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Here's the next chapter! This story is rated T (I'm not sure if I want to leave it like that or not, so...), but this chapter has brief mentions of sexual content. Sorry it took so long to update, I took a vacation to a place that has literally no internet, so I couldn't post anything. I don't own anything in this chapter again, but I hope you enjoy. By the looks of the pace this story is going at, it's probably going to be pretty long, so hold on to your seat belts! I read all of your comments, so thanks to everyone who has suggested things or said something about this story, it is only my second one so I am very thankful for the viewers. Enjoy!
Chloe sat in the apartment with Aubrey watching the new episode of Orange is the New Black. They weren't speaking much. Aubrey had been very quiet lately. When they got home from the Riff off Chloe gave her an earful. She made her realize that she was being too hard on the girls. Especially Beca. She told Bree that Beca wasn't as bad as she may think.
"That's only because you are the only one she talks to. Or does anything with. She's really a closed book if you aren't around," Aubrey said.
"Well.. You just have to…" Chloe realized now that Beca opened up to her only. The way they acted with each other around made it seem like Beca was always that way around everyone. "I guess you're right…" Chloe said more to herself than to Bree.
"Yeah, Beca isn't the most friendly person, either," she said.
This conversation made her see how close her and Beca had gotten in the short time they had been together. Weird how fast it all happened. It seemed like Beca had been her friend her whole life.
Beca was at Jesse's place playing video games finally. After her apology, and the Riff off, they had started to hang out again. It had been about two weeks since the Riff off took place and they weren't spending as much time together. He had been with Nicky and she had been with Chloe.
"So who were you with?" Jesse asked.
"With a girl from the Bellas, Chloe," Beca said. She tried to act like it was no big deal.
"Chloe? That redheaded senior?" Jesse asked.
"Yeah, we've been hanging out every other day or so," Beca said.
Jesse wiggled his eyebrows at her. He was the only other person she had come out to as bisexual. "She's hot. And also very good at singing," he said.
"And also not gay or in my league. Don't be saying things that could never happen," Beca said.
"You never said anything about not having a crush either," he said.
"Nope. Don't even go there. We are just friends. Nothing more," she said.
"But you like her. I can tell. You've been happier since the beginning of the year. You definitely have feelings that are more than 'just friends'," he said.
"Jesse, I'm not ruining another friendship like that. Like I said, she doesn't even like girls, and if she did, she's way out of my league. AND I don't have any crush on anyone right now," she said finally.
"Okay, fine but when you ask me for relationship advice don't come running to me," he said.
"I wouldn't even if I needed it, now how about you and Nicky?" she started.
"Oh no. You aren't getting off this subject just yet. What have you told her?" Jesse asked.
"A lot, and it would take too long to say everything, so move on," she said, quickly changing the subject.
"Did you tell her as much as you told me? More or less?" he asked.
Beca sighed. She didn't want to lie to him. "If you calculated it all it would probably balance out."
"You really told her that much? It took me years to get most of that out of you. How did you already open up to her too?" he asked.
Beca paused. She had opened up to her quickly. It was kind of scary how fast it all happened. She had never even thought of telling an almost stranger her story. "I don't know. It felt natural. Everything just fell out of my mouth and it was like we had done it a dozen times together before…" she still didn't understand how she had come to be so comfortable with Chloe. It scared her to be honest. Everything they did together just felt like second nature. The way they stood closely, or how Chloe grabbed her hand and Beca stroked the side of her thumb without realizing it. Or the way invaded her personal space, and it didn't bother Beca as much as almost everyone else. She had been oblivious the whole time, her mind just blank. That's what Chloe did to her.
"Well it seems like you guys are close. It's good that you have another person to lean on other than me, because now I have two people to worry about," he said. "Me and Nicky have gotten really close, we've been going out almost everyday after class." He smiled thinking about her.
"Yeah, that's good. When can I talk to her?" she asked.
"Probably tonight or tomorrow. We're going to go to dinner at six today," he said.
"Okay, sounds good, can I be over here at about one o'clock tomorrow?" she asked.
"Yeah, we should be here for at least an hour hanging out until we leave so that's a good time.
"See you then," she said.
"Alright ladies, I know I've been pretty hard on you lately, but we need to make this set perfect. otherwise we won't make it to Finals, which is two weeks after the Semi Finals. Semi finals is next Saturday, so we need to be right up on schedule. Let's start with Turn the Beat Around," Aubrey said. Chloe thought that she was going to apologise, well apparently not.
The girls groaned. They got into position and started the set. As they went through their song Chloe walked up to Aubrey and whispered in her ear, "Don't you think we should at least make the songs in a different order? This is what we did the last two times, so I say we should change it up," she said.
Aubrey looked at her skeptically, "Take a five minute break girls." She turned to her and whispered back, "What has Beca been telling you? I knew it was a bad idea letting you hang out with her."
Chloe looked at her with anger, "What are you talking about? Beca didn't say anything to me. She's not the worst person in the world you know, she's just trying to help. With the way our set is going right now, we won't get anywhere."
"Well, the list that we have is going to work for the next set of finals, so maybe we can tweak what we have right now a little," Aubrey said.
"Aubrey. What if we did a song everyone knew. We would blow their hair back. Look at us, we are so much better than you think. We could do so much as a group," Chloe said.
"Well, when we hand off the group they can do that themselves. I just want to be the way the old Bellas were," Aubrey said.
Chloe walked back to the group and sat down to chat. There was no way she could convince Aubrey into changing the set. She was too focused on being exactly like the other groups in the past. She changed her thoughts. She thought back onto what she and Beca were doing that evening. Chloe asked her if she could stay over for the night. She said yes, of course, Beca said yes to nearly everything she asked her to do.
Beca walked over to her laughing about something Stacie told her. "Hey weirdo."
"Hey weirder weirdo. What do I need to bring tonight?" she asked.
"PJs and yourself. Maybe a pillow this time," Beca said.
"But you are so much more comfortable," Chloe whined.
"And I'm also not your personal pillow…" Beca said.
"Fine," Chloe said. She was smiling anyways. Some of the others were as well.
"Let's start again from the top!" Aubrey said, getting up from her chair at the piano.
Beca walked up from her chair to open the door for Chloe. She walked in with her PJ's on and a pillow in hand. Chloe jumped on her bed and set her stuff down. "Hey," she said.
"Hey," Beca said. "What do you want to do? I didn't plan anything, so…"
"How about a movie?" Chloe asked. She was looking at Beca to see any rejection.
"Ugg," Beca looked to the sky in irritation. "Really? I don't even have movies here!"
Chloe slipped her hand in her pillow and searched for something. She pulled out a bunch of movies, "That's exactly why I brought these." Chloe looked at her with a smirk on her face and leaned back on the headboard.
"Of course. I hope you know that I will most likely fall asleep during the middle of a couple of them," Beca said. She didn't like doing that to Chloe, but she couldn't help it. Her and movies just didn't work when they weren't interesting.
"Oh come on, just try it. You might be surprised by a few of these. The soundtracks on all of these movies are just beautiful," Chloe showed her the movies she brought.
Jurassic Park, Jaws, E.T., Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, and a bunch of other ones. "Let's hope they don't suck," Beca said under her breath.
"Don't worry. These are the best movies of their time. Most of these are composed by John Williams, because he is like the best composer ever, and there are some other honorable mentions. Alan Silvestri, Bernard Herrmann, and like a bunch of other ones. These scores make people feel so much. That's exactly what music should be about, it doesn't even have to be a movie score, making people feel what words can't say, that's what it's about. I love when music does that."
Beca didn't mean for her to hear what she said earlier. She was taken aback by how passionate Chloe was about music. She couldn't agree more. "Definitely. I think music is made to be another emotion. It replaces something in you that makes your mind shut off and you can only feel what the music is making you feel. That is just amazing to me. I love it," Beca said. She was so glad to finally meet someone who she could relate to on musical terms.
"That's why I want to continue music and teach people. I want everyone to be able to feel what I can feel in music; life," Chloe said. She was looking somewhere she couldn't see, and it definitely wasn't in that room. It was fascinating.
"It's nice to finally meet someone with the same musical understanding as me. On an emotional scale, of course," Beca said. She looked Chloe directly in the eye.
Chloe looked up at her and gasped at the sincerity in Beca's gase. She looked at her for a while longer, "I can't tell you how happy I am to meet that person as well. I just couldn't imagine it being you…" Chloe faded out and went into her own world again. She had this look in her eyes that just said something Beca couldn't understand. She looked Chloe directly in the eye.
"I didn't think it would be you either, but I don't mind. You're not as bad as I thought you would be," Beca said.
Chloe snapped back into reality and smirked, "And who did you think I was?" She asked.
"Prissy, always focused on getting laid, didn't know anything about music. I don't know, basically what I normally think of people who I first see," Beca said.
Chloe laughed, "Well, I'm not that person, so you're stuck with me. Just me."
Beca laughed as well, "Yeah, I guess I am stuck with you, huh? Oh well."
Chloe smiled for a little while longer, "Okay, enough talk. Let's start with Jurassic Park. It's my personal favorite soundtrack. It was way ahead of it's time for 1993, so don't judge the graphics. You'll be able to tell because the actors are a lot younger, anyways," Chloe said. She kept talking about the movie as Beca slipped the disc into her laptop. She slipped into her bed and set the laptop on her lap. Chloe wasn't slow to curl into Beca's side. She pressed play on her laptop and they got settled.
Beca wasn't going to lie, she thought it was pretty cute when Chloe got into the movie. She looked at the screen without blinking for about five minutes at a time and would think that she was right there when they saw the first dinosaur, her face just kept on getting more and more priceless the longer the movie went on.
Beca also wasn't going to lie about how the movie sucked. It was actually pretty good, there was actually a storyline. And oh man, the soundtrack was good. The graphics weren't great, but the movie was 1993, so she would let it pass. There were even some parts that made her laugh.
As the movie finished up, Chloe looked up at her to see her reaction, "So? How was it. Did you fall asleep? Please tell me you didn't fall asleep, because there are a bunch of other movies that we have to watch," Chloe said. She looked at Beca with a glint in her eyes.
"No, I didn't fall asleep, and no, it wasn't that bad. In fact, I actually enjoyed it. It wasn't as bad as I thought. Maybe Jesse just has a terrible taste in movies," Beca said carefully.
Chloe sighed in relief, "Thank god, I seriously thought you wouldn't like it. Then I would have to kill you because you like music, but not instrumental."
"Hey now, I like all types of music, except country. That is just about cowboys and beer and trucks. All music takes effort to make, with the exception of country. Country is the same melodies all the time and are always about the same things. But I have an appreciation for all types of music," Beca said quickly.
"I agree. Some people don't believe that, but oh well. And you won't hear me playing any country any time soon," Chloe said. She grabbed a movie called 'The Breakfast Club' and handed it to Beca.
"Good. I can't stand that stuff. It's the only music I don't listen to." Beca said as she put the movie in her laptop.
Chloe talked about this one more. She said she was excited to see her reaction at the end of this one the most. She wouldn't tell her why though, so she just watched. She got more engulfed in this one more.
They got to a part where they were all in detention and Chloe spoke up, "This part was all improv. There was no script on this part. The director, John Hughes, told them to make it up. This is like, my favorite part too," She said. She stopped talking then and jumped back into the movie.
Beca like this movie a lot more than the other, she didn't know why, it was just really good.
'Don't you Forget About Me' had just begun to play and Beca felt tears begin to form in her eyes. The characters were leaving the parking lot as the first tear trickled down Beca's face. Then the speech about how they didn't write the essays and stuff. Beca had streams of tears falling down her face when they showed him on the field. When he fist-pumped the air, it just made Beca cry even more.
The song continued to play and Chloe looked up at her, tears in her eyes as well. Beca tried to look away and be quiet, but she had already seen her. "Beca? Are you crying? Oh my god. This is exactly what I wanted to happen," Chloe started.
"You wanted my heart to literally clench in my chest? You are a violent person," Beca said. She tried to make the situation seem like she wasn't crying her heart out, but her voice cracked in the middle of her sentence. She was sure she just lost all of her badass points right now.
"Oh my god, yeah, but I didn't think you would actually cry!" Chloe laughed. "Guess my plan to make your soft side come out worked," She just kept laughing, tears of amusement coming out now.
"Why are you laughing? This is a serious situation. Why did it have to end like that? And I am so not a softie, I'm badass." Chloe wouldn't stop laughing. "Shut up! It's not that funny." She didn't have anymore tears coming out of her eyes now, so she could talk with a stronger voice.
Chloe had stopped laughing, "You're cute when you try to be badass…" Chloe said to herself.
"What?" Beca said. Chloe hadn't meant for her to hear that, she turned a little red, "Nothing." Chloe was glad that it was dark in the room and Beca couldn't see her blush.
Beca shrugged and changed topics, "Okay, but I'm done with movies for now. It's like three in the morning now anyways."
Chloe smiled to herself on the thought that Beca had changed the subject so quickly. She sat up as Beca stood up to fix the bed so they could sleep. Kimmy Jin always seemed to be at another place, so she didn't have to worry about having people over now. She set her pillow down at the head of the bed and slid in. Chloe waited for her to get settled and jumped in right next to her, almost landing directly on top of her.
"Hey! I thought you brought a pillow." Beca said with a playful tone.
"Yeah… I did, but like I said at practice. You just make a really comfortable pillow," Chloe said sarcastically and laid right next to her. She wrapped her hands around her and squeezed. "At least cuddle back. You tend to make these situations really awkward."
"Well I'm sorry that I'm not used to being smothered," Beca said jokingly.
"You and Jesse never cuddled?" Chloe asked.
"Me and Jesse were very awkward towards each other, then. We only went as far as holding hands and pecking each other's cheeks occasionally, we were never very close. We were only comfortable until we said friends was better, trust me," Beca said.
Chloe lifted her head and smiled a little, "Does that mean you're still a virgin?" She asked comically.
"No… I had other dates and you know…" Beca said, she wasn't saying everything for a reason.
"Oh, cool. Was it as awkward as mine?" Chloe asked.
"Well, how awkward was yours?" Beca asked. Chloe sat up and leaned back on the headboard next to Beca.
"Well, the make out sessions we had were pretty hot, but when we actually got down to doing it, she ended up being horrible. Like so horrible that I didn't even get the littlest bit turned on. I only got over the edge because she- you know. I don't even think I got wet…" Chloe said.
Beca was thoroughly surprised. She thought hers was awkward, because she was the one who did all the work. But she was more surprised on the fact that Chloe gave hers up to a girl as well. "You lost yours to a girl?" Beca asked.
"Oh, yeah… I meant to say this earlier, but it's kind of obvious now. I'm bisexual. Anyways, what about yours?" Chloe asked, unfazed.
Beca awkwardly looked at Chloe, "I'm bi too…" she said. Chloe looked at her in surprise. "Yeah, mine was pretty awkward, but not as bad as that. I ended up doing all the work and she barely got me off. She ended up breaking up with me right after because I said something about it, great person right?" Beca said.
Chloe laughed. "Don't you hate that? When you actually like the person and they end up sucking at literally everything. My last date that I had was pretty cool in the beginning, but he ended up being a total jerk. Like such a jerk that the only reason he ended up being with me was for my body."
Beca looked at her with a surprised look, "What an ass! That's when I would cut the line. I hate it when people date people just for the looks, to me it's all the personality. Looks are just a plus."
Chloe looked at her with a look of approval, "Exactly. That's why I cut it off with him."
"Good, you deserve someone who likes you for you." Beca said it before she could stop herself. She cringed right as she said it.
"Thanks," Chloe said. Once again, she was glad for the darkness to hide her blush, because Beca was looking right at her.
Beca yawned and slid down to put her head on the pillow. Chloe did the same and hesitantly put her arm around Beca and laid her head on her shoulder.
Chloe quickly covered her hesitation, "I meant what I said about cuddling back you dork."
Beca chuckled quietly and sighed. She wrapped her arms around Chloe. It was surprisingly comfortable for Beca. Chloe eased into her embrace quickly. It didn't take long for her to fall asleep. Beca lay there for a while after Chloe fell asleep just looking at her. She was laying with her head just under her chin, her hair pulled back into her signature bun. She looked so relaxed, her breathing steady. She studied her every feature until she fell asleep as well.
Chloe was the first one to wake up. Her stirring had made Beca wake. Beca groaned at being awaken. Chloe chuckled at her antics.
"Hey sleepyhead," Chloe said. She smiled.
Beca just groaned again. "It's too early…" she said.
Chloe laughed again. "Beca, it's almost twelve. It's not early. At least it's Saturday, right?"
"Oh, yeah. I'm meeting up with Jesse in an hour. Sorry, if you want to go with me you can, but his girlfriend will be there. I haven't met her yet," Beca said.
"Oh. that's cool. I'll go with you because I have nothing better to do," Chloe said.
"Okay." Beca said.
They reached Jesse's door not too long after and Beca had already given him the heads up that he and Chloe would be there in a few minutes. They knocked and he opened not long after.
"Come in," he said.
The two walked in and sat down on the opposite bed. He and Nicky sat on the other. Beca walked up to Nicky and shook her hand. "Hi, I'm Beca." she said.
"Nicky, nice to meet you. Jesse has said a lot about you." she said. She was just as Jesse had described, she had brown hair and bright green eyes. She didn't look too bad, she admit.
Beca turned to Chloe, "This is Chloe," she said pointing at her.
Nicky looked at her, "Hi, nice to meet you," she shook her hand. "So are you two a thing?" Nicky asked.
Beca laughed. She looked at Chloe to see who would answer, it was her obviously, she wouldn't look at her, "No, were just friends."
Nicky looked at Jesse expectantly. He looked at her. He pulled out his phone while Nicky talked to the others about their relationship and her personal traits.
Jesse: I thought you two were going to do something earlier, so I told her that you liked Chloe…
Beca looked at him with a killing stare. She looked at him a while longer and started to listen to what Nicky had to say.
"We met through the music theory class we have together. We hit it off instantly. I don't exactly know why though.." she said. The two went on and on about how they went to the movies for their first date. Chloe seemed interested and started asking Jesse some questions.
Beca asked Nicky to go outside to ask her some private questions. She agreed and they walked out quietly.
"Okay, sorry I had to make it awkward, but I do this with all of Jesse's dates. Not that he's had many but still," she started.
"Okay, shoot." she said.
"Jesse's a pretty emotional and vulnerable guy. I don't want anyone taking advantage of that." she said.
She shook her head instantly, "I would never, he's too sweet for that."
"Good. He can get fairly passionate about somethings, and if you don't seem interested he will get kind of angry. Trust me on that one, so if he ever starts on something, at least act like you are interested." she said.
"Most of the stuff he talks about I'm into as well, so…." she said.
"Okay. Well then do me a favor and don't break his heart. He will mope about it for years after. I know that one from experience too. And sorry about his taste in movies." Beca said.
"Oh, yeah it is pretty bad, isn't it? I think it's cute though, when he thinks that they are really good. And how he thinks that I think they are good too." Nicky smiled to herself at the thought.
"Well, if you are okay with it, that's your own problem, but don't say I didn't warn you. If he thinks you actually like them too, he will only watch those movies because he will think that is the way to please you." Beca said. She knew this all too well.
Nicky laughed harder, "Okay then, but don't worry about me. I really like him."
"Good. Then you will do well. And for further notice, he likes you too." Beca said.
Nicky smiled. "Okay, then let's go back in."
They walked back in with smiles on their faces. "I approve." Beca said. Jesse just smiled.
The four of them continued talking for a while longer. When they finished up Beca and Chloe walked out of the room together.
"I should start to head home," Chloe said. She paused their walking.
"Your stuff is still at my place though," Beca said.
"You can leave it there for a while. I'll probably be back soon. I have other pillows at the apartment," Chloe said.
"But what about the movies?" Beca asked.
"Keep them for now. We only watched two of them. You can watch them when you have time," she said.
"You sure? I can go grab them real fast." Beca said.
"Positive, keep them on you, I'll get them later." Chloe said. She started to walk towards her place.
"Whoa, the least I can do is walk you home," Beca said.
Chloe looked back and smiled, "All right, I can let you do that."
The two walked in silence to her apartment. It was a comfortable silence though, so it was okay.
"This is me," Chloe said as they reached her door.
"Okay… See you later?" Beca said.
Chloe looked at her with sincerity, "I'll definitely see you later. By the way, thanks for having me. I had a good time last night."
"Any time. Seriously, Chlo. Just walk over there without an invite and I won't care," Beca said.
Chloe's smile grew bigger. "You called me Chlo."
"I did, didn't I," Beca said.
"It's good to know that I got that close to you." Chloe said.
"It's not like I had a choice, you literally jumped into my shower," Beca said with a light chuckle.
"Okay. I'll see you later, Beca."
"See ya." Beca said. She waited until Chloe closed the door to start walking home. She had surprised herself in saying that. Her phone buzzed.
Jesse: How was your day with Chloe?
Beca: Pretty good, turns out we have a lot in common.
Jesse: Anything exciting happen?
Beca: Jesse. we are just friends
Jesse: Good friends…
Beca: Okay, so we are good friends. That doesn't mean we did anything last night.
Jesse: Okay okay, fine. But don't come to me for advice
Beca: Don't worry, It won't happen. Anyways, you look different for some reason. What's up?
Jesse: What do you mean?
Beca: I don't know, you just look different, like happier.
Jesse: Well, I guess, but I still don't understand how that makes me look different.
Beca: Okay… I guess I'm just seeing things. Talk to you later.
Jesse: Alright, talk to you later.
Beca: Bye.
Beca walked back to her dorm in silence. She opened the door to see Kimmy Jin working away on her laptop. She must have come back when she was gone. She grabbed her headphones and looked up a bunch of the songs Chloe had told her about. She planned to make all of them into mixes.
Beca was amazed at how strong the connection was between them. She had only met her a few months ago and she was closer to her than most of the friends she had since grade school. It scared her to think about it. She had never gotten so close to someone before in this little amount of time. She didn't mind that it was Chloe, though. She gave her a different feeling that she had never had before with a friend. She wouldn't have it any other way.
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Hey guys! I hope you liked this chapter. Again, sorry about the wait for the update (Hah, that rhymed), I had to do a lot of thinking for this chapter, and it didn't help that I had no internet connection, so I couldn't update. R&R and I'll post new chapters a few times a week. Maybe more, just depends on the chapter content. Thanks for reading!
