"Has anyone seen Beca today?" Chloe asks the Bella's during lunch, but no one seems to. Chloe sighs and it feels like her stomach just turned. She puts her barely used plate in the sink and walks out the door. She needs air.

Chloe walks to the only quiet place she knows here on campus. It's a little field with maybe two trees and half a picnic bench, not that far away from Beca's radio station. She peeked inside from a distance, but the lights were off and that was enough reason to continue her pace. She sat herself down at the tree in the middle of the field and her hands started pulling out some grass. The grass looked rotten and it left its green and black marks on the red head's hands. '

Great' she signed. But at least there were no traces of vomit on this place, which is unlike literally any other place on campus.

She looks down at her soiled hands and only then realizes she's been crying for a while; her trousers covered in loose spots of tears and her shirt being hit a few times as well. The girl quickly wipes her face clean; not as if anyone's around to see it, but just because she does not want to cry. Not over something stupid like this. Not over Beca.

The crying stops, but her thoughts keep wondering. She knew it was a stressful time, for all of them. With graduation coming up and everything that's been going on with the Bella's, she understands Beca must be under great pressure. And the girl knew all too well that Beca was not good with pressure, so she didn't force her to talk to her. She never did. But what she would do, was leaving little hints and spaces for Beca to tell her things. That usually worked, but not this time.

She's been keeping things from her for so long now, Chloe starts to think Beca may never tell her what's going on in that pretty, little head of hers. It's not like she would've expected otherwise from the closed girl; she was never one to just talk about what was going on. Tell the whole world what her thoughts and feelings were. But Chloe just thought the two of them had passed that stage. Beca and her grew closer and closer over the course of the last three years. Beca told her more things than anyone, even Jesse, which made Chloe feel a special way.

About an hour after the red head had arrived, she calmly leaves the field. She's in no rush to get back, but she feels numbed by the cold and a hot shower would certainly be nice right now. When she gets to the house, she searched the room. She's met with many smiling faces. But no Beca.

Chloe walks down the stairs of the Bella's House, not fully awake yet, but you don't have to be if you need to pee in the middle of the night. She's almost made it to the bathroom when she hears a noise coming from the kitchen. Chloe being Chloe, she's more curious than scared, so she walks towards the kitchen and stops when she sees who the noise is coming from.

"Hey you." She leans against the wall with her arms crossed. "What are you doing?"

"Oh sorry, did I wake you?" The brunette replies.

Chloe notices the bottle of vodka in her one hand that Beca's trying to hide behind her back, but fails to. "No, you didn't." is all she brings out. She keeps her eyes on Beca, who's just staring into nothingness while nodding her head. "So.. I didn't hear you get in last night."

"Oh, no, I got in like an hour ago." Beca replies while looking at the clock in the kitchen.

Chloe follows her gaze and sees it's almost four thirty. Disappointed as she is in the girl, she walks over to her and takes the bottle out of her hand. She takes a big gulp and keeps her eyes in front of her, even though she feels the brunette's eyes burning on the side of her face. She wants to talk, ask her what she's been doing all night, where she's been.. But it's Beca. It's Beca with a bottle of booze, which basically screams '

Don't talk to me'. So she doesn't.

Beca takes the bottle out of the ginger's hands and they go back and forth until the bottle is almost empty.

"If you wanna yell at me, yell at me. But don't just sit there." Beca brings out irritated.

"I don't wanna yell at you." Chloe replies calm. This is not the first time she's dealt with an intoxicated Beca.

"God you're so annoying!"

Chloe watches Beca push some things over and then, gone she is. She lets her head fall and sighs, but with a smile. Because at least Beca didn't down that bottle on her own. And at least she's safe in her own bed now. And- 'oh shit' Chloe whispers as she makes a run for the toilet. She probably should have gone before walking into that kitchen..

A few hours later, Chloe watches a hungover Beca stumble down the stairs. She can't help it but stare with a huge smile on her face, which she hides, of course, when Beca walks into the room.

"Morning." Beca mumbles before crashing onto the couch next to the girl.

"Good afternoon, actually." Chloe grins, but gets nothing in return. "I sent all the girls to dance practice. I hope that's okay."

"Yes. God yes, I need quietness. And they're anything but quiet." Beca lets her head fall down on Chloe's shoulder, immediately sending a shiver down Chloe's spine, making her body tense up, but relaxes again when she tells herself '

stop it, it's just Beca'. They stay like that for a while, before, to Chloe's surprise, Beca breaks the silence.

"Sorry for last night. I didn't.."

"It's alright." Chloe brings out. She doesn't wanna let the brunette look for words when she already knows what she'd say. '

I didn't mean to take it out on you. I was just drunk.' Something along those lines. Surely nothing of depth as to why she was drinking or why she was out that late. Which, Chloe realizes, she still wants to know. Beca's not drunk anymore, so there's no more excuses. That is until she suddenly feels Beca cuddle up into her side and she instantly forgets everything that was on her mind.

"Good."

It was simple. Like Beca herself. But the way she whispered it into Chloe's neck, the way her breath felt warm and soft at her skin, made Chloe's feelings anything but simple. But she quickly shakes those off. For being with Beca right here in this moment is all that matters to the girl.

Chloe sees Beca come through the door with a worried look.

"What am I looking at?"

Chloe quickly jumps off the couch and faces the girl. She's pretty sure her eyes linger on the girl's body a little too long, but that's because Beca looks really good in red. As she explains the current event to the brunette, Chloe's sure she sees Beca's eyes wonder to her legs and it's only then that she realizes she's .. not wearing pants. '

Good call, Beale' she thinks, beating herself down mentally. Beca found an invite to something mysterious on her way in, and although the card is aca-scary, she would do anything to spend more time with the girl.

The other Bella's continue their pillow fight as Chloe follows Beca up to her room. She places herself on Beca's bed and watches the girl change into more comfortable clothes.

"You look good today." Chloe brings out, realizing as the words leave her mouth it's maybe not the right time, because Beca just kicked out her pants and is giving Chloe this weirded-out look. "I mean, you look better." Because that's what she meant. Even though, yes, Beca looked smoking. She didn't mean the words like that.

"Thanks, weirdo." Beca smiled at her while throwing a hoodie over her head and placing herself on the bed next to the red head.

"I mean.. Better than a few days ago, you know. You look happier." Chloe explains.

"Yeah I feel better, too. I'd been dreading to take care of some things and now I finally did, so. That's good. I'm good."

"That is good." Chloe replies, awaiting of some more, but that hope drains out by the minute as Beca stays quiet. Chloe decides to just be happy that Beca is back to telling her things. Even if it's as little as this. The girls both lay down on the bed, side by side, staring at the ceiling as if they're watching a sky full of stars. After a few minutes, Beca's hand find its way into Chloe's and their fingers intertwine. Chloe's sure now Beca will tell her more when she's ready.

The girls are both awaked by the Bella's bursting through Beca's door, yelling something about how they had to hurry and get ready. Something about an invite, Chloe believes to hear. But they're out as fast as they came in, except for Fat Amy who decided to hang around.

"So, what's going on in here?" Fat Amy asks playfully.

"Oh, we must have dozed off." Chloe explains as she gets her arm off of Beca, wondering how that even got there. Wondering how Beca even got there. She can't remember Beca cuddling up into her neck and throwing one leg over Chloe's body. Not that she's complaining though.

"Yeah.. Dozed off.." Fat Amy nods as she watches the two girls untangle themselves from one another. "Well you should probably hurry up, cause we gotta be at the sexy mystery thing in five."

"In five?!" Beca throws back while jumping out of bed.

"Yeah, you guys look fine okay. Just, like comb the sex out of your hair and you'll be good." Fat Amy says while walking towards the door.

"What?" Chloe brings out, because really, what else could she have replied to that?

"What? I said comb the sleep out of your hair? Don't make it weird." Fat Amy screams while she's halfway down the stairs.

The Bella's arrive at the mysterious place and Beca has to make a fart noise to get them in. While she does, Beca's bend over all sexy like and Chloe can't help but check her out real quick. Unconsciously, of course. But she looks away real quick and she's sure no one has seen it. They get let in and apparently it's some sort of secret riff-off. Bumper is there with his new team, even the Germans, but Chloe's more surprised by the Tremble's. Not that they're there, specifically, but that the head of the Tremble's is still over there and not here with Beca. She knows he saw them come in, because Benji stopped talking to Jesse just to go over to Emily, their newest Bella. She watches Jesse who is exaggerating his every laugh while occasionally making eye contact with Beca. Chloe is feeling very uncomfortable with this tension taking over the room, but they're being dragged off to the riff-off and Chloe decides to let it go. For now. But the intro takes forever and Chloe decides maybe now is good.

"What's up with you and Jesse? Did you guys have a fight or something?" Chloe whispers in Beca's ear.

"Yeah, you could say that." She throws back with a smile, leaving Chloe even more confused than before. But the first category is announced and Chloe knows she has to let it rest at least until after the show.

"Songs about butts, so, anything on the radio, basically, right?" Beca brings out to her and Chloe can't understand how she seems so fine while having a fight with Jesse. But she just nods, because Beca does seem nervous about the riff-off and she feels like she needs to reassure her.

The riff-off starts with DSM, followed by Bumper's team (do they even have a team name, Chloe thinks) and then they're up. Stacie is quick with a song, and seeing Beca drop it down while singing 'shawty got low, low, low, low' was kind of hot. Chloe even forgot to move down herself, because watching Beca was intriguing. After them, the Green Bay Packers followed and the Tremble's survived the round too. But there was a look in Beca's eyes when Jesse sung along to the song about big butts. Chloe couldn't quite figure it out, but she put a hand on Beca's lower back causing the brunette to smile at her and she picked herself back up.

Next category was country love and Beca seemed excited. And a little bit angry, maybe, as Bumper's team got to go first. But as soon as the host pointed at the Bella's, Beca jumped forward.

"I dug my key into the side of his pretty, little supped up four wheel drive."

Beca had now walked over to Jesse and grabbed him by his jacket.

"Carved my name into his leather seats. I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights.

Slashed a hole in all four tires."

Chloe was singing along but a knot in her stomach had crawled his way up and she felt like she was gonna throw up. She knew this song all too well. She watched Beca back away from the boy as she finished the song.

"Maybe next time he'll think before he cheats."

Everyone on the floor went quiet as they watched an angry Beca trying to catch her breath, and Jesse acting like he didn't give a shit, making Beca more angry. "You're a piece of shit. And we're done." Beca yells at him as she backs up to the Bella's. Just when she thinks her legs will give in, Beca is caught my Chloe and she drags her back so that Jesse can't see the single tear that escapes Beca's eye.

"And you're also done here." The host of the riff-off brought out. Apparently no one had noticed him pointing at the Tremble's after Beca's song. The man hit the gong and the guys were in no hurry to actually leave the place. The next category begun and they were still there. Chloe looked over to him and his smug face got her angry as hell. Beca probably noticed her grinding her teeth together, because she is now the one being comforted.

"Hey, he's a dick okay, I'm over it anyway." Beca brings out with a forced smile and Chloe smiles back. But she's not less angry.

The next round is set and DSM begins with Songs About John Mayer. Chloe can't keep her eyes off the girl next to her. She seems okay. Better than she expected, and she finally realizes this is what she's been hiding all the time. This is what she meant this afternoon when she said she "took care" of things. She broke up with him. Chloe feels stupid for thinking it was something small like school or the Bella's. Beca would only hide something from her that has to do with her feelings. Chloe is getting more angry, at herself for letting the little brunette deal with this on her own, but more so angry at the scumbag that is still standing there. So when she sees the finger being pointed at them, she hesitates for no second.

She walks up to Jesse and she feels her fellow Bella's following her.

"We. Are never ever ever, getting back together. We!"

She's pushing the guy now towards the door and she's basically yelling, but she doesn't care. They continue their song as the entire riff-off moves with them towards the entrance and, for the Tremble's, the exit. Chloe takes a quick look at Beca who is singing along and waving goodbye to him in the cutest way and she decides to get her hands off of the boy and onto the girl's hips. Beca gives her an consenting smile, because they both know what to do. Beca places her arms loosely around Chloe's neck, as the girls turn their heads around to face the boy at the exact same time, finishing the song strong.

"Never, ever, ever, getting back together."

There's people yelling and cheering, but all Chloe can hear is the sound of her heart beating fast. She listens to it once more. 'Boom boom.' And then she moves in, crashing her lips onto the other girl's and sucking on her bottom lip before breaking apart. Chloe is now the one looking smug, as Beca continues their intimacy by biting and sucking on the taller girl's neck. Chloe just smiles and Jesse is being dragged out of the club by his fellow team mates, because he's losing it.