A/N: Hey guys! Here's chapter 7!
Sorry if things are mellowing down a bit, but yeah, like I said, things for this fic would be lighter…
…sort of…
…and I needed to mellow things down to set-up some coming stuff.
So yeah.
Hope you enjoy it nonetheless. Chapter 8 will be up soon.
Reviews and comments are always welcomed!
I don't own pitch perfect.
The week following Beca's return to the Bella house was quite something to remember.
Too many amusing things happening left and right for Chloe to keep up with.
God she missed being home.
The redhead had to admit that she couldn't even remember the last time she was actually at the Bella house since going to the hospital.
Oh, wait, she does remember.
It was when Jesse told her about Beca's accident.
Everything felt so familiar but different somehow. It was as if the past few weeks, and by weeks she was pretty sure they were running on three months or so, had been an incredibly long dream sequence with the setting pretty much shifting between Beca's hospital room and Beca's room at Dr. Mitchell's house.
Yeah, Chloe definitely missed being home with the Bellas.
But she knew it wouldn't have been much of a home without Beca.
The past few days were a whirlwind of events, and Chloe hated that she barely had any moment alone with Beca. To say the Bellas missed the rather reclusive DJ was an understatement.
There was the whole thing about Aubrey playing musical beds because for whatever reason she just kept insisting to not move Chloe's bed out to the living room as well. The blonde would stay up so late every night before going to bed with whoever Bella had offered her bed space for that night, and Chloe could swear she could hear some shifting in the middle of the night coming from wherever Aubrey was supposed to be sleeping, before waking up in the morning with her best friend already gone for work.
Then there was the incident with Jesse trying to initiate a Trebles-Bellas movie night so he could spend some time with his best friend which had inadvertently led to a mini Riff-Off battle because the Bellas won't let them in the house.
Honestly that was just the girls being all stubborn.
Yep, they missed Beca.
And they were now trying to get back into the swing of things.
Flo had been cooking up anything Beca wished, maybe the one good thing the two of them are thankful for.
Legacy has been chatting the DJ nonstop about her music, mixes, and asking for a possible collaboration or something. Beca actually looked interested at the prospect of collaborating on a song or so.
Cynthia Rosa was trying to catch Beca up with the set-list as always, showing videos of practice and slowly handing over the reins back to the DJ.
Aubrey, Jessica, and Ashley were on Chloe's trail to make up on everything she's missed, from choreography to finally catching up and getting ahead on her Russian Lit class.
Meanwhile, Stacie's been on Beca's. Jesse even tried to stop by once again to check on the DJ only to get hissed away by the taller brunette for distracting her during their study sessions. Amy manage to get the Treble away to safety with him muttering something about never getting a Bella woman angry for sure.
Chloe was actually deep into her reading assignment for Russian Lit when she saw the DJ, crutches and everything, make her way to their bed in the living room. Beca groaned as she slumped down the edge of her bed, throwing her crutches away in frustration.
"What's the matter?" Chloe immediately asked highly amused at the look on the DJ's face.
"Who ever knew Stacie would be as scary as Aubrey when it's about academics?" Beca huffed.
And before Chloe could say anything Stacie was already in Beca's trail "Beca we still have to go over your midterm paper."
Beca groaned again before she reached for her crutches to reluctantly make her way back to the kitchen which they've turned into Beca's own special study.
"This is hell." Beca complained as she somewhat hobbled away.
"Babe?" Chloe called back before Beca completely disappeared into the kitchen. Beca paused for a moment to look back at Chloe, hopeful if she had an excuse to pull her away from the terror that was 'tutor mode' Stacie.
"Just reminding you we have PT tomorrow." Chloe said and she couldn't help but giggle at Beca's expression, she could already imagine the thoughts running through Beca's head.
More torturous hell.
But it was better than not having Beca around.
Yep, so much has changed since the last time Chloe had been in the Bella house.
It wasn't until after a week that the pair had actually some alone time.
Beca was starting to feel better that the two of them were able to escape the rest of the Bellas for the day and head to their favorite coffee shop just for some quite time alone.
And Chloe never thought it would be possible for her to smile so big ever since the day Beca woke up and told her she loved her, or when she showed her the library, or when the Bellas pulled the whole first date at the hospital thing.
"What?" Beca asked, taking a sip of her usual drink, noticing the redhead's mega-watt smile getting bigger by the moment.
"This, well, this right now is sort of our first date." Chloe pointed out.
"Ah, Chlo, our first date was in the hospital."
"Yeah, but that was the Bellas doing Becs. They did that for us. You said it yourself, they would've done it with or without our consent. Well, technically they didn't have our consent then. But you know what I mean."
Beca smiled one of her for Chloe only smiles and she couldn't help but just fall in love with Beca more.
Her cuts, scrapes, and bones were healing.
Her voice was returning.
And everything was getting back to how they were.
But Chloe couldn't help but feel that something was off.
An ominous feeling?
Maybe.
But there was just something bothering her.
Because the fear was still there.
The fear that Beca might just disappear one day.
That she'd lose her again.
Chloe thought it was probably because she almost saw Beca dying.
And death was an inevitable part of life.
Yeah, Chloe thought that it was just because they were all reminded about their mortality when they almost lost her.
Something people their age never really think about while they're too busy living.
True enough, they thought never really crossed their minds before. Never really hit them hard enough to understand the truth.
That nothing was permanent.
And every moment was forever fleeting.
That they must seize that day or they'll lose what could possibly be the best thing that will ever happen in their lives.
So maybe that was the reason why when the Bellas had insisted another movie night when they got back to the house Chloe held Beca closer, just a little bit tighter than before.
Just to make sure she's really there.
And maybe that was why Beca kept whispering she loved her throughout the rest of the movie before dozing off completely.
Because nothing lasts forever.
So why not make forever happen now?
