Hey guys! I'm sorry this has taken so long, university life is sometimes very stressing :/

I've spent a couple of days deciding whether or not to upload this chapter, cause I'm not very sure of it. It's from Jesse's POV, so he's kind of a cheeseball in it, but I hope he stayed in character. It was way more complicated than I thought. It's also a bit shorter but I promise the next few chapters will be longer.

Almost 57 minutes. A new record.

He glances at Beca, who's just fallen asleep on his shoulder. It's impressive really, considering the fact that they had been watching a rom-com. Beca usually dozes off in the first half-an-hour; right after the two love interests meet and just start to fall for the other. She never likes how they meet, either bumping into each other by accident or locking eyes from afar. She says it's unoriginal.

Jesse had once asked what she thought about their meeting. "I had a total weirdo serenade me, a complete stranger with a scary ear spike, from his car. What's not to love? That's the kind of meeting that's worthy of being in a movie."

He smiles as he thinks of that particular memory. Beca wouldn't let him talk her into saying anything cheesy for a couple of weeks after that.

Jesse looks down at her and sees a frown on her face. They're sitting up against the wall so they're not in a very comfortable position. He then does something horror-Swanson-worthy. He stops the unfinished movie playing on his laptop and moves it aside so that he could lie down and bring Beca with him. It was just the two of them in her dorm room; Amy was out…doing…what Amy does. They didn't like to ask. Her previous comments had made them very afraid.

Anyway…he doesn't like to think about that much so instead he focuses his gaze on the girl now resting on his chest. His girlfriend. Amazingly scary ear spike included. No smoky eyes today, though. Bec sometimes likes to give her lids a rest from the makeup. But only around him, because she likes the way the makeup basically says, "Don't approach me; go find someone who cares" and she doesn't want to give the general public the idea that she's suddenly now approachable.

He likes the fact that she never could keep up that façade in front of him. She knows this too, of course. She used to glare at him jokingly and ask him why he couldn't have just kept his distance like everyone else. He had smiled cheekily at her and said, "Because when you take the ear spike and dark makeup out of the equation, you're not exactly scary, Becky." She had hit him over the head for that one, but the warm look in her eyes had made it worth it. Honestly, she makes everything worth it. And he doubts that she could ever scare him away. Even when she gives him death glares; they make her look adorable (she denies these claims wholeheartedly). He likes a lot of things about Beca. No, wait, that's not right. He loves a lot of things about Beca.

He loves the fact that she's just so tiny. Barely five feet tall. Well, that's an exaggeration, but still. It's almost strange how much he enjoys having her in his arms. Maybe it's because he's always sure she's safe there. If he's holding her, nothing can hurt her. And while Jesse knows Beca is perfectly capable of taking care of herself, he likes knowing that she can rely on him. And even better, she knows this too. She could complain all she wants about him giving her piggy-back rides (he could tell when she was too tired to even walk at nights after her shifts at the radio station and always managed to convince her) but he always felt the contented sigh she gave against his neck and the chaste kiss she would place on the spot right behind his ear.

He loves the curls of her hair. It's not a particularly manly thing to be thinking of, but so what? He loves his girlfriend's hair. He used to stare at the top of her head, trying to figure out the color. He and Amy once got into an argument about it; he called it penny bronze (mostly in the sun) and she called it three-shade-darker-than-dingo-hair (whatever that means). But yeah, he was talking about her curls, right? They're never perfect, corkscrew curls. They're always a lot bigger and messier. He especially likes them in the morning, before she brushes them out. And he never could resist curling a strand around his finger, like he was doing now. So yeah, kind of an unhealthy obsession.

He loves how she loses herself in her music. Beca uses it as a way out; whenever she wants to ignore reality, she'll plug in her headphones and turn on her laptop and you'd lose her for hours. Except, she had never used it to block him out. Even if they were arguing, she would glance at her headphones longingly but she never once turned her back on him. Instead, she would toughen it out and face him full on. They're never mad at each other for long, though.

He loves the face she always wears when she's showing him one of her mixes. Beca's good, great actually, and everyone knows it. But whenever he would hear a new mix (he was always the first one to hear it; unless it was for the Bellas), she would watch him so earnestly, like that first time in the room she had shared with Kimmy Jin, it was like she had never received a compliment on her music before. His opinion matters to her the most, and it's the same for him.

He loves her tattoos. Especially the flowers on her right shoulder. He'd spend hours in bed with her, tracing each and every one with his lips and by the way she always shivered when he did this, she enjoyed it too.

He loves the way she means every kiss and every touch. Beca isn't usually an affectionate person. She had started pushing people away from her at an early age and hadn't formed close knit relationships until she had come to Barden University. She doesn't engage in group hugs every five minutes with the Bellas, but she has other ways of showing them that she cares about them and that they're her closest friends. She isn't the type of girlfriend that drapes herself all over him 24/7 but that makes the moments when they touch even better. He doesn't need her to act clingy and stake her claim on him every five minutes to know that she loves him. He always feels it in every brush of her fingers against his arm and in every affectionate 'nerd' she lets slip out. He especially loves it when she smiles sarcastically at him after he quotes a corny movie (he's just that romantic), but then reaches for the back of his neck and brings his forehead down to meet hers. Beca would smile softly at him and then kiss him lightly. And with Beca, you don't exactly expect her to be gentle at any point in time. It makes him love her.

So, why hasn't Jesse Swanson declared this in the most cheesy and romantic setting possible? Especially when he knows she loves him back.

Well, he's waiting. He doesn't care if he has to say it first. He just wants her to lose the fear in her eyes before he tells her. So many times, he had come so close, but it hadn't been the right moment. He knows what she's afraid of. Right now, they're at their honeymoon stage. They argue and bicker like any normal couple, but they never spend more than a day or two angry at each other. Everything's fun. Everything's easy because it's hard to deny the other anything or stay mad at them for any long period of time. When the time comes to say their "I Love You's", though, things will get more serious. Because they will have explicitly handed their heart over to the other. But if Jesse was being honest, they had already done this a long time ago.

And it scares Beca because if they were to break up for any reason, it would hurt them more than ever. Especially since they would know how the other had felt and what they had lost. It scares him too. But he's a risk-taker. And he knows that this is a stage they need to pass. Beca had cringed when he had first called her his girlfriend, but she came to accept it. And she seems happy. So, maybe, they have nothing to worry about.

He adjusts Beca by his side so that he could take his jeans and shirt off. He then settles in against her and pulls the covers over the both of them, brushing a strand of hair out of her eyes.

He doubts they'll break-up anyway. He doesn't plan on letting her go anytime soon. He knows there will be obstacles and that there may come a time where they'll think there's nothing left to do but separate. And if that happens, he'll find her again. They're going to end up together even if she doesn't realize it yet.

It's inevitable.

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