smash. "Emily!" Chloe exclaimed, making the six year old flinch.
"Ooooh shit." Stacie muttered, eyeing Beca who was still just standing there staring at her phone on the floor. After only a few seconds of hearing the tone in her sister's voice, Emily burst into tears.
"Beca, I am so sorry." Chloe apologised as she watched Beca drop down to her knees to examine the damage.
"No, no don't worry about it, honestly." The brunette picked up the device which was now cracked as well as tiny pieces of glass that continued to break away. "I break cellphones accidentally all the time, don't worry."
"I'm s-s-sorry Chloe." Emily sobbed and although as much as Chloe just wanted to pull the younger girl in for a hug, it isn't her she should be apologising to.
"I'm not the one who deserves the apology, Em." Chloe said sternly. Beca was about to look up at Chloe and protest but before she could even turn her head, a pair of arms wrapped themselves around her neck followed by a string of 'Sorry's'. Beca awkwardly wrapped her arms around the girl.
"Hey, there's no need to cry over this kid, it's only a cellphone."
"Oh it's fine now but when I accidentally smacked your phone out of your hand last year, I was in hell for a month?" Stacie chimed in.
"She's six Stacie." Beca pulled away from Emily and stood up. Emily ran to her sister and clung on to the side of her.
"I was sixteen what's the difference?"
"Ten years." Aubrey deadpanned, finally commenting.
When the girls had got to Aubrey's house they had ordered pizza in and had been jumping from topic to topic for the past hour, talking non-stop as they were all lying/sitting on Aubrey's double bed.
"So Chloe, when's your date with Tom?" Beca asked with an eye roll, making Aubrey and Stacie furrow their brows in confusion.
Before Chloe could even open her mouth to respond, Aubrey spoke "Wait why are you going on a date with Tom?"
"Gross." Stacie grimaced.
"Why are you guys so against him?" Chloe asked, recalling Beca's reaction as well.
"He's an asshole." Stacie began "He'll take you back to his house, you'll make out for a while until he decides to take it a step further and when you try to refuse, he won't respect your decision meaning that you guys will never go out again." She explained, taking a sip of her can of diet coke.
"I doubt that will happen." Chloe shook her head "We're only going to the movies, he won't invite me to his house." She attempted to defend Tom because she believed that the girls were being a tad extreme.
"Whatever you say Red." Beca teased with smirk. Chloe looked up at the brunette with a smirk in return, she had never noticed before how hot Beca looks when she smirks like that. Who was Chloe kidding? Beca always looked hot; even the way she dresses is hot, in fact Chloe even has a favourite outfit for Beca. One time the girls were hanging out after School and the short brunette showed wearing; black converse, black jeans, a purple flannel shirt topped off with a black scarf and beanie along with her RayBan glasses and god damn that outfit did something to Chloe.
Chloe was dragged out of her thoughts when Beca began talking to her. "If you don't mind me asking, how did you know you were bi?" She asked curiously, in fact it was a question that had been playing on Beca's mind for quite some time now.
"Well here's the thing." The redhead began, making herself comfy as all eyes were on her. "When I was thirteen my best friend, Lauren came out and told me she was gay. Well as time went on I started to get curious and kept asking her lots of questions until I asked what it felt like to kiss a girl...Well instead of telling me she showed me. After that was when I started to realise that I wasn't who I thought I was and that I actually liked girls as well as guys. We started dating when we were fourteen and that's when I came out to my dad."
"Was he okay with it?" Aubrey asked.
Chloe shook her head as she fiddled with the fabric between her fingers. "Not at first, no. It was probably a bad time to tell him since it wasn't that long ago my mom left but all he kept saying was that I was confused or that Lauren was a bad influence and that this isn't who I am."
"That's horrible." Stacie stated sympathetically.
Chloe nodded "Well you guys know how important a dad is to their little girl right? I felt lost, I felt like he hated me because he barely spoke to me. Eventually I managed to have a long conversation about it; explaining the way I feel inside, I explained what bisexuality actually is and he actually started to understand. I told him how shit he had made me feel and he wouldn't stop apologising and in that moment when he told me that he loves me for who I am and he never wants to make me feel that way again, I knew I had my dad back. Ever since that night I've been able to talk freely about it around him and he listens, he actually full support mode." Chloe laughed softly as she glanced down at the pink, purple and blue wristband on her wrist. "He asked me to buy two bisexual pride wristbands and I ask why I needed two and he replied with 'I want everyone to know how proud of my daughter I am.'" Chloe smiled at the memory.
"Stop talking before you make me cry." Stacie laughed softly, blinking back the tears repeatedly.
It felt good for Chloe to open up to the girls like that, she felt even closer to them than before but she did notice how Beca was awfully quiet during the conversation and repeatedly kept looking down at her fingers as she fiddled with the bed covers.
What did you guys think? If any of you are still here haha! Sorry again :( anyway in the next chapter or so I want to step it up a gear with the bechloe, how do you guys feel about that? I'm on my half term break so I have plenty of time to write I just need you guys to tell me what you think so I actually have motivation to continue.