Chloe and Beca were sitting at the edge by the pool. "Hey Chloe?" Beca grabbed Chloe's attention by the sound of saying her name. "Yeah?" "You trust me right?" Chloe moved a little bit closer. "Bec. Of course I do. Why wouldn't I? You are my best friend." Chloe said looking into Beca's steel blue eyes. Beca shrugged. "It's just... let's talk about this later." She decided to say.
"Stace!" Chloe heard Beca call. Chloe wasn't really doing anything due to the recent event on the bus. She just sat there drinking her beer and watching everyone dance and laugh and smile and shout. Chloe wanted to do all of that she just didn't feel any of the things she wanted to do. All she felt was hurt. Hurt. Depressed. Grey. Dark. Dull. Everything that she felt or saw. Nothing seemed how she used to see it. She doesn't see the cheering, happy, confident, bright, colored things she liked. All the complete opposites.
She stood up and walked into the house leaving her friends behind. No one really noticed. No one except Beca. Beca has been watching her carefully. Not trying to be a creep of course but, trying to be a friend that she was. Beca watched her enter the house. "Stace, I'll be back in a bit." She said walking away without looking back.
Chloe walked up the stairs and back to the room she and Beca were previously in. She opened the door only to find two certain people on a bed all over each other. A Treble and a former Bella. Jesse and Aubrey. They didn't seem to notice her. She walked back out and closed the door smiling and moving on to the next room. The next room was clean. No one there and not one sheet moved from the bed. She walked to the bed and crawled under the blankets.
Beca did the same thing as Chloe. She went to the room next to the occupied one but didn't see Chloe. She went to the other side of the hall and opened the first door. There she was. Chloe. Sitting there under the covers. Beca shut the door quietly. She could hear a few sniffles here and there as she was walking around the bed.
"Hey." Beca said giving a weak smile and sitting down as she was pulling hair away from Chloe's face. "Hi." Chloe said softly. "What's wrong?" Chloe didn't say anything. "It's okay. We don't have to talk about it. Do you want me to stay here with you?" Chloe nodded her head. "Okay." Beca said standing up and walking to the other side of the bed just to sit back down and take her shoes off.
Once Beca was under the covers, Chloe flipped over to face her. "Thank you." Beca looked at her with her head tilted. "For what?" "Being here." Chloe said taking Beca's hand. "You're welcome. Anytime. Literally." Beca smiled sitting back against the headboard.
As Beca got all the way onto the bed, flat on her back, she felt Chloe moving a little bit closer. Chloe was asleep. After a few minutes of watching Chloe sleep, Chloe moved to Beca's chest and rested her head. "Goodnight Red." Beca said quietly. She was surprised to hear the ginger respond. "Goodnight." She said. A few extra minutes after that, eye roll...I know, Beca heard one more thing. "I love you." Beca's eyes grew wide. Did she really just hear the redhead say she loved her? She did. Didn't she? She noticed she hesitated and said nothing. "As a friend. Of course. I didn't mean it like that. Sorry." Chloe blurted out. "No. No, it's okay. I just, I don't know. It's just-I just- I don't know." Beca hesitated once again. "So you do. Like me. Don't you." Chloe asked.
The two girls just stared at each other. It felt like forever though. Chloe finally broke the long quiet stare. "Bec?" "I'll be back in a bit. I am going to get a few drinks and bring 'em up." Beca said jumping up causing Chloe to be pushed off to the side and almost falling off the bed. "Sorry." Beca ran out of the room.
What just happened? Chloe thought to herself. "Damn it." She muttered.
Beca walked in. "Hey! Get in here right now!" She said quickly putting the drinks down. She ran over to the window sill and pulled Chloe back in. "Were you going to jump?" "Bec. It's like twelve feet." Chloe said walking to the bed and sitting down. "You could've landed on your head or broke your neck." Beca said going to pick the drinks back up. "Here." She said opening a beer and handing it to Chloe.
"Chloe, what is going on?" Chloe turned to Beca. Once again there were tears in her eyes. Beca waited. "Well?" "I- it's- it's complicated. I don't want you to get involved." The redhead said quietly. "That's too bad. I already am." Beca said with another weak smile. "Talk to me." She said with a soft voice. Chloe looked down at her drink. "Don't tell anyone?" Beca shook her head. "No one. I promise. Not even Jesse or Bree." "Okay. Let me think where to start." Chloe said taking a drink of her beer. "Okay."
