A/N: i am such a terrible person! its been over a month, and i have no excuses whatsoever and i am sorry. but here is chapter 3! and i am going to start updating alot more again.

The next two weeks were crucial. The first week was awful because Chloe completely isolated herself from Beca, or anything that associated to the brunette. It was not a normal occurrence. Normally, Chloe talked to Beca every day, and she wanted to be around her every day, but for the next week, she either ignored her text messages and phone calls, or made up awful excuses to get out of hanging out with her. Chloe spent most of her days lying in bed, only getting up to go to classes or get food. The pain only got worse because her mind was always on the night of the finals. No matter how hard she tried, she could never shake the image of Beca sharing a kiss that should have been Chloe's with Jesse.

"Hey I'm going out to that new karaoke bar tonight with Steph and Macy. Would you like to come with us?" Steph and Macy were two of Aubrey's friends whom she had met at the beginning of her senior year. Chloe didn't particularly care for them, and wouldn't have said yes to the offer in the first place, but she especially didn't want to go tonight. In fact, she didn't want to do anything at all.

"No." was her simple response. She was lying on the couch, facing the cushions with a blanket wrapped around her. Her mind turned to Beca, as usual. Chloe wondered what Beca was thinking about, having not talked to her best friend in almost a week. Was she out with Jesse? Was she alone? Was she even remotely thinking about Chloe? How were things going with her and Jesse?

"Chloe." The redhead couldn't see her, but she was sure that the blonde had her hands on her hips and a motherly expression on her face. "You can't keep doing this to yourself. You have to do something at some point in time." Chloe rolled her eyes and pulled the blanket up on her face even more.

"I'll be fine. Just go have fun." Aubrey didn't see the sense in trying to persuade her friend any further, not wanting to upset her, so she just gathered her stuff and walked towards the door. She called "Goodnight" over her shoulder and left Chloe to sit in silence. She wanted to cry, but she felt like the tears couldn't form in her eyes. It wasn't that surprising, as she had been crying all week, but crying didn't make anything better.

A few minutes later, there was a knock on the door. Chloe groaned as she stood up, blanket still wrapped around her, and walked towards the door. She opened it to see a familiar brunette looking upset. She wasted no time rushing through the entryway past Chloe and in to the apartment. She turned back to see Chloe, who looked groggy and confused at the girl who would never do something like this. In fact, this was undoubtedly the most abnormal thing that she had ever seen Beca do.

"Before you say anything I just want to know what I did wrong because I have barely heard from or seen you for a week and that is just not normal because you are Chloe. You are the Chloe that I see all the time, the Chloe that calls me every day and texts me goodnight every night, and God, I have know idea why you do it, but you haven't done it for the past week, and it all started after the finals and I just wish you would tell me why, because, damn it Chloe, you are my best friend and you have to understand that I don't make friends well, so this is not something that I am good at." Chloe watched the girl, as tears seemed to be brimming her eyes, and she stood in shock. She had never seen Beca this upset before, and she hated seeing the girl cry. Beca took in a deep shaky breath to stop the tears that were forcing themselves through her eyes. "Please. Just tell me if I did something to hurt you." She moved herself closer towards Chloe, wanting to hug her, but too afraid to.

"Beca you didn't do anything wrong." Chloe shook her head, making sense of what was happening. "I'm sorry if I've been making you feel that way, and I've been ignoring you… It's just. School finals are all happening, and I've got a big project due by the end of the week, and I've just been really stressed out this past week." None of that was particularly a lie. She did have finals, and she did have a project due at the end of the week, and she most certainly was stressed, but her finals didn't really worry her and she had finished her project already with ease, and Beca was the main cause of her stress.

Beca studied her for a moment. Usually, she could tell when Chloe was lying. Chloe was never a good liar at all, but for the first time since Beca met the redhead, she was unreadable, and that really frustrated her.

"Are you sure?" Chloe shifted in the blanket, and walked over to the couch, wanting to sit down before her legs became too weak and gave out.

"Yes, I'm fine." She patted the seat next to her on the couch requesting that Beca sit next to her, which the younger girl accepted. However, when she sat down, she turned her body towards Chloe and wrapped her arms around the girl's shoulders. Okay, now this was most definitely the most abnormal thing that Beca had done. She never initiated much contact with Chloe, mainly because the older girl never really gave her the chance. When they would walk side-by-side, Chloe made a habit of linking their arms together or grabbing the older girls hand, so Beca had made her own habit of holding out her arm expectedly, and Chloe would smile and thread her arm in to Beca's and then they would begin walking. There were only a handful of times where Beca would introduce a hug with Chloe, but never the way that she was hugging her right now. She was holding her impossibly close and concealing her face in to the older girl's shoulder.

"Please don't ever disappear out of my life. I can not handle not having you around." Chloe returned the hug, resting her hands on Beca's sides and placing her head in the crook of her neck.

"I'm sorry. I promise I won't do that to you again."