Just Friends
Hello guys, you may have read our other stories "Life Next To The Swansons" "LNTTS-Part 2" and "LNTTS-Part 3" if you haven't, hey there! if you do read LNTTS don't worry the finale was causing problems so it'll be up in the next couple of days
This story isn't going to be as long as LNTTS this will probably only be about maybe 10 chapters, we'll just have to see how it goes
Hope you enjoy this first chapter/sort of introduction :)
Beca's POV
"Miss Mitchell..."
"Shit" I cursed under my breath; I hit the lock button on my phone and attempted to hide it, which was stupid because I had obviously already been caught by the asshole of an English teacher. Mr Evans, the teacher that hates me-well most of my teachers hate me but he would probably murder me if he could get away with it. I first had him in freshman year in high school and I thought I got rid of him when I went into sophomore year, well obviously with my shitty luck I got landed with the dude again and just to put the icing on the cake, I've got him again in my Junior year. If I get him again in senior year I swear to god I will commit suicide.
"Phone" He said sternly, holding his hand out inches away from my face, I could give him some remark that would get me sent out and another detention buuuut that means I have to spend my afternoon with him and then get another lecture from my mom about my behaviour in school, so fuck it, I'll give him the phone. I rolled my eyes and handed it over, there was a snigger from my right, and well there is only one person who it could be, Jesse. Jesse is the idiot, weirdo, dickwad, nerd, irritant, most annoying person on the planet but he's my best friend and we have been since we were kids we were like partners in crime and now at 16 years old, we still are. When people see us they think we're a couple but they are wrong, I have a boyfriend, his name's Luke, We've only been with each other for around 2 months. Also Jesse has a girlfriend, her name's Aubrey, I'm not too fond of the girl but I tolerate her for Jesse's sake and I can't exactly choose who he dates, right?
"I hate you" I whispered, narrowing my eyes at him
"Hate you more" he shot back
"You're such a child"
"Miss Mitchell if you cause anymore disruption you will be getting sent outside" Mr Evans snapped, What?! What the hell?
"How the hell? Now it's official, I hate you Jesse, you always seem to get me in trouble but you either don't get caught or weasel yourself out" I whisper-yelled
"Right, Mitchell, out!" I held my hands up in defence and stood up, slinging my bag over my shoulder, I turned to Jesse and flipped him off but he just burst out laughing. I picked up my pen and threw it at him before walking towards the door. Just as I reached for the handle a pen hit me in the side of the head then onto the floor. I spun around and looked at Mr Evans
"Sir! He just threw a pen at me!" I said, pointing at the pen on the ground, I glanced at Jesse and he was nearly in tears of laughter. Mr Evans banged his fist on his desk out of frustration making most of the class jump slightly
"Swanson you too!" he yelled. Jesse got up from his seat and followed me out, clutching his stomach since he was still laughing.
"You dick!" once the door was closed I pushed him making him stumble it the wall slightly
"Your face though, you were so confused" he said once his laughter had died down, I started walking down the corridor leaving Jesse behind
"Well no fucking wonder" I turned my body to face him so I was now walking backwards "I didn't do anything!"
"Where are you going?" he asked, raising an eyebrow out of confusion
"It's last period, I'm not waiting here just to get spit in my eye from that douche screaming at me...you coming or are you just gonna stand there like an absolute idiot?" He snapped into realisation and jogged to catch up to me
"You know I think, Mr Evans has a thing for you, you hear all those stories about creepy teachers "wanting" their female students-or male I'm not dissing anyone here" he rambled
"Gee thanks, dude now you're gonna have to be in that classroom with me at all times, I'd rather not get raped" I looked up to read his expression and he looked like he just wanted to laugh again
"Beca wait!" He grabbed my shoulders and turned me to face him, I furrowed my brow at him, well no wonder what the fuck was wrong with this weirdo now? "You've had that teacher every year now right?" he asked
"Yeah" I replied slowly
"Well that solves it" I raised an eyebrow as we started walking again "Case closed, the dudes a rapist"
"I shouldn't be believing any of this but the guy does have that creepy rapist look about him and he's always so close to-Dude! You're making me over think!" I slapped his shoulder and he pouted but it soon turned into one of his stupid smirk
"Aw don't think too much you'll hurt your brain" he patted my head and I scowled at him before he made a run for it and I started to chase him down the hallway. We soon exited the building and were bent over, panting "Bell's gonna-" Jesse started but the bell cut him off. I wiped my brow and straightened my back
"What are you doing today?" I asked him as we took a seat on the nearby wall
"Probably hanging out with Bree, what about you?" he replied
"God knows, first mission though, find Luke" I slipped off the wall and slung my bag over my shoulder again "I'll talk to you later, okay?"
"Yeah sure, movie night tonight Mitchell" I rolled my eyes and waved behind me before weaving in and out of students that had just exited the building to find Luke. I ran my hand down my face in realisation; I forgot my phone in the creep's classroom. Of course that would happen to me. I re-entered the building and started to make my way to the English corridor
"Beca!" I spun around at the sound of someone calling my name, Luke jogged up to me with his bag on one shoulder "Hey" he greeted, interlocking my fingers with his own
"I forgot my phone in English will you come with me to get it?" I asked hopefully
"Sure" he shrugged and we walked hand in hand to the English department.
"Woah, woah, wait" I pushed him back around the corner as I caught the sight of Mr Evans leaving the classroom, I poked my head around the wall
"What's going on?" Luke whispered from behind me
"Me and Jesse kinda ran off after getting sent outside of class" I laughed slightly at the memory "Come on, Mr Evans just disappeared around the corner" I whispered, dragging him with me by his sleeve
"Bloody hell Beca again? What did the two of you do this time?" he whispered back, shaking his head with a smirk playing on his lips. We finally got into the classroom and I went straight over to the desk as Luke watched out for the creeper's return. I opened the drawer slowly as I was a little worried as to what I might find, for god sake Jesse, I will never be able to pay attention in this class again out fear of him doing something. I mentally face palmed at my thoughts. I pulled the drawer open. Huh. It was basically empty apart from my phone and a couple of pens and pencils, I wasn't sure if I was relieved that I hadn't found something weird or that I hadn't made the biggest find of the century. The first choice. I snatched my phone and ran back to Luke and we crept out of the classroom and right into the creeper.
"Ahem Miss Mitchell and Mr Patterson, to what do I owe the pleasure?"
I cringed at the fact we had been caught
"Well, sir... I, er...I came back to apologise for leaving class earlier"
"And what was so important that you felt the need to disobey my orders?" really dude? Come on seriously, cause I clearly always listen to him. I struggled to think of a suitable excuse; Luke put a hand on my back and started to effortlessly cover for me.
"Ah you see sir that would be my fault, I was walking down the corridor adjacent to your classroom and I tripped and fell over on my ankle and twisted it badly, luckily for me Miss Mitchell here along with the assistance of Mr Swanson managed to escort me to the nurses office, where she managed to treat my ankle" I gave Luke a confused look, why was he going into so much detail? Surely that lie could be found out very easily. He simply smirked and pulled up his trouser leg revealing a bandaged ankle. "Of course sir you can check with the nurse" he nodded returning to his former serious tone.
"No, no, no that won't be necessary Mr Patterson, Miss Mitchell" The creeper look said not taking his eyes off Luke. "I assume you managed to collect your cellular device"
"Yes sir, thank you" we turned and Luke put an arm around my shoulder and pretended to hobble away. Once we had gone to my locker we exited the school building.
"Luke what was that? You weren't limping when I first saw you?" I spilled out laughing at my own confusion and he stood up straight, obviously deciding that it was safe to start walking properly again, but he kept his arm around my shoulder.
"heh, I just didn't feel like running the mile in P.E. Last period so I pretended to hurt my ankle and coach sent me to the nurse, and that woman is so old she couldn't tell a sprained ankle to a running nose, so she wrapped up my ankle and sent me on my way, then I saw this beautiful girl in the corridor and I ran up to her and here we are" I rolled my eyes at his charm
"So basically you lied, but you told the events that came after the lie truthfully missing a few details to lie for me" he looked as though he was running the words through his head a few times before nodding.
He walked me to the corner on my block as he did every day, he wrapped his arms around me and kissed me deeply, I hated how he could so easily take the wind out of me with a simple kiss. Once we finished with our goodbyes he pulled out his skateboard and rattled off down the street.
I lifted the fake rock in front of my house to retrieve my house key; I pulled out the small silver key and entered my humble abode, ha. I went straight up to my room and slung my bag on my computer chair. I lived with just my mom, since apparently we weren't good enough for my dad to be bothered to stick around for. Instead he decided to trade us in for Sheila the she-devil, who was now my step mother of four year, and her spoilt brat of a perfect daughter Kelsey, who was two years my junior. So it was just me and my mom, it may as well have just been me on my own, as mom had never really recovered my dad's departure. So I was on my own, well apart from Jesse who had helped me through the divorce and basically kept me sane. He was like a brother to me; we were too close for anything else to happen. When my parents turned our house into a warzone for argument, he and his family would take me in and let me spend the night. Of course that led to him forcing me to watch movies but I didn't care, I had my best friend to protect me from the reality of my life.
Jesse's POV
I fiddled with the zip on hoodie while I waited for Aubrey to get out of school. We have been dating for about a month and a half now, she does come across as uptight sometimes but she's a nice girl. Beca though, Beca and Aubrey do not get along well at all but I'm not going to break up with Aubrey just because of Beca and I'm certainly not going to create distance between me and Beca just because of Aubrey. Nobody and I mean nobody can come between mine and Beca's friendship.
I waited another 5 minutes and there was still no sign of Aubrey, I pulled out my phone and noticed that there was a text
Hey, sorry Jess there was an unexpected choir meeting, we will be finished in 5 minutes, you can wait outside if you like ;) xxx-Bree
I stuffed my phone into my pocket and entered the building. I quickly made my way down all the different hallways until I came to the music department. I mumbled the room numbers under my breath as I counted them until I found the room that Aubrey's normally in
"1, 2, 3, 4...aha room 5" I said quietly to myself, the door was already open so I leant against the doorframe and folded my arms as my eyes landed on the back of Aubrey's head. The person in front of her pointed to me and her head snapped around, her eyes locking with mine. I sent her a wink and a blush crept on to her cheeks as she bit back a smile, something that I found adorable but she hated that I could make her blush so easily. She held up 2 fingers, indicating that she would only be about another 2 minutes. I nodded and she turned back around.
A couple of minutes past and they had finished their meeting, they all left but Aubrey, who was left to stack the chairs away, I stepped in the room and started to help her
"How'd it go?" I asked, lifting the last chair and stacking in onto the pile
"Good, everything is organised and ready to go" she smiled, tucking a stray hair behind her ear. I picked up her Jacket for her and held it open so she could easily slide her arms in "How are you?" she asked, as she wrapped her arms around my waist, I kissed the top of her head before answering
"Well Beca and I threw pens at each other and got sent out the class but we kinda just ran out the school" I explained, she let go of my waist and grabbed my hand as we exited the room. Her mood always seemed to change whenever I mentioned Beca, it was like she was jealous of her, but she has nothing to be scared of, there is nothing going on between Beca and I, apart from the fact that we are best friends.
"So what do you want to do today?" I asked, removing my hand from hers and wrapping it around her waist tightly as we walked, she leaned into my side and sighed heavily
"I'm really tired, I just wanna go home really" I rubbed my hand up and down her arm soothingly
"Sure, I'll walk you home".
We arrived at her doorstep and she spun around to face me "Thanks Jess" she smiled at me before pulling me in for a hug by the waist
"No problem" she pulled back and I kissed her softly on the lips. She let go and just as she was about to unlock the door I placed a hand on her shoulder "Bree?"
"Hmm?"
"I've never asked you this but I've always wondered...are you um, how do I say this? Are you like jealous of Beca?" I rushed out the end of my sentence and she raised an eyebrow
"Sorry?" she asked
"Um are you jealous of Beca?" I asked, much slower this time. She furrowed her brow and chewed on her bottom lip
"Why would I be jealous of Beca?" she asked, I stuffed my hands into my jeans pockets and dug my toe into the ground "Why what's going on between you two?" she asked, I glanced up and she had folded her arms across her chest
"Oh no! Nothing, nothing at all!...It's just whenever I say her name you change"
"Look Jesse" she sighed and dropped her hands "I'm not jealous of Beca and I'm tired so..." she trailed off
"Oh yeah, sorry, I'll call you later, if not, see you tomorrow" I waved goodbye and walked out the gate before my mind decided that it's a great time to say something else "Aubrey!" I called as I spun around; she was just about to shut the door when her head popped out "Please tell me I didn't just fuck things up for us?" I asked helplessly
"Of course not Jesse, I'm just really tired, I'll see you tomorrow okay?"
"Yeah sure, bye Bree!" I called before walking off
"Bye Jesse" she called then I heard the sound of her front door close. Why was I such a dick and brought that up? Of course she's not jealous of Beca, why would she be?
Beca's POV
I was sitting in my room browsing my iTunes, I could spend hours, upon, hour looking for new music, new DJ's to listen to, that was one of the main things that Luke and I had in common we were both really into house music. I actually made mixes myself, it was a kind of stress relief, if Jesse was out of town or I was grounded I could zone into my music and block out the surrounding world. So naturally when I found out Luke liked my music I fell for him just that little bit more.
Jesse came waltzing right into my room with no prior warning
"it's funny I was under the impression that we lived in the twenty first century, where it was a custom to knock before entering a person's room, but no I must be wrong" I stood up and walked over to my David Guetta calendar that hung on my wall next to my bed "oh, wait no, I am right. You are just a rude dickhead" I smirked
"A. nice to see you too. B. your Mom let me in and C. I knocked several times but you couldn't hear me cause you had your headphones on smart-ass" he walked across the room and sat on my bed
"Please Jesse make yourself at home" I gestured with my arms, he scoffed
"Pfft, Beca please, I have been in this room so many times it may as well be mine."
"You know I would love you to say that in front of Aubrey just so I could see her eyes pop out of her head" I said over my shoulder as I had turned my attention back to my laptop, closing down my iTunes and setting up my media player, as Jesse was here for our movie night.
"Oh, don't worry I can tell her next time me, her, you and Luke all get together, I'm sure he would also enjoy this information"
"Touché Swanson...right nerd what movies have you brought to torture me with?" I swivelled round in my chair.
"Don't even try that. I know you love our weekly movie nights, anyway I have, The amazing Spiderman, Captain America, Ted or X-men First class."
"Wow really stretching the genres of Film there Jesse" sarcasm dripping from every word
"Oh ha-ha, now choose or I will choose for you"
"Fine I'll go with...Ted, it looks to be the only one that slightly appeals to me, when are you gonna get it through your thick skull that I don't like action movies"
"You're right Beca I should have brought over my romantic movies; you know your favourite ones like One Day, The Notebook, Casablanca"
"Seriously I'm warning you, would you just hand me the stupid disk so I can put it on and get this over and done with." he huffed before pulling out the DVD box and handing it over
"Right so 2012, Mark Wahlberg's character wishes for his teddy bear to come to life and it does, Seth McFarlane not only directed but voiced Ted, and most of the cast are people who work on the TV show family guy and American Dad with him"
Okay so I admit it, the film wasn't too bad it was just like watching an extended episode of Family guy, crude, ridiculous and embarrassing but funny and entertaining. Once we finished watching the movie we sat and replicated our favourite parts
"Don't you sometimes wish you spoke like someone from Noo Jorsie" Jesse attempted
"No because no one takes them seriously" I glanced up at the clock half ten on a school night, but the great thing was that our parents didn't mind.
"Well I guess I should be going, night weirdo" he said over his shoulder "I'll see you tomorrow at school"
"Night Nerd".
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