Remain

Chapter One

"Get together, one more picture." Steven Mitchell instructed the girls.

Beca rolled her eyes at her best friend, Chloe. "Dad, we have to go!"

"Just one more." He objected, raising the camera. "This is a big day! My baby girl is going off to college!"

"Dad, you work at Barden U. I'm in your class. We're going to see each other every week, I'm not moving halfway across the country."

"Yeah, but you're going to be too busy with classes and studying to hang out with your old man."

"I already promised that I would go to dinner with you every Wednesday."

He nodded seriously, "Yeah, you say that now."

Beca laughed and rolled her eyes, "Ok, we're leaving."

Chloe helped Beca shove her last bag into the trunk of the car before slamming it closed and grinning at Beca, "Let's get this show on the road!"

Beca waited for Chloe to climb into the backseat of the cab before she turned to her dad and smiled, wrapping her arms around him in a hug. "I'll see you Monday."

"Yes you will." Steven Mitchell replied, giving her another big squeeze before releasing her from his hold. "Here's some money, to cover your cab fare. Do you have your phone and your keys and everything?"

"Yep." Beca told him, making a show of patting her jeans pocket. "I have everything, and if I just so happen to forget something then I can just call my wonderfully amazing dad and have him bring it to me. Seeing as he only lives 40 minutes away."

"Don't let any strange guys share your cab." He warned, "I don't want to go all Liam Neeson on some people."

"Dad, no, stop." She objected, putting a hand up. "Why do you have to reference Taken in our everyday conversations?"

"Just letting you know that I got yo back." He told her, crossing his arms in front of him and throwing her a gang sign.

"I'm leaving." She rolled her eyes and shook her head at him before climbing in the backseat of the cab after Chloe.

Chloe laughed as the cab pulled out of the yard. "Your dad is hilarious."

Beca scoffed at her, "If by hilarious, you mean extremely embarrassing."

Almost 50 minutes the cab pulled to a halt along the curb of a small rent house only a mile from Barden University. Beca paid the driver and the girls pulled their bags out of the trunk, dragging their bags up the drive and inside. Chloe squealed and clapped her hands together, "I love this place, I know it's small but it's really not that bad!"

Beca grinned at her, "I say instead of unpacking we go walk around, get some dinner and come back to watch some movies."

Steven Mitchell had been the one to find the rent house for Beca and Chloe to stay in. The landlord was one of his colleagues who often rented houses to college students who didn't want to stay in the dorms, so Steven talked to him and the woman had agreed to rent to the two girls. Beca had enough money saved up from tutoring Jesse that would cover her part of the rent for a little while, so she would be able to settle into her schoolwork before she would have to go out job hunting.

"I hear The Spot is the place to be when you're a student at Barden University." Chloe informed her as they walked. "It's a club and it's actually not too far from our place, we can go like all the time!"

"Woah." Beca objected, "I don't know about going all the time."

"Beca, I have to find a boyfriend. You're going to be spending a lot of time with Jesse and I refuse to be the third wheel."

"I'm sure that you will have a boyfriend in no time." Beca told her.

She wasn't just being nice. Chloe was the kind of girl that boys went crazy over, her big doe eyes just drew them in like moths to a flame. Sure enough, they were at the diner less than ten minutes before Chloe got cornered on her way to the bathroom to 'freshen up'. When she got back to the table she had a sly smile and a phone number scratched on a napkin, which she waved in Beca's face. "I have a feeling that this is going to be a great year."

Beca laughed, hoping that Chloe was right.

Chloe looked down at her phone when it beeped in her lap, "Benji's going to arrive tomorrow, and he wants to hang out."

"Awesome." Beca responded, "Lets do it. Maybe we can all go to The Spot so you can find your future boyfriend."

Chloe laughed out loud, "Yes!"

A knock came on their front door and Chloe rolled her eyes playfully, "I'm going to my room. Thank God the walls are thick!"

Beca grinned at her back and flung the door open, staring up at the dark haired boy who stood on her doorstep with his duffel bag slung over his shoulder. She laughed happily and threw her arms around Jesse's neck, locking her lips with his as he lifted her so that she could wrap her legs around his waist. He grinned against her lips and shut the door behind them, "I missed you."

"I'm so happy you're here." She replied, pulling back to give him a small smile. "Want to see my room?"

"Oh, I definitely want to see your room."

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I had this chapter already written and it was a bit longer but I live in OKlahoma and the storms crashed my computer so I lost it.
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