Beca swallowed hard when she finally allowed her eyes to wander and gape at the woman in front of her. Chloe had her by the hand, leading them into a vacant bathroom at the back of the club while their friends remained by the bar.
Chloe's jeans hugged her in all the right places and Beca sucked her lips in her mouth before releasing her bottom lip with a slow rake with her teeth. Beca's eyes traveled upward, following the small dip of Chloe's back to the curve on her sides and Beca wondered what would happen if she just reached over and gently ran her hands up and down those curves.
Just as she was about to open the door to the bathroom, Chloe turned her head to look at Beca and she felt a smirk grow on her lips when she saw her friend gawking in her direction.
"See something you like, Mitchell?" Chloe asked.
Beca quickly averted her eyes and cleared her throat, "Is that a new shirt?"
Chloe looked down at what she was wearing and bit her lip, "Actually, no. I've had it for a while."
Beca nodded nonchalantly, "Oh, I've never seen it."
Chloe smirked as she pushed the door open, "Then again, did I ever really wear a shirt whenever we were together?" the redhead marveled at how quickly Beca's cheeks turned a bright shade of red.
They entered the bathroom and Chloe locked it behind them while Beca checked her reflection in the mirror as a matter of impulse.
Chloe walked up beside her and did the same as she puckered her lips slightly while running her fingers through her hair.
"So, you wanted to talk, right?" Beca asked, her hands gripping at the corners of the sick in front of her. She was nervous, the fact that she had to stop herself from wanting to give in to Chloe was scaring her. Madison was never far from her mind but at the moment, neither was Chloe.
Chloe nodded once she decided her hair was properly in place, "Yeah I think we need to discuss a few things."
Beca nodded and waited for her to continue.
Which Chloe did, "Did you understand what I was trying to say on the bus?"
Beca breathed in deeply through her nose and gently rocked back and forth.
"Somewhat."
Chloe nodded and took the leap of faith, "Alright, well. I love you, Beca. You were right from the start, that someone is going to end up falling for the other, and I guess that someone was me."
Beca blinked and bit her lip. The confession was out in the open, lingering in the air around them. But what Chloe didn't know was that it was Beca who caught feelings first but is that really something she wants to say right now. Beca doesn't want to lead Chloe on if she later decides that she isn't ready, but she does have a right to know that they both got their share of heartbreak. But all she needs is one reason to give in to what she really wants.
"I did too." Beca mumbled, she wasn't familiar with the idea of sharing your feelings so when she actually did it scared her. The idea of getting rejected was frightening but the idea of hurting someone scared her even more. Hurting Chloe was the last thing Beca wanted to do.
Chloe found herself fiddling with the hem of her shirt as she asked softly, "You what?"
"I fell for you too." Beca said more confidently.
A smile grew on Chloe's delicate features as she took a step towards her friend.
"Really?" Chloe asked, she lulled her head to the side as she felt the weight of the world disappear from her shoulders. "So- "
"Chloe this doesn't change anything," Beca felt the need to say, "I'm with Madison..- you can't just decide that now is the time you wanna tell me how you feel."
At that moment, Chloe hoped the floor would swallow her whole.
"Beca, you just said you feel the same way -"
"You had me, Chloe!" Beca smashed her palm against the sink and pushed herself away from it, "But it's like whenever I thought I was getting somewhere with you, you reminded me of the ugly reality: that we were just friends. Madison knows what she wants, she wants me."
Chloe blamed her next move on the tequila shots. Beca was pressed up against the wall and Chloe brought her hands up to rest on the wall beside Beca's head.
"I want you." Chloe felt the tears build up in her eyes, "Just tell me you want me too."
Beca raised her hands to grip onto Chloe's wrists, the air between them was growing thicker and it was making it harder for Beca to breathe. But Beca gently stroked Chloe's wrists with the pad of her thumbs and she watched as Chloe's eyes began to flutter closed. Beca could easily blame all of this on the alcohol Chloe had previously consumed but drunken words were sober thoughts, weren't they?
Beca needed to get off this roller coaster with Chloe, the loops and sudden turns and stops were driving her crazy. So this leaves Chloe with the choice of following Beca off this crazy ride, or deciding to stay for another alone.
Beca was so lost in thought that she didn't realize Chloe was beginning to lean into her.
"Chloe -"
"Just tell me to stop and I will." Chloe whispered as if to not scare her friend away.
Beca could have pushed Chloe away, prevented the kiss from happening but she didn't want to. She stood there while Chloe came closer and closer to her lips, completely unable to move away due to her own self control. When Chloe's lips finally touched hers in a soft and tender kiss, Beca let it happen, reciprocating the kiss almost immediately.
Beca walked into the radio station the next morning, the events that happened the previous night still left a ghost on her lips and a slight twinkle in her eye. She hasn't spoken to Chloe after last night, mainly because she didn't know what to say.
Beca figured she'd get her answers by coming into work an hour early. Maybe seeing a certain blonde would clear her mind.
"Hey, raccoon." Madison greeted Beca from behind a shelf and a crate that leveled over her head before she was able to put it down on a nearby table, "Doesn't your shift start in an hour?"
Beca walked over, her hand resting at the back of her neck, "Uh, yeah. I just needed to talk to you."
Madison slipped her hands in her back pockets and nodded.
"What about?"
Beca's mouth was agape and she blinked rapidly as she tried to form a coherent sentence.
"I-I don't know. I'm confused, I'm lost. But I really like you it's just that-"
"Does this have anything to do with Chloe?" Madison asked, she looked up at Beca through her eyelashes as she waited for the dreaded reply.
Beca simply nodded.
Madison sighed but reached over to gently rub Beca's arms, "Then stop complicating yourself and go to her."
Beca frowned, "I don't want you to think I don't like you, because I do-"
"I know you do." Madison smiled, "That's the point exactly. You like me. And you love her."
"I love her."
"I know you do."
"No, you don't understand. I love love her."
"Chloe, how many versions of love are there?" Aubrey rolled her eyes, but she smiled at her best friends behavior as she watched the redhead pace up and down the rehearsal space.
Chloe came to a stop in front of the white board Aubrey had been trying to write on for the last ten minutes before Chloe announced the elephant in the room.
"There's two kinds. The in-the-middle-of-sex love you and the soulmate love you."
Aubrey crossed her arms and leaned against the piano, "I'm guessing you're talking about the latter?"
Chloe smiled brightly and nodded happily, "Studies show that you meet your soulmate before the age of 21."
Aubrey tilted her head, "Interesting. Where'd you read that?"
"Facebook."
"Alright." Aubrey chuckled, she reached over and gently squeezed Chloe's shoulder, "Can we just get back to organizing the routine before practice?"
"Fine." Chloe smiled.
They were just about to go over the choreography when the doors behind them were pushed open, a frantic looking Beca stormed inside.
"Mitchell? Practice isn't until four."
Beca ignored Aubrey and made her way over to Chloe who visibly relaxed as she watched Beca approach her.
"I thought you had a shift at the station." As happy Chloe was to see Beca before their practice, she was slightly confused as to why Beca was here rather than the radio station.
Beca shook her head and smiled passed her obvious nervousness that she was sure was easy to detect. Her hands were fidgeting, her palms were sweaty. She had practiced what she wanted to say on the walk over to the rehearsal space but now that she was here standing in front of Chloe, her mind went blank and she had forgotten how to speak.
So she didn't speak at all.
Aubrey's eyebrows shot up high and her hand came up to cover her mouth in shock as she watched Beca surge forward and press her lips firmly against Chloe's while the redhead hummed in surprise but of course was quick to reciprocate the kiss.
Beca didn't know if this was the right move, but she didn't care. All she knew was that she felt at home again in Chloe's strong arms. She'd been lacking something in her life that she couldn't decipher before but now that she was here, kissing Chloe with utmost certainty, she realized that Chloe was all it took to fill that emptiness.
Chloe smiled in the kiss, her arms were dangling around Beca's neck and she moaned softly when she felt a pair of delicate hands gently squeeze her hips.
"I love you." Finally, Beca found her voice as she pulled away. "Like, a lot, dude."
Chloe giggled softly and brought her fingers up to touch Beca's lips, the tips of each digit sliding from Beca's lips to rest on her cheek.
"I love you a lot too." Chloe laughed, dipping forward to press her lips on Beca's for one more kiss before Aubrey cleared her throat from behind them. With the reminder that they weren't alone, the pair broke apart and slowly turned to face the blonde who stood with her hands on her hips and an amused smirk on her face.
"Sorry to ruin the moment you two were having but we have a competition to prepare for before practice later."
Chloe giggled and hid her face in the crook of Beca's neck before placing a kiss on the skin there, whispering a "I'll see you during practice".
Beca nodded and smiled, her eyes moved to Aubrey and she brought her hand to the back of her neck where she rubbed it nervously.
"I'll uh...see you guys later."
Chloe walked over to stand beside Aubrey while Beca made her way towards the door.
Aubrey sighed as she waited for the door to click close, fully prepared for the high-pitched squeal that was soon to follow.
As predicted, Chloe clinged onto Aubrey's arm as she released said squeal. Aubrey allowed Chloe to hop around in glee for a moment before she calmed her best friend down.
"Alright, that's enough." Aubrey laughed.
Chloe's face beamed with a smile and her arms were out stretched, unsure of what or where to put them but they wouldn't stay still.
"I- there are no words, Aubrey! I mean, after last night, I was hoping for this to happen but now that it actually did, I can't believe it. I was so scared I was gonna lose her, Bree."
"And I'm happy you didn't, Chlo." Aubrey's smile quickly faltered as she gritted her teeth threateningly, "But if she fucks up, I'll make sure she doesn't have hands to mix with."
Chloe swatted Aubrey's arm, "Put the scary-best-friend act away. I hope this means that you'll at least try to be civil with her."
Aubrey scoffed, "You can't expect a vampire and a werewolf to be friends. It's against our nature."
Chloe laughed, "That's quite the metaphor. Which one is she?"
"The vampire," Aubrey stated, "because she sucks the life out of me."
Chloe bit her lip and picked up the marker from on top of the piano, flipping it in the air and catching it as she walked passed Aubrey, she said "Weird, me too. But in a more...intimate way."
Aubrey blinked and pressed her fingers against her throat when she felt her lunch making its way up after Chloe's knack of oversharing.
"TMI, Chloe!"
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