Beca sat on the couch watching Friends. It was about 10:30 and Harper was in bed and Jesse was hanging out with Benji. She heard a familiar knock at the door. "Cmon in, Chlo!" She shouted. "I'm in the living room."
Chloe walked in. "Hey, Becs."
"Can't sleep?"
"Nope, and Em fell asleep like 2 hours ago. How bout you?"
"Nope, and Jess is out with some guys from work. Wanna watch friends with me?"
"My all time favorite show of all time!! Since when does THE Beca Mitchell watch friends?"
"Since there's nothing else on tv and really it's just background noise because I hate being home alone."
"Ok. Do you want to talk about last night."
"What about?"
"I don't know. You didn't explain much, and I want to be able to relate to you."
"Ok, well there's not really that much. It's just, stress gets to me, like really bad, and I feel like I can't really confide in people."
"It's ok, you know I'm always up for a chat. I've woken you up at 3 in the morning to talk to you, and you can do the same to me. How bad does it get?"
"One time in high school, I ran out of pills, and I didn't leave my house for a week. It was before SAT's and I was so nervous and stressed. That was the worst."
"Oh my god, that's bad. Why didn't you tell anyone?"
"Because that's me, Chlo. I keep things to myself. Can we change the subject."
"Yeah, of course, hey, I'm starving."
"Me too. We don't have anything here, so I'll text jesse to stop, you know what, I'll call him. He might be super drunk who knows?"
Hey, Jess.
Hey, how are you?
I'm starving, and so is Chloe. Are you sober?
Yep. The hotel is alcohol free.
Ok. Can you stop at...hang on. "Hey Chlo, what are you in the mood for?"
"Tacos." Jesse, can you stop at Taco Bell?
Yeah. I'll see you in a few.
Beca and Chloe sat and watched friends until Jesse came home. "Rebeca Jade Mitchell, you are very lucky you're 3 months pregnant and you're my beautiful fiancé."
Chloe started laughing. Jesse rolled his eyes. "And Beale, you're lucky you're her best friend."
Beca giggled and gave him a kiss. "Thanks, baby." She handed Chloe a taco.
"Yeah, thanks Jess."
"No problem, girlys. I'm gonna go to bed. Have fun being up all night complaining of uncomfort and having to pee every 30 seconds."
Beca rolled her eyes at Chloe. "He's ridiculous."
"Aw I think it's cute," Chloe said, "but God I'm uncomfortable for being only 3 months pregnant."
Beca laughed. "Wait till 9 months."
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Beca got up the next morning and woke Chloe up. "Hey, Chlo."
Chloe slowly opened her eyes. "Hey. I fell asleep here didn't I?"
Beca giggled. "Yep. Now go get dressed because I need you to help me hang decorations at the banquet hall," she lied.
"Can't you just do it?" Chloe complained. "I'm exhausted."
"Well let's see, I'm super short and I can't walk on my knee until tomorrow, soooo no."
"Ugh fine I'll meet you there in an hour."
Beca ran and got dressed into the black dress that was just like Chloe's. Then she got Harper up and dressed. Jesse drove them to Anna's house, because he had to be at work.
"Hey, Anna," Beca said, walking in.
"I'm curling my hair, can you help me get the back?"
"Yeah," Beca said. "How are you feeling?"
"well, it's not the flu, it's pneumonia. I started having trouble breathing at like 9:30 so Ben took me to the ER and they gave me an inhaler and meds. I guess it's only mildly contagious, so that's good. My breathing is back to normal, though."
"Why didn't you call? I would've been there in a heartbeat."
"Oh it's fine, I figured you were already stressed about the baby shower and everything."
"I'm beyond stressed. I had a mental breakdown 2 nights ago, and then I went and confessed to Chloe about how I was mildly autistic and I just went off the meds and all that, so I was a mess."
"You are?"
"yeah, it's no big deal, I guess. Chloe was ok about it. I haven't told Jesse. I have no idea how I kept it a secret for so long."
"If you ever need to talk, I'm here."
"Thanks, Anna. Now let's get going so we can beat Chloe there."
Beca and Anna got there and Anna introduced herself to all the Bella's. After a few minutes, Beca made them all hide so they could surprise. Chloe came into the room. "Beca?"
"SURPRISE!" The girls yelled as Beca jumped out and gave her a huge hug.
"No way! You did this all for me?" Chloe started crying. "Thank you so much!"
"Aw, you deserve it!"
Chloe ran up to hug all the girls. "Thanks so much for this, guys!"
Amy smiled. "No problem, red."
Beca laughed. "Now let's eat because we gotta be at the bridal salon in 2 hours."
"I thought they cancelled on you?"
"No, they just switched they time, I had to cover this up."
Chloe laughed. "Aw, you put a lot of work into this, thank you."
"Go eat, Chlo," I said.
After we ate, Beca, Chloe, Anna, Harper, and Emily went to the bridal salon to pick up their dresses. Beca had decided on that dress she saw in the magazine, but they had to alter it, so they were there a couple of hours while they waited. The bridesmaid dresses were black lace, and Harper's dress was black and white striped. After they got their dresses, they decided to go back to Chloe and Emily's house and hang out.
