Let's Stop Pretending (BECHLOE AU)

Chapter 1

Welcome back! I always enjoyed reading bechloe pretend AUs so I thought I'd give it a go.

You know me, always a slow burn but this time, I can't promise a happy ending. Imay make it a series but right now, it's a cliff hanger.  Read at your own risk ;)

This is all in Beca's POV. At the moment, there is no POV for Chloe yet but again, I might not be able to resist and upload a version of Chloe's POV.

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I've been living in New York for almost a year now. I found a two-bedroom apartment and lived with my housemate Chloe. I met her through sparearoom.com, she posted an ad there and I applied. Now here I am.

The place was a good five-minute walk from the studio where I worked and it was great. Chloe's place of work I learned was a ten-minute walk. She works at a call centre for Apple.

She's in the Complaints Department, which I personally think is perfect for her. She has this special way of calming people down and putting them at ease.

We weren't close but we would have the casual night in with beer or wine and watch trashy reality TV shows such as Married at First Sight or The Bachelor.

On the rare occasion that I would say yes, we would even have a girls' night out where Chloe invites me to go out with her friends and I feel really special being part of their squad. I never had that growing up. She would even lend me her clothes and do my hair and make up.

I'm not dating anyone at the moment nor am I looking for anyone to date. I just want to focus with work first and be happy where I'm at before I invite another person into my messed up life.

As for Chloe I don't think she's seeing anyone right now. There was Dom, who she was seeing for a month and then there was Isabella who she saw for two weeks and Sophia who I honestly thought would last but didn't. Oh and three day Steve, of course.

At some point, I just gave up getting to know her partners because they never last anyway. Despite her dating history, I loved how Chloe embraced her sexuality. She's the epitome of love is love.

Our apartment had one car space and Chloe didn't drive so even though I walked to work I had a car. It was so I can drive to my parent's place, which was a good 50-minute drive. It's also slowly becoming our thing where when Chloe is really drunk, she would call me to pick her up wherever and like what I said to her, I didn't really mind, she could call me anytime and if I could I would.

I visit my parent's place from time to time on the weekends. On one particular visit, they wanted me to invite Chloe over so I did.

"Hey Chloe, what are you doing this weekend?"

"Nothing yet, what's up? You wanna go out?"

"Actually my parents, I think you've met them once or twice, they wanted to have you over on Saturday, just bring an overnight bag or something."

"So we can still go out Friday night then?"

"I mean, if you're going out, I don't mind."

"Okay. Let's do that then."

"So is that a yes to my parents?"

"Yeah. I'd love to join you."

"Cool. I'll let them know."

"Is that a yes to Friday night?"

"Sure, why not." I shrugged.

Saturday night at my parents' with Chloe was not what I expected. Actually, I didn't know what to expect. I don't usually invite friends over to my place much less to my parents'. They loved her, which was no surprise. Chloe was just so good with people.