Chapter 1

Chloe's POV:

I couldn't even hear myself think over the sound of the roaring crowd. Becca was grinning from ear to ear, beaming with pride; she sure earnt this recognition. Eyes belonging to Becca suddenly found mine, and all I could do was smile adoringly, she's always captivated me: the way she makes me laugh, the way she opens up around me, the way she's different with me – a nice different, more intimate. Our friendship had always felt like something more, not like my relationships with the other girls.

Next thing I know, we're all being hurdled off the stage for DJ Khaled to start his set. "Hey Chloe, how awesome was that?" Becca shouted across the kerfuffle.

"Becca, you did amazing girl! This is the start of something special for you." I replied back. We managed to come together in the middle of the huddle. "Its bitter sweet, the start of something new for you but the end of an era for the Bellas." I continued. She looked up with a sad look in her eyes. "Hey, don't look at me like that, this is a good thing, this is your career. We've all got our own separate ways to go, we're happy."

"But I don't want us to go our separate ways. Us Bellas, we are one of a kind, I have never had friends like this before in my life, I've never had someone to confide in, I've never had anyone like you." She confessed.

"Anyone like me? What's so special about me?" I questioned. Becca suddenly looked down, her cheeks began to flush.

"Nothing… What I meant to say was you were the one that found me and convinced me to audition for the Bellas. You are the reason that I have this group of friends." She mumbled.

"Okay Becca, I know what you mean, don't worry." I said with a smirk. "It's not because I'm the best, right? Yanno, you love me!" I replied with a wink.

"Aha yeah… sure…urm of course. Let's catch up with the rest." She replied quickly, having not realised the others have moved on without us. "Hey guys, where are we going next?" Becca asked the group once ae caught up.

"Dinner!" Amy shouted.

"I call Sushi" Aubrey suggested.

"Right, sushi it is then" Becca said with a shrug of her shoulders.

As we walk towards our taxi bus that had just arrived, something caught the corner of my eye, Chicago. "Hey Chloe, can we talk for a sec please?" He asked.

"Yeah sure. One sec girls, can you wait for me in the taxi please?"

"Chlo, meet you in the taxi" Aubrey said with a wink. As I walk over to a corner with Chicago, I notice Theo pulling over Becca to talk to him. I've noticed over this tour that he's been getting overly close to Becca, and it was just not sitting right with me. I need to make a statement. Maybe it wasn't the right statement, but at this time it was all I could think to do.

I kissed him. Why? I don't know. I just reached out and grabbed his face and kissed him…right in front of Becca. I wanted to make her jealous. Does this mean I'm into her for this to be a normal backlash? Well no time to think, as I turned around without saying anything and headed back over to the taxi to meet the other girls. Becca's face did not seem too pleased with my recent actions.

Those actions caused Becca to give me a cold shoulder the whole night. Not a word to me. When we got back to the room which we shared – and would be the last night we shared this room as our flight home was tomorrow – she proceeded to get into bed after brushing her teeth and into her pjs in radio silence. "Any reason for not talking to me all night?" I asked with a sarcastic tone.

Nothing.

"Why are you being so childish Becca?" I almost shouted.

Nothing.

"God Becca, this is our last night, make it count, let's have fun! We all go our separate ways tomorrow and this could be the end. So, don't fuck it up for me and yourself!" I said, progressively getting louder.

"Me? Fuck it up? No that was all down to you babe. You went and fucked it up" Becca replied matching my tone.

"How the hell did I fuck it up? I'm not the one with the sour face and shitty mood for no god damn reason!"

"You had to go and open your big mouth, didn't you? We could've gone home perfectly fine with no mentions about the 'end' and our friendship ending. THEN to top it ALL off, you go and kiss Chicago" Spitting with a questionable rage.

"I was only trying to speak the truth so we could get a resolution… wait, why has this got anything to do with Chicago?" I ask raising an eyebrow.

"Nothing, just move on Chloe, we're all home tomorrow and you'll never have to think about or contact me again."

"BUT I DON'T WANT TO MOVE ON BECCA, YOU DON'T GET IT, SPEAK TO ME. I. WANT. TO KNOW. WHY." I screamed, exaggerating the last few words.

"BECAUSE I LIKE YOU OKAY!"

Silence. I didn't move a muscle. Mouth still agape.

"I'm just gonna go…" Becca trailed off, making her way to the door. "I'll sleep with Amy".

"Wait." … "Becca wait" She still kept gathering her stuff, not stopping. So, I bent down and grabbed her shoulder and turned her around to face me. Automatically I grab her face, and crash my lips against hers. After about 5 seconds she reacts and kisses back. Not even thinking what the repercussions will be. For now it was bliss: somehow this kiss felt like a weight was lifted off of my shoulders.

We pulled away, still staring at each other. Our heavy breathing filled the silence. "Did we?" Becca sad staring at me in disbelief.

"I guess we did." I gathered myself together and stood up from my kneeling position that was facing Becca. I walked towards my bed and collapsed, flat on my face into the pillows.

"I'm gathering you're confused by this?"

"Yeah I'm confused, not about me kissing you, but the fact you kissed back, disbelief I suppose – How long have you felt like this?" Turing around to face Becca, as she started to approach me. She sat down next to me on the end of the bed.

"Quite a while really. I didn't know I liked you in that way, but when it hit me, I realised this feeling I've had all this time was too friendly just to be friends .You broke me out of my shell, I was quite happy to be little old Becca that was going to quit after one year at Barden. But no, you came, barged into my shower and made me sing your 'lady jam'- Which by the way, still freaks me out to this date. Your quirky attitude made me realise what I was missing, a partner, whether that's a friendship or more. So I guess all I have to say is that I'm very grateful for your pushy nature because I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you." I didn't realise it, but tears began to fall from my eyes and Becca cottoned on to that and came forward to hug me. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you cry." I laughed at this. I laughed because I shouldn't be crying, I should be happy, this is what I've wanted after all right?

"The feelings mutual Mitchell." We both laughed at this. "So I guess we're not going to part ways after all?" I ask with a smirk.

"If we did, then what was the point of this very revealing conversation? And you know, I'm not an emotional person."

"Yeah, I know you, and this was very unusual for you. So I must be a very special lady!"

"I guess you can say that." Becca said smiling.

"So what happens next?" I address the elephant in the room. "I mean, I'm going to Vet school and well, the world is your oyster."

"Well I don't intend on moving anytime in the near future, Atlanta is my home for now, and I know your studying in Atlanta too so I don't see why this won't work.

"But doesn't the record company require you to move to LA?"

"Not necessarily. They do have a branch right in Atlanta. So I'll ask to stay there. Well unless you feel that you would like to relocate to LA to a Vet school there? But that's a big commitment, It's like we'd be moving in together and we aren't even official yet. We'd be the proper stereotype."

"Well we have a decision then, we stay in Atlanta for now. But one thing for sure is, I have to move out, Amy is driving me crazy, with you added into the equation, she will be unbearable"

"I agree with you there, and now you will be able to afford the down payment on an apartment or something with the initial pay form signing the record deal contract. I on the other hand will be paying more into the schooling system, but with a little income from the surgery. Lucky for me, I get to stay with my parents. Yay." I say dryly.

"I would offer for you to move in with me but that will defeat the object, otherwise we could just move to LA."

"We're thinking far into the future here, aha, we need to just think about now." We turn to each other, but as I open my mouth to speak again, Becca shoots up and runs to the other side of the room with a massive grin on her face. "What are you up to Mitchell?"

"Come over here if you want to find out" So I oblige and saunter over to her in a childlike state of happiness. But as soon as I get close, she shoots off into the other direction. The next thing, I feel arms being wrapped around my waist. I am swivelled around to face her, well I do have to look down. This makes me giggle at the thought of our height difference.

"Agree to not overthink this?" I state.

"100% agree with that one Beale! But do we tell the others?"

"I say we wait on that front, but I'm pretty sure they already guessed there was something more with us."

"Yeah the whole 'Bloe' situation that the ever so wonderful Amy came up with. I say we see how long it is before they figure it out. Well we won't be surrounded by them anymore unlike at Barden."

"Very true, we could feasibly go undetected for quite some time, well that is if you want to."

"I'm all for telling them, but I think we should just play a game with them, giving subtle hints here and there." This caused a smile for the both of us. The thought of us actually being a thing excited me and gave me hope for the future.

"Right, tonight is for us, no more talking about the others." I finish with a wink.

"I always knew you had a kink Beale."