Title: Aca-Wedding

Rating: mostly T—M in the future most likely.

Summary: Two years since graduation, the Trebles and Bellas are reunited again in Tasmania for the aca-wedding they never thought would happen and let's just say a lot has changed, and yet maybe everything is still the same.

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Location: Los Angeles, California

Bass drops. Acoustics are indescribable and as the lyrics make their way through the speakers of the mixing room, Beca sits there watching her first artist in the booth. She bobs her head to the beat that she created working off the lyrics they wrote. She still is in awe that this is her life; this is her dream and she's currently living it.

After graduation, she got offered a more permanent position at Lyrical Wave, so naturally she accepted it. She impressed her boss so much; which is saying a lot because it's hard enough to impress that guy, but he entrusted her to headline an EP for one of his bigger artists. It wasn't until, it was released for downloads that he realized that she was definitely more talented than he anticipated. That's when he decided to relocate her to his studio in Los Angeles where she's now working with his newest artist on her upcoming album.

It was a huge opportunity plus it meant she could be closer to Jesse when he went to film school. The casual visits were great, but they just didn't cut it. Pretty soon it felt less like a relationship and more like a chore, even when Beca moved to Los Angeles. It was like there wasn't enough time till finally, they fell out of the groove of a relationship and back to their friendship that they originally established in their freshman year back at Barden. It was fine though because regardless, they were still close.

"That was great," Beca says through the microphone. "Why don't we run through the last verse one more time, otherwise you sound amazing," she adds a smile as she receives a thumbs up from her artist as the door opens and in pops in Jesse.

He smiles, letting the door close behind him stepping up next to her as the beat plays and the girl runs through her verse like requested. He bobs his with an impressed smile. "She's amazing," he comments and Beca nods in agreement, as she brings the music down.

"That was perfect, I think we can call it a day. You were amazing today," she compliments and her artist smiles in reply, pulling off her headphones to come out of the booth.

"Thank you so much Beca. I can't wait to hear the finished product," she bumps her and winks over in Jesse's way, making him practically freeze in place. Beca smirks at his reaction as the young artist walks out of the room.

"So what do I owe this pleasure?" Beca turns back to Jesse, who has finally shaken out of his reverie, then simply shrugs.

"Oh you know was in the neighborhood, wanted to check in on my favorite music producer," he smiles falsely which only gets an eye roll in reply. Beca shakes her head and turns back to the controls to start the tweaking on the song she was just working on.

He clears his throat due to the lack of reply he received. "So funny thing," he breaths out a chuckle. "I was wondering if you got an invitation to Bumper and Amy's wedding?" He asks which again receives a nonchalant reply.

"Yeah of course," Beca says distractedly. "She called me the other day to ask if I could be her Maid of Honor," she adds with a tone that suggested it was a weird request of Amy to do. Jesse drops his arms and turns her chair around to face him.

"Well I hope you said yes since it's you know…an honor,"

"Yes of course I did, but I doubt I'll be any good at it," she says with her insecurity shining brightly like it had a spotlight casted upon it in center stage.

"Beca c'mon," Jesse states. "Amy would not have asked you if she didn't think you couldn't handle it,"

"No I know, but it's just a lot of pressure, you know?" She shrugs crossing her arms and leaning back in her chair.

"Yes more pressure than creating successful albums for famous celebrities. More pressure than creating out of this world set lists for a World Champion Collegiate Acapella group," she holds her hand up with another eye roll.

"Okay! I get it—I handle pressure like crap when it starts, but I manage to pull through, but this is more cut out for someone like—I don't know, Aubrey," she holds her hand out at the obvious name she throws out.

Jesse nods in agreement. "While that may be true, Aubrey isn't Amy's best friend—you are and you'll be fine," he encourages. "Plus I heard everything was pretty much put together, you just have to show up," he adds and Beca looks at him confused.

"And how do you know that exactly?"

Jesse gasps, hitting her lightly with his palm. "Oh yeah that's the funny thing. Bumper asked me to be his Best Man," he says with shock which only makes Beca's eyes widen.

"I was sure he'd ask Donald," Jesse nods frantically in agreement. "Weird, well congratulations then," she punches him and he chuckles lowly rubbing his arm in mock pain.

"It's going to be weird seeing everyone again," he says after a brief silence, chancing a look over at Beca who seemed to be lost in thought prompting her to stare down at a spot on the floor pretty intently.

"For sure," she simply replies, her thoughts drifting to a certain ginger. She remained in contact with everyone since graduation. She let everyone know what was going on with her job and her life as a general whole, as they too did the same; some more than others. When she found out she was moving to Los Angeles, Chloe was the first person she told; even before Jesse and they were dating at the time. Still, though; it's been two years since she's physically seen anybody which is a lot longer than she's used to considering the fact that she lived with those girls for three years. Being away from all of them was difficult, but being away from Chloe was definitely the hardest one. Maybe this week with everyone won't be so bad.

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

"I don't even know what to bring. Like is it even cold there? Are we going to like the desert part of Australia?" Chloe says as her laptop sits on her neatly made bed as she goes through her closest to find clothes to bring for the wedding since they'll be there for a week.

"Chlo just bring the sundresses and something hot for the bachelorette party," Aubrey's voice rings through her laptop speakers as she turns around and faces the screen. "I don't get why you're so freaked about what to bring. You're there for a wedding,"

Chloe stares at the screen like it should be obvious to Aubrey, which only makes Aubrey perk up a little bit and stare back at her. Her mouth drops and her eyes narrow slightly. "Oh no Chlo, please tell me you're not freaking out because of Beca,"

She looks down almost guilty, pursing her lips before flipping around. "Fine I won't tell you," she says before staring back at her full body mirror with one of her dresses in front of her.

"Aca-cuse me? Chlo you haven't seen her in two years,"

"Which is exactly why I want to look amazing," she comments, tossing the dress next to the other ones she's picked out.

"What if she isn't the same Beca? I mean she works with celebrities now Chloe," Aubrey states, making Chloe stop short in her motions. "I just don't want you to get your hopes up,"

Chloe turns around and faces the screen with a quirk of her lips as if she's pondering what Aubrey's saying, but she knows Beca and yes it may have been two years since she's seen her, but she still speaks to her and Beca will always be that fumbling mess of broody fluff she knows and would even go as far as saying loved.

"I know and I appreciate it Bree, but I know Beca and I know she'd never let working with celebrities change who she is," Chloe confirms and Aubrey sighs because even she knows Chloe is right, but still she doesn't want her to get her hopes up; they do live on opposite parts of the country still.

"Now how about this?" Chloe holds up a tight fitting blue dress that screams club ready and Aubrey's eyes widen adding a mouth gap.

"Perfect," she smiles and places it all down on her bed with a huff. "Okay remember, I'll be there tomorrow morning, so we can make it to the airport two hours before we have to board," Aubrey reminds Chloe for what feels like the hundredth time. Aubrey is anything if not precise and persistent.

"Yes I remember, I'll see you tomorrow bright and early," Chloe says before closing out of Skype, before eyeing all her clothes with a hopeful gleam to it.

Hopefully this week will be exactly what she needs. After graduation, she was sort of in a rut. She was definitely ready to move on, but when it actually came time to physically do it, to say she wasn't nervous was an understatement. Never mind the fact that when she heard Beca was moving to Los Angeles, the uneasy feeling of losing her other best friend and having basically no one in the vicinity made it worse. But she knew Beca. And she knew that Los Angeles was the dream and she wasn't going to tell her not to go; it truly was a can't miss opportunity. Plus, she was closer to Jesse then—her boyfriend. Yeah Chloe remembers Jesse. He is a good guy and she can't be mad at him or her for wanting to be closer, but then it didn't matter because Beca calls her a week later and tells her about her new life in the big bright yet slightly smog infested city and come to find out that they aren't together anymore and neither of them are upset about this. It was odd to Chloe since they did date for almost four years, but she was glad that Beca wasn't too broken hearted about it and that they were still good friends; no harm, no foul.

Seeing Beca again—Chloe couldn't explain it. It wasn't just seeing one of your best friends after two years apart; it felt like maybe she could breathe again and whatever funk or void she's had since graduation will just make sense. It was silly but she had to have hope right?

Location: Somewhere Over the Pacific Ocean (10 hours into Flight):

In Beca's mind, the only thought was getting as much sleep as possible before jetlag set in. The flight from Los Angles to Australia is supposed to be a whapping eighteen hours and the last thing Beca wanted to do was be awake for that long and deal with Jesse of all people, so she fell asleep as soon as the plane descended.

It helped a great deal that she had most of the row to herself aside from the aisle seat; that was Jesse's, but it allowed her to crawl up in a ball; which granted she was small enough, and just pass out. It was quite glamorous really.

She took a deep breath and sighed before opening her eyes, taking in everyone around her who too have decided to pass out, but one person, who appeared to just be watching her.

"Dude what the hell is wrong with you?" She asks tiredly, making Jesse lean against his armrest with a mock dreamy smile.

"You just look so cute when you sleep," he gushes before sipping water from his tiny airplane cup to gargle it and slurping it to keep it from seeping out of the corner of his mouth. She leans over and punches him hard in his arm as he swallows it to laugh. "Aw Becs don't be like that," he pouts and she crosses her arms over her chest with annoyance.

"Then don't be a weirdo dude," she huffs annoyingly taking her phone out to hookup to the airplane wifi. She goes through her emails and replies to the little ones she can; the ones that don't require a novel response—that she'll save till she gets to the hotel. She goes on Instagram next and instantly spots a few posts from her fellow alumni Bellas talking about jet setting to Australia for the big aca-wedding—that's what they've been hash tagging it as till she reached Chloe's the day before.

Beca smiles at the picture of Chloe trying to go all gangster; must have been before she left for the airport because she wrote:

Totes ready to #getbumped #acawedding

Beca scrunches her nose up, but likes the picture because it's Chloe. She suddenly hears breathing next to her. She looks over at Jesse who too looks weirded out. "Ew that hashtag," he comments and she merely smirks and slides closer to him.

"C'mon weirdo let's do this," she says as he holds his phone out for them to take a pic, while Beca covers herself in the airplane blanket; making her eyes only visible. After taking it he posts, tagging her account.

Not even a few minutes go by and a notification pops up on his phone. He checks it and smirks, before clearing his throat. "Gingerlicious has liked this," he says, forcing Beca's attention away from her phone for a brief moment. "Well isn't someone eager to see you," she jests to her. She shrugs then turns back to her phone to make it look like she doesn't care, when internally it meant the world to her.

Location: Tasmania, Australia:

Chloe is looking down at her phone with her bags next to her as Aubrey and she wait for the shuttle to the hotel to arrive where they'll be staying at. It wasn't too far away according to what Amy said, which was perfect for everyone especially because nobody in the group knew how to drive in this country, except for Amy obviously.

Chloe pouts at the photo that was just posted from Jesse. She wasn't sure why it bothered her so much that they were so close still. Well of course she knew—they used to date or whatever, but they were like best friends.

"Is it weird that they're still that close?" Chloe asks Aubrey holding her phone up to her face, which prompts her to roll her eyes.

"They're friends Chlo, let it go," Chloe gets ready to argue but Aubrey stops her as the shuttle comes up. "Look she told you her and Jesse aren't a thing anymore. Are you looking for them to suddenly be a thing so it crushes any hope you had?" Aubrey asks picking up her bags as Chloe follows in suit, bringing her stuff up the steps too.

They sit down in one of the rows of seats next to each other and Chloe merely shrugs in her response. "No, of course not, but I don't know," she answers because for all she knows Beca may not even like her like that anyway, so what difference would it make? Still she had to accept that they were literally just friends, but the little green monster on her shoulder couldn't help himself but appear in the worst kind of way—she hated it.

"Chlo, don't overthink it. This week is supposed to be about Amy and Bumper. If you and Beca are going to connect on that level this week, then it'll happen, but if it doesn't then you need to move on," Aubrey states and Chloe knows her friend is right. She can't keep getting her hopes up about Beca when she made it perfectly clear in the tent senior year that she never even thought about experimentation with another female. She couldn't think about it anymore—Aubrey is right; this is about her aca-people and they're in Australia for crying out loud. Let's make the most of it, Chloe thought. So she merely nods in Aubrey's direction to let her know that she will do as she said.

"Tonight you can freak out when they arrive, but right now let's get to the hotel, unpack, get some drinks and enjoy the beautiful view," Aubrey states and Chloe smiles widely at this.

"Now I like the sound of that," she agrees making her blonde friend return her wide smile as the shuttle makes its way out of the airport and towards their hotel.

For those of you who have been reading my stories for awhile, I know I mentioned I'd be retiring after my last stories were cleaned up; however, I decided to do this one last story as a farewell because this idea would not leave me. It's my first dive into the Pitch Perfect fandom but I love the fandom so much that I couldn't leave without writing something for it. This is going to be based off of the rumor possible plot for Pitch Perfect 3, with I'm sure some obvious differences. Nevertheless, on Tumblr, I'll be incorporating some social media posts to go with it. It'll be under the tumblr tag lacksubstance and acawedding. But anyway, let me know your thoughts and I'll update everything as quickly as possible. Thanks everybody :)