# CHAPTER 11
REMINDER: This inner monologue from Beca started at 11 am where she and Chloe settled at the rooftop. Where also, Stacie still not awake base on the time intervals. So basically, the thing that happened to her on the prev chapter is not yet happening at this moment. UNLESS EVERYONE WILL GET CONFUSE.
Beca's POV
Because the dormitory is still close and it will only open at 9 pm, so Chloe and I decided to stay at the roof top. I'm lucky I got my bag before the dormitory totally close this morning. I also took my guitar but I already put it on the DJ station. I'm planning to have a live performance tonight. This was unplanned but I told Luke about it and he told me I can do that but I just need to make sure that I will not going to mess up at my first day.
We still don't have any news about Stacie and I still don't know why I don't have anything to worry about here. Maybe she's sick of getting affection from others and it irritates me a lot. Or maybe she's just missing hours ago and not totally declared as missing. I don't know. I may sound ridicule but we're not that really close for her to worry. Rude? Fine.
Anyway, Chloe's here with me at my favorite spot of the University. Her eyes close while listening to my dedicated set list for her. I constantly capturing her a photo, I don't know why but I felt the urge to take her some photos. She's so beautiful to miss my phone.
I bit my lip in anticipation as I saw a very nice angle in front of her, then suddenly she opened her eyes that made me stand straight and hide my phone at my back.
"Babe."
"What? I'm not doing anything." I pressed my lips together as I walked at the aisle of the garden. I know she can't hear me because of the headphone that stuck on her head.
"Come here please." She said sleepily. Her eyes closed again. I gulped. I walked towards her and sat beside her. She took a glance of me before closing her eyes again. It's just a brief but I saw how bright her eyes could be. "Your choice of songs makes me love you even more." She mumbled as she swayed her head a little in the rhythm of the song.
"I never been more attracted to you before." I smirked and kissed her knuckles. I know she can't hear me nor know if I'm speaking but who cares. I'm really attracted to her in her simplest form and this is too much to bear. I can look at her the whole day.
God.
Okay. How can I act like I'm not drooling on her or unlike a pervert? And normal at all?
I poke her hand to catch her attention. She looked at me and lowered the headphones around her neck.
"What is it?" She innocently asked. She's lying on the grassy part of the Botanical Garden while her bag on the back of her head and I'm sitting next to her.
"You're not mad at me anymore, right?" I asked softly. Trying my best not to be weird. She smiled at me and shook her head. I smiled at her from ear to ear and kiss her hand many times. "God, I won't tell a joke anymore." She giggled.
"I think of it as a torture for you so I better drop it now." She chuckled. "Just one last kiss from her and I'll make sure she will gonna be bald."
She's really hot when she's jealous.
I gulped before answering,
"Yes ma'am." I grinned. She was about to take the headphones back but I stopped her. "Wait."
"What?"
"I know you love my set list so much that you don't want to see me if possible," She chuckled. "But we need to talk for some things." I teased.
"Okay." She sat up and put the headphones down. "What is it?"
"We're going to Japan this weekend."
"We?"
"We." I said. "You, me and the others."
"Oh." She purred. "Why?"
"We have a mission impossible." I winked. She rolled her eyes. "We have a meeting later night. You can join us and stay in the HQ with me. You know. Some adventures."
"But I don't have an updated passport."
"It's not a problem at all, Chlo. We can fake that."
"Really?"
"Jessica is great on faking everything with Aubrey. I don't know how was it possible but we already done that many times. I only know is Aubrey will going to program someone's living identity then change it into our faces. You know. Computer stuffs."
"I remembered the time I stayed on Aubrey's apartment. I can't look around without being dizzy. She has so many computers and weird stuffs that I first time saw in my entire life."
"That geek is really weird." We both sighed and looked at each other before laughing.
After seconds of recovering, she spoke.
"Is she working with you?" She asked that made me raise my eyebrows.
"Nah. Like what they told you before, they don't have a salary or what from Mafia. Also, me. I'm not getting anything from Mafia but I handle it. Occasionally, I'm attending family meetings. Mafia meeting. Reapers meeting. Barden meeting. Company meeting but nothing more. My father wants to give me salary but that's just 1/32 of what I'm getting every month. We, my co-reapers. We have different types of how we will get a money with our own. And that's why we're working together." I said proudly. I can't give her any hint of what work we're doing but I'm confident that she will not going to know anything about it.
"Oh. So how much is your salary then?" She asked with full of interest. I see in her eyes how determine she was on asking me but also being careful to ask unnecessary things.
"Hmm. I think, enough to make you and I live together in a big mansion plus a money for our children." I said and she gasped surprisingly.
"Wow."
"I put the half of my salary this month on your account, in case-
"What?" She cutted.
"What?"
"I mean.. are you saying you're now buying me?" She purred and looked at me intently. I gulped and divert my look in my hand.
"Uhm.. That's just in case you need something and I'm not around. You know."
"I'm willing to be bought though." She whispered.
"God Chlo." I muttered.
"I'm on sale." She said but before she do what I think she will going to do, I stood up straight and distance to her. I turned around and looked outside the glass wall.
I saw the quadrangle full of rides like roller coaster around the quadrangle then to the oval, a 200 feet Ferris Wheel I think and so many more that you can see in an ordinary amusement park. There's a barricade around the oval to the quad. It means that there's an entrance fee for that. It's worth it though because there's a lot of thing you can enjoy inside like what different clubs that had been prepared for everyone.
I felt arms wrapped around my waist and a head rested on my shoulder. "Even you're free Chlo, I won't allow myself to give you a price tag. Or anyone else. You're not my bitch or anything. You're my girlfriend and soon to be wife."
"Why you're always making me feel this way?" She whispered on my ears.
"Because I love you.." I felt her smile. I smiled too. "Come on Chlo. Let's enjoy the entire event." I said and was about to pull away when she stopped me.
"No. Stay for a while." Chloe said. I felt her heartbeat on my skin. "I'm sorry that I didn't ask your permission for my hair." She sighed. "I want to surprise you."
"Well, better remind me when was the time I get really mad at you?" I giggled. Well, I get mad at her this past few week, I think it's because of my mood or anything but I couldn't handle my patience that time. "You really surprise me. I like it- no. I love it."
"Thank god. I'm really thinking of what if you don't like it, how will I going to make it natural again.." She rambling and I smirked as I turned around. I looked at her intently on her very bright eyes.
"You know Chlo, even you're hairless or what, even you're not on your usual make up, doesn't have a equal eyebrows or just wrapped by a plastic bags only, you're still the most attractive person I know. If there's an award for the most gorgeous face in the entire face of the earth, I'll go buy the title for you." She rolled her eyes and slapped my arm softly as we both laughed. "Seriously Chloe."
"Okay, Mitchell. I concede. Just stop being so cheesy. Let's go?" She pulled my hand but I pulled her for a deep but tender, quick kiss before I proceed to take my things together. "Alright. Let's get the shit and make ourselves not caught by the jail bastards outside. Or maybe let's make sure there's someone who can bail us out." She's talking about the Jail Breakers that associates with the Campus Security. There are people who will going to give a piece of paper with a category of who are they going to catch. Of course, it's not free. Specific person is 3$, per category is 0.35$ and bail is 3$. For example, they will going to announce it in the big LED screen here and everywhere around Barden like 'WARNING: Girl who's wearing flip flops' or 'WARNING: Everyone who's wearing wrist watch'. I looked at her and gave her a smug look before waving my ID with a word 'unprisonable'.
"I bought this a while before getting here." I said and she smiled.
"Okay happy go lucky, let's go now." She took her bag and enthusiastically ran out of the roof top. I shook my head before following her.
Ashley's POV
I'm here at the quad with Jessica and Emily. We're sitting in one of the stools here in the food stall while eating sausage. We talked about the disappearance of Stacie and Emily looks so irritated.
"Emily." I called her. Jessica was in between us.
"What?" She replied irritately. I'm sensing something.
"Are you part of this shit?" I straight forwardly said. She looked at me with her one brow up.
"Why would I be part of shit?"
"Come on let's be honest."
"I'm not doing anything Ash. I don't like what you're accusing me."
"I may sounds like that but you look suspicious-
"Because you're intimidating me. Stacie and I were already done. Why would I do that to her? Why would I kidnap her huh?"
"Because she's still bothering you? And she's not stopping from begging you to come back? What else?"
"Oh Jesus." She held her temple before speaking again. "I will never be a part of those suspects of yours Ash, okay? Maybe she's just with her parent or what and she forgot to tell them. Maybe she got an emergency phone call. We can't consider someone's disappearance 'missing' without being 24 hours missing. Dude. You know that kind of police process, right? Don't act ridiculous because of her."
Maybe she's right. Some of Stacie's team are worrying of her sudden disappearance and we can't help but to be worried too but maybe we're just overreacting to this kind of situation.
But I'll keep my eyes open to this girl.
"What about CR? They are close." Jessica mumbled.
"Cynthia is sick." Emily blurted. "I went to her room earlier this morning after my shoot just to ask what's new about Chloe's records and I saw her lying in her bed alone. She told me she's sick but she will try to take some details about her so I didn't bother her anymore."
"You're doing a separate investigation to Chloe without Beca's permission?" Jessica skeptically asked. We're not allow to investigate anything about anyone without Beca's permission especially when it comes to her girl.
"We can't trust Beca right now. She's insane." Then suddenly I heard Jessica's laugh.
"Seriously?" Jessica said in awe. "Why don't you investigate each other first?" She said that made Emily raised her eyebrows. "Let me clear something Emily. Please don't find someone's dirt while you still have that dirt in you." Jessica purred. "I know what you're doing." Then she turned her gaze to me. "Even you." I startled. "I'll excuse myself before I get suffocated to this kind of drowning situation." She stood up and walked away. She knew what I'm doing? What's suspicious about? I'm just taking care of the girl who's maybe a key of all this Genesis shit. She saw Flo on the other side and get along with her.
"I really don't know who's weird. Is it really me?" Emily asked herself.
"We need someone to stand up in Beca. She's relying to Chloe so much. She thought-
"Shut up, Ash." Emily cut me off. I gave her a look. "We both know you're not standing against Chloe."
"Yeah. And I'm not standing against Beca either. Anyway, speaking of the hot couple, Aubrey texted that we have a meeting later night with Chloe. What's with that?"
"I don't have any idea yet."
"Then maybe we could try the voting process with Chloe. We can corner her without Beca noticing it."
"Anything that can make things clear."
"Ready your questions then. I'll do mine."
Then Fat Amy came with a pizza and coke in hand.
"Hey. What's in here?" She grabbed my sandwich and put it inside her bag. Emily looked at her in confusion before offering her a sandwich. Fat Amy didn't hesitate to take her offer and immediately grabbed it and put it inside her bag.
"We're planning for some interrogation tonight for Chloe. She's in the meeting tonight so maybe it's our chance to ask her what will make our mind clear." I said.
"Well, as for me. You don't have to worry about Beca anymore." Fat Amy said.
"What?" Emily asked skeptically. "You're the one who told me you saw Beca cheating constantly, right?" I have an idea of they're talking about but Amy being sure of what's she's saying is now making me clueless.
"Yep. And it's a wrong info. It's not Jean. It's the intruder who's constantly walking in and out of Beca's dorm. We made it clear this morning with Beca. She told us that she's not sleeping with her, well. She slept with her once but she's drunk that time."
"And you believe it?" Emily asked with a doubt on her voice. I can't blame her. Beca is unpredictable.
"Yes." Fat Amy smiled. "The intruder leaves a code in Palindrome Latin form that means, 'we go wandering at night and are consumed by fire'. We still don't know what it means because it has no many meaning but I think it's about Beca and Chloe. So, they need to be secure. We'll discuss it again later."
"Okay. Who's with you in the announcement earlier?" I asked and looked at Emily. Fat Amy gave me a confuse look but I know she gets me because she's with me all the time when it comes to crimes and it's normal for me to ask questions because of my observation skills.
"Actually, I'm with Beca and Flo early in the morning. I think 6. We took a quick jog around Barden then went to the coffee shop to take a breakfast st 6:30. We talked there. That's the time we both knew the assumptions are wrong. Then we decided to go to your club at 7:15 which surprise us because Aubrey and Lilly was there. They told us about the announcement."
"Lilly and Aubrey only?"
"Yep. Why? Is there something wrong?"
"Stacie is missing."
"Oh." Then she took a glance to Emily who just groaned at her and rolled her eyes on me.
"Okay, to clear your doubts, ladies. I'm in my shoot at 6. I went there 5 to prepare. Then I'm done of 5 different shots at 7:30. I saw a stunning Chloe get in of the green room. And I swear, I stayed there until her 2nd shot. After her 2nd shot I send everyone except Beca a photo of Chloe in a silver silk robe." I took my phone out of my pocket and I saw her unread message. She really send me a photo of a... blonde Chloe? Wait. "Dude. That's fucking sexy and I almost drool but when I remember Beca, I texted her to come to the Photography Club and she did. I decided to leave Beca there when her 2nd shot was done. So I left the green room exactly Chloe's touch up in the beginning of 3rd shot. I think it's 7:40 or 7: 50. Then I went to Cynthia Rose's dorm."
"Passed 8 pm was the exact time Stacie disappeared Em."
"What?!" She exclaimed. "Ashley, look. I can't see any point of why I will going to kidnap her-
"Maybe kill her."
"What the fuck? Then show me you're evidence then! You're pissing the he'll out of me."
"Okay guys calm down." Fat Amy blurted.
"If I see that there's hole in you. I'll make sure to tell your parents about this."
"Go then. Let's see." She smirked and gulped her bottled milk. "Anyway, to make your wonderment wider, Beca acted weird against Jessica when Jessica told her about Stacie. She told me earlier that Beca is not even worrying about her. Even a little. Isn't suspicious? They are friends after all." She's still smirking.
"Okay, for me, that reaction is really fine with me if you don't really care about the person." Fat Amy shrugged. "No offense okay? But Stacie and Beca will never gonna be a thing. Stacie is 5'8 and Beca is just... 5'2 with a huge thing between her legs and don't tell me about 'height doesn't matter'. It really matter when it comes to relationship just like my boyfriend, he's 5'7 and I'm 5'3-
"Boyfriend?" Emily asked while raising her eyebrows.
"What? I said toy friend. Anyway, it's just my opinion. Don't worry too much. Save that for later's meeting. Bye!" And she's gone.
Then I heard a click from Emily's side.
"What the fuck?!" Emily growled at the two Campus Security who restraint her with metal cuffs. One of them point out the screen.
WARNING: Girls wearing croptop.
Oh-uh.
"Sorry Em." I said while laughing as she groaned and concede.
"Don't touch me!" She yelled. Oh well.
Beca's POV
Because I'm going to be a DJ hours from now. I'm getting nervous and excited at the same time. I'm here at the DJ's station with Chloe and the tandem DJ that will going to take over the afternoon shift which is 1-5 pm. We're waiting for Luke who's going to be out in any time by now.
Then I heard someone yelling. "Is it really a big deal to you?!" The short haired girl yelled. Chloe gave them a look.
"Calm down. Don't show your attitude here, Joanna." The long haired girl said. They are in their matching clothes. The long haired girl which Meca, a youtuber, is wearing a denim blazer and a white shirt, black jeans. The short haired girl which is Joanna, her youtuber partner is wearing a denim longsleeves and underneath it is a white lowcut top and a black jeans. They have a same shoes which adored by Chloe. Which I told her that the girls and I have a same color of shoes everytime we're attending an events. She just gave me an incredulous look. Joanna let herself stumbled back on her seat.
"I'm so exhausted today even we're not yet starting." Joanna whined.
"It's because you're not sleeping at night." Meca pleaded that made the other girl rolled her eyes.
"It's given I know."
"I let you take over the rave but it doesn't mean you'll drug yourself up and-
"Shut up, okay? If you just want to brag to everyone that you gave me your event to me then go. Announce it. I'm sorry that fucked up. I'm not as perfect as you." Joanna said and was about to walk out when Luke came. Chloe squeezed my hand. Joanna went back from her seat.
"My set is still running. I hope you two are ready?" He asked and the both of them nodded frantically but smile afterwards like there's nothing happened a while ago. "Alright. Settle your mix set then." He turned around and looked at me. "And you, Beca, right?" I nodded. "Exactly 4 pm. Go back here and ready your set up. You told me a while ago that you're going-
"Yes, Luke." I cut him off. No for revelation buddy. Chloe's here. I gave him a she's-here-look and grinned. She looked at Chloe and raises his eyebrows as she check her. "Uhm. Luke, this is Chloe. My girlfriend." I looked at Chloe who's looking at Luke. "Chloe this is Luke. The Radio Club Head."
"I think we already met before?" Luke said as he examine Chloe. I furrowed my eyebrows.
"Yeah. In the auction." Chloe said that made my confusion worse.
Auction?
"Oh yeah, right." He smiled and put his hands inside her pocket then he looked at me. "I need to go before your DJ smack me in the face. Nice meeting you again, Chloe." Then he got out of the station. The two DJ starts to climb the spiral staircase up to the 30 feet high small stage for the DJ's set.
"That's cool huh?" I mumbled.
"What?"
"You know him."
"Oh no, Becs. We really don't know each other much. I just met him in the auction. That's it." I didn't speak and she gave me a look. "Don't tell me you're jealous?" She scoffed. I rolled my eyes.
"Nah. I'm just asking." I chuckled. Why would I be jealous? "Come on and let's have some lunch." I said and pulled her outside the barriers of DJ's station. We went to the nearest food stall and we saw Jessica and Flo eating their tacos.
Taco.
I immediately pulled Chloe towards them. At first they are suprise to see us especially when Flo saw Chloe but when I ran towards the taco bell stall and let Chloe stays with them, they looked at me.
God.
I never eat taco for months. I immediately ordered three taco.
"That's her favorite food, Chlo. Don't be weird." I heard Flo giggled. After what happened to the camp, Flo and Chloe is getting close to each other. And I can't say anything about that, Chloe is like a sun rays in the rainy days. "You look gorgeous, anyway." Flo complimented as she offered Chloe a seat. "Sit."
"Thanks." Chloe said and sat beside them.
I looked at the boy in charge. "Can you please take my orders over there?"
"Sure." He smiled at me and began to ready my food.
"Thanks." I smiled at him before rushing to their table. Few people is staring at Chloe so I grab the chance that she's not looking at me and I kiss her cheek before sitting next to her. She surprisingly giggled and playfully smack my arm.
"I guess, you're up on your shoot Chlo." Jessica asked as she took a sip of her juice.
"Yeah. And I think it's going to be great." She smirked.
"Well, you really look good." Jessica complimented that made Chloe chuckle. "Anyway, did Beca told you about tonight's meeting?"
"Yes. I'll attend it. My next shoot is Wednesday though so I can sleep over on your HQ."
Flo's jaw dropped and she looked at me.
"Beca, you know what I'm thinking right?" Flo asked that caught Chloe's attention.
"She won't touch or barge anything Flo. Don't worry about that." I gave her a reassuring smile. Chloe elbowed me. I looked back on her.
"What's that?"
"She's talking about rooms you don't need or want to know." I winked. I hope she get it. She shrugged it off and we listened to the new DJs in station. We looked up and saw them.
"Good afternoon people of Barden University!" They both shouted in the crowd that made everyone scream in enthusiasm. I can't do that kind of hype.
"I'm MJ." Meca introduced.
"And I'm DJ." Joanna introduced.
"And we are the great tandem of your afternoon the entire week! MJ&DJ in the house!" They both shouted again.
"So we're here not to be a DJ alone but to be the host of this entire week." Meca said.
"As you can see we have an official hashtag on the screen. Hashtag Barden Week with MJDJ." Joanna declared.
"We're live on youtube too. So go tweet that hashtag and we'll go read your dedications and request here." Meca said.
"As much as we have your songs in our list then let's give it a bang!" Joanna said that made Meca look at her. Joanna laughed at her and playfully shrugged it off. Meca grabbed her phone and check it.
"Alright. Let's proceed to our first... tweeter. Oh. Sweet. From nothingbutred." She said that made us look at Chloe who's smiling over her phone.
Oh.
"Oh. I think we saw these hotties a while ago." Joanna complimented as if she saw something on the phone. I looked up on them again.
"We did." Meca smirked. "She posted a photo of herself with her girl huh.. and she said, '#BardenWeekMJDJ pls dont post it on ur screen, thats my girl on my left and I wanna dedicate to her Water Under The Bridge of Adele. Thanks.' I like that kind of tweet." Meca said and put her headphones on.
"We can also post on the screen your screenshot tweets for dedications." Joanna said as she put her headphones on too. Then seconds after, I heard the intro of unfamiliar song.
I'm not an Adele fan tho.
I looked at Chloe who spoke. "Oh. I finally heard the great version of this song." She mumbled as she looked up the DJs. Then she looked at me while grinning. "If you're not the one for me, then I come I can bring you to your knees." She sang along while looking intently at me.
Oh holy shit.
I looked away exactly my order came. Thank god. I gave Chloe the other one without looking.
Then someone snatched the food in my hand when I'm about to take a bite.
Tsk.
I looked at her.
"Hi Becs." Fat Amy approached that made me groan. She sat across me. "I can't find my boyfriend so I went here."
"Boyfriend?" Jessica and Flo asked in chorus.
"I said friend! You two need to have some check up about hearing. You know. Anyway." She grinned when she take a look at me and Chloe.
Geez. "What?"
"Chloe will going to be with me tonight."
"Oh no." Jessica purred and looked at Chloe. "That's really a bad idea."
"Nah. I think that's sexy. Go to the Book Lover's Club in 4 for some touch up."
"Sexy?" I asked out. What's sexy in reading books?
"You'll going to see later DJ." Fat Amy smirked that made Jessica face palm.
"Okay. I still have no idea about that babe. So if I seduce the people to enter the club then it's not my fault." Chloe rambling that made me glared at Amy. I think I have an idea now.
"Chloe on time okay? Bye!" Fat Amy immediately ran out of our sight.
"Tell me Jessica. What's with that club?" I finally asked Jessica.
"Fat Amy has a marketing style so she hired the hotties like Em, Stacie and Chloe. She will going to make them wear a... very short skirt and... very tight uniform."
Chloe widen her eyes as I look at her. She then covered her face while laughing.
I felt my cheek burning.
"Okay. I'm gonna find something cold." I stood up. "And I'll make sure that fat blondie will going to jail the entire day."