After about five minutes of walking with their hands clasped, Chloe broke the comfortable silence.

"You know Beca I was thinking. My family knows how affection I am and they might think its weird that we don't kiss."

Beca smirks. "Well I mean maybe we can. A few times. Just to throw them off our tracks, ya know?" She coughs nervously.

"Oh ok. You don't think it'll be too awkward. You know, because we've never kissed each other before" She asked innocently.

Beca chuckled. "Well it's not like we're going to practice beforehand." She saw Chloe blush out of the corner of her eye. "Right?"

"Yeah. I mean. Unless you want to, that is. I just want it to be natural." Chloe said.

"Well, I mean. It should be natural." Beca said slowly. "I mean… Maybe we should. Try it, I mean. We'll have to do it eventually." She said blushing.

"Really? You'd being willing to do that for me?" Chloe responded, trying but failing to contain the smile on her face. "Aw, Becs! You're the sweetest. First thing when we get back to the motel then." She said confidently.

"Uh yeah. Okay." Beca said, slightly bewildered. She looked at Chloe as she skipped away. God, she was fucking screwed.

They had been walking for ten minutes when they finally reached Whistle Stop Cafe. The minute it came into eye sight, Chloe shrieked and sped up, calling Beca to follow. She swung the door open holding it for Beca.

"What a gentlewoman." Beca murmured just loud enough for Chloe to hear, causing her to smile.

"You betcha." Chloe winked.

As soon as Beca walked through the door, she heard the buzz of the cafe. Apparently this was quite the popular space. Almost every table was filled with chatting people. They walked around to the back hoping to find something. Luckily, a waiter came up to them and led them to a small booth in the corner. Since neither had been here, Chloe asked what the waiter recommended.

"Well, the fried green tomatoes are pretty famous here. But other than that, I think the Bennets Barbecue Sandwich and the Country Root Fries are pretty great as well." The waiter said.

"Well thank you." She said to the waiter before asking Beca, "Does that sound good?"

Beca nodded excitedly, anticipating the food.

"Great! Thanks. We'll have that." Chloe said smiling as the waiter took down their order. As she turned back to Beca, she caught the brunette already looking at her. "What?" Chloe said giggling.

"Nothing." Beca responded, smiling slightly, unable to take her eyes off the red head. "You're just really cute."

At this, Chloe blushed, hiding her face in her hands. "You sure know how to compliment a girl."

And really, Beca only told her she was 'cute.' But coming from her, the girl who never compliments anyone, it meant something more. Beca laughed with Chloe, love pouring out of her eyes.

And before Chloe could say anything she was sure to regret, she closed her eyes, took a deep breath and grabbed Beca's hand softly, afraid of letting go.

xx

When they food finally came, they were both beyond ready to eat. As Chloe took a bite out of her sandwich, she moaned, causing a flush to run up Beca's neck and cheeks.

"This is so good." Chloe said not realizing the effect she had on Beca. "No wonder this place is packed.

Beca nodded dumbly, still staring at Chloe lips.

"Fried Green Tomatoes was such a good movie. We should watch it this weekend." Chloe offered.

"Yeah sure. I haven't seen it." Beca said.

"WHAT?" Chloe shrieked, "How have you never seen it? It's amazing. I'm sure you would love it"

"I just never got around to watching it. I believe you though. If you think I would like it I probably will." Beca said, not an ounce of sarcasm in her voice. "We should watch it sometime."

Chloe nodded, "Just not tonight. We have something planned for tonight." She winked.

And she probably could have done without the wink, but what fun would that be?

xx

As they finished up their meals, Chloe leaned back in her seat, stretching. "You know, Beca, sometimes I think our relationship is like Ruth and Idgie's."

"Who?"

"In the movie." Chloe clarified.

"Oh." Beca muttered. "We should really watch that movie. Now I'm curious."

Chloe laughed nervously, "Definitely. But for now, lets just get the check. I don't want to walk back when its too dark."

xx

The walk back to the hotel was awkward and full of anticipation.

As they reached their room, Beca asked if it was alright if she took a shower first.

"Of course. I'm just going to unpack some of my things." Chloe replied easily, hiding the butterflies in her stomach.

Hearing the water turn on, Chloe sat on the side of the bed contemplating her day. She heard her phone ring so she got up and saw that it was her mother. Not really in the mood for a conversation, she declined the call and texted her with details about their broken down car, asking if it was okay to call her tomorrow due to her extreme exhaustion. To this, her mom texted back 'Of course. I'll see you tomorrow.'

Chloe rolled her eyes, smiling at Stacie's imagination.

When Beca exited the shower, Chloe went in, preparing herself for what was to come.

When she exited, she found Beca with a large t-shirt on and pajama shorts sitting on the side of the bed nervously. She giggled at the sight of her best friend and began changing.

"Woah, dude. I'm right here."

Chloe laughed again, "It's nothing you haven't seen before."

"Okay. True. But still." Beca whined.

"Oh I'm sorry, am I making you uncomfortable?" Chloe asked smirking.

"You're making me something." Beca murmured, not fully realizing what she just said.

Chloe widened her eyes, unable to make words form, so instead she finished changing and sat on the opposite side of the bed.

"So." mumbled Chloe.

"So."

"We should probably practice I guess."

"Yeah." Beca said quickly, blushing. "We should." She spoke quieter.

Chloe crawled over to where Beca was sitting. She swallowed. She leaned in slightly, her breath hitting Beca's cheek.

Chloe whispered, "Are you sure about this, Beca?

Beca swallowed audibly, her cheeks getting redder. "Yeah Beale. It's just for practice anyway." She whispered back.

Smiling, Chloe brought her hand up to cup Beca's cheek. Their noses brushed and their breaths lingered.

"Well what are you waiting for?" Beca asked, smirking.

Chloe desperately wanted to say, "I just really want this to be the first kiss of many." But she didn't say that. That would be inappropriate. It would probably scare Beca. And that's the last thing she wanted to do. So she just giggled and said, "Don't you know? The build up is the best part."

Beca coughed slightly, diverting her dilated eyes. Recovering quickly, she leaned in further until there was less than a centimeter between their lips.

"Trust me, Beale. I definitely know."

"Well Beca, what are you waiting for?" She said, mimicking Beca's words from only seconds before.

Deciding not to dignify that with a verbal response she looked into Chloe's eyes. She noticed the little scar on her forehead. Still after four years of friendship she didn't know where Chloe had gotten that scar. Realizing this moment wasn't the time to be so focused on some tiny scar, she let her eyes close and leaned in further. Their lips just barely brushed and already the swarm of of butterflies in her stomach increased tenfold. Chloe pulled Beca's face toward her, pressing their lips fully together. With every second the butterflies got more intense. And only from a small kiss. She took her right hand and brought it up to Chloe's hair, brushing a piece of fallen hair behind her ear. She took her left hand and brought it up to rest on Chloe's shoulder. Chloe's tongue swiped her lips and within milliseconds she felt her own mouth responding. Opening, her mouth slightly she felt their tongues met. It was so gentle. At least until she felt a moan escape her mouth. She mentally scolded herself for it. 'Moaning into your pretend girlfriends mouth is not something that should be expected, Beca! It shouldn't feel this good. She's just your friend.'

This, however, was not on Chloe's mind. She heard Beca moan and chills ran down her spine. She decided from then on, she would do anything to hear that sound again. She pressed her body closer to Beca's releasing a small moan of her own. She slowly lowered Beca's body to the bed so that she was straddling her. Pausing slightly, she released Beca's lips and opened her eyes, asking if this was okay. Beca nodded frantically and threw her arm around Chloe's neck, craving her touch more than anything. Chloe smiled and lowered herself on top of Beca, this time, kissing up her neck.

She started at Beca's collar bone, pressing warm, open-mouthed, kisses in a path that led to her jawbone. She moved back to her pulse point and opened her mouth even more, massaging Beca's skin with her tongue. Beca moaned again. This time, louder. Her cheeks flaming and her hands grabbing at the back of Chloe's shirt. Chloe heard the moan and moved upwards again. This time not stopping at Beca's jaw. She moved her lips against Beca's and couldn't help the moan that escaped her mouth. She slowly slipped her hand underneath Beca's shirt, waiting for Beca's nod of approval. She not only got the nod, but Beca arched her back upwards, begging for Chloe's touch. Her fingers moved upwards towards Beca's ribcage.

Just as she was about to go further, the phone rang. Hearing this, Beca jumped out from beneath Chloe. Her hair disheveled, her cheeks the color of fire and a giant hickey forming on her pulse point, she was the most beautiful vision Chloe could have ever imagined.

Beca raced across the room nearly dropping the phone as she picked it up.

"Hello?" She said shakily, her eyes looking everywhere but Chloe. "Uh yeah. One second, sorry." She looked over at Chloe then back to the phone. "Yeah here she is." She handed the phone to Chloe and dashed out of the room into the lobby mumbling something about how she was 'all of a sudden really thirsty.'

Chloe took the phone gently and mumbled a soft "hi" into the receiver. She heard Stacie's voice coming from the other end.

"Hey Chloe. Why did Beca sound so weird just then?"

"Um, I don't know, probably just tired." She spoke again after a slight pause.

"Okaaay. Anyway. I just called to check up on you guys. But you're probably pretty tired. I should let you get some sleep."

"Aw, Stace. That's really sweet. But yeah, we're pretty exhausted. I'll talk to you tomorrow though, okay?"

"Yeah, totes. Talk to you then!"

Chloe hung up the phone and collapsed back on the bed, tears threatening to fall from her closed eyelids. She wasn't lying. She really was exhausted. But that's not really what she was focused on at the moment. She was honestly just so confused. She had really thought Beca had liked kissing her just as much as she had enjoyed it. Maybe she was wrong. Maybe she was making things up in her head because she was too scared to face the truth. Maybe they both just got a little caught up in the fake relationship and it didn't mean anything. All these questions swarming though Chloe's brain eventually tired her out and she finally dozed out into a restless dream.