Early the next morning, Beca was wakening up by the sight of Chloe curled up beside her with their hands still holding in the same position. The girl looked peaceful with her ginger locks rested around her face. Gently, Beca untangled her fingers from their bond sitting up looking at the time on her phone that read 9:30a.m
She groan rolling her eyes at the displayed time, she was never up this early on a weekend sometimes never even on a weekday for that matter. Chloe rolled over on her back with her arm searching for Beca; instead she was feeling the small empty space. Beca had her eyes glued down on to her pone, scrolling away checking some notifications. She didn't even notice that Chloe was staring up at her.
Chloe kept quietly to herself while looing up at the younger girl, she was grateful to have someone like Beca as a friend but could only imagine how uncomfortable she must've been to be put into this position making a note that she would have to speak with Aubrey for that later.
Chloe sat up and placed her hand upon Beca's knee, yawing softly. "Hey you," Beca said when she felt her touch. "Good morning." Chloe already had a smile on her face, which was a sign of a good start. "How's the…" Beca pointed at her neck trying to avoid using the word nodes. Chloe singled her the A-Okay with a weak smile she picked up the pad of paper; 'D'you think it's okay for me to eat…?' She wrote and passed the note or to Beca. She moved over to Chloe's mini fridge and held the only two options. "Pudding or yogurt?"
For most of the morning heading into the afternoon, Chloe and Beca just sat in the same position on Chloe's bed and with Beca's laptop in between them watching a movie. It was hard for Beca not to roll her eyes when the older girl took out a stack of DVD's that Beca had already seen, surprisingly. She was enjoying herself and how the way Chloe curled up to her like a kitten. Every now an then she could feel Chloe watching her-watch-the-movie when a certain part came up and it brought back a old memory of Jesse that Beca didn't wish to revisit.
"You know, I can feel you looking at me." Smirked Beca, not taking her eyes of the laptop screen not expecting to hear the older girl to reply then Chloe's gaze fell short she bit her lip and tried to re-focus on the movie. She then reached over to the bedside table for her bottle of water and took a heavy sip, Beca's eyes now watched Chloe, a dribble of water rolled down her chin using only her tongue lick it up. Again Beca's face felt warm, averting her eyes so it wouldn't be that obvious and kept her butterflies down to a minim.
Chloe leaned her head back against the brunets shoulder her hand rested upon Beca's upper leg, the move Chloe had on Beca gave her chills down her leg and her only reaction was to take Chloe's hand in hers. A sweet grin over came Chloe as she just held the younger girls hand this was the side of Beca that she would never expect to see but she really like it. The credits from the movie rolled up on the screen Beca, felt all of Chloe's weight on her shoulder. "Chloe, wake up," She nudged her slightly. "I forgot you have to take your meds." Chloe shook her head and Beca nodded protesting against the no.
Chloe tugged on Beca's arm trying to pull her back on the bed but Beca shook her arm free not in the exact mood to play games. The older girl pulled the covers over her head, she always had a difficult time trying to swallow pills its just one of those freak habits and the thought of doing that now after having her throat filet like a fish not something she was daring to try.
"Ugh, dude!" Sighed Beca, with her hand full of pills. "Chloe this isn't funny I'm not in the mood to be playing doctor right now. Please stop acting like a little kid." Chloe rustled underneath the covers. "If you can scarf down two pudding cups I think you'll be okay to take these." Beca sat on the end of the bed and pulled the covers off of Chloe, giving her a bottle of water and held out her hand. Chloe eyed the pills before swallowing them all in one gulp. "See, it wasn't that bad." Beca laughed at lightly at Chloe's reaction when she fell back into her pillows and rested her eyes.
Two Hours Later:
Beca tired to remain calm on the outside but on the inside she was freaking out. How could she mess up the correct dosage of the medications when it was all written down in order of each given time! Now, Chloe was buzzing off the pain medication and who knows what else that was proscribed. Beca's cell phone buzzed in her back pocket.
It was Amy, but she declined the call setting her phone on Chloe's desk trying to figure out how much she accidently dealt out, remembering back to the time when she had her wisdom teeth removed and how the oxycodone made her feel stupidly high because she one too many.
Chloe sat up in her bed with her hand on her forehead and queasily said, "Why do I feel so dizzy? It's like my head isn't attached to my body." Her voice cracked like she had a frog in her throat. She felt woozy laying her head back on the pillow. Again, Beca's phone rang and this time it was Stacie. She declined call within shortly after Fat Amy's name flashed on the screen again and Beca answered, "Hey Amy."
She said trying not to sound irritated not wanting to explain, "… And Stacie!" The voice of the tall brunette chimed in on the speaker call. "Yeah, I don't know if you got our messages… Or calls… We even sent out a smoke signal but Stacie and I are waiting we have that Business Management project due Monday, remember?" The Australian reminded her.
Beca bit down on the inside of her cheek then cursed into the phone. "Remember you said that you would type up the report?" Said Stacie. "I did and I have it done. I just have to send you both a copy but I didn't save it onto my laptop but it's on a flash drive that's back in my dorm." Beca explained with a stressful sigh.
Chloe moved over on to her side inches away from the edge of the bed a warm putrid feeling rising up her throat. A hand flew over her mouth, after a chocking feeling when she quickly pulled a wastebasket close to her collecting all the vomit, leaving a tingling and almost burning sensation left her mouth. Beca dropped the call coming to Chloe's side collecting her gingers locks holding them back out of vomit range.
Chloe hugged the wastebasket spitting what was left of the acidy bitter taste left in her mouth. "I'm so sorry, Chloe..." Beca said she felt horrible almost like she was about to be sick as well. Kindly, Beca began to clean Chloe's face with a tissue tossing it away in the bin and helped Chloe change into a clean t-shirt. When Beca was younger her mother would always take care of her but as she grew older she was capable of taking care of herself with a bottle of Tylenol and some chicken soup.
Why was it such a pain in the ass to take care of someone else? What was she thinking? Listings to Aubrey threaten her when she's half way across the country doing the chicken dance just to take care of her BFF. It just goes to show whom the bigger person is. The younger girl sat Chloe upright back in bed, right when she was about to dispose of the wastebasket there was a knock at the door.
Beca turned the knob surprising to see Stacie and Amy with that signature wide grin at the door. She stood there wondering how they found her before saying. "I don't know what to believe; you two walked twenty minutes across campus or how you knew where I was?" Stacie peered over the top of Beca's head examining little what she could see from the slightly ajar door and Amy stood there and wiped her hand across her brow, fanning herself. "It took a few tries but your roommate told us where you were," She said, and then leaned forward. "… I don't think she knows English very well. I'd keep my eye out on the quite ones." She whispered, Beca grinned.
"Is that Chloe?" A small smirk crept on Stacie's lips folding her arms across her bust looking down at Beca. Beca face reddened by the look in Stacie's eye, what was this girl playing at? "She had surgery the other day and Aubrey asked me to stay with her for the weekend but I have a little dilemma…" Beca stepped aside to let the girls in and lightly closed the door noticing that Chloe had slipped away in sleep again. She waved her hand beckoning for the two to come closer.
"Okay… Uh… Chloe is jacked up on painkillers and some other prescriptions that I wasn't suppose to give her at the same time…" The shorter girl admitted in a whisper. "Please, promise me, that you guys won't say anything to anybody." Who was Beca kidding? Both of the two girls had the biggest mouths within the Bella's but they we're also her good friends. "What's that smell?" Amy sniffed out the smell of the wastebasket. "A nice mixture of oxycodone and penicillin..." Commented Beca. Both Amy and Stacie had repulsive expressions on their faces.
Stacie moved away from the smell glancing around the room acting like she was in search of something. "Maybe we should just get the flash drive with the assignment on it and be on our way…" She said. Amy lingered closer and closer to the door facing Beca when agreeing with the taller girl. "I told you, its not here! It's back at my dorm you could've just asked Kimmy Jin to grab it."
"Yeah… Didn't think about that…" Amy laughed weekly. "She scares me!" Stacie added with a shrug. Beca sighed and put both hands on her forehead. "How about I just go back and get, huh? You guy's can stay here and watch Chloe. It will give me a chance to actually get some air and get some clean cloths before I pound my head into the wall." Beca quickly grabbed her bag and the basket of puke ignoring Stacie and Amy protest against the idea. "I won't be long," Beca said and turned the knob. "Oh, an don't touch anything." She left them with those last words and the two girls looked at each other in disbelief.