Bechloe AU: Chloe’s two year old son won’t stop crying until Beca smiles at him on the bus
thanks for the prompt! another super short one because i got a lot going on at the moment; this might suck, honestly. 🤷🏻‍♂️ ______
The bus was full, much to Chloe’s dismay, meaning that she’d have to join the huge crowd of people standing in the moving vehicle, a two year old boy screaming in her arms. She sighed in frustration, wanting nothing more than for him to finally calm down again. He’d been crying pretty much all day and was still going as if there was no tomorrow. She had tried everything at this point, but nothing had been able to stop him from screaming loudly during her meeting, in the coffee shop, on her way to the bus.
Some of the other people on the bus were already throwing her nasty looks and she swallowed hard, trying not to let it get to her. What kind of assholes would be mad at a kid screaming anyways? Though she was starting to get it, having had an incredibly painful headache for hours at this point.
She was gently rocking Parker in her arms, just hoping that this bus ride was going to be over soon. Her baby was starting to get heavy in her arms, having grown quite a lot in the past few months.
She frowned when he then suddenly stopped crying, now completely still in her arms. He was giggling, even. Relief would have been the only thing on her mind if she didn’t really want to know what the hell had managed to finally amuse him to the point that he had actually stopped throwing his tantrum.
She saw her, then. A rather tiny woman sitting in the back of the bus, smiling and waving at Parker who was happily laughing, doing his best attempt of waving back at her.
And Chloe couldn’t help but smile thankfully at said woman when their eyes met across the bus. To the redhead’s surprise, she immediately got up and waved the two of them over to her. Chloe complied with a little frown that got soon replaced by a bright smile as she realized that the nice woman was offering them her seat.
“Oh no it’s fine, you really didn’t have to…” Chloe started, only to get interrupted by a hand on her arm and a little chuckle that escaped the other woman’s mouth.
“Come on, you have a little kid. One that is super adorable, by the way. Just sit down.” The way the other woman smiled at Chloe actually made her feel giddy as she took the offer and sat down, sighing in relief. Now she was finally feeling better again. Parker too, apparently, still waving at their savior.
“He likes you,” Chloe laughed softly, adoringly watching the way the two of them interacted. “You must be good with kids.”
“Hate them, actually,” the other girl said dryly, playfully throwing her hands up in defeat as she noted Chloe’s frown. “I, well, usually don’t really get along with them. Yours is fucking cute though.”
She immediately threw her hand over her mouth, her eyes wide. “Shit, I shouldn’t swear around kids like that.”
Chloe couldn’t help but laugh loudly, thinking that the brunette was absolutely adorable. She wasn’t even mad at her for swearing around her son, something she usually chastised people for. “It’s okay. His name is Parker.”
“Well, hi Parker,” the now standing woman grinned at Chloe’s son, giving him an absolutely adorable high five. “It’s nice to meet you.”
Parker hid his face in his mommy’s neck, giggling again. It warmed Chloe’s heart. “Well, someone’s got a crush,” she chuckled, poking her son’s tummy playfully.
She was surprised to find that the other woman was blushing when she looked up again, grinning sheepishly at the two of them as neither of them knew what to say. Perhaps Parker wasn’t the only one with a crush.
“Thank you for offering us your seat, by the way. We had an exhausting day,” Chloe managed to get out after a while, playing with Parker’s little hands.
The brunette simply shrugged. “It’s not a big deal, really.”
“Oh and thanks for doing whatever magic you worked on my son. He literally hasn’t stopped crying all day and wow, I don’t know how you did that.” They were both blushing now, the brunette perhaps a little relieved that she wasn’t the only one with rosy cheeks.
“I-I literally didn’t do anything,” she laughed softy, her hands now stuffed into the pockets of her pants. “Just smiled at him.”
“You still kinda saved my day,” Chloe laughed, taking a deep breath before doing something that could possibly go very wrong, especially considering she hadn’t done anything like that ever since Parker had been born. “Maybe I could thank you somehow? With a coffee, maybe? Or dinner?”
The way the other woman’s face lit up, Chloe thought, made her whole terrible day kind of worth it.
Chloe’s beam was matching that of the brunette now and even Parker was still getting increasingly happier with every passing second, especially after having been able to get ahold of the other woman’s finger. “How does tomorrow night sound? I’ll get my friend to watch Parker.”
“That sounds, it sounds great,” the other woman grinned and reached for her phone, quickly handing it to Chloe. “Just put your number in there and I’ll call you.”
The redhead did as she was told, adding her name as well, happy to see the brunette’s face when she handed it back. “Chloe, huh? I’m Beca.”
Chloe smiled softly, then frowned when Beca suddenly groaned loudly.
“Shit! I missed my fucking stop!”
It made Parker giggle again.
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