This is soooooo god damn late but I had some ideas, then I got busy and I still wanted to put it up anyway.
This will be a 3 part story for the Disney prompt for Bechloe Week 2018.
As usual, it's probably crap but feel free to tell me that! I love comments, no matter what they are.
Also I barely proof-read so I may sound like an idiot... like all the time.
i) The first time is not always great (but it is special)
The first time that Beca and Chloe go to Disneyland they are not alone, far from it. The entire Bella horde has squished themselves into the bus to the airport during Beca's third year of college and Chloe's second super senior year. It was kind of planned and also not – kind of planned being that Beca and Chloe planned to go, the not planned part was Fat Amy, Cynthia Rose and Stacie finding out and deciding that all of the Bella's were tagging along.
Chloe happily cheered "the more the merrier", while Beca just half-heartedly echoed her sentiments. It's not that Beca didn't want them to come along… it's just that they were A LOT to deal with and she wasn't sure if she wanted to spend 4 full days with the whole group. (She might not survive it if she's honest). She was actually looking forward to just spending time with Chloe, she was her best friend after all.
They hadn't had a chance to actually book anything before the Bella's found out so they ended up booking a 2 bedroom suite (which apparently sleeps 11 adults but HOW that is possible remains a mystery to Beca). So Aubrey is invited along as well because it's bound to make it cheaper for them, well it's not the only reason she was invited, both Chloe and Stacie were very keen on her tagging along.
The drill sergeant makes her appearance well known – or heard rather – on the day they are due to fly to California when she comes into the house blowing a whistle at 6am. Beca has never felt the need to condone murder before but this seems like a reasonable time to start. Aubrey manages to get the Bella's asses into gear and they all succeeded in being packed and on the bus with time to spare – it's actually a miracle and makes Beca think that the scary blonde may have magical powers… or she just frightens the shit out of everyone.
Beca doesn't bring her laptop with her, she figures it's a semester break with nothing of note coming up for the Bella's so she doesn't need to create any set lists (plus she highly doubts that Chloe will let her sit on it when they get there). On the bus she sits by herself and listens to music, letting Chloe and Aubrey share a seat and catch up. On her way to her seat Chloe shoots Beca a brilliant smile and it makes her forget that it's not just the two of them, if only for a moment.
Once they arrive at the airport it's chaos until they get to the departure gate. Fat Amy has too many bags and several of them are oversized, Stacie packed a vibrator in her carry on which was questioned by security and they were debating whether it could be used as a weapon (to which Stacie offered to display the only thing it would be used for, so they waved her through), Flo only brought a satchel bag claiming that she has learned to live with nothing but a scrap of cloth and a chicken (which ultimately meant that she had to take one of Amy's bags) and Lilly just up and disappeared.
Before the flight they ate the sandwiches that Aubrey and Chloe packed so that they wouldn't waste money on expensive airport food but they were allowed to get coffee – the one thing that none of them would budge on (especially Beca). The seating for the flight was picked by Chloe who demanded to be in the middle of Beca and Aubrey, while Stacie protested saying that she also wanted to be next to Aubrey. It ended up being Beca, Chloe, Aubrey on one side (Aubrey being on the aisle seat), then Stacie (aisle seat next to Aubrey), Cynthia Rose and Flo, and in front of Beca was Fat Amy & Lilly, then Jessica and Ashley sat over the other side.
Beca tried to just listen to music for the 5hr flight but Chloe was having none of it, she was not the best flyer and needed to stay distracted. She grasped Beca's hand tightly when the plane took off, barely letting the blood flow – not that Beca minded, she could never be mad at Chloe. After the plane settled and righted itself again Chloe's hand kept its hold onto Beca's, neither of them bothering to remove it since it wasn't the first time they'd held hands, but it did always cause a stir among the Bellas and they received many smirks and waggling eyebrows in return (in Stacie and Fat Amy's case it went as far as being a hand up with 2 fingers in a V formation and wiggling their tongue between it). Distracting Chloe is pretty easy for Beca, she knows her better than she knows herself (she definitely thinks that might be true sometimes), so they talk about anything and everything that pops into Beca's mind – it's always easy to talk to the red-head. Aubrey wrapped herself up in planning schedules and making sure that none of the places they wanted to go were under maintenance which will keep her busy for a while so she doesn't have a chance to interrupt them.
After they land and are shuttled to the hotel, they are escorted to their suite. Beca completely dreads how the next few days will go because there will be absolutely noprivacy. The suite has 4 queen beds, a pull-out sofa and a day bed. The girls all rush to get their preferred sleeping arrangements sorted which ends up with Jessica & Ashley, Flo & CR, Stacie and Aubrey, Lilly takes the day bed and Fat Amy hogs the pull-out sofa. Chloe turns to Beca and grabs her excitedly, "Awww Becs! We get to share a bed!" Beca of course doesn't mind, in fact Chloe is the only Bella that she would share a bed with, but she groans to keep up appearances which causes the red-head to nudge her with her elbow and say, "Oh you love it."
The group of girls spent that afternoon splitting off into their own little groups and exploring the hotel and grounds, only after getting a stern reminder that they are supposed to have dinner together every night and breakfast together every morning to make sure they bond. (No doubt they will spend their evenings drinking and goading each other before bed anyway). It doesn't take long for Beca to be the last one in the room, she's honestly a little tired from the whole day so far and they aren't going into the park until tomorrow morning anyway… She gets into the bed that she shares with Chloe by falling into it and spreading out like a starfish, a little nap never hurt anyone after all.
It doesn't seem like she's in bed for very long before movement makes her stir. She feels a hand stretched across her middle and breath on the back of her neck. There is definitely a pair of breasts pressing into her back and Beca's first thought involves some not-so-PG13 performances, which in her sleep-addled brain causes her to press harder back into the warm body. A sleepy moan is returned from her mystery guest and it wakes her properly. Panic overtakes her thoughts – who the hell would be cuddled up to her! Turning quickly and jostling the other party awake in the process she realises that it was just Chloe (she realises that she was stupid to think it could be anyone else). Her best friend must have come back to the room after checking around and decided to latch onto Beca.
Bright big blue eyes stare sleepily at her and a wide smile appears on the red-head's face, "Mmmm whas'time Becs?" It takes Beca a minute to clear the fog from her brain when she sees Chloe stretch and moan with satisfaction at the feeling.
"Oh um… oh crap its 7 already dude," Beca states when she realises that they need to start heading to the restaurant for the nightly Bella dinner. Before she can get up and out of bed, Chloe's arms snake back around her and pull her close again, trapping her in her body heat.
"Nooooo let's stay and cuddle some more. I'm so comfortable!" Chloe pleads.
"Yeah but you are also not the one Aubrey will murder if we miss dinner Beale," Beca reasons and Chloe concedes with a pout. She squirms her way out of the ginger's grip and tries to tame her bed hair. Feeling too lazy to change, she just puts on her shoes and heads to the couch to wait for her best friend.
They make their way down to the dinner and Beca gets a slight glare from Aubrey and the girls make a few comments about what Bhloe were doing together when they disappeared but the topic passes quickly. After eating the horde returns to the room to play drinking games (which doesn't actually end up happening due to Aubrey's insistence that they plan their schedule for tomorrow).
After a few stern words (orders) from Aubrey, all the girls head to bed except for Beca. The brunette decides to go for a walk around the area instead, clear her head and take a breather from all the overwhelming energy that she has been dealing with today. She steps outside the room and makes her way to the empty pool area and sits on the edge of the pool, dangling her feet in the water. Just taking a few minutes to relax and think, knowing that it's going to be difficult to have any alone time in these next few days.
It's not long before a body slowly lowers down and sits beside her. Beca knows that it's Chloe long before she turns to look at her, she has a 'Chloe-sense'. It doesn't really surprise her that the red-head has sought her out and joined her, they've always has this unexplainable bond. Something that cannot be described in mere words alone, it's more than a friendship (not in the way that she would like), and if Beca believed in soul mates then she has no doubt that Chloe would be hers. They sit together not really talking, kicking their feet under the water lightly for a few minutes before Chloe leans forward and nudges her with her shoulder, "What brought you out here?"
Beca just replies with a sigh and then says, "Just needed to get away for a minute. There is only so much death glaring I can take from Aubrey before I feel like I'm going to actually give in and drop dead," she finishes with a smirk.
Chloe tuts in minor disapproval, "Hey that's my best friend you're talking about."
Beca puts a hand to her chest in faux horror, "You mean I am not your best friend? Here I was all this time thinking you cared about moi!"
"Oh I'm sorry, do I know you?" Chloe dead-panned as she raised her eyebrow.
Beca chuckles softly, "You've clearly spent too much time with me Beale. Next you'll be wearing ear monstrosities and losing a couple more inches and Aubrey will be calling you a hobbit too."
"Hmm I think I'd look hot with ear monstrosities," Chloe states before she turns to Beca and strokes the spikes of her left ear, "Not as sexy as you of course, but still, maybe something for me to think about."
Now, Beca is pretty used to Chloe flustering her, making her blush and just generally melting her into a puddle of confused feelings. In fact, most of the time the brunette is trying to maintain a self-image of aloofness, then Chloe will come along with a comment about singing in the shower or experimenting with girls and Beca loses her battle of keeping a straight face every time. She never knows what to think about those comments. It scares her because she knows that they're close (again not as close as she would like) and it makes her question for a moment if it's possible, even remotely, for Chloe to like her – like like her (as middle school as that sounds it's definitely accurate).
But this was a pretty bold comment even for the red-head, to blatantly call Beca sexy while touching her in a not-so friend-ly way (because who strokes their friends ear?). It wasn't even just what she said but how she said it. Her tone was so sure and confident as if it were the truest words she'd ever spoken. Not even the slightest bit of hesitation. It wasn't long before Beca felt herself choke internally on the statement and heat rising to her cheeks (she was just glad there wasn't much light or Chloe would see it).
Before she can stop herself she manages to hastily reply, "Of course you would. You look hot in everything, without a doubt you are the sexiest person I know." Once it leaves her mouth she almost faints. That's probably at the top of the list of things you shouldn't say to your best friend – your straight best friend especially. If her cheeks were red before they must be on fire now and Beca knows that she should probably laugh or run away or do something to ease the tension she has probably caused. She can't help but wonder if she's about to watch this friendship implode.
If Beca turned to look at Chloe she would've seen a look of disbelief on her friends face but she was too busy panicking inside her own head. Seconds go by and Chloe tries to respond but is interrupted by her phone beeping.
"It's Aubrey," Chloe states as she looks at her messages, "She wants us back at the room before she has to drag us back."
Beca sighs and acquiesces to the request knowing that she can't sit out here all night. To be honest it gives her an easy out of the awkwardness she has thrust upon herself tonight. In lieu of answering she rises up and offers a hand to Chloe, which causes the red-head to look up at her and smile before slowly reaching out and grasping the brunette's hand tightly. The slightly taller girl lifts herself up with ease but doesn't let go of Beca's hand, choosing to hold it while they walk back to the hotel room, only moving to adjust their grasp to a comfortable position.
Beca secretly revels in these intimate yet confusing moments that they share. She doesn't freeze up anymore, right now she decides to be a little bold and interlock their fingers. Chloe looks down at their hands and squeezes Beca's in a show of appreciation. They don't say anything on the way back to the room, but once outside the door again they face each other knowing this is the last chance of privacy.
"So I uh… I guess we better go in before Aubrey comes storming out," the brunette mumbles quietly.
"Yeah probably," Chloe agrees scrunching up her nose slightly, "I kinda wish it was just us on this trip like we planned though."
Beca chuckles softly, "Yeah those weirdos love ruining a moment."
Chloe reaches out and places a stray strand of hair behind Beca's ear and it makes Beca stop breathing. "I'm glad you still came, it wouldn't have been right without you here."
The brunette just inhales sharply at that and forces herself to maintain eye contact with those bright blue eyes that seem to be shining more than ever right now. Beca swallows hard before responding, "Yeah me too. Come on before Aubrey buries me alive for keeping you up."
Chloe lowers her head and nods gently, then they enter the room quietly, trying to avoid waking any of the girls that might be asleep. All the lights in the room are off so the girls tiptoe around the room and get changed for bed. They slide into the bed together and Beca doesn't even think about it before she rolls over and pulls Chloe's back to her front. It takes no time at all for them both to relax into the position before falling asleep, it's definitely not the first time they've fallen asleep this way – it always just feels right to the both of them.
Beca awakes to whispering voices around her. She opens one eye (with a struggle) and peeks out seeing multiple Bella's hovering around her and Chloe's bed. Opening her other eye, she can see a mane of red hair covering most of her face. Chloe has turned around during the night and they are now cuddling front to front, with Beca's chin over Chloe's head and Beca can feel her best friend's breath on her collarbone while she is snuggled tightly against the brunette's chest.
She focuses on the voices once more when she hears a camera click.
'Bhloe is totally real'
'Yeah just look at them!'
'Friends don't sleep like that'
'Dear god did they have SEX while we were all in the room last night!'
'Uhhh there is totally going to be a mini-Bhloe on the way'
'Fat Amy it doesn't work like that'
'Girls! Leave them alone and get ready for breakfast!'
That last authoritarian voice was Aubrey and Beca knows that means they have very little time to get up before they (just Beca) gets physically dragged out of bed. The brunette nudges Chloe gently to try and wake her up, then whispers into her hair. "Psst, Chlo. We gotta get up, Bella breakfast time."
Chloe moans as she starts waking up and stretches, causing a slight blush to Beca's cheeks. They all get ready for the day and head out – taking much longer than normal due to the severe reduction in bathrooms available to them compared to the Bella house.
At breakfast Beca heads over to the coffee first, drinking a cup while over at the machine before making another. She decides to make Chloe her usual morning tea and bring it over for her, finding that her best friend has done the same for her with a plate of food. They sit next to each other and swap tea with food and join the chatter of the other Bella's. It doesn't take long for the teasing comments to start about how Chloe clung to Beca like a koala in bed and suggestive comments about what they had done. The brunette responded as normal with glares but it ended once Aubrey told them all to get up so that they could enter the park and start having fun.
(Beca thinks that planning every minute of the day kinda takes the fun out of it but she stays silent and chooses to roll her eyes instead).
When they enter the park Aubrey splits them into their groups. Beca, Chloe & Fat Amy are group 1; Stacie, Aubrey and Flo are group 2; Jessica, Ashley, Lilly and Cynthia Rose are group 3. They don't have to meet up at any point except for dinner but Aubrey advises them to stay with their groups and follow the maps she's provided.
The groups split up and Beca turns to Chloe and Fat Amy and asks them what they want to do first (though the question is mostly directed at Chloe). The red-head wanted to go see the parades, Amy wanted to go to Splash Mountain and Beca was looking forward to going to Space Mountain. They had a total of 3 days at the parks before they flew back so they had plenty of time to do everything that they all wanted to do. Given the parades were in the late afternoon and night, they decided to go to some of the rides first.
It didn't take long to actually get to the areas they wanted. They decided to try and go through the areas like Tomorrowland and Fantasyland today – apparently they had to go meet the Disney Princesses today and listen to the story time, it was non-negotiable to Chloe.
Surprisingly it took nearly 30 minutes before Amy decided that her 'free range pony' status was being cramped by their unrelenting need to stick to a plan. They tried to argue that they weren't planning but making sure that they did actually get to see everything that they wanted but Fat Amy was having none of it and disappeared. She left them with a comment about them now being able to have the romantic holiday that they desired all along and she was going to find herself a beast to her beauty.
Beca shrugged at Chloe and they kept on walking. The red-head would get excited when spotting characters around the place and grab Beca's arm to drag her over. The brunette didn't mind, she loved seeing Chloe so happy and she really would do just about anything for her – it was the power of those clear blue eyes and blinding smile. Of course, keeping in character was important to Beca (even if Chloe knew she was faking it) so she kept up her minor groans of annoyance to the things she considered them too old for.
They seemed to work their way through a few princesses, always ending up the same way – Chloe squeals, she chat animatedly with the princess, Beca rolls her eyes but stares blatantly at the red-head who is in her element creating joy around her and just emanating pure happiness (which if the brunette was caught staring at her best friend by any of the Bella's, they would accuse her of having heart eyes again), they pose for multiple pictures (several of which have to be different poses and then they leave. Chloe seems to be vibrating with excitement and Beca tries her best to quell her smiles so that she doesn't make her enormous love for the red-head too obvious.
Story time is what Beca was dreading the most. She just knows it's going to be all children and they are going to be so out of place sitting down in the hall listening to this story. But again, she hasn't learned (and doesn't think it's possible) for her to say no to Chloe when she pleads. When they enter the hall however, Beca learns that today's story is read by none other than Mulan – this causes her to gasp loudly and grab Chloe's arm instead this time. The red-head knows just how much Beca loves Mulan – 'by far the most badass of all the Disney princesses. SHE SAVED CHINA CHLOE!'.
Beca navigates them through the crowd to try and get seats up front and they watch the story intently. After the story time is over, the brunette becomes shy and doesn't want to go up and ask for a photo, but Chloe refuses to let this moment pass and again drags her best friend up for a photo. The red-head cannot contain the smile that appeared from the moment they stepped into this hall. This particular moment, seeing Beca's unbridled joy at meeting Mulan, has by far been her favourite part of the trip so far – she doubts anything could top it.
It takes no time at all for the brunette to change her lock screen photo from an old picture of her and Chloe, to the new photo of them with Mulan. It makes the red-head melt inside, her prickly little co-captain doesn't open up for everyone, but she gets to see everything behind that reinforced wall of hers.
They have an early dinner with the Bella's and then go back to watch the fireworks. Chloe sits next to Beca on a wall and leans her head on the brunette's shoulder. Sighing with contentment and then saying, "This place really is magical."
Beca hums an agreement before looking over at the red-head, "It's not as magical as you but it's not so bad."
Chloe stops breathing for a second as she processes what Beca just said and the possible meanings behind it. She wants to know if it's a sarcastic comment but when she turns to look at her best friend, she sees nothing but honesty shining from her eyes. It's one of the many reasons she loves the brunette, the way she can just drop a compliment without thinking about it and you know that she means it, it's always written on her face.
Staring into the clear blue of Chloe's eyes gives Beca a confidence she has never felt before. Being around her best friend has always been like putting on a warm blanket, familiar and protective. This time she feels her body give into the feelings she tries so hard to hide on a daily basis. The fear of rejection is far from her mind at this moment because Chloe is looking at her with such soft eyes that she just knows that there is nothing to be afraid of.
Leaning forward slowly, she captures Chloe's bottom lip is a gentle kiss – it's a little clumsy but it's much better than the picture her imagination could paint in her mind. She lingers for a second before pulling back slightly and looks into Chloe's eyes, searching – needing reassurance that it was ok.
"Was that okay?" She breathes onto the red-heads lips, face still close to hers.
Chloe closes her eyes and swallows hard before opening them, a new shine present in them with unshed tears. "That's probably the most okay thing ever Becs," she smiles as she replies.
"Is it okay if I do it again?" Beca questions, breathing getting heavier at the possibility.
There's no answer from Chloe other than pressing her lips against the brunette's again, hands finding their way into the locks she loves. Fireworks explode in the sky above them and Beca pulls away giggling, "This has got to be the most cliché shit in the world."
Chloe laughs in response, "I wouldn't have it any other way Becs."
Neither of them would.