"You took quite the fall, skater girl."

Beca had to blink hard three more times to believe she was actually conscious, but the blinding pain coming from the side of her head was enough to convince her that she was in fact quite awake.

The very same girl Beca had seen the previous week and obsessed over for days following seeing her just one time for about twenty seconds was leaning over her, her full lips curled into this smile that radiated pure kindness, her eyes twinkling at Beca. Up close, Beca noticed just how incredibly bright and wide they were. Beca was even more dumbstruck.

"Do you know your name?" she asked gently.

"Um, yeah do you?" Beca replied. Her voice came out all shaky.

The girl held up Beca's student card- she had obviously taken it from Beca's pocket.

"Oh," Beca said dumbly. "My name is uh Beca Mitchell."

"Yes it is. Nice photo by the way," the redhead winked at her and Beca couldn't help blushing. "I'm Chloe Beale, nice to meet you."

Beca was still lying sprawled out on the floor, and looking up she saw many an onlooker, watching fearfully- some person was actually snapping a photo of her on their iPhone. Beca's cheeks got even redder, if that was possible, and she made a mental note not to take big ambitious jumps when campus was busy.

"You're lucky I'm a med student," Chloe said and Beca tried to nod.

She sat up, noticing her arms were pretty much grazed up to her elbows, and started picking out bits of gravel.

"Woah, careful," Chloe said, putting a hand on Beca's shoulder reassuringly.

"I'm fine," Beca tried to say convincingly, and she put a hand to her pounding head. She brought it down to see blood.

"You need to go to the emergency room hun," Chloe said.

"I don't want to...jesus Christ this is embarrassing," Beca laughed nervously. Suddenly Beca remembered about her skateboard and twisted round to look for it, sending a shooting pain to her head.

"What's wrong?" Chloe frowned worriedly.

"Where's my board?"

"I got it here," Chloe said, gesturing to the skateboard at her side. Beca felt a bit stupid for missing that. Maybe she really did have concussion.

"Come on, let's go to the emergency room."

"I think I fucked my head," Beca admitted pathetically, the pain and worry of permanent damage outweighing her pride.

"Yeah honey," Chloe chuckled. "You wanna call an ambulance?"

"No. That would be mortifying..."

"Okay," Chloe said.

Beca hadn't noticed yet but Chloe was wearing a cute skirt and her legs were out. The only thing that made Beca more dizzy was when Beca looked down and saw she was wearing dutty old jeans and a ripped up shirt.

"Take my hand then?" Chloe laughed, and Beca blushed.

Chloe pulled her up and draped Beca's arm around her shoulders and she wrapped her arm around Beca's waist, taking Beca's weight. This was way too close for Beca; she didn't need a heart failure as when as a concussion. It would have been really embarrassing if Chloe found out just how hard Beca's heart was beating.

"Nothing to see here," Beca announced slightly aggressively to the lingering onlookers and they gave her a dirty look, sympathy quickly dissolving to indifference and the crowds headed off, no doubt to Starbucks for lunch. Anything for a tweet and some gossip, Beca thought irritably.

"Control your badass," Chloe smirked at her.

"Sorry. I didn't mean to embarrass you," she said sarcastically. "At least now we're both embarrassed."

"Don't worry, I'm not embarrassed."

"Shit!"

Beca stumbled over the curb and the smirk on Chloe's face was replaced with a wide-eyed look of shock. Then she laughed and Beca hit her teasingly.

"Let's maybe focus on walking?" Chloe said, smiling sincerely now.

"Okay," Beca agreed, and Chloe tightened her grip on Beca's waist.

Beca couldn't think of any time when she had allowed herself to actually be herself around someone she had only just met without the help of alcohol or marijuana, and maybe it was down to the head injury, buttt Beca wasn't consciously holding back when it came to talking to Chloe. This was odd and she kept repeating over in her head, was this fate? Was this a miracle? Was this a sign from the universe? The answer was surely yes.

Chloe waited until Beca had safely put her seatbelt on, before getting in the car herself (it was a mini cooper from 1998- it would've been tiny for most people but Beca was much shorter than her standoffish attitude suggested).

"Hey you know I saw you the other day," Beca found the words tumbling out of her mouth.

"Mhmm," Chloe bit her lip grinning. She didn't take her eyes off the road.

"D'you remember?" Beca asked.

"How could I forget?" Chloe joked. "You kind of glared me down."

"Sorry," Beca said apologetically. "You looked kinda hot."

"Thankyou," she said, laughing in her cute-ass laugh. "So did you."

"Babe, you don't need to tell me," Beca's words started to slur a little bit, and she rested her heavy head on the window.

There were papers strewn about on the car floor and a cute little toy dog on the mirror.

"You okay there Bec'?" Chloe asked, frowning a little worriedly.

"I'm really sleepy." Beca's voice was weaker than usual.

"Okay, just try and stay awake, keep talking to me honey," Chloe insisted, going full med student on Beca's ass.

"Okay," Beca agreed a little pathetically.

"So are you like an adrenaline junky or...?"

"No, I uh, I only found the skateboard like a week ago," Beca explained. "I've not skated in years."

"And you just thought you'd jump down a whole flight of stairs?" Chloe's eyes twinkled in with that magical quality she projected everywhere.

"Why not?" Beca asked innocently.

"You're very devil-may-care," Chloe observed. "I like that."

"Cheers."

The two of them arrived at the hospital a while later and Chloe went to talk to some doctor, and somehow she managed to wangle it so Beca skipped the queue, and soon enough, Beca and Chloe were sat in a cubicle, waiting on a doctor to come in. The fluorescent lighting reflecting off suffocating white walls gave Beca even more of a headache, and for once she craved for some natural light, but to no end.

"You're really gonna hold my hand?" Beca asked incredulously, looking down at her hand entwined with Chloe's.

"Don't pretend you don't want me to," Chloe said, raising her eyebrows at Beca knowingly, like they'd been friends their whole lives.

Beca didn't protest further.

"Hi there, I'm Aubrey, I'll be your doctor. Sup Chloe."

A young blonde doctor emerged from behind the cubicle. Her blue eyes looked dark and tired but every other aspect of her appearance was immaculate, including her white doctor's overcoat. Everything about this girl screamed perfectionist, and Beca had the feeling she'd seen her somewhere before...

"Hey," Chloe smiled.

Oh yeah, Beca thought. This was the girl with Chloe the other day.

"So what do we have?" Aubrey said, more to herself than anyone else.

Chloe started to speak for Beca, and she managed to pick out the words "you need stitches on your head," which caused Beca to start paying attention.

Aubrey left to get the stitches and Beca's grip on Chloe's hand tightened significantly.

"Who knew badass Beca Mitchell was so afraid of a few stitches?" Chloe said teasingly and Beca frowned at her. "Don't worry I'll hold your hand."

Aubrey returned soon after.

"Are you always such a baby?" Aubrey asked accusingly.

"Are you always so sympathetic?" Beca retorted incredulously. She wasn't sure she liked this Aubrey doctor.

"Sit still," Aubrey ordered and Beca reluctantly obeyed.

Beca grimaced her way through ten stitches and was forced to have a CT scan, which came back fine. Beca felt intensely uncomfortable in the hospital, even with Chloe by her side.

"All right you're fit to go," Aubrey said eventually, putting her clipboard down finally.

"Thank God," Beca breathed.

"I'll drive you home," Chloe said.

"Okay."

They finally let go of each others hands and Beca strangely felt slightly sad without it, but she didn't have the courage to say anything about it. The two of them both got back into the mini, Chloe still visibly hovering over her protectively. The car spat into life and they pulled out the lot, not saying all that much to one another.

"So Aubrey seems..." Beca couldn't find a word to complete that sentiment.

"She's my roommate," Chloe stated.

"Fun," Beca said sarcastically.

"She's not all that bad."

Beca wasn't convinced but didn't push it.

Chloe turned on the radio and the two of them sang along to some David Guetta song that Beca had always kinda liked- Chloe was actually a decent singer, Beca noticed.

"It was nice meeting you," Chloe said, parking up outside Beca's dorm, both of them getting out the car.

"Yeah," Beca agreed awkwardly.

It was half nine pm now, and the campus was dark and deserted.

"See you round I guess."

"Mhmm."

"You not gonna hug me?" Chloe chuckled.

"Kay."

Beca's heart quickened instantly as Chloe's arms wrapped round her shoulders, and she actually hugged her back surprisingly, which was weird, but super nice. Chloe smelt of like...shampoo and strawberries. The hug was over all too soon.

"Bye Beca Mitchell," she grinned.

"Bye."

Chloe left and Beca just stood there dumbstruck for a while, before going inside. Holy. McCrap.

A/N: hey lol btw I don't actually skateboard or anything but it'd be cool if I did...

what d'you guys think so far?

it's not going to be all that long, but yeah

pleeease review thanks for reading

love Heather xxx