Chloe finally realized that Aubrey was right. Sitting around and drowning her sorrows would never just magically bring Beca in to her arms. She would still be with Jesse and nothing would be any different. After talking to Beca, things started to slowly return to normal, well not normal, but Chloe wasn't a mess of complete depression, on the outside at least.
On the following Wednesday, Beca and Jesse went on their first date. The brunette didn't tell her best friend about it, in fact, Chloe had to figure it out when she called her to ask if she had plans. The younger girl sounded a little off when telling Chloe about the date, but she did not question it, only focusing on the fact that things were finally becoming more real. Beca and Jesse are going on a real date. The thought of that left a pain in the redhead's heart that was completely unbearable and she made up some excuse of running late to class just to get out of the phone call.
On Friday, Jesse took Beca out again. He had been invited to a party by Donald, and was told to bring Beca, since the Treblemakers seemed to like her, and they welcomed her to their events. Once again, she did not tell Chloe, and once again, she found out when she tried to make plans with the brunette.
"Hey Chloe."
"Hey! Do you have plans tonight?" Chloe sounded a lot more chipper than she had been in the past two weeks and that made Beca smile at first, but then she sighed in to the phone.
"Um… Yeah, kinda. Jesse is going to this party and he wants me to go. I'm sorry Chloe."
Chloe was glad that Beca couldn't see her at that very moment. Her smile immediately dropped at the sound of Jesse's name, and her eyes brimmed with tears. She had to pull the phone away from her face as she gasped back her tears.
"Oh, that's fine. I was going to just see if you wanted to hang around and just have a lazy night anyways, but I hope you have fun at the party." She choked a little on her words. That was a lie. She was going to ask Beca to go to a new club that had just opened up a few weeks ago. Her voice began to break halfway through her statement, so she played it off as if she was coughing. Beca was silent for a moment.
"O-okay, Chloe. I uh… I'll talk to you later then?" Beca said, trying to sound as gleeful as possible.
As soon as Chloe hung up the phone with Beca, she scrolled through her contact list again until she stopped at a name that she hadn't even thought about in a long time and hit the 'call' button. She hesitated a little while before putting the phone up to her ear.
"Hello."
"Hey Tom."
"What's up, Chloe? You sound a little upset."
"I just… Do you want to go out with me tonight?"