Camping

“You survived just fine last time!”

“Yeah, but I didn’t like it!”

“You don’t like anything!”

They were sitting in the kitchen of the Bella House. Chloe had made a pasta, which she and Beca was devouring now. Whit a mouth full of pasta, Beca responded: “That’s not fair, there are plenty of things I like, this food for example, mmm…”

 Chloe rolled her eyes, this girl was driving her cray in so many ways.

“Camping just isn’t one of them.”

“Oh yeah? I remember you having a blast of time at the campfire,”

“That was like 2 hours, I don’t think it makes up for those other 46 hours I hated.”

“Oh come on! I know you want to spend time with me”, blushing, she quickly added: “or at least with my food.”

“Hmm the last thing is definitely true.”

“So it’s camping or it’s nothing.”

“I’ll be perfectly fine on my own, you can go though.”

“Becs…”

Chloe was not planning on giving up that easily, but neither was Beca: “No seriously Chloe, why do I have to be the one to accompany you? There are like nine other Bella’s you could ask to go with.”

“But none of them is my best friend…”

“Oh I always thought that was Aubrey”,

Chloe ignored both the comment and the accompanied wink: “We have to celebrate our graduation Beca, you can’t do that by staying home!”

“Just imagine how much fun we would have staying home, the whole place to the two of us, I’m seeing tons of opportunities Chlo.”

“You’re so boring, you know that?”

Beca wanted to defend herself but she’d just stuffed a giant amount of food in her mouth, so Chloe could rant on a little more: “We need to do something special! I’ve waited long enough to graduate from Barden, now it has to be an exceptional week to measure up against all those years.”

“What if I promised to be cheerful and not to make any sarcastic remark? Sounds exceptional to me.”

“Not sure whether I’d still like you that way”, responded Chloe with a broad grin on her face. “No, you’re just not allowed to stay home this week –,”

“But Lily can? Last time I checked, her plan was to spend the week with her parents, I think that’s way more pathetic than staying at our beautiful Bella House.”

“You’re not seriously saying I should go camping with Lily? Just the two of us?!” Chloe couldn’t believe she was even arguing about this.

“She’s a good listener, and you’re a phenomenal talker, seems the perfect match to me.”

“Come on Becs, just come with me, we will have so much fun!”

“Nope, we won’t.”

“Let’s make a deal.”

Beca sighed, “Unless you’re offering me a load of money I don’t know how you’re going to make me leave this house.”

Chloe was getting desperate, she’d so many great ideas for this trip! And she’d really been looking forward to it from the moment she came up with the plan four months ago. Only, she had thought Beca would be won over by now. She was still convinced that was about to happen, she hadn’t played all her cards yet. “Look, if you still claim to hate it after one night, we’ll drive straight back to Barden. Just give me 24 hours to prove you’re wrong.”

“Nope, not interested.”

“Come on… Please?” she blinked hopefully at Beca with her bright blue eyes, knowing it always troubled Beca to deny her requests when she looked that way. “To make up for ignoring the Bellas half of the year?”

Another deep sigh from Beca, Chloe had known this one would cut deep, and she almost blamed herself of playing the guilty-for-abandoning-us-card: “Okay fine, you win!”

“Yes!!” She leaned over the table and pressed a kiss on Beca’s cheek. Which caused a blush on the little woman’s face.

“But I want to have Wi-Fi access!”

“Seriously? We’re going camping!”

“I know! I’m already regretting it…”

“Who said anything about camping?” Fat Amy walked in the room, heading straight for the apple pie Chloe had made earlier that day.

“We are, Beca and I are going to have the best time ever!” Chloe shouted.

“Oh, can I join?”

Chloe glanced over at Beca, confused, before addressing Amy: “Ehm well, didn’t you and Bumper have plans for the weekend?”

“We did, but he got sick. So, girls what are you saying, ready for a Fat Amy Improvement?”

Chloe’s response came with the fakest smile ever: “How could we say no to that?”

“Awesome! I’ll start packing right away!” and she was gone again, up to her room.

They heard her bounce and stumble and for a while they just listened and ate, until Beca broke the silence: “Now you’re wishing you’d agreed to the Lily-plan, right?”

“Don’t say that, it will be fun having her around”, but Chloe didn’t mean a word of it.

“So then I guess I’m no longer needed?”

Chloe panicked for a second, until she saw Beca was smirking: “Don’t stress out, weirdo, I wouldn’t let anyone involuntarily spend 3 minutes alone with Fat Amy. Let alone a whole week.”

And when Chloe gratefully looked up, Beca added: “Let alone you.”