Little side note:
thank you for reading up to this point. I wasn't too happy with the last chapter, but I guess that happens sometimes. I hid a little bit of one of my fav musicals: The last five years in there and took one sentence from one of the songs, but had to stop myself after that cause it started to sound very musical-ish 😊 You can comment if you found it! I hope you enjoy this chapter and any comments (good or bad) are welcome, so I can learn!
Ch. 7 (Maggie):
Chloe watched Beca go to her dorm and eventually had to leave herself.
She closes her jacket because she's cold and then realizes it's not actually hers.
"Shit.", she whispers. Now she has to go back to that asshole's apartment to give him his clothes back. Although, are these even his clothes? When did he get so slim and girly? she thinks and looks down at what she's wearing. Normal jeans and a (what seems) girls T-Shirt. She didn't realize before, cause she wanted to see Beca. Her face gets sadder, but she tries not think about it not wanting Tom to see her so vulnerable. She'll cry when she gets home.
She stops in front of the blue door she ran out of an hour ago and hesitates for a second, but then knocks.
The same guy from before opens up and smiles at her sweetly.
"Hey. Come to bring the clothes back?", he asks.
"Yeah, is Tom here? I kinda hope not, but I need to get my dress.", she tries to look behind him, but he's blocking all view of the dorm.
"Well I don't know who Tom is, but if he's hot I'd like his number.", he chuckles, "As I tried to tell you this morning, I'm Maggie's friend.", he puts out his hand and Chloe takes it with a confused look on her face, "Andre… and this is the part where you say your name.", the redhead snaps herself out of it and says: "Chloe. Who's Maggie?", she lets go of his hand.
"I am.", a British voice behind Andre says. He steps aside and a beautiful blonde waves at the ginger.
"Thanks for bringing my clothes back so soon, but I didn't expect it, so yours are still in the washing machine. Come in!", Maggie seems very bubbly which is nice at this moment (and way better than Tom).
Chloe walks into the room and Andre closes the door.
The Britt walks to the kitchen, "Do you want anything to drink? Tea, coffee, water?", Chloe shakes her head smiling friendly and examines the room she's in some more.
"Oh please, sit down.", She says looking over her shoulder and seeing the redhead stand a bit awkwardly, "So who's this Tom you were talking about?", Maggie says and walks to the couch with her own cup of tea.
Andre sits down on a chair nearby, "Right, who's Tom and is he gay? Cause I swear to god, sometimes it feels like I'm the only one at this school. Sorry, don't mean to sound desperate.", he rolls his eyes at himself and Chloe and Maggie chuckle.
"Tom is my ex and trust me ehm… Andre, even if he were gay, he's not worth your time.", the ginger says.
"I'm guessing that's why he's your ex?", Maggie puts down her tea. Chloe nods and there's a small moment of silence.
"So, how did I end up at your place?", the redhead asks.
"I saw you kissing that guy who I'm guessing is Tom and a brown-haired girl run away bursting into tears because of it, so I kinda figured that out and then after she was gone the crowd around you guys got less interested and I got a better look at you seeing that you were trying to pull away and he was forcing himself on you. At first, I thought someone else would do something, but no one did, so we helped you out and brought you to our dorm.", the blonde explains pointing at Andre and herself, "We would've taken you back home immediately or to one of your friends, but you were pretty out of it and Andre the giant here had to carry you.", they all laugh and Chloe thanks them for their help.
"Hey, I just wanna say that… well, I know what it's like having a guy do stuff to you like that and if you ever need to talk or just anything at all, I speak for the both of us when I say: we're here.", Maggie says putting her hand on Chloe's.
"I appreciate that and I'm happy we got to meet out of nowhere even when considering the bad circumstances, but I really do have to go now. Is it okay if I come back tomorrow to get my dress?", Chloe gets up and walks to the door.
"Yeah sure see ya tomorrow.", the blonde says and after a goodbye from Andre as well, Chloe leaves.
Jesse and Beca got back to her dorm and are now sitting on the bed.
"Are you okay?", Jesse asks, but Beca doesn't answer, "Look, I know you're angry and all and that your thing is to push people away at moments like these, but I've only been here to help. I'd appreciate it if I of all people didn't get the silent treatment.", the guy puts his hand on the brunette's leg to assure her that everything's fine, but she moves away and turns her head to the other side.
"Becs seriously?", Jesse gets a little angry.
"Don't call me that.", Beca simply says still turned from his eyes that are now burning through the back of her head.
"Don't call me that?! Yesterday you jumped me just because I said it and now you act like I hurt your feelings.", he moves closer to her and hopes she turns, but instead, now she gets up and sits down at her desk.
"I really don't fucking get you! I thought that after yesterday you'd realize that I've been at your side from day one of you being here. Chloe knew you loved her, Tom cheated on her and hurt her in every way possible and at the end of the night she still chose him over you, but I'm the one who gets treated like he's the source of your pain." Jesse tries to calm himself and takes a deep breath. He squats at the chair Beca is sitting in taking her hand, "Don't we get to be happy Beca? Can't we move past the pain together and make everything alright? Why do I get to be cut out, but do you still love her in spite of everything she's made you go through?", Jesse feels her distance herself from him more and more until finally, her hand slips out of his entirely to wipe a tear from her cheek.
"I ask you now and otherwise I'll be the bigger person: do you choose me to make you happy or does she get to break your heart again?", Beca doesn't answer because she doesn't know how, but not meaning anything by it. Though the boy takes the silence as an answer and lets a few tears drop.
"I really do hope you give her up and try to find happiness elsewhere. She never deserved you. I won't be a burden anymore, I'll leave you alone from now on.", are the last words Jesse says to Beca and then he closes the door behind him.
Beca doesn't let herself cry, but with a blank face stares at the wall in front of her. Rethinking every move she's made since the day she arrived on campus kind of wishing she never did.
It's been a week since anyone has really seen Beca. She skips all the Bella rehearsals, she only goes to classes when she knows she can avoid any contact with Bella's or Trebles and she orders take-out instead of going to the diner.
Chloe is getting worried but knows right now there's nothing to do about it. She's been hanging out a lot with Andre and Maggie and found out soon enough that they can both sing very well having met each other at an audition for a musical. Maggie, for the time being, has taken Beca's place as a Bella and Andre helps Aubrey with bossing around the group since they're like besties now. Chloe isn't even jealous and has gotten very close to the British blonde.
"Are you sure it's okay if I take Beca's place? I don't want her to feel bad when she finds out.", Maggie says as she's helping Chloe pack up her stuff at the end of rehearsals.
"You're sweet to ask, but I don't even know if she's coming back. I've never not seen her for this long and I think she's not interested in doing so any time soon.", Chloe's face immediately saddens when talking about the short brunette and doesn't look Maggie in the eyes to avoid tearing up.
"Hey, Chloe. She's gonna come back alright. If you guys loved each other as much as you've told me, she can't stay away forever.", Maggie puts a hand on Chloe's arm and they smile at each other.
"Alright love birds, let's get out of here.", Stacie says with an evil grin as she walks by.
Chloe blushes a little and Maggie shakes her head smiling. They get up and walk out the door.
Beca decided to go to a class during Bella's rehearsals to avoid the girls but didn't know the rehearsals were actually earlier than normal because Aubrey had a dentist appointment that couldn't be rescheduled.
She walks over campus when she sees the Bella's come out of the auditorium. She panics and wants to run away, but realizes they have already seen her. All of the girls stop and freeze when they spot her and no one really knows what to do. Chloe feels like she's in a dream and doesn't know whether to be happy or cry (or both).
Stacie is the first one walking up to Beca. She doesn't say anything, the only thing she does is pull the taller girl toward her and hug her tight. For the first time, Beca feels she really needed this and hesitantly, but surely wraps her arms around Stacie.
When the other Bella's see that she's actually accepting the hug, they walk over and do the same forming a big ball of cuddliness. Except for Andre, Maggie, Aubrey and Chloe. The redhead knows she can't do the same which hurts her a lot and just runs away with Andre, Aubrey and Maggie running after her.
When the girls split from the hug, they see Beca in tears looking around to see where Chloe is.
"I think I saw her run away. I'm sorry B.", Cynthia Rose says and the other girls turn around to see.
"It's okay.", the brunette exhales deeply, "I realized a few days ago why Chloe did what she did and wanted to go apologize, but I felt ashamed for yelling and skipping the rehearsals.", Beca explains and the Bella's look at each other smiling because they knew everything was gonna be fine after all.
"Do you know where she might've run off to?", the short girl asks and Flo says that she's probably at Maggie's dorm followed by a lot of no's from the other girls.
"Who's Maggie?"
After Aubrey caught up with the running redhead (because she's in way better shape working out like crazy) they all went back to Maggie and Andre's place since this is their usual hangout spot.
"I mean what else could I have done? If I hugged her it would've been weird if I just stood there staring it would've been weird and if I talked to her it would've been painful, so what choices did I have but run.", Chloe says as she puts a big spoon of ice cream in her mouth.
"But running away is exactly what makes her think you don't wanna see her anymore. Do you really think she's gonna come back to you if she doesn't know where you are?" Aubrey states and just as she did, there's knocking on the door.
They open up and an out of breath Beca bends down with her hands on her knees to rest.
"Hey, sup Aubrey. Is Chloe here?", she tries to say in a nonchalant, cool way but fails by the heavy breathing.
"Uhm… yeah let me just get her for you.", the blonde wants to close the door, but Beca puts her foot in between to stop her.
"Oh that's okay, I'll just come in.", she forces herself past the annoyed Aubrey and sees the three others in the living room eating Ben and Jerry's.
"Omg, Becs!", Chloe says putting down her ice cream and standing up quickly.
"Who's Maggie?", is the first thing Beca says letting Chloe down because these are the first words in a week.
"I am and you are Beca. Pleasure meeting you.", the blonde stands up and puts her hand out.
"Yeah alright, but who the fuck are you?", Beca says still confused but also surprised by how beautiful she is.
"I ehm- I don't know how to put this more gently, but I-", the Britt tries to say, but Chloe cuts her off.
"She's your replacement.", the ginger says in a cold voice and then walks out the door.
Beca runs after her and when they're both away from the crowd and outside, the brunette catches her by the arm and stops her from getting away.
"Chlo, please! What do you mean she's my replacement?", Beca asks and the redhead scoffs.
"Really? That's what you ask? There's nothing else you wanna say to me?", Chloe yanks her arm out of the brunette's grip.
"What do you want me to say? I just heard I've been replaced by some gorgeous, British woman and I don't know exactly what's going on.", Beca tries not to get angry, but she felt insecure just seeing Maggie.
"I mean you could say sorry.", Chloe says and Beca snorts thinking it's a joke realizing soon enough it isn't.
"I should say sorry?! Wow, Chloe, that's rich, even for you. You broke my heart after you told me you loved me!"
"Yeah and I apologized about a million times! I know that doesn't make up for what I did, but maybe I could've done more if you picked up my calls or answered my texts."
"You fucking broke me, Chloe! How do you expect me to just be fine with that and move on?!", Beca says and there's a moment of silence as both cry, "I came running here because I did wanna say sorry and then I realized I didn't do anything stupid."
"So you didn't sleep with Jesse?", Chloe crosses her arms and tilts her head.
"I- it doesn't matter. I don't love him and it was a mistake and- oh… fuck", Beca leans against the wall and slowly slides down, "Damn ginger you're getting better at this.", Chloe slides down next to her and they just sit there for a while.