'cause you brought out the best of me,

the part of me i'd never seen.

you took my soul and wiped it clean,

our love was made for movie screens.

/

"Protect yourself, Chloe."

"What do you mean?"

"Don't let yourself get hurt."

"Are you drunk?"

"Maybe."

"Go sleep."

"I'm afraid."

"Why?"

"Probably because I am so close to start liking you..."

"Liking me? Because I remind you of your old girlfriend?"

"No. Because you're being you."

Aubrey scoffed aloud as she strolled through her best friend's cellphone, reading the conversation between Chloe and a brunette she'd met at a game of ultimate frisbee.

"Seriously Chlo, from what I'm reading this girl is trouble."

"You'd think so too?" Aubrey nodded, putting down the phone and grabbing her beer bottle, jiggling it slightly to rid of the condensed water on its glass surface. She leaned her head back and downed the remaining bottle. Letting out a satisfied burp, Aubrey stood up and made her way to the front door.

"You're leaving already?"

"Yeah, got to go meet my friend who just flew back from Luxembourg. Haven't seen her in the longest!" Aubrey was walking halfway through the door when she stopped. "Chlo?"

"Yeah?"

"Stop talking to her."

Chloe nodded quietly as she watched her best friend disappear behind the closed door. Her phone beeped with a new incoming message.

"I can't meet you on Thursday."

"Why not?"

"It's Valentine's Day."

"Yeah, so? It's not like we're toge-"

"Jesse won't be happy. He's-"

"Fine, I get it. But promise me you'll keep Friday free then. Free, for me."

"I will."

/

Chloe has been texting Beca the entire morning to discuss Friday's itinerary. She's squealed and jumped with joy in her seat when Beca texted that she was available the entire day. "Great! So I get one full day with you!"

"Yeah, I'm looking forward to it :-)"

Chloe read the text again and quickly turned to her computer, typing into Google the name of the cafe she'd wanted to bring the brunette for their first date. "Shall I meet you at the station at 8 in the morning then?"

"Sounds great. I've gotta be back by 8pm though." Chloe's heart sank.

"Why's that?"

"I'd need to skype with Jesse; he needs me. I don't want him to be suspicious or anything."

"Okay. I'll see you on Friday then." Pocketing her phone and directing her attention back to the meeting, Chloe let out a sigh and hoped that everything would go as planned.

She ran all the way to the station, occasionally flicking out her phone and checking the time. She's late and she could see a short brunette reading a book, leaning against a pillar waiting ahead. Beca looked up as Chloe came to a stop and started panting next to her. "Sorry, I'm late."

"It's fine." Chloe stood up straighter and smoothed the front of her turquoise linen shirt. She decided to drop Beca a text to ask if they could wear similar colors; the brunette has replied that she didn't mind.

"Let's go."

/

"Look at all that Manta Rays!"

Chloe frowned as she studied the info-panels placed around the aquarium. It was a newly opened place and the red-head has chosen a visit period near their closing time to avoid the crowd. The two girls paced through the aquarium like they'd own the place, stopping to take ridiculous pictures and to knock on the thick glass, trying their best to scare the fishes.

She turned and fixed her eyes on the bouncing brunette; her entire face lit-up as she gushed at the school of rays swimming in the huge tank the biggest in the aquarium. The lights, refracted through the body of water in the tank casted a calming blue in every corner of the 3-stories high room. There was only a handful of people standing around admiring the creatures from the ocean as they swam around the artificial coral reef. Chloe cleared her throat, causing the brunette to whisk around with concern.

"Chlo?" The red-head smiled and pointed at the info-panel in front of her. Beca bounced over and frowned when she read the details.

"They're the Eagle Rays, silly."

"Oh man!" Beca stuck out her lower lip and turned back to the tank. She pressed her nose against the glass and sighed. Chloe shook her head in amusement and pulled the brown-head over to a corner of the room before sitting herself down on the carpeted floor. Beca followed suit and sat down right next to Chloe; their knees touching as they lifted their eyes and indulged in the sea life in front of them.

Whenever a school of rays came swimming near where they were seated, Beca would squeal - eliciting uncontrolled giggles from Chloe who had never thought the short girl capable of making such noises. "Look, look! The EAGLE rays! How cute! Oh! Here comes another one! Chloe are you looking at this?"

Chloe smiled warmly at her companion and scooted closer. Beca sensed the movement but did not move away. She tilted her head sideways to cast a glance at the red-head before letting her pull her into a spoon hug. Chloe rested her chin on Beca's shoulder, feeling the side of her head brushed against the brunette's cheeks as she wrapped her arms around her slim waist tightly. Both stayed in that position for a long while, each silent and refusing to break out of the comfortable position they'd place themselves in. Other visitors casted them weird looks as they walked past the duo.

When the music from PA system started playing for the hundredth time, Beca turned in Chloe's arms and pouted.

"I'm hungry."