Thank you again for the reviews! Another little-y of a chapter.

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Beca stood behind a pillar in the lobby of the hotel and casually glanced down at her phone. 7.25. She was early. She was never early. For anything. But she'd had nothing on her mind over the past few hours since she and Chloe had agreed to meet at 7.30 to go on a date together. A date! She never imagined she'd ever end up going on a date with her best friend. A date sounded so formal. They knew each other so well that having a date was almost pointless. They'd had dinner together loads of times before. In fact, Beca's payday was always the evening that they dressed up and went out for dinner. Just the two of them. Once a month. But never did they ever think of it as a date. Then again Beca hadn't realised that Chloe felt the same way she did, so naturally she'd been stunned to hear Chloe utter those words to her.

"I…how long have you had feelings for me?"

Beca felt her breath catch in her throat as her heart raced. That wasn't exactly the response she'd been expecting from her best friend after she revealed her deepest secret. Her best case scenario would have been to have Chloe smile and pull her into a hug telling her she felt the same way. But the redhead hadn't, instead choosing to stare at her in shock. A sudden wave of dread washed over Beca as she shrugged, shaking her head slightly with a loud exhale, "I dunno…like…a year?" She hadn't meant to sound so embarrassed, and to her dismay she could feel tears building up in her eyes. She didn't cry. That wasn't her style. But tears had been rolling down Chloe's cheeks, having been so frustrated with her when she had first followed her into their hotel room. As she saw Chloe's expression drop Beca began to panic. She'd done the very thing she'd so desperately not wanted to do – she'd made things weird.

Beca saw Chloe's chest rise and fall a couple of times as she took a couple of deep breaths, clearly trying to process what was being said, "Why didn't you say anything?" the redhead answered quietly and the tone of her hurt voice broke Beca's heart. She had never intended on hurting her by keeping her feelings a secret. No, her intention had been to keep their life as normal as possible which is why she hadn't said anything before now. Chloe had to understand that, surely.

"Because, I like the life we have now…" Beca hadn't meant to reveal a whisper of a smile, but this was the first time she'd revealed to her best friend just how much she valued living with her in New York. "I didn't want to ruin it by telling you how I felt and things getting weird between us. Which, by the way, they now are…" Beca swore under her breath as she began to panic, worried that every word she spoke was just making things worse. She had to make things right. She had to bring things back to the way they were before, "Let's…let's just…forget I said anything and go back to normal okay?" and Beca made her way around the bed over to the hotel door not daring to look at her best friend.

"Beca wait!" Beca froze as Chloe called out to her. Her heart skipped a beat as she turned to look at the redhead. She held her breath as she saw Chloe's bright blue eyes looking over at her, "I have feelings for you too." Beca couldn't move. Chloe's words rang in her ears as she tried to process what her best friend had just said. She felt the same way? Beca'd had an inkling that during college Chloe may have had some feelings for her, but she presumed it had just been how Chloe was in college. She remembered the odd feeling she'd felt when Chloe had announced to the Bella's that she would have to retake her final year of college, which was the rest of the Bella's sophomore year. She'd felt a sense of relief and joy, having struggled to imagine what life with the Bella's would have been like without the redhead, who had stuck up for her and supported her so much in the first year. Had it really been to stay with The Bella's as she'd later admitted, or had Chloe purposefully failed to stay with her? "and I can't forget what you just said. I don't want to."

Beca tried to process what Chloe was saying. What they were both saying. She swallowed loudly, her voice catching in her throat as she mustered a quiet "right" under her breath. So…they both had feelings for each other. They had both admitted it to each other. Neither of them were running from each other. And all of a sudden, as Beca stared into Chloe's bright blue eyes she felt a nervous smile appear on her face. A smile that seemed to give Chloe a breath of life, and the redhead also smiled as the two women held each other's gaze. Beca felt her heart skip a beat as Chloe quietly broke the silence in the room with one simple question, "So what do we do now?"

Beca looked up from her phone as she noticed a flash of red hair in the periphery of her vision and her heart skipped a beat as she watched Chloe approach her, somewhat nervously. It was as though she was seeing her best friend for the first time, and her stomach twisted as Chloe smiled sweetly at her, exhaling loudly, "Hi!" she aired breathlessly and Beca couldn't help the grin that swept across her face as she inspected the woman's appearance.

"Wow," Beca couldn't help but open with as she checked Chloe out. The redhead had decided on black skinny jeans that emphasised the shape of her ass, a blue top that emphasised her bright blue eyes that sparkled in joy at the attention she was getting, and the look was finished with her favourite black leather jacket and a pair of black heels. Beca was relieved that she had also decided to go with wearing heels, having not wanted her best friend to tower over her whilst they were walking down the street together. She smiled as she noticed that Chloe had opted to have her red hair in loose curls, a style that Beca had once told her was her favourite. Finally her eyes quickly glanced at Chloe's lips, her mouth becoming dry as she approved of the woman's choice in bright red lipstick. "You look…hot." The brunette couldn't help blurting out and she saw Chloe's cheeks flush red at the complement.

She watched Chloe look down at her outfit with a shy shrug, before looking Beca up and down with a big grin, "Thanks. You're looking pretty hot yourself." The redhead said with a flirty wink as she and Beca began walking out of the hotel together, nervously. Beca didn't know what to or say. She'd never really been on a first date before, and she certainly had never been out with someone that she knew as well as she knew Chloe. And she definitely hadn't gone out on a date with another woman! She crossed her arms as she walked beside her best friend, the two making their way down the steps of the hotel and to the busy street that ran across the end of it.

"I feel like we're sneaking around." She heard Chloe giggle to her quietly and Beca smiled, looking down at her feet as they walked, ensuring her voice was low, "Well technically we're sneaking out of this hotel hoping not to be noticed so I guess in a way we are sneaking ar-"

Beca froze as she bumped into their Australian friend, who had turned off the street to make her way up the steps to the hotel. Fat Amy looked at the two of them in surprise, "-Hey, where are you two off to?"

"Uhh…" was all Beca could muster as she looked over awkwardly at Chloe, desperately trying to think of something to say.

"We're going to that bistro down the street." The redhead said simply and Beca breathed a sigh of relief. Exactly. That was exactly where they were going. No lies here.

To the women's dismay, the blonde smiled, completely oblivious to what she had just stumbled upon, "Oh cool, wait here I'll just go grab my bag, I'm starving!" and Beca watched as Amy began to make her way up the steps of the hotel.

Beca noticed Chloe's panicked expression and before she knew what she was doing she called out to the Australian, stoping the blonde in her tracks, "Oh…no Amy…we're going..." The blonde looked at them and Beca hated to have to continue, but she did, "Together... Just the two of us..." Still a blank expression remained on Amy's face as she tried to process what Beca was saying, and so the brunette finished her sentence with a simple "Alone."

Fat Amy screwed up her face slightly in confusion, "Oh." but then as she looked from Beca to Chloe and back again, seeing how dressed up they were, and Beca's 'will you just leave us alone' expression, and she finally realised what the brunette meant, "Oh! Oh my God seriously?"

Beca scrunched her face up as the Australian's face lit up in excitement, and she prayed that Amy wouldn't use their nickname, "Please don't make this weird…" she begged, but the blonde didn't appear to pick up the signals, dashing down the couple of steps and back to her friend's.

"I knew you guys were doing it! That's why we gave you two the double! We'd all been speculating but I knew something was going on between you two, no matter how many times you've told me it's been nothing, Beca!"

Beca's heart lurched. She knew there had been a greater reason why she and Chloe had ended up with the double room. She was beginning to wonder if Amy had booked the double room on purpose, figuring that an English speaking country would make it easier to organise a change in room. Beca glanced at Chloe who seemed to look rather less anxious now that Amy was likely to leave them to go to dinner alone, and it made the brunette relax, "See that's the thing Amy, up until now it has been nothing. This is actually our...first date."

The broad grin didn't leave the Australian's face once as she nudged Beca, "Oop alright, you two kids go have fun, and I want to hear all the details when you get back!"

Beca's stomach plummeted, "You won't be hearing any details from me." She said seriously, wanting to protect Chloe's feelings above all else. But the Australian instead turned to the redhead, giving her a nudge and a wink instead, "Alright, well, Chloe can tell Aubrey and Aubrey can tell me then."

"I'm not going to say anything to Aubrey. And we'd really appreciate it Amy if you didn't tell any of the Bella's. At least not yet." Beca was relieved that Chloe was still on the same page as her, looking to the redhead beside her and smiling nervously as she met the bright blue eyes with her own.

"Not until we know if this is really what we want." The brunette added before turning back to Amy.

"Oh I hear you. Tell nobody… Except Aubrey?"

"No!" Beca and Chloe exclaimed in unison, something that made the Australian smile.

Beca was beginning to get annoyed with the blonde, desperately hoping that tonight wouldn't be the only opportunity she and Chloe were able to go on a date in private because suddenly all The Bella's would know about them, "We mean it Amy. If this date is going to be as weird as it already is then we won't go on another." It pained her to say it, but it was the truth.

Fortunately the Australian held her hands up in surrender, "Alright alright, I won't tell anyone."

"Thank you Amy." Chloe said gratefully, though her smile waivered at the blonde's response,

"Bhloe all the way amirite?" Amy said as she held a hand up to high five one of the women, but instead Beca rolled her eyes in frustration, "Oh my God if you say the word 'Bhloe' one more time I'm going back into that hotel and Chloe will go to that Bistro alone!" She knew it was threat enough that Amy would never want her precious 'Bhloe' to miss the opportunity of a first date together, and to her delight their friend backed away holding her hands up in surrender again, "Sorry! Alright, off you go, you love-birds."

Beca shook her head slightly with a sigh and turned on her heels to make her way out onto the street. She knew Chloe was walking alongside her from the sound of the redhead's heels. Love-birds. Ugh that was almost as bad as 'Bhloe'. Not as degrading though. It was almost as if Chloe could read her mind, as she nudged the brunette whilst quietly saying, "Better than Bhloe I suppose?"

"Is it?" Beca replied with a smile, looking over at Chloe who threw her head back with a loud laugh, and Beca felt her heart skip a beat. She loved making her laugh.

And I am loving writing these two's awkward early stages of starting a relationship!

Until tomorrow, gang!

[oh just a thought about PP3. So a main excuse the studio would use to not have BeChloe become canon is probably to do with their opinion of its sellability, ticket sales, promotion etc etc.. But my God imagine how many times BeChloe shippers would hit the theatres to see that movie over and OVER again if Beca & Chloe became a thing during the movie! Or even if it was just suggested! Ugh I would go see it A LOT at the cinema!]

[Also, just an idea: Directors Extended Edition of PP3 on Blue-Ray. Deleted scenes added to the theatrical release. Not a PG-13. BeChloe becoming very canon. Just saying..]