Beca and her best friend Benji are the two weirdos of the school. Beca's a dork, Benji's a nerd, and they enjoy their own little world. But of course, we all have our high school crushes. Benji pines after the popular girl Chloe Beale, and Beca has heart eyes for star quarterback Jesse Swanson. The duo make a plan to get close to each other's crushes only to find love in ways they couldn't have ever imagined. (Bechloe)
I guess you could say Beca enjoyed her biology class. Learning how an ecosystem kept its balance, how the theory of evolution is based off of serious facts, and of course, staring at the back of Jesse Swanson's head.
It wasn't rocket-science that every girl fawns after the star quarterback in high school. Beca was no different from the rest of the school's young girls. It was straight from the book; Jesse Swanson is one hunk of hotness.
The small brunette quickly wiped her bottom lip. God, she was drooling. How embarrassing. She shook her head, trying to get her eyes off of his.
Who could blame her? Like I said, every girl in that damned school had doe-eyes for the jock. It's not surprising, and it's definitely expected.
The bell chimed throughout the classrooms, signalling that seventh period was over, and that the school day itself was over. With a sigh, Beca shoved her composition book into her bag, and scurried out of that room.
Everyday was seemingly similar. She'd wake up, kind of brush her hair, throw on clothes, and then meet Benji at the park. From there, they'd ride their bikes to the local coffee shop to grab some well needed caffeine, and then off to school they'd go. When school would end, they'd ride their bikes back to the park that sat between their homes, possibly study on the slide, talk about their crushes, and then head back to their respectable caves.
In this endless loop, we were on the 'after school' part.
The two were sitting on the slide together on the playground. They always came here after school, it's been tradition for about ten years.
"Anything new with Chloe?" Beca asked, stretching the end of the popular girl's name in a teasing manner. The nerdy boy slapped the girl's arm, scoffing before playing with the rubix cube in his hand. He wore a goofy smile as he shook his head.
"She broke up with Tom the other day," Benji bit his lip through his smile, obviously trying to contain his excitement. But Beca couldn't keep herself at bay.
"Dude, that's serious news!" Benji nodded furiously, closing his eyes. Beca hit his leg, being on the lower end of the slide. She smiled widely at her friend. "Good for you Benj, least now that dick won't be in the way of you and your girlfriend." She said in a mocking way again. He nodded, continuing to fidget with the small puzzle in his hands.
The duo were sat on Beca's bed at midnight, binge watching some show about jail and lesbians. Benji wanted to watch it. Beca tried not to roll her eyes at the curly haired boy. He was such a fangirl.
He suddenly turned off the TV, and turned around to face the brunette. His mouth opened and closed a few times, making odd gestures with his hands. "Spit it out Benji, Jesus."
He took a breath in, and let it out shakily. A small smile crawled up his face before he spoke.
"I can't believe I just thought of this now," He inhaled again, looking at Beca with hope in his eyes. It made her uneasy.
"I think I have a way for us to get Chloe and Jesse to be ours."
After a few moments of silence, the smaller girl laughed wholeheartedly. Her chest bounced as she wiped away her sarcastic tears. "Good one Benjamin, you're a riot." Looking at his completely serious face, she froze. Her eyes widened.
"Oh, you were serious?"
Benji, sighed with a shake of his head. He wandered over to his backpack, quickly pulling out a notebook along with a pen. He plopped down next to Beca, opening the notebook. "Here's what I had in mind,"
Collect Intel
He wrote down the first step, pointing at the words with his finger. "First things first, we send each other out to learn about the other one's lover." He wiggled his bushy eyebrows, the girl nudging him lightly. She ran a hand through her hair as she thought about it.
"So you want me to learn things about Chloe," He nodded eagerly.
"And you learn things about Jesse?" Benji smiled widely. The brunette narrowed her eyes. "Continue."
Take a similar class as them
She glanced down at the next step, nodding to herself. "Jesse is in my bio class, so there's some 'intel' for you." She said, air-quoting the word intel. Benji quickly wrote that down as well as 'Chloe is in Choir'. Beca sighed upon seeing this. She wasn't a singer, and yet that's the only class that he shared with the girl. As if sensing Beca's thoughts, the dorky boy snickered.
"Oh hush up Beca, you're such a good singer." With a punch to the arm, he continued to the next few steps.
Make contact with the targets
Understand their planets
They both reread the steps, adding small notes here and there to the piece of paper. The plan was perfect. Beca got close to Chloe so that Benji could also get close to her. Benji got close to Jesse so that Beca could get close to him.
The two highfived each other before resuming their Netflix show.
The plan would begin tomorrow.
