Chapter 2

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Graduation Day

Beca sat there in the middle of hundreds of other seniors at Barden who were just as excited as she was to be done with college. They were all a little scared to go out into the world and start a new chapter in their lives, but it was something everyone had to do at some point and it meant that they were growing up.

She hadn't thought much of Jesse since he walked out of her dorm and judging by the fact that she hadn't received a single text or call in those few days she wasn't expecting him to come back to her anytime soon. Beca had made a point not to think about him at all after they broke up and so far had been successful. But as she sat there feeling lonely in a sea of strangers one person kept creeping into her thoughts; Jesse.

Beca tried so hard to push those thoughts away, but she couldn't do it. He kept coming back. She saw his smile in her memories, she saw his laugh as he tried to explain a movie to her. She felt him on her lips as if she had just kissed him that morning. The ceremony continued and she thought back to their drifting apart at the end of the year.

As spring came the ICCA's were over and the Bella's prevailed once again in competition with the Treble's coming in second. She thought of how sad it was that that part of her life was over, and yes Beca bad-ass Mitchell actually admitted to herself that she would miss that crazy group of girls.

Then a memory came to her and hurt just like it happened yesterday. It was at a party about a week after ICCA's at the Treble house and Bella's were there.

Flasback

Beca had just finished a conversation with Emily, one of the new Bellas, and was looking for Jesse. She couldn't find him anywhere and was starting to get worried. Granted she had had enough to drink that she wasn't that aware of her surroundings but still, she was getting concerned.

"Was he hurt?" she thought to herself, "or maybe he just drank too much and was passed out somewhere".

She kept looking and eventually ran into Benji.

"Hey have you seen Jesse anywhere? I've been looking for him like crazy and he's literally nowhere," she told Benji

"I think I saw him going back up to his room, he said something about going to get something and being right back"

"Okay thanks Benji!" Beca said and decided to go up to his room.

She walked up the stairs and went to go open the door that was the second on the left but it was locked.

"That's strange," She thought to herself, "Jesse almost never locks his door. He's always paranoid about not being able to get out in a fire." She chuckled to herself and internally promised that she would have to give him crap about watching too many dramatic movies again later.

"Jesse! Open up its me!" She said as she knocked on the door. She heard rustling on the other side of the door and soon a very wide eyed Jesse was staring her back in the face.

"Jeez you look like you've seen a ghost!" She laughed as she pushed passed him into the room, "Hey you know everybody's down stairs and we have some time to ourselves up here, and I don't know about you but I think its been way to long since we've had some alone time if you know what I mean," She winked channeling her inner Stacie as she said this, "What do you say we change that?"

"Becs I don't think right now's such a great time for that," He stuttered back to her

"Why the hell not righ-" she started to say as a thud came from inside his closet.

"Jesse?" She questioned, "What the fuck was that?" Her beer influenced mind was having trouble comprehending the situation but she was pretty sure she heard something from inside the closet.

"Uhmm Beca I wouldn't open that" Jesse was saying as Beca walked towards the closet.

She smirked back at him thinking it had to be one of Benji's magic tricks or something but just as she was about to open the door something, or rather someone, stumbled out.

"Who the HELL are you?" Beca shouted as a girl dressed in only a bra and underwear stood in Jesse's room. "Jesse? Care to explain this to me?!" She shouted, she could feel herself collapsing. He cheated on her. "Or if he didn't he came pretty damn close before I walked in" she reasoned. "Just when I thought I could trust him he goes and does something like this".

The girl simply muttered a few incoherent words and ran out of the room. Beca looked again back at Jesse, she was now the one who had the wide open eyes.

"Beca its not what it looks like!" He shouted, "She was just up here looking for a place to change because she spilled beer on herself!"

"Oh that makes me feel so much better!" She sarcasticly screamed back "You just had an drunk naked girl in your closet innocently looking for a change of clothes, that's bullshit Jesse and you know it!" With that she stormed out of the Treble house back to her dorm and cried herself to sleep.

End Flashback

After days of Beca ignoring Jesse's texts, calls, and attempted visits she had allowed him to come talk to her. After talking and arguing for hours Jesse had eventually convinced her that nothing went on between him and that girl and even had a few of the Bellas and Trebles vouch for him saying that they saw or overheard parts of Jesse's interaction with the girl.

So she forgave him and they went back to being Jesse and Beca with the event just being a sore spot in their relationship. But Beca sat there on graduation day realizing that that was when they started to drift. They were the same but somehow were growing apart after the incident.

"Stop thinking about him!" She reprimanded herself while sitting on the foldable chairs outside at Barden, "You're over him and don't need him! Just get to LA and start fresh."

So she did. She didn't think about him the rest of the day and went up to get her diploma with a genuine smile on her face because it meant that LA was only a few steps away now. Beca was even able to stare at a patch of grass in front of her the entire time all of the S's were called up on the stage and zoned out so that she didn't hear when 'Swanson' was said. And that was that, her time at Barden was over.

With the help of her dad Beca moved to LA within a week and settled into an average, small, slightly smelly apartment in the outskirts of the city. She didn't care that she had to walk down 5 flights of stairs to do laundry because of a broken elevator or that her neighbors were the loudest most annoying people on the face of the planet. It was expected. She was paying her dues and it was expected that she go through some crappy times before it got good.

Beca kept her promise from graduation to not think about Jesse and she mentally made herself ignore and forget anything that had to do with him. Soon whole weeks went by where she didn't have to tell herself to stop thinking about him. Then the weeks turned to months and eventually they became years. She was succeeding at life and becoming a successful music producer all while her time at Barden faded further and further into the back of her mind.