"Good morning." A voice sing songs cheerfully.
Beca scrunches up her face and grumbles, attempting to push whoever is speaking away from her.
She hears giggling, but it's not Chloe's giggles, so Beca decides she's just going to continue shutting her eyes and feigning sleep.
"That's definitely no way to greet your bedmates in the morning Beca. It's downright rude really." Stacie says, a smile on her face as she teases the tiny DJ.
Beca's eyes fly open at that, "What."
Stacie's laying on her side, propping her head up, facing Beca, her eyes playful as she asks, "What else do you call someone who you're sharing a bed with?"
Beca groans and shuts her eyes, "It is so not the time to be having this conversation."
Humming, Stacie rolls over onto her stomach, still watching Beca, "Does it have anything to do with how late you came to bed last night?"
Beca opens one eye and sees Stacie looking at her with a rather smug look on her face. She clears her throat and replies steadily, "You were asleep."
Stacie shrugs easily, a soft smile appearing on her face as she explains, "I'm a really light sleeper. Was Chloe alright?" Her concern shows when she asks this, eyes searching Beca's.
Beca's heart flips around in her chest at that, but she nods, "Yeah Stace…Chloe was alright."
Stacie grins then as she sits up excitedly, "Okay so?"
Beca furrows her brow, "So…what?"
Sighing, Stacie leans forward and pokes her forehead, "What happened when you left with Chloe?"
Beca's face colors brightly. She can feel the heat emitting off of her cheeks, "We talked. That's all. Oh! Will you look at the time!"
Beca rolls out of bed, throwing the blankets off of herself and nearly tripping over her own two feet on her way out of the room, leaving behind a highly amused Stacie.
Beca runs down the hall to the bathroom and shuts herself in there for a while, splashing water on her face and taking care of business before taking a deep breath and then walking out to face the music.
The music that includes seeing Chloe.
And the love struck smile makes an appearance once again, and Beca couldn't care less if someone would take a picture and blow it up and stick it to the side of buses and buildings.
Chloe Beale kissed her last night.
'Hell. Forget that! Chloe likes you back you dumbass,' she thinks to herself just as she steps into the kitchen and sees the person on her mind.
Chloe has her head down, watching over the pan that's on the stove top, her hair up in a messy bun, and adorably comfortable looking pajamas on, with bunny slippers on her feet. Beca doesn't think she's ever seen someone look more attractive to her than Chloe does right at this moment.
"Good morning," Beca says gently as she walks just a little bit closer, her eyes taking in the way Chloe's shoulders tense as she turns around, the excitement evident in the way her muscles contract, as if ready to leap into action at the drop of a hat.
Beca's smiling at her, scuffing her foot against the ground back and forth nervously, watching as Chloe's eyes dart around her face, before focusing on Beca's eyes and breaking out with one of the most stunning smiles Beca has ever seen on Chloe's face.
"Good morning," Chloe returns wistfully, her body relaxing immediately after taking in Beca's very real presence.
Biting her lip, Beca walks closer until she's standing right in front of the redhead, and tilts her head awkwardly and bounces her fists against her thighs as she looks Chloe in the eyes and asks, "Is it-I mean…may I hug you?"
And Chloe's eyes widen slightly and she nods her head enthusiastically, curls bouncing as she does so, opening her arms to allow Beca to walk into her embrace.
Beca's heart flutters wildly as she steps into Chloe's arms, wrapping her own around the redhead's waist and tucking her face into the crook of Chloe's neck, nuzzling into her happily as she feels Chloe tighten her grip on her body.
"Not to break up the love-fest, cuz I'm so down for this happening, but uh don't burn the pancakes Red."
Fat Amy's voice sounds as she shuffles into the kitchen, taking a seat on the bar stool at the island and smirking at the two women still embracing.
Beca huffs but pulls away at that, and she can't help herself that when she sees Chloe's face she ends up kissing her cheek, after which she smoothly steps away and takes a seat beside Fat Amy.
Chloe smiles so widely, and she's certain she's going to feel her muscles start complaining soon, because she has a feeling she's going to be smiling a whole lot more now; Chloe bites her lip as she turns back towards the pancake in the pan, catching it just in time before it starts to get just a tad bit overdone, and flips it over swiftly.
Fat Amy raises an eyebrow, looking from Chloe, to Beca then back to Chloe before she smirks and slams her hand down onto the counter top suddenly, causing both girls to jump as she calls out, "AHA! You two did the do! The horizontal tango! The ol' bump and grind! You-"
Beca calls out, quickly and loudly, eyes wide, stopping Fat Amy from continuing, "Oh my God! Dude! No! What the fuck?"
Chloe, who was just as taken aback by Fat Amy's burst, now looks a little affronted by Beca's adamant denial, "You don't want to get to that with me?"
Beca blanches, now turning to face the redhead with a dropped jaw, "What? No! That's not what I said Chlo."
Chloe pouts, turns back to the pancake and lifts it out and onto a plate before she turns back around to face Beca and shrugs before loosely folding her arms in front of her as she quietly confesses, "It sounded like that's what you were saying though."
Fat Amy watches curiously as Beca shakes her head and gets up to shuffle back over towards Chloe, "No, seriously, that's not what I was trying to say at all." Her cheeks are aflame, but Beca also knows that Chloe isn't kidding about feeling like Beca isn't into her like that, and so she powers through the awkward and reassures the redhead as best as she can, "I mean, we've only just…you know, ya know? And I'm not…I'm not there yet and…but like, I want to be at some point. It's not a 'never gonna happen' thing Chloe. I was just…" Beca trails off as she desperately tries to explain herself to the woman in front of her.
Chloe nods her head and wraps her arms around her neck tightly, "I know, I'm sorry…I keep thinking this is some cruel joke, and that you're going to pull away any second now and tell me this was all just some elaborate plan to give me a pity kiss on my birthday…"
Cynthia Rose balks, hearing Chloe say that as she walks into the kitchen, "Kiss on whose birthday?!"
Jessica and Ashley look at each other then nod in unison before tapping Cynthia Rose's shoulders and holding out their hands, eyebrows raised with smiles lighting up their faces.
"Aw man, now come on girls, can't we have breakfast first and figure out the details before I just go around handing over my pop tarts?" Cynthia Rose asks.
She grins once she gets nods in understanding, quickly taking a seat beside Fat Amy, as Chloe and Beca try and keep whatever is going on between them at the moment as lowkey as possible.
And failing.
"So, since I'm gonna be handing over both of my boxes of S'mores Pop Tarts, I'm gonna take a wild guess and say you two have finally talked things over?" Cynthia Rose asks, peering at the two in question over her steepled hands.
Beca's ears are nearly glowing with how red they are, and Chloe's cheeks color further at Cynthia Rose's inquiry.
Thankfully, Aubrey walks in with the rest of the girls in tow and manages to shift the attention away from them.
Aubrey takes over making breakfast, squeezing Chloe's upper arm in thanks as she takes her place in front of the stove, allowing the redhead to slip away towards the dining table, pulling Beca along with her.
The second Chloe slips her hand into Beca's, the brunette is all smiles, not even trying to hide just how ecstatic she is to be holding Chloe's hand. She squeezes gently just as they sit down at the table and Chloe returns the gesture, throwing in an adorable wink as well.
Talk momentarily turns away from the both of them, since the rest of the Bellas decide they would like different toppings on their pancakes, and the kitchen is filled with various voices calling out their preferred fruit.
This of course allows Beca and Chloe to have a little reprieve, which sees them both bending their heads in towards each other and just sharing shy glances and smiles, whispering back and forth adorably trying to figure out between themselves who should answer any questions, and whether or not they should even say anything yet.
Their moment is disrupted once everyone has gotten their pancakes and have gathered around the rest of the chairs at the dining table and sitting up at the island on the stools.
"Alright, out with it…literally." Fat Amy says, lifting a forkful of pancake and strawberry drizzle, holding it out towards them slightly.
Chloe goes to speak up, but Beca clears her throat and squeezes Chloe's hand, telling her silently that she's got this.
"We-Chloe and I, that is-have talked last night and-" Beca's interrupted by Fat Amy coughing exaggeratedly and wiggling her eyebrows at her suggestively. Beca does her best to ignore the blonde and continue, even though her cheeks are flushed beyond reason now, "a-and this is new, like literally it's something that's just happened…and I just am really glad that I can hold her hand without worrying about any of you guys wondering why I'm holding her hand long after any of you guys would have let go, if you were in my place. I mean-" Beca blinks, wide eyed, having not meant to say as much as she just did.
Beca can see Chloe, out of the corner of her eye, looking at her like she's hung the stars in the sky, and it's making her heart do funny things.
Beca glances her way fully and Chloe bites her lip before stepping in still looking Beca in the eyes as she says, "Beca and I- we really like each other," she smiles at her adoringly before turning to look at the rest of the Bellas, smiling slightly as she says, "and we want nothing more than to be able to be ourselves around you guys; we know you'll love us no matter what, and I guess what we want to say is…Even though Beca and I still have more talking to do…we've gotten it out that we both feel very deeply about each other," Chloe's eyes return to Beca's, and the brunette is hanging onto every single word Chloe is saying.
"And we want to see where we can go…So I mean this," Chloe lifts their intertwined hands a little bit and waves it around slightly, causing a great big grin to overtake Beca's face, "this is so real…and feels almost like a dream, I can hardly believe it." Chloe gushes, a watery smile forming, giggling at her own silliness, having just told Beca she didn't want to cry.
Stacie claps her hands excitedly and squeals before she grabs onto Aubrey's free hand and waves it around, "Aubrey! Aubrey, see?! I told you they could handle it on their own! We didn't need to lock them in your room!"
Beca watches amusedly as Aubrey just smiles at the seated brunette, nodding her head as Aubrey says with an affectionate lilt in her tone, "Yeah, I guess you were right. Again."
Beca catches Chloe's eyes and they share a small smile as they get words of congratulations from the Bellas, their hearts feeling about three times as full. They also surprisingly get to enjoy the rest of breakfast in relative peace, without any teasing or heckling from the girls.
Until Lily whispers, "So, just how far did you two get last night?"
Which of course causes both Chloe as well as Beca's cheeks to color as they stutter out incomprehensible explanations much to the sheer delight of Lily, who smiles deviously from her perch on the bar stool, as well as the rest of the women who can't help but smile at the two dorks who are so obviously already very much in love.
A/N: Because I happen to love all of you wonderful readers...and I really wanted to give you guys the 'next day', I hope you enjoyed this little epilogue xo Thank you SO so much for all the support; I appreciate every single one of you x