Bechloe - One For My Baby

Chapter X

"Oh my God! Are you serious!" Stacie practically yelled once Beca told her that Chloe was going to sleep over at Beca's house that night.

"Stacie! Shh!" She hissed.

The girls were having Gym class and were currently sitting on the bench taking a break from soccer.

"Sorry, but... Oh my God! This is great!"

"Nothing's going to happen. We're just friends. Remember what happened last time?"

"I know but still. This is pretty amazing. Does she still like you more than a friend?"

"I don't know. It's not something that I asked her or WILL ask her. I don't want to ruin our friendship again."

"You won't. Just take things easy and reassess how you feel later."

"She said that she doesn't want to be in a relationship, Stace, and it's not like I can keep checking in with her to see whether or not she's changed her mind."

"Well, not like that."

"No," Beca shook her head. "I'm not going to do anything. I'm just going to leave it be and when she's ready, she'll come around."

"But what about you though?"

"What do you mean?"

"You'll just be left pining after her. Are you okay with that?"

"Well... No, but what other choice do I have? She doesn't want to be in a relationship so I can't force that on her."

"I suppose..."

"What would you have me do?"

"As much as you hate it, I always think that talking is important. I know you had a little conversation with Chloe about it but you never had a proper one where you could just ask a bunch of questions and tell each other how you truly feel and try to figure out where to go from there."

"We DID try that, Stacie, and she doesn't want to be in a relationship."

"You say that like she totally didn't check you out yesterday in the locker rooms."

"What?"

"You know what I'm talking about."

"No, I don't. She... she checked me out?"

"Oh, yeah," Stacie nodded with a smirk. "Big time."

"W, when?"

"When you took your shirt off and your shorts. She was practically drooling over you. Didn't you see how red her cheeks were?"

"Oh... Yeah, I did but I didn't think it was because of me. I change in front of everyone and it doesn't really bother me."

"Well, it got young Chloe hot AND bothered, if you know what I mean," Stacie raised an eyebrow with a cheeky grin on her face.

"Oh, stop it. She wasn't checking me out."

"She was. Even ask Bree. She saw it, too."

"I thought you two were busy having shower sex?"

"Okay, one - there wasn't enough time for that, and two - we just hopped out the shower when we saw you getting changed."

Beca didn't know what to say but if there was anyone who was good at reading people, it was Stacie.

"But going back to what we were saying, if you're happy to just remain as friends then you do that. I just don't want you to give your hopes up that's all. I know what it's like to fall for someone and not get with them but you eventually get the right person."