Beca poured another shot of tequila for her regular. It was his fifth shot and she was getting afraid he wasn't going to be able to walk after he was finished. Like others he liked to talk about his problem while he was drinking. She just listened to him. She liked to hear others story. Most of the lonely people who came here had recently lost someone. This guy had just got dumped by his wife after she caught him cheating with her best friend while their baby daughter was in the house. She personally thought that it was really shitty of him but it would only make it worse if she said a word so she just kept nodding and said "I understand that it's hard". Her brother didn't pay her to piss customers off. He was in back of the bar talking to some girls in a corner. It was a blonde this time. She didn't pay that much attention to whom he was talking to. He almost always had a new girl every night. Her brother was a player.

The guy who was sitting in front of her finished his shot and asked for another one.
"Are you sure? You've had five already.", she said and poured another one.
"Don't question me..", he murmured and drank his sixth shot of tequila.

After graduation at the Barden University she had moved to California. Her brother was moving there and her parents would only let her move if it was with Sam so she took the chance. He had his own bar there. He would only let her come if she would work at the bar. Her and his other employee Kathy was working Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Sam and his friend Jack were working the other days. She had a good salary so she didn't complain, she even got to DJ some nights. She liked her job, not exactly what she expected after University but it wasn't bad. She lost contact with everyone at the University except for Jesse. Jesse had a boyfriend now. He also lost contact with almost everyone and moved to California. They only had each other. She lived at his place, Sam's place was a mess 99% of the time. She used to try to clean it up but he'd just make a mess ten minutes later. Jesse told her to move in with him before he got a boyfriend. Now most of the time he's at Robert's place. Robert's his boyfriend.

She took a look at the clock. 01:08am. She had finished eight minutes ago. Now was Kathy's turn. They took shifts. Hers just ended. She called for Kathy who took over in a second. She said a quick "goodbye" to her regular before she walked towards her brother. The bar was awfully quiet that night. The lights were on and everyone was talking in normal voices. Normally people would shout and they would have call the police after a bunch of people started fighting and wouldn't stop. This time it was nothing like that. Everyone was… Normal?
Her brother had started making out with the girl. She came from behind him and tapped his shoulder. "Sam, I'm leaving. My shift just ended. Kathy took over! See you on Sunday!", she said. He just nodded without stopping or even looking at her. She just sighed and walked out from the bar and looked at the traffic. There's was no way she was going to be able to get a cab. There were no cabs passing the bar at all. Her thoughts were interrupted by a buzzing sound coming from her right pocket. When she picked her phone up she saw Jesse's name on the display. She smiled.
"Hello there!", she said and kept her eyes on the traffic.
"You look so lost standing there. Look more to the left and you'll see me in my car just waiting for you to notice me", he said on the phone. She hung up when she saw his silver Volvo car. She ran towards it. It was cold outside after it had been raining for two days in a row. She opened the door and closed it as soon as she was sitting down. She put her purse between her feet and looked at Jesse with a smile. He smiled back and leaned in for a hug. "I've missed you today", he said and sat back. "I've missed you too!", Beca said and put her seatbelt on. Jesse started driving.

"So how was work today?"
"It was good. Very quiet today", Beca began. She got a surprised look from Jesse when she said that. "I know I was surprised too", she continued. "How was your day?".
He smiled as he was driving and showed her his hand. At first she didn't understand what he meant by showing her his hand but then she noticed the ring. "Oh my god.. Robert did now propose!", she yelled at him. He nodded and giggled. "Today we were at the mall.. I wanted to by some equipment for the kitchen. I know were missing a few things. More bowls, more plates and stuff. So anyway, today there was this band playing at the mall, I don't remember hearing or seeing their name but anyway, Robert said he liked them. Still didn't mention their name. I've got to ask for it later! So we were standing there in the crowd and all of a sudden the people around us kind of.. Backed off and there was this huge space between us and the other crowd and right at that moment I heard the band playing a song I recognized and I started to wonder where I'd heard that song. So I remembered that it was the song that they were playing at the wedding where Robert and I first met. I snapped out of my thoughts when I noticed that Robert was gone and for some reason I looked down and there he was, standing on one knee with a ring in his hands asking to marry me", Jesse said with a dreamy look. "That is so cute! I want to marry someone like that. Too bad there's not a lot of people that are like Robert. He's a keeper, Jesse", she said and smiled. She knew that all Jesse was going to do till the wedding was planning the wedding. It was going to be big, just like Jesse liked it. She noticed that they weren't driving the regular way home. "Where are we going, Jesse?", she asked when she didn't recognize the street anymore. "We have to celebrate! I heard that there's this awesome Chinese restaurant here! Oh, and then we have to go to the cupcake store that's across Sam's bar. We've always wanted to try their cupcakes but never have!", he said and parked the car outside the restaurant. It looked huge. "Should I wait in the car?", She asked. "Yeah I pre-ordered the food so it's just waiting for us! It won't take too long", he said and got out of car and ran in to the restaurant. It had started raining again. He was right. They had always wanted to go to that cupcake store. It was right across her brother's bar but they never had the time. They were always doing something. Either just driving across the country trying to find a shirt they saw on the internet, or sitting at Starbucks drinking coffee, working out or something else. They did everything except for the thing they always said they were going to do. Go to that cupcake store. It looked like they had delicious cupcakes. Robert had been there and told them that he'd never tasted anything like it.

Next stop. Cupcake store.