I attempt to shut the fridge door as quietly as possible, trying not to make a sound. I hold my cold water bottle close to me and stand on my tippy toes, as I carefully walk back to the lounge room, trying not to awake any of the sleeping girls before me. I look around to see them all still knocked out. I can't believe I agreed to this - a sleep over "girls night" at Aubrey's house. Actually, I didn't agree, I was forced, by no one other than my blonde Australian friend, Fat Amy. Who actually got invited here, but only wanted to come for the food, so she dragged me along too.
As I imagined, Fat Amy basically ate every piece of food in sight, she even took the crumbs off my plate and Chloe's, also getting food all over her face, shirt and God knows where else. I couldn't help but laugh at the mess. Sure, Aubrey looked furious, but she laughed along too... Eventually.
Later, the night involved pillow fighting that then turned into some serious arm wrestling. Stacie and Fat Amy went one and one and as a surprise, Fat Amy won. Stacie didn't look too impressed, as she likes to win at everything, but she shrugged her shoulders and then went off to fix up her nails with the little manicure set she always takes with her wherever she goes.
As the night went on, Aubrey decided it was time to watch all three of her favorite musicals, sing along edition. I clearly haven't seen any of them before, but all the others did. I was the only one sitting on the mattress while the others were up and moving along to beat of the songs, singing as loudly as they possibly can with hairbrushes in their hands as microphones. I did not look impressed at all. Was it so hard to just simply watch a film without copying all the actors dance moves to it? Chloe and Fat Amy where only one ones who attempted to get me up on my feet and dance several times, but I declined. There was absolutely no way I was going to be apart of this. Chloe tried giving me her hairbrush, I mean microphone, a couple of times also, but I just shook my head. I continued to stay on the mattress with my legs crossed all through out the films, watching the exhausted girls still continue to get up and move their bodies everytime a person on the tv screen starting dancing, copying their exact moves.
I silently chuckle to myself at the thought of earlier in the night. I then carefully take a sip from my drink bottle then place it down on the ground near my pillow. Aubrey had two double mattresses joined together in her lounge room that supported herself next to Stacie, me in the middle, and then Chloe. When Fat Amy first walked into Aubrey's lounge room, she already called dibs on the beautiful double seated couch before any of us could. I didn't mind though, the mattress looked pretty comfortable.
I slowly lift up the blanket, trying not to awake the others so I could get back in under the covers. But when I do, I see that Chloe is lying on her front, leaving her left arm fully stretched out, covering my spot, making it impossible for me. Gosh, if I was lying there, my boobs would of probably been crushed or I probably would of been hit in the face. I think about trying to move her arm or waking her up, so I can try to get back on the mattress, but there's a smile plastered on her face. She must be having a good dream. Probably about puppies or something cute. I just stare at Chloe for a moment, not really knowing on what I should do. I didn't really know how to wake her without being, well, rude.
About five minutes have passed and I'm still standing here like the idiot that I am. I go to turn around but I have no plan on what to do, so I just stay facing the mattress, looking at Chloe's arm. With my right hand on my hip, I simply face palm myself with my left hand. I then, a little too loudly, say "dammit" to myself. I then look to see that I have now awaken Chloe, great. I see her body move slightly at first. Then the very sleepy redhead looks up, confusingly. She looks at her arm and then at me. Her face turns red at first, she then quickly moves her arm away, hiding.
"Beca? Oh, I'm-I'm sorry-" Chloe whispers as she realizes what is happening.
"No, it's okay." I cut her off quickly, moving my hand to the back of my neck, scratching away an itch. In a way I'm glad that woke her up, I can finally go back to sleep.
She now sits up, still sleepy. She runs her hand through her messy, red locks and stretches her arms up towards the ceiling.
Finally, I kneel down onto the mattress, and move myself under the covers and then lean on my right side, facing myself towards Chloe's body. I pull the covers more over me, making sure my body is now fully covered and warm, then I rest my head on my pillow and carefully close my eyes. I have no idea what Chloe is doing, so I open one eye to peek at her. To my surprise, she is already staring at me, still sitting up. She caught my gaze and she cleared her throat. She then quickly looked away and then lied back down, her body facing towards me this time, us now facing each other. I close my eyes again. A moment later and I could feel Chloe's breath on my face. It was somehow annoying me, and keeping me awake. I didn't open my eyes, but instead turned around and faced my back to her, I now facing Stacie's back. Time to get back to sleep, finally.
I open my eyes to realize that it's morning, and that I m also the only one in Aubrey's lounge room. I'm laid on my back, facing the white, tall ceiling. I sit up on my shoulders and start to rub my temples in slow, circular motions. I search the room for any sight of the time. I come across a dark wooden oval shape clock in the center on the room. It s half past nine. Did I really sleep this late?
I hear laughter coming from the kitchen, Fat Amy must be up to her usual self, always keeping people laughing. I see her then walk into the lounge, on her phone, completely ignoring me and walk outside. I decide to get up from the mattress and tie my probably messy hair into a loose bun, not really caring what I looked like. I had such a bad night sleep, I feel like I could pass as a zombie for Halloween. After the Chloe incident, I couldn't fall back asleep no matter how hard I tried. Especially when you're sleeping next to Stacie, who likes to sing and kick in her sleep, who would of thought? I spent the whole night covering my ears while tossing and turning, and also trying to ignore getting injured by Stacie's long legs. I honesty wished I was in my own bed the entire night. If I counted the amount of sleep I actually got, I would of guessed three hours all up, if that.
I rub both of my eyes with my hands and yawn loudly.
"Good morning, sleepyhead! I was just about to wake you up."
I turn around to see Chloe walking into the lounge to greet me. I look at her with a blank expression on my face. 'Good morning', really? Good? Out of all the things?
"Yeah, 'morning." Was all I said in return, sounding annoyed because well, I am. I like my sleep. My full eight hours of sleep, to be exact.
Chloe moves closer to me and grabs me, her whole hand wrapped around my tiny wrist, pulling me up from the mattress on the floor.
"C'mon Beca, I made you pancakes." She says with a smile as she pulls me towards Aubrey's kitchen.
As I walk into the room, I see a plate of beautifully staked pancakes on top of each other covered in golden, runny syrup and white vanilla ice cream, with a knife and fork on either side. It honestly looked delicious, something you'd get from a really fancy restaurant, or something you'd see on tv.
"Did you... Is this for me?" I ask confusingly, staring at the beautiful food on the table.
Chloe smiles at me with her hands intertwined in front of her, looking quite proud of herself. Before she could speak, Fat Amy walks back into the kitchen, first looking at the pancakes, then to me, then lastly at Chloe.
"Oh, Chloe. What is this? You made those for Beca? You've never made me pancakes before." Fat Amy says as she winks at Chloe.
Chloe immanently looks at Fat Amy like she just ran over a puppy, she looks like she's about to comment, but instead she says nothing.
I raise an eyebrow. Did I miss something?
Before I could ask any questions, Chloe looks back at me, walks over and then pulls out a chair for me at the table.
"Uh... Sit, Beca, I-I bet you're hungry."
I give a small smile to Chloe, even though I'm still annoyed and don t even feel like smiling at all. Or even talking for that matter. But I don't want Chloe thinking I'm not grateful for what she's done. I sit in the chair and pull myself closer to the table.
I pick up the fork and knife placed on the side on the plate and slowly start to eat the beautiful looking pancakes. Man, they tasted good. Chloe really is a good cook. No wonder Aubrey lets her cook all the chance she gets.
Mouthfuls later, Aubrey and Stacie walk into the kitchen.
"Oh, how nice to finally join us, Beca." Aubrey says as she watches me eat my pancakes Chloe made for me.
I wave my fork and give her a sarcastic smile. Yeah, it s nice to be here too, I think sarcastically to myself. Stacie joins me at the table facing me, then dips her finger into my now melted vanilla ice cream on my plate, and slowly licks it off her finger in one smooth movement. I hear Chloe cough, obviously watching what just happened. I roll my eyes.
Aubrey walks towards the front of the room and claps her hands loudly, twice. Startled, everyone in the room looks to her. I drop my knife and fork onto my plate and shift myself on my chair to face the head blonde. Stacie copies me and shifts herself too.
"Okay, girls. The real reason why I invited you to this sleep over is I... have some news."
Stacie gasps and her eyes widen as she smacks her hand onto the table. "You're pregnant?! I knew it." She says with such confidence.
Before anyone else could speak, Aubrey looks at Stacie with her mouth open.
"No, Stacie. I'm not pregnant!" Aubrey then says as she flicks her blonde, wavy hair over her right shoulder.
"Oh." Was Stacie's only reply.
"The news is, that well... Jesse and I are... Okay. We're dating. We're a thing. He asked me out last weekend and... I said yes! I know I said no dating Trebles, but. He honestly makes me happy, and I really think this is going to be something special." She says with a smile, looking at all of us.
"I wanted to tell you all first, because I consider you all my closest friends. Even you, Beca." Aubrey continues, as she covers her heart with her hand. I look at Aubrey and give her a small smile and a nod, as I cross my arms. She gives me a small smile back.
Chloe is the first one to respond to the news. She walks up to Aubrey with tears in her eyes and gives her a tight hug. I watch Aubrey hug her back with her eyes closed, now showing a wide smile.
"Oh, Aubrey! I'm so happy for you. You guys are going to be great together." Chloe says happily to her bestfriend.
Fat Amy then walks over and joins in on their hug.
"Oh yeah! You guys are aca-adorable, and your aca-children are even gonna be more adorable, I can see it all now..."
Aubrey and Chloe start laughing then. Me and Stacie just look at each other.
Breaking away from the three way hug, I walk up to Aubrey and hesitantly touch her shoulder. Not really knowing what to say, the words "that's great" was all that came out of my mouth. Stacie follows behind me, and then goes and pulls Aubrey in for a tight hug all to herself.
"Was that a car?!" Aubrey says as she looks around at us, confused as to what the horn noise was outside.
Fat Amy slowly stands up from the couch, looking guilty.
"Um. Yeah, that's Bumper. He's come to uh, pick me up. He's taking me out for a... Surprise. Yeah." Fat Amy starts to trail off.
"You're leaving?!" Aubrey now looks at Fat Amy with an annoyed expression.
That was then I suddenly realized that Fat Amy and Bumper were my ride here.
"Wait- is Bumper taking me home too?" I ask, sitting up.
"Yeah, no can do. Sorry Beca. Um... I'll see you aca-bitches at rehearsals, adios!" She says as she attempts to run out the room with her packed bags, slamming the door shut behind her.
I sit there with my mouth open, shocked. What a bitch. How dare she drag me here and then leave, for me to defend for myself.
"Great!" I say as I throw my hands up in the air. This whole sleep over just keeps getting better and better.
"I don't believe this." Aubrey says as she stands up and puts both her hands on her hips, upset that her friend has left after reveling some very important news about her and her new boyfriend, and that all the attention now wasn't on her.
Yeah, well that makes two of us.
I feel Chloe's eyes glance over at me. I'm too annoyed to look at her back. Instead, I look at my short, cut fingernails to distract myself. Silly as it may be.
"I-I can drive you back home if you want, Beca."
I finally look over to Chloe, who's awaiting for my response with a smile.
I look at her blankly at first. She's already made me a nice breakfast, I couldn't possibly let her do anymore. But I really didn't have an option B for getting my ass home.
"Oh. Um..." I'm not really sure where I was going with this. Beca, you are such an idiot.
"Honestly! Just tell me when you're ready to go." Chloe offers again as she gives me another big smile.
Thinking about her offer, I start to pack my sleeping bags.
"Yeah um, now would be good actually. I need to... Catch up on some studying." I lied. More like watch up on much wanted sleep.
I glance over at Aubrey who was looking even more upset that another two of us were about to leave. Chloe catches my glance too and realizes how upset her best friend is.
She walks over to Aubrey and puts her hand on top of hers.
"I'm sorry Aubrey, I have... Things to do as well. But Stacie will still keep you company!" Chloe says cheerfully, looking towards Stacie, sitting next to Aubrey herself.
Stacie nods with a smile as she pats Aubrey on her leg. "I won't be going any time soon, missy. We have a lot, of things to talk about." Stacie says then winks at Aubrey. Aubrey slowly starts to chuckle at the tall brunette sitting next to her.
Aubrey is now smiling and gives her best friend a long hug before she leaves. I hear Chloe mutter to her best friend how wonderful her and Jesse are going to be again. I show a small smile as support.
My bags are packed and are now in the back of Chloe's car, along with her bags also already to go.
"All ready?" Chloe gives me that smile again. For a moment, I wonder to myself, does she ever not smile? Chloe Beale is always so cheerful, so happy, I could not picture her or remember a time when she's not happy, and nor do I want do. I've never seen her break down or cry, only when she's watching a sad film or something bad happens to a person she loves or to an animal, or when she's really, really happy for someone, like how she got tears when Aubrey told us about her and Jesse. I wish to never see her cry because she's actually truly hurt. I couldn't even picture it in my mind. Like, God, this woman even smiles in her sleep.
I feel Chloe's eyes on me then, waiting for a response from me, once again.
"Yep." I then say back quickly, being brought back into the real world now.
I open the passenger side door and climb into Chloe's car, thinking about how much sleep I could get from this car ride home.
And that's the first chapter done! I promise to update the next chapter asap. I hope you guys enjoy this story... :)
Disclaimer: I do not own Pitch Perfect.