Wednesday

The next day Chloe wakes up to the smell of… pancakes? Bacon? Is that… muffins? She squints her eyes open and notices theres only one other body, and its a short one.

She doesn't have to be up for her alarm for another half hour but she gets up anyway. She follows her nose down stairs and sure enough there is an elaborate breakfast spread about the counter.

"I take it you guys didn't make up last night." Chloe says tiredly, sitting down at the table. Chloe went to bed early last night, because all through dinner they were arguing, and she couldn't have gotten a word in even if she wanted to. Chloe didn't even hear them come in after she fell asleep.

"She told me to sleep on the couch." Aubrey huffed.

"Seriously? Did you?" Chloe thinks hard if she remembers feeling Aubrey at all last night, but she can't recall anything.

"You didn't notice?" Aubrey asks, sounding kind of offended.

"Sorry, I've been exhausted. The lead's mom is now begging me to write in a scene where he breaks his leg so he can still be the lead. Theater moms are the worst. I'm not even sure what I'm going to be doing with them today…" Chloe trails off, dropping her face in her hands.

"Well, I did." Aubrey responds.

Chloe feels bad, she does. But really? Nothing about what Chloe said? She sighs and plays along. "I'm sorry, I would have dragged you up there if I knew. I'll talk to her about that okay?"

"I mean, I've done everything I could. And if I'm being honest, I've done worse things. She's just enjoying this way too much I just know it." Aubrey grinds her teeth.

"Coffee?" Chloe tries, hoping to maybe steer away from this conversation.

"There needs to be at least two cups ready for when Beca wakes up and-"

And Chloe's just about done being put on the back burner at this point and she feels annoyance boil up in her. She snaps a bit at the other girl. "Shouldn't the girlfriend who's not giving you shit get something nice too? I'm here too you know."

Aubrey sighs and Chloe can tell she's getting it now. "You're right, you're right." Aubrey moves to pour her a cup, delivering it along with Chloe's favorite creamer. "Sorry," she kisses her quick on the temple before sitting across the table from her. "Tell me about the play."

And Chloe smiles, because thats more like it.

…

Chloe leaves for work before Beca wakes up to the breakfast buffet, so after pulling into the parking garage she decides to shoot Aubrey a text asking how it went. Aubrey responds quickly with a thumbs down emoji. Chloe's disappointed but not surprised.

She decides to turn off her phone until lunch so she can give her full attention to her work. At lunch she texts Beca to see if she has time to take her own lunch break at the studio. They end up meeting at a new spot in the city thats somewhere between both their buildings.

"The couch, really?" Chloe asks after they get their food.

"She was going on again about how I hate movies and how she was justified and it was pissing me off, okay?" Beca grumbles, waiving her fork around.

"I don't get a say in this?" Chloe asks, raising her eyebrows.

"It's our fight, so no." Beca answers triumphantly.

"Ha!" Chloe's eyes go wide. "Yeah. Since when is it ever only your two's fight? You drag me into the middle of ev-er-y-thing." Theres a pause and Beca's about the respond but Chloe starts talking again. Calmer this time. "Not that I don't want to be, I guess. But, Becs," she puts her hand on the other girls, "it's our relationship. So any decision that involves our relationship, like, making our already-stressed-out-enough girlfriend sleep on the couch, that's a decision that involves all of us."

Beca pokes around at her salad for a bit before saying, "fine." She sighs, and looks at Chloe. "But I'm not talking to her again, so you can tell her she can sleep with us."

Chloe's face fall into her hands. She wonders why she thought they would be able to handle this on their own.

Chloe calls Aubrey on her way back to her building, and gives her the news. Aubrey tells Chloe she's on her way to the city herself to meet with a client about plans for the weekend and wonders if she should bring something by Beca's office to surprise her.

"Well, we just ate lunch, so don't bring her food. And you already tried the flowers thing."

"Crap," Aubrey says, "what about coffee?"

"Didn't you already send her to work with a cup of coffee?"

"Yeah, you're right."

"Oh!" Chloe exclaims, remembering what Beca mentioned at lunch. "She forgot her favorite mixing headphones at home. You could run them by!"

"Perfect! Thank you thank you thank you Chloe'."

…

Chloe's going over the new number where it explains why the leads leg is broken, (because while the theater is these kids' entire lives, it is still just children's theater, and it doesn't have to make perfect sense, okay), when she hear's the side door open and shut, and she can see Beca take a seat to the side of the rehearsal space through the corner of her eye. They make it through the scene and she goes over it once more and then lets the kids take a break.

Chloe walks over to Beca, noticing the headphones perched around her neck. She greets Beca with a kiss to the cheek, and plops in the seat next to her with a huff.

"You told her about the headphones, didn't you?" Beca asks, trying and failing to seem annoyed.

"No," Chloe shakes her head, playing dumb. "She must have realized. How kind of our loving girlfriend to bring them to you." Chloe smiles brightly, bumping the other girl's shoulder with her own.

Beca hums suspiciously in response. "I'm going to go hang out with co-workers tonight, I probably won't be home until way after you are."

"It's Wednesday." Chloe says, like its obvious. And not in the sense that 'it's Wednesday' and that 'who goes out late on a Wednesday,' but in the sense that 'it's Wednesday' and thats Beca and Aubrey's night alone together. She was hoping tonight would be the end all to this fight. Beca's attitude- although it might not seem so to the naked eye, but to Chloe who knows her girlfriend- seems to be lightening. So Chloe thinks tonight could have been a real break through. "You should go home Becs."

"I already promised." Beca acts nonchalant about it, making an annoyance crawl its way up Chloe.

"Yeah well, you're going to be the one sleeping on the couch if you don't fix this soon. This is ridiculous. Watch the damn show by yourself." Chloe starts to rise and walk back to her students when she feels Beca's hand grab her wrist.

"Hey," Beca says softly. Chloe looks at her, expectantly, waiting for something that she wants to hear. "First of all, we did watch it." Chloe slumps. "She pretended to act all surprised and we all know she's a terrible liar, so I figured it out. Plus, the fact that she lied to me is annoying in itself." Chloe is about to turn to continue walking away, because this just keeps getting worse. "Second," she feels Beca tug her wrist back, not aggressively but enough to make Chloe want to face her again, "Don't worry about it. Maybe I just need a night out to get away from all her charades." Chloe's wrist is released and she watches Beca shrug, hope in her eye that thats enough.

Chloe agrees, because what else can she do. Plus she has to get back to work. She eventually kisses the girl quickly goodbye, hoping that the night out is all Beca needs. She reminds Beca to send Aubrey a text letting her know she won't be coming home, and the reason why so Aubrey doesn't worry. She sees Beca type it out, and it doesn't seem snarky, and Chloe feels good about it.

…

Beca stays true to her word and isn't home when Chloe gets back. She's tired, and needs a shower, and decides to drag Aubrey in with her more as a means to stop her from pouting on the couch than anything else.

Plus, ya know. When two of them fight, it kinda puts a damper on all of their sex lives. So, its been a little bit since Chloe's been able to partake in such. She figures if Beca's out, she might as well take advantage of situation. And Aubrey's not protesting, Chloe notes, as she watches her girlfriend's wet blonde hair cling to her heaving chest; And well, its also nice to have attention from Aubrey thats not centered around how she's going to get Beca to forgive her.

When they lay entangled in bed an hour or so later, pajama clad and hair damp, Chloe realizes the idea they've been missing this whole time.

"The emerald green lace set 'Bree." She announces her discovery.

"What?" Chloe hears Aubrey ask.

Chloe looks up at the girl who's chest she's currently laying her head on. "The emerald green lace set from Victoria's Secret. Its Beca's favorite." Chloe can see Aubrey thinking it over,-her lips are perched and eyes slightly squinting.

"Worth a shot, I suppose." Chloe feels her shrug underneath her.