Chloe was sitting at her desk using this rare moment of quiet to get a jump start on her lesson plans for the week. She stopped her pen moving mid-sentence when she felt like she was being watched. She flicked her eyes up to the door, expecting to see a child or co-worker, but instead finding herself looking at a small brunette stranger. The woman was her age, perhaps a little younger with dark brown hair falling in waves around her pale face. She was wearing light grey skinny jeans tucked into combat boots and a black v-neck t-shirt under an open flannel shirt. Chloe knew she'd never seen this woman before because she was certain this was a face she would remember.

"Can I help you?" She asked with a friendly smile.

"Uh...is this Miss Beale's classroom? First grade?" The woman asked, frowning slightly.

"Yeah, I'm Miss Beale," she nodded, still wondering what this cute brunette was doing in her classroom.

"Ok so I know I'm a little early but shouldn't there be like 20 little people in here learning?" she asked, motioning around the empty classroom with her hands. Chloe laughed.

"The kids are outside for some P.E," she explained. "They'll be back real soon, why don't you come in and wait-?"

"Beca," the woman, Beca, gave a small wave as she stepped further into the classroom. She looked around the room at the drawings and posters on the wall.

"Are you here to pick someone up?" Chloe asked. She knew pretty much all of the kids parents or family members that usually picked them up how could she have never noticed this woman before.

"Oh, yeah!" Beca turned back to face the teacher. "I probably should have mentioned that. I'm here to pick up
Hailey Conrad."

"Oh," Chloe's brow furrowed. Hailey's mother Stacie usually picked her up from school, this was the first time she'd seen anyone else come for the child.

"Yeah Stace got held up at some work thing I'm not even going to pretend to understand so she asked me to get her. That's why I'm so early I was afraid I'd get lost and Hails would think we'd forgot about her," Beca explained.

"No that's fine," Chloe assured her, choosing to ignore the pang of disappointment she felt at how familiarly Beca spoke about Hailey and her mother. "I was just confused, I've only ever seen your partner pick her up."

"My what?" Beca choked on her laugh. "Wait...no, no, no, Stacie isn't my partner. Ha! God no! She's my best friend. We never..." She shook her head at the very thought of hooking up with the brunette.

"Oh I'm sorry, it's just the way you were talking I thought.."

"No it's cool," Beca laughed, waving away Chloe's apologies. "Don't worry about it. It's just me and Stacie...it's hilarious."

Thankfully Beca was stopped from any further rambling by the children returning to their classroom.

"Aunty Beca?!" Hailey came skipping towards them and wrapped her arms round the brunette's waist. "What are you doing here?"

"I'm here to pick you up kiddo," she smiled and patted the little girl's back lovingly.

"Awesome!" She squealed delightedly, it was apparent she loved her Aunty Beca. "Didn't I tell you Miss Beale had red hair like Ariel! Ariel is your favourite."

"She does, doesn't she?" Beca nodded, catching the teacher's eye and sharing a smile. A faint blush colouring the smaller woman's cheeks.

"My mom says Aunty Becs has a thing for redheads," Hailey said matter-of-factly and Beca's eyes almost popped out of her head as the faint blush grew beet red.

"Why don't you go grab your backpack Hails?" She suggested, wanting the child to leave before she could say anything else to embarrass her. Chloe just laughed at the scene before her, she couldn't help but find it adorable when the brunette blushed.

"I...uh...it was nice meeting you Miss Beale," Beca stammered, deciding to just end the interaction with the teacher rather than risk embarrassing herself further.

"It's Chloe," the redhead offered with a bright smile. "And it was nice meeting you too Beca."

Stacie was waiting at the house when Beca arrived with Hailey. She opened the door and greeted her daughter with a tight hug. When they stood beside each other it became apparent just how alike they were; same dark hair and tan skin and already Hailey was tall for her age. The only difference was Hailey's dark brown eyes.

"How was your day, Bub?"

"Good! We had music and PE," she exclaimed like she had hit the jackpot of school days.

"Wow that sounds great!" Stacie smiled at her daughter's excitement. "Why don't you go get changed before dinner and then you can tell me all about it?"

"Ok," the 6 year old skipped off towards her room.

"Thanks for picking her up," Stacie smiled at her best friend.

"Don't mention it," Beca shrugged, dropping onto the leather couch in the living room. "Although we may have to consider the possibility that your daughter is too much like you!"

"How is that even possible?" Stacie chuckled. "I'm great, there's no such thing as too much like me."

Beca rolled her eyes.

"What'd she do?" Stacie asked with a smirk as she sat down beside Beca.

"She completely embarrassed me in front of her teacher," Beca groaned, her cheeks colouring at the mere memory of it.

"How?"

"She told her and I'm quoting here, my mommy says Aunty Beca has a thing for redheads," Beca huffed as Stacie threw her head back and laughed loudly.

"Well she's not wrong," Stacie pointed out.

"This isn't funny Stace she told her redhead teacher that I have a thing for redheads!" Beca pouted.

"Oh stop pouting! Miss Beale is pretty cool I'm sure she thought it was hilarious," Stacie shrugged.

"Oh and the other thing that happened when I was picking her up. Chloe thought I was you 'partner'," Beca laughed at the thought.

"Interesting!" Stacie hummed thoughtfully.

"What's interesting?"

"Oh nothing," she replied with a shrug. "I just never realised Miss Beale was interested in women."

"Where did you get that from what I said?" Beca scoffed, her brow furrowed in confusion.

"Simple logic really. Only someone who was gay or bi would jump straight to partner. A straight person would have assumed you were my sister." Stacie pointed out. She had a point too. "Also you called her Chloe!"

"Yeah so?"

"So she's been Hailey's teacher for what 2 months now and I only know her as Miss Beale!" Stacie's eyes twinkled devilishly. "Something tells me Chloe wouldn't mind being the redhead you have a thing for!"

"Because she told me her name?" Beca scoffed. "You are insane."

"That doesn't make me wrong," Stacie shrugged smugly. "I don't think you'd mind it either. Miss Beale is pretty cute! I bet you wouldn't mind her teaching you a thing or two!" she wiggled her eyebrows suggestively.

"Oh my god please stop talking!" The smaller woman whined. "You're worse than Hailey! This is where she gets it from."

"Whatever! Just because you're hot for teacher!" Stacie chuckled. She knew she was right, the blush on Beca's face as she tried to frown was a dead give away. "Are you staying for dinner?"

"Do I ever pass up a chance to eat your food?"

"And here I thought it was my excellent company that kept you coming round," Stacie rolled her eyes and pushed herself off the couch to go finish dinner.

"No it's mostly the food," Beca nodded, getting up to follow her friend. "A little bit the kid because you know I love her."

Chloe sat at her desk on Thursday morning looking over her plan for the day and sipping over her coffee.

"Miss Beale?" A voice pulled her from her reading.

"Oh good morning Miss Conrad. Good morning Hailey!" She smiled brightly at the pair.

"Stacie is fine," the brunette dismissed the formality. "Do you have a minute?"

"Of course," she nodded. "Is everything ok?"

"Yeah everything is great," Stacie nodded. "Hailey is loving first grade! I just was wondering if it would be possible for me to pick Hailey up like half an hour earlier tomorrow? Her Aunt Beca managed to score us tickets to the premiere of Trolls and she's super excited about it but to make it in time I would have to spring her early."

"Wow that sounds exciting!" Chloe was actually quite impressed. Stacie didn't miss the spark of recognition in the teacher's eyes when she mentioned Beca's name. "How did she manage to get those?"

"Beca works in the music industry, her friend did the score for the movie and he offered us the tickets," Stacie explained. Hailey had been so excited when Beca told them about it. "I know it's probably not the best reason to be pulling her out if school early but she's so excited I knew she'd come into school on Monday talking about it so I figured honesty is the best policy, right?"

"Well that's what I always tell the kids," the teacher chuckled. Hailey was standing quietly by her mother's side, anxiously awaiting her teacher's response. "And while I suppose it's not exactly a valid reason for cutting out of school early, I think we can make an exception because you were honest about it. I mean it's not everyday you get to go to a fancy film premiere."

Hailey cheered when she understood what her teacher was saying.

"Thank you," Stacie smiled at Chloe.

"One condition though," Chloe's eyes twinkled. "You have to tell me all about it on Monday because I really want to see Trolls."

"Of course!" Hailey nodded enthusiastically. "It's going to be so good! Aunty Beca says we get popcorn and candy and that almost makes it worth sitting through a movie!"

"Beca's not a fan of movies," Stacie chuckled at Chloe's confusion. "Baby why don't you go get settled at your desk? I'll be back to pick you up at the end of the day."

"Ok Mommy!" Hailey hugged and kissed her mother before skipping off to her seat.

"Thank you so much Miss Beale! She's so excited."

"I bet! I would be too if I had tickets to a premiere," she giggled. "Her Aunt Beca must have some pretty good connections."

"She knows people," Stacie nodded, she knew Beca wouldn't want her bragging about her job. "And she'll do just about anything for Hailey."

"They seemed pretty close the other day," Chloe mused, not realising she had just given away the fact that she'd given the tiny brunette a second thought after their original interaction. Stacie quirked eyebrow at this but said nothing. "I'm sure you guys will have a blast tomorrow."

"Yeah, and thanks for being so cool about it," Stacie said sincerely. "I'll be back to pick her up later."

The next week Chloe was flicking through a magazine one of the other teacher's had left behind on her lunch break. It was fairly typical gossip rag stuff, scandal on who is dating who and which celebrities had been spotted where but there was a feature on the Trolls premiere that caught her eye. It was a two page spread of photographs taken at the event, all of the major actors and celebrity guests were featured prominently but there was one little picture in the bottom corner of the page that caught her eye.

It wasn't everyday she seen one of her students inside the pages of a magazine but there indeed was little Hailey Conrad standing between her mother and Aunt Beca. Beca was wearing tight leather trousers with a cropped t-shirt that displayed the slightest hint of skin. Her dark hair had been curled and braided at one side and the look was completed with softly smokey eye make up and red lipstick. Chloe had thought she was attractive when she picked Hailey up from her classroom but now it seemed she needed to come up with a whole new word to describe how Beca looked when she was dressed up. She was down right hot. Stacie stood beside her in the picture wearing a casual green dress that showed off her long legs. Stacie was an attractive woman, she always looked nice when she brought Hailey to and from school but in this picture she could easily have passed for one of the movie stars on the red carpet. Yet Chloe's eyes could only see Beca.

Chloe was wondering why this picture had been published in the magazine, surely there were countless non-famous guests at the show, why include this one. She flicked her eyes across to the accompanying article and got her answer.

Music producer DJ BMitch even made an appearance at the premiere with her best friend and godchild. She has previously worked with the movie's star Justin Timberlake...

DJ BMitch. Chloe recognised the name instantly. Anyone who owned a radio was familiar with the music producer, she had worked with several artists over the past year churning out hit after hit. She had worked on some of Chloe's favourite songs but the redhead had never known what she looked like or anything else about her for that matter. She could hardly believe that the down to earth woman who had blushed in her classroom a couple of weeks ago was actually a world famous music producer.

Chloe quickly pulled out her phone to do a quick internet search on the brunette. She found Beca's official website and skimmed the scant bio from it before the first bell signalling the end of lunch rang. She rolled up the magazine to bring with her, she figured Hailey might get a kick out of seeing herself in it. She headed back to her classroom trying to get her head around the fact that she had just found out the woman she had a slight crush on was actually a celebrity.

When Stacie arrived to pick Hailey up Chloe approached her with the magazine.

"Miss Conrad?"

"It Dr Conrad actually," Stacie laughed. "But I've already told you to please, call me Stacie."

"Stacie, right sorry," Chloe nodded and held out the magazine to the other woman. "I don't know if you've seen this but I thought you might like to."

"Kim K's latest diet secrets?" Stacie's brow furrowed as she looked at the magazine.

"Oh god no," Chloe chuckled and shook her head. She thumbed through the pages until she found the piece on the Trolls premiere. "I didn't know I had a celebrity in my class."

"Oh my God!" Stacie gasped. "Beca said they may or may not use the pictures but it seems they did. Have you shown Hailey?"

"No, I thought I should check with you first before I made a big deal out of it," Chloe shrugged.

"Hey Hails! C'mere bub!" She called to her daughter, nodding at Chloe when the 6 year old approached.

"I thought you'd like to see this," Chloe leaned down to show the little girl her picture.

"That's me!" Hailey squealed, hardly able to believe her picture was in a magazine. "Mommy! It's us!"

"Pretty cool, huh?" Stacie smiled. The 6 year old hurried off to show her friends before they left.

"When you said Beca was in the music industry I didn't realise she was famous," Chloe couldn't help but remarked; she felt this need to know more about the brunette. Stacie laughed.

"Yeah, that's Beca," she sighed. "She keeps a pretty low profile. She doesn't like having a big deal made out of herself."

"I guess that's nice," Chloe mused. "I mean it would be worse if she was a huge diva."

"She has her moments, try taking the last slice of pizza from her!" Stacie replied pointedly.

Later that night Chloe found herself typing Beca's name into the search bar again. She skimmed through a sparse Wikipedia page and a couple of fan pages before she found herself on the DJ's social media pages. She scrolled through the brunette's Twitter and more than once found herself chuckling out loud. Not only was she gorgeous but she seemed genuinely hilarious too; Chloe thought that was incredibly unfair.

"Worst. Crush. Ever!" She sighed as she clicked onto Beca's Instagram.

A week or so passed without Chloe giving much more thought to the matter of her little crush on Beca Mitchell. She might have glanced at her social media feeds to see if there was an update once or twice (a day) but that was it. Then on Tuesday morning she found herself faced with the woman herself. She was sitting at her desk getting ready for the day ahead when Hailey came skipping into the classroom with her Aunt behind her.

"Good morning Hailey. Good morning Beca." She smiled at them. Beca gave her a small wave and a muttered 'hey'. Chloe couldn't believe this adorable woman was a massive name in the music industry.

"Miss Beale! Guess what?" Hailey began excitedly, dropping her backpack at her desk and shucking off her jacket.

"What?" the redhead sounded genuinely intrigued.

"My Mommy is at a conference and I get to stay with Aunt Beca for 2 whole days!" She says excitedly.

"Wow!"

"And we're getting pizza tonight!" she concluded happily.

"That sounds great!" Chloe smiled, turning her eyes to Beca who had been watching the exchange with a small smile. "You certainly know your way to a girl's heart!"

"If only all women were so easily impressed!" the brunette chuckled.

"I don't know," she hummed thoughtfully. "It would work on me."

Beca's eyes widened slightly at the flirtatious reply, she hasn't expected that from the teacher.

"I'll have to remember that," she smirked, raising her eyebrows at Chloe before returning her attention to Hailey. "Have a good day Hails! I'll be back to pick you up later."

"Bye Aunt Beca! Have fun at work," the little girl smiled as she hugged the brunette.

"Later Miss Beale!" Beca gave the other woman a smile as she backed out of the classroom. Chloe went back to her desk thinking this was already a better day than she had thought it would be.

Chloe was chatting to one of the other parents when Beca arrived to pick Hailey up on the second day of her babysitting. She knew it was kind of rude but she couldn't help but feel her focus being pulled towards the music producer. She was wearing tight black jeans with combat boots and an over sized band t-shirt looking more like she was heading to spin tracks at a club than on the school run. Then again maybe she was doing that later, she was a famous DJ after all.

"Aunt Beca guess what?" Hailey babbled excitedly bouncing on the balls of her feet.

"What is it kiddo?" The brunette smiled warmly at the child.

"We got our parts for our 'sembly today!" She squeaked happily. She was one of the strongest readers in her class and one of the least shy when it came to public speaking so she had been given one of the longer speeches.

"Wow that's great Hails! You're going to be great!"

"You'll come watch me won't you?" She asked, her dark brown eyes pleading.

"I...uh...yeah, am I allowed to come?" She asked, not wanting to make a promise she couldn't keep.

"We encourage parents and guardians to come see them do their thing," Chloe nodded. She had finished her chat and found her feet carrying her towards Beca before she even realised what was happening.

"Oh great! Then yeah of course I'll be there little one!" She nodded enthusiastically. Hailey cheered.

"We're going to sing!" She continued.

"Oh then I definitely have to come, you know I love hearing you sing."

"Miss Beale teaches us music. She is a great singer!" Hailey supplied. "Just like Ariel!"

"Well I hope no one steals her voice," Beca giggled. "You ready to go?"

"Yep!" Hailey grinned popping the 'p'.

"Ok so I have to ask," Chloe began, fixing Beca with her baby blue eyes. "She's been really excited to get home today. What's more exciting than pizza?"

Beca chuckled. "Oh her Mom is coming home today and we're going out for dinner at Hailey's favourite restaurant."

"I see," Chloe nodded. "I won't keep you then, but hopefully I'll see you at the assembly."

Chloe's eyes widened when she realised her mouth had run away from her.

"I mean Hailey would be devastated if her Aunt Beca missed her big debut!" She attempted to back pedal hoping it worked.

"I wouldn't miss it," Beca smirked, holding the teacher's gaze for just a second longer than necessary. "It was nice seeing you again Chloe."

"You too," the redhead smiled as the pair made their way out of the classroom.

Stacie picked Beca and Hailey up from Beca's apartment and after showering her daughter with two days worth of hugs and kisses the group headed out to dinner. Hailey chattered the entire drive about everything she and Beca had done while her mother was away and about her part in the upcoming assembly.

"Well that all sounds much more fun than my boring old conference," Stacie pouted.

"So two whole days of seeing Miss Beale then," Stacie raised her eyebrows at Beca once they'd been seated and Hailey was distracted colouring in her menu. "Did you get her number?"

"No!" Beca looked at her friend as if she'd gone completely crazy. Stacie groaned.

"Why not?"

"Why would I have got her number?" Beca scoffed.

"Um because you think she's hot, because she seems like she's into you too," Stacie pointed out. Beca shook her head and Stacie sighed. "Did you at least flirt with her a little?"

Beca blushed slightly, suddenly finding the decor of the restaurant extremely interesting. "Maybe...a little!" She refused to meet Stacie's eye knowing there would be a smug look waiting for her when she did.

"Yes! That's my girl," she grinned proudly. "Did she flirt back?"

"Maybe. I don't know," the DJ frowned. "I think so, but we both know I'm not the best judge in situations like this."

"True!" Stacie nodded. "You are pretty hopeless."

"Thanks," Beca fired back sarcastically.

"Go on then, tell me what she said and how and I'll decode it for you," she encouraged.

"No!" Beca shook her head. "We're not in high school Stace, no I refuse to do this!"

"I'm giving you a chance Beca," Stacie said in a warning time.

"And then what?" Beca's brow furrowed, she recognised the tone of a threat but wasn't sure what she was being threatened with.

"Tell me about the flirting," Stacie insisted. Beca shook her head. "Then you brought this on yourself. Hey Hails?"

"No! Don't! You can't involve your child in this!" Beca argued. Stacie simply held her finger up to silence the smaller woman.

"What?" She looked up from her activity sheet.

"While I was gone, did Aunty Beca talk to Miss Beale?" She asked seeming genuinely intrigued.

"Yeah. A lot!" The 6 year old giggled and nodded exaggeratedly.

"Ok that's not true, it wasn't a lot," Beca huffed.

"You had your chance," Stacie smirked, enjoying the torture of her best friend.

"More than I do huh?" She prompted.

"Way more. You only talk to Miss Beale when you need to ask her something about school but she was talking to Aunty Beca about pizza and other not school stuff." She replied thoughtfully.

"Is that right?" Stacie hummed.

"Yeah. Miss Beale smiles a lot when she talks to Aunty Beca," Hailey mused. "And sometimes Aunty Beca's ears turn pink."

"Well I think I've heard all I need to hear," Stacie turned to Beca with a smug grin on her face. The music producer was glaring at her friend with a clenched jaw. "Out of the mouths of babes!"

"So she smiles when we talk," Beca rolled her eyes. "That must mean she's interested in me and not that she's maybe just a smiley friendly person."

"I trust my babiy's instincts," Stacie shrugged. "Here's what I'm willing to do. I'll give you the assembly, if I see any signs of flirting and you don't make a move to ask her out then so help me God I will march up to her desk next Monday morning and I will do the whole my friend likes you thing and give her your number! Is that what you want?"

"You can't do that!" Beca cried indignantly.

"Yes I can!" Stacie assured her. "This is for your own good Mitchell! I want to see you happy and if perky red headed teachers are what it takes then that's exactly what I'll do. I think it might look better if you ask her yourself though."

"I really hate you, you know that?!" Beca groaned, sinking her head into her folded arms on the table.

"No you don't, you love me!" Stacie smiled back.

"Not right now!" Beca huffed.