Beca is in her pyjamas in bed, working on a mix and Chloe is on her phone checking her emails, when she gets a message in from Aubrey saying the blonde is in the hotel lobby. Her phone chimes again asking if Chloe is up for coming down for drinks. Chloe checks the time and it's only a little after midnight so she agrees to join her for a quick drink. She can't believe she hasn't seen her best friend in a month and so thinks that a catch up session is really overdue.

"Hey Becs." Chloe says as she taps the smaller woman on the shoulder. Beca slides her headphones off so that they are sitting around her neck. "I'm going downstairs to have a drink with Aubrey, do you want to join us?"

"I really need to finish this, do you mind telling her that I'm asleep? I feel really bad, because I want to see her, but I've been working on this for weeks."

"Sure. Don't wait up if you're tired."

"Night Chlo."

"Night." Chloe calls as she heads out of the room and down the elevator, to the lobby. She's wearing a loose t-shirt and a pair of jeans which she threw on, however she assumes that Aubrey will be tired and want to stay in the hotel rather than going to look for a bar.

"Chloe!" Aubrey exclaims as she engulfs the smaller woman in a hug.

"Hey Bree."

"Let me just go and put my stuff in my room and then I'll be right down."

"Alright, sounds good. Did you want to go out, or just stay at the bar here?"

"Do you mind staying here?"

"Not at all, do you want me to order for you?"

"Could you get me a rosé please?"

"Sure. I'll see you in a minute." Chloe says as she heads towards the small bar. She takes a seat and orders Aubrey's rosé and a glass of red wine for herself. The bar is empty, excluding the pair of men in suits - who Chloe assumes are having some sort of business meeting - sat at the opposite end of the bar. It doesn't take long for the drinks to arrive and Chloe swirls her glass as she tells the bartender to charge it to room 219.

"So, how have you been?" Aubrey asks as she slides into the seat next to the red head.

"Pretty good. The internship is going well and I'm learning a lot. How about you? Still working harder than necessary I see."

"Well I manage most things myself so yes its hard work but I love it. I'm actually thinking of opening a new branch. So things are going well overall, aside from my love life that is."

"Why? Plenty of people come to your lodge, none of them catch your eye?"

"Not really. Not that you're in any position to give relationship advice, or judge me for my lack of one."

"What?"

"Oh don't play dumb Chlo. You're obviously still in love with her, and don't try and play it off as a 'silly crush' that only worked for the first month. You two live together, you sent me a joint birthday card, you took a road trip up here. I mean you're practically a married couple." The blonde says as she casually sips on her drink, as Chloe does her best not to choke on her wine.

"We aren't! Besides…"

"Besides the fact she's hot, now she's single - so you can stop using that as an excuse - oh and there's the small fact that you've been in love with her for 4 years! Stop making excuses and just tell her."

"What just like that, like it's that easy? 'good morning Becs here's your coffee and by the way I'm hopelessly in love with you. But you know if you don't feel the same then it's fine I'll just crawl into a hole and die then.' Come on Bree you know I can't just tell her."

"Yes you can. It's Beca, you two are best friends."

"You're my best friend."

"What are we, high school children? She's your second best friend then and also the love of your life. You know if you don't tell her then I just might."

"You wouldn't dare!" Chloe exclaims. She's horrified at the idea, Beca cannot find out about this, and Aubrey is the last person she should find out from if she were to know.

"I'd be doing you a favor."

"Bree it's not that simple. I don't know what I'd do if I lost her."

"Come on, worst case scenario what will happen?"

"She'll hate me. No, she'll reject me and them leave, which means that I'll never see her again."

"So you'd rather spend your whole life not knowing and having her as your friend?"

"Yes…"

"Really? Come on some part of you must want to know. She must feel something, do you at least know if she likes girls?" Chloe just stares into her drink, avoiding Aubrey's questions. "Oh my god, Chlo why did she break up with Jesse?"

"Distance."

"That's what she told you?"

"Yes."

"Nothing more?"

"Well she didn't really want to talk about it."

"Right…"

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?"

"Has she ever kissed another girl?"

"How am I meant to know that?"

"You've known her for the whole time she was at college, did she ever kiss a girl at a party or something?"

"I have no idea."

"Seriously!? You're not a very observant, or inquisitive best friend. Within an hour of knowing you I knew that you were into girls and guys."

"She was with Jesse that whole time."

"So? I kissed people while I was dating people. Heavy make out sessions were the cause of a lot of my break-ups. You know all about my drunken escapades, granted there aren't all that many but you live with her, what the hell do you guys talk about?"

"Music and stuff."

"That's code for 'I watch while she makes mixes, and she zones out and completely ignores me' right?"

"She doesn't mean to do that, she just gets really focused, that's all."

"As your best friend I'm going to have to do some research for you."

"What? No! Don't do that. Bree!"

"I'll see you tomorrow Chlo. Night!" Aubrey says as she heads off to the lift with a smirk on her face.

Chloe finishes off her wine and then heads back up to the room that she is haring with Beca. When she gets there however she finds that it is empty. Beca's laptop is on the desk and plugged in to charge but the brunette is nowhere to be seen.


The September air in Maine at night is cold and Beca can feel the goosebumps all over her exposed skin. She wishes that she had thought to bring a jacket with her. However, it's too late to go back and get one now so instead she carries on walking away from the hotel.

She had gone down to join Chloe and Aubrey as she realised that she was getting nowhere with her mixes. When she got downstairs she overheard Chloe and Aubrey's conversation. She wasn't expecting Chloe to be telling Aubrey that she was in love with her. Naturally Beca's first instinct was to get the hell out. And so she did, she ran out of the front of the hotel and then kept walking further and further away. It's what she's used to doing. Running. Anytime anything would get difficult or too serious she would find a way out of the situation.

When Jesse had asked her to move to LA with him she had said no. LA was always her dream, but when Jesse asked her she had a sinking feeling at the pit of her stomach, and she didn't feel excited or even scared. She felt empty, and just a touch guilty. After all Jesse was a really great guy, and he had been a really sweet boyfriend. So Beca wasn't sure why her gut instinct was to say no.

With Chloe things were always different. Chloe stops all of her instincts. When she's with the red head she's mesmerized. When Chloe had barged into her shower and asked her to sing, if it had been anyone else Beca is sure that she would have ripped the shower curtain straight off the railing and gotten the hell out. But from the second her eyes locked with Chloe's bright blue ones she felt compelled to stay. Of course shorty after this Chloe had said that she thought they were going to be 'really fast friends' and they were. But Beca had managed to miss Chloe's apparent attraction towards her.

Honestly Beca Mitchell had never been good at picking up on other peoples feelings, and perhaps that's part of what drew her to Chloe, her openness. Chloe would always say what was on her mind, so Beca would never have to guess what the red head was thinking. She can't deny that her best friend is attractive and sure she's thought about experimenting, but never more than that. At least not until now. Now she's questioning her whole relationship with the red head. How long had Chloe been, as she had put it 'hopelessly in love' with her. And how had it taken Beca this long to realize that whenever she's in Chloe's presence her overwhelming need to escape everyone and everything comes to a halt. She doesn't feel the need to run because she has everything she needs when she's with Chloe, she's at home.

She's not sure where she's walking anymore. She reaches for her phone but she remembers that it's in the hotel room as she felt no need to bring it down to the bar with her. She's not sure how long she's been walking for but she figures that she should probably begin to make her way back.

It's past 2 by the time Beca finally returns to the room. Chloe is fast asleep by this point. Beca plugs her phone in to charge and notices that she has a missed call from Chloe. She assumes that she was wondering where the hell she had been.

She changes and hops into bed. As she stares up at the ceiling in the dark she makes a promise to herself. By the time they get back to Florida she will have her thoughts sorted out and she'll sit down with Chloe and actually talk to her. As she drifts off into a peaceful slumber she can't help but replay that moment in her mind. "I'm hopelessly in love with you."


A/N: again sorry for the delayed update, everything is a bit hectic right now. Hope you all enjoyed it anyway and I want to thank those of you who take the time to leave me such wonderful reviews, you're all awesome! Thanks for sticking with me!