So here's the next chapter. I just realized I didn't reply the reviews this time but I will now, it's just that I usually read them on the phone and later come to the laptop and reply, but this time I forgot to do the second part. This chapter goes from sweet-thoughtful-smutty-angsty. Something like that at least.


Chapter 11: Belize.

Months went by quickly, Beca struggling with her own things, but still putting her best in front of Chloe, because she knew if she pulled herself to do that, she'll end up doing it out of obligation. And sometimes, she discovered herself laughing genuinely at something, or messing something up and just thinking okay, I can fix this instead of going into a bunch of depressing thoughts. And she had avoided going back into her antidepressants just like her therapist was about to make her do. So before she realized, it was July, and they were on holidays, so the Bellas and their families -some boyfriends, girlfriends, a couple of three month old children, and an unborn one- went to Belize for a couple weeks.

Traveling with twins that were just three months old wasn't Aubrey's and Jesse's plan, as they just wanted to stay at home until the babies were like a year old, but as there were so many adults to help them with the babies, and to convince them they needed a vacation, they ended up going there. Right in that moment, they had rented a ketch because it seemed like Jessica, Jesse and Frankie -the doctor Ashley had married some time ago- all had learned how to control those when they were younger and had gone on them several times, and Frankie was at the tiller. The twins were one in Emily's arms and the other in Chloe's, as the pair were at the starboard of the ketch drinking margaritas with Stacie, Benji, Jesse, Aubrey, Amy -well, she couldn't drink alcohol now that she was pregnant-, Cynthia-Rose, Jessica and Jeremy -the firefighter Jessica was dating- and Lilly, Grace, Flo, Bumper, Ashley and Bobby -Stacie's boyfriend- were making Frankie company. Beca was enjoying her first glass of alcohol in nine months, close by the first group but in the port. She had been with Chloe and the rest not long ago but then she had went to take a work phone call and then had gone to the other side of the ketch with her margarita, supported on the banister, and enjoyed the wind.

The whole group was having a blast. They had rented that small ketch, that came with a cocktail bar, and they had put music, danced, drank, and now they were sitting on comfortable couches. The group that was with Frankie went back with the other one to sit with them as Frankie stopped the boat for a while to rest, and they were in the middle of the ocean with the sun shining over them. The babies were also enjoying themselves, as they had taken a long nap and were now very awake and smiley, and had proven to be pretty quiet babies for their age, except maybe Anna, who was way more energized and loud, but it was okay. They were now bigger and it was easier now to pick things in them that came from their parents. Anna had her head covered in dark brown curly hair, she had gray baby eyes, very milky skin, Jesse's lips, and in one of Aubrey's old baby photos they had seen some resemblance. Daniel was, very like Jesse physically, except for the nose, that was Aubrey's, and the skin color, that was also very milky. He had his sister's hair and eyes, and had similar factions, height and weight, and loved to just stare in silence observing everything, while his sister loved the attention and giggled and moved a lot. Beca had been on her own for ten minutes, but she seemed fine, so Chloe had let her be, as she knew the brunette liked to enjoy things on her own silence sometimes, because she was used to being alone since very young, and she had learned to like it.

"Beca's not mad at me or anything, right?" Aubrey asked. She and the brunette hadn't seen since April, as only Chloe had went to visit them in NYC one time in June, and Beca had been so busy with work she almost never had dinner at home. Something about a big thing they were doing. Beca had also gotten Emily's first album to come out a couple weeks ago and was already on top of the weekly selling lists for music in LA, NYC and Florida. They had been in Belize for a week now and Beca had seemed very good the whole time, laughing with them and everything, and as it was her first week gone by without needing any med of any kind, she was celebrating with a margarita.

"No, I don't think she wasn't mad when she apologized" Chloe replied "I think she just has some need of being alone for a bit after a week being never alone, you know, enjoy the semi-silence and think on her things."

"Yeah, she has always been like that" Jesse smiled looking at his ex's back for a second "So Em, the album's great!"

"Yeah?" Emily smiled "I almost had a head attack when Beca told me the selling it had had for the first day."

"I almost killed you the first time she missed dinner because of your album" Chloe joked "then I remembered if it wasn't for you, another artist would do, and it passed."

"I wish she had presented David Guetta to all of us" Jeremy said.

"There will be time" Beca had come back and was filling her cup "He and I still have a lot of work to do in August."

"But you've been working with him for months, are you making up mistakes so he has to come back?" Stacie asked winking and Beca smiled.

"No, it just that he came to me not knowing what he wanted to do, just that he wanted to make something big and wanted me on it" Beca replied "and we haven't worked nonstop, I see him maybe several days for a couple weeks and then we take a break, and that's how great ideas come."

"It's an album isn't it?" Bobby asked "Please, tell us."

"But that's obvious" Beca shrugged "my job it's to make that album not to be just another David Guetta bunch of songs putting it in his words. I took a month away from it to focus on Emily's thing exclusively, and he was the one calling a minute ago to ask if we could meet again in August."

"But you said no, right? Your birthday's in August, nobody works on their birthdays if they can avoid it" Chloe said.

"I am working on my birthday, Chlo. I love my job, it's not torture" Beca smiled a bit "I said yes. I was going to pass by anyway, I've let my company in hands of some bunch of idiots who had their holidays before mines so they could take care of the urgent stuff in summer, and now I'm receiving plenty of little doubts emails, so I better check next month before they set fire to one of the studios or something."

"Next time, hire competent people" Flo said smiling warmly.

"They are competent, I personally trained them in LA, but for some weird reason they got so used to working with myself looking over their shoulders they got insecure about working alone. Anyway, they can grow up while I'm enjoying Belize. God, this place is sooo great" she sat beside Chloe and smiled at the baby in her arms, who looked at Beca full of curiosity "Such a cute little person."

Later that night, they were in the hotel, and Chloe got out of the shower to find Beca in their bed, looking at her with such an amount of love Chloe blushed.

"What?" the ginger asked.

"Today's Jackie's birthday" Beca replied "And I've barely felt death inside for a while early in the morning. That's progress, right?" Chloe smiled lying on top of her supported in her forearms.

"I think so." Beca gave her a tiny smile playing with her hair.

"I went to see them right before we came here. And I got my father to pass by today too."

"You're a good aunty" Chloe gave her a peck on the lips.

"I figured if I couldn't save them, I can make sure they aren't forgotten and their resting place is clean and pretty. I thought his soul turned three now, and maybe he would like to have his favorite tale read, so I asked my father to put me on speaker on the phone so I could read it to him and then I talked with my father for hours, and it was pretty nice."

"That's good."

"I think I'm over, Chloe." Chloe looked in confusion "I'm over being sad, and hurt. I mean, that doesn't mean I will just stop all of the sudden because it hasn't ever been a year and fuck it hurts more than anything many days, but what I mean is that I've set my eyes on being better, for you. And I'm seriously trying, okay?"

"Okay. But don't do it for me, do it for you." Chloe said and kissed her deeply. Beca buried her hands on her hair and deepened the kiss, as she moved a knee to put it between Chloe's thighs, and the ginger moaned in her lips.

Beca rolled them over so she was on top and removed Chloe's towel and her pajama -a loose big t-shirt and panties- quickly, kissing Chloe again as she pulled her knee against Chloe's center and her hands stroked Chloe's boobs, and the ginger moaned into the kiss, arching her back and caressing Beca's breasts softly. Beca drew a line of kisses to her breasts and then down between her legs, and started licking her and pulling some fingers inside her as the ginger tried to conceal her screams, closing her eyes tightly and biting her lips, taking a fist of Beca's hair to keep her in place.

"Becs, Becs, I want to come with you" Chloe said suddenly and Beca moved so they were doing a sixty nine, putting her hands on Chloe's ass cheeks to keep liking her, and her own clit in front of Chloe's face.

The ginger smiled and passed a hand around Beca's lower back, down between her ass cheeks, pressed a bit on the brunette's tightest hole -Beca moaned and Chloe's smile widened- and then kept going down until she pulled four fingers suddenly into Beca, who screamed into her own clit, and Chloe moaned as the pulled in and out of her quickly, feeling her tighten around her and helping with her own mouth until they came together.

At one point Chloe was awoken by Beca.

"What?" the ginger asked still asleep.

"Up, we are going to the beach!"

A bit reluctantly, Chloe put her bikini on and a big t-shirt and Beca wore her bikini and an open shirt. They got to the dark beach, only illuminated by some boats, some streetlights that were in the beginning of the beach, and the moon. Beca smiled taking Chloe by a hand and started walking with her by the seashore, getting their feet a bit wet. Chloe hugged one of Beca's arms with her own, intertwining one of their hands and with her other hand griping Beca's elbow.

"This is so beautiful" Chloe commented as they walked in a silence only interrupted by the soft sound of the waves.

"Right? I woke up and the sight from the window was too tempting" Beca smiled kissing her temple.

"Badass Beca Mitchell taking her girlfriend on romantic walks around the beach at two in the morning" Chloe giggled, and Beca's smile widened looking at her.

"You deserve that and more" Beca stated "actually, you deserve all that's good."

Chloe looked at her amused and pulled from her hand to stop. Beca looked at her questioningly, and Chloe just smiled looking at her, before finding her lips in the dark.

"I love you" Chloe whispered when they pulled apart.

"I love you" Beca replied kissing her again "Come."

They laid on the sand looking at the stars, that could be seen perfectly from there, because that beach and hotel were far from the city.

"That's Orion" Chloe whispered pointing at it.

"Yeah... and that's the Polar Star"

They looked at the stars for a while, and Chloe felt in heaven. It was heaven, really, only her and her lover, feeling like they were on top of the world. After a while, they decided to jump into the water, and they were playing with it and laughing like good dorks for a while, until they decided to go back to bed.

Next day, they had planned to go back and do scuba diving, which they had already done a few days back, but they hadn't had a lot of time the other time so now they went with plenty of time. They rented some short sleeved scuba diving swimsuits for all of them, along with the oxygen equipment, and because all of them had done that several times before, not only on that particular holiday but other years, and Jeremy had even participated in some competitions when he was younger and could control the thing a bit, they went on their own to a place they had been told was good to do scuba diving, renting a small sailboat too. The place was full of people doing scuba diving from bigger or smaller boats, so they decided to do two groups and take turns so the groups were easier to control. They were eighteen without counting the children, so they divided in groups of nine, and made it making sure there was always one parent with the kids, because they got fuzzy wherever they couldn't see one of their parents at least. The firsts to get into the water were Aubrey, Jeremy, Frankie, Amy, Bumper, Lilly, Flo, Stacie and Grace, and after them, Beca, Chloe, Jesse, Cynthia-Rose, Bobby, Emily, Benji, Jessica and Ashley.

Beca was with Chloe watching some corals with Chloe, one of their hands intertwined, when she felt Chloe pull strongly and when she looked, she knew something was wrong, because the ginger was hurriedly swimming towards the water, and not in a very stylish way like she usually did. Beca followed quickly and when she got to Chloe the ginger rapidly put her arms around her neck, her face constricted by pain, and she was definitely groaning in pain.

"What's wrong?" Beca asked worried removing the oxygen thing from her mouth.

"My leg!" Beca nodded, put her oxygen provider back in her face and sank to see that leg, as Chloe supported herself on her shoulders because she was in so much pain she couldn't swim properly. Beca saw then that in the part of the ginger's right leg that wasn't covered in the neoprene suit, the calf, was a big would that had some tentacles attached to it, so Beca used her neoprene shirt with her hand underneath to remove them, seeing that it seemed like a jellyfish sting. She looked around and saw what seemed like an enormous bluish jellyfish nearby, so looked for the other friends, and when she saw Jesse, she motioned for him to see the wound and then the jellyfish, and get everyone out of the water, and then quickly swam to the surface.

"You have a jellyfish wound" Chloe was groaning in pain and was getting very pale "can you swim?" Chloe shook her head "okay, I'll take you to the boat." Beca took Chloe by her armpit and, making sure the ginger's head never got into the water, carried her towards the boat's stairs, and when she got there, she screamed for help "Get her up."

Stacie and Bumper had run towards the stairs and nodded taking Chloe by the arms and getting her into the boat, and Beca got up right after, followed shortly after by Jesse and the others.

"What happened?" Stacie asked.

"A jellyfish happened" Beca said kneeling beside Chloe, who was laying on her back with her eyes shut, pain written all over her face as she made all kinds of pained noises and small yells "Bumper, go look for Frankie, hurry" Frankie was the doctor of the group, even if Beca didn't knew what kind of doctor he was really.

"It was a Portuguese Man O' War" Bobby said as the group climbed into the boat "we saw it, it was swimming around, there were a couple of them actually. Is a marine cnidarian, not a jellyfish exactly. A saw a documentary not long ago" he explained seeing his friend's surprised faces.

"How are you feeling sweetie?" Beca asked stroking Chloe's face. The ginger looked like she was about to faint.

"It hurts! Everything hurts!" Chloe cried.

"What happened?" Frankie asked as the others came running, and Aubrey instantly knelt beside her friend.

"Chloe got touched by a Portuguese Man O' War" Beca replied "Frankie, you gotta look at her leg, please."

Frankie nodded and knelt beside her leg, which was swelling quickly.

"Well, it doesn't have tentacles attached" he commented.

"I removed them, but I didn't touch them with my bare hands" Beca said.

"Perfect. Well, it doesn't seem very deep, you took your leg apart quickly Chlo, but there isn't nothing I could do here, really. And I don't know much about this kind of injuries, so the best we can do is hurry up and get back to the harbor."

"I'll go to the tiller" Jesse said taking his son from Amy's arms. Anna was up in Grace's arms sleeping.

"I'm too warm" Chloe groaned "I can't breathe, please take this off me" she said pulling her neoprene shirt and Beca nodded removing it carefully and leaving her in her bikini. Taking the pants off was much harder task because it couldn't touch the injury, but they somehow managed and gave Chloe a towel, so wrapping her in it, Beca put Chloe's head on her lap and tried to soothe her as the ginger kept sweating and making pained noises.

"Just breathe baby, we'll be at the port soon" Beca tried to calm her.

"I can't feel my leg" Chloe whispered.

"Well the poison is supposed to paralyze the fish so that's normal" Bobby said taking a quick look to the injury "it doesn't look that bad Chlo, it's like a burn, it'll heal."

"You'll be okay honey" Aubrey said stroking her arm lovingly.


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