Prompt from Guest: Stacy flirts with Beca and she flirts back. Chloe gets pissed and throw herself on Beca?!
The kiss came without warning.
It wasn't that Beca didn't enjoy it, Chloe's lips were really soft actually and Beca even kissed back for a moment. It's just that it came as quite a surprise. Chloe barged into Beca's room and pulled their lips together before the brunette even had time to react. But when the younger woman eventually realised what was happening, she quickly pulled away.
"Chloe, what are you doing?!"
Chloe looked sad, devastated that Beca had pulled away from their kiss.
"Why her?" The redhead asked "What does she have that I don't?"
"Who? What are you talking about?"
"Stacie! I saw you flirting with her!" Chloe answered sharply, as if it was the most obvious answer she could give.
In fact, Beca had not been flirting with Stacie at all. Earlier that afternoon, she and Stacie had been talking outside after discovering that they both liked a band that nobody else seemed to have heard of but when Chloe caught sight of the two laughing together from the kitchen window, she just assumed that they were flirting and got jealous.
She knew she shouldn't be jealous. Chloe wasn't even the jealous type usually and Beca wasn't her girlfriend so she was free to flirt with whoever she wanted. But when you've been in love with someone for three years, it's hard to watch them flirting with one of your closest friends.
"Okay first of all, I was not flirting with Stacie! And second, what does she have to do with this?" She said as she gestured between the two of them with a bewildered expression on her face.
"Never mind" Chloe sighed "I should never have done that. Sorry."
Then Chloe quickly exited Beca's room, leaving the brunette standing in the same spot, still processing everything that had just happened.
Beca eventually made her way downstairs in search of Chloe so she could question her about their kiss. With Chloe nowhere in sight, she turned around to go back upstairs but bumped into Stacie in the kitchen.
"Oh. Hey. Uhm, do you have any idea what's going on with Chloe today?" She asked.
"What do you mean?"
"Uh, she's just acting really weird... something happened and I need to talk to her about it."
Stacie said nothing but with an expectant look on her face, she waved her hands, gesturing for Beca to tell her more.
"She, uh, she came to my room and kissed me... Then she said something about seeing me and you flirting and then she left."
Stacie giggled.
The rest of the Bellas had known for a while that Chloe had feelings for Beca that went way beyond being 'just friends'. It had become painfully obvious by the way that the redhead would act around Beca and the way her face lit up when Beca walked in the room. It even got to a point where they'd all share secret glances and smirk at each other when Bhloe (that's what Fat Amy coined 'their Brangelina') shared a cute moment together. Sometimes they'd even discuss them when the pair weren't around.
"What's funny?" Beca asked.
"She actually thought she saw you and me flirting? That's kinda sweet I guess." The taller girl responded, still giggling.
"Sweet? It's ridiculous!"
"Yeah but she's just jealous because she doesn't want anyone else flirting with you. It's hard for her, you know?"
"What's hard for her?"
Stacie pauses, noticing the serious expression on her friend's face "You haven't noticed by now?"
"Noticed what?!"
"She loves you, Beca."
"Shut up, this is serious Stacie!"
"I am being serious." She replies "She's been in love with you for, like, ever. We've all noticed it. She was probably just too afraid to tell you because she didn't want to ruin your friendship or something."
Beca could tell by the way Stacie was speaking that she wasn't joking around. She'd never thought of Chloe that way, nor had she ever considered that there might be feelings between them. But now suddenly everything was changing.
"Oh." The Bellas captain said, stunned.
"Yeah, maybe you two should finally talk about this. I think she's upstairs in her room."
After talking to Stacie, Beca made her way back upstairs and knocked on Chloe's bedroom door.
"Chlo, it's me. Can we talk?"
Silence.
"Come on Chloe, open the door. I wanna talk about this."
Silence.
"I know you're in there Beale, don't ignore me."
Silence.
Beca sighed as she rested her head against the door frame. Maybe the redhead wasn't in there like she thought.
More silence.
"I'm sorry I kissed you." Said a small voice from the other side of the door.
Beca raised her head and smiled upon hearing the voice. Chloe was in her bedroom after all.
"You don't have to be sorry. I just want to understand this."
"I don't want to lose you, Beca."
"You won't." The brunette replied sincerely "But I need to ask you something."
Chloe hesitated to respond. She knew exactly what Beca was about to ask her.
"Okay."
"Are you in love with me? Stacie said you are." The brunette said
"If I say yes, will you hate me?"
"No. I could never hate you."
"Then... yes." The older woman finally answered.
There was a beat of silence that felt like an eternity to Chloe who was nervously staring at the ground below her, awaiting a response.
"I think I might be in love with you too."