Chloe walked into the Bella House and Aubrey was in her face immediately. "What the hell, Chloe?"

Chloe was slightly taken aback by Aubrey's confronting her. "I needed some time to think," she told Aubrey.

"Think about what exactly?," Aubrey asked.

"Beca," Chloe said.

"What about Beca?," Aubrey asked.

"I was thinking that I needed to break up with her before she broke up with me," Chloe said.

"Why exactly would Beca break up with you?," Aubrey asked. "Seems to be she's been treating you well and may even be a little bit in love with you."

"She's rich, Brey, and I'm not" Chloe said. "You should've seen her apartment. It costs more than my family's old house did. She's going to realize that I'm not good enough to be with her and then she'll dump me. I just made a pre-emptive strike so I wouldn't get hurt."

"Are you shitting me?," Aubrey said. "You left her, after making love to her, because she has money? What the hell is wrong with you, Chloe?"

"You know I have to work two jobs. She knows my family's financial status. I don't want to be her charity case." Chloe said quietly.

"I can't, I just don't, I'm stunned," Aubrey said. "Did Beca every once throw her wealth in your face? Did she ever give you any indication that because your family wasn't rich that it would affect how she feels about you?"

"No, but one day she'll come to her senses and realize that we are not from the same social circle," Chloe said. "So, I left now, when the pain wouldn't be so bad. I do like her, I just can't be with her."

"Don't you think you should have decided that before you had sex?," Aubrey asked.

Chloe did have the decency to look a little bit ashamed, but had no answer. She just turned away from Aubrey and walked upstairs to her room. She laid on the bed staring at the ceiling. She knew she was being stubborn but she also knew it was best for her to just forget about Beca.

Beca continued to try and get Chloe to talk to her but the redhead managed to avoid Beca. Thanksgiving break came and a sad and dejected Beca went to her dad's for Thanksgiving dinner, but spent most of her time just lying in bed.

Chloe didn't have the money for air fare to go home for Thanksgiving so she stayed at Barden.

The Saturday after Thanksgiving found both girls being dragged out of their apartments by friends to go to lunch. Neither girl knew the other was still at Barden. They ended up at the same diner. Beca saw Chloe first and immediately went up to the redhead. She grabbed Chloe by the arm and dragged her out of the diner and around to the side of the building. "You've been avoiding me and I deserve to know what it is that I did wrong to make you not want to see me."

Chloe tried to break free from Beca's grasp, but Beca was stronger.

Chloe sighed and said, "You have money; I don't. You are rich and you never told me."

Beca dropped Chloe's arm and just stared at her, stunned by what she was just told.

"Are you fucking kidding me?!," she yelled. "You dumped me because I have money?"

"We are from two different worlds and we wouldn't work. I didn't want to get hurt so I ended it before things went to far. It goes deeper than that, but that's the gist of it," Chloe responded.

Beca stood there too stunned. "Before things went to far? Are you serious?," Beca said. "We had sex. I'm in love with you. I think things have already gone too far."

Chloe just stood there not saying anything. Beca looked at Chloe like this was the first time seeing her. She stood up straight, smoothed out her shirt, looked at Chloe and just walked away.

Chloe waited until Beca was out of sight before she let the tears fall. Beca said she was in love with her. Chloe felt the same way but knew this was for the best. She would only be putting off the inevitable knowing that one day Beca would realize they shouldn't be together. She finally wiped the tears away and pulled herself together. She went back to the diner to tell her friends she was going home. And she left.

Beca walked around in a daze for the next couple of weeks. It was nearing Christmas and her mom was sneaking down to Barden to spend the holidays with her. She went through the motions of decorating the apartment, putting up a tree and wrapping presents. She had brought Chloe a plane ticket to Tampa so she could visit her folks for Christmas since she knew she probably couldn't afford it on her own. Christmas was only a week away and now she wasn't sure how she was going to get the ticket to Chloe.

She saw Aubrey on the Quad the next day and approached her. "Hey, Aubrey!," Beca called out.

Aubrey stopped to see who was calling her. She saw Beca jogging up to her. "Hey, Beca. How are you doing?," she asked.

"I honestly don't know," Beca said. "I wanted to ask you a question, do you have a minute?"

"Sure. What's up?," Aubrey said.

"Well, I, uh, got, um. Ugghh!," Beca stammered. She takes a deep breath and says, "I bought a plane ticket for Chloe to go to Tampa to spend Christmas with her family. I know she was upset because she couldn't afford it on her own. What's funny is I bought it the day before she dumped me and I never turned it in. I was wondering if you could give it to her and say it's from you?"

Aubrey just looked at Beca. "Chloe is such as idiot," Aubrey thought. "This girl really cares for her and she just throws it away because Chloe thinks Beca belongs with someone else of her "social" stature."

"That's very sweet of you Beca," said Aubrey. "I'll give it to her. I'll tell her that I saved up because I knew she wanted to be home to see her family over Christmas. BUT, if she finds out I didn't actually buy the ticket, I will tell her you did."

"Fair enough," Beca said. "I'll meet you here at the Quad same time tomorrow and give you the ticket. Thank you."

"No, Beca. Thank you!," Aubrey said. "Chloe needs to pull her head out of her ass and realize that you two belong together. I'll try and see if I can get through that thick head of hers and make her see that. You really are good for her, Beca."

"Thanks," Beca said. "I'll see you tomorrow.