Ch. 4 (A mistake):
"Hey, what are you doing here?", Beca still in trance because of what happened just seconds before she opened the door looks up at Stacie smiling back at her.
"Well, I thought I'd check on ya and see if you need help with anything. Also to be fair about to try and convince you to come to rehearsals, but I see you two patched things up.", Beca looks behind her and sees an equally tranced Ginger trying her best to smile as a normal human being would, but ending up looking like a psycho killer clown.
Beca looks a little closer at Chloe and herself and sees that they look exactly like two people that just hooked up. Chloe's lipstick is now more around her lips then on them and her hair is all messy just like Beca's. The Brunette's clothes are shifted and she looks like she just rolled out of bed. They both look frisky, but to prevent things from looking even crazier she (just to be sure) wipes her mouth a lot before she turns around realizing that they would be busted even more if she had Chloe's red lips printed on hers.
"Okay, so what the hell is going on with you two? You look like I interrupted some crazy lovemaking.", their eyes widen and Chloe just stares with her mouth open not able to say anything, so Beca jumps in.
"Yeah well, we fell asleep last night with our clothes on and Chloe's a messy sleeper, so I rolled off of the bed and now we both look frisky. We were just about to fix our looks a little when-", Chloe cuts her off and takes over: "When you knocked on the door and now here we are hehe", she chuckles dryly and scratches her throat.
Stacie knows exactly what a hook up looks like having experienced too many to count and had seen the red on Beca's lips which is still a bit visible and now on the brunette's right hand, but decides it's about time those two get together, so she doesn't want to push anything.
"Well alright if you say so. See you guys at rehearsals.", she leaves and Beca closes the door.
"So ehm, about you know… that.", Chloe starts to say, "That was just in the heat of the moment right? I mean, it didn't mean anything. Just you know, two friends kissing…", Beca turned with her back to Chloe closes her eyes feeling the ginger's words stab like knives and leaving an ache. Still, she turns around with a fake smile.
"Uh, yea… yea just a kiss. It didn't mean anything… You should probably go to your dorm to get ready for rehearsals.", Beca says in a cold voice. Chloe hates herself for being so harsh about it.
"Oh, okay.", Chloe says as she grabs her jacket. She walks towards the door but stops right in front of it.
"Are you sure you'll be fine? I mean, I can stay and help you get ready or-", but Beca feels anger bottled up and she doesn't want to say something stupid.
"Just go.", she says in a slightly angered voice. She sighs calming herself down: "I'm fine, just go.", Chloe frowns and tears up a little. She opens her mouth to say something, but nothing comes out, so she just opens the door and leaves.
As soon as the door had closed Beca sat down on her bed and cried. At first feeling sad, but soon feeling anger again and when she stands up she walks to her desk and kicks it as hard as she can.
Her head starts to hurt and she feels dizzy so she decides to stop and lays down. She falls asleep and gets woken up by a Korean girl with a glass of water.
"Hey, white girl. You looked kinda dehydrated and sad, so I got you water and chocolate I had hidden under my bed. You want some?", she hands the brunette the water and a candy bar and Beca takes them and smiles. Their friendship was weird, but she was thankful that they didn't ignore each other anymore. She feels the skin under her eyes feels sticky from dried tears.
"So what happened with Chloe?", Beca chokes on her water and puts the food and water down.
"How…did you know?", she gets a little scared and looks around for cameras.
"No I don't have cameras in our dorm, but I do have eyes and anyone with a little bit of sense can see that this is a heartache. So please just tell me what happened and I can give you my comfort skills you are so lucky to have access to now.", Kimmy sits on the bed and takes a piece of her own chocolate.
"Well, miss. Psychic, Chloe and I had a moment. I mean, I thought so, but then she told me it didn't mean anything and left.", Beca takes a sip of her water trying to hide the tearing up in her eyes, "I guess I just thought I could finally tell her how I felt, but then she told me it was in the heat of the moment like it's just some stupid friend thing girls do sometimes.", Kimmy hands her the bar and Beca takes a big piece.
"I know it may not mean anything, but when I saw the way she looked at you during that chick flick she made you watch… that wasn't I love you and let's kiss in a friendly way. That was omg I'm gay for you let's suck face. Also, I have never heard about friends 'just' making out. It would make sense if you guys were playing spin the bottle with a group of people, but the way it sounds to me, it was two confused kids trading saliva.", Beca laughs and tries to hold in the water she just sipped.
"Really? Trading saliva, suck face? Romantic!", Beca softly hits Kimmy on the shoulder. They talk for a while longer and the brunette is happy that KJ and she are starting to become really good friends. When the Korean girl leaves for a party, Beca is left alone to her thoughts and thinks about what she can do to make her friendship with the ginger normal again.
Chloe didn't wanna go home, so she took a walk around campus. When she started to get hungry she remembered that Aubrey had made pasta the other night and had left-overs, so gives up her walk of sorrow and decides to bury her face in pasta instead.
She opens the door to her dorm finding Stacie and Aubrey making out on the couch.
"Oh ehm… hi. I can go away again, so I don't ehm… interrupt.", the redhead says as she uncomfortably opens the door again.
The two quickly jump off of each other, "Oh no that's fine. We just thought you would be at Beca's for a while.", Bree says as she gives an angered look to the brunette who shrugs her shoulders.
"No… I- I did something stupid and now she hates me again.", Chloe's eyes start to fill up and she hangs up her coat. The two girls get up and walk over to the sad redhead and hug her from each side.
"Oh honey.", Stacie wipes away a tear on Chloe's face, "Whatever it is you've done, I'm sure she doesn't hate you for it. She could never hate you. You two are so close and cute it makes me barf.", the ginger gives Stacie a small smile.
"But I really fucked it up this time. I don't know how she could ever forgive me.", she gets out of the hug and sits down on the couch.
"So what is it you did?", Aubrey sits down next to her and takes her hand.
"I don't know if I can tell you this. It may make the situation even worse.", Chloe says and the tall girl sits down on her other side.
"Or, we might be able to help and come up with something that might make it better.", Stacie says as she already knows what this will probably be about.
Chloe sighs but realizes she's not gonna get anywhere by just sulking again.
"Alright, but you guys have to keep this a secret, cause I don't even know what it means.", they both aca-swear on it and Chloe continues, "Stace, before you went to Beca's dorm to see if she needed help, we had a moment… a 'kiss your best friend intensely' moment.", Aubrey gasps and Stacie just grins knowing she was right.
"It didn't mean anything! It was just in the heat of the moment and it meant nothing more."
"Look Chlo it's no big deal. You're into men and women, so what? I think we've all noticed the way yall look at each other. That's not just friends, that's exactly how I look at Aubrey when she has that sexy bitch face on at rehearsals.", Aubrey doesn't know whether to feel attacked or complimented about that comment, so just lets it slip, "You guys are clearly made for each other and if you felt really good during that kiss, then that has to mean something.", the brunette shocked Chloe and she starts to really think it's true but snaps herself out of it.
"No. No, I'm straight. I've always been straight and one kiss with Beca doesn't change that. all I felt was love for her as her best friend and now she probably hates me too much to be that too."
"Then go to her and at least apologize.", Aubrey says, "And I don't even like Beca, but I get how she might feel right now and she needs her bestie. Just go.", the blonde hands Chloe her jacket and the ginger takes off.
Beca tries to work a little, but she can't focus on her work with all these thoughts about her crush.
Theirs knocking on the door, so she closes her laptop and opens it.
Chloe on the other side holds two milkshakes and a bag with burgers in it, "Hey.", is all she can get out as she's quite nervous.
"What are you doing here Chloe? I'm not really in the mood for hearing an apology about our 'mistake'.", the redhead looks down and asks if she can come in. Beca doesn't want her to but feels like she has no choice and opens the door enough for Chloe to walk past her.
The ginger sets down the food and drinks on Beca's desk and turns around seeing Beca frown at her.
"Look Beca, I didn't want to lead you on like that. I really didn't mean to make you feel like this, but I just need you to know that I still love you so much, just not in that way.", Beca scoffs and Chloe sees she's tearing up
"I didn't mean it like that either, it just upset me that you ran out on me saying it meant nothing which made me feel like I mean nothing to you.", Beca says softly and Chloe feels her heart tear a little. She quickly walks to the girl and holds her.
"Beca Mitchell, I don't care what you think. You mean so much more to me than you'll ever know. I love you!", they hug for a while and a tear escapes both eyes.
"Can we please eat now?", Beca asks through her tear. Chloe chuckles and sniffs. She gets the bag from the desk.
They talk the whole night and eventually fall asleep in each other's arms.
One night as Beca and Lili went to the beach, they decided to play hide and seek. Beca was the seeker and she started counting as her little sister ran to go hide.
"10", Beca shouted hard enough for her sister to hear. Lili saw a few bushes in the distance and decided she'd be safe there.
"9", Lili hears behind her and speeds up to be sure she'll make it in time.
"8", the bushes are getting nearer and Lili almost falls trying to get there.
"7", Beca peaks through her fingers seeing which direction her little sister runs in.
"6", Lili has reached the bushes and dives into them trying not to get hit by thorns.
"5, 4, 3, 2, 1", Beca counts faster as she has lost her patience and opens her eyes.
"I'm coming to get you!", the small brunette says jokingly and runs towards the leaves her blonde sibling has disappeared behind.
"Liiiliii?", Beca sees movement in front of her and sneaks up on the creature.
For a moment everything's quiet…
"Aaaaah"
The scream slowly fades away but is still heard echoing in Beca's mind. She quickly sits up and breaths heavily.
"Becs?", Chloe opens her eyes and sits up as well.
Shit, she's still here, Beca thinks and turns to the redhead who now turned on the light.
"Are you okay? You're all hot and you look like you've seen a ghost. Nightmare?", the brunette just nods and Chloe gets up to get a glass of water.
"No, let me do it. I wanna wash my face.", Beca holds her back and gets up herself.
She feels a wave of dizziness wash over her and has to close her eyes and find balance with her arms.
"Becs just let m-", Chloe tries to say but gets cut off.
"I just st-stood up to fast.", Beca mumbles and tries to move, but her body seems to have gotten heavier and when she leans forward she feels like she's gonna fall.
"Chloe I don't feel so good.", the brunette says as she tries to keep herself up.
She lifts her foot a little with all the power still in her and doing so feeling so weak in her legs that she collapses and feels a hit against her right cheek.
All the noise around her seems to dampen and the last thing she sees is a blurry hand reaching for her head…