FIRST OF ALL….Over 100 reviews and hit 200 followers guys! Thank you all for reading and leaving sweet stuff! It's awesome hearing stories of your experience with LDRs and I'm glad this story is relatable to a lot of you! I also am going to apologize for the cliffhanger last chap. #Sorry ;) but this one should make up for it!
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Chapter 10: New Facebook Status?
Friday September 16, 5:12 PM
B: Do you still want to kiss me?
Beca presses send and watches Chloe's phone light up on her table next to where she is laying on her bed. Beca hasn't moved from the corner she has been glued to the moment she walked into Chloe's room but Beca can see Chloe's mouth curve up as she looks down at the phone's screen, her eyes not lifting to meet Beca's stare and she watches her thumbs type out a response.
C: Yes
The response is simple; one worded, but Chloe is staring at her phone with that smirk plastered on her mouth like she just got done typing a secret and Beca feels a sort of push-or a tug that teleports her over to Chloe it seemed like, and she's hovering over Chloe on the girl's bed, waiting for the redhead to roll over so she could do something she has been dying to do the first time she saw her.
What Beca said about her never initiating the first kiss back at lunch was true-though she didn't have a lot of kisses to start with anyways but still, she held herself proud that she wasn't the one to give in to the kissing. But then, Chloe comes along. With her bubbly charm, her pale blue eyes and those fucking kissable lips and all of Beca's tolerances she has built from not giving in all these years was thrown right out of the window once Chloe looked up from where she was lying beneath Beca in between her arms.
Fuck waiting for the perfect time. Beca has waited to kiss Chloe when it wasn't physically possible for them so do so. But now, in a hands reach as Chloe flips over to her back, her hair sprawled majestically over her pillows and she's staring up at Beca with this glint in her eyes-like she was taunting Beca-challenging her with those bright blue eyes, Beca decided that now was the perfect time.
And that was enough for Beca to break, leaning down until she's pressing her lips against Chloe's and kissing her like she deserved to be kissed a long time ago.
Chloe doesn't waste any time at this bold move and her hands lift immediately to hold Beca at her cheeks, bringing their mouths closer together. The music fades in the background, Healy's voice starting to become muffled and Beca feels like she is trapped in a fishbowl.
Beca has imagined a lot of things during the time she has talked with Chloe. She wondered if Chloe uses the words "totes" or "def" when she talks in person like a real life Barbie doll, or if it is only a thing she did over text. She wondered if Chloe was as animated in real life as her voice made her seem through the phone.
She's wondered a lot with Chloe but never, in her wildest dreams, did she expect kissing the girl to be this good.
All the air in Beca's lungs was sucked right out of her body once her lips touched Chloe's, the wind knocked right out of her gut, similar to what happened the day she was playing tether ball on the playground and Joseph smacked the ball straight into her stomach. This time though, it didn't scare Beca that she couldn't catch her breath, her life flashing before her eyes, thinking that she might've broken a rib or something.
Chloe's lips tasted like peppermint Burt's Bees and Beca thought her lips were soft but my God. Chloe's were mind blowing.
The kiss is slow, so slow it doesn't even feel like either of their lips are moving. But they are, both of them savoring the new ground, something they have been waiting weeks for. It isn't until Chloe's tongue swipes daintily over Beca's bottom lip and the kiss quickly transforms into a heated-yet passionate make out session were Beca is releasing noises into Chloe's mouth that should make her feel embarrassed.
But Chloe is doing that sinful thing with her tongue and it's making Beca's body and sanity lose all control. And the wandering hands against Beca's ribcage aren't making it any easier and almost makes Beca's elbows buckle where they rest next to Chloe's head.
Beca sighs into the kiss, and she can feel Chloe's mouth stretch proudly across her own. And Beca knows it's a cocky smirk that's forming before she pulls away for some much needed air.
"Oh. Wow." Chloe's voice is a raspy type of low, lower than she has ever heard it before and it makes every muscle in Beca's stomach clench, her hands squeezing the material of Chloe's bedsheet on either side of her head. Beca's eyes are still sealed tightly, not planning to open anytime soon but she can feel Chloe's eyes burning into her like the sun. "Thank God you're a good kisser."
Beca feels the puff of air when Chloe wheezes a chuckle over her lips and at any other time, Beca would've teased the girl at how out of breath she was after kissing.
"Yeah," Beca exhales this word as she tries to regain all the oxygen back into her body. "You-...like-...I uh-..." Beca flat-out stops trying to form anything in the English dictionary because obviously, the taste of Chloe's mouth that is now imprinted on her's has her speaking in tongues. Finally, she eases her eyes open and she sees that Chloe's eyes are nearly black, her lips are swollen, and like many other times today, Beca admires how beautiful Chloe is because she still doesn't know how it's possible.
"I had a dream about kissing you a long time ago." There's a lazy smile forming up at the corners of Chloe's mouth and Beca for the first time today, would rather not talk and instead, kiss that grin right off her face.
"You did?" Beca's was honestly impressed that she was able to get this out without any flinches or bumps. Chloe nods her head and Beca's vision bounces when her forehead is still resting over Chloe's.
"In my dream, I'm not going to lie, you were kind of a bad kisser," Beca snaps her head off of Chloe's offended, and watches Chloe cover her mouth with a hand to contain her giggles. "You used a lot of tongue back then in my dream!" Chloe defends as if it would make Beca feel better about herself and she's not even trying to hide her laughs anymore as Beca looks down from where she is still hovering above Chloe, unimpressed.
"Am I a bad kisser?" Beca asks, suddenly self conscious about her kissing abilities and worried she didn't live up to Chloe's expectations on the make out scale. No one has ever said anything bad about her kissing before, and she figured they would if she was that bad.
Chloe's whole body is shaking with laughter and it makes Beca start to laugh because there was this thing about Chloe that she just can't resist not smiling around the girl. It should be scary really. That a couple hours with Chloe and already the girl is changing Beca like a model with her outfits on a runway show.
But Beca believes Chloe is changing her for the better.
"Shut up, you're a good kisser," Chloe presses her hands to Beca's cheeks, pulling her down again. Beca squints her eyes, not believing Chloe fully with her wounded ego, "a great kisser." And okay, that makes Beca feel a little better, "so great that I want more of that-" Chloe traces the edge of Beca's bottom lip with her thumb, "-before your dad steals you away from me." And she closes the space between them again, her smile fading once their lips touch and Beca allows herself to sink back into the kiss that feels just like the first time.
She loves kissing Chloe. More than anything else in the world Beca thinks.
Forget about hand holding; kissing Chloe Beale is now Beca's favorite thing to do.
Friday September 16, 7:12 PM
B: Thanks again for dropping me off at my Dad's
B: is it weird that he already wants to meet you?
C: Of course Beca! :)
C: And no it doesn't surprise me, I'm pretty great ;)
B: Haha oh my God
B: But so true :-)
B: I had a lot of fun with you today.
C: Really? :)
B: Yeah :-)
B: Besides the sweating my dick off part. I'm already sunburned on my back
C: Very colorful with your words Becs ;)
C: I hope you brought some clothes other than your usual skinny jeans and flannel of the day. Not that I don't LOVE them ;)
C: That kiss was also something else :)
B: You weren't too bad yourself ;-)
B: FYI, I do wear things other than those…
B: I'm just saving them all up
C: For special occasions? ;)
B: Exactly!
C: Speaking of special occasions, can you give me a hint of where we are going tomorrow? :)
B: Ha, nice try Beale
B: No. That's for me to know and you to find out
C: Booooo, no fun ;) hopefully there will be more of those kisses ;)
B: Hmmm maybe
B: Alright, it's dinner time. Dad is taking me out to some lounge place nearby. I don't really remember the name of it.
C: Sandy Hills Lounge and Grill?
B: Yeah that one!
B: How did you know?
C: Everybody in Georgia knows that if you want a burger, go to the lounge and grill in Sandy Hills! It's like the only good thing they have in that town lol
C: They have, and I quote, "kickass burgers" ;)
C: Try their chocolate chocolate pie! It's SO good!
B: Haha okay. Will do
B: I'll text you after?
C: I may or may not be sleeping but yes of course, text me after :)
C: Have fun! I miss you already!
B: Impossible Chlo :-)
Saturday September 17, 9:21 AM
When Saturday comes along, Beca forgets completely where she is when she wakes up the next morning peaceful, and she isn't being attacked by her leggy best friend. Plus, all her mixing equipment is gone, replaced by weird, old people stuff placed neatly over dressers, which is something definitely not in her room back in LA.
Part of her thought that all of yesterday; meeting Chloe, driving with Chloe, eating with Chloe, kissing Chloe, was all a dream. A surreal, amazing fucking dream that she could relive forever on repeat.
But when she sees that she is in the guest room of her dad's house and can already feel the humidity seeping through the cracks of the windows from outside, she knows everything that happened yesterday wasn't a dream.
And her stomach does somersaults at that realization when she snatches her phone off the charger and just like always, there's an unread message from Chloe just waiting to be answered.
However before she does that, Beca remembers a very intimate moment she shared with Chloe yesterday, unexpectedly, and knows Stacie is probably going to end up bombarding her with questions about her day when the girl finally wakes up, dying to know the steamy deets. So, figuring to get the call out of the way, she dials up Stacie's number.
Through the speakers it rings for a long time, almost to the point where Beca thinks Stacie isn't going to answer. She's about to hang up and maybe try texting her instead but suddenly, Stacie huffs and puffs into the speakers, the phone sounding like it's being tossed around back and forth and Stacie is grumbling into the phone with her sleepy, cranky filled voice.
"For fuck sakes Beca do you know what time it is?"
Beca facepalms herself because once again, she forgot out the time difference and knew no way in hell Stacie would be up at 6 in the morning on a Saturday without any excuse.
"Shit I'm sorry Stace. I keeping forgetting about the time difference. You can go back to sleep-"
"Nope. You woke me up so now you get to talk to me," Stacie's voice is starting to sound less muffled and more clear, and Beca takes it that she isn't lying face down in her bedsheets anymore and instead, is getting herself situated better, "what's up, munchkin?" A large yawn makes itself present on the other line.
"Chloe and I kissed yesterday," she says simply and straightforward, feeling that fluffing the situation with useless bullshit isn't necessary when talking to Stacie. So, she tells her as it is and pulls the phone away from her ear when Stacie squeals bloody murder through the other line.
Stacie gasps. "You guys didn't! How was it? Is she a good kisser? She looks like a good kisser. I heard gingers are secretly freaks in the sheets….DID YOU BANG HER?!"
Beca can't help but miss her overly blunt friend, wishing she was here in Georgia with her. Beca's day certainly isn't made without hearing the crass comments come from her friend's mouth. "Calm down Stace!" she says with a laugh. "No we didn't have sex. I thought kissing was maybe even too fast."
"Too fast? You guys have been talking every day for a month already. That's longer the some of the relationships we see at school and you and I both know those hornballs are already fucking each other."
"Very true." Beca snickers. Stacie was everything but wrong in this scenario. "But you don't think it's too soon? Like, we aren't even officially dating yet."
"More like too late, Becs. I'm going to be honest real quick." Beca gulps when she hears this. Stacie and her honesty is never a good thing and Beca isn't sure she can handle the harshness this early in the morning. She loved Stacie's wisdom, her tough love sort of attitude and brutal honesty when it came to advice. It has prevented Beca from doing a lot of stupid shit in the past but now, with Chloe, she feels her guard is down and she is too fragile for Stacie's opinion.
Not having any other choice since she's the one who called Stacie, Beca gives her the green light to say whatever she has to say.
"Long distance relationships are hard, like I've told you before but, there's something magical that holds in them as well. When you go months, maybe even years without talking to the person you love then finally see them in person, it's fucking beautiful. Like, I tear up and get emotional." Stacie laughs briefly. "Think of foreplay for a second."
Beca cringes, slapping her free hand over her face. She should've been prepared for this to turn sexual, knowing her horn ball of a friend.
"The time away from whoever it is, the texts, the phone calls, the Skype dates, hell even the nude pics-" snickering, Beca rolls her eyes. Where is Stacie going with this? "-it's all a form of foreplay, and when you see that person, it's like a volcano of emotions that you didn't even realize you had until you see their face for the first time in what feels like an eternity. Am I right?"
Stacie is pretty much spot on actually. When she saw Chloe at the airport for the first time, it was like she had no control over her emotions and they all hit her hard at once. Seeing Chloe took her breath away, made her heart skip a few beats. It was a moment Beca couldn't even explain.
"Yeah… you are."
"So, you holding out to kiss Chloe, what, three hours?" Stacie asks and waits for a hum from Beca. "Is pretty damn impressive knowing your heart and brain wanted to kiss her immediately."
"God, you and your ability to read me is fucking bizarre I swear."
"It's because you're my best friend. I should know these things. But back to the kiss! How was it?"
"Definitely worth the wait, that's for sure." Beca reaches her fingers up to her lips and if she keeps them there long enough, she can still feel the post-kiss tingle..
"That good, huh?"
"Yeah dude. I'm falling for her. Hard."
"As if I couldn't already tell Becs." Beca could basically feel the eyeroll from Stacie through the phone. "You basically talk to Chloe daily like she's a religion. Forget Judaism, your new thing is like... gingerism."
Clever Stacie. Clever.
"That is….that is so not true," Beca at least tries to make herself believable. Poor thing fails miserably though as Stacie's cackles echo through her ear. "Shut up!" She pulls the phone away to rid Stacie's laugh, only to end up laughing herself. Pulling the phone back, "I heard you texted Aubrey. How's that going?"
"Going fine?" Stacie seemed confused as why Beca was even asking this or even was interested. "She's bomb at Chemistry and helped out a lot with the thing I had trouble remembering."
There had to be more than that, "oh, that's it then?" Beca fishes; she knows there has to be conversation that wasn't school related.
"I mean, we talked for a little afterwards when I asked her how she was so good at Chemistry. She fell into talking about her high school days and how she always loved the dentist which made her realize what she wanted to peruse an occupation around that." Bingo Beca, bingo. "She's a nice girl, super cute, too, but like I said, I need a physical relationship and phone sex won't do for me."
This was too much of a vivid image for Beca as she hides her face into her knees that were pressed up against her chest and starts to groan, "too early for sex talk Stace."
"Too early?! Beca it's six here and I'm nice enough to answer your call!" Stacie huffs and puffs are exaggerated and dramatic. "But I'm getting tired again and need my beauty sleep because I'm going out with Amy and Cynthia tonight."
"Be safe. I'm not there to make sure you don't get out of line." Beca can only imagine the deep shit Stacie is going to get herself into without Beca there.
She'll probably have to bail the girl out of jail first things comes Monday.
"I promise! Now, enjoy your date today. Text me everything!"
"Will do Stace. Talk to you later."
"See yah munchkin."
Beca hangs up with a smile on her face. Talking to Stacie was always drinking a nice cool glass of water on a hot, summer's day. Refreshing. She could talk to her about anything and feel ten times better about it afterwards.
Sometimes.
She clicks over to Chloe's message next, wanting to talk to the redhead before she goes out to eat with her dad, not knowing what time she'd exactly be done.
Saturday September 17, 8:35 AM
C: Good morning :)
Saturday September 17, 9:35 AM
B: Hey you :-)
B: How did you sleep?
C: Great! Well kinda….
B: Oh no, why just kind of?
B: You were already sleeping when I got back from dinner with my dad and Sheila :-P
C: Well I didn't really get much sleep because I was and still am wayyyyy too excited for our date tonight :)
C: How was dinner by the way? I kinda know you and your dad aren't or weren't really on good terms before coming down to visit
B: Goodness Beale…
B: Maybe start with that next time before you have me worried!
B: But I'm excited, too :-)
B: Actually, dinner was a lot of fun. Even with Sheila there.
C: Step mom?
B: Yep
B: I'm not really close to her so it was kinda weird to have dinner all together.
B: But she's not too bad though
C: Totally makes sense :)
C: But I'm glad it went well! Did you guys go back to your dad's house after?
B: Yeah, I was pretty exhausted and just wanted to go back and relax for the rest of the night.
B: Their guest room is fucking haunted though. I kept hearing weird noises and it was freaking me out so sleeping was rough.
C: Is Beca Mitchell scared? ;)
B: Uh yeah! I don't fuck with spirits. Hell to the no.
C: I think someone watches too many scary movies…
B: Actually that's Stacie and I'm more the opposite.
C: That's….surprising! You seem so tough and brave though ;)
C: Who am I going to cling onto at haunted houses then? :(
B: I mean, I'll be there for you until one of those fuckers tries to grab me but then, I'm using you for bait so I can get the hell out of there.
C: NO YOU WOULDN'T! Lolol Such an asshole ;)
C: We are sooooooo going to have a scary movie night :)
B: Nooooo why? :-(
B: I hate them so much. I don't even like regular movies.
C: Who doesn't like movies?! Are you even human?!
C: And because you haven't watched a scary movie with ME. I'm totes the best cuddler like...ever :D
B: They're boring, and predicable. I usually just end up falling asleep when Stacie makes me watch them.
B: Well, if watching a scary movie means a free cuddle sesh with you….count me out ;-)
C: SUCH A JERK MITCHELL!
C: I know you're secretly a cuddler and I'm going to get it out of you sooner or later ;)
B: We will see :-)
C: I probably already said this but I had a lot of fun with you yesterday :)
C: Tank is already barking up a storm, asking where his best friend is!
B: I do not believe that! He was seconds away from eating my face off…
C: You're such a scaredy cat Mitchell! ;)
C: I would've never guessed by your online image ;)
B: Whoa, I am not a scaredy cat
B: What was your first opinion about me when you discovered me online?
B: Now that you brought it up.
C: Going for the big guns huh Becs? ;)
C: Welllllll, I first heard about your music when I was a freshman in college I believe. And you only uploaded mixes that were kick ass but never pictures of your face. But then when I followed Stacie on Instagram and saw millions of pictures of you, I thought you were hot! ;) You wore a lot of eyeliner, more than you do now and had this image that was so….intimidating it was intriguing. And I couldn't get enough :)
B: Hmm is that so?
B: I am pretty good looking aren't I? ;-)
C: And when I got to know you, I thought you were a cocky little shit with all your modesty ;)
C: And never ending sarcasm :)
B: Hey, you said you loved my sarcasm :-(
C: Of course I do Becs! :) Which is weird because sarcasm isn't usually as hot as you make it seem..
B: Thank you ;-)
C: Great, just boosting your inflamed ego even more ;)
C: What was your first opinions of me!?
B: I thought you were just another a cappella nerd that had gorgeous eyes and used a shit ton of emojis ;-)
C: You're welcome by the way! Look at our messages from the first night we talked to now. You can't send a text without an emoji ;)
B: Yes I can
B: See?
B: That's already two texts :-P
B: DAMMIT
C: Lol! See Becs? I changed you for the best. Good influence ;)
C: What was your first IMPRESSION of me? :D
B: Besides Billy Joel's Uptown Girl?
C: Hey! I take that as a compliment! That's a pretty catchy song not going to lie ;)
B: Ugh, and to think I said you have good taste in music...
B: When I saw you, I thought you weren't tall enough to make fun of my height, FIRST OF ALL. I also thought you were the hottest damn redhead I've ever seen.
B: I was kinda nervous that you would act differently when I saw you in real life.
C: Did I meet your expectations?
B: Sure did, actually went above and beyond them :) You're something special Beale.
C: Same for you Mitchell, same for you :)
C: Wanna know my first impression of you?
B: Uh yes.
B: It only makes sense
C: I thought you were really small and cute and dainty in a way. But when we hold hands, your grip is strong, and I know it's from mixing a lot and because you're left handed. You have like, amazing hair and your eyes are this dark blue color that almost looks grey under dim lights, like in my room and I think they're beautiful. You're a closeted pansey who is scared of my dog, scary movies and probably more that I'm going to find out later ;)
C: But you were everything that I could've imagined you being. :)
B: Stoooooppp :-) I'm not scared of your dog! I just need to warm up to him a bit...
B: You wanna know a secret?
C: Yes! :D
B: I almost passed out when I held your hand the first time.
C: Oh really? I couldn't tell ;)
C: It only took you an hour to do it after all my dropped hints! Very disappointed in you actually ;)
B: It's scary okay? You say I'm intimidating but that's all you.
B: I didn't want to scare you away or something by going too fast
C: Becs, I would've kissed you when we were in the airport but I personally felt like it was too fast. Then, you had to go and say you never initiated a kiss before and that was an opportunity for me to break your little record, saying you'll never kiss me unless you're the one doing the kissing. It was really hard though :(
C: So glad you broke so easy ;)
C: But how am I intimidating?! Thats a first lol
B: Kissing you was so worth it :-)
B: And because you're pretty. THE perfect girl.
B: I'm socially awkward who occasionally makes a decent mix here and there. Have you seen the movie She's Out Of My League? Yeah well, you're a solid 10 as for me who is like a hard 2, maybe 3 on a good day.
C: Shut up Beca! Lol! If anything you're a 100000 and my sleazy ex co-worker would be more than happy to back me up taking that she flirted with you the entire time during lunch!
B: No she wasn't! She was being friendly.
B: Probably just being nice to get tips
C: And to get into a famous DJ's pants…
B: I knew you were jealous!
B: Don't worry, it looks hot on you ;-)
C: Whatever. You're mine and mine only Mitchell. Don't you forget.
C: Especially with the Selena Gomez rumors going around.
C: It makes me nervous
B: You're the only one I have my eyes on babe ;-)
C: You just called me babe.
Beca freezes when she reads this message and hurries to look back at her previous message and true enough, she typed in babe. Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no! This can't be happening! Beca panics as she tries to think of a cover up to her stupid big mouth that let virtual word vomit slip. It just felt so natural saying it to Chloe and she didn't think much of it until now.
Chloe probably thinks she's pathetic.
Fanfuckingtastic
B: Shit, I'm sorry. It just...fuck I don't know
B: It just felt right saying it
B: Did I officially scare you away?
C: Calm down Becs! You didn't scare me away :)
C: I just didn't think you, of all people, would go for pet names
C: I love it. A lot :)
B: Really? You aren't just saying that to make me feel better?
C: Nope :) I kinda wanted you to be the first one to say it so I can start calling you babe, or baby.
C: Buttercup is a cute name for you but it's sooooo long :(
B: I mean you can call me Beca…..that IS my name and not too long, not too short ;-)
C: Not going to happen BABE ;)
B: Ugh, incorrigible Beale...
B: Well, I'm having lunch with my dad so I have to go get ready.
B: But then I'll text you when I'm on my way to pick you up for tonight?
C: Sounds good :) I'm super excited!
C: I promise to be ready at 6 :)
B: Good, I'll talk to you later :-) Don't miss me too much
C: Can't promise you anything ;)
Saturday September 17, 11:32 AM
Beca and her father were getting seated at some cozy breakfast place close by his house that Warren claims to be his favorite. He says he usually gets a coffee from here everyday before classes start and stops by on Wednesdays because it's free pie day. Sadly, today is Saturday and not Wednesday but he promises to buy Beca a box of whatever pie she wants.
Maybe she can share it with Chloe or give it to her when she picks her up tonight.
Oh, that reminds her.
"Hey dad," Beca starts, looking up from her menu and continues when her dad hums in response. "What are some fancy yet not so fancy places to take someone down in Atlanta?" She probably shouldn't have waited until the day of her and Chloe's date but she wanted a reliable source- which is her dad, and having Shelia around last night during dinner didn't make her feel comfortable talking about something like this.
Shelia was cool but hasn't earned that privilege to know who and everything that goes on in Beca's love life.
Her dad pauses from readings the menu to glance up at Beca. "Oh yeah, there is a lot to do in Atlanta. What do you have in mind?"
This was something Beca hasn't even thought about. She wanted this night to be special and perfect for Chloe, not knowing when the next time will be once she leaves back to LA but didn't know what would good enough to match her expectations. Chloe was an out doorsy type of girl. She liked hiking, running, fishing basically everything Beca hasn't even tried once before. She also likes music-which Beca already tried to see if any cool concerts or festivals that were going on but there wasn't.
Chloe isn't a complicated girl like most are and Beca knows that she isn't looking nor wanting to do anything too fancy for their date. But it still didn't help sort out her options because this was the first time Beca has actually had to plan a date. Everytime she was asked out, the guy always took her wherever it was they were going to go for the night and it usually ended up being a cliche dinner and movie-which Beca fucking hated.
Movies were something Chloe enjoyed also, so even though Beca couldn't stand sitting through one, she did it for Chloe in a heartbeat.
"I don't know," Beca chuckles, running a hand through her hair to as her dad doesn't hesitate to eye her suspiciously. "Just….something nice I guess."
"Is this a date?" He starts to wiggle his eyebrows in a way that makes Beca feel uncomfortable and this seems to be noticed by her father as he continues the movements intentionally.
Beca grumbles a inaudible "yes" under her breath, averting her father's eyes as best as possible by looking down at the menu. His stare is burning two holes deep in Beca's forehead the longer she ignores the question and when he asks her again, she has no other choice but to lean her head back with a guttural groan.
"Yessss it's a date," Beca admitted a little louder this time and watched her dad's eyes light up like a Christmas tree as she replaced the food menu as a fan to cool down her all of a sudden hot face. It usually wasn't a lot to get Beca flustered but once you add Chloe into the equation, phew.
She's a goner.
"May I ask who?" Beca raises an eyebrow before her dad adds, "whoever it is, I do have the right to know since you're my daughter and all." But that evil grin he is now sporting on his face gave it away that he knew exactly who Beca was taking out and was only using this, "playing dumb" card to tease Beca.
"You know who it is," Beca retorts back and continues to scan the menu for something to eat, away from her dad's teasing that is ruffling her up by the second.
A young and very polite waiter swings by their table, offering them one of the restaurant's signature summer smoothie and other beverages that seem to be just as popular. Turns out after Beca asked, Georgia was known for peaches and this restaurant so happened to have peach flavored everything. Taking the waiter's word on this, "signature smoothie," Beca orders one as her father asks for a water.
"I'll be right back with your drinks guys!" The young boy skips away with a smile and Beca watches him until she can feel her father's eyes on her again.
Being right, her dad is still patiently waiting for an obvious answer to something he already knows and Beca rolls her eyes before answering.
"Chloe."
Her dad gasps with a surprised smile. Also a very fake one too, "redhead Chloe?"
Beca nods her head even though both she and her dad only know one red head named Chloe so there wasn't a lot to chose from.
"The one who dropped you off yesterday?"
Beca nods once more.
"She's a pretty one, Becs." Beca ends up smiling at this because duh. Chloe's jaw dropping from afar but once you get to actually know her on a personal level, the girl is damn near perfect. "You guys could go to Fogo's. It's a Brazilian Steakhouse that I took Sheila to one night and it was delicious very good option for date night."
Though it was a tempting offer once steak was mentioned, Beca knew absolutely nothing about Brazilian steak-or if it is the same in comparison to American steak. Also, she didn't know if Chloe would even like Brazilian food and chancing that doesn't seem like a great idea with only two days to impress her.
She wants it to be a surprise, she wants Chloe to have fun and overall, she wants tonight to be perfect.
Beca shakes her head, declining that option as her father ponders up some more ideas.
After thinking for a while, her dad's eyes shoot out from his skull with eyebrows raised pass his hairline. "How about Canoe's?!"
Beca knits her brows together confused as to why this was even an option. Outdoor activities weren't her forte and he should know that. "Like, in a river or something?" First of all, Beca is deathly scared of water; lakes, rivers, the ocean, whatever it is, it doesn't matter. She's still scared of it. And second, she's never been canoeing so that's a shit show waiting to happen. Talk about embarrassing when she isn't able to get the canoe to move down the river with her date waiting patiently in the back. "Hard pass dad."
"No Becs not canoeing," he chuckles at Beca misinterpretation. "It's a beautiful restaurant that runs along the peaceful banks of the Chattahoochee River. It's listed one of the romantic spots in Atlanta." Okay, this sparks some interest in Beca. "Then after you guys eat, there's the drive in not too far away. You guys could relax and digest while watching some movies. How does that sound?" he suggests with a bright smile and a small shrug, surprising Beca at how helpful he was being.
It took a lot of weight off her shoulders with being able to talk about certain obstacles with someone and she is glad it was her dad doing the helping.
"That's actually-" Beca starts with a shake to her head, snickering, "-that's actually a great idea." And yeah, maybe it's the typical cliche date and Beca is technically a, "hypocrite" but this idea was way better than all those other guys who've taken her out on dates combined.
She and Chloe would wine and dine at some fancy restaurant and then, head over to watch some movies to end a wonderful-hopefully- night.
But then she thought of something.
"Obviously we are going to dress up if we are going to dinner, what do we do about the movies? They usually play three don't they? I want to at least be comfortable."
"Pack some clothes and take my truck not my car. You guys could camp out in the bed or walk around. There's a grassy area where people bring lawn chairs and blankets to watch the movies." Beca nods her head. At least now she doesn't have to ask her dad for his car.
Everything was starting to flow perfectly now.
Beca was relieved by all of this honestly, now that she has a game plan for her date with Chloe tonight. Quite frankly, it was starting to become worrying that she hasn't even picked a place to take the damn girl.
But now, with a top rated restaurant planned and a destination to go afterwards, she was able to exhale a good amount of stress air before enjoying the rest of lunch with her dad and couldn't help but to eagerly anticipate her date tonight.
Saturday September 17, 5:30 PM
B: SOS.
B: SOS SOS SOS.
Saturday September 17, 5:35 PM
B: STACIE THIS IS AN EMERGENCY!
S: Oh my God Beca you barely gave me five minutes to answer your damn text!
S: What's going on?!
B: Finally!
B: It's a half hour away from my date with Chloe and I may or may not be shitting my pants at the thought of it!
S: Okay, chill Beca, the world is not ending
S: Where are you?
B: Down the street from Chloe's house…
S: Why the Hell are you down the street?
S: And also 30 mins early?
B: Because I was too excited for the date and got ready a lot faster than I thought I was going to and just ended up leaving.
B: Then I picked up some flowers and got to her house faster than I thought I would so now, I'm awkwardly waiting down the street until it's time to pick her up
S: Okay, that's not creepy….at all
B: STACIE.
S: Haha okay sorry sorry!
S: Beca, this date is going to be awesome, especially when you told me what the plan was for you guys. Jesus, I'd give my right tit to go on a date like that.
S: And you KNOW how much I treasure my goodies.
B: Haha very true
B: I just….I don't know why I get so nervous around Chloe
B: It's literally everytime we hang out. I never get this way over the phone because there is less of a chance of making a complete fool out of myself in front of her.
S: I think it's because you love her.
B: WHAT?!
B: HA very funny Stacie.
S: I'm serious boo
S: I know you better than I think you know yourself and I say you love this girl.
B: I...that's crazy Stacie
B: I've only known Chloe for a month.
S: There isn't a designated time when you fall in and out of love Becs. When it shows, it fucking shows-whether it's a week, a month, or a year
S: I don't want you thinking about this during your date because you already have a lot on your plate
S: Just….think about it.
B: Okay I will.
S: You're awesome Becs. In the words of Fat Amy since she's hovering over my shoulder right now, "you're the big BM. Beca motherfucking Mitchell!"
S: Not bowel movement :)
B: Fucking disgusting
B: But thanks guys. Tell Amy I said hey and say I'm counting on her to keep a close eye on you.
S: I can't be tamed B ;)
S: Have fun on your date! Let me know how it goes in the morning!
S: Go get yourself a hot tamale ;)
B: Oh my...
B: Will do.
Tossing what Stacie said away for now, Beca takes a few deep breaths before driving the rest of the way to Chloe's house. The only thing making any noise in her dad's truck was the voice of her GPS system, informing her that she made it to her destination after not entirely remembering where Chloe lived. Silencing the device, she takes another few safety breaths, grabs the beautiful bouquet of dahlia flowers out of the passenger seat before getting out of the truck. She straightens out her black, sleeveless, button down blouse which so happened to match a nice fitting pair of black jeggings and wedged heels.
You know, keeping her edgy image alive and well while also sending the message that yeah, she can dress to impress and does it damn well too.
She also stalls for a little, looking over her phone, taking in the aroma of the flowers that sit in Chloe's front yard until the time hits exactly six.
When she makes it to the front door, she wipes her hands on the sides of her pants to get rid of all the sweat which seems to come in bucket amounts and rings the doorbell.
As soon as that ring chimes through the house, the sounds of Tank's nails scraping against the tile can be heard from the other side of the door as well as a constant bark.
Chloe's voice then makes a muffled appearance as she orders Tank to sit a few dozen times before it actually seemed like the barking was under control. She opens the door with the biggest grin Beca has ever seen on her let alone anybody before as she is holding Tank back by the collar.
"Someone's excited to see me," Beca jokes as she kneels down to pet Tank behind the ears when he is calmer and automatically, he rolls over on his back for some attention in a new spot. He was cute, super cute actually once Beca gets pass the beastly size of Tank.
Giggling, "just like his momma I guess." Beca rubs Tank's belly for a second before standing up straight to face Chloe, who still is smiling wide at the interaction and when she does, her breath hitches at the sight of Chloe's outfit.
Leave it to Chloe to make Beca basically stop breathing altogether by how physically flawless she is dressed right now and just, wow. Chloe blows the top off the sexiness scale with her burgundy, v-neck crop top, whose sleeves run down to her elbow and is showing off the very top of her abdominal muscles- which is a clear sign to Beca that she has a very, very toned stomach. Sadly, Beca can't confirm nor deny this hypothesis as the rest of Chloe's stomach is covered by a white, high waisted skirt, leaving her God made legs out in the open for all to see, punching Beca in the gut whenever her calf or quad muscles flex and she's wearing black, single buckle heels to finish the masterpiece.
Truthfully, it's almost too much for Beca to handle.
"You good?"
Beca manages to break out of her admiration over this girl and catches Chloe staring back at her with a brow raised.
"Yeah no," Beca shakes her head out of it, hoping to get a grip on herself. "Super...awesome," and then, she laughs a nervous chuckle, only heightening Chloe's suspicion to the maximum.
"Really? You didn't answer my question."
Oh shit. Chloe was talking to her?
Beca can't even come up with a lie as a response and try to cover up that fact that she was one hundred percent not paying attention to what Chloe was saying as she was instead, too busy being casted under a spell by every Goddamn curve on her body, making it impossible to think about anything else.
Beca scratches the back of her neck awkwardly. "Yeah, I'm going to be honest and say I wasn't paying attention. Your beauty kinda...threw me off a bit," she finishes breathless and sees Chloe start to laugh and because it's contagious, Beca starts to mirror the laugh also, "what did you say again? Sorry."
"I didn't ask you anything," Chloe's says simply once she gets her giggling under control. "Your face was a clear indicator that you were zoned out on something so, having a little fun, I said I asked you a question when I didn't."
Chloe's evil Beca comes to a conclusion. She's also the hottest human being Beca has ever been around and is biting her bottom lip guilty with her eyelashes batting-which doesn't do anything for Beca except make her want to grab and pin Chloe to the nearest wall, kiss her until she forgets her first name and make this planned date night out a date night in.
Beca, for the millionth time tonight it feels like, regains her breathing by a few deep breaths before speaking again, "you Beale are something else."
Beca forgets about the flowers in her hand as she holds onto them for God knows how long until Chloe glances down at them by her side, "oh yeah," handing over the flowers, Beca shrugs her shoulders. "Thought you needed some more of them."
Chloe reaches for the flowers with her signature smile and smells each one individually. "Thank you Becs. They're beautiful."
Chloe leaves to go to the kitchen and find a vase for them, leaving Beca and Tank, who is laying down besides the door to wait for her to come back. After hearing dishes clank around in the kitchen for a whole, Chloe comes out with the bouquet now in a vase and places it down next to the sunflowers on the living room table before making her way back to Beca.
"And also, you look amazing right now so really, I should be the one doing the staring," Chloe finishes her sentence with a wink and leans in close to give Beca a quick but tender kiss and again, just like before, it felt like Beca just stepped off a plane into negative degree weather. All the air in her body sucked right from her lungs leaving it impossible to breathe.
She doesn't have asthma but if she plans on kissing Chloe anymore-which, she does- she might want to take into consideration an inhaler if she wants to continue breathing on her own in the near future.
"Who knew someone could make all black so damn sexy?" Chloe's voice tickles Beca's lips from still being so close and Beca can't help but shiver at the compliment. She inches her face away from Beca, long enough to see her dazed state briefly before hooking their hands together, grabbing her extra clothes Beca mentioned earlier to pack and making way out the front door. "You wanna tell me where we are going now?"
Snapping out of it when Chloe starts to lead them out the house, she snorts up a laugh, "nice try Beale."
Saturday September 17, 6:16 PM
Beca knew going into Canoes meant she was taking Chloe to one of the top rated, romantic places to go in Atlanta but never, did she expect the place to be this divine.
"Beca," Chloe stops to gawk at the scenery around their reserved table outside. Beca made sure to ask for the best spot in the house because that's simply what Chloe deserved. "This is a place I've been dreaming about going to but just haven't gotten the chance to go." Chloe is giving Beca that watery smile again before giving Beca a hug and instead of feeling like she was going to cry, she feels proud that she was able to cross that off her bucket list.
Their host who seats them notices the interaction and gives Beca a silent "awh" with amorous eyes- which only makes Beca blush hard into Chloe's loose and perfected curls in effort to hide the amount the redness.
Chloe is the first to pull away from the hug and when she does, Beca sees a lone tear roll down her cheek and wipes it away before pulling out Chloe's chair for her to sit.
Just like her father said, the restaurant is placed along a gently streaming river, accompanied by a colorful garden of grass, flowers and trees, under the crisp white tents that hand above the balcony of the restaurant. There was even a sidewalk that ran next to the river, along with random park benches just incase you and your date wanted to go for a nighttime stroll.
Like, what even?!
As for the inside, it is just as classy as the outside was. The inviting interior blends wood, brick and ironwork to create a casually elegant atmosphere. The smell of fresh salmon and pine needles radiating through the air.
The place was truly amazing.
They order their food; both ended up picking the grilled Atlantic salmon since it smelt amazing coming from inside the kitchen and also, their waitress claims it to be the best on the menu. So, taking her word, they both chose that, along with their best bottle of champagne to drink.
"I'm fine with water Becs," Chloe chimes in and gushes a smile at Beca when she proceeds to tell the waiter her date is crazy and doesn't know what she's talking about, clearing up that they will take the best bottle of champagne in the house. "You don't know how much that bottle is going to be babe."
The new name does some serious damage to Beca but with some much needed practice, she doesn't make it obvious. She is honestly starting to love this whole pet calling business going on and wouldn't mind hearing that for the rest of her life.
Money was never a big issue with Beca since she was busy working, or constantly playing gigs at Luke's. And now, with Atlantic talking about royalty splits for the new album, as well as Diplo generously paying her hourly for studio time which starts when she gets back to LA, she has money to spend.
And she doesn't mind blowing it all on one night if it means making Chloe the happiest girl alive.
"Don't worry about money tonight," Beca assures with a similar smile, reaching over to grab Chloe's hand on the table. "Tonight is all about you."
Saturday September 17, 7:13 PM
Dinner went better than amazing as they got loss in casual conversations about whatever popped into their heads, feeling a pretty good buzz off the champagne Beca ordered- which was now half empty. It was until the waitress came back with their food and it nearly put them into cardiac arrest with the portion size of each dish.
Living up to expectations as well as keeping the restaurant high on the list, the food tasted phenomenal as they basically licked every last speck of food off their plates. When the waitress asked them if they would be planning on ordering a dessert, Beca and Chloe both shared a look on their faces that showed they'd love to finish the evening off with cake but knew the salmon alone stuffed them. It isn't until the waitress asks if they want a dessert to go and with that question, Beca quickly yanks the menu off the table for her and Chloe to pick a dessert for the both of them.
They ended up both eyeing the white chocolate mousse cake coincidentally and the waitress tells them the wait shouldn't be that long before heading back into the restaurant.
"Thank you for dinner," Chloe smiles genuinely, her big, blue eyes now have a glassy tint over them from the amount of champagne. She reaches across the table to play with one of Beca's hands. "I had a lot of fun tonight."
"Don't quit on me now Beale," Beca teases a smirk. "We have a full chocolate cake to eat and more activities to take on."
"Oh trust me. I'm ready," Chloe's small smile grows wide into a cheeky grin. "Born ready."
"Good." Beca lifts Chloe's hand to place a light kiss over her knuckles. "Hey, can I get a picture of us here?" Chloe seems surprised that Beca is the one asking for the picture and not herself. She wasn't one to be photogenic-or even like being in the pictures Stacie would force her to take but just like everything else, with Chloe it's different. "I just, want to look back at this night forever."
If possible, Chloe's eyes light up even more and she's nodding her head to answer Beca's question. With this, Beca reaches into her back pocket and snatches out her phone to face the camera towards Chloe and her.
Before she clicks the side button on her iPhone, Chloe moves to place a lingering kiss on Beca's cheek, waiting until the picture in taken before removing her lips. Beca and Chloe both smile at the end results of the photo and by that time, their waiter is back with a to-go box and the check.
Saturday September 17 7:45 PM
With Beca's luck and missing the first showing due to being at dinner, the drive in is playing some romantic, chick flick and of course, a scary movie to end. She doesn't know how she's going to be able to sit through two movies, especially coming from this type of genres but being able to sit and watch them with Chloe seems to be out weighing her hatred for the two by a landslide.
They made it to the drive in around seven thirty after taking turns at the nearest convenient store, just in time to see the end of the first movie but neither of them seemed to be interested in it enough to pay attention. The sun was still out, barely, so Beca decides to park the truck in the dirt parking lot close to the designated spot for their size vehicle before getting out some blankets for them to sit on over in the grassy area beneath the screen.
"I don't remember the last time I've been here." Chloe watches Beca spread out a few blankets on the grass before taking a seat and patting the ground next to her for Chloe to join.
Beca from her part and having the view where she is sitting, marvels at every little centimeter on Chloe's body. With her curls now falling delicately out of a loose ponytail, just above a navy blue, long sleeve t-shirt and a pair of simple, white athletic shorts with black flips out to relax her feet after walking in heels all through dinner.
Don't get Beca wrong, she loved the skirt and crop top on Chloe probably more than one could imagine. But right now, seeing Chloe dressed so casual and laid back like she was chilling at home is the the most attractive sight Beca has seen on anyone.
And she's positive no one except for Chloe is going to change that.
Beca moves over on the blanket to give Chloe more room to sit. "I've never even been to a drive in so this is exciting." Beca hates movies. She truly does. But the drive in, after only being here a total of fifteen minutes is already pretty neat to experience. The whole movie outside is relaxing and the fresh air feels amazing as it's not too hot, not too cold.
"No way?!" Chloe gapes at this new information, eyes the size of saucers and Beca nods her head with a chuckle. Chloe is just too adorable. "This is exciting for the both of us then!"
"Very true Beale," Beca snickers with a nudge to Chloe's shoulder before she's gone and smacks the top of Beca's knee for her to open up.
Chloe fills the space in between them when Beca gets the hint, resting her head on the left side of Beca's chest, her back molded directly into Beca's front to the point where she feels her heartbeat. Arms snake around Chloe's torso from behind and runs them across Chloe's arms until she makes it to her hands, where Beca tangles their fingers together to lay delicately over Chloe's lap. Beca pecks Chloe's temple and has a desired effect as she hums into the touch, letting her body relax into Beca's embrace.
The second movie ends up starting and Beca has no idea what the movie is even about. Chloe is trying as best as she could to explain to her that this movie was based off a popular novel about this one guy who becomes paralyzed after being in an accident and this girl ends up taking care of him and eventually they fall in love.
Or so she thinks.
Honestly, Beca majority of this movie isn't even paying attention as she is glued watching Chloe instead since that's a way better show to watch and also less predictable than this rubbish they call romance. Plus, she is loving that Chloe is wrapped up in her arms as she feeds Beca the cake from the restaurant-which should be illegal at how delicious it is and everything is just beyond compare.
It isn't until Chloe gets a little restless towards the middle/end of the movie when she starts to speak up.
"Beca, I have something to tell you and if I don't get it off my chest now I think I might explode," Chloe urges out and Beca lifts her cheek off the top of Chloe's head so she could turn around in her arms, devoting the redhead her full attention.
When they're finally facing each other, Chloe continues, "I haven't felt this way in a long time but I know the feeling when it comes and trust me when I say this, the feeling comes in like a wrecking ball when I'm only around you."
"Okay Miley," Beca snickers as Chloe's tries to hide a smile under a playful eye roll.
"What I'm saying is that being with you makes me feel like I'm skydiving, on a constant adrenaline rush, or at the front of a roller coaster when that first scary drop happens." For the first time, Chloe seem truly timid and it's a strange sight for Beca to see as she's usually familiar with that bubbly and outgoing Chloe who's filled with puppies and rainbows. "You're always constantly on my mind and you make my heartbeat flutter like a hummingbird and I think it's because.." Chloe stops to take a deep breath, and Beca thinks she can her Chloe's heartbeat when she talks. "I think it's because... I love you."
Everything goes mute when those words slip passed Chloe's lips and Beca thinks for a second that the world stop revolving. And she also thinks she might've stopped breathing.
"I know we haven't know each other for a long time but when I talk to you, it feels like I've known you my whole life. And I've tried to ignore these feelings I have towards you but I just can't anymore Beca." Chloe's eyes are laced with so much sincerity Beca can physically feel her emotion through them,"I love you Beca."
Still, everything is muffled and even when Beca tries to open her mouth to say something; she has to immediately close it shut again when nothing comes out. Not even a sound is heard and she's starting to thinks that her body has become completely frozen.
"Please say something," Chloe says when Beca zones out with stone cold in stare and a blank expression. "Anything," she pleads, her voice fragile and hits Beca in her gut at every piece of glass broken off. But still, Beca can't muster up the proper words to come out and say what she has been dying to-she thinks- and Chloe's face doesn't waste a second before her smile transforms into a frown with her eyes lowered into her hands, defeated.
Awful doesn't even come close to how Beca feels when she sees this transformation and mentally kicks herself at the lack of verbal communication she has going on right now. This was the last thing she wanted to happen;last feeling she wanted Chloe to feel.
Enough is a enough when Beca uses her hand to raise Chloe's face up by the bottom of her chin until their eyes meet. "So like, I totally suck and am experiencing major alexithymia. Are you familiar with the word?" Chloe shakes her head, eyes are still shown wounded and it kills Beca to know she was the cause. Sighing, "well, it's the inability to describe emotions verbally." Beca can see Chloe processing this through her head, "it seems like I've been experiencing this a lot when I'm with you and I don't really know why. But instead of telling you, I'll show you."
Giving Chloe absolutely no time to react, Beca hooks her hand around Chloe's neck and brings her in until their lips are pressed together, pouring all the emotions she was unable to express through this single kiss.
Chloe is stiff at first, sort of taken back by the sudden action but soon, with the gentle help of Beca's caressing thumb across her jawline, she begins to kiss her back. It's not rough, it's not slow.
It's perfect.
Breaking away from the kiss, Beca's mouth now cold where Chloe's lips were, "I love you too," Beca says this as an exhale, not realizing how breathtaking it would be saying this for the first time ever. "God, so much it should honestly scare me….but it doesn't. Not in the slightest Chlo."
Chloe's eyes still remain closed from the kiss but even under the moon's glow, Beca can see her lip doing that trembling thing again and does the only thing that comes to mind when catching this.
She kisses her again. But this time when Beca does, Chloe's kiss is salty and wetter than usual but nonetheless still able to have Beca gasping for air when she finally pulls away.
Tears are evident on Chloe's cheeks as the streams from each one shimmers under the light. "You cry an awful lot," Beca teases with a wink as she wipes Chloe's cheeks until they're dry and receives a half giggle, mixed when some sort of choked up sob and her eyes are pooling with the next rounds of tears. "But I mean it Chlo. With you, nothing is scary about the word love as you make me feel safe and secure. I love you Chloe Beale."
"And I love you Beca Mitchell," Chloe wheezes out a few more adorable crying noises before she is the one leaning into Beca doing the kissing and kissing her with so much passion that if Beca was standing, her knees would give out.
Ironically when their lips fall in sync with each other, the movie on screen so happens to have the main characters kissing in the same romantic way, similar to how Beca and Chloe are doing now and the music from the movie adds to moment as kissing and being here with Chloe makes Beca feel like she is living in a real life fairy tail.
And it's fucking awesome.
Beca doesn't try to hide how winded she is when Chloe is the first to separate but the space between them almost nonexistent as their noses are still touching. "So I guess I should update my Facebook status huh?" Chloe's smile is immediate as the corners of her lips twitch up against Beca's and nods her head and steals a few more pecks before sitting back to lean her head on Beca's shoulder.
"Can I get a picture?" Chloe's already nodding before Beca can fully get the sentence out.
"Of course. Just let me fix myself so it doesn't look like I just got done crying." Chloe rubs her eyes in hope to get rid of the puffiness and wipes away the wetness on her cheeks and still, Beca is straight baffled at Chloe's beauty after she gets done crying.
It seriously wasn't even fair.
Beca pulls out her phone first to take the picture- thank god for snapchat and the front flash because it would've been a struggle without it. As she focuses the camera on them, Chloe tilts Beca's chin until they're kissing again and she snaps the picture.
Choosing from this one and the one at dinner, both equally great, Beca decides to upload the drive in picture on Instagram for their first, "official date night."
"Distance is hard until you finally get to see them in person and everything else magically seems to disappear after that. 2000 miles ain't got nothing on us chloboxo"
Once everything on the photo is ready to upload, she presses the post button and sees her and Chloe's photo show up on her feed.
She knows she is going to be in for a mouthful come tomorrow morning once her fans start to find out-if they haven't already. But she will worry about that when the time comes. Now, she just wants to enjoy the rest of her night with Chloe with nothing else on her mind.
"Now come here and cuddle with me." Chloe pulls Beca by her waist into her embrace and switches their positions so that Beca is now lying in between her legs.
Beca's heart rate increases drastically and she isn't really sure if it is the amount of closeness between she and Chloe or the creepy, opening credits music playing through the screen's speakers. Either way, she clings onto Chloe's arms that are snug around her waist after tugging the other blanket she brought up to her chin, bracing herself for the show she is about to endure.
"Don't worry baby," Chloe cooes with only minimum amusement and Beca can tell she is teething a pretty impressive grin at her skittish behavior from feeling the rise in her cheeks but can't find it in herself to look back and check without tearing her eyes off the screen. With her luck, something will jump scare her and give her a heart attack. "I'll protect you."
And Beca usually won't show this side of her unless she is with Stacie, wanting to keep her badass image alive, especially with Chloe. But now, with her seeking comfort in Chloe, she feels safe and allows her shield to go down.
And if this whole cuddling thing with Chloe is what she gets in return for watching scary movies, she's not entirely opposed to making this a more frequent thing to do.
Just as long as she has Chloe.
Sunday September 18, 9:12 AM
Beca wakes up the next morning feeling on top of the world. She feels invincible and it's almost a too good to be true type of feeling when she logs into her computer and heads straight to the "about you" section on her Facebook page.
Not even a minute later after changing her settings and hitting save, she hears her phone vibrate on the table next to her bed.
Sunday September 18, 9:14 AM
C: Oh look at that. Just got a notification about this Beca girl wanting to be in a relationship with me. Weird...
C: Should I accept or deny it? ;)
B: I think you should confirm it so I can show the rest world how lucky I am
C: Hm, tempting ;)
After refreshing her news feed on Facebook, a new post from her name shows up in bold, dark blue font with both her and Chloe's profile pictures side by side.
"Beca Mitchell is now in a relationship with Chloe Beale September 18, 2016"
Beca blinks a few thousand times to make sure what she saw was actually what she is reading and sure enough, that one particular post doesn't seem to fade away.
C: Am I going to have to shut off my notifications for today now that I'm dating DJ extraordinaire and super sexy Beca Mitchell? ;)
B: I'm not going to lie, especially with my phone already starting to go off by the second now, that wouldn't be a bad idea haha
B: We can read all the comments people say together :-)
C: That sounds like a perfect plan :)
C: I can't believe we are dating. How did I get so lucky?
B: I don't know Beale but I think we should hit up Vegas soon with the route you're going in ;-)
C: As long as I have my girlfriend by my side I'll go anywhere :)
C: So this morning I am kinda booked with my online class I have to do :(
C: Am I still picking you up for lunch?
B: Yes, I just gotta talk to my dad and see what his plans are for today then we should be all good :-)
C: Okay cool! Just text me when everything is set :)
B: Will do.
B: Now get to studyin' nerd :-P
C: I will ;)
C: I love you!
B: I love you too :-)
Beca doesn't know when the words will ever not punch her in the gut with pure happiness and honestly, she never really wants the feeling to go away. It was just all too surreal and something she wants to never get tired of saying.
Beca accidentally reads a few of the comments that or piling up under her relationship status but in her defense, she hasn't turned of her notifications yet and her eyes just managed to slip and read a few of them.
"I take it the date went well. You guys are a beautiful couple. Happy for you two." This comment is from her dad and she has to remind herself to thank him for his wonderful idea to take Chloe for their first date.
Other things written on Beca's profile are her fans coming in by the second dropping their thoughts in the comments on her newly changed Facebook status.
"Oh my Goodness you two are too cute!"
"Goals! They're the definition of goals!"
"Who knew Beca had a thing for redheads?"
"So freaking CUTTEE!"
"Bechloe guys! I told you it would happen!"
"REBECA MITCHELL YOU BETTER CALL ME RIGHT NOW!"
Wait a second. This comment wasn't from a fan. In fact by the use of her full name, it was from a very angry Stacie Conrad.
And also, why the Hell was she up so early in the first place?
Her phone buzzes in her hand in the matter of seconds before she reads Stacie's name on the screen.
Closing her eyes in preparation of what's about to come, "hello-"
"When were you going to tell me Chloe and you pulled the DTR card?!" Beca doesn't even have the chance to welcome her friend before she starts to get lectured. "And why was Facebook the first to know before ME?!
Beca rubs her eyes at the screaming because it's way too early to be talking at this volume. It should be a goddamn crime actually. "Run by me what DTR is?"
"Define the relationship duh." Stacie says dumbly, as if Beca should've already known that.
"God, you and Chloe are like fucking clones with your need to abrevi every damn word," she scoffs, rolling her eyes. "Yeah we did. Last night actually."
"Did you ask her? What happened? How was the date? Did you guys kiss again?"
The amount of questions are throwing Beca off balance of she being honest. She hasn't even had her morning coffee so all this was a lot too handle. "Well, we see at the drive in watching the movie when all of a sudden she told me that she loved me-"
"OHMYGOD." Beca is cut off by a high pitched squeal that causes her to pull the phone away from her ear before she ends up going deaf and gradually returning it back after she's sure Stacie's shrieks are finished. "Then what happened?!"
"I told her I loved her too-"
"BECA!" Another piercing squeal is heard through the line and seriously, Beca thinks she can hear a permanent buzz in her ear now, "it's about damn time! My best friend has a girrrrlllfriend. My best friend has a girlllllllllfriend," Stacie sings in a teasing tone and Beca throws her face into her pillow to hide the embarrassment she feels even through the phone.
"You're just as nauseating in a different state as you are in person," Beca grumbles out into her pillow and saying this only causes Stacie to laugh harder, which then turns into an obnoxious cackle. "Why are you up so early anyways? And being more annoying than you usually are?"
"Sorry for being excited that my friend is tied down after all these years. Are you sure you even know what sex is?" Beca's thumb twitches as she is tempted to hang up on Stacie if she continues with this, "and to answer your question, I just got home like….. an hour ago."
"Are you drunk?"
"No I'm not. Maybe I have a buzz but nothing bad. My uber driver though that took Amy and I home was a total hunk and I decided to have a little fun with him before he dropped me off."
"You're ridiculous." Beca shakes her head laughing and tosses the pillow down next to her.
"And you're lucky I don't fly down there and kick your tiny ass for letting me know about you and Chloe after Facebook does!"
"I thought you would be sleeping not hooking up with some uber dude! You know you're the first to know everything Stace."
"Damn should be," Stacie scoffs. "I can't wait to see you tomorrow though. I've missed you way too much and need my Beca fix."
"I miss you too dork."
This is true. Beca misses Stacie a lot and can't wait to be with her comes tomorrow afternoon; she's her best friend. But the thought of leaving Chloe here kills her.
Worst of all, they'd have to go back to talking online or through messages and though Beca loves talking to Chloe any chance she gets-whether through Skype, on the phone or texting, she'd much rather prefer a conversation face to face.
She just wishes things could be easier for the both of them.
Sunday September 18, 9:54 AM
Beca tries her hardest not to show how bummed she is that today is her last day in Georgia, and while Chloe is busy doing school work, the amount of time she has to spend for her last day is dwindling down quicker than Beca can even grasp.
And quite frankly, she'd love to spend every second of her remaining day in Atlanta with Chloe but knows that isn't possible.
She also doesn't want to be a buzz kill around her dad and Shelia since for them as well, it is their last day to hang out with her before she is back in California. So, she puts on her best attempt at a fake smile before heading into the kitchen for lunch and joins her father in the kitchen.
"Hey dad," Beca greets through a post sleep yawn.
Her dad tears his gaze off the newspaper in his hands and offers Beca a stretching smile, "hey you." He sets the newspaper off to the side. "How was your date last night?"
Once Beca sees that her dad made some coffee and pours herself a cup, she joins him at the table. "It was good. I ended up falling asleep midway through The Conjuring 2, not that I cared because it was fucking creepy as shit and if I watched it any longer, I'd for sure have some fucked up dreams."
Her dad chuckles, "you were never a big fan of scary movies."
"Nope. I try to stay far away from those but Chloe loves them so let's see how that goes."
"Speaking of Chloe, how are you two doing lately?" her dad starts with a smile and Beca already feels the fluttering in her stomach.
"We are kinda sorta….dating and stuff," Beca says casually with a shrug, the giddiness running through her veins kept tamed for now.
Her dad gave her an earnest smile when Beca's failed attempts to keep the fluttering at the minimum made her blush shyly. "Good for you guys. Like I said, you two make a lovely couple."
Beca swoons at the new label. She still can't wrap her head around the fact she and Chloe are now an item. "Thanks dad. I love her," Beca didn't actually mean to say this out loud. She was more just thinking about it in her head but ended up slipping via word vomit.
She just hopes he doesn't think she is crazy for already popping out the "L" word a month into knowing the girl.
"You think I didn't already see that?" her dad snickers, taking a drink out of his own coffee mug. "Whenever you talk about Chloe, you smile the entire time and when you aren't talking about Chloe, I know sure as hell you are thinking about the girl as you sport the same cheesy grin on your face. If that doesn't scream love I don't know what the Hell does."
"Why don't you stay with her tonight?" her dad suggests and Beca is taken back by this at first. "Enjoy your last day here with your girlfriend." He doesn't seem upset or bothered.
"But…" Beca starts but finds herself at a loss for words. "What about you?"
"Oh come on Becs. I can tell you'd rather be spending your last day with her than me," he laughs so Beca knows he isn't truly upset with her wanting to spend time with Chloe. "Aren't you sick of me yet? I know I would be if I had to spend two days with my pops." Beca manages to snicker a little bit, just picturing three days with her grandpa. She loved him but boy, was he a hoot and a half. "I loved being able to spend time with you and I hope this isn't just a one time thing but enough is enough for a weekend."
"You sure? We planned on eating lunch and hanging out for a bit but we can do dinner or something."
"No," Her dad firmly declines. "Go hang out with your girl."
Beca's body light up at the thought of hanging out with her girlfriend all day long. She just had to find a way to casually bring it up without it making it seem like she's inviting herself.
"Thanks dad." Beca gets up from the chair to put her mug in the sink before exiting the kitchen.
"There is one condition kiddo," Beca almost makes it out until her dad reels her back in. He continues when Beca is back leaning on the door frame and he is doing that weird thing with his eyebrows again that Beca knows is up to no good. "I get to meet her."
Beca throws her head back with a whine. A real life, child's whine. She knew he wanted to meet Chloe from the first day he saw her dropping Beca off but come on. This is two days later and Beca doesn't even know if Chloe would be comfortable meeting her father so early on. She really didn't need to scare Chloe away for good by asking her to meet her family all of a sudden.
For Christ sakes, they just made it official like, two hours ago.
"That is if she wants Becs." Her dad's features on his face morphs into more of a serious demeanor rather than teasing once he sees the flash of panic in Beca's eyes. "I'm not rushing to meet her if she's not ready. I just want to meet the girl that has my daughter acting like a goof all the time."
Beca smiles because duh. It is so true. Getting to know Chloe has brought out the more happy side of Beca instead of her usual closed off, grumpy side her dad was most familiar with. All this smiling she is doing is probably shocking and eye opening for him.
At least it would only be her dad meeting Chloe. Not Shelia there too. Her step mom isn't as bad as Beca judged her by but she also, Beca's pretty sure, doesn't even know that she is bisexual-unless Sheila has been on Facebook lately, which Beca thinks she hasn't. So avoiding that whole coming out thing (again) would have to wait until another time when Beca isn't only in Georgia for three days.
"I'll run it by her." Her dad's face lights up at the possibility of meeting Chloe and Beca's heart is just pumping with so many emotions at the same time that's it's almost a little overwhelming.
Chloe meeting her dad isn't something Beca is too worried about. Of course he's going to like Chloe-scratch that, love Chloe because really, who wouldn't?
The thing she is worried about is how Chloe's going to react with Beca already dropping the family bomb on her and they haven't even been dating a full day. Part of Beca doesn't even think Chloe will react much to this suggestion, calming that she is friendly and open to meet literally almost anybody with a face and two arms.
Welp, there's only one way to find out.
Sunday September 18, 12:30 PM
Beca uses this time alone to start working on a few beat mixes for the album so she can show Diplo once they get into the studio Tuesday morning. This weekend was quite enjoyable not having to stress about getting her school work done or constantly on the phone with Diplo's manager to talk hours just spit balling ideas for the new album.
She got to chill, listening to past albums of his again and a lot of other DJs to get a feel for the right taste in the EDM world. It's way different from picking two songs and blending them together on a hundred dollar program through her computer but it's also exciting and new that she gets to come up with creative ideas on her own without building from another artist's.
Of course she knows that once she gets back to LA, things are going to take off like a rocket ship and her life will become just one big ball of chaotic nonsense. But Beca knew this was going to be the whole package deal when signing on to all of this when she first wanted to become a producer.
Don't get her wrong, she's stoked to get things started but part of her-majority- is nervous that she'll end up fucking something up like she usually does.
Happy thoughts Beca.
Positive thoughts.
Speaking of happy thoughts, Beca feels her phone vibrate next to her on the bed and smiles when she see Chloe's name. Removing her earphones off her head to wrap around her neck, she smiles into the phone when she balances the device between her ear and shoulder.
"Hey you." She moves her laptop off her lap to the side and brings her knees up to her chest.
"Hey! What are you doing?" Chloe's voice already makes Beca's heart feel like it's running a marathon with how fast it's thumps. It's only been three hours and she already missed that sweet, bubbly voice.
"I'm just handing out, coming up with some new beats for the album so I can run them by Diplo when I get back to work."
"Oh that's exciting! I can't wait to hear what you are coming up with!" Chloe's voice says it all and Beca blushes into the speaker, something Chloe always seems to make her do nowadays. "So I just finished all my classes and assignments online so I have the rest of the day to kill. Are you ready to go to lunch?"
Okay, here's part one of this process, "yeah about that..." Beca starts, awkwardly fumbling around with the cord to her headphones. "So this is kind of weird to ask since it's your house and all, but I'm pretty sure my dad is kicking me out of his house to go hang out with you."
"What are you saying?" Chloe's voice hints suspicion mixed with a little bit of amusement.
Beca gulps down the forming knot in her throat nervously. "I was wondering if maybe I could crash at your place tonight and maybe, if you want, take me to the airport tomorrow afternoon?" why was Beca so nervous all of a sudden? This is her girlfriend for crying out loud and it's normal to be asking this stuff. "It's totally….cool if like, you don't want to do that or whatever."
"Beca are you crazy? Of course you can stay over silly! I'd wanting nothing more than to spend your last day here with you."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes Beca. A thousand times yes!" Chloe basically shirked into the phone. "Aubrey has been gone all weekend at clinicals so it's a little lonely here. Plus, I want all the time I can get with you before LA steals you away from me."
Well, at least that part is done and over with, "alright cool. I was thinking we can get some stuff from the store and make dinner for tonight. Just like I promised."
"Yay!" Chloe's excitement is making Beca's body buzz with the same amount. This girl is just straight impossible sometimes. "Yes that sounds awesome! I can pick you up from your dad's house and we can go to the store straight from there."
"Sounds good," Beca shakes her head with a laugh at Chloe's excitement but quickly remembers a certain proposal from her father. Now it's time for the big guns. "So I was wondering..." Beca drags out, her palms are sweaty and she can feel her heartbeat boom in her throat.
"Yes?"
Taking a deep breath, "my dad wants to meet you but I totally understand if you aren't comfortable with meeting him yet and he understands too but he really just wants to meet you and I told him it's a fast demand to ask but he's still bent on it. I totally understand if you don't want to do that and he will understand too." Beca rushes out through a single breath that leaves her panting after she's done.
There's a pause of torturing silence that's eating Beca alive by the bones and she's about to tell Chloe to forget everything she just said until Chloe speaks up again, "I would love to meet your dad Becs!" Beca listens very carefully for any hesitation or uneasiness in Chloe's tone but finding none, she feels her body start to relax, relieved that she didn't run for the hills at the mention of meeting her dad. "I mean, it makes sense since I'll be there anyways and plus, I want to."
Beca is glad Chloe isn't around because she is smiling way too big for comfort and it's to the point where her cheeks are starting to sting. "Okay cool. I'm sure he's going to be bouncing off the walls when he finds this out. Hasn't even met you and already he's your biggest fan."
Chloe snorts a laugh. "We all know you're my biggest fan."
Beca shrugs even though Chloe clearly can't see. "Very true."
"Well are you ready now?"
"For the most part yeah. I just need to pack my bathroom stuff and make sure I have everything but other than that, I'm good to go."
"Okay!" Chloe chirps and Beca can hear the sound of her truck beeping in the background when she opens the door. "I'll come now then!"
"Sounds good. Just send me a text and I'll come out."
"Okay I'll be there soon!"
Chloe's POV next chap :)