Hi y'all. So this is my first Pitch Perfect story, though I'm sure they'll be more to come with all the ideas roaming around in my head. This is AU, and completely from Chloe's POV. Also Chloe and Aubrey are only sophomores.

Chloe only called Tom because she wanted to distract herself from all the thoughts scurrying around in head. She hadn't counted on someone else coming to shower this late. So when they hear the door open, they freeze.

It's only moments later that she hears it. The voice is… well, Chloe thinks whoever the voice belongs to must be an angel. She instantly forgets about Tom and turns completely around. She can hear the words now and she knows the song backwards and forwards.

She doesn't even realize her feet are taking her towards the voice. She pushes aside the curtain to the only other shower stall currently in use. She's already smiling because she knows she needs to recruit whoever it is to join the Bellas, but when she sees the small brunette that has been invading her thoughts since the activity fair, her smile brightens ten-fold.

"You can sing!," she says.

"Dude!" The brunette screams as she realizes there's someone else in her shower stall. She tries to pull the curtain closed, but Chloe just pulls it open again and steps further inside.

"How high does your belt go?" Chloe asks as she turns the shower off.

"My what? Oh my God!" The brunette tries to cover herself with a sponge and whatever else she can manage to grasp.

"You have to audition for the Bellas," Chloe says.

"I can't concentrate on anything until you cover your junk," she says. Her eyes seem to be darting from Chloe's body to anywhere but, like she was undecided on whether or not she actually wanted to see what was in front of her.

"Just consider it," Chloe says as she tries to sneak a peek at the brunettes naked body as she advances. "One time we sang back up for Prince."

The brunette tries to grab the curtain again to cover herself.

"His butt is so tiny that I can hold it with like one hand," Chloe says. She brings her hand up to emphasize her point, but accidentally knocks the curtain and a bottle of shampoo out of the Brunettes hand. "Oops."

"Oh – ch – seriously?" The brunette says as she stumbles to catch the bottle before turning her entire body away from Chloe into the corner of the stall. "I'm nude."

"You were singing Titanium right?" Chloe asks as she moves further yet into the stall.

The girl smiles over her shoulder. "You know David Guetta?"

"Have I been living under a rock?" Chloe says. "Yeah. That song is my jam – my lady jam."

The girl get all flustered and hides in the corner again. "That's nice."

"It is," Chloe says. "The song really builds." Chloe winks at her.

"Ew, gross," the girl says.

"Can you sing it for me?" Chloe asks.

"Dude, no! Get out!" the girl says, imploring Chloe to leave her alone.

"Not for that reason," Chloe says as if it's a ridiculous notion, though secretly she wouldn't mind it if she did end up… well… "I'm not leaving here until you sing."

The girl looks at Chloe, who's now acting as if she's bored and yet could wait around all day. The brunette begrudgingly turns around, resigned to her fate. She starts singing Titanium again. Chloe joins in on the second line, harmonizing perfectly. They're staring into each other's eyes the entire time they're singing. Chloe feels like there's a moment right when they stop singing where they really connect, but then it's broken when the girl looks down and then immediately averts her eyes.

"Oh, yeah," Chloe says. "I'm pretty confident about all this." She gestures to her naked body.

The brunette just nods and says, "You should be."

"Oh," Chloe says and grabs the girl's towel and hands it to her.

The girl half covers herself with the towel. "Um, still have to shower," the girl says quietly.

"You have a lovely voice," Tom says. Chloe turns to look at him. He's at the edge of the stall, hanging there confidently. She nods along as if to say 'Doesn't she?'

"Thanks," the girl says. There's a cutting edge to her voice that Chloe hasn't heard before.

Chloe looks at Tom, who gives her the nod, then back to the girl who has a 'what the fuck' expression, then back to Tom before she realizes what she had been doing before she'd invaded a stranger's shower stall. "Oh." Chloe glances back at the girl one more time before she leaves with Tom.

"See you at auditions," Chloe calls over her shoulder."

Chloe is internally devastated when the brunette doesn't show up for the Bellas audition. She's really been hoping that the girl would. Chloe doesn't even know the girl's name, but she's never felt such a connection before in her life. Granted she's only nineteen, but still.

Of course she and Aubrey now have to make decisions as to who they're going to let into the Bellas. Aubrey has been on a war path since she'd ruined their shot at the Finals of the ICCA's last year. She was looking to redeem herself and Chloe, as her best friend, was determined to help her.

It's two weeks later when she sees the brunette again. She's sitting on the grass in the quad with the laptop in front of her. She sees a boy seemingly heading in the girl's direction as well, but Chloe is closer. She sits down next to the brunette.

"Hi," Chloe says.

She looks at Chloe, her eyes widening in recognition.

"Uh, hi," the girl says.

"You didn't come to auditions," Chloe says. She's sad about it, and she knows that her tone betrayed her emotion in that sentence.

"Yeah," the girl says, "Um, sorry about that. It's just really not my thing, and I've got a lot of other things to deal with."

"No biggie," Chloe says. "You would have made a great addition to the Bellas, but you gotta follow your heart I guess, so if it's not your thing, it's not your thing."

The girl half-smiles at her.

"I'm Chloe, by the way. I don't think either of us have really introduced ourselves."

"Um, Beca."

"Well Beca," Chloe says entwining their hands. "I'm so glad I met you. I think we're going to be really fast friends."

"Yeah," Beca says, really smiling now.

"Yeah."

"Well, you saw me naked," Beca says. She winks at Chloe.

Chloe stays next to Beca, their hands entwined, for about a half hour as they talk. Well, it's mostly Chloe talking, Beca says a few words here and there. It isn't until Chloe realizes she's going to be late for her next class that they part ways. Chloe gives Beca her number before she runs off, hoping to get to her class before her professor.

Chloe is curled up in her bed watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Netflix. It's Saturday, so she doesn't have classes. She's on her seventh consecutive episode.

"Chloe, what the hell is wrong with you?" Aubrey says when she gets back to their dorm room.

"I don't know," Chloe says.

"You missed Bellas rehearsal!" Aubrey says.

Chloe's eyes widen. She forgot about Bellas rehearsal. Completely forgot. That's never happened before.

"For serious, Chloe!" Aubrey says. "What's up with you?"

Chloe knows she should tell her best friend what's been going through her head, but she can't help but think that she knows exactly what Aubrey will say, and it won't be anything helpful or supportive.

"I – There's this girl…" Chloe says.

"You missed rehearsals because of a girl?" Aubrey shrilled.

Chloe grunts. "You know what, Bree? Never mind." She returns her attention to Buffy.

She hears Aubrey sigh. "Chloe," she says. She touches Chloe gently on the arm. "Chloe, I'm sorry. It was just a horrible Bellas rehearsal without you. Now, what's this about a girl?"

Chloe pauses Netflix.

"There's this girl… and I feel like we really connected. I can't stop thinking about her. I've never felt this way before. She won't give me the time of day. I mean, when I see her, she doesn't avoid me. I gave her my number, but she hasn't called or even texted."

"Oh man, Chloe," Aubrey says. "You must really like this girl. I don't think I've seen you fawn over anyone before, in all the years we've been friends. I mean, I know you've got that arrangement with Tom, which, by the way, I don't understand at all since he's dating Marcia Lynch, but –"

"He's dating Marcia Lynch?" Chloe says. "I didn't know that! I never would have – I mean, if I had known…"

Chloe takes a deep breath.

"It doesn't even matter anymore," Chloe says. "I can't do that with him when all I can think about is her."

"Oh, Chloe," Aubrey says. She hugs Chloe tight. "This girl doesn't know what she's missing. If she's smart, she'll see how awesome you are and come to her senses."

Chloe wasn't expecting Aubrey to be so supportive, but she's eternally grateful that she is.

Aubrey indulges Chloe's Buffy marathon, and even brings in a pint of Ben and Jerry's Phish Food and two spoons.

Chloe tries to maintain her usual bubbly self, but thoughts of Beca plague her mind. She doesn't know why she's so caught up on this girl she barely knows.

She gets back to her dorm room after a full day of classes followed by Bellas rehearsals and she is so tired she collapses on her bed. She doesn't even bother changing, she just closes her eyes and sleep comes to her.

Chloe's only been asleep about a minute when her phone rings. She groans, but pulls it from her pocket. She doesn't recognize the number. She's thinking about ignoring it, but she answers it anyway.

She hears sobs coming from the other end of the phone. "Chloe?"

"Beca?" Chloe says. She shoots straight up, fully awake now.

"I'm sorry to bother you," Beca says, "You're just the only person I know here other than this creepy dude I work with and my boss who doesn't even know my name, and I just I need to talk to somebody."

"Beca, what's wrong?" Chloe says.

Beca can't even get the words out of her mouth, before she's overcome with sobs again.

"Beca, where are you?"

"Bathroom," Beca says.

There are tons of bathrooms on campus, but Chloe instinctively knows she's talking about the one where she invaded Beca's shower.

"I'll be there in three minutes," Chloe says.

"Okay," Beca says inbetween sobs.

So what do you think?