Ch. 3 (dazed and confused):
A hand reaches out for their shoulder and lands on the brunette's coat.
"Beca?", the girl turns around and sees a familiar face frowning down at her.
"Dad?", Chloe turns around as well and sees the tall, dark-haired man frowning at them.
"What are you doing here up so late and why on this part of campus after all that's happened?", the girl wants to explain herself but doesn't get a chance.
"Sir, that would be my fault. I thought it'd be good for Beca to get some fresh air, so I took her out for a walk. I realized this wasn't the best route across campus, so we were just about to walk somewhere else.", Chloe just crams out and Beca watches her with wide eyes not believing how easily the redhead just lied to her father knowing how bad she is at it.
"Oh, well in that case. Yes, it's very good to get some fresh air, so thank you for accompanying her. The idea of her alone at night still frightens me a bit.", they smile at each other, but his smile fades when he looks down and sees the two girls holding hands.
"You've been quite close, the two of you I mean.", Beca looks at their hands and quickly let's go.
Chloe is confused about the sudden loss of contact and holds her elbows to keep herself warm.
"It's best that you go now, Rebecca. I don't want you to stay out too late. Even with your… friend here, Chloe it was?", her dad asks and the ginger nods," it's not safe.", he puts his hands in his pocket and shivers.
They head off and Evan goes into the opposite direction not wanting to make things more awkward than they already seemed to be.
"Wow Red. I didn't know you had it in ya", Beca smirks.
"Had what now?", Chloe intertwines their hands again but feels there's still some discomfort on the Brunette's side.
"You just lied to my dad with a straight face. I'm impressed, you were amazing.", Chloe smiles brightly and all uncomfortable feelings seem to have gone up in smoke again.
"I'll always lie for the people dear to me whenever needed.", she winks and Beca looks down blushing a little.
They arrive at Beca's dorm and Chloe wants to open the door for them, so the brunette doesn't have to struggle with her hurting wrist.
"Give me the key, so I can open the door. You shouldn't have to do that.", the redhead holds out her hand.
The DJ reaches for the right pocket in her coat and she frowns feeling a sting in her fingers and knuckles but gets hold of the key.
"I can do this it's fine.", she grunts multiple times and gets annoyed when her left hand can't get the key in the door.
"Just let me do it", the ginger says feeling bad with hearing Beca hurt.
She gets closer to Beca and puts her hand on the brunettes. She likes being close to the girl. Beca's always had a nice warmth radiating from her, but not once did she have sweaty hands. She also liked the fact that the girl would blush intensely when the ginger came so close. It made her feel like one of those popular girls in high school who'd make the boys in the hallways drool all over them and she'd forget how she really felt about herself.
Beca felt tingles on her skin from where Chloe took over the key and looked down grinning. The redhead noticing this smiled to herself and opened the door.
They walk inside and Chloe casually throws her jacket over the chair behind Beca's desk.
She sees Beca struggle once more with getting of her long coat and she rushes back to the DJ to help her.
To get the coat off her shoulders she needs to get their faces close together and lingers for a moment when they're so close she can hear the brunette's breathing getting heavier. She gets a confused feeling like there's some attraction there, but hushes it away and calls it a girl crush 'really normal for girls to have'.
She steps away and throws Beca's coat over hers.
Both not feeling like sleeping yet, they talk for what feels like ten minutes, but when they look at the time, nearly an hour has past and they decide to get some rest.
"Just grab a tank top and pajama pants. They're on the right side of my closet", Beca says and the redhead finds blue pajama pants and a grey tank top.
"Here you go.", she says as she sits down on the bed next to Beca and lays out the set.
"So here comes the weird part, but I can't really get my clothes off without pain, so I'm gonna need you to take off my sweatpants and T-shirt and help put on my PJ's, but I guess it's not that freaky since you've already seen me naked.", they both giggle to lighten the tension.
"lift your arms", Chloe says and Beca does so.
The redhead slowly lifts the T-shirt that the brunette is wearing and Beca feels tingles all over feeling herself getting hot.
"Holy shit Beca these are not just some small bruises!", she really softly lays her fingers on the girls' abdomen, but it still seems to hurt which she can see on Beca's face and stops.
"I'm fine really." Beca says trying to look like nothing's wrong.
The ginger helps her put on the tank top and helps her get off the sweatpants. She tries not to stare at Beca's body.
Even though she's not into girls and she has already seen her naked she doesn't want the brunette to feel uncomfortable or she won't trust her with this stuff again.
"Can you change my bandages too?", Beca hands the other girl new bandages and tape.
Chloe takes off the old bandages and gasps. Her hand is bruised badly and the knuckles are torn and have dried up blood on them.
"Oh my god, Becs… your-your hand", the brunette giggles a little at the shocked expression on Chloe's face.
"Geez Red I know it's bad, but that's the second time tonight. Don't worry about it. I heal quickly.", luckily Chloe knows how to put on bandages on someone else because of her studies in becoming a veterinarian and it feels way better than when Stacie tried doing it and they first fell off and the second time was so tied it hurt really bad.
Chloe looks up at Beca's stitches on her eyebrow and gently strokes the skin around it with her thumb to see how they did it.
"If you're afraid of them taking it out, I can do it if you want. We practiced a lot in class and I'm kind of a pro now.", Chloe offers and the injured girl smiles even though she's not scared at all, she accepts the offer.
When the DJ is sitting on her bed in PJ's, Chloe is ready to leave and walks to her coat.
"Wait!", the smaller girl says and the tall girl smiles before she turns her head knowing what she's about to be asked.
"Will you please stay?", they've done it before and both can't deny the fact they sleep way better when they're in the same room.
"Kimmy isn't coming tonight, so you can take her bed if you want. I have a lot of tank tops and some old sweatpants somewhere.", the ginger walks to the closet and just gets the tank top.
"My legs are too long for the sweatpants so they're not really comfortable. Is it alright if I go without?", Beca shakes her head knowing she'll just stammer if she opens her mouth, "And I need my cuddle buddy, so Kimmy's bed will be empty anyway.", she takes off her clothes and puts on the tank top. Beca acts like she's not even looking and grabs her phone for distraction.
When she puts it away, she sees Chloe walking towards her and crawling in bed next to her.
"Oh wait, hold on", she sits back up and from under her tank top takes off her bra.
Beca's face gets even redder than Chloe's hair and she quickly looks away.
She puts out the light and feels the redhead moving closer to her. An arm wraps around her and pulls her in. Two knees touch her hind-legs and soft lips press against her neck making Beca shivers and feels goosebumps as she melts away in Chloe's arms.
When Beca wakes up at around 6 AM like she usually does, she finds a certain redhead has turned in her sleep and they are now facing each other.
She looks at the beautiful girl for a while and then kisses her on the forehead softly wishing she could tell her how much she loved her as more than just friends.
Chloe moans a little and then opens her eyes just enough to see a blurry brunette.
"Hey", she says with a sweet voice and moves down a bit so she can lean forward and put her head on Beca's chest.
She hears the girls' heart beating faster and smiles widely.
Is it me or did she kiss my face?, Chloe thinks and tries to remember if this was a dream or in fact the thing that woke her up.
Her thoughts get interrupted by the girl she leans against: "As much as I'd love to just stay here and cuddle… I have classes to attend and I like to get up early for our long breakfasts, so if you don't mind, I'd like you to help me get dressed.", Chloe gets disappointed, but is also very hungry, so she helps Beca get up and get dressed.
"Oh shit… I'm guessing by the way you normally look you don't know how to do smoky-eyes?", Chloe actually does but shakes her head and grins.
"Well I think, and don't get me wrong cause I love the dark thing you normally have going on, but I think you look very pretty without any make-up and you might as well go without it for a day.", she's standing behind Beca who's looking in the mirror and takes the Brunette's hair putting it behind her shoulders.
Beca just wants to turn around and kiss her, but instead enjoys being close to her in this way.
When Chloe has finished doing Beca's hair, Beca turns around forgetting how close Chloe's behind her and standing very near the other girls' face feeling the tension between them getting bigger.
Without thinking she leans in and kisses Chloe putting her lips on her best friends gently, but with passion.
Chloe's confused at first, but it just takes a second for her to feel how right it is and returns the kiss just as passionately.
The ginger moves Beca towards a wall pinning her against it, but making sure she's not hurt and they feel each other getting hotter not knowing what the hell is gonna come next, but not caring at all.
Beca can't believe what's happening and just as she was thinking it, there's knocking on the door.
Omg I-", Beca mumbles and clears her throat on her way to the unexpected visitor.
Chloe follows wanting to see who's there.
Beca opens the door, "Hey, what are you doing here?".