AN: Well, to make up for neglecting this fic here's a fairly quick update. Although this chapter, like the previous one, is more plot less humor. Next one should focus more on the funny.
It's not as though she cared; Kimmy Jin was simply curious. For most of her life she's known things and she thoroughly enjoys being well-informed. She hated not knowing all the facts, and it's for that reason that she said, "Haven't seen much of Chloe around here lately." She noticed how Beca's posture stiffened at the mention of the redhead's name.
"What's it to you?" she growled in a tone that Kimmy Jin can only guess it meant to be intimidating.
"Nothing, just saying." It wasn't a convincing argument, but Beca doesn't call her out on it. She seemed out of it. And, now that Kimmy Jin's thought about it, she's been like this for a while. She sighed, bringing her face down so that she's looking at her lap.
"I quit the Bellas," she admitted. She sounded hurt but waved it off. "It's not a big deal; it was never really my thing and besides, Aubrey would have kicked out sooner or later anyway." She forced a smile and returned to her work. That's all the answer Kimmy Jin got out of her, but that doesn't matter because that's all she needs.
It's later on that Kimmy Jin decided to do as Chloe had requested. She made sure to wait until the last possible second so as to avoid any awkward questioning. And then she's free; free from the drama, free from Beca, free from having to worry… about classes, you know.
She spent her break visiting her parents, although to say that she's simply visiting her parents would sound more appropriate. Kimmy Jin doesn't spend too much time out of her old room, her parents scolded her for it and tell her to go out and get some fresh air. Kimmy Jin was different from her parents in that way. They don't budge that hard though and give up only after a few minutes of pestering.
And as nice as that was, Kimmy Jin can't help but feel like something's amiss. Maybe there's something that she forgot to do. She decided to check her email. It's the usual stuff; birthday reminders, Facebook notifications, the like and oh, someone commented on her latest blog entry.
Kimmy Jin can't even remember what she had written down for that. She opened the email up to give herself a bit of a refresher; a few lines in, she stops. Kimmy Jin went back over what she just read, squinting this time. She's sure that she's read it correctly, and yet she can't have. She logged off and checked her blog.
She couldn't have… and yet there the proof is right in front of her. As Kimmy Jin continued to scroll down her jaw dropped and continued to do so with each passing entry. Her eyes only skimmed through the words, and even that much is too much for Kimmy Jin to process. Alcohol would be so good right now.
For the record, Kimmy Jin was not obsessed. She'd admit that she probably had a problem considering that the whole Beca thing was preoccupying a larger part of her mind than it should, but she was not obsessed. She was simply concerned for her own well-being, and she really wanted to make she does something crazy… like murdering Beca.
Of course that might have solved her problem altogether.
It was hard, but she resisted the temptation.
When she got back to her dorm, Kimmy Jin found Beca's belongings sprawled across her bed. Her half of the room was a mess and her laptop was open. As she got closer Kimmy Jin could notice that its battery was draining. By the looks of things, she could guess the charger came loose at some point. She doesn't want to but still goes over to plug it in.
A window of Beca's music library was open on the screen. Kimmy Jin paid it little mind, but her eyes caught Chloe's name on a few of the playlists. Curious once more, Kimmy Jin clicked on one of them, revealing the full playlist name. It reads 'Chloe's Lady Jams (Songs I Should Never Play Aloud)' Kimmy Jin closed it immediately. Suffice to say she doesn't look into the others.
She distanced herself from her dorm almost immediately and as she strolled around the quad, Kimmy Jin reconsidered the prospect of murdering Beca and just being done with all this. But then she got back into her dorm and found Beca staring at her phone with these big, brown, and sad eyes and it was all just so frustrating.
Her footsteps drew some attention, but Beca only granted her a fleeting glance before dropping her gaze back onto her phone. "They got in," she said. It's a vague statement which causeed Kimmy Jin a desire for some clarification. Luckily for her, she doesn't have to ask. "The Footnotes got disqualified."
"That's good," Kimmy Jin replied, an action which surprise both her and Beca.
"Yeah… yeah."
"And…"
"And what?"
"And… there's gotta be something, right? Why else would you be mentioning them? You quit didn't you?" Kimmy Jin tried not to sound bitter. She's pretty sure that she failed at that, but at the very least her relationship… no, that's not quite the right word… acquaintanceship with Beca doesn't require much, if any, tact.
"I did, but it's not like-"
"Not like what? You quit, how much more difficult can that be?" Beca's lips parted, but she stopped herself before she spoke. She was thinking, and Kimmy Jin was thinking about grabbing the closet thing she could find and hitting her over the head with it because really, does she have to hold her hand through this whole ordeal? She sighed and went for her bed. "Forget it, I don't even know why I'm talking to you."
Beca scowled at her. Kimmy Jin fought the grin that's trying to make its way onto her face. She could see it in Beca's eyes; confusion, doubt, longing, and most importantly fire. She got up and left, saying something about needing some time to think.
If there's one thing that Kimmy Jin enjoyed about having to deal with simple-minded people like Beca was that their problems are usually as simple to solve. With just a bit of pushing she'd already gotten her roommate to stop slumping around their dorm and take some action. When Beca returned much later on saying that she's rejoined the Bellas, Kimmy Jin mentally patted herself on the back for a job well done.
And with that out of the way, there's only one more issue of Beca's that Kimmy Jin had to deal with. But she's completely sure that that one should be able to fall into place quite easily even without her intervention.
AN: I just that I'm really tired and that I just wrote all of this in the past... I'm not sure how long, so I don't even remember what I wrote. I need sleep.
