Strings

Chapter 9: Nodes?

I woke up today with a smile on my face, it was the start of Spring Break and every single one of the Bellas would be gone except for Bree and myself, her parents were away in Dubai on their monthly trip so Bree said she would stay with me for the entire break. It's also a perfect opportunity for her to get to know Beca properly, the two did get off to a rather rough start after all so why not try and bring them a little closer considering Beca and I have gotten closer too! I just hear my phone go off, it's the little devil herself!

Beca: Hey Red! I woke up early and now I can't go back to sleep, wanna hang out? :)

Chloe: Sorry Becks, I have to go to the doctor for this life threatening illness I have :/

Beca: OMG are you okay? I'll be over as soon as I can!

I'm just about to respond when a very loud scream rings through my dorm, I immediately rush to the bathroom to find Aubrey staring back at her reflection with an extremely worried expression on her face! "Bree what's wrong, are you okay?" Aubrey turns her face towards me, she has her hand over her forehead and when I try and remove hand over her forehead and when I try and remove her hand she attempts to bite me. "Okay okay, you take your hand way so." Aubrey slowly removes her hand and reveals what is possibly THE biggest zit I've ever seen on her forehead. I burst into hysterical laughter and Aubrey beings to yell at me but I continue to laugh which frustrates her even more.

"Chlo! This isn't funny it's-"

The blonde suddenly rushes to the toilet and gets sick, I rush over and hold Bree's hair back. "You really have to stop stress puking Bree, is there anyway to stop it?" "Yeah stop stressing me the fuck out!"

I burst into laughter again and Aubrey snaps her head back to me sending me a death glare, I make a zipping motion with my mouth and she stands back up again and wipes her mouth with some tissue. "What's the big deal anyways Bree? It's just a zit people get them all the time- wait- why are you dressed all... that?" Bree's face blushes a little as she puts earrings in both of her ears and sprays a little perfume on herself. "Because I'm going on a date that's why! This thing on my face really needs to go!"

My crystal blue eyes widen and a big smile spreads across my face, Bree never mentioned anything to me about going on a date! What the heck? "You're going on a date and you never told me?!" Aubrey nods shyly and then winces in pain when I smack her arm. "Bree why didn't you tell me? Do I know them?" She nods again and I start to get really excited and I begin jumping up and down. Bree pushes past me and I quickly follow as she grabs her purse, bag and car keys. "Do I know him? What does he look like? How tall is he? What's his name?" Bree just huffs and says 'later Chloe' as she leaves the dorm and I'm left standing in the middle of the room squealing about Aubrey's new bo! I'm just about to turn on the tv when there's a knock on the door. Bree probably forgot her dorm key. I walk over and open the door and am surprised to find a very small brunette on the other side!

"Hey...." She begins awkwardly, scratching the back of her neck awkwardly. "I umm, saw Aubrey on my way out, is she not coming?" I drop my gaze to the ground and shake my head. "I haven't told Bree that I decided to get my nodes removed and she's under a lot of stress already with the ICAA's and now Battle of the Bands, so I just chose not to tell her until after Spring Break, which is going to be pretty hard to keep from her considering she'll be with me for those two weeks!"

"Oh." Beca says and she puts her hand on my arm comfortingly, I bring my gaze up to meet here and I see her smiling sincerely at me which I reciprocate. "Well I'm here and I'm not going anywhere." That one sentence made my stomach do flips and I felt my cheeks getting red for some reason, I lower my gaze again to hide my expression and Beca clears her throat to speak again. "When is your appointment? Also you said the illness is life threatening? Chlo that really scares me, I hope you're okay!" I immediately giggle at Beca's words and Beca's serious face drops to a very confused one, I look at the small brunette as she knits her eyebrows together in confusion. "What's so funny?" She asks as she pulls her arm from mine and folds them.