This is the fruit of me attending a boring 3 hour class. Instead if sleeping, I ended up writing the first chapter of this FanFic.
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Chapter 1 – Great For You Misery For Me
It has been 2 years since the Bella's won their first ICCA's Championship, now with 2 trophy's in a row the Bella's are feeling good with this year's upcoming ICCA's Championship, but they have to pass the Semi's first. Beca, their Captain for the past 2 years is now a Junior majoring in Business Management which took some a bit by surprise that she's taking that as her major and not something along the lines of music. Beca reasoned that she can learn things about music along the way, she took this course due to her wanting to establish her own music studio and take care of her own business. Along with Beca as Captains are Fat Amy and Cynthia Rose who helps a lot with choreography and song selections. Now the Bella's have a few additional members thanks to their winnings and awesome performances.
Even though things have gone great with the Barden Bella's they still miss their former Captains Aubrey Posen "the uptight bitch who seems to have a foot stuck up her ass all the time" as Beca likes to call it and Chloe Beale "The no boundaries girl with super confidence." Now the best friends are still living together in New York where they both work and things are going great with both of them too. Aubrey works on a law firm as an associate with one of the titans and on her way to becoming first chair. While Chloe works as the new interior designer at one of the known company in New York. Not only the Bella's miss the 2 odd friends but both friends also miss the Bellas and they visit Barden as much as possible when they're available. Aubrey because she misses them even Beca but she won't let her know that, ever, also to make sure Beca is not doing anything to ruin the Bellas and to make sure they still make them do cardio and Chloe to see and stay in touch with her friends and see how they're doing.
Chloe definitely visits Barden more often than Aubrey especially during Holiday's like Thanksgiving and Christmas before she goes home to Miami to her parents. She goes to Barden because she knows that Beca stays there for the Holidays since her Dad actually lives close there and her job at the radio station. Beca doesn't mind Chloe's company, come to think of it she likes to spend more time with Chloe than her Father even if their relationship took a turn for the better they still have their moments when a simple conversation ends in an argument. She also loosens up to her step mother whom she doesn't refer to as "the step monster" anymore, she actually likes Shiela now, she actually has some nice collection of old music which they definitely bonded over. But Beca still misses her Mom Bette Cooper who recently moved to New York to be the new curator at some art gallery, even though they talk almost every day on the phone the physical contact is still much more better. Since her Mom moved to New York they have seen each other more, Bette makes sure to visit her daughter twice a month and stay with her for at least 2 days in which makesBeca really happy.
Beca and Jesse have been together for almost 2 years now and lately Beca's been feeling a little out of it. Everything is going great for her the Bellas, her parents, Aubrey, even Sheila but her relationship with Jesse seems to be falling apart. Lately she's been nothing but restless and irritated with him. He still won't let it go that she's not a big fan of movies, she watches a couple of movies with him but 4 movies a week is a bit too much for her not only that, they have to go to a theater once a week and she do not appreciate theater the audience are all rowdy and you can barely understand the movie because it's too distracting inside. She don't get why he keeps pushing these kind of things to her, then theirs her make-up Jesse telling her to lessen her eyeliner. Why? She likes her heavy eye-liner that's pretty much the only make-up she puts on. And now they are talking about her earrings or as Aubrey likes to call it her "earmonstrosities."
"Hey Beca would you remove that spike for our dinner date this Friday." Jesse said.
"Why what's wrong with them? I think they're fine." She said with irritation.
"They are, it's just that we are going to a fine restaurant you know. Atleast let's look presentable enough." He argued.
"Fine, okay. I'll see you on Friday."Beca said dejectedly. She was tired, she doesn't want to argue with him so she just agreed even if she doesn't like to.
As they reached her dorm room he was leaning down to kiss her good night but Beca moved so Jesse ended up kissing her on her cheek.
"Good night Beca" he said with his puppy dog eyes that's starting to irritate her more and more when he does it.
"Good-bye Jesse" she said while closing the door and the only thing that actually made her happy that night was that she no longer share a room with some weird psycho dorm mate.
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Beca's been really busy with the Bellas, radio station, classes, and surprisingly her relationship with Jesse. While she's at her night shift at the radio station alone she starts to internalize her relationship. "Isn't relationship supposed to make things better or lighter. Why am I feeling more miserably lately? Is it just me? Am I the one making it difficult? Am I just making too much of a fuss? Am I whining too much? I should be contented, right?" she said with a big sighed. "What am I doing talking to myself. I'm going insane." Then her phone rang alerting her that she has a message. Her lips turned upward unconsciously when she saw who it was from.
How you doin' shorty? – Chloe
Just DJing at the station. – Beca
Did you had dinner already? – Chloe
Gummy Bears and Root Beer. Does that count? - Beca
That's not proper dinner. – Chloe
Beca was about to reply when there was a loud knock on the door that made her almost fall from her seat. When she opened the door she was surprised to find a fiery red head with wide smile plastered on her face carrying a box of pizza and a paper bag that contains "proper dinner" according to Chloe.
"What….How…Huh?" Beca was shocked she couldn't even finish her sentence.
"Wow you must be really hungry. What your Hollywood boyfriend not feeding you right?" Chloe said jokingly in which Beca didn't respond because Jesse rarely stops by during her night shifts and she doesn't want to talk about her miserable relationship with Chloe who seems to be in a really good mood.
"What are you doing here? How long have you been standing there outside? Have you been stalking me?" Beca said teasingly then she remembered her little monologue rant and she really wished to any deity who is listening right now that Chloe didn't hear anything on what she said.
"Well I'm here because I'm meeting a client tomorrow. No, I haven't been standing outside I just got here. No, I am not stalking you I just figured you haven't eaten yet so I took the liberty to buy you dinner. Besides I think you already have too many stalkers, I mean come on, the Bella Captain which bought Championship 2 years in a row and to top that also an awesome badass DJ." Chloe said proudly while sitting down and expanding her hand to emphasize her answers.
Beca smiled shyly feeling embarrassed good thing there was just the two of them. "Anyway, how long are you gonna be here?" she asked.
"3 days, like I said meeting with a client tomorrow on whether they would like to hire my services on decorating their house." Chloe said while taking a bite on her food.
"I'm sure you'regonna get that job. They have to be blind or have no taste at all if they didn't." Beca said confidently. Then a thought came to mind "wait, if you get the job, is the job here?" she asked hopefully.
"Yes! I'll be here for 2 months IF I get the job" Chloe answered excitedly.
Beca smiled a genuine smile that she hasn't done lately and it seems that the red hair is the only one that brings it out on her and Beca doesn't even notice it. She really hoped Chloe would get the job because that means she would see her more often.
Chloe was also smiling thinking if she gets the job, she will be able to spend more time with the Bellas and Beca, and she really missed them.
"Hey your Semis are in 2 weeks right?" she asked to break the silence.
"Oh yeah I feel good about it, we really have good songs lined up" Beca said confidently.
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Friday: Dinner Date
Jesse picked Beca at her dorm room at 7:30 and true to her word Beca was not wearing her ear spike, she even dressed up. She's wearing a form fitting gray dress that ends just above her knee. "You look beautiful, I'm glad you dressed up for our dinner" Jesse said while eyeing Beca up and down.
Instead of being flattered Beca felt a little uncomfortable while Jesse looking at her like she's melting, she did not appreciate that at all. "Thanks, so where are we going?" she asked while locking her dorm room.
"This Italian place at the city. It took me 2 weeks to get that reservation so let's go before we lose it." He said while putting his arm around her shoulders. If this was probably months ago she would find it sweet of him with that gesture but know she just feels suffocated so, she subtlety tries to get out of her boyfriend's arm as much as possible.
They arrived just in time at the restaurant which Jesse was pretty happy about it thinking his hard work on making this dinner is paying off. While eating their appetizers "So any news lately?" he asked her looking really interested on what she's about to say.
"If you are asking on what my plan for the Semis you can forget it. I will never rant them out to you" Beca said trying make things light. In which Jesse almost chocked on his food. "Chloe visited me last night at the station."
"Oh, how is she?" Jesse asked
"Well according to her there's a possible job offer here. She had a meeting earlier, I don't know the answer yet. I have confidence in her that she's gonna get that job" Beca said not realizing that she's barely looking at Jesse and just rambling about Chloe.
"Yeah, I'm sure she'll get it" Jesse said while their main course arrived smiling at the female waitress which Beca missed to notice because she's too preoccupied thinking why she haven't heard from Chloe yet since this afternoon was her meeting.
Dinner went okay, it wasn't that miserable as Beca expected to be. She's not gonna lie Jesse makes her laugh, he was goofy, his words makes sense and not some dumb ass. But it wasn't like before anymore. No, scratch that, it was exactly like before only this time she's starting to notice the things that he's trying to push to her and she's not appreciating it anymore. At first it was fine they were just starting, they were trying to adjust to each other but now she feels like he will never accept that she's not a big movies fan, she likes her ear spike, she likes heavy eyeliner, she likes the way she dress, and she will never gonna be his Hollywood princess to his Hollywood prince.
While the couple was walking outside back to Beca's dorm building Jesse stopped them at the steps. "In every romantic movie a perfect way to end a perfect dinner is a perfect kiss" as he was leaning down to give her his most passionate kiss he was stopped by Beca's hand on his chest.
"Stop" Beca said sadly but she can't anymore. They are not living in a movie. "Jesse maybe we need a break from each other for a while" she told him looking directly at his eyes to make it clear to him.
"What? Why?" he asked with his wide eyes. This was not part of his plan of a perfect night. This was nothing like the movies he was watching, this is not happening to him. What does she mean by break from each other?
"I just think maybe we need a breather from each other" Beca sighed "I'm sorry it's just that…lately we've been arguing a lot and it's really taking its toll so I think we need some space from each other till we both know what we want." Beca said clearly to him that she is not breaking up with him just making things clear for them to know what they want to happen in their relationship. With that being said she started walking up the steps "Good night Jesse."
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By the time she got to her room she went directly inside thinking if she was too harsh on Jesse. Was she too cold on what she did? It is true their relationship has been on the rocks for the past few months and neither of them is saying anything about. It's about time that they actually do something while it's still early right?
While she was heading to her closet she did not notice that there was someone on her bed waiting for her. "Hey short stuff!" Beca jumped at the voice and looking for the source and there, she saw Chloe lying at her bed, her back resting on the head board.
"Geez! Chloe I think you just gave me a heart attack" she said while holding her chest "how did you get in?"
"I got my ways" Chloe said making magic fingers. "Anyway I'm here because I want to surprise you and inviting you for a sleepover here"
"You're inviting me to have a sleepover at my own place?" Beca asked confused
"Yes and I have some news" she said barely containing her excitement "I got the job!" she said while clapping her hands and giving Beca a tight hug.