Push and Pull and Flex?

'Thirty-seven minutes.' She glanced down at her phone. It had been thirty-seven minutes since the start of the function and Beca had made a deal with Chloe to stay for an entire hour before bailing on the Aca-Gala. It was a celebratory dinner that Barden University was throwing for the aca-community that placed at the I.C.C.A's of 2012. Truly it was a room full of random faculty, trays of food, sparkling cider and all of the aca-nerds strutting around the room like peacocks. Beca was standing off in the corner watching the scene unfolding in front of her eyes.

The Treble Makers were doing a rendition of their performance at the finals. She watched as Jesse danced provocatively eyeing the crowd as if searching for someone specific. His eyes met hers just as he did a pelvic roll and winked in her direction. Her mouth slipped open for a moment but could stop the roll of her eye, it was after all her signature move when it came to anything concerning Jesse.

His performance was one of the main reason she was still at the function. The Bella's had performed first, due to Aubrey's insistence, which she had kept her eyes locked on Jesse for the entire number grinning at his reactions to her dancing that she kicked up the sexier parts a notch. But standing on the side lines watching as he finished up dancing and clapping hands with his Treble Maker bro's, and shaking hands with a couple different faculty members, she watched as he snaked his way through the group over to where she was located. Just as he was ten feet away, he was intercepted by two girls from BU-Harmonics and Chloe and Amy appeared by her side and dragged her further into the group. Beca stayed, though, facing Jesse who was delicately shaking the grasp of one of the girls from his wrist to weave his own hand through his hair. He looked about the room and caught Beca's eyes watching his movement.

An eyebrow quirked up on her face as if to say, 'Really, her?'

His face flushed but a small smile spread across his face when he was able to decipher her look and realize that Beca was jealous. Beca rolled her eyes at his triumphant smile and leaned a little closer as if he was having a hard time hearing what the girl said. His eyes were locked with Beca the entire time.

Beca let her face go neutral and tried to focus on the conversation with Fat Amy and Chloe. They were talking about plans for summer break.

"I plan and getting my hands all over my sexy boyfriends, it has been awhile since the sexy Kraken has been unleashed." Fat Amy said rubbing her hands together. Beca grimaced, thinking to when the last time the Kraken had been unleashed, she had ended up in jail. "And after that, I plan on hanging out by the pool."

"Beca what are your plans?" Chloe asked poking Beca in the side to get her attention. Beca had been focused on the hand the BU-Harmonic had wrapped around Jesse's arm. He didn't seem to notice because he was staring at the other girl.

"Hello earth to Beca?" Fat Amy tried to garner her attention.

"I think she is focused on Jesse." Chloe responded trailing her friend's eyesight.

"Isn't that Bologna Bitch?" Amy asked.

Chloe's laugh caught Beca's attention and she turned back to her friends, "Bologna bitch?"

Chloe started giggling again, "The girl," she pointed to the girl whose hand was wrapped about Jesse's arm, "She tried out for the Bella's like three times, but never made it into the group, mostly because she is tone deaf, but she also has tits look like bologna."

"Do you have a habit of catching potential Bella girls in the nude?" Beca asked smiling at her ginger friend. Chloe responded by taking a sip of her drink.

"Wait, she caught you naked too?" Fat Amy asked making Beca and Chloe laugh.

"I didn't seek you out Amy, you ended up knocking on my door at what three in the morning naked. I never did ask you what happened to your clothes that night?" Chloe asked setting her empty drink on a table next to their little group.

Amy made a sound that sounded like 'Treble boned, and Bumper."

"You were treble boned by BUMPER!" Chloe nearly chokes.

"Something like that yeah." Fat Amy shrugs. "But I thought we were focusing on Bologna Bitch getting boned by Beca's Treble Maker."

Laughter erupted from Beca causing a few eyes to look in their direction. Dr. Mitchell who was conversing with a couple different faculty members nearly dropped his drink when hearing his daughter allow her laughter to be so free. She hadn't laughed like that, that he heard from her, in nearly ten years. Another pair of eyes belonged to Aubrey, the blonde had warmed to the fact of Beca joining the Bella's in the past few weeks but she was still disturbed by Beca's alternative ways. Hearing her laugh shocked Aubrey to the core. The last pair of eyes worth mentioning belonged to the so called Beca Treble Maker. He successfully pulled his arm free from Barb and was now caught off guard by Beca's laughter.

He watched as her head flew back, not caring if the whole world was watching, she let laughter just spill from her body. No matter what effect her sexy dancing did to him, seeing her this carefree and happy trumped that by a million. He almost ditched the conversation that he was not paying attention too, to run across the room and wrap her up into his arms and kiss the giggles from her face. But he remained stagnant.

"Oh Fat Amy," Beca laughed, "thank you, I needed that." She looked at Jesse's group, catching his eye in a quizzical grin. He wanted to be let in on their little group secret. Beca gave him a grimace and moved her eyes to Bologna Barb.

"So are you trebling-boning Jesse?" Chloe asked, her eyes looking at the group surrounding Jesse. She knew the answer but wanted to hear Beca admit it.

"What, no!" Beca snapped she looked at Chloe's truth inspiring eyes, "We haven't treble boned!"

"But you want too." and "Yet" came from her two companions mouth. Beca's smirked and looked back at Jesse who was giving her his sexy face. She rolled her eyes. He initiated this stare off and Beca was completely game. Her mouth parted slightly and her tongue swiped across her lips, licking slowly and softly. Jesse's mouth dropped open. The point of their stare offs is to see who can hold out the longest, and the one who falter's first has to come to the other. It's like a big game of tug-a-war.

To retaliate, he focused on Barb and let his eyes check out her rack for a mere second but moving back to Beca's who either missed the exchange or was hiding the effects because she was focused on Amy's face as if she was listening intently to the blonde girl. Beca caught the exchange, it nearly caused her to go pour her drink on the girl and pull Jesse to punish him in a secluded room. Her eyes finally landed on his and he choked down his drink, her eyes were filled with anger. She raised her hands above her head as if to stretch and then it happened.

She flexed her breasts. 'What was that?' He thought and she did it again. His drink nearly fell to the floor.

She won.

Jesse did not even bother to excuse himself from the group of BU-Harmonics that had formed in the few minutes after his performance. They were talking amongst themselves any way, and he was actually grossed out by Barb. He moved from the group, if someone had called his name, he didn't hear it because he had one goal to accomplish. Beca had turned from his and focused on Chloe and Amy. She knew he was coming, one of the many things she shared with Jesse. She was attuned to his presence. Also, she had grown accustomed to his touch, before spending so much time with him, touching was a hard limit for Beca. She was uncomfortable with hugs, hand holding, tickles, really anything that invoked skin on skin contact. She blamed it on her parent's failing marriage and rough divorce. There wasn't a lot of cuddles when she was a child.

But Jesse broke down that barrier; he had no sense of personal space and tended to snuggle with her at any chance he got. So when his hands landed on her hips, she didn't jump, and when they continued on their trek to wrap about her waist, it didn't cause her fight or flight reaction. She settled into his grasp with a sigh, content that she won the stare-off, but it made her happier when he was wrapped around her body.

"Ready to leave?" He asked kissing the shell of her ear. Chloe and Amy smiled at the pair, taking their own leave.

Words did not escape her lips because she kissed her response to his question.