To say that Aubrey's worried would be beyond an understatement. She hasn't seen or heard from Beca since she ran into Beca and Chloe in the coffee shop over a week ago. She's tried not to be overbearing, but she sent cute little messages the first few days knowing Beca still needs to wrap her head around Chloe being back in her life, but after a few days of not hearing anything she starts texting more often, and then calling, but Beca never answers, not even the 'please just let me know you're alive' texts she's sent in the last two days.

She hasn't seen Chloe either, but they've been texting. At least she knows Chloe's okay (As okay as she can be knowing that the girl that she's in love with is in love with her best friend). Chloe hasn't heard from Beca either, but then Chloe hasn't made an effort to contact the younger girl. Aubrey's still trying to wrap her head around this whole thing too, and she's sure that Chloe is in the same boat.

Yesterday Aubrey banged on Beca's dorm room door for an hour until Beca's roommate, Leah, informed her that she hasn't seen Beca in a week either.

Aubrey's currently pacing back and forth in her living room, not even thinking about the fact that she should be in class right now, or that she's missed five classes in the last two days. She's terrified that something horrible has happened to her girlfriend and can't stop picturing her lying dead in a ditch somewhere. She shakes the image out of her head.

God, she would give anything just to be holding Beca right now. She needs to feel her, her heartbeat; she needs to inhale the smoky pine and toasted coconut scent that is so unique and so Beca, she needs to hear Beca whispering that she loves her into her ears because she's so terrified that Beca's going to leave her for Chloe, and she doesn't even know what she would do if that were to happen.

When her phone chimes an hour later, she practically dives for it, hoping it's Beca.

It's Chloe.

Beca just showed up at my place.

Aubrey's about to respond when her phone chimes again. Another text from Chloe.

I don't even know how she knows where I live.

Her phone chimes again before she can respond.

She looks like she wants to yell at me.

And again.

I'll send her your way when she's done yelling.

Aubrey finally manages a response telling Chloe thank you as she collapses onto the couch. At least she knows Beca's alive.

"Beca," Chloe breathes as she opens the door.

Beca just stares her dead in the eyes. Chloe opens the door wider and Beca steps inside. She can feel the anger building up inside her again. She'd just wanted to have a conversation with Chloe, but she can't seem to rid herself of the rage, so she tries to will it away before she opens her mouth.

"Aubrey's been real worried about you," Chloe says softly.

Beca snaps.

"How dare you!" she says. "You have no right to come here and disrupt my life! God, I was finally living again and then there you were, making me feel like I'm back in high school. High school. Those were the worst years of my life and you weren't there!"

"I'm sorry," Chloe says. "I don't know what to say."

"I sent you letters when you left," Beca says. "I figured just because we broke up doesn't mean we couldn't be friends, right? I mean if I could put forth the effort, surely you could do. After all we were friends before we started dating, right? Did you get them?"

"I…" Chloe says. "I got the first one," Chloe says. "I asked my parents to stop forwarding them after that."

Beca nods. "I guess that's better than you getting them," she says, "because I couldn't see how after all those years together, you could read those and still be silent."

"I didn't want you to wait for me," Chloe says. "I mean a part of me did, yeah, but I wanted you to live your life."

"Well you didn't leave me much of a choice," Beca says. "I mean, you were there when my dad left and when my mom was never home because she had to work all the time just to take care of me. And you know I lost Brayden the day I asked you to be my girlfriend. And then you were gone too. The last person in my life and you were gone. And nobody was there. Nobody was there when I had to have three fake teeth put in because Bryant Duncan smashed my face into the steel doors in the gym, knocking them out. Nobody was there when Charlie McGuire and Danny Forbes decided to kick me until I rolled down the stairs and broke three ribs. Nobody was there when Olivia Isles broke every finger in my hand. Nobody was there when Alex Lukowski, Zeb Williams, Mel Ellis and Quentin Norris decided they could fuck the dyke out of me. Nobody was there!"

Beca didn't mean to tell her that much, she didn't mean to tell anybody that much. But it all just came pouring out and before she knew it she was crying and yelling and telling Chloe some of the worst things that had happened to her after Chloe left.

Beca's eyes widen when she realizes exactly what she just said, and runs out. She needs to feel safe, so she goes to the only place she does. Aubrey.

The door is unlocked and she lets herself in. She sees Aubrey stand up from where she was sitting on the couch and Beca slams into her with so much force that it knocks Aubrey back down. Beca's still crying and holding onto Aubrey for dear life, and Aubrey just holds her back, whispering that everything is going to be alright and that she loves her and pressing soft kisses to her head, and Beca can't help but love Aubrey more for it because she knows she's worried Aubrey and she knows she should have responded especially when she got the texts just asking to know that she's alive and she knows Aubrey doesn't deserve that. Hell, she knows Aubrey deserves better than the broken shell of a person she is, but for some inexplicable reason, Aubrey seems to love her, and Beca's holding onto that with everything she is.

What do you think?