New chapter new luck. I hope you like this one, but I guess it's more a filler chapter. I really do try to write some fluff for the next one, I guess it's time for BECHLOE to get together, huh?
But till I have that finished enjoy this one :)
Chapter Eight
The new Bellas were now full into their new work out. Beca was exhausted and so were the others. The brunette stopped in her tracks, clutching her ribs, trying to catch her breath.
"Hey, is everything okay?", a voice asked behind her. She turned around and a smile crept up her face. "Chloe", she breathed heavily, "Yeah, I'm fine. Just exhausted. Do you think we'll stop anytime soon?" The redhead nodded slightly and run off to catch up with Aubrey.
The blonde turned then around. "Okay, you can stop now. You did well today. Better than the last few times. Take a shower and then come back to the auditorium. I'll be there in 30 minutes sharp, that means you have 40 minutes to be there. Hurry up!", she shouted over to the girls. A few of them let them fall down on the grass, others instantly turned into the direction to their dorms.
Beca surprisingly made it in 40 minutes. She was the last, though. Quietly she sat down while Aubrey told them that they really needed to work on their singing. The past few days Aubrey was really controlling and most of the girls knew that they wouldn't win anything with these songs.
Beca was annoyed. She hated losing, but she hated it even more when someone didn't listen to her. Of course, she was incredibly thankful for what Aubrey did for her, helping her with Chloe and all, but still. Hesitantly she raised her hand.
"Aubrey?" The blonde swirled around, facing the brunette. Obviously she knew what the small girl wanted. "No, Beca."
"Please just hear me out", Beca pleaded and looked hopefully over to Chloe. Maybe the redhead could've helped her. But she remained silent.
"Beca, I told you that the songs stay. I'll talk over everything with you, but the songs stay", the blonde replied stubbornly. Beca could do that too.
"But I could improve the performance."
"No."
Suddenly someone else helped the short brunette out. "What do you have to lose?", Stacie asked the blonde. Aubrey turned to her, glaring.
Control, she thought.
"It'll cost us the win and then everybody will laugh at us. Again. I don't want that and I don't want to change. So Beca just stop it." But she couldn't. She was way too angry now.
"Aubrey, this setlist sucks. The girls think that, I think that and the audience will think that too. You have to get that into your head! Just let me help you."
"You have to get into your head that I don't need your help!", Aubrey was now juts as mad as Beca was.
"But you do!"
"I don't! You're just causing trouble! I should have known that by the stuff Chloe told me about you!", as soon as the words left Aubrey's mouth, she regretted them, but she would never say that out loud. She was far too proud for that. Chloe gasped next to her. "Bree-", she started but got cut off by a glare, so she stopped first.
Beca shot her a pleading look. Like she just wanted to say 'Stand behind me'. So Chloe opened her mouth, but Aubrey said that she should stay out of that and she did. She stopped to help her former lover. The girls stayed silent.
Suddenly Beca spoke up again. Her voice filled with emotions.
"It's okay Chloe. Don't we act like this is something new to us, shall we?!", she snapped at the redhead, not caring if she's too worked up and turned her gaze back to Aubrey, "This is the worst idea ever. I promise you, you will go down with that and I refuse I drown with you, just because you're too stubborn to let me help you out!" Then she stormed out of the auditorium.
Chloe was stunned. What did Beca mean with that? Because she wanted to know and was worried about her tiny brunette she ran after her. "Beca! Beca wait up!", she called, but Beca just walked faster, "BECA!" Abruptly Beca turned around, which surprised Chloe, she stumbled a few steps back.
"What?!", Beca snapped.
"What did you mean with that? That we should stop to act like this situation was new to us?", Chloe asked, hurt and angry by Beca's snapping. The brunette let out a bitter laugh.
All these past few days went smoothly. The two woman got closer again and started to rebuild their friendship. But this was all now washed away.
"Are you kidding?", she asked but when she saw the confused expression on the gingers face she continued,
"I never had your back. Whenever I got into fights you blamed me. Even in front of everyone. You never supported me or were on my side. Did you ever think of why I got into these fights? I was mad and hurt and confused and just needed someone to take care of me and needed the feeling that someone stood behind me, but you...
You stopped doing that when I lost my balance. You always just saw my mistakes. When I apologized I knew that I caused a lot that lead you to break up with me, but now I realized that I'm not the only one. That I was never the only one. You did as much as I did! So don't you dare to be mad at me for running away now. I needed you inside there and you just let me down."
Chloe was thrown off at that. Was it true? Did she really always accuse the brunette before she listened to her side of the story? She never thought so. Honestly she never even thought about Beca being just as much hurt as she was. Now she felt horrible. The ginger looked up, meeting Beca's gaze. She had tears in her eyes. She wasn't mad. She was in deep pain. But again the redhead didn't found her voice. Beca just laughed again bitterly, tears dropping down and turned away.
"Don't bother looking for me", she said over her shoulder before she walked down the campus. Chloe watched the girl walk away and didn't do anything, but when she finally came back to her senses she ran back to the auditorium.
"Aubrey! What did you think you were doing?! Do you have an idea how Beca is feeling right now?! She's fucking hurt, almost heartbroken! I know her, she swallowed so much these past days just to please you, to please me. Beca asked you for juts ONE thing. To change a few songs and you?! You said such hateful words towards her exactly knowing that you would hit a nerve!", she shouted at her best friend, not caring of the others.
Aubrey seemed shocked but surprisingly agreed. She looked down. "I know that I did a mistake with saying stuff like that and I regretted it almost immediately, but you know how I am!", she tried to defend herself. Chloe shook her head, rolled her eyes and looked away. "Swallow your pride for once and tell her that you're sorry."
"Chloe-"
"Tell her that you're sorry. You know that I love her and you know that nothing will work until you two get past this. Do it for me at least."
"You're in love with Beca?", one of the girls asked shocked. Aubrey shot her a death glare.
"We talk about this in our dorm, okay?", she asked carefully, hoping her friend would agree. She did. Chloe nodded and sat back down.
"Bellas, I think you can go home. You had enough for today and I guess it happened now far too much to carry on. Good job", she mumbled at let the girls go.
When the two girls reached their room they talked about everything and laid down. Both of them laid flat on their back in their beds. "Do you know what she told me?", Chloe whispered.
"What?", Aubrey asked.
"That she never had my back. That I always turned against her. First I thought that she was being stupid and that it couldn't be true, but the more I think about that, the more I realize that she's right. I never thought of Beca being hurt by me. I never thought Beca saying the truth when she got into trouble again. I never really listened. I guess, I just heard what I wanted to."
"I should go and apologize, right?"
"Yeah you should. She looked so sad when she left. She cried even. It's been a long time since I saw her the last time crying. Beca never really cries. Only when she's really hurt. I guess it's both our fault", Chloe explained.
"I'm going over to hers. Now", Aubrey said, getting up and grabbing her stuff, "I'll see you later."
Aubrey knocked on Beca's door, just like Chloe did. The door swung open and an Asian girl opened the door. She rolled her eyes. "It's for you Mitchell", she said annoyed over her shoulder. "Does the person have red hair? If she does, send her away", a voice grumbled in the background. "She's blonde and I'm not your delivery", the girls spat and brushed past Aubrey with her jacket.
The blonde stepped into the room, spotting Beca lying on her stomach with her face buried in her pillow. "Beca I'm sorry. I, I don't know... I'm bad at apologies, can you just look at me, please?" , Aubrey asked. To her surprise, Beca did sit up and looked at Aubrey.
"Chloe said you don't apologize to people. Even when you know you were wrong, so I guess I can feel honored?", Beca asked, a sarcastic smirk playing on her lips. Since when does she become so forgiving? Probably Chloe's fault... That goddamn redhead.
"Yeah, kind of...", Aubrey mumbled, sitting down next to Beca.
"Still it really did hurt what you said."
"I know. I shouldn't have said that. I just wanted to make you shut up at the moment... Maybe, maybe you could show me what she meant earlier? The songs maybe?", the blonde asked hopefully. Beca thought for a second. "I guess I can do that Blondzilla."
"Blondzilla?", Aubrey asked.
"Yeah, I came up with that name earlier when you shouted at me. I wanted to tell you then, but I decided against it", the brunette smirked.
The next few hours Aubrey and her worked on a new set list. They found out that they had actually a lot of common and said that they wanted to be friends, for Chloe's sake and secretly for their own. Because if they were true with themselves, they knew they liked each other.
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xx badkid