Prompt: Things you said that I wasn't meant to hear.
Max woke to a soft, unfamiliar humming noise. Still bleary-eyed from sleep, she raised her head slightly to look around her dorm room. Eventually, her sleepy, confused brain was able to determine that the humming noise was coming from Chloe, who was sitting at her desk. She was doing something on Max's computer, humming a song Max didn't recognize.
She was about to sit up and ask Chloe what song it was when Chloe began singing. Max froze, her eyes going wide with surprise. She laid her head back down as quietly as possible but made sure to do so at an angle that allowed her to still watch Chloe.
"Nothing you could do could make me turn my back on you," Chloe sang softly, still absorbed in whatever it was she was doing on Max's computer. "When you're looking for a fight, I'm your man. When you need a friend, you got my hand."
Max saw Chloe's head begin to turn toward her and she quickly shut her eyes so Chloe wouldn't see she was awake. She was pretty sure that Chloe was looking at her as she sang the next verse, though, which made it very difficult for her not to smile.
"And what I really mean, what I'm trying hard to say is that I'm counting on you and you got me too," Chloe continued as Max's nose began to itch. She did her best to ignore it but the feeling was only growing worse. "Our secrets aren't safe, I'm singing out of tune, if there was no you."
Max's nose finally stopped itching and she bit back a sigh of relief at the exact moment she let out a massive sneeze.
"Holy shit, Max, you scared the crap out of me," Chloe said.
"Sorry," Max said, sitting up and trying not to pout about the fact that Chloe had stopped singing.
"Uh, were you awake before that or did your sneeze wake you up?" Chloe asked, watching Max carefully.
"The sneeze woke me up," Max said with her best attempt at a straight face.
"You're a shit liar," Chloe said, turning quickly back to the computer, but not before Max saw the blush rising on her cheeks.
"Chloe…" she said gently, getting up from the bed and walking over to Chloe. She leaned down and wrapped her arms around Chloe, resting her chin on her left shoulder. "You were really good. I didn't even know you could sing."
"Not many people do," Chloe mumbled. "Shit, I'm not sure if even my mom knows."
"Well, you don't have to sing if you don't want to, but I definitely wouldn't mind if you did. It was really pretty," Max said.
Chloe smiled and tilted her head to rest against Max's. "Thanks, Max."
Max was just about to turn her head to give Chloe's cheek a kiss when she caught sight of her computer screen. "Hey, what the hell are you doing?"
"Nothing," Chloe said, quickly closing the window she had open before Max could get a good look at it. Exiting out of the window, however, revealed Max's new desktop background, which was now a smiling old man holding an onion that was about twice the size of his head.
"Chloe, what the fuck?" Max asked as she stood up and put her hands on her hips.
"Your old background was boring, so I fixed it," Chloe said.
"And what was the other window you had open?"
"I didn't have anything else open."
"Chloe…"
"Aw, fine, I suppose you would have found it eventually."
Chloe clicked on the file browser on Max's computer, bringing up a window that listed all the files on her computer.
Max stepped next to Chloe and bent down to read the file names. "Max's porn collection….hipster nonsense…every picture of Mitt Romney in existence…even more porn but this time gayer…Jack Kerouac's butt pics…more hipster nonsense…Chloe!"
Chloe laughed, raising her arms to fend of the punches Max aimed at her shoulder. "It's not my fault your folder names were boring, too!"
Max rolled her eyes and walked over to sit on her bed. "We were having such a nice moment, too and you just completely ruined it, you loser."
"Nah, the moment was mushy and boring," Chloe said, rising from the desk chair and moving to sit next to Max. "I improved it."
"There seem to be a lot of boring things in my life that need fixing today. Good thing I have you around."
"Damn right," Chloe said, pulling Max into an embrace and nuzzling into her shoulder. "What would you do without me?"
"Be really fucking boring, I guess," Max said.
Chloe chuckled and tilted her head to plant a kiss on Max's neck. "You'd also still be a virgin."
"There you go, ruining the moment again," Max said, pushing Chloe away from her and back onto the bed.
"It's what I'm here for," Chloe said with a grin.
"Well," Max said, crawling over to Chloe and straddling her hips. She leaned down and kissed Chloe deeply, pulling away to whisper, "I hope you're good for at least one other thing."
"I think I can manage," Chloe said, smiling into Max's next kiss and pulling her close.
The song Chloe sings is "If There Was No You" by Brandi Carlile.