AN: Okay, I haven't uploaded stories for a while now, but Pitch Perfect is absolutely amazing and being the fangirl that I am, of course I'm totally obsessed with it now and therefor I'm obsessed with Beca and Jesse as well.
Now, this was supposed to be a One-Shot but it turned out longer than I expected so I'll make it a two shot. It's what I picture the Aca-Initiation to go down and I don't know how I feel about it, I just wanted to put it out.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pitch Perfect, the characters and a few dialogues that are taken from the movie and the (official) extended scene. Neither do I own 'Love Drunk' by Little Mix
I'm a little bit love drunk
Ever get the feeling when you're miles away
Everybody's looking at me walking, stumbling
Hardly talking, mumbling [...]
"Beca!" An apparently sober Jesse yells as he approaches the petit yet badass brunette. "BECAW!" He yells again, making a bird like sound.
"Oh boy". Beca says with both her eyebrows raised and an incredulous smile…Wait, a smile? Her? Well, yes. Believe it or not, she was smiling even though she totally didn't want to. It was all Jesse's fault.
Damn you, nerd. Beca thinks, not taking her eyes off of the boy standing in front of her.
"Do my eyes deceive me or are you a Barden Bella?" Jesse asks even though he already knows the answer to his question.
He looks at her with Bambi eyes and a small yet amused smile; he never expected to find her there, although he did saw her audition and he was one hundred percent convinced she was going to get in, he never would've pegged her for the initiation party type.
"No". She says with furrowed eyebrows as she realizes that her CD stacking buddy is no stranger to alcohol.
Beca struggles to hide a mocking smile, and she sure wants to make fun of him: of the way he got wasted way too fast or the way his eyebrows wiggle way more than they should and his flirty smile seems to never go away.
She slaps herself mentally because she has never focused so much on someone's behavior in her whole life.
"You're one of those a cappella girls, I'm one of those a cappella boys and we're gonna have aca-children. It's inevitable": Jesse finishes his little slurred speech nodding his head slowly and Beca can't help her imagination running 100mph, again.
She pictures them walking side by side and then Jesse slipping his hand in hers, then they arrive to her dorm and instead of saying goodbye they start kissing. Jesse places his strong hands on her tiny waist and she places her arms around his neck while she plays with the ends of his auburn hair. He presses his tongue against her lower lip and she gets it, so she slightly opens her mouth and they explore each other's throats. Beca grabs him by his neck and pulls him closer, Jesse caves and the distance between them is reduced to nothing; their hips collide making Jesse groan…
Okay, that's enough… Beca thinks. He's a dork why would I ever imagine that scenario with a nerd like him?
She decides to snap out of it and she rethinks of what Jesse just said and how that doesn't make any sense because there's nothing between them; and because of the booze, obviously.
"You're really drunk right now, I don't think you're going to remember any of this". She says with accusation in her voice and with a big grin. It's too late to fight the smile back now and Jesse notices, you bet he does, and he's proud of himself for making her smile which is really rare.
"No, I'm not drunk at all, you're just blurry". He says and he hopes for a laugh or at least another smile.
"You okay?" She asks laughing and Jesse mentally fist pumps, because he did it! He can savor the victory that is Beca Mitchell's laugh but he nods instead of answering her 'question'. "Yeah?" She continues and he nods again.
"Can you pass the sobriety test right now?"
"Yep".
"Can you stand up straight?" She asks again but he knows she's making fun of him and he wants to do something about it, he wants to come up with a witty response but then she pushes him lightly and it makes his stomach flutter and his limbs go number than they were ten seconds ago.
"See how I come right back? And I come right back". He says rocking back and forth on his heels and when he stops he's leaning closer to Beca and he likes it but he can't stop staring at her lips and something in the back of his head tells him that staring is probably not a good idea.
"Can I get you a drink?" He asks her and stares, again. Well, staring can't be that bad. He says to himself.
"Sounds great". Beca answers, nodding her head and she notices him staring but she doesn't care because he looks adorable and right after she admits that to herself she punches herself in the gut… mentally… again.
"I'm gonna get you a drink, I think you need to get up to this level". Beca widens her eyes as Jesse nods and turns around to leave walking over the cement bleachers and seeing the state he's in, Beca gets a little worried he might miss a step and fall down, most-likely hitting his head… Okay, that's way too dramatic.
"You don't need to walk that way!" Beca yells when he's several feet away from her, interrupting him while he said something about beer.
He looks at her over his shoulder with a slight frown. "It's the best way to walk". He snorts in response.
She sighs. "Please be careful". She murmurs and she knows he didn't hear her because he would've accused her of 'caring about him' which she doesn't…
But Beca watches Jesse stumble away in search for her drink and she wonders what is it about him that makes her smile so much… More than she's used to. Then Chloe appears taking her out of her train of thought and they exchange a few words; the usual 'you saw me naked' and something about Chloe's jiggle juice.
A song blasts loudly through the speakers and she doesn't recognize it which frustrates her a bit since she's pretty confident about her music knowledge. A frown starts to take over her face when Mary Elise, a fellow bella, interrupts her.
Beca feels uncomfortable when she thinks of herself as a Barden Bella because one: she wasn't fond of labels, and two: she still thought a cappella music was sort of lame.
"You know we can't get trebleboned, right Beca?" Mary Elise says with her eyebrows raised at her as if incriminating her of something.
"'Or may our vocal cords be ripped out by wolves'" Beca quotes the oath they took no more than 20 minutes ago, sarcastically. "Yeah, I know. You don't have to remind me, thank you". She says and then scans the crowd in search for Jesse and her much needed beer but she feels Mary Elise's stare on her.
"I saw you and Jesse". She starts talking again with a know-it-all grin on her face and Beca sighs. "I saw the way he looks at you, Beca… And I also saw the way you smiled at him, so…"
"So, nothing Mary Elise!" She responds, maybe a bit harsher than she intended for it to sound. "Look, he's the dork I work with at the radio station and a Treble. That's like the perfect equation to not get 'trebleboned'"
"You're gonna cave, Beca. His puppy eyes are going to win you over, you can't fight it forever". Mary Elise pushes and starts to frustrate Beca.
"There's nothing to fight! Nothing's gonna happen!" But before they could continue arguing they hear someone getting close to them and singing along to the song. They turn around and see Jesse walking over, red cups occupying his hands.
"Please be careful". Mary Elise finishes patting Beca on the shoulder and Beca shoots her an 'are you kidding me?' look.
"And I don't know the words but I can" Jesse sings as he hands Beca his cup of beer.
"Thank you". She says, taking the cup off his hands. He takes a sip of his drink and turns around to contemplate the party.
"This is awesome". He says, and the seriousness impregnated in his voice worries Beca. It was a party full of a-cappella nerds who love synchronized singing without any instruments or arrangements whatsoever. It was obviously not the coolest party out there.
"It's definitely something". She answers and she doesn't bother to camouflage her sarcasm.
"We are the kings of campus!" Jesse yells out of nowhere opening his arms as if soaking in the coolness of the a-cappella community.
Beca lowers her head and scrunches her face, obviously embarrassed, not only because of his behavior bur also for the fact that she's actually enjoying his drunken company.
"Please don't do that again". She says once he turns around to face her.
"Are you embarrassed of me, Miss Mitchell?" Jesse asks, as he places a hand over his chest, faking his sorrow. "I am deeply hurt by your accusation". He looks at her with adoration in his eyes and he really doesn't care about who sees them or not.
She coughs trying not to laugh. "Yes, I am. People are staring". Beca continues and they both look around and that's when she notices Aubrey staring at them. The tall blonde looks pissed and Beca feels like running away before she jumps at her, attacking her jugular.
"I don't care who stares, as long as I'm with you!" Jesse says, making it obvious that alcohol is clearly taking its toll.
Beca blinks and widens her eyes; a sarcastic smile plastered on her face. As comical as it is watching Jesse making a fool of himself thanks to the alcohol she can't help but feel like Aubrey is going to kill them and she doesn't want Jesse dead… Not yet, at least.
"Okay buddy, we better move out of here" She says and starts to walk, expecting Jesse to follow her, which he doesn't.
"I can't walk…" He says, suddenly serious as he looks down to his feet. Beca sighs and wonders what she got herself into.
She takes a few steps towards him and places his heavy arm over her shoulders before putting her other arm around his waist. After a few steps she starts to smell his cologne mixed with alcohol and that's her cue to stop due to dangerous proximity… Well that and the fact that Jesse started to sniff her hair.
She places him on the nearest liquid-free bleacher. She looks down at him with her arms crossed over her chest and raised eyebrows; he returns the stare.
"I know I'm easy on the eyes but that's no reason for you to stare, Miss Beca" Jesse babbles as he looks up at her.
"Okay, please stop calling me 'Miss'" Jesse nods. "How much alcohol have you drank? You're hammered and I've been here for like, what? 30 minutes?"
Jesse looks down at his hands and starts counting with his fingers. Beca raises her brows even more, expecting a huge amount of alcohol.
"Not much, really. Just 5 beers, maybe a couple tequila shots".
"Who would've thought a nerd could consume so much alcohol?" She asks sarcastically and Jesse laughs.
"I know right? And I'm still sober! That's like a whole new record!" Jesse outbursts and stands up way too quickly, making himself dizzy. "Woah".
He stumbles forward and Beca catches him.
"Yeah 'still sober' my ass" She says. Adjusting themselves on the previous position. "I'm gonna get you out of here before you die on me".
They start walking but before they could get far they hear people cheering and getting close to them. Beca fears for their lives but still turns around. Bumper and Donald run towards them with dozens of people behind them, both of them are holding booze bottles.
"We're sorry to burst your romance bubble but every Treble needs to do this, unless they're pussies, which they are not because if they were they wouldn't be Trebles in the first place". Bumper says and pours a scary amount of alcohol right into Donald's mouth, straight from the bottle.
"You're next, Jesse!" Donald says excitedly and Jesse stumbles forward opening his mouth. Bumper pours what seems like an infinite amount of booze in Jesse's mouth.
"Oh-kay, that's enough for tonight, Swanson". Beca says, stepping forward and placing a hand on Jesse's abdomen to push him away from the alcohol. She doesn't want him to puke all over her on their way to his dorm.
"Awe, look at that! Girlfriend protecting her man from the oh-so-evil alcohol! Let him live a little! This is college!" Bumper says and everyone behind him laughs. Beca rolls her dark blue eyes at him.
"Why don't you go do something productive and wait for your balls to drop?" The crowd went silent at Beca's comeback. Jesse looks at her surprised, already sobering up.
"Oh Mitchell, but my balls have dropped". Bumper says, playing with his red cup before taking a sip.
"Really? Then I'm really sorry you're still singing like the Biebs". Beca says with dripping sarcasm and turns herself and Jesse around and they start walking towards his dorm.
When they are almost out of sight, the awkward silence is broken by a sudden laugh.
"Ha! The Biebs! Ha! That was a good one!" Unicycle laughs and drinks even the last drop of his beer.
"You better start running, man". Donald tells him before a really angry Bumper turns to look at him.
So first chapter's up! Excuse me if I have grammatical mistakes and stupid mistakes like that because, you know, English is not my first language.
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