Note: Sorry about the poor writing. Will try to make it better in the next.
"Beca..."
She doesn't know if she's dreaming or something but she swears she could hear someone calling her name. She was trying her best to go back to sleep but the sound that is waking her in her slumber is too annoying to not mind. She was never an early person and to think about waking up at this time of the day, in a beautiful Saturday is the most awful thing a person could ever done to her.
"Beca wake up..." Suddenly it hit her. The voice wasn't Emily's nor Emily's mom. So she took off the blanket covering her face to see the person waking her and to her surprise, it was Chloe.
"Chloe." She stood up quickly "Isn't it too early?"
The other girl only smiled at her pointing at the clock in front of her. The time says it's already 9.
"Can we have it by 10? I still wanna sleep." and with that she fell back to her bed. Chloe who was sitting beside her lazy ass, didn't move, which actually made her feel guilty for some reason. So with a deep sigh she stood up.
"Okay. I'm just gonna bath for like a minute. You can wait for me right?"
"Of course."
"How dyou even got in here?"
"Well, Emily..."
"Oh. She's like a big fan of yours. Okay. Are u gon wait here?" She smiled and then she hit the shower.
It was one of the longest 2 hours spent on Tele and Beca can't even understand why she sits here and watch this awful movie. Their teacher assigned them with a movie to watch and the first one was something from this century, Twilight. She's not a big movie nerd but she knows that this one was really awful and she was very vocal about it though Chloe seem to enjoy the movie very much.
"It's not that bad," Chloe told her when they got to finish the first movie and they went out to have lunch in a nearby restaurant.
"Dude, are you serious?" She asked Chloe as if mind blown by the realization that indeed, Chloe enjoyed it. "where in the fucking hell have you heard of vampires sparkling?"
"Well, it's still a work of art Becs." She smiled at how comfortable Chloe was with her name. She even like the sound of it.
"Okay, you find that beautiful? Pale guy who looks at you and watch you as you sleep and sparkle? That is creepy and that is so gay. I'm sorry but that's that."
"So now you're an expert in these kinds of things?" She laughed realizing how the bad movie affected the other girl.
Beca told her that there was no way she's gonna watch another vampire movie. They spent the rest of the afternoon talking and Chloe ended up touring beca around the area.
She found out about Chloe's background... that her dad was a director in a local hospital near the area and that her mom has her own pastry shop and she'd be glad to invite her there.
She said someday she will. Then when it was Chloe's turn to ask turn to ask she only smiled and said that it's a secret.
"That is the most unfair thing ever." The redhead said with eyes almost popping out. "I told you about my family. How about a little compromise here?"
"Hey. I didn't ask. Besides, I don't feel like talking about my family. If you know what i mean."
And then it hit Chloe. Maybe Beca has this some kind of family issue that she was running away from so she didn't wanna talk about. She get that and respect it so she changed the topic. Chloe enjoyed touring Beca around the area because this was an opportunity for her too. She had already forgotten how the place looks like.
She spent almost all Saturdays at Tom's with his buddies going to lakes or somewhere and sometimes she takes off with Katie and Amanda to go shopping. She felt like she was an alien in her own town and the fact that she's with another made her feel less guilty about not spending time to look around to see how the old lady across the supermarket is, to see if they still have weekend shows by the lake or if ever kids on the other side still go there.
"Is there anything fun we can do here?" Beca asked her pulling her back to reality. She figured that maybe she was bored and then suggested that they go by the bridge in the outskirts.
"It's a bit boring, though. It's just some old bridge." She sighed when she realized how little she knows of the places that they can go to.
"I wanna see it, still." Beca and her smirk suggested. Chloe hesitated and was about to say no, but the look on beca's face makes her do otherwise.
It was a small town and it only took them few minutes of driving to get there. Luckily Chloe brought her car today because the heat of the sun makes her feel sticky and all. When they got to the bridge, she can swear that it did excite beca and she doesn't even know why.
"So why do people come here?"
"They don't"
"I'm pretty sure there are. Look," Beca pointed at the vandalism at the outer part of the bridge. It wasn't really an old bridge. It was paved with hopefully strong cement that could carry few tons. The bridge was wide and the water below it looked really inviting.
"People used to come here to swim..."
"And then? What happened?"
"I guess they kinda got hooked with technology and they just stopped coming. A few still comes here though, if that would make the bridge feel better."
She smiled again. Chloe knew that Beca has some plans of doing something really stupid and she's about to get dragged into it. And that, she was right.
"What do you mean jump?"
"People come here to swim right? What's wrong with us keeping the tradition?" This is really unbelievable. She was already at the edge of the bridge and Chloe knew with one blow of the great wind, she'd fall.
"No. I don't have clothes. I don't want to do it."
"Are you scared?" She was now mocking her.
"Are you crazy? people go swimming here... on the other side which would be safer- and if asking me to jump on this side of the bridge would be a sign of being scared, then I am scared." She was now at the top of her voice trying to make sense of what was happening.
"Hey. I need you to do this with me."
"Why?"
She smiled. She just smiled and Chloe knew from that moment that no matter how stupid her reason was, she would go with her.
"Chloe. I don't know how to swim." She kept that smile and Chloe didn't know why but her heart sank at the thought that Beca, a new friend- still a stranger, would trust her with her life.
The next thing she knew was she was already there beside her. Luckily they were both in their shorts, the lesser the clothing, the lesser the hassle. Unbelievable.
"Are you ready, Chloe?"
"Are you?"
"Here," she reached out her hand to her "Hold my hand whenever you're ready."
"I should be the one saying that." She held beca's hand with her hand and it wasn't even awkward knowing that they're both girls. It wasn't weird, not at all. It was what it was. Good.
"On 3..." She smiled. They both started counting. But then she felt Beca's grip getting tighter. Smiled then hugged her.
"One." Beca jumped taking Chloe to fall with her. With the way Beca was holding her right now, she's pretty sure there's no other way of getting far away. When they surfaced she almost choked in laughter with the other girl's reaction.
"Oh my god, Oh my god."
"Beca are you okay?" She was holding her and their faces are inches away from each other because if not, probably the most idiotic yet courageous jerk would drown right now.
"Yea-yeah. I guess. This fucking scared me to death." And they laughed it off.
"Now I'm seeing a scaredy pants Beca."
"Do you even realized the probability that I might die?" She knew that but the way Beca smiled didn't show fear, not at all. It was something else. It was adrenaline. The thirst for adventure.
"Next time, I'll teach you how to swim."
"I'll think about it."
"Weirdo!"
"Thanks." She whispered as they head for the side of the lake. It was her that should actually be thankful because the little girl trusted her, that she actually showed her what it meant to be courageous and face your fears and what it meant to jump earlier than expected.
"Why did you jump on one?"
"It's a reminder for both of us." Us. They were on the way home and Chloe took Beca home.
"A reminder, eh?" Her gaze was fixated on the road trying to make it home as quick as she possible can because she knew Beca was freezing. She spent a lot of time in the water so it didn't bother her at all. She was used to it. But for someone like Beca who was scared of the water, she was pretty damn sure that being soaked in nature's water was more freezing than rejuvenating.
"Yes. To remind me and you that if we wait, that would probably cause us to doubt the decisions that we're making." She like this Beca right now and she liked hearing what she wanted to say so she stayed silent. "I was scared, if you only knew, really really fucking scared" she laughed at the cursing, she might find other people cursing as offensive but with Beca it was adorable.
"But I knew you'd save me. Then when we were about to jump, I had second thoughts still. Then you took me by the hand, somehow it made me feel a little braver." Beca looked at Chloe who is smiling big time, she doesn't know why but this also made her smile inside.
"Then, I grabbed the momentum because i felt I can do anything, but if I waited things might have taken a different course and I might've told you I was just testing you., But I saw it in your eyes that you'd save me and I trust you. So thank you."
She smiled, she knew from the very beginning that Beca Mitchell is different. REally really different from the rest of the world, her world.
"I hope that you always have courage, Chloe. If you wanna do something, do it. Because if you suspend your decision, it might change the course of your heart. So strike whilst the iron is hot. Do it, while passion is still burning red."
"You, Beca Mitchell, is something else." She smiled as she stopped over to Beca's house. She only smiled closed the door of her car and gave her her jacket for Chloe. Beca nodded as if saying to take the jacket and she did, she took it.
"Take care, Chloe."
"See you at school, Becs." She smiled as she drove away. She looked at her rear view mirror only to find Beca waving before she walked in to her house.
"Chloe, you are so screwed" She told herself but despite that realization she can't help but admit that this was one of the most epic dates she's ever had.
With Beca Mitchell.
