Ch. 6 (A cut foot and a broken heart):
"Wait, Chlo!", Beca runs after the redhead.
Chloe doesn't pay attention to what's around her and she's still very drunk, so running isn't really making her feel better.
She bumps into someone and immediately turns around to apologize, realizing the someone is Tom, "Sorry I- oh.", she says. Tom grabs her by the shoulders and gets her closer. He's obviously wasted and not in his right mind.
"Just take me back baby. Please! I shouldn't have banged that chick.", He says pouting, but the ginger doesn't care at all.
She tries to loosen his grip and get away until she sees Beca and freezes.
"Chloe! Stop, please!", the brunette shouts and Chloe panics not knowing what to do.
"You're not really gay. That was all just an act to make me jealous right?", Tom asks grinning and the girl he's holding looks around one more time.
Everyone's looking at them with anticipation.
"She's gay?!", a random girl in the crowd whispers and suddenly all Chloe hears is the gossip going through the circle of people around them like a spreadable virus and there's only one way to terminate it.
The redhead grabs Tom's neck and pulls him into a kiss.
Beca's heart drops and suddenly she feels physically nauseous. Her eyes start to tear up and not wanting to be seen, she runs towards her car.
Struggling to get the key in the door, she throws it on the ground and kicks the wheel which hurts her more than the rubber.
"Shit!", she curses and bents over to pick it up.
"Need some help?", Jesse saw her rage and walks over.
"No, Jesse. I'm fine.", her voice still full of emotion.
"You're not and yes you do.", he says as he gets the key and opens her car door.
"So what's up?", he puts a hand on the girl's shoulder quickly getting it off when he gets dead-eyed by her.
"Just leave me alone alright. I don't need your sympathy.", Beca gets in the car ready to leave, but Jesse stops her again.
"Becky, I've known you long enough now to know when you're hiding your true feelings, so why don't you do me a favor and just get it over with.", he runs to the other side of the car and quickly gets in.
"Well first of all: you don't know me at all cause you just called me Becky which everyone knows I hate and second of all: I still haven't figured out if you're an ass or not, so do me a favor and get out of my car!", she doesn't look him in the eye, but instead holds on tight to her steering wheel and looks at her still bruised hand.
"Sorry… I just thought you needed a friend and I've been wanting to be a good one for a long time. I'll leave you alone.", Jesse grabs the handle of the car door ready to leave when Beca stops him.
When she puts her hand on his left wrist to stop him, she feels a flood of emotional pain shiver through her body and lets her walls be broken down. She starts to sob and feels like she's getting smaller.
"Come here.", the guy says and pulls her to his body. They hug in silence for a while when eventually the girl moves away and wipes her cheeks with her index fingers.
"God I- I'm sorry Jesse. I don't want you to see me like this.", she sniffs and looks away feeling ashamed.
"Like what? All you're doing is letting out the feelings you've been pushing down for probably years. That sensitivity, those tears… they only make you more human. They make you beautiful cause now I can see everything you are. Everything besides the cool DJ I already knew. This doesn't make you weak Becs.", the brunette boy says and Beca feels a shock in her body hearing: 'Becs'.
"That is what she calls me?", Beca says and looks him in the eyes.
"Who cal-", Jesse tries to say, but Beca kisses him before he can finish.
When Chloe wakes up she's in an apartment she doesn't know. She examines the room but finds no clues to find it out.
A guy walks into the room in nothing, but a towel.
"Morning.", he nonchalantly says and he walks toward the kitchen.
"Good morning?", Chloe's still confused as to who this person is.
"Oh, we didn't have sex if that's what you're wondering. I'm just a friend of-", but Chloe already knows what name he's going to say and cuts him off.
"Yeah, okay. Well great meeting you, but I really have to go.", she conveniently has some clothes on that she's just gonna have to return sooner or later and walks out the door with the rest of her stuff she could find.
When she closes the door, she realizes what has happened and what she had done in her drunken state last night. She doesn't even want to get home to change. She has to get to Beca now.
Lili screams when she sees Beca spotting her and runs away laughing trying not to get caught by her big sister.
"I'm right behind you!", she says loudly to give her little sibling the creeps. The blonde girl just keeps laughing out of pure joy and makes a few turns to get rid of her chaser.
When Lili is out of sight and Beca has to stop to catch her breath, she realizes they're at the other end of the big bushes and on the other side is the beach they're not allowed to go to.
Mother always said bad people go there and there's a lot of litter.
"Lili?! Come back! We have to go back to the other side!", but this time no one responds and she gets scared.
"Lili!", she starts running again until she gets to the bad beach.
The small girl is sitting on the sand with her back turned to Beca.
"Lili?", she walks up to her sibling and sees her sobbing and holding her foot which is bleeding heavily. A broken beer bottle next to her with a sharp piece sticking out of the sand. Beca freezes for a few seconds and freaks out a little bit trying not to cry and stay calm for her sister. Her mom always told her to put pressure on wounds to stop the bleeding, because she herself is very clumsy and needs to know how to take care of herself. She takes off her scarf and puts it around the foot making one simple tie.
"Lili can you stand up for me?", Beca asks, but the girl shakes her head and keeps crying.
"Okay, okay then try to get on your knees or at least a little bit up and climb on my back.", she turns her back to the hurt girl and feels her climbing on her back. With all the strength she has, she stands up and runs back into the bushes.
They get to the house and Lili rings the bell since she has both hands free.
Sasha opens the door and when she sees what's wrong she immediately takes Lili inside.
"Evan! Come down now!", she shouts to her husband upstairs, "Beca what happened?!", she's fairly angry for some reason.
Beca finally starts to cry now that her mother is taking care of Lili, "We were just playing hide and seek and she ran into the bushes, so I ran after her and we got to the bad beach. She stepped on a piece of broken glass.", Beca is getting more afraid seeing her sister upset like that and her mother seems scared as well.
"Dammit Beca I told you to stay away from that beach! You're supposed to look out for her and now you let something like this happen!', Beca starts to cry more and just wanted to help.
Evan is finally down and says he wants to call an ambulance, but Sasha thinks that's an overreaction and tells Evan to get the car ready.
"Honey, they'd be here way faster. She's bleeding quite rapidly. I don't want things to get worse.", Evan is still holding the phone, but he can't change his wife's mind and runs to their car.
"I don't know how long it'll take, but don't expect us back soon. I'll call you when we're ready to go back home or if she has to stay.", Sasha kisses the man on his cheek and gets in the car quickly starting it and racing of…
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Beca slowly opens her eyes seeing she's in her own dorm. She hears Jesse next to her snoring and moves his arm off of her body. He makes a few sounds but doesn't wake up.
The Brunette girl looks at her phone hoping to see a text from Chlo, but there's only one and it's from Aubrey.
Aubrey: I know what she did to you yesterday sucked, but I can't find Chloe. Do you know where she is?
Beca: No.
She's doesn't want to respond with anything more than that and throws her phone on the bed ignoring the flood of text messages flowing in.
Forgetting that Jesse was still on the bed, she had thrown the phone on his chest and he was waking up.
"Shit!", she whispers and quickly gets her jacket running out of the door.
Jesse is now fully awake hearing the door close with a quick swing.
Chloe is still on her way to Beca's dorm when she sees the girl herself running from it.
They meet up halfway, but the brunette is obviously not ready to talk and rolls her eyes wanting to ignore the redhead.
"Becs I know you don't want to talk to me right now and what I did was really mean, but you have to know I never meant to-", Chloe tries to apologize, but Beca steps in,
"To what? To hurt me?! Wow, original Chloe I haven't heard that one before!", she yells at the taller girl.
"Becs I just want to a-", Chloe tries again, but Beca is not having it,
"You just wanna make up, be stupid together and then hurt me all over again! I'm not someone you can just toss around! You need to sort out your shit without me cause I'm done helping you find out what the fuck this all is!", the brunette feels herself getting emotional and wants to go, but this time Chloe doesn't let her.
"What the fuck this all is? You tell me. I don't even know why we're having a fight!", Chloe wipes a tear off her cheek as soon as it falls.
"Oh, so suddenly you've forgotten what all of your mistakes?!", Beca's anger is back and she pushes away the tears.
"Enlighten me!", Chloe says in a sassy voice.
Beca starts talking, but thinking about everything that has happened changes her mood and she speaks in a soft voice, "Chloe I-… from the moment we first met, I've had at least a crush on you. After a while when we became close friends, I knew it was more and I also knew you didn't feel the same cause you were the one hanging out with all those random guys and I had to watch you be happy with them. I had given up on anything happening and was almost ready to move on when my feelings took over that morning and I kissed you. I thought that would be the end of us until you kissed me back. I was so fucking happy.", she swallows her tears and lets out a shaky breath, "And then you told me it was a mistake. It meant nothing. I wanted to just avoid you forever, but I can't get you out of my head, so I pushed my feelings aside and tried to forget what happened. I even helped you by playing your fucking girlfriend, which I wouldn't have done if I knew it would come crashing down like this. Everything was fine. Then you, you kissed me! of course I kissed you back and yes I will admit that was a mistake, but for you to run off to that douche ex of yours and kiss him knowing how I felt about you and making me confused like that again, is something I can't forgive.", Beca sighs and finally lets a painful tear roll to her chin.
Chloe is shocked and felt a stab with every single word, but before she can say anything, Jesse runs to them.
"Hey why'd you leave like that?", he asks and sees the girls both crying, "Sorry… I'll wait in your dorm.", he says to Beca and leaves.
"Jesse?!", Chloe says hurt when he's gone and Beca rolls her eyes.
"Really? You can say that to me? Just- don't talk to me. Ever.", the brunette leaves while Chloe just stands there not knowing how to move and her body entirely weak…