Sorry that it's been so long guys, I've been really busy!
This chapter isn't very long but I wanted to get something out there for you all since it's been a while.
New Girl - Chapter 5: Awkward Situations
"It's way too fucking early." Stacie whined as she sat down on the couch next to Chloe who looked just as miserable about the fact they were both up at 5:45am.
"At least you don't have to deal with kids so early in the morning." Chloe said in a groggy voice, using her free hand that wasn't holding her coffee to rub her eye.
The redhead was more used to being up at this time than the brunette since she had to do it 5 times a week.
"Chloe?"
The two women almost jumped when they heard another voice since the apartment was completely silent. They both turned to see Beca standing there holding her shoulder, screwing up her tired face.
"Where did you put my painkillers?" The 25 continued once she got her attention.
"Shit sorry, they're still in my bag." Chloe turned and pointed at her bag that was sitting on the breakfast bar. "Just go in and get them."
Beca nodded and made her way over to find them.
"Why are you up so early?" Stacie asked the younger woman who was rummaging through Chloe's bag that sounded like it had everything but the kitchen sink in it.
"My shoulder is fucking killing me, I couldn't get back to sleep." Beca replied distractedly before she eventually found her pills.
"I want to go back to bed." Stacie whined as she reached over and pressed the home button on her phone to check the time.
"That's exactly where I'm going right now." Beca said once she had swallowed her pills, taking her glass of water with her. She gave Stacie a teasing smirk before disappearing down the hall, making the brunette give her the middle finger.
"Hey do you think Aubrey will hook up with Jesse?" Stacie wondered curiously out of the blue.
"Hook up with him? Maybe. Date him? Probably not...Why?"
"Just wondering." The brunette shrugged. "It won't work out."
"Huh?" The redhead furrowed her brow.
"Jess is looking for a girlfriend, if she just wants to fuck him then it's not gonna work out." Stacie said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"You fuck him. That works out." Chloe challenged.
Stacie almost choked on her own saliva. "How do you know about that?"
"I wasn't born yesterday, you guys totally had sex at the wedding." The redhead chuckled with a teasing smirk.
Stacie just stared at her for a second. "Well uh...that's different." She said awkwardly.
Chloe raised an eyebrow over the top of her mug as she finished off her coffee. "Whatever you say." She teased, placing her mug on the table as she stood up. "I'm gonna go shower."
Stacie was left sat there, slightly dumbfounded as she watched Chloe disappear down the hall.
Later on that morning was when Jesse decided to drive Aubrey's car back to her apartment. He had only woken up with a slight headache but other than that he was feeling pretty good.
He buzzed up to her apartment, twirling her car keys on his index finger while he awaited an answer.
"Hello?"
"Hey it's Jesse, I brought your car back." He chuckled.
"Oh yeah. Come on up."
The door unlocked and Jesse made his way up to Aubrey's apartment, smiling like an idiot as he knocked on her door.
"Hi." Aubrey greeted shyly as she opened the door to reveal that she was only wearing a bathrobe while her hair was wrapped up in a towel. "Sorry, I just got out of the shower like 5 minutes ago." She said with a sheepish smile.
"Don't worry about it." Jesse chuckled, taking a quick glance down at her. "Here's your keys, your car's downstairs." He handed over the keys with his charming smile.
"Thanks." Aubrey took them from him before awkwardly looking down at the ground. "I'm sorry if I did anything stupid while I was a little drunk last night." She cringed as she lifted her eyes again to look at the man's face.
"Nah you were fine." Jesse shrugged. He wasn't going to tell her that she was getting a little clingy with him because he didn't want to embarrass her.
"Good." She sighed in relief.
"Hey I was wondering…" The man trailed off as she placed a hand on the door frame.
Aubrey's eyes followed his hand before returning to his face.
"Can I take you out sometime?" He asked hopefully.
Aubrey took her bottom lip between her teeth as she exhaled loudly through her nose. "Jesse…" She trailed off, averting her eyes from him. "I'm just not looking for anything like that right now, sorry." She added apologetically.
"No, no I get it, no worries. I understand." Jesse said quickly. "I did have fun last night though." He smiled.
"Me too."
"We should hang out again sometime...as friends of course." He quickly corrected himself with a grin which made Aubrey playfully roll her eyes.
"Sure." She nodded and he smiled at her.
"Awesome. Well I better get going I need to go bring Beca some food home." He chuckled, pointing his thumb over his shoulder.
"Bye Jesse." Aubrey smiled at him in amusement.
"See you later." He grinned and she gave him a wave before closing her door.
Jesse got turned down from girls a lot and he still couldn't understand why. Stacie had always told him that girls look straight through the nice guys and go for the assholes instead. There was no way Jesse was going to change though.
That evening Chloe went straight to the bar after her rough day at work. The kids in her class just wouldn't settle today and were driving her up the wall. She needed a drink.
"Rough day?" Beca asked in amusement as she rested the elbow of her injured arm on the bar.
"Why are you working? You're still in your sling." Chloe furrowed her brow at the brunette as she sat down, ignoring her question.
"I can still work." The younger woman shrugged.
"You're crazy. I'd be taking as much time off as I could." The redhead chuckled.
"It gets boring in the loft when everyone else is out. Anyway, can I get you a drink?" She wondered, her eyes scanning over Chloe's exhausted expression.
"Can you get me a double vodka coke, please?" Chloe said without hesitation as she set her phone on the bar.
"Oh shit." Beca scoffed with a laugh as she grabbed a glass. "Must've been some day." She said with an amused smile.
"Being a teacher can drive any woman to get her tubes tied, I swear." Chloe said as she watched Beca hold the measure between two fingers of her hand coming out of her sling, filling it with vodka twice and emptying it into the glass each time.
Beca just laughed at her comment. "I'm not a kids person so your job is kinda my living nightmare."
"Hey, can you make cocktails?" Chloe asked, too busy watching her work to really pay attention to what she was saying.
"Yeah just not right now for obvious reasons." Beca nodded before glancing at her shoulder. The brunette flipped the bottle of vodka and caught it successfully before putting it down with a smug grin on her face.
"Oooh you do all the fancy stuff huh?" Chloe asked with a teasing smirk.
"Sure do." Beca grinned as she filled up Chloe's glass with coke before setting it in front of her. "There you go."
"Thank you." The redhead smiled at the brunette before taking a sip. "You're gonna have to make me a cocktail sometime."
"That can be arranged." The younger woman nodded. "Let me guess…" She trailed off in thought. "You're a sex on the beach kinda girl?"
"What gave that away?" Chloe giggled.
Beca raised her eyebrows in surprise. "Wow I was right? Um I just said the first thing that came to my head that has vodka in it." She chuckled with a shrug, pointing to the redhead's vodka and coke.
"Good call." The redhead nodded with a wink as she took her straw between her lips.
Someone at the other end of the bar called over for Beca's attention.
"I'll be back in 2 seconds." Beca sighed, holding up 2 fingers to the other woman before heading over to serve the man.
Chloe just stared at Beca as she sipped on her drink. The brunette was very talented in her field of work but she just didn't see that to be "just a bartender" you actually have to be quite skilled.
The redhead watched as the 25 year old picked up two glasses with one hand and set them down before filling them up with ice, quicker than most people could with two working hands.
As soon as she served the guy his drinks, Beca walked back over to a smiling Chloe. She cocked an eyebrow as she rested her forearm on the bar. "What're you smiling at?"
"You." The 27 year old shrugged, eyeing the younger woman.
"Why?" Beca asked in amusement.
"No reason."
"Weirdo." The brunette chuckled with a furrowed brow.
The more Beca got to know Chloe, the more fitting the nickname 'weirdo' was for the redhead. She was an odd character with an odd personality but she was one of those people who drew you in...including our dear Beca.
Around an hour later.
"Hey where did Beca go?" Chloe asked the other bartender curiously once she had returned from the bathroom to find that the short brunette was no longer behind the bar.
"She's just outside on her break." The bartender nodded his head towards the door.
"Thanks." Chloe smiled before heading outside.
Beca wouldn't mind if she came to see here on her break right? Especially since the brunette was obviously just getting some fresh-
-or not so fresh air…
There she was, leaning against the wall with her phone in her right hand and a cigarette hanging out of her mouth.
Chloe folded her arms across her chest as she sauntered up to the brunette. "Dirty little secret huh?" She challenged.
"Shit!" Beca gasped in surprise, quickly pulling the cigarette out of her mouth. "Dude don't sneak up on me like that." Her eyebrows knitted together as she flicked the ash off of the cigarette but Chloe quickly took it off her. "Hey!"
"Smoking? Really?" The older woman grimaced as she glanced down in disgust at the offending object that she was still holding.
"I don't need the lecture, mom." Beca mocked as she snatched her cigarette back.
"You do realise how much of a turn off that is right?" Chloe asked, raising an eyebrow as she moved her head away from the smoke Beca had just exhaled.
"I know, Alex hated it." The shorter woman averted her eyes away from the redhead as she took the cigarette between her lips again.
"Well why do it?"
Beca just shrugged.
She did that a lot and it pissed Chloe off. If she didn't want to give an actual answer she'd just shrug her shoulders like a petty teenager.
"It's so dange-"
"Chloe, I know." Beca snapped, cutting the redhead off.
The brunette glanced to her side at Chloe who was just awkwardly looking down at her feet.
"It just helps me out when I'm stressed."
The older woman still didn't lift her head and Beca sighed heavily.
"I'll try and stop, okay?"
That's when Chloe finally lifted her head with a slight smile before she held her pinkie out to the brunette.
"What's that?" Beca furrowed her brow at the redhead's hand as she slipped her phone into the pocket of her apron.
"Pinkie promise."
"You're joking right?" The brunette scoffed.
"No." Chloe said seriously as she cocked an eyebrow.
"Fuck sake." Beca muttered as she placed her cigarette between her teeth to free up her hand before reluctantly wrapping her pinkie around Chloe's.
A grin spread across Chloe's face.
"You're so weird." The brunette muttered under her breath as she shook her head, trying not to laugh.
Saturday Afternoon.
"What's up, Chloe?" Jesse waved at the redhead as she returned home. The man was sitting on the couch, watching TV while Stacie had her legs sprawled over his lap as she filed her nails.
"Is Beca home? I need to ask her something." Chloe wondered as she hung her keys up on the hook.
"Yeah she's in her room taking a nap before work." Jesse replied, furrowing his brow at the smirk that had crossed Stacie's face.
"I'll go see if she's awake." The redhead shrugged.
"Dude, she's not napping." Stacie giggled quietly as she inspected her nails.
"What? She told me-"
"Have you ever actually walked in on her having one of her "naps"?" Stacie asked, using air quotations and the man shook his head in confusion. "She's giving herself a little finger diddle, dude." She laughed.
"Ohhh."
If only Chloe had actually heard their conversation before she headed to Beca's bedroom, not even thinking twice as she just opened the door without warning.
The 27 year old froze on the spot at the sight before her.
Beca was only in her underwear and a t-shirt, lying down on her back, legs bent at the knee with her hand buried in her underwear. Her eyes were closed, lips parted slightly as she breathed heavily.
It was very obvious what she was doing.
Chloe couldn't move.
She couldn't look away.
And then Beca moaned softly.
"Shit, sorry!" Chloe automatically blurted out.
The 25 year old's eyes shot open. "Oh my god what the fuck?" She quickly pulled her hand out of her underwear and scrambled the cover herself with the sheet.
"Sorry!"
"Dude get out!" Beca gasped, pointing at the door.
Chloe quickly left, closing the door behind her.
Why must they keep finding themselves in these awkward situations?
Yeah it's short it was more just building on Beca and Chloe's dynamic more. What did you think?