A/N: Hey everyone! I'm so sorry for the wait on this chapter. I got a bit busy this week. I am not sure if I will be posting a chapter for the next two weeks, but I am certainly going to try. This week I'm going to be doing some/most/all of the prompts for Bechloe Week on tumblr, so if you want to check those out my tumblr is: you-call-it-a-dude. Feel free to say hello to me on there, too! Then next week I will be on vacation and may not have time to write, but I'm still going to bring my laptop with and try if I find the time. Thank you all so much for the reviews on this story. All of your kind words mean the world to me and they definitely make me excited to write new chapters. I hope you enjoy!

"You're in love with someone else?" Jesse asked sounding defeated. "Since when? With who?"

"It's fairly recent." Beca said while fiddling with her shirt. She made eye contact with Chloe briefly. "I don't want to tell you who it is yet." Chloe sighed in relief. She wanted Beca to tell Jesse about them, but not under these current circumstances.

"C'mon, Bec. Just tell me who he is. Do I know him?" Beca remained quiet. She took the bowl of pancake batter and picked it up, tossing the entire bowl in the trash before exiting the kitchen. Jesse bent down and began picking up the papers that were scattered over the floor.

Chloe quietly slipped out of the kitchen to look for Beca. She made her way up to the master bedroom, but found it empty. She sighed loudly and decided to check the guest bedroom. She opened the door and saw Beca sitting on the edge the bed, wiping her face. The redhead walked in and shut the door behind her. Beca looked up and offered Chloe a small smile. She returned it and took a seat next to Beca on the bed. She wrapped her arm around the brunette and laid herself back on the bed, pulling Beca with her. In return, she buried her face in Chloe's neck and sighed. That sat in silence for a few minutes before Beca took let out a deep sigh and broke it.

"Am I a horrible person?" She asked quietly. Chloe pushed herself up a bit to look at the brunette.

"Why would you ask that?"

"I feel selfish. I went behind his back and I know that was selfish, but he wouldn't sign the papers, Chlo. I've been asking him for months and he wouldn't sign them." Beca was sounding increasingly frustrated as she continued to talk. Chloe pushed hair from her face and planted a soft kiss on Beca's forehead.

"You aren't selfish. He knew how you felt, but he wouldn't sign them. That's a pretty selfish thing, too, don't you think?" Beca just huffed in response and buried her face back in Chloe's neck. "Can I ask you something?"

"Anything." She mumbled into the crook of her neck.

"Why did you stay and keep trying even though you knew you weren't in love with him?" Chloe chewed on her bottom lip nervously. She had no idea how Beca would react to this question, but she was genuinely curious to know. Beca sighed and sat up to straddle Chloe. She took both of Chloe's hands in hers and started to play with her thumb ring, alternating between twisting it and pulling it off then sliding it back on.

"You'll think it's stupid."

"No, baby. Never." She pulled Beca's left hand to her lips and placed a kiss on each of her knuckles. "Tell me, please?"

"It just seemed like the safe thing to do. I didn't think I would find anyone else to love me. God, this sounds so woe is me and it makes me sound so pathetic. He was the first person to actually love me, you know? I'm an awkward, broody, and certainly not the prettiest, person. I was worried that I would end up alone, so I married him. I thought I loved him. I thought it was normal to feel the way I did when you loved someone. But then I started to realize that I felt lonely with Jesse, too. That was when I asked for the divorce. Then that stupid gnawing feeling of being without anybody came back, so I would try harder." Beca paused to take a shaky breath in an attempt to keep her from getting too worked up. Chloe slipped her hand under Beca's t-shirt and rubbed her stomach softly with her fingertips. Beca shut her eyes for a moment before continuing. "He'd tell me things that help make people fall in love and I kept trying. Then around the time I met you he brought up the baby thing. That's when things got really scary. I don't want to bring a kid into a loveless marriage. That isn't fair. Then I met you and-gah- I barely what love is, but if what I have with you is what real love is, I don't want to lose it."

"I love you. So much." Chloe said lunging forward to press a hard kiss against Beca's lips. Their kiss was interrupted when Chloe's alarm blared through the room. "Shoot. I need to get ready for work, baby." Chloe said between kisses. Beca sighed and pulled away with a pout. Chloe reached for her phone on the nightstand to shut off the alarm. She sighed loudly when she saw a text from Luke. "Luke texted me."

"What?" Beca grabbed Chloe's phone from her hand and read Luke's text out loud. " 'Wanna talk to you, I'll wait for you by your parking spot at work before you start.' Uh no. I don't think so Lukey boy. I'll take you to work."

"You don't have to do that, Becs." Chloe said, finally rolling out of bed to begin getting ready for work.

"I want to. So you finish getting dressed and I'll do the same. I love you, too, by the way." Beca said sweetly before leaving the room.

Beca tiptoed to the master bedroom. She had no idea of Jesse's whereabouts in the house and she wasn't trying to have an awkward encounter with him right now. She knows they're going to have a discussion with just the two of them, but right now everyone needed to get ready for the day. She peeked into the bedroom and saw it was empty. She went through her normal routine faster than she usually would. By the time she finished, Chloe was just walking out the door of the guestroom. They smiled at each other before making their way downstairs. Jesse was still in the kitchen, except he was wearing his work attire that consisted of a tie, dress shirt, and dress pants. He was drinking his coffee and reading the newspaper.

"I'm going to take Chloe to work and then pick her up, too." Beca said as she grabbed her car keys from the hook.

"Okay, how come?" Jesse asked, not looking up from his newspaper.

"Luke texted her and said he'd be waiting for her at work. I don't trust it, so I'm just going to take her." Jesse nodded and gave Beca a thumbs up.

"I will no longer be speaking to him, but if he asks about you I won't let him know where you are, Chloe."

"Thank you, Jesse. I appreciate that."

Beca led Chloe through the front door and to the driveway where Beca's car was parked. The brunette opened the passenger door for Chloe, but before she could get in the car, Beca grabbed her hand and placed a kiss on her lips.

"Have I told you how beautiful you look in your work clothes?" Beca said, pulling open Chloe's gray cardigan to get a better look at her white blouse.

"I don't believe you have."

"Well you look really fucking beautiful. And really sexy." Beca smiled wide and slid her hand down Chloe's back to rest against her ass. She gave it a firm squeeze before pressing another kiss against her lips and releasing her so she could get in the car and she shut the door behind her.

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When Beca pulled up to Chloe's school, they both looked into the teacher parking lot and could see Luke leaning up against his car and looking at his phone. He was presumably texting Chloe because the redhead's phone was constantly going off with messages ranging from 'Chloe, baby. I just want to talk' to 'Where the fuck are you, bitch'. Chloe just sighed and put her phone into her purse. Beca leaned in and pressed a soft kiss against her lips, before confirming the time she would need to pick the redhead up. Chloe exited the car and Beca saw her make her way to the security office of the school to most likely tell them not to let Luke into the building. Once she was sure Chloe was safely inside, Beca drove off.

Since Beca didn't actually have to go into the studio until 11am, she decided to head back home for the remainder of her free time. She sighed loudly when she saw that Jesse was still at home. She wondered if he took the whole day off or if he just adjusted his schedule a bit. When she walked into the house, Jesse was still in the kitchen, but this time he was sitting at the kitchen table and had the divorce papers sitting in front of him. Beca silently took the seat across from him and stared at Jesse, waiting for him to speak.

"So, it's Chloe, huh?" He said calmly. Beca's jaw hung open a bit as she tried to figure out what exactly to say.

"What?" That was all Beca could come up. Very smooth, Beca.

"Chloe is the person you're in love with, right?"

"I-uh, yeah. Yes, it's Chloe. How did you know?"

"I saw you kissing her by the car before you dropped her off. You looked so happy with her." Jesse said sadly.

"Jesse, I'm so-"

"Let me talk, Beca." Beca held her hands up in defense and nodded her head. "I'm sorry I made you feel trapped into this marriage. I knew how you felt. I knew you didn't really love me, but I also exploited your fear of ending up alone and that was wrong of me. I know that now. At the time I didn't see it. I was so set on keeping myself from losing you and from being hurt that I was oblivious to the fact that I was hurting you. I just really love you a lot, Beca. For our entire relationship I was hoping that my love would be enough and that was silly of me to think that we would last if there were only one person in love."

"Jesse," Beca reached across the table and rested her hands on top of Jesse's. "I do love you. I'm just not in love with you. You're one of my best friends and you are such a sweet guy and such a doting partner. You're going to find someone who deserves your love and who will love you back. I'm so so sorry for hurting you." Beca said tearfully. She hated that she was hurting Jesse. She wasn't sorry for falling in love with Chloe and finally finding happiness, but Jesse was such a great person and Beca felt horrible for hurting him. It was almost like kicking a puppy.

"I'm sorry I hurt you, too, Beca." He slipped his hands from under Beca's and then placed them on top of hers, patting them softly before squeezing them. "I have never seen you smile so big before until I saw you looking at Chloe outside. She makes you happy?"

"She makes me so happy, Jess." Beca smiled wide even just talking about Chloe and Jesse smiled back at her in return. He pulled away from Beca's hands and took out on of the pens that he kept in his pocket protector. He looked down at the divorce papers sitting in front of him and signed his name on the line that had a 'sign here' post-it note next to it. He then slipped the papers back into the envelope and gently pushed them towards Beca.

"I'm not going to stand in the way of your happiness."