Senior Year

Bruno Mars

The evening soon turned into early morning and Beca was no-where near close to having any sort of arrangement. It wasn't looking good for her future career. The brunette looked over to her friend who had started to snore. Fat Amy seemed to have her life sorted out, or at least this bit of it. Beca wasn't sure if they'd even be able to win the worlds, although being positive wasn't usually in her character. That was-

"Pst," came a voice from behind Beca's door. "Is Fat Amy asleep? I don't need the whole world to know I'm awake at four am; it would totally ruin my 'calm' image."

Beca got off her bed and opened the door a little, surprised to see Chloe standing behind it.

"Uh, sorry, I didn't expect you to be up so early. I thought you might have been Stacie or something."

Chloe laughed and squeezed past Beca, going over to sit on the brunette's bed. "Oh what's all this? Is this stuff for our set?" She put on the headphones but seemed confused when northing was displayed on the screen – there wasn't any sort of set to be seen.

"No, no, that's not set stuff."

Chloe threw Beca a scared look. There may have been a hint of anger about it as well so Beca held up her hands and laughed a little.

"That's just a file where I test stuff out for the set. The set itself is in a different program so I don't get the two confused is all."

The redhead nodded slowly and took the headphones off. "Why have you been crying?"

"What? I haven't- what on earth?"

"Your eyes are red, Beca. Even I know that means you've been crying."

The brunette reluctantly sat beside Chloe, trying to figure out what she could and couldn't say to the 'Bella-laser-focus' girl.

"Before you say anything," Chloe put her hand on Beca's knee, her eyes glinting as she smiled. "Just know that I'm here for you no matter what. Whatever is going on, you can tell me."

"That's nice of you to say Chlo but," Beca took a breath and decided to go with the bare minimum. "It's nothing to worry about; I was just getting worked up over the set. It's stressing me out, you know? I may look a mess, but I promise I'm ok."

Chloe giggled, mumbling something under her breath.

"What did you say?" Beca was intrigued; the redhead never mumbled.

"Yeah I know, I know when I compliment her, she won't believe me. And it's so, it's so sad to think that she doesn't see what I see, but every time she asks me do I look ok I say," the redhead was whispering, but her voice was still angelic.

Beca thought back to their spontaneous night in the pool; had it really never occurred to them to mash things up a bit? Either way, Aubrey's choice in song had left a permanent grin on the redhead's face whenever the song came on. For some reason, it felt right in this moment. Maybe Chloe had worked on timing things better since the shower incident. Beca paused and sighed internally; there was no way the redhead would have done something like that – it was a story too often told by Chloe of how Beca truly auditioned for the Bellas.

The brunette's wondering mind eventually came back to her bedroom and to the sparkling blue circles staring at her. Chloe was about to continue the song but it just felt right that-

"When I see your face," Beca sang, in perfect timing with Chloe.

"There's not a thing that I would change 'cause you're amazing," the redhead grinned and begun to create a harmony.

"Just the way you are."

Biting her lip, Chloe seemed to be waiting for some sort of answer from Beca. Whatever the question had been, she'd well and truly missed it; the brunette had been concentrating on the words, trying not to get distracted by that infectious smile.

Giving a small nod, Chloe got up and headed towards the door. "You really are amazing Beca," she said, sounding almost sad. "I just wish you could understand how much you mean to me."

There was an awkward silence for a minute. Was the redhead saying what Beca thought she was saying? It wasn't unknown for Chloe to babble on about all sorts of feelings, but that was because she was just a super caring person, right? Suddenly, Fat Amy snored loudly, causing Beca to giggle.

"If I actually get to sleep tonight, it will be a miracle." Beca's comment made the redhead laugh, warming her heart a little.

"Goodnight Beca."

"Night Chloe."