Hey guys!
Now this chapter is a little short again, sorry.
Hope you all enjoy it anyway :)
Hold On to Sixteen - Chapter 7: The Bad Luck Continues
Just as they were leaving the hospital, Jesse and Beca got called into work so Chloe invited Aubrey and Benji back to her house.
"Am I going to hate being pregnant?" Emily asked Aubrey just as Chloe came back into the living room with tea and coffee with Benji giving her a hand. "Thanks mom." She said as she took the mug of tea out of her mother's hand.
"You'll be completely fine, Em, trust me." Aubrey reassured with a smile.
"I think it's a perfect time to take a look at this." A devious smile spread across Chloe's face as she reached over to the end table and pulled out a photo album.
"Mom, no no no. Benji hasn't seen these!" Emily protested trying to take the book out of her mother's hands but the older woman wasn't having any of it.
"Well now I have to see it." Benji laughed, placing his hand on Emily's knee.
"Emily don't worry, the majority are embarrassing photos of me, Jesse and your moms when we were younger." Aubrey reassured with a playful scowl at the redhead who was too busy beginning to flick through the pages.
The first few pages were of Chloe and Beca's wedding.
"What age were you and mom when you guys got married again?" Emily asked as she leaned over to take a look.
"18."
"Why did you guys get married so young?" Benji wondered, admiring how adorable his girlfriend's parents looked on their wedding day.
"I loved her." Chloe simply said as she smiled down at the photos. "And then you came along." She nudged her daughter beside her as she flicked over the page to find photos of the day Emily was first born. "I look awful in these pictures oh my god." The redhead laughed.
"No wonder, you had just had a baby. I remember wanting to strangle you when you started taking pictures after I had Zac." Aubrey added, pointing accusingly at the redhead.
"That was the first time your mom held you." Chloe nudged Emily and pointed to the picture. "She was so nervous because you were so tiny and she didn't want to hurt you."
Emily smiled at the photo just imagining what her mother was saying and realising that that will be her in 8 months time. It was all starting to sink in now…
Later on that day once Aubrey and Benji left and Emily was up in her bedroom, it gave Chloe a chance to clean up the kitchen a little. Just as Chloe was wondering what was taking her wife so long, she heard the front door unlock.
"Hey babe." Chloe greeted as she dried her hands on the dish cloth. "What's wrong?" She asked with furrowed brow as soon as she saw Beca's face.
Beca didn't answer though, instead she just slammed her keys and phone down on the counter before opening the fridge.
"Beca please talk to me." Chloe sighed. This was a regular occurrence which had been going on ever since they started dating. Beca didn't like to talk about her problems, Chloe was the one that had to force them out of her. It was either that or Beca would just wound up even more miserable by bottling up her emotions.
The brunette pulled out a bottle of vodka from the fridge and began to unscrew the top.
"Hey, hey." Chloe grabbed the bottle from her wife and gave her a look of warning. "You know that's not the way to fix anything." The redhead placed the bottle back in the fridge. You see Beca has used alcohol in the past to 'solve' her problems and Chloe was certainly not going to let her go down that road again.
"I don't want to talk about it." Beca said with gritted teeth as she reopened the fridge.
"No." Chloe closed the door once again. "You're talking about it with me. Right now. What the hell happened?"
Beca muttered something inaudible.
"What was that?"
"I lost my job. I lost my fucking job, Chloe!" Beca slammed her fist down on the counter.
"You what?" Chloe asked in disbelief. "How does that even happen? You're a radio host."
"They cut our show, their replacing it with something else. They said they have too many shows like ours. I don't know what to do." Beca shook her head as she ran her hand down her face. "It's hardly like I'm going to just walk into a decent paying job, I did so shit in school that my qualifications won't get me anywhere. I just-" Beca choked out as she began to cry. See? This is what happens when she bottles up her feelings, they just come out all at once.
"Hey, babe come here, it's alright." Chloe wrapped her arms around her wife's waist and pulled her close. "We'll be fine."
Beca pulled away and widened her eyes at Chloe. "Let me give you a reality check Chloe. You're an elementary school teacher, we own a 3 bedroom house and 2 cars and our daughter is fucking pregnant. How the hell is one job going to help us at all?!"
"Would you calm down?!" Chloe asked, matching Beca's volume.
"How can I calm down? Especially when Aubrey and Jesse are going to be completely fine!"
"And how's that?" Chloe wondered, crossing her arms across her chest.
"Aubrey is a fucking lawyer, she makes twice as much as you do. Jesse wouldn't even have to work a day in his life again if he wanted to!"
"I do what I do because I love it, not about how much money I make and I'd really appreciate it if you would stop comparing me to our friends." Chloe defended and Beca instantly felt bad.
"Babe I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like that." The brunette's voice instantly softened after realising she hurt her wife. She ran her hands up and down Chloe's forearms soothingly.
"It's fine, I forgive you. Beca you have to realise that there's nothing that we haven't been able to get around. We'll get through this okay?" Chloe placed her hands on her wife's cheeks as she looked her in the eye.
Beca nodded.
"I love you." Chloe offered with a smile.
"I love you too." Beca returned, resting her hands on Chloe's hips as the redhead pulled her wife's face to hers and locked their lips.
"I mean I can try and get you in to do something with me but…" Aubrey offered.
"Bree come on, I don't have a law degree, I've never stepped foot in law school. Honestly, don't worry about it babe, I got this." He gave his girlfriend a reassuring smile as he ran his fingers through her hair.
"How's Beca dealing with it?" Aubrey asked, toying with her boyfriend's fingers.
"Not good. She flipped out at our boss saying that she can't support her family without this job-"
"It's true though, it's pretty shitty that they just cut you off like that." Aubrey chipped in.
"Beca's so talented with her music, surely she can get somewhere with that. It's what she's always wanted to do but with having Emily so young she of course had to put her daughter first." Jesse explained. "She should go on the Xfactor or something." He joked with a laugh.
"I'm sure whatever she does, she'll kill it." Aubrey smiled as she ran her hand up Jesse's arm.
Just as they thought things were starting to look up, everything seems so go downhill again for Beca and Chloe.
It's official, Chloe and Beca are the unluckiest people ever!
So what's Beca going to do? (I don't really have an idea yet myself XD)
