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Chapter 4: New York City.

As they planned, Chloe went to the clinic in the morning to get herself a blood analysis, that it would took several days to give its results, so Chloe could go, and they would just call her on the cell when they had them. So that afternoon, after a sad wave of goodbyes, sees you soon, and promises to come back real soon and good wishes for everyone, together with a bunch of hugs and kisses, Chloe and Beca were taken to the airport by George, and then to the plane that would take them all the way back to Atlanta, Georgia, were they still had to live for the rest of the year.

But on December 30, 2018, they took a plane and went all the way to New York City. Aubrey and Jesse had offered them their spare room in they apartment. The couple enjoyed the good life, as Jesse called it joking, and were surrounded by money. Not only was the Posen family rich, but Aubrey had had a great success with her company, providing not only companies but normal families aswell, great, cheap places in beautiful surroundings, amazing refuges for retire, relax, or spend some days, in some great American paradise, and Jesse also enjoyed great prestige as the music scorers for many movies, TV Shows, documentaries, and other projects. That allowed them to live in the amazing place they lived in, that was a beautiful enormous apartment in a ninth floor, right in front of Central Park. The apartment was very luxurious and had armored windows as big as the whole walls, and it consisted of a small hall, followed by an enormous dining-living room that was very spacious, elegant, sophisticated, and despite seeming very Posen, it had small touches that Beca loved because they said it was also Jesse's house. Like there was an amazing music equipment, a big TV, a couple big shelves full of movies, comics and music, a Wii, and few touches that she didn't know whose idea were, but they made the place much more warm, and inviting despite all the luxuries that sometimes made Beca uncomfortable because they could make a room seem cold and distant. Right next to that room there was a bathroom, the kitchen, and a hallway that leaded to another bathroom, the master room, which had its own bathroom, the office that was half Jesse's -lots of music, musical equipment, and very freak- and half Aubrey's -paperwork, big table full of folders, great artistic pieces-, a spare guest room with it's own bathroom, a room they used for gym equipments, a pantry, a room dedicated to the cleaning and ironing of clothes, and a room they use as some kind of room of the memories, full of things they had gathered with the years and had emotional value but didn't fit anywhere else, like Bellas or Trebles' staff.

A few blocks away you could find Amy's house, Cynthia-Rose's, and Stacie's. Fat Amy was the owner of a party club's and restaurant's chain, and she had great success, at the end, she enjoyed fun over anything. She was still with Bumper, they had actually gotten married a couple years after Barden, and Bumper was in Broadway. Cynthia-Rose married a woman right after Barden, whose name was Grace Delevigne, and was a model. They had met in Barden, and Grace was Aubrey and Chloe's age, so she had asked Cynthia to marry her a little bit before Cynthia graduated. Cynthia was a professional singer and songwriter. And Stacie, she had found a true gentleman that got everyone surprised, who worked in Broadway, and they had been dating for a little over a year. Stacie was a professional dancer. About the other Bellas, who didn't live in New York City, there was Emily, that was trying to make a name as a singer and songwriter, and lived with Benji, who was an actor; Lilly, who had opened a beat-boxing school and was single, Jessica, who had a long time boyfriend who was a firefighter, and she was singer and songwriter, Ashley, who got married a year and a half ago to a doctor and was a chef, and Flo, who was also single and taught dance and singing to the most disadvantaged children. They were all in for the New Year's Eve Party, and the ones that didn't live in NYC were in a five stars hotel very close to Aubrey and Jesse's house. It also had to be said, that Aubrey, who had been pregnant since, as she had recently discover, mid-August, spotted now a great -two kids in one same space- 18 weeks pregnant belly. She could even tell you the days and hours, but that's why anybody asked more.

Beca and Chloe arrived NYC a couple hours before dinner, and Jesse had pick them up and took then to his and Aubrey's home.

"We're home!" Jesse yelled happily from the door when he opened it. They heard quick heels against the ground and ten seconds later, Aubrey had thrown herself to Chloe's arms, and the ginger was laughing.

"I can't hug Beca properly because of the arm, and now I can't hug my best friend properly because of her twins!" Chloe joked and leaned kissing the belly "hi kiddos, you're getting huge! Hey, they moved!" she yelled suddenly and Aubrey grinned.

"Yeah, they do that now, so they gained me more trips to the bathroom. Hey Beca! What's up?" Aubrey's smile widened as she hugged the brunette, who smiled.

"Fine, thanks" she replied as Jesse took their luggage towards their room "you look nice!"

"Thank you, the best part are the bigger boobs" the blonde winked touching her breasts and she and Chloe laughed "so girls, we have reservations for dinner with the others in about a couple hours, so if you want, you can get comfortable and shower or take a nap or anything. We'll let you know when we're going."

As Chloe took a long shower, Beca put some of their clothes out of the luggage and into the empty closet of their bedroom, and then went to join Jesse and Aubrey in the living room. The couple was cuddled in one of the sofas and Jesse seemed to be showing Aubrey his latest soundtrack on his laptop. They both looked up and smiling when Beca came and cuddled in a puff next to them.

"Are you feeling your fingers already?" Jesse asked pointing at her arm with his head.

"Slightly" Beca replied with a sigh. The flight was really short, but Chloe hadn't sleep well ever since they were told of Noah's illness because she worried like crazy, and if Chloe couldn't sleep, Beca would herself take the goal of staying up with her and try help her get back to sleep "At least I can feel my fingertips and I can move my pinky... but better not to, it hurts quite a lot." At first when she woke up in the hospital her left hand didn't really hurt and she moved it just fine because she was in such a high amount of meds, she wouldn't feel a thing. But she soon had to learn the extensive damage her left arm had suffered; her humerus was in five pieces, the muscles around it had great damage, the tendons were squashed and swollen, and nerves like her median one, were in great damage, so she couldn't feel anything from her shoulder -that hurt a little- down, except sometimes great pain, numbness, or tingling, and she has been unable to move anything there, not even her fingers, without great pain, despite the strength of her painkillers and the other meds for her arm, that would usually leave her very sleepy.

The couple nodded and then Aubrey seemed to remember something.

"Hey, we noticed Chloe looks tired, lots of work for the holiday?"

"Not really, she finished it all before Christmas" she replied, wondering if she should tell or let Chloe tell them herself "you probably should ask Chlo yourself."

"Ask me what?" Chloe asked, entering the bedroom already ready, all elegant and beautiful, barefoot and putting a bracelet on as she walked and sat in Aubrey's other side at the sofa, looked at them with curiosity.

"We were just wondering why you looked so tired earlier when you weren't wearing any make up" Aubrey said.

"Oh" Chloe nodded slowly in understatement "I... I've had some trouble falling asleep the last couple days. That's all."

"How's that?" Jesse asked worried looking between Beca and Chloe.

"Yeah, are you worried about something?" Aubrey asked, with worried eyes.

"If I'm honest, kind of" Chloe shrugged and fidgeted with her bracelet "Noah's really sick." She said and Aubrey nodded taking Chloe's hand from over the bracelet into her own and Chloe looked at her "He has leukemia, and he says he's fine, and he's doing really well and everything, but he still needs a bone marrow and I'm waiting for blood test's results to arrive and tell me if I can give him mine."

"Chloe, don't be silly" Jesse smiled warmly "if you aren't compatible, I'll test myself, and I'll convince everybody to be his donor. Between our whole families, the Trebles and the Bellas, the possibility of Noah not finding an amazing bone marrow soon is kind of tinier than Beca." He assured, and Beca smiled.

"You think so?" Chloe asked.

"Of course, look, some time ago this guy at work needed a kidney and a great bunch of money because his little daughter was very, very sick. It took us two weeks to find everything he needed thanks to a work campaign" he told her "Hope is the last thing to lose."

"Jesse's right, I'm sure if you can't donate, we'll find some good donor somewhere" Aubrey reassured kissing Chloe's temple "But I think you will actually work, you are healthy, in shape, and it would be weird if you were compatible with Noah in everything but that one little thing."

"God, I hope so. You guys better be right" Chloe said, and pet a cat that had just jumped on her lap. It was a gray little cat with really big ears and golden eyes, named Bella -of course Aubrey would call their female cat Bella- the couple had adopted a little after they started being a serious stable couple.

"So, how's the new house?" Grace, Cynthia-Rose's wife, asked looking at Beca and Chloe as the eighteen friends sat on a big round table they had reserved in a luxurious five forks restaurant near Madison Square Park.

"It's amazing, perfect" Beca replied with her mouth full of bread and Chloe giggled at her. Beca swallowed "we'll invite you all to see it once we're settled."

"Totes, we could do a big party to Christen the house!" Chloe shouted excitedly.

"Hey Becs, and how's my album doing?" Emily asked smiling at Beca, who smiled back. After her trip to Europe, Beca had received a bunch of teasers of Emily's songs to make an album that, Beca thought, could have a huge potential, so they were now recording songs, improving them, and Beca was finding musicians to spice it all.

"It's truly amazing" Beca said "but still has a lot of work to do. I contacted some people that want to collaborate so bad, and some people offered to direct the official videos for the songs, but I think I'll be able to focus on that better once I move to Norfolk and have the whole other company established, because I'm producing that album and those songs from there" she explained "maybe you could come mid January for a couple more recordings and maybe the album will be ready in May, and the songs could have their videos around August or so, but don't worry, I'm taking care of it. You guys are gonna love those songs, Legacy's amazing, I can't believe you wrote them all by yourself, it's like a bunch of Flashlights in different versions and each better than the other." Beca said excitedly. If something could make her talk, was, then again, her job.

Everybody started complimenting Emily and saying how much they'd like to hear her songs, and noise filled the table completely as everyone chatted amicably with the ones they had closer. Beca was talking about her new about to be born company, Bulletproof Productions, Chloe was talking about her new job at Norfolk Elementary School, and well, everyone was at their own topics as others just listened.

When they were asking for the desserts, Chloe's phone sounded, so she got up and down to the lobby to take the call.

"Chloe Beale, who's calling?"

"Chlo, I'm Noah!"

"Noah! Did something happened?" Chloe asked worrying.

"Yeah, a miracle happened! Chlo, my doctor just told me you are an amazing donor for me, they were about to call you but I wanted to do it myself!" Chloe was about to cry from happiness and they both started squealing like teens, jumping up and down excitedly.

"Well, then, when am I going there? Tomorrow? When?"

"Don't be silly, I'm okay and it's not that much of an emergency. My doctor said you could come around mid-January for some more tests, and then I could have the surgery starting February!" he seemed happy and excited.

After talking a bit about the procedure and setting some dates to go back to Tampa, Chloe came running happily back to the table, at the same time desserts arrived.

"What took you so long?" Beca asked looking at her.

"Well, I had much to talk with Noah." She said mysteriously and Beca rose her eyebrows.

"And...?"

"And, I'm a perfect donor!" Chloe yelled excitedly and half table looked at them, having been told about Noah's illness and with interest in the conversation. Beca smiled widely "Noah says I should go for some extra tests in a couple weeks or so, and then we could do the surgery starting February, he and the doctor spoke already and I can go have a meeting with them wherever I want to know more about the procedure."

"That's amazing Chlo!" Beca kissed Chloe happily "I'm so happy for both of you, you'll see how everything will go smoothly and he will be totally healthy before your birthday" Chloe's birthday was on march, ninth.

"Let's make a toast for everything to go great!" Jesse suggested happily rising his cup.

That night, Beca was almost sitting in her bed supported in a bunch of pillows as Chloe slept peacefully laying down on her side beside Beca, as she had her laptop opened in her lap and spent an hour reading everything about bone marrow transplants and surgery, general anesthetic, and all the possible secondary effects Chloe could go through. She wanted to be ready to be fully there for her and take care of her until she felt completely good after the surgery, which she had read, could take a whole week. After that, she turned the laptop off, left it on the nightstand, and stroke Chloe's hair until she fell asleep. Somehow, stroking her hair always relaxed her.

Soon, it was 2018's last day, and it started with pancakes, and for Aubrey, a bit of morning sickness. The eighteen friends met for lunch, and afterward, Beca took her afternoon meds and laid on her bed for a much needed nap, after how sleepy she was after taking those meds. Chloe, of course, laid with her, and the others went for a walk around the city.

"I love you" Beca heard as she started waking up.

"Uh?" she asked muffling a yawn as she opened her eyes. Chloe was smiling at her, laying on her side beside her, her head supported in a hand, and the other one stroking Beca's stomach and sending her electricity through her touch.

"I love you" Chloe repeated leaning in to kiss her again. Beca smiled against the kiss.

"I love you too" Beca said kissing her again "are you okay?"

"I've never been better" Chloe answered "It's the last afternoon of the year, and my beautiful girlfriend is safely beside me, and I couldn't be more lucky."

"I see, I'm glad to hear that" Beca said reaching her right arm up to caress Chloe's cheek "have you already done new year's resolutions?"

"Indeed" Chloe nodded "to love you, to be a better friend, person, girlfriend, sister, daughter or whatever, to work harder, enjoy more, and end the year in an even better way that I'm ending this one."

"Those are good resolutions, I think I'm gonna copy you" Beca said jokingly. They stared at each other in silence, just enjoying their company for a while.

"You know what I'd really love to do today, more than anything?" Chloe asked suddenly.

"What?"

"I'd love to take your laptop and sit with you in the couch as the clock counts the last seconds of the year, with your brother, sister-in-law, nephew and mother on skype, and start the new year altogether. And I'd love to see Jackie's excited face at the first New Year's Eve he would probably remember, and to talk about you with your brother, and talk other stuff with Kendra, and get to know all of them. If I could have anything else today, that's what I'd ask for" Chloe said, and the honesty in her voice was such that Beca's eyes filled with tears, and nodded silently.

"I'd love to have that too. But there's no shooting star that can make that wish real, so we better get used to not having them around anymore. A whore took them away forever" Beca whispered, her voice broken, and Chloe supported her arm on the bed and her head on top of it, and hugged Beca with the other arm.

"Where do you think we go when we die? Heaven?"

"I believe that we all have a body that grows old, and gets sick or injured, and wastes with time, and is born and dies, but I also believe we have a soul, that is pure energy, because everything that's alive has energy, and science says energy can't be created or destroyed, so I believe our souls wait for the perfect body to stay in, so they can experience a human life, or a cats life, or whatever" she explained very slowly "and I believe our souls can't be born or die, and never grow old. They just keep accumulating life lessons and experiences, and when we die, our body dies, and bugs eat it, but our souls, all that energy, goes somewhere else, I don't know why, how, or anything, but they keep living forever, and maybe they get to be with the souls they knew and loved, or maybe they go back into other bodies looking for the souls of the ones they missed, or to take care of their loved ones from other bodies, or I don't know."

"I think that's a beautiful theory that... actually makes a lot of sense" Chloe said thoughtfully "My family is very religious and they believe in God and heaven, and I think it's a beautiful idea too, but too unrealistic and dreamy, so I don't believe in that. I believe in energy, and love. And those are pretty eternal to me."

"Yeah, they are" Beca said.

"That means that... maybe... we will always be together? Even after death?"

"I don't know baby" Beca kissed her turned-up nose lovingly "everything I know for sure is that I love you so much, my soul will always find itself wanting to be with yours, and it will probably always be close, always taking care, always looking for yours to be together forever."

"I hope so" Chloe smiled at her and kissed her in the lips "It's a shame we can't do the new year's private celebration as it should be done."

"We can always christen our new bed in Norfolk as best as we can, and I can practice with my right hand" Beca winked swindler "I'll have the cast off before your birthday, and if I progress quickly maybe I'll be able to use it just enough for your birthday private gift."

"Oh, I surely would be up for that" Chloe smiled and kissed her, as they started to make out.

The friends had dinner at the apartment, and around ten, they left for the VIP part of the tumult of people that was in Times Square. There were some concerts having place there, so they basically spent a couple hours drinking -except Beca- dancing and singing along, until the count back started and you could hear the whole New York City.

"Ten!" Beca and Chloe held hands and smiled at each other, everyone looking for someone to kiss.

"Nine! Eight! Seven! Six! Five!" Beca and Chloe smiled nervously at each other, starting to let everyone out of their own little precious world "Four! Three! Two! One! Happy 2019!" the whole city shouted, and Beca smiled against Chloe's lips, founding them quickly and pulling in for a sweet kiss. Jesse and Aubrey also kissed, as the other couples, and the ones who were single, found another single person to kiss, or a friend to do the honor.

"Happy new year" Chloe whispered smiling against her lips with her eyes closed after the kiss.

"Happy new year" Beca replied, kissing her again.


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