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Rumors- Chapter 11 :Perfect Plan? How About, No.
Beca was in no way;shape or form equipped for this situation nor did she think she'd be able to handle it without ruining everything. Like bombs, explosions, tornadoes and tsunamis type of ruining things. Beca was extremely awkward and shy and did her very best to avoid people at all cost by putting up this 'badass' persona so she'd look too intimidating to talk to. Hell, look too intimidating to even look in the same direction. She even mastered that signature eye roll and has done it so many times throughout her life she was pretty sure it was molded into her daily functions such as waving, blinking or even breathing.
But one flaw with her front she so happened to hallucinate for eighteen years is that it was in no shape or form capable of even flinching adults as they approached her. If anything, it intrigued them to learn more about her;or simply they wanted to pull a good deed and help the poor, depressed girl find herself again. Either way, Beca builded a shield-a barrier to avoid people getting in so she didn't have to lose herself and be forced to tell those bullshit sob stories you hear when you meet new people.
And though her shield has lasted her majority of her life, she was now being stripped of her barrier, going in defenseless with no weapons whatsoever and targets placed over every piece of cloth and skin her tiny frame holds.
There was no way a simple, irritated eye roll would do the duty of saving Beca tonight and also, she was surrounded by so much redhair that she felt like she was auditioning for a Raggedy Anne commercial.
After a long and much needed pep talk from Chloe which simply consisted of saying, "Beca, my parents are going to love you! What's not to love? I know it's fast….well super fast but it was bound to happen sometime right," under her will, Beca was finally forced out of Chloe's room and dragged halfway down the stairs before the redhead stopped in her tracks.
Where they were currently at on the stairs allowed Beca to get a good clear view of the Beale family in their working environment. Looking over the ledge, Chloe's mom was busy cooking up the mash potatoes at the sink as she was listening to today's pop hits on the dock while Chloe's dad was handling the steaks in the backyard as well as Clay and Chris who Beca had been so lucky to already been introduced earlier. She had her mouth occupied with something else as well as a misplaced hand inches away from groping her chest but she had the honors of meeting both of them.
"Are your brothers twins?" Beca asked as she took in Chris and Clay's physical looks. Chris had short, red hair that was gelled and blow dried to perfection which made it look ridiculously soft and he even had light, red stubble forming under his perfectly defined chin. Clay on the other hand had just as red hair but was a good amount longer and also, it was a bit curly on the ends. He had the same amount of stubble on his chin as well as Chris's facial structure. Plus with the bro tanks both of them were wearing allowed a full and clear view of how extremely tall they were and the built muscle from their arms all the way to their backs.
Chloe twisted her body from the staircase and held gently onto the railing just above Beca's hips. Even with her hands positioned this way on the rail sent Beca into a borderline seizure because the way Chloe was twisting her hands back and forth and how her knuckles would smoothly brush up against Beca's skin in the process was seriously close to entering dangerous territory.
"They get that all the time but no, they aren't." Chloe smiled faintly while watching her brothers, not noticing how close her hand was to Beca's private area. "Chris is actually older than Clay by two years." The redhead informed causally. "He's a senior and Clay is a sophomore at Barden University."
Beca nodded at the new information about her brothers. "Chris is seriously pulling some Edward Cullen hair while Clay looks like he is Juni's clone from Spy Kids." She joked.
The sounds of sweet giggles filled the staircase and Beca was sure she could die to those angelic sounds. "Look at you referencing all these movies even though you claim to hate them." Chloe playfully poked Beca in the side of the ribs, earning a squeak from the ticklish brunette.
"I do hate them," Beca clarified while straightening her posture. "I just…. had the honors of going to a high school where every fucking teenage girl was either team Jacob or team Edward that I had to research what the fuss was about."
The redhead narrowed her eyes with a grin that was threatening to break pass her lips. "And what team were you on?"
Beca scoffed at her question as if she was a hundred percent serious. "You're joking?" Chloe shook her head and that amused grin was now out in plain sight. "For your information, I was on team Neither because my type wasn't a meat head with bad acting skills or a glowing vampire who had a smaller dick than me."
Again, there was more giggles erupting from the redhead. "You packing some heat down there Becs?" Chloe nonchalantly winked at the brunette who just then regretted saying anything at all. "I know I have barely made it past first base and was on the verge of touching second but you should give me a heads up if I finally hit that double and make my way to round." There was another flirty wink. "Don't want to be surprised when a bulge is popping out of your pants-"
Beca's eyes popped out of her skull at Chloe's descriptive words. "Okay!" she cut off quickly since she was now becoming uncomfortable with the conversation and didn't want to talk about dicks anymore. Especially if that dick was placed on her. She was gay for a reason. "I do not have a dick-" Beca clarified stern. "-so you can cross off all those planned hand and blow jobs off your sexual goals list pronto."
"Well that's a shame," Chloe voice was a little disappointed and it made Beca wonder why the sudden change in emotion. "I've always been told that I was marvelous at giving those." Beca rolled her eyes in pure jealousy, not really wanting to hear about Chloe's previous sexual encounters with her ex boyfriends.
"But these guys-" The redhead retrieved her hand from the railing, allowing the brunette to relax without a hand brushing up against her junk but quickly positioned them in front of Beca's eyes and gave them a little wiggle,"-are exceptional at their work. Especially with this." She moved her hands over her mouth while Beca watched the entire movement from start to finish. She was sure she didn't even blink in the process. With Chloe's two fingers, she formed a 'v' around her mouth and seductively curved her tongue out with a slow lick and ending with a wink that made Beca's breathing hitch.
There was so much happening in Beca's body right now such as images, replaying through her brain over and over again of Chloe swiping her tongue up and down but she couldn't focus on either of them because of her labored breathing and the sudden amount heat that started to boil in the pit of her stomach and trace through her entire lower area.
Beca controlled her embarrassing, heavy breathing and pinched the bridge of her nose. "You're incorrigible."
Chloe giggled at the flustered brunette. "And you're extremely sexy."
Feeling a push of cockiness, "I can't help it," Beca said with a smirk.
"And neither can I," Chloe shot back while mirroring the same smirk but her's was a little more devilish. " Come on before we never make it downstairs."
Beca hurried to grab the redhead's arm before she could walk the rest of the way down the stairs. "They won't like...um-"Chloe turned to face Beca, curious to why she stopped her. Beca reached behind her neck and rubbed the skin in attempt to hide the all of a sudden nerves."-..tell your parents or like...a-anything right?"
"Oh totes not!" Chloe assured with confidence in her voice. The sureness in her tone took a lot of weight of the brunette's shoulders. "You don't know how many times I've caught my idiotic brothers smuggling girls into their rooms during the after hours or when they sneak out for house parties and return back drunk out of their minds or reeking of pot." She listed with a giggle and Beca stood shocked at how wild her brothers were. "If they were to rat on us, they'd simply be digging their own hole."
Beca followed Chloe to the kitchen where her mom was just finishing up setting the table with all the prepared food and dishes. It seemed so, fancy in a way and family orientated which was something Beca was never a part of growing up. She was use to a more casual setting where her dad cooks burgers on the grill while Stacie and Beca pig out on the couch, stuffing their faces with cheetos while they watch stupid reality TV shows that Stacie worryingly loves.
This was a whole new ball game and though Beca was extremely nervous and squirmy due to the fact she is having dinner with Chloe's family for the first time, it felt good to be in a different environment for the night. Also, she was pretty pumped to eat the food because everything looked like it came from a five star restaurant and served not on a plastic plates but instead, actual dishes.
Her mom was jamming out to some Katy Perry that was playing on the dock and Beca couldn't help but see an older version of Chloe in the woman. She had the same curled, red hair and was slightly taller but not by much. The only difference was her eyes were green and not that deathly blue Chloe's eyes were.
"Hey mom!" Chloe called out with a tone full of excitement. Her mom turned around with a large smile and it was almost exactly a duplicate of Chloe's. She walked over to the table to turn the music off and returned back to the duo.
"Hey Chlo I hope you're hungry." She smiled as she saw the figure behind her daughter swaying awkwardly with her hands behind her back. "You must be the Beca Chloe has been talking about based off your appearance." She pulled the brunette into a hug and Beca huffed at the sudden contact.
It actually shocked Beca that Chloe talked about her to her mom. It made Beca feel warm inside knowing she was on Chloe's mind during the time they spent apart.
Pulling away from her mom's hold, "Oh yeah….sorry about this," Beca apologized, gesturing her hand up and down with her choice of outfit. "Chloe didn't mention anything about dinner ."
"Oh don't worry Beca and please, call me Charlotte," she urged and Beca happily nodded. "And also, your outfit is fine! Chloe always has something to mention about how you dress which usually consists of, "she looks so dreamy in flannel' or, 'my body can barely handle how yummy she looks when she is in basketball shorts.'" Charlotte did her best impersonation of her daughter which earned a playful nudge and gasp from Chloe who was almost as red as her hair.
"Mom stop! I told you that in confidence!" Beca stood there in amusement as she watched Chloe and her mom banter back and forth but all around, Beca couldn't help but feel a little cocky that Chloe thought so highly of how she looked. Maybe she'd wear more flannels and basketball shorts now that she knows how it affects the redhead.
"Okay, Okay I'm sorry!" Charlotte apologized but kept a smile on her face. "I know your father wanted to meet Beca so go on and introduce them out back," her mom urged and went back to setting up the table for dinner.
They made their way out back to where Chloe's dad and brothers were and Beca instantly was slapped in the face with the delicious smell of charcoal and steaks frying.
"Hey Dad," Chloe called and he paused what he was doing on the grill and turned to face his daughter. His eyes were quickly torn from Chloe and glued onto Beca as he caught the added person standing in the back.
With narrowed eyes and a stern look on his face, "You must be Beca." Unlike Charlotte, his face didn't break into a smile and Beca was really contemplating on changing her name and making a run for it. He dropped the tongs on the rail of the grill and made his way slowly over to the frightened brunette. "What are your intentions with Chloe?"
Beca froze at the immediate question but fought her brain to think of something fast because Chloe's dad's eyes were burning a hole into her soul by the second. "I-I uhh…"
"Do you do drugs?" he quickly added another question without letting Beca finish. He also swiped off his glasses from his face, now showing his strict and stern eyes that were blue as day. If it wasn't for Beca being seconds away from pissing her pants, she'd admire where Chloe got her beautiful eyes from.
"Umm..-" Her breathing was becoming labored and her palms were beginning to sweat.
"Do you drink? Go to school? Going to college?" he kept listing off questions without letting Beca answer.
Oh God! He already hates me and I barely just met him! "Oh I-I….well um-" she was now in full on panic mode and felt her heart beat in her throat.
"Dad stop," Chloe giggled and Beca thought this whole situation was definitely not something to be laughing about. She was on the verge on convulsing. What was so funny about that? "You're already scaring her."
Her dad's face unstiffened and he broke into a smile that Beca didn't think he was capable of five seconds ago. "I'm just kidding." He grabbed the frozen brunette into his arms and pulled her in for a warm hug. Again, Beca was surprised at the amount of physical contact. Apparently, all the Beales have a lack of personal space.
Beca was able to overpass her iced face and curve up a sheepish smile at the man who just about gave her a heart attack.
He reached out his hand for Beca to grab which she happily took."Clark-" He introduced, keeping that smile plastered on his face during the entire exchange. "-it's nice to meet you Beca. I'm really not that scary."
"It's true," Chloe chimed in and agreed, "He is like a big ol' teddy bear."
Beca retracted her hand and because her nerves were still at a max high, she coughed up a nervous snicker that she managed to find in her chest. "I-I..it's uhhh.. nice to meet you M-Mr. Beale."
"Call me Clark." He insisted before turning back to the grill to finish up the steaks. Beca was glad that 'operation scare the living shit out of Beca' was over and that she finally met all of the Beales in one piece. Surprisingly enough.
"Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb come here!" Chloe shouted for her brothers who were in a deep and intense game of tackle football. Beca on the other hand, was mentally preparing herself for what nonsense her brothers were going to say about their little moment they were engaged in up in Chloe's room not too long ago.
By Chloe's voice, Clay got distracted while holding onto the football and by that, Chris took his one chance to hit him in his ribs and tackle the boy to the ground, releasing the ball with the harsh force. Cheering in victory, Chris happily took the fumbled ball without noticing his brother groaning on the grass in pain and ran over to Chloe who was wearing a devilish smirk.
"Thank ya sis," Chris finally made it up to the girls.
After a long and pathetic session of groaning and whining, Clay got up from the grass, clutching at his side where Chris recently fractured and stumbled his way over to the group.
"What the Hell Chlo-mo, I thought you were on my side?!" Clay's voice was still trying to return to normal from getting the wind knocked out of him.
"I was until you pulled a bitch move and cheated during our game of Halo! That's the last time I listen to you about taking the 'shortcut' which only resulted in driving me off a cliff!" Chloe said, smacking her brother in the gut where he got hit. All Beca could do at that moment of time was think to herself how insanely sexy Chloe sounded when she said the word bitch. Hell, it was sexy even imagining the girl get competitive over a xbox game. She was Beca's type of lady that's for damn sure.
"I want to introduce you to my friend Beca." Beca was snapped out of her thoughts when both red haired boys were staring at her intently.
"Oh we have met Beca!" Chris said, smirking at the brunette.
Beca hid her blush as she looked up into the sky and away from the strong stare Chris and Clay were giving her.
"Don't worry Becs we all know how Chloe is!" Chris threw his arm over the shoulders of the awkward brunette and brought her face into his stomach. At first thought, Beca noticed how ripped the boy was under the clothing that covered his torso and second, why the hell did this family insist on so much physical contact? "She is a super freak that can't be tamed."
"Shut up Chris!" Chloe took Beca's arm, pulling her out from under Chris's arm like she was engulfing in a game of tug-o-war. Chris hopped away before Chloe could smack him in the gut and her brothers took the quickest route into their house.
Beca sighed as she was drug back into the house and into the kitchen where everyone was starting to take their seats.
This is going to be a crazy dinner.
"Do you need any help with the dishes Charlotte?" Beca asked as she walked up to sink where Chloe's mom was getting a head start.
Dinner actually went a lot better than Beca imagined it would. Half the time was talked about how Beca and Chloe met and she even had the time to bond with Chloe's brothers. They got lost in conservation over basketball and Beca learned that they as well use to play in middle school and high school. Even Clark played a little way back then and actually, he met Chloe's mom in high school where she was a cheerleader and he was on the varsity basketball team. Beca couldn't help but replace them in his story and put her and Chloe instead since it was basically the same scenario. Beca was going to be on the basketball team, Chloe was co captain for cheer. It was inevitable that they would become high school sweethearts just like Clark and Charlotte.
The food was great, Chloe's family was a great time and overall, the night was perfect.
Not to mention the bomb ass food.
"Oh no honey." Chloe's mom answered sweetly as if she were surprised that Beca offered her assistance. "You go along with Chloe."
Beca nodded with a smile and Chloe was back to drag the girl up to her room again. Once the door was shut, Chloe wrapped her arms around Beca's shoulders and pulled her into a very much needed kiss. It was short and chaste unlike their past kisses taking place in this very room.
Chloe broke apart with a smile stretched wide across her face and she kept her eyes closed even though they were no longer kissing."I have been wanting to do that all dinner Beca Mitchell." She breathed lazily and winded. "You interacting with my family...does stuff to me."
Their foreheads were resting lightly on each other and still, Beca could feel the hot breath escaping Chloe's slightly opened mouth."Oh yeah?" Beca asked smugly.
"Mhmm," Chloe hummed, lazy smile still front and center. "I know that this is pretty amazing and I really...really like kissing you." Beca smirked at this and decided to sneak in and place another kiss on the redhead's lips before she continued talking again. "-my point exactly." She giggled adorably. "But can we like not be open about this? You and Stacie just broke up and it's really fast to jump in with a public relationship."
"Yeah sure," Beca said, agreeing with Chloe. It really only seemed like the best option for them and everything Chloe was saying was true.
"Awesome." Chloe placed one more kiss on the brunette's mouth before separating completely and skipping her way over to her stereo. "Now that's out of the way, I have a perfect song for us to sing as a duet! It's a country song-" Beca rolled her head back with a groan before Chloe could finish. "-And before you start complaining about it, just listen to what I have to say."
Beca plopped her body on Chloe's bed, readying herself for whatever nonsense Chloe was about to lecture her with regarding this so called country song.
"It's a Kenny Chesney song called "You and Tequila" and I couldn't help but think of us and the first time we actually hit it off."
Beca smiled at the memory of Chloe taking a sexy body shot at that high school house party Beca almost got arrested at. She was never really a fan of tequila but adding that with an extremely sexy redhead and a killer body that screams body shot material and she's all in.
"Ugh!" Beca slammed her back into Chloe sheets with another throaty groan. "Fine." Despite her hate for country, she ended up caving because truthfully, the story behind the song was cute.
"Yay!" Chloe cheered loudly. "Okay so I was thinking of you taking Kenny's part and I..." Chloe continued to ramble about their performance and all Beca could do was quietly think to herself.
Oh boy...
"So tell me Ms. Posen," Stacie shifted her body in Aubrey's car, leaning her back on the door while twisting her arms across her chest. After their little stroll around the park while eating froyo, Aubrey called it for the night as to the time getting to late. She had a strict curfew and loads of studying to do so even if she was enjoying herself with Stacie, she couldn't risk pushing the time even longer. "Why does a senior in high school still have a curfew? Especially a nine o'clock curfew?" Stacie asked as she focused on the blonde driving the car.
Aubrey twisted her head with a playful yet stern smile on her face. "If I told you, I'd have to kill you."
"I'll take my chances," Stacie shot back with a smug smile while Aubrey rolled her eyes, facing the road once again.
"Well as you may or may not know, my father is extremely hard on me." Aubrey admitted and her tone was shifting from playful to serious. "He constantly pushes me in school and always has ever since I was little. Losing was never an option in his eyes and he pretty much burned that philosophy into my brain and now, I'm terrified of failing. Terrified of failing in his eyes."
"Even now?" Stacie asked with full concern. "I mean, you have straight A's and are in the hardest classes one could enroll in during high school. Isn't he proud?"
Aubrey sat quietly in her seat and the car flooded with a deathly silence. The blonde was a very confident and self-assured girl-probably the most fearless person Stacie has ever had the chance of meeting but right now, for the first time since she has laid eyes on Aubrey, she saw a vulnerable, fearful girl who has lost her once powerful glow.
"With my dad," Aubrey finally spoke, breaking the silence. "-you never know when he is proud or not. I could be nominated for a Grammy or running for president and end up getting second place and all he would have to say is,'you should've tried harder'," Aubrey did her best impression of her dad and added a faint chuckle at the end. The thing was, Stacie didn't think what Aubrey was saying was funny at all. "Even if I won, it would be a shock to hear him say he was proud of me. Those words just weren't in his vocabulary. He wants me to become a anesthesiologist but I want to become a doesn't matter if what I do makes me happy because everything is about him and what he thinks he assures is the best for me." The faint sound of the blonde cocking to hold in her tears was exposing through her words and this, did nothing but break Stacie's heart.
She reached her hand over to the steering wheel and detached one of Aubrey's hands so it could be replaced with Stacie's soft, warm ones. As she brushed her thumb over the back of Aubrey's hand, the tears that were once battling their way through the blonde's iron armor finally broke through victorious and fell one by one out of those beautiful yet damaged emerald eyes.
"God, this is embarrassing," Aubrey chuckled weakly and as she did, more tears strolled down her flushed cheeks. She rushed to wipe the drops away when she stopped at the red light since her other hand was occupied and not once did Stacie dare to tear her eyes away from the blonde next to her. "I'm sorry. I hate people seeing me like this. It's pathetic."
"You wanna know something?" Stacie asked calmly, still in a daze towards the blonde. Aubrey nodded her head and began driving again. "You're like the only person I've met, or even seen in movies that looks absolutely beautiful when they cry."
It was dark outside but Stacie could faintly see the blonde blush whenever a streetlight hit her face. "Shut up," Aubrey rolled her eyes but offered the girl a smile at her compliment.
"No really! I mean it." And Stacie did. Never once did she think Aubrey was weak for spilling some tears about her father. Actually, she thought the complete opposite of that and if she wasn't falling hard enough for the girl before, she sure as hell was now. "Want to know something else?"
Aubrey nodded her head again and Stacie softly tightened her grip around the blonde's hand, making sure that the blonde knew that she was still there.
"I think that your father should be thanking his lucky stars that he has a daughter as great as you," Stacie declared with passion and so much honesty that it physically slapped Aubrey in the face. "He could have a daughter that is failing school, selling drugs as well as her body on the corner and is a coke head-"
"Confession," Aubrey cut her off and turned her face with a sported smirk. Her eyes were puffy and there was dried streams of tears running down her cheek but Stacie couldn't find one thing about her that wasn't jaw dropping.
Stacie playfully smacked Aubrey in the arm. "Don't even joke about that!" Aubrey chuckled and raised her hands to surrender. "As I was saying, I think you're the ideal perfect daughter and your father doesn't have a damn clue in his mind how lucky he really is. Also, if your dream is to be a pediatrician than nothing should get in the way of that."
"I wish what you were saying was as easy as it sounded but Stacie, you don't know him."
Stacie shrugged her shoulders in agreeance. "That is true but I've known of two people who resembled him perfectly."
Aubrey switched from looking at the road and Stacie while quirking up her eyebrow. "Who?"
Sighing loudly, Stacie leaned her head on the window, feeling the tower of insecurity inching its way closer and closer to Stacie's self esteem.
"Let me tell you about a girl who wanted to grow up to become a mad scientist and discover all the hidden planets left in the universe. Or construct her very own Frankenstein but less scary." The two girls giggled in unison while Aubrey continued to steal glances at the leggy girl next to her. Controlling her laughter, "And though those were the girl's dreams of what she wanted to become when she was older, her mom claimed that she shouldn't waste her body on dreams that wouldn't get her dates. She in fact said, taking half naked pictures on covers of magazines was the one way into a man's heart as well as being successful in life. Because clearly, your body buys gross men who become your sugar daddy with their loads of money." Stacie voice went soft and it was Aubrey's time to tighten her grip on the taller girl's hand.
"Being intelligent wasn't something guys found attractive according to her mother and even her dad agreed though his words were more degrading and said sexist things like,'even if guys wanted a smart girl, it wouldn't last long since in the field of science, just like how the two were developed, it was a man's occupation." Stacie bit her bottom lip to keep the anger flooding through her body controlled.
"Was this girl's name Stacie Conrad?" Aubrey asked with a frown.
Stacie didn't respond. Instead, she looked out the window and continued to bite the tears back that were urging for release. By this, Aubrey knew the real identity of the little girl scientist Stacie was talking about.
It was weird. Stacie hated talking about her parents with anybody besides Beca and even with her, she rarely ever brought them up because they were just a waste of air. But with Aubrey, and how she has similar problems with her father at home made it easy to come out and talk about everything she has been through. And once she let everything she cooped up in her body out in the open, it felt like a load of weight was lifted off of Stacie's shoulders and she could breath again.
"Stacie," Aubrey softly called out once she took in how much Stacie was hurting in the passenger seat. "Your parents don't know a damn thing about the real world. Don't them control your future and for sure, don't let them tell you who you can and cannot be."
"I wish what you were saying was as easy as it sounded Bree but…. you don't know them," Stacie said and instantly, Aubrey knew she was just quoting what she said earlier when they were talking about her father.
It was then, she finally realized her and Stacie weren't so different from each other and actually, they lived in the same type of environment when it came to their parents. The only difference was, Stacie stood up to them and moved out while continuing her passion she dreamt of since she was little.
Stacie shifted in her seat from looking out the window and lifted Aubrey's hand up to her mouth and placed a soft kiss on the back of their conjoined hands. "Now that you've heard my story and told me what you think I should do, take your advice and good thing will come. And if they don't, at least you're doing something you love and that's all that matters."
The car fell into a comfortable silence and Aubrey took this time to go over what Stacie said with regarding her father. Never did she imagine of ever going against her dad's words because let's face it, she was terrified of what he would say and think. But ever since this talk with Stacie, her fears were slowly fading and they continued to fade faster every time she looked into Stacie's eyes. Seeing her as such a strong and happy person after going through similar stuff Aubrey was going through only gave the blonde hope and strength to fight for what she wanted.
Especially Stacie. She gave her the hidden strength within her body she has been too scared of showing.
Aubrey pulled up to Stacie's house and parked the car out front. Expecting to just say goodbye to Stacie and be on her way, the keys in the ignition were instead twisted until the car was fully turned off and Stacie was watching her intently in the seat next to her.
"I think I have a song for our duet we can do," Stacie chimed happily and Aubrey was glad to see the girl no longer upset. "But I'll tell you after I do this." She undid her seatbelt in a swift motion and allowed her long torso to lean over the armrest and used her one finger to pull Aubrey's face close to her's. "I've been waiting all ride to do this."
And as gentle as ever, Stacie closed the distance between the two and all Aubrey could respond with was a satisfied sigh over her lips and cupping her cheek lightly while they muted out every problem in their lives and focused on the present.
Beca arrived home around nine after eating dinner with Chloe and her family. As she was exiting her jeep, she noticed an unfamiliar looking honda parked right outside her house. The headlights were off and the car seemed to be in park so she figures whoever was there was staying. Maybe her dad had some friends over or maybe he even had a lady friend staying the night.
Once the divorce happened, Beca's Dad has stayed loyal to his wife, as he did for twenty years, even though her mom cheated on him with a coworker from her job. Not once did he bring home another women or even had the audacity to talk to girls in a flirtatious manner. The divorce happened when Beca and Stacie were in middle school and really, all Beca wanted was her father to be happy so with that, her and Stacie encouraged and urged him onto dates even though he claimed he was happy.
He would say things like, "I have two amazing women living with me now. That's more than enough for me," and Stacie then would shoot back, "but we could never give you the lady goods and we all know a man's heart isn't complete without a pair of boobs," which really just made everything and the entire conversation uncomfortable. Leave it up to Stacie to reference anything sexual.
Anyways, Beca wanted her Dad to date and see other women. Her and Stacie even went out of their way to make her Dad a Tinder to see if he would match with anybody. Sadly, that idea didn't last for long when Warren kept receiving messages from younger girls calling him daddy. Immediately after the D word was thrown at him, he forced Beca and Stacie to delete it and never sign him up for a dating app again.
Parking her jeep and walking over to the silver car, Beca leaned down into the window to see if anybody was in the car. As she cupped her eyes to glance through the vehicle since the windows were slightly tinted, she was surprisingly greeted with not an empty car but in fact, a car holding two people in the driver's and passenger's side and who were also engaging in a very intense and heavy liplock.
Beca hurried to pull away from the car window, hoping to not disturb whatever was happening inside or what was in the process of. It was still extremely weird that this random car was parked right outside her house but she figured it was some drunk and horny couple who didn't have the strength to make it back home so deciding to fulfill their needs, they stopped at the nearest neighborhood to get their freak on in the car.
Walking away from the car, she proceeded her way back to the front door of her house and walked in, spotting her dad on the couch watching some TV.
"Hey Becs," Warren said when he heard the door open and close. He pressed pause on the TV so he could turn around to face his daughter walking in.
Beca dropped her items on the ground and walked over to the living room, kicking off her shoes and plopping onto the lovesac with a groan. "Hey Dad."
"How was Chloe's? You were gone for quite the time," He asked while watching Beca flopping on the beanbag. Beca spoke only once about the redhead to her father and even that was very brief. All she told him was that Chloe, luckily, was her tutor for anatomy and told him the days they would be studying.
Beca lifted her head and quietly sighed, "Yeah sorry. I had an unplanned dinner with her family."
Sounds of the door opening and keys dropping onto the counter were heard from where Beca and her Dad were sitting so they turned their head to be greeted with a dazed, leggy Stacie who stumbled her way over to the couch before plopping down on the furniture with a goofy grin on her face.
Both Beca and her Dad watched the girl from start to finish and the brunette knew they were thinking the exact same thing. Taking in her best friend's love state, "Okay, when did cupid shoot you in the ass?"
There was no response from the leggy girl and Beca was starting to wonder if Stacie was abducted by aliens and they had her real friend up there in the universe. "Hello? Earth to Stacie?" Beca tried again but this time a little louder and a little more obnoxious.
Stacie heard her this time that's for sure but before the taller girl could spill any words about her mystery love drunk phase, Beca caught and immediate glimpse of her dilated pupils and swollen lips as she lifted her head from the couch. There was even a delicate red mark which was quickly forming to bruise just under Stacie's jaw and though Beca could barely catch it with her eye, she definitely knew what this unknown person was trying to accomplish.
"Nice hickey, Stace," Beca wiggled her eyebrows while pointing her finger towards her friend's area where the red mark was flaunting. Stacie was quick to reach her hand up to her neck in attempt to cover up whatever was showing and even Beca's Dad was look around to investigate this so-called hickey.
"I didn't know you were dating anybody Stacie," Beca's Dad questioned suspiciously as he still tried to move his head so he could see under the girl's placed hand on her neck.
It was just then when everything that happened before came right back to Beca and hit her in the face all at once. The parked car, the Honda, the couple, THE KISSING. And now, a sappy Stacie present in front of her with a bulging bruise forming under her jaw.
"You and Aubrey were the make out duo I saw in the car weren't you!?"
"Guilty," Stacie expressed a grin that was a mixture between embarrassed and proud.
"Wait Aubrey? Aubrey Posen?" Warren cut in and asked when the name rang a bell in his head. Stacie simply nodded at Beca's Dad and bit her lip in bliss just at the mention of her name.
"How do you know her Dad?" Beca wondered.
"She was learning about the process of writing to colleges and needed her essays to be reviewed so luckily, I was the one to edit them." Warren clarified which earned a shocked look from both girls. It's really true when people say it's a small world. "She is a very smart young lady…..and also very good with her mouth?" Warren casually flicked his finger up to his neck in the same area where Stacie was currently covering.
"Ew no!" Beca was appalled by her father's words. Nothing sexual should ever come out of his mouth….ever. "First, don't say things like that Dad! And second, I really don't want to imagine Posen doing anything sexual with her mouth whatsoever. That's just gross and probably will scar me for the rest of my existence."
Despite what Beca just said, Stacie mouthed the words, "she really is good" to Warren and this earned a low chuckle from him and a repeated shake to his head.
"I shouldn't be having this conversation with my daughters," Warren embarrassingly chuckled. It also might come off as shocking that he used the word daughters, thus including Stacie even though she wasn't but over time, Stacie became the extra daughter he always wanted. It didn't matter if the girl was blood related or not, he treated her as if she was his own.
Deciding on changing the subject for the sake and living of her dad, "You ready for the duet Friday?"
"Actually yeah. We just picked our song and how we are going to perform it but really, I want to surprise Aubrey in a way," Stacie got lost in deep thought.
"How bout you flash her with your melons half way through the song?" Beca teased with so much amusement it was spilling out of her pores. "That would not only surprise the up tight blonde but half the people in the room."
Stacie tossed a pillow from the couch over to Beca, hitting her directly in the face. "No Beca!" She was laughing but had a serious tone. "What are you doing with Chloe?"
Beca regained her position back after being hit in the face. "Well Chloe wants to do a country song so I think."
"Beca, you said you performed live when you sang for your class the first day?" Warren asked and Beca nodded at his question, informing him that she played the piano. "Why don't you play the guitar for a change since you said you were singing a country song and there is nothing more country than an acoustic guitar soul." Beca shrugged her shoulders and pouted her lips. It wasn't a bad idea and she didn't mention her six years of guitar lessons to Chloe so it would be a pleasant surprise. "As for you Stacie, I know just like Beca, you can play the piano like Beethoven so why not pull out that?"
Stacie's eyes widened at the idea and her mouth curved into an excited grin. "That's perfect!" she chirped loudly.
"No problem girls," He was happy that he helped pull his daughters out of their slump. "Before I forget, I overheard some kids talking about your break up today."
Beca groaned and closed her eyes, swaying her her back into the bean bag she was still sitting on. "I can't believe they are already talking about it."
"Wow, we are even getting talked about in college?" Stacie said, smiling at how public their relationship was becoming. It was on the top charts of gossip.
"Remind me again why you guys you fake dated?" Warren asked, genuinely curious. "I've seen and heard many things regarding your relationship. One of them being a couple name called Steca..?" his voice showed confusion.
"No way!" Stacie cut him off with joy written all over her face. "Beca, we have a couple name! How sick is that?!"
This was the second time Beca heard this so called couple name people were giving her and Stacie and still, it didn't flatter her in any way, shape or form.
"Anyways," Warren continued despite Stacie's obvious excitement due to what he just said. "You did this all because of Chloe and Aubrey right? To make them jealous?" Beca and Stacie nodded their head in unison. "Did you ever think about the consequences that would happen if they ever found out? You basically lied to them and it wasn't just a little, white lie."
The living room was surrounded by silence as Beca and Stacie took the chance to think about what he was saying. Of course, Beca thought about what would happen if Chloe and Aubrey ever found out about their fake relationship but honestly, she never once thought about how they would react. How hurt they would feel after finding out that they were betrayed.
But now, after listening to her father, she realized that he was right. They pulled a dirty trick and lied Chloe and Aubrey into liking them. Yes, the plan ended up working and they were now kinda sorta dating them in a way but what would happen if they were to find out? How hurt would they be? Would they ever forgive her and Stacie for their lie?
There were so many questions and no possible way of changing the past. For now, all they could do was keep their lie under the sheets and away from the ears of Chloe and Aubrey. Hopefully they would able to do that without any problems in the way.
Today was the day of the duets and all the students were eagerly waiting in their seats to perform. The week went along smoothly as ever. Chloe indulged in secret make out sessions with Beca multiple times and even found the strength in her to allow some of their shared time together studying for anatomy.
Who knew that was possible for the redhead?
Aubrey also spent more time with Stacie and even found the strength in her to allow them to take breaks from studying to get froyo or watch a movie. Beca guesses that froyo was there 'thing' now. But Beca was grateful of anything to chill the hot head of her raging emotions and mood swings.
Beca walked into the choir room with Stacie, like she usually did but this time, not hand in hand. Instead, they walked side by side each other and everyone in the room was giving them worried glances and had their eyes stretched wide as they followed the duo to their seats. Beca thought is was absolutely trippy that her fake ex and her couldn't still be friends after their break up and if they were, it was some big sin. Seriously, the break up happened on Monday; four days ago and people were still wrapped around the 'travesty' as they say.
If she were to check twitter, she would have her money set on that her and Stacie's relationship would be trending.
"Hey Beca," Jesse called out for Beca and smiled at the brunette before she could get situated.
Beca smiled at the boy despite the irritation she had currently as her and Stacie were watched like hawks. She also noticed that he wasn't in his usual spot instead, he was in Beca's row and sitting next to Benji. At first it was weird since nobody really changed their seats in school from the first day but then a light bulb shinned in her head reminding her that him and Aubrey were no longer an item and instead, her best friend and Aubrey were.
Secretly.
"Hey Jes," Beca responded. She acknowledged the kid sitting next to Jesse as well. "Hey Benji."
The boy tilted his head so fast in her direction Beca was sure he got whiplash. "Hey Beca. Sorry for your break up," he genuinely apologized and it made Beca roll her eyes at the sympathy he was offering. She has had enough of that this week by other peers but Benji, overall, was a sweet kid and meant no harm by his words. Shaking it off, she said thank you and returned her focus on Jesse who still had that stupid, cheesy smile on his face that was plastered there since the first day they met.
"You wanna shoot this weekend?" He asked with a face full of hope. Beca still hadn't arranged a time for them to hang out since the day in the gym when he was all guns hot about having Beca train him in the ways of getting the ladies.
"Uhhh yeah," Beca answered slowly, not really knowing her weekend plans with Chloe yet and couldn't really tell Jesse that since they were still hanging out undercover. She just decided she'll let him know a day and a time she was free if anything. "Yeah sure."
Jesse gave Beca one last smile before the bell rang and Chloe and Aubrey made their grand, late entrance into the choir room. Aubrey flashed Jesse and tight lip smile before sitting down, unlike Chloe who threw Beca a wink, causing the brunette to blush at the gesture. Stacie nudged her shoulder into Beca's and gave her that knowing smirk while Beca dramatically rolled her eyes to shake it off.
Overall, the performances were unbelievable. Everyone was super talented and they were really fun to watch. Fat Amy and Cynthia Rose did an insane performance of Salt N Pepa's Push it where CR had majority of the class thinking she rapped for a hobby in her free time. Seriously, the girl had mad spit and could be like the next Dr. Dre or something.
Donald, Bumper, Jesse and Benji joined together and did a hysterical version of Nsync's Bye,Bye Bye which had everyone roaring with laughter at Jesse's horrible impression of Justin Timberlake and their awful choreography of the music video with the puppets. Even shy little awkward Benji had the guts to pull out some surprising bass and a scary impersonation of Lance.
And though Beca will deny it if you ask her, really enjoyed the performances and was having a lot of fun with the weirdos in the class.
"Okay, Stacie and Aubrey you guys are next," Gail chirped excitedly as she called from her clipboard with the list of pairs still waiting to perform.
Aubrey and Stacie nodded their heads and started making their way down to the floor. They were pretty excited to perform for the class and have been practicing everyday until it was perfect. But when Stacie walked to the piano unplanned and took a seat with some seat music, all Aubrey could do was watch the leggy girl in confusion, wondering why she went to the piano instead of the stools where she was currently sitting now.
"I'm figuring Stacie forgot to tell Aubrey that she could play the piano," Chloe casually asked Beca who was watching her friend in amusement.
"How could you tell?" Beca joked back. Obviously it wasn't by the puzzled face Aubrey was sporting as she watched Stacie get situated on the piano bench-like she was lost. That there just screamed confusion.
"Are you ready?" Stacie asked with a smile and was not even trying to hide the amount of delight in her face as she was carefully stared down by Aubrey's shocked yet intrigued eyes.
All Aubrey could do was nod her head lightly before Stacie took the consent and started playing the melody of their song on the piano keys.
It was slow and mellow every time Stacie grazed her fingers across each note and almost instantly, she had the room of students hypnotized by her playing, including Aubrey.
{Stacie}
I can hold my breath
I can bite my tongue
I can stay awake for days
If that's what you want
Be your number one
Stacie smiled at the blonde across from her as she got ready for her cue.
{Aubrey}
I can fake a smile
I can force a laugh
I can dance and play the part
If that's what you ask
Give you all I am
I can do it
{Stacie}
I can do it
{Both}
I can do it
They both smiled one last time before closing their eyes and getting lost in the music.
{Stacie}
But I'm only human
And I bleed when I fall down
{Both}
I'm only human
{Aubrey}
And I crash and I break down
Your words in my head, knives in my heart
You build me up and then I fall apart
'Cause I'm only human
{Aubrey}
I can turn it on
Be a good machine
{Stacie}
I can hold the weight of worlds
If that's what you need
Be your everything
{Aubrey}
I can do it
I can do it
I'll get through it
{Stacie and Aubrey}
But I'm only human
And I bleed when I fall down
I'm only human
And I crash and I break down
Your words in my head, knives in my heart
You build me up and then I fall apart
'Cause I'm only human
As soon as the song finished and Stacie faded out the last note with her eyes never leaving Aubrey's, the class erupted into the loud applause, breaking the stare apart. Everyone was in awe at the performance and the emotion brought with it left everyone physically and mentally touched. Beca knew by how Aubrey and Stacie both lost themselves in the performance, muting everyone and everything else out that there was some meaning in between the lyrics of that song and that it wasn't just some ordinary duet.
Hell, it almost brought Beca to tears and she never cries at anything. That's something to tell you about their performance for sure.
Aubrey was watching Stacie with those love struck eyes as she was picking up her sheet music and if there was no one else in the room, Beca knew the blonde would attack her friend if it was the last thing she does.
"Well done ladies," Gail said and Beca could've sworn she wiped her cheek, getting rid of some left over tears after watching Aubrey and Stacie basically pour their heart out to the class. "That was a beautiful duet." Aubrey and Stacie said their thank yous' before walking back and taking their seats.
"Dude great job!" Beca complimented when Stacie took her seat. "You totally had Aubrey head over heels with your piano playing." She joked and Stacie took the time to wink at her friend. "Last but not least, Chloe and Beca. You guys are up!" Gail announced.
The girls walked down the steps to the front of the room and just like Stacie, Beca walked over to the guitar placed in the corner and lifted it up to bring it over to one of the stools where she was sitting at. Beca, just like her friend, never said anything about playing an instrument during their duet but the idea of Beca playing a country song on a guitar, revealing a hidden talent, made something inside Chloe spark with excitement and she soon became anxious to perform.
"Copy cat," Chloe playfully smirked as she followed Beca with her eyes until the brunette was sitting right next to her and moving her way to set the guitar securely around her neck.
Finally fixing the instrument to perfection, "Where do you think she got the idea from Red?" Beca said challenging, causing the redhead to roll her eyes. "Ready?"
Chloe watched Beca ready her fingers on the guitar strings and really, she has never been more ready in her life. "Totes."
Beca started strumming the strings as if they were fragile and Chloe couldn't help but melt at how gorgeous Beca looked. With her long brown locks thrown over to one side of her head and how she lightly gnawed on her bottom lip in deep concentration was also enough to send Chloe into cardiac arrest. She loved the way Beca played the piano but adding an acoustic guitar into the equation was almost too much to handle.
{Beca}
Baby, here I am again
Kicking dust in the Canyon wind
Waiting for that sun to go down
Like always when Beca performed in front of people, she started off quiet until she built the confidence to increase her vocal volume.
{Chloe}
Made it up Mulholland Drive
Hell bent on getting high
High above the lights of town
{Chloe and Beca}
'Cause you and Tequila make me crazy
Run like poison in my blood
One more night could kill me, baby
One is one too many, one more is never enough
By this time now, Beca was confident in her voice and was showing every inch of talent through her range. Their voices blended perfectly together and if Chloe had a choice, she'd listen to girl's voice every second of every day.
{Beca}
Thirty days and thirty nights
{Both}
Been putting up a real good fight
{Beca}
And there were times I thought you'd win
{Both}
It's so easy to forget
The bitter taste the morning left
{Beca}
Swore I wouldn't go back there again
{Both}
'Cause you and Tequila make me crazy
Run like poison in my blood
One more night could kill me, baby
One is one too many, one more is never enough
{Chloe}
When it comes to you
Oh, the damage I could do
It's always your favorite sins
That do you in
{Both}
Never enough
You and Tequila
You and Tequila
"Yeeehaww!" Beca cheered loudly as she added it to the end of their duet. Chloe barked into a fit of giggles as well as the rest of the room did.
"Great job ladies!" Gail cheered along with the rest of the students. "I have to say that was a very good choice in song and I'm not saying that because she sung about my favorite beverage."
"As well as mine," Beca agreed and tossed Chloe a flirty wink before returning the guitar back to its original place.
Chloe's heart fluttered at this as she exhaled slowly. The duet was great and she got to perform with an amazing girl. She also had the chance to see that amazing girl sing a Kenny Chesney song so that by itself was like a thousand pluses.
Beca Mitchell singing a country song was something she never thinks she'd get use to no matter how many times she forces the girl to sing with her. She's not complaining though because how cute the girl looked while snarling her lip in her country accent was something that should be illegal.
"If I knew all I had to do was play a guitar and I'd have you in the palms of my hands, I would've played for you a lonnnngg time ago," Beca said in a cocky tone as she was pushed onto her bed aggressively and using her elbows to prop herself up from her position. She was soon joined by Chloe who creeped her way up Beca's body until her lips were roughly connected with Beca's and having her hands scavenge their way to the back of Beca's neck.
"Shut up," Chloe mumbled against the brunette's lips, feeling the stretch of Beca's smirk and shutting her up with a forceful swipe of her tongue to the inside of her mouth.
Craving for some dominance and having it burst inside her core, Beca gripped onto the upper parts of Chloe's arms and in a rapid motion, she switched positions and for the first time since they've been participating in this sort of activity, Beca was on top.
And did she love being on top.
She took the redhead's wrists and locked them above the girl's head before swooping in and capturing Chloe's lips once again.
The moan that vibrated through Beca's mouth at her action was nothing but music to Beca's ears. But even that didn't compare to the way Chloe squirmed underneath the tiny brunette whenever she would grind her hips forcefully into Chloe's center, threatening to shoot her off the edge at any push. Chloe was a horny, writhing mess underneath and Beca couldn't help but be pleased with her work done well.
Things were getting more and more heated the longer Beca's lips were attached to Chloe's but before things could really kick off, Beca's door was crept opened, revealing a leggy and wide eyed Stacie holding a bag of freshly popped popcorn and a soda. The kissing duo broke apart in an insanely fast amount of time but this time, Beca wasn't so worried about having Stacie walking in on her and Chloe indulging in a rather steamy make out session. They were broken up and Chloe knew that.
"Oh shit sorry!" Stacie hastily apologized and felt a wave of guilt for walking in unannounced. Beca was still straddling Chloe on her bed with her cheeks flushed, hair knotted, lips swollen with no shame whatsoever. "I'll let you two get back to whatever you were doing." She left with a wink and Beca grinned stupidly at her friend walking out.
Shaking her head, Beca leaned back down to resume things with Chloe but the girl calmly pulled her face away.
"What's wrong?" Beca lifted herself off the redhead once she saw the change in facial expression. She shifted her body to lay besides Chloe and using one arm to lean her head up on her elbow and the other she used to snake its way to the top of Chloe's stomach, rubbing it lightly.
Chloe exhaled roughly and closed her eyes. "I'm sorry," she breathed softly and it was barely audible. With her sudden change in behavior, it worried Beca a tremendous amount and she was thinking she might of did something wrong. "I don't think we should do this anymore….or at least when you're living with you ex girlfriend," Chloe admitted honestly.
Beca frowned at this. "Wait what?" Her heart took a big hit and she found it hard to breathe after what Chloe just said.
Chloe moved herself off of Beca's bed and started collecting her stuff that was on the ground. "It's just….really weird Beca. Just a week ago you and Stacie were dating and living in the same house now, you two are broken up and still, living in the same house," Chloe explained as she was making her way to collect more items. "It's just weird and I don't want to get in between that. She literally just walked in on us making out and she made a joke about it! What is not wrong about that Beca?"
"Stacie and I are cool about everything. Aubrey was even here last night," Beca said, following Chloe to the edge of her bed.
"And as for being Aubrey's best friend, she tells me everything and just like me, she isn't really comfortable with this whole idea as well," Chloe countered and walked to Beca's door.
Everything was building at once. Words from Stacie regarding her master plan to get their dream girls but mostly, her dad's words from the other night.
"Did you ever think about the consequences that would happen if they ever found out? You basically lied to them and it wasn't just a little, white lie."
This rang over and over again in Beca's mind like a broken record.
Hitting a soft spot in Beca's heart, she began to feel a pool guilt surfacing in her stomach about lying to Chloe. She never meant any harm with the idea of fake dating her best friend and really, all she wanted was the girl-Chloe, but when she finally had her, this so called 'master plan' Stacie assembled for them was back and haunting them in the worst possible way.
How would she react? Would she be upset? Would she be angry? Would she end up hating Beca? Would they ever be the same? Would their friendship ever be the same?
All these questions were flooding Beca's mind as she watched the redhead make her way to the door. She never meant for any of this to happen and the thought of Chloe ever being hurt by this fucked up plan tore apart Beca's insides to her core.
What was she going to do?
Chloe stopped before exiting the room and twisted her body to face Beca who was stone cold on the edge of her bed, trying to process everything that was happening.
"I'm sorry Beca," she genuinely apologized with a frown. "Maybe if things were different we could be something."
"But we can be something!" Beca said, snapping out of her thoughts and walking her way over to where Chloe was standing.
"No Beca we can't. It doesn't feel right with Stacie and-"
Slipping before she had the chance to catch her words, "Stacie and I were never in a relationship!" And just like that, word vomit spilled its way directly out of Beca's mouth and her dirty lie was now out in the open for Chloe to see.
The redhead was taken back by this. "Excuse me?" Her once soft and sad voice was quickly transforming into stern, angry words laced with venom.
"Stacie and I were in a fake relationship..." It was barely loud enough for Chloe to hear but any higher in volume would break the brunette and she was sure she wouldn't be able to get her voice up even if she tried.
"Let me get this straight," Beca's eyes were glued onto her hands, looking like a puppy about to be put in time out but even without having eye contact with the redhead, Beca knew she was upset. "You lied to everyone…. actually scratch that, you lied to me and made me and even Aubrey believe you two were an actual couple?"
Feeling the need to at least look at Chloe while her heart breaks in two because Beca is number one in the dumb ass department, she broke her gaze on her hands and up to Chloe who was staring at her, eyes glistening with tears.
"Answer me, Beca." By this, the brunette knew for sure Chloe was angry and this, was what Beca didn't want to happen.
"Yes," Beca croaked out, her eyes now starting to get a little misty from looking at Chloe's.
"Why?" It was sharp and scared Beca at how harsh the redhead was capable of being. When you look at her all you see is puppies and cotton candy but now, replace those with dragons and butcher knives and you have yourself an angry Chloe Beale. Also a little bit of fire in the background.
"Because we wanted to make you and Aubrey jealous." Beca admitted embarrassingly. She was surprised at her blunt honesty.
Chloe rolled her eyes and Beca could see the muscles in her jaw forcefully clench. "What the fuck Beca? What makes you think this was an okay thing to do?" Oh shit. She was pissed and Beca felt awful. Never, did Chloe curse. It sounded just weird hearing now and knowing Beca was the cause of it was eating her alive.
The thing was, Beca wasn't thinking. Her nor Stacie. All they thought about was that first place prize once they cross the finish line of the race but never once about the second, third and last place spot and what they would receive in constellation. They weren't thinking and if Beca was being honest to herself since she was on a roll at the moment, she'd say that what Stacie and her did was a selfish move on their part.
"We just wanted you and Aubrey. I-I wanted you." Beca was beginning to stumble on her words. She felt bad about the situation from the moment it slipped from her mouth. It wasn't until a single tear rolled down Chloe's cheek as she was trying to bite them back when Beca felt everything in her body go completely numb and felt like she was dying.
"Well now you don't have me or a fake girlfriend," Her voice was jabbed into Beca's heart like a spear and she wiped away the tear that fell from her saddened blue eyes and was placed on her cheek. "Congrats."
And then, like an illusion,
She was gone.
Don't mind me. Just emotionally eating my heart out. *sniff*
Feel free to leave me stuff.
Songs: Christina Perri-Human (Stacie's and Aubrey's) You and Tequila-Kenny Chesney Feat. Grace Potter (Chloe's and Beca's) Each song I tried really hard to relate to the girls in some way. Hopefully I did the duty!
Till next time lovelies,
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