Perfectly in Pitch

Beca walked into the auditorium, this was the first time she had been back at Barden since they had won the ICCA's last spring. Jesse was beside her, of course, since this was a meeting for the leaders of the four a cappella groups on the Barden University campus. The couples hands were intertwined tightly when they took their seats around the table that had been set up on stage. The other two leaders had not shown up yet, but that didn't phase Jesse or Beca. The leader of the High Notes, Joel, probably wouldn't show up and the leader of the BU Harmonics would most likely show up five minutes late.

As the clock on the wall kept ticking the seconds off, Beca became more impatient with the other leaders. The groups were in for a pretty big year, especially the Treblemakers and the Bellas. There was a lot to discuss right away, including scheduling of the auditorium so that it fit everyone's schedules, when to hold auditions, how long after the auditions the riff-off would be, and of course, the Bellas still had to pick the audition song since they'd won.

Ten minutes after the distant bell tower on campus had indicated that it was five in the afternoon, Andi graced Beca and Jesse with her presence. After staring awkwardly at each other, Joel decided to show up at quarter after five. With the arrival of Andi and Joel, the meeting finally got underway.

"Well, there is a lot to discuss, how about we start with when the auditions will be?" Beca asked, wanting to know when she had to have the audition song picked by.

Jesse looked at Andi and Joel and then at Beca, waiting for an answer from the other members since he and Beca had already decided they would like to have the auditions earlier this season.

"What about hosting them two weeks after the Activities fair? Would you be able to pick the song by then?" Andi piped up, Joel just nodded indicating that the other members of the meeting were on the same page as Beca and Jesse.

"That works for the Trebles if it works for you Beca." Jesse said, squeezing her hand under the table.

Beca nodded, that worked perfectly fine. She had a week to talk with the Bellas to pick their song, which was plenty of time since most of the group had already made it to Barden to help Beca prepare their season. She jotted down some notes, the date of the activity fair was September first, two weeks later she wrote down on her small calendar 'auditions'. Then looked to Jesse to continue.

"What about the riff-off, should we hold that a month after auditions since it used to be just two weeks? It would give us a bit of time to prepare and actually have team bonding time so we could get the trust that is necessary for the riff-off" he said, hoping that the others would agree. Having so much right at the beginning of the season wasn't great for trust and the skills that needed to be taught.

Everyone nodded in agreement again and so Beca quickly wrote on her calendar the date one month from the time of the auditions. Then she looked at her watch, it was almost quarter to six and her shift was about to start at the radio station on campus. She stood up and smiled slightly.

"I have to leave for work, but Jesse and I have talked about this so if there is anything else we need to discuss he can speak for me" with that, Beca gently left a kiss on Jesse's cheek and waved to Andi and Joel who nonchalantly waved back at her. She then quickly walked off the stage, hoping to grab some food before getting to the booth that was now hers in the evenings.

After Beca left, the others decided that what they had talked about already was all that needed to be discussed at the current time. Jesse left and went back to the Treble house to get a quick shower and then he stood in the kitchen staring into the fridge. He fumbled through the front row of things, mainly bottles of condiments; ketchup, mustard and mayo, amongst others. He then got to the potato salad and hamburger that he had been looking for. Jesse then pulled out the hamburger. He flipped on the radio after he had turned the stove on so the pan could heat up, tuning into Beca's show. He was going to surprise Beca, even though she hated them. He started to make patties and then slid them into a frying pan. After cooking the hamburgers he slid on the most important ingredient of all, the cheese. Beca loved cheeseburgers and she liked the potato salad he made a few days ago as well. They had gone on a picnic and he'd not had the ingredients to make tuna salad so he opted for the potato salad.

Grabbing the basket down from on top of the freezer, he started slipping the potato salad, burgers, pickles, ketchup and mustard in the basket. He then looked through the fridge to find the juice pouches that he wanted to bring. Finding them in the bottom of the drawer he slid them into the basket too. He then walked toward the door. Flipping the light off he walked out into the warm autumn evening. It was now going on 6:30. Slipping the key into the door of the studio he unlocked it and slid in quietly. The music wasn't too loud in the main part and he stood at the door, knocking softly on the door to the booth.

Beca looked up, smiling, and unlocked the door for him. Seeing the basket she laughed softly, her stomach growling instantaneously at the smell of the food wafting from the basket.

"Glad you showed up, I didn't get a chance to grab food before I got here" She said softly, pulling in a second chair for him so they could sit in the booth together.

"I figured not, which is why I brought you some of your favorites" he replied softly, setting the basket on the cleaned off desk and sitting down on the leather desk chair which creaked in protest to being used.

Beca laughed softly and pulled a couple of plates out from the drawer in the desk, Jesse and her had dinner dates in the booth since returning to Barden almost two weeks ago. Although every night was a different surprise in what Beca was treated to. Tonight was definitely smelling pretty good as she lifted the lid to the basket and groaned.

"Burgers and potato salad!" She exclaimed quickly as she pulled everything out.

"And pickles!" She added on, pickles were one of Beca's favorite foods.