Don't hate me, but a large percentage of stories seem to have Beca screwing up her relationship with Chloe. What if Chloe is the one who messes up? I love Chloe, I really do, but sometimes you just have to against the norm. Hope you enjoy. I don't own "Pitch Perfect" or its characters. Endgame uncertain.
Beca stormed through the mass of bodies trying to make her way out of the club. Stacie was pouring the champagne to celebrate, when Amy started yelling, "Hey, Shawshank! Where are you going?"
Stacie looked up and saw Beca just as she was heading out the door. "What the hell?," she said, looking at Amy.
"This doesn't look good," Amy said as she grabbed Stacie and headed for the door. They hurried outside and looked for the brunette but didn't see her.
"What the hell happened? When she came in she was all smiles and had a sparkle in her eye!," Stacie asked.
"I don't know but I've never seen that look on her face before. From where I was standing she looked broken," said Amy.
"We have to find Chloe. God, it will kill Beca if she said no." Stacie said.
She and Amy spent the next 20 minutes looking for Chloe. They finally found her coming away from the ladies room.
Stacie grabbed Chloe by the arm and dragged her outside where it was quieter. "What the hell did you say to Beca?," Stacie asked her.
"What are you talking about?," Chloe said.
"She came in looking for you. Ten minutes later, she went storming out of looking madder than hell," Amy said.
"Be- Beca was here?," Chloe said turning pale.
"Yeah," Stacie said. "She wanted to surprise you."
Chloe started breathing hard, tears pouring down her face. "No, no, no, no. . ." was all she said.
"Chloe? Are you okay? What happened between you two?" Stacie asked.
"I need to find Beca. I need to find her NOW!," Chloe was screaming.
"Okay. We'll find her. Amy go get the car," Stacie said. Amy hurried away to do as told.
Chloe paced back and forth, trying to breathe. She had a tightness in her chest and her breathing was becoming hard and rapid.
Stacie was worried so she called Aubrey. Aubrey picked up her phone and said "Hello?"
"Aubrey, something's happened. Beca came to the club and a few minutes later stormed out. We found Chloe and told her and now she's crying and her breathing is hard and fast. We're coming to yours," Stacie explained quickly. "We'll be there in 15." She hung up, not waiting for a reply.
Amy parked the card and helped Stacie get a distraught Chloe to her and Aubrey's apartment. By this time Chloe was having a full blown panic attack. Aubrey was waiting for them and helped Chloe into the bathroom to try and calm her down. "Come on, Chlo. Breathe in, breathe out," Aubrey said. "Just like this, in (inhales), out (exhales)".
It took a couple of minutes but Chloe was finally breathing better. She was sobbing and tears were streaming down her face. She kept repeating, "She saw. She saw."
"Who saw what, Chlo?," Aubrey asked. "Did Beca see something? What did she see?"
Chloe couldn't speak from the sobbing. Aubrey just held her.
Stacie and Amy stood at the door to the bathroom. "Should we go looking for Beca?," Stacie asked.
Chloe screamed, "No, no, no! She hates me. She's going to leave me! Why am I such a fuckup?"
"Chloe, what happened?," Amy asked. "Did you tell her "no"?"
Chloe just looked at Amy, not really seeing her through her tears. "Wh- what do you m-m-mean?"
"When she proposed to you. Did you tell her no? Is that why she stormed out of there?" Amy asked.
At this point, everything was too much for Chloe and she fainted.
Stacie helped Aubrey get Chloe into her bed. "We'd better find the hobbit and find out what the hell is going on," Aubrey said.
"Amy and I have both tried calling and texting her, but she hasn't responded," Stacie said. "We'll check out the places she could be and check back as much as possible."
"Okay. I'll stay here with Chloe. I'm sure Beca will come here when she calms down," Aubrey said.
Stacie and Amy searched for Beca for several hours. They returned to Aubrey's and found her and Chloe on the sofa. Aubrey was sitting straight and had an angry look on her face. Chloe sat on the other end with her head in her hands, tears falling rapidly, just staring at the floor.
"Any luck?," Aubrey asked. Chloe looked up and then returned to staring at the floor.
"No. We searched everywhere. We even went to her dad's place. She won't be found until she wants to be," Stacie said.
"You two need to sit down. Chloe has something to tell you both," Aubrey said.
The two girls sit down. Chloe doesn't look at either of them. She clears her throat and wipes fresh tears from her face.
"I, um, I think," Chloe started and stopped. She clears her throat again. "I think Beca may have seen me having sex with Tom in the club."
"What!?" yelled both Stacie and Amy standing up.
Chloe still couldn't look at them. She wiped more tears and cleared her throat again. She started to speak again, but couldn't. SLAP! Chloe jerked back and put her hand to her face and looked up. No one was more shocked than Chloe that Amy was the one who slapped her.
"What the fuck is wrong with you? She was going to propose to you! She had spent the last week trying to get everything set up for the two of you to have a future together," Amy screamed at Chloe.
Stacie and Aubrey had to physically restrain Amy from going after Chloe again. Chloe held a hand against her face but still did not look at them.
Chloe's voice sounded small as she whispered, "She has cancelled and blown off dates and getting together with me all week. She crawls into bed at all hours of the night, too tired for sex, and then she's gone again when I wake up. It felt like she was pushing me away like she did before and I thought she was going to leave me again. I got drunk, very drunk! Tom was there, she wasn't."
"That's not a good enough reason to cheat on her!," Amy spat out angrily.
"I know that!," Chloe yelled.
Amy flopped back down in the chair. Once they were sure that Amy wasn't going to go after Chloe again, Aubrey and Stacie took their seats.
Stacie looked at the redhead with tears in her eyes, and said, "You fucked up more than you know, Chloe. The reason she has been getting home so late and leaving early was because, once you told her you were going to do your internship at LA Medical Center, she started negotiating a contract to be a music producer for Residual Heat in LA. She told me she was able to secure a guaranteed 2-year contract with a yearly 6 figure salary, plus bonuses. They also gave her a house, rent free, that was midway between the Medical Center and the studio for you guys to live for the duration of her contract. She figured you could buy your own place once you got married. And she was working with a jeweler to design your engagement ring. She wanted to get everything done before we all graduated. Everything, including the ring, was finalized today."
Chloe's tears fell faster and she was sobbing so hard the entire sofa was shaking. Aubrey slid over and held her best friend.
They really needed to find Beca to make sure she was alright.