With One Note (A Pitch Perfect fanfiction)

Author's Gratitude

Hello!

I know it's been over a year since I ended this story. I'm posting this section to personally give thanks to all who gave this story feedback... and to all its readers, in general. I never thought I'd be able to accomplish a short novel with over 70,000 words. I've always known myself as a "no-follow-through" type of person. There was a time wherein I envisioned my FF dot net profile to be full of unfinished stories... so being able to close this story really means so much to me as a young adult and as a writer. Then there's the passing of my father in the middle of writing With One Note. I seriously thought I would never write again because of it, but I love writing too much to let it go just like that - so I fought hard for it. I would start typing words and then pause to cry, and then just resume typing whenever I can. With One Note was the very first multi-chapter I got to write 'til the last word, and I have you guys to thank for it as well.

In gratitude, I thought I should do a sort of a 'run-down' of my journey in writing this story...

**_***_**_***_**

1-1 The Notorious Bastard.

I couldn't be more pleased with myself the moment I completed the first scene. We are introduced to Beca Mitchell, the tiny girl who thinks she can have the world to her feet whenever she wants... and then, there's Chloe, who immediately grew a peculiar kind of interest in her. My foreshadowing also already started in this chapter. When Sebastian stressed out that he has "a lot of reason" to be concerned, I already built the nature of Beca's health condition, though untold yet.

**_***_**_***_**  

1-2 Your New Head Bitch.

This was the beginning of Aubrey's personal mini story line. By introducing Regine Posen, I showed the readers that as tough as Aubrey acts around everyone else, in her very own home, in her very own family, she was just an average overlooked member. She was the middle child, and probably because of her father's detachment that she never knew her worth as a daughter and as a sibling. This is Aubrey's driving force to "over-achieve" in all things.

And because we get to know Gregory Haull as Beca's bully in the previous chapter, I found a way to use him as Beca's reason for agreeing to lead the Bellas. With her reckless, happy-go-lucky personality, this Beca Mitchell wouldn't really have a valid reason for joining the Bellas if it weren't for vengeance.

Half of the scene at the cafe was just a filler (the part where Beca was acting weird around Jesse)... but I did manage to give it an explanation in the later chapters, if you guys remember.

**_***_**_***_**  

1-3 Pocketful of Sunshine.

Chloe opened this chapter, yay! I introduced her "art" side in this one. We also see her getting a crush on tiny ball of rage Beca Mitchell, and figuring out that she may have something more than just that bitchy facade. If you weren't liking Beca yet at this point in the story, it's okay. She's meant to be loathed by basically everyone until the moment she cries because Chloe sang her songs of hate.

The Harana assignment. Beca has this tendency to 'experiment' with a lot of things, given her expected shortened lifespan. She wanted to spice this assignment by making it all about hate. Why hate, though? It's sort of what's inside her all these years. She's angry at all the events - her mother's passing, her Sickle Cell, Haull... everything. Primarily though, Beca only wanted to train the girls' creativity.

**_***_**_***_**  

1-4 Impending Disaster.

I guess we get to be disappointed that Ashley, being Beca's cousin, could only say as much about her childhood pal. She obviously knows about the gem inside Beca, but like she said... it wasn't her story to tell. Ashley respects Beca's discretion on who to tell about her condition. The first scene of this chapter was the very reason Cynthia Rose believed in Beca until the end. I brushed off the idea of writing this scene, but then I realized it would create a character hole if I didn't give Rosie a concrete reason to "see the good" in Beca. She only learned that Beca's unlikable attitude was because of her own baggage, and that was enough for her to believe in the person hiding inside that facade. One of the themes of With One Note is "going unnoticed." No one really had appreciated Rosie in this story other than Beca.