A Bella scarf. A yellow cup. And a phone.
That was all what she left behind for her sisters to find.
Beca was the first one to notice that Chloe was gone. And she didn't understand how or why. But the items the redhead had left behind said enough. She was gone and wouldn't come back. At least not anytime soon.
Nobody understood why Chloe had left. She didn't left a note. She didn't talk to anyone about her feelings.
Had she been unhappy? Nobody knew. If you asked the Bella's, they would say that Chloe was her usually bubbly self. They hadn't noticing anything weird of out of place with the redhead.
The day before she so suddenly left, they had had a movie night. They had talked and laughed. They had drank and eaten. It had been an ordinary day in the Bella's house.
They next day the contrast couldn't be bigger. After Beca found out her beloved redhead was gone, she first called Aubrey. The blonde was beyond shock and didn't know anything more then Beca. After she had ended the call, she texted the rest of the Bella's. But nobody knew why or how the redhead had choose to leave.
In the beginning it was hard to live without Chloe in the house. They all missed her presence. They missed her laugh, her caring nature. Her reasurrance that everything would be okay. But eventually they learned to cope with it. They never forgot her, but they respected her decision to leave them. That didn't mean they were okay with it though. They didn't always agreed with each others life choices. But they respected the choices each and every one of them made.
After they all graduated and left the Bella's house, Beca had taken the three items with her. Where ever life brought her, she always took those three items with her.
Years went by without hearing anything from the redhead. But they all had to go on with their lives. But it didn't mean that her friends didn't think about her. On the contrary, they kept her memory alive at every Bella meeting. On her birthday they usually came together to toast on their friend, and celebrated that she was a year older. Because Chloe was a Bella. And none of them ever thought that she was dead. They all believed that she just took off because she needed time for herself.
And when the day came that she would return, they would celebrate it big. Because "Once a Bella always a Bella" was their catchphrase. Because they were sisters. And being a Bella was something that was for life.
So they get on with their lives. Some of them had married. Some of them had kids. They all joined the workforce but they always kept close with each other. At least twice a month there was a Bella meeting. Every time hosted by one of them. Some of them lived close to each other. And others moved away. But with every important celebration they would always be together. No matter how busy their schedules were. Because that was were sisters were for. They supported each other when they needed.
It has been ten years since Chloe had left. And today was a special celebration. They celebrated Beca's first Grammy Award. Beca had invited them all to the show. And naturally they all had come. When she had won they were all so proud of her.
For the after party Beca had hired a club. They first would have a celebratory dinner and then they would dance all night. It was just a Bella only party. They all needed it to be just in their own little world. Beca knew she couldn't have done it without their support. She had a rough life after college. But the Bella's had helped her to stay on the right track. And tonights party was to thank them for everything they had done for her.
They were sitting and talking when Fat Amy's eyes suddenly went wide. Unable to speak she just pointed. When Beca turned around she was speechless. There was the woman she hadn't seen in ten years. She still had those striking blue eyes. Her red hair was shorter than it had been in college. She looked older, but she was still as beautiful as she had been in college.
"Chloe" was all that Beca could say.
