Chloe stood alone at the baggage claim waiting for Beca to come back from her phone call. She rubbed her arms as she turned around to check if Beca was done talking to Jesse. She wasn't. They had arrived in Rome around 2 am and they were all exhausted from the flight. Another hour had already passed as they were waiting for their luggage. The rest of The Bellas had already gotten theirs and had gone off to find food and Chloe was waiting for her last bag.
"So how is it?" Jesse's voice was a little too enthusiastic for Beca right now.
"It's fine I think. I don't know Jess, we're still in the airport."
"Oh well, remember to take lots of pictures for me okay?"
"Yes da-"
"Oh my God no! You were just about to call me daddy!"
"I was going to say dad not daddy. I'm sorry-"
"That's still disgusting, Becs."
"I know! I know. Fuck! What the fuck? Cause you know people always say mom in those sit-"
"I know but Becs I mean.. ugh. What the fuck."
"Oh my god that word is ruined for me."
"It's ruined for me too! Jesus Christ. Fucking tumblr." They stopped to laugh a little. Beca looked over to Chloe to see her rubbing her arms. Is she cold? What the fuck? It's summer. In Rome. And she's cold?
"Our kids are going to call me vader. It's settled."
Whoa whoa .. kids?! Our kids?! I don't remember mentioning that word.. like ever.
She decided to drop the subject fast.
"Hey Jess, I'm gonna go. The last bag just got here and I really want some food so I'll call you tomorrow okay?"
"Alright. Promise you won't have too much fun without me?"
"Nope."
"Okay. That's fine I guess. I mean what am I gonna do about it right?"
"Exactly." Beca managed to chuckle out.
"Alright well I'll talk to you later then. LOVE YOU BABE!" He screamed into the phone making sure everyone could hear. Beca winced at the phone pulling it away from her ear. She didn't want to risk Jesse screaming in her ear again so she quickly ended the call.
"Mhm yeah bye."
"You're supposed to sa-" She hung up. Whoops. It's not that she didn't love Jesse, of course she did. He was her best guy friend and her boyfriend. What more could a girl want in a guy?.. Right? But of course she felt bad so she texted a quick 'love ya' to him and then made her way to Chloe.
"Stupid baggage claim. Taking forever. I have places to be goddamnit!" Chloe muttered to herself.
She jumped a little when Beca came up from behind, touching her arm.
"Hey sorry, are you cold?" Chloe didn't have the heart to tell her that she wasn't cold because she knew that Beca was going to offer her sweater. She had been rubbing her arms because it gave her something to do while she waited alone. Plus, she had been using a new lotion that made her skin really fucking soft and made her smell like peaches, and she just couldn't help from touching herself. Not like that.
Of course she's going to offer me her sweater. Of course she is!
She nodded biting her lip.
"Here take my sweater. You see your bag yet?" Beca asked as she took off her backpack and sweater.
What did I say? What did I just say?! You saw that right God? Jesus? Buddha? Allah? Anyone? Beca Mitchell, always chivalrous as fuck. I'm so whipped.
Taking the sweater she looked up just in time to see her last luggage fall onto the belt.
"Oh there it is!" She beamed as she put an arm through Beca's sweater.
"I got it." Before Chloe could respond, Beca was already pulling the luggage off the belt, letting it fall to the floor.
This sweater smells like vanilla. Nice.
"Here. Lets go." Beca offered the handle of the luggage to Chloe, smiling before putting on her backpack and grabbing the handle of her own luggage again.
/
They arrived at the hotel a little before 5 am after eating at the airport. As Beca checked in, the girls started to discuss sleeping arrangements.
"Okay, here's how it's going down. Beca and Chloe are bunking together obviously." At this all of The Bellas nodded except Chloe.
"Yes. Yes."
"Duh."
"Of course!"
"Wait what?" Chloe asked. They all looked at her with sympathetic smiles before brushing her off.
"Flo and I will bunk together, CR and Amy are together, and Jessica and Ashley, you guys are going to have to bunk in the same bed so Lilly won't be alone. Is that okay?" Stacie asked.
"Yeah it's cool." They answered in sync. Lilly whispered something but no one picked it up.
"Wait, what do you mean 'obviously'? I could bunk with anyone here."
"Honey. Shut up this is for your own good. Stop being stupid. Just trust us." Everyone nodded as Stacie rubbed Chloe's shoulder.
"Alright here guys. 428, 432 and 446." Beca returned with four key cards passing them out to the girls. "We are in 722. I'm damn tired so I'm going to bed like right now. Come on, Chlo." She grabbed Chloe's hand on instinct as she turned to walk. Before Chloe could follow, Stacie shot her a wink and a smile. Confused as she was being led away, she looked to the rest of The bellas, each shooting her their own mischievous looks. Cynthia Rose was biting her lips and nodding with her eyebrows wiggling up and down. Fat Amy was pelvic thrusting into the air and throwing up an 'okay' sign. Jessica, Ashley, Flo and Lilly were all stupidly grinning at her. She shook her head before turning fully around to follow Beca. Looking down at their interlocked fingers, she couldn't help but smile to herself.
/
Beca unlocked the door before letting Chloe in first. She smiled at Beca as she walked into the room before running Beca's foot over with her luggage.
"Ow!" Beca yelled before pulling her foot back quickly.
"Oh shit sorry! Are you okay?" Chloe was panicking just a little. Beca only chuckled.
"Hurry up and get in there I'm tired. It's fine. You're fine." With that Chloe quickly shuffled in flipping the light switch. She dropped all her things to the floor before placing her hands on her hips and sighing contentedly. She smiled at the two queen sized beds, one in the immediate room and the other off in the distance, technically in another room entirely considering its lifted a level. She dropped herself onto the couch between the two beds and propped her feet onto the coffee table, looking ahead at the little kitchen.
"Nice right?" Beca asked locking the door and walking over to the far bed.
"Very. I didn't think it would be this big."
"Don't tell the others." She swung her luggage onto her bed before pulling out her toothbrush, toothpaste, a t-shirt and spandex boy shorts out. Chloe sat up at this.
"Don't tell them what?"
"That our room is the biggest."
"Our rooms aren't the same size?" Beca scoffed.
"They all got twin sized beds." Beca said smiling as she walked over and locked herself in the bathroom. It was Chloe's turn to scoff.
/
Beca came out of the bathroom with her hair in a towel, wearing an oversized t-shirt that had in giant letters 'STFU' on the front. Her black spandex shorts barely peeking out from under her shirt.
"Hey if they're all sleeping in twin sized beds, will Jessica and Ashley be okay sleeping together?" They thought about it for a second before laughing at the question.
"Yeah, no they'll be fine." Beca dismissed the topic with a wave of her hand as Chloe got up to use the restroom.
/
Beca was already in bed on her phone when Chloe came out in a cami tank top and boxer shorts, her wet hair messily flowing down to her shoulders. Beca looked up from her phone to see the red hair doing very a shit job of covering Chloe's toned back. Her eyes lingered a little too long for it to be a friendly gaze.
"I'm so fucked." she whispered to herself, still staring at Chloe's shoulder blades she could see the water dripping from Chloe's red locks onto them, glistening in the warm light.
"What?"
"Nothing just.. something I read." She glanced back at her phone again before looking up to meet Chloe's eyes. Fuck those eyes. Those beautiful, hypnotic blue orbs that she calls eyes. Chloe gave her an honest smile and Beca just had to shoot one back. She locked her phone and tossed it aside before laying down and pulling the covers up, snuggling as much as she could. She heard footsteps and then the lights went off, then footsteps again, shuffling and then finally, silence.
"Goodnight, Becs."
"Goodnight, Chlo."
/
About an hour had passed and Beca was sound asleep. Chloe was wide awake. She couldn't stop thinking. She knew Beca was staring earlier. She felt her gaze on her. She felt Beca's eyes on her back. She felt her heart skip a beat. She felt her stomach begin to churn. Something was there and she knew it. She knew Beca had felt something just then. What she didn't know was that it wasn't the first time Beca had given her that look. Oh, it was far from that.
"Pssst."
Nothing.
"PSSSST. BECS." she whispered.
Nothing.
"BECA."
"Mmwhat?!" Beca muttered.
Silence.
"Oh my god what, Chloe?"
"I can't sleep."
"So you're going to make me suffer with you?"
Silence.
Beca sighed as she lifted her arm towards the ceiling grasping into the air. It was the signal for Chloe to come. Upon seeing Beca's arm raised in the air and hand grasping a few times before stopping in a relaxed fist, Chloe quickly got up from her bed and shuffled across the common room to Beca's, all while smiling like an idiot. She held onto Beca's hand for balance as she climbed into the bed and under the covers, satisfied with the warmth it offered.
"No offense but I mean what's the point of getting a two queen sized bedded room if you're just going to sleep in mine?" Beca said turning around to pull Chloe in a little closer. Chloe's breath hitched at the contact, surprised at how strong Beca was.
"Just for tonight. I promise." She took a deep breath reveling at the natural vanilla scent that Beca's body gave.
"Mhm. Sure." Beca mumbled as she started to spoon Chloe. "It's going to be a fun two weeks."
"Whatever, you love snuggling with me."
"I do. You always smell like peaches and sunshine and smiles." Chloe grinned stupidly. She felt Beca's breath even out on her shoulder indicating she was asleep again. She wasn't too far behind.