Written: 11-29-17
-Sky
More than Miles (Her name's Beca Mitchell)
Note: I do not own any of the Pitch Perfect Casts, Movie (and probably some lines from the movie)
A sequel to 'Between the Lines'
"I miss you, already. Wish I could go home and be with you. I love you so much."
One.
"I'll hope to see you soon, baby. I love you, remember that."
Two.
"Wait a little more, we'll be together. I love you."
Three.
"I'm sorry, I got to go. Goodbye, Chloe. I Love you."
Four.
"It's over, Chloe. I'm sorry, Beca wouldn't say a word. But believe me, she loved you."
Five.
Who willingly waits and holds on to someone that doesn't want you anymore? That's just ridiculous and torturous at the same time, right? Chloe thought.
But it's Beca Mitchell. So, she's more than willing to go through that. Even if another five years would pass.
Scratch that. It's time to get up and know what happened. To know where did those I love you's go. To know why Beca wanted to end all of these. Why Beca decided to leaveand stay for more than a thousand miles. And why in a span of five years, Beca Mitchell suddenly stayed out of Chloe's life.
In their lives.
"Time to go, Chloe." Aubrey yelled from downstairs. Chloe looked at herself from one last time, before heaving a deep sigh. You'll get her back. Chloe told herself one more time.
If she had let Beca put all the efforts five years ago, then it's time for Chloe to do her part. Because, it's Beca. And being kept in the dark for years as to why Beca had wanted them to be over, Chloe would at least like to find out. Though it took Chloe a couple of years, waiting and trying to do as what Beca told her, to forget about her. Chloe couldn't comply.
And maybe, just maybe, she could change Beca's mind. So, they could proceed to what Beca had asked her two years after Beca had moved to LA,
"Do you think you'll want to spend the rest of your life with me? I mean, I'm not going to propose yet. Just thinking."
The thing is, Chloe would've said yes even if Beca hadn't dropped the question yet. She had never been sure her whole life. But it's Beca.
"Alright Red, time to get your girl." Stacie winked at the redhead who flashed a small smile. She nodded before grabbing her luggage.
Chloe knew that something isn't right, though she would kind of understand Beca's change of heart, she keeps thinking that maybe the brunette can't handle long distance relationship. What Chloe wouldn't understand is that, why Beca had also cut off her connections with her friends. Even Stacie.
And why all of a sudden? After what they'd been through, why would Beca suddenly leave her hanging?
It's a puzzle for everyone whom Beca had left after the Bellas had graduated. And Chloe wants to know.
"We'll be there with you, soon." Aubrey reassured her best friend as they helped her carrying the luggage at the trunk of Chloe's car, which was owned by Beca, but the brunette decided to leave it to Chloe the day she left.
Just by looking at the badass looking car, Chloe could not help but reminisce the memories she had with Beca. The first two years were great for them, either would visit one another every other month. Until it became once every six months, until Beca had stopped visiting Chloe. And every time Chloe would suggest a visit, the brunette would reject the idea.
Until they had fallen apart. Chloe did try this time. She held onto Beca's words, because she knew how much the brunette loves her. And she's willing to prove that she does too, this time.
"Make sure to slap that bitch for me." Stacie uttered, causing Chloe to just smile. She could feel that the tall brunette is frustrated that Beca hadn't reached out to her the same time that she told Chloe that she got to go.
"I'll bring the rest of the group with me when we got there. You might need some back up if Beca's just hooking up with other woman." Stacie added.
Chloe had suddenly frozen. What if Beca had realized that she doesn't want her anymore?
"Do you think it's still worth it?" Chloe asked, the brunette just smiled softly as she looked at her blonde girlfriend.
"I don't know Chloe, but you won't know if you don't see her." Aubrey spoke for her girlfriend. The redhead nodded knowingly.
It would be still worth it. Because it's Beca.
"I'm so sorry, Chloe. But Beca had threatened to kill me if I open my mouth. You know she could be serious." Jesse apologized as he avoided Chloe's eyes.
The redhead took a deep sigh as she nodded silently.
"Beca isn't here. She'd been out of town for business." Jesse added in an attempt to at least lighten up Chloe's burden. Even if he wanted to tell Chloe, he knew it wouldn't change anything. Not even if Chloe poured out all her emotions in front of the tiny brunette.
"How is she?" Chloe asked. Jesse just smiled half-heartedly, before drinking his coffee.
"She's doing pretty good, I think. Except that… she's doing good in her own ways." Jesse's tone sent Chloe to the paradise of her worries. She could not help but rewind those few years that had passed if there's anything she did wrong, except for the issue with Tom.
But they had talked about that, a lot of times. Chloe even avoided Tom when she and Beca were starting again. She knew she wasn't perfect, but she made sure that she had been making up for the brunette.
"It wasn't you Chloe, if that helps." Jesse assured the redhead after seeing the look in her face. Chloe smiled timidly, before looking down.
"I miss her."
The brunette man could not help but pity the redhead. He is just realizing now that real life is far from the movies he had watched. Though he didn't expect that just when everything has been finally going right, Beca would turn her back and restrict herself from the happy ending that she deserves.
"You were never with Tom, am I right?" Jesse asked out of curiosity. The question surprised Chloe, she looked at him with wide eyes. No, they were never an item. Though they remained as best friends, Chloe tried to maintain a distance knowing that there are times when Beca was jealous.
Chloe might have fucked up once, but she would make sure not to do it twice.
"No. Jesse, god, no. Is that why…" Chloe trailed off, as she bit her lip. Jesse sensed the thought that was forming in Chloe's mind. He reached out his hand to the redhead with a smile.
"Chloe, it's just my thought. Not Beca's."
"Then why wouldn't she say anything? Why would she just leave not just me, but all of us clueless?" Chloe asked as her tears slowly form. Jesse knew that if Beca sees this, he'd be damned.
If it were the Beca five years ago.
"I… honestly don't know Chloe. I would admit that she did shut me out too, we weren't that close, but we get along pretty well. Until…" Jesse paused before the word came out of his mouth. He shouldn't be the one to tell. Besides, he could also not pin point what exactly made Beca change.
"Until what?" Chloe retorted confusedly. Jesse just shook his head as he looked at her.
"Trust me Chloe, Beca didn't meant it to be this way." Jesse answered, but it just made Chloe confused even more. What the hell does that mean?
Jesse stayed with her for a little more before he has to go back to work. He dropped Chloe to where she would be staying.
Chloe was supposed to take a nap, and rest since she still has a jetlag. But maybe, it was the different time zone that she could not get herself some sleep. She kept on thinking, what went wrong, what happened, why Beca changed. It all just sets her mind into chaos.
She only has two months to find it all out. And she knew if it wouldn't be easy because she saw how Jesse looked. And if Stacie was with her, she could tell right away that their assumptions were right.
The old Beca is back.
"Well, we should go shopping first." Amy suggested after they had entered the small place where Chloe was staying. Chloe had bought the place five years ago, so she would have a place to stay whenever she visits Beca.
She never rented it out even if they stopped seeing each other.
"We'll do that later, Ames. We'll go straight ahead to Beca's." Aubrey responded after settling hers and Stacie's things. The Australian blonde just groaned before slumping herself on the sofa.
Emily turned to Chloe while the rest of the girls started unpacking their things.
"Have you got to talk to her, yet?" Emily asked. Chloe glanced at the young brunette before shaking her head slightly.
Stacie heard that and saw Chloe's response. She stood up and walked up to them.
"That's it. She's clearly avoiding you. And I wouldn't be surprise if she'd avoid us too. I swear I'm gonna show her how I destroy her mixing stuff back at home!" Stacie chimed in with a hint of frustration in her voice.
Chloe noticed that Stacie staying with Aubrey kinds of changed the tall brunette. Aubrey's temper had been rubbing off on Stacie.
"Yeah, and I would crush her tiny body!" Fat Amy yelled, as she crumpled a paper before throwing it at Cynthia Rose. Chloe softly smiled watching her friends rant, she wouldn't be so sure if she could survive those five years without them, she knew their hate on Beca wasn't that serious, although, it's really frustrating that even on their life time friendships, the brunette had also turned her back on them.
After they had taken a few hours of rest, they all dressed up and went out, heading to Beca's office. At least Jesse had told Chloe that the brunette is handling their family business now. Another thing that Chloe finds odd, she was sure that Beca had once told her that she wouldn't even think about running their own business. Because she wanted to be a music producer, not some business woman.
Jesse came down from the elevator, rushing towards Chloe and her friends. The brunette man seemed to be troubled as he catches his breathe. Chloe, along with her friends all furrowed their eyebrows at the man.
"Chloe, you can't be here. Or she'll kill me, or all of us." Jesse's voice was filled with panic as he occasionally peeks out from behind his back.
Chloe scrunched up her face, confused as to what was going on. Does Beca hates her? She would never deny that she messed the two of them big time, but why would Beca only hate her now? Does coming to LA made her realize that Chloe isn't what she deserved?
"Why, Jesse? What, were you hiding your cousin who just disappeared and decided not to be friends with us anymore?" Aubrey raised her tone as she raises an eyebrow at the man.
Jesse shakes his head as he glanced at the elevator once again.
"I promise I'll tell her that you guys are here. But not now." Jesse retorted. By just standing back and examining Jesse's facial expression, Stacie already knew that something is really off.
"Let's go for now, Chloe." Stacie's voice was calm, she then turned to Jesse and glared at him.
"Make sure that your favorite cousin will get her shit together or I will do it for her." Stacie added before turning around. She knew that they shouldn't have waited for a year after Beca told Chloe that she's not feeling it anymore.
"Jesse." A deep cold alto-voice echoed through the lobby. Pretty much everyone in the room had frozen as they all turned to see a woman in a business suit, with that familiar stone-cold face standing not too far from where Chloe and the rest were.
They all heard Jesse took a deep breath, as he muttered a sentence that no one had caught.
"Beca." Chloe whispered, her mouth agape as she looked at the woman.
And Chloe was sure that she saw her glance at her direction, she saw the look in her eyes.
Chloe had never felt this cold her whole life.
Jesse faced Chloe and the rest, smiling apologetically at them before walking back to his boss. And without any word, they left the building. There, stood the group of girls, dumbfounded.
"Are we sure we're on the right building? I'm pretty sure that isn't Shawshank." Fat Amy blurted out, Emily and the other bellas nodded in agreement.
"No, that's not the Beca we used to know." Cynthia Rose added.
Stacie took a deep sigh, as she watches Chloe froze in her grounds. She looked at Aubrey who's also surprised at what just happened.
"And we're getting the Beca not the old Beca back." Stacie said with much determination as she held her hand out, tapping Chloe's shoulder.
"You got us, don't worry. We'll slap some sense into Beca. I swear she'll regret ignoring us." Stacie told Chloe, assuring that they were all in this.
"Don't worry, ginger. Whatever it is that happened to Shawshank, I'm gonna make sure that she'll get pitched slapped, so hard." Amy said with much emphasis.
They're all right. They would find out what happened to Beca in her stay in LA. Chloe wouldn't give up, no, if Beca saved her five years ago, Chloe would do the same. She's more than willing to go a thousand miles, searching for her and this time, Chloe knew she at least deserved an explanation.
And she would understand whatever Beca's reasons were. Because it's Beca.
Because Beca had done more than enough for Chloe. It wasn't supposed to be a competition, but maybe, if Beca still doubts Chloe's feelings for her, then it's time for Chloe to prove that she's more than certain now that it's Beca.
The one and only.