Chances

Chapter 22

Chloe walked into her apartment a couple hours later feeling relieved. She wanted to get freshened up before she left again but as soon as she stepped through the door her eyes went wide at the sight before her. The Bella's were turned towards her, some even glaring but no one saying anything.

"Chloe, you better sit." Aubrey whispered.

She sat down uneasily and looked at the girls. "What's going on guys?"

"We know you're in lesbians with Beca, so you need to get your head out of your ass." Fat Amy said suddenly.

"What?" Chloe said shocked.

"You need to stop pulling Beca along like this. You said you wanted a declaration of love or some shit and then you run away from her again." Stacie had been stewing the whole time. She considered the brunette a good friend and had been on Beca's side from the start, so she felt terrible that this all happened because of a plan she conjured up.

"Wait, wait. I'm confused. What is going on here? I'm not pulling her along, I kissed her."

A few of the girls sighed and Aubrey spoke up. "Yeah, but you've kissed her and ran and you've ran away before Chlo."

Chloe's eyebrows furrowed. "I-I don't. What do you mean? I didn't run away!"

"Yeah ya did Red." Cynthia Rose said bluntly. "She came back in the auditorium all broken up and thinking we set her up or something. She told us you kissed her and ran away like the other times."

Chloe put her hand up to her mouth and her eyes went wide. "I, no! No, no, no! That wasn't my intention. Oh my, ugh why am I such an idiot? I thought it was going to be cute and a clean slate and uggghh what is wrong with me?"

The girls looked at her confused and the red head shook her head.

"I kissed her and told her to wait, then I left. So yeah, I guess I ran away." She used her fingers to make quotation marks on the last part. "But I told her to wait! I wanted to do this the right way. It felt wrong going any further with her if I was still with Tom. That's where I went right after. I went to break up with him."

The girls seemed shocked. Apparently none of them thought this would have been the case, clearly not giving the red head the benefit of the doubt.

"Wait, so you broke up with Tom?" Cynthia Rose questioned a bit skeptically.

"Yeah, that's where I just came from. I was going to go see Beca in a bit and talk to her about everything."

"Wait..." Aubrey leaned closer to the red head, "like you actually broke up with him and he's gone forever?"

"Well... yeah?" The red head said with her eyebrows raised.

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Chloe ran until her lungs burned. She wished the frat house that Tom was always hanging out at wasn't so far away. She finally made it to the door and burst in without knocking. The house was full with people, not really a party per say but there were just a ton of people there. Some drinking, some sitting, some doing... okay she wasn't sure what some of them were doing but she kept on her mission and made her way through the house.

She finally found Tom sitting with a few of the guys on a couch talking about whether they'd rather bang, Mila Kunis or Rihanna. They didn't notice the red head standing there until she cleared her throat and they looked up.

"Tom can I talk to you?" This was the first time they've spoken since the incident at the club so the man looked at her in surprise.

"What is it, baby?" Chloe flinched at the name already irritated that he was acting like nothing had happened.