Beca leaned up against the McLaren, her arms crossed, a scowl on her face as she watched Stacie allowed Adam to flirt with her, he even tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear. It was far too intimate for her taste especially when Aubrey was right there. Finally she couldn't take it anymore, she pushed herself off the car and stalked over to her best friend, just before she got there Chloe looped their arms and pulled her over to the side of the group.
"Nope, let Aubrey take care of it." Chloe said she learned down and kissed Beca when they got back to the car.
"I don't want Aubrey to take care of it."
"Yeah well she needs to." Beca grumbled, Chloe wrapped her arms around the smaller woman, dropping her head onto Beca's shoulder.
"I love that you care so much." Chloe kissed Beca's neck.
"Yeah well, she's got a good thing going." Beca said and Chloe nodded. Tonight wasn't a race night, it was a gathering of the past and current members of the group gathered at Warren's garage in an outright party, they had set up a huge bar area, a few tables, the mechanically inclined had an area to themselves jabbering away about different modifications, they even had a full band playing. Chloe was impressed, it was much better than any keg party she had been to on campus. It was much more organized than anything on campus. Tommy was up strumming along on his guitar with Jesse on bass.
"Hey Adam, get up here." Tommy said tapping his watch, Chloe looked over watched Adam tip his head at Stacie who chuckled and flipped him off before turning back to Aubrey who wasn't happy. Adam jogged up to the makeshift stage and sat behind the drum kit.
"Alright lovelies, tonight we are introducing a few new songs from our favorite writer, Miss. Beca Mitchell." Tommy grinned and Beca glared at him.
"You write?" Chloe asked smiling at Beca her arms looped around the girl's shoulders.
"I do a bit here and there." Beca smiled back at Chloe kissing her. "Now excuse me, Jesse is killing my song… and not in the good way." Beca said kissing Chloe once more before sauntering up to the stage. "Move over hot stuff, you lack the emotion of this." Beca said pushing her friend out of the way, she signaled for them to start over. Tommy took the first two lines, background lines really.
"Oh if you could see me now." He smiled nodding his head along. "Oh if you could see me now."
Jesse and Beca came in harmonized on the first verse.
"It was February fourteen, Valentine's Day. The roses came, but they took you away. Tattooed on my arm is a charm to disarm all the harm. Gotta keep myself calm but the truth is you're gone. And I'll never get to show you these songs, Dad, you should see the tours that I'm on, I see you standing there next to Mom. Always singing along, yeah arm in arm." Beca smiled at Chloe as the girl leaned against the makeshift stage. "And there are days when I'm losing my faith, because the man wasn't good he was great. He'd say music was the home for your pain and explain, I was young, he would say…" Tommy and Adam joined Jesse and Beca quickly.
"Take that rage, put it on the page, take the page to the stage blow the roof off the place." Tommy and Adam dropped out again.
"I'm tryna make you proud, do everything you did, I hope you're up there with god saying that's my kid." Jesse and Beca finished the first verse before Jesse dropped out letting Beca do the chorus.
"I still look for your face in the crowd, oh if you could see me now, would you stand in disgrace or take a bow? Oh if you could see me now." Beca nearly jumped in the air with excitement, the song sounded great to her ears, she smiled and nodded at Jesse to take the next verse. He smiled and stepped up, the verse was close to rap and Jesse's voice was perfect for it.
"If you could see me now would you recognize me, would you pat me on the back or would you criticize me, would you follow every line on my tear stained face, put your hand on a heart that's as cold as the day you were taken away. I know it's been awhile but I could see you clear as day. Right now, I wish I could hear you say I drink too much and I smoke too much dutch, but if you can't see me now that shit's a must. You used to say I wont know I wind until it crossed me, like I wont know real love 'till I've loved and I've lost it. So if you lost a sister, someone's lost a mom, and if you lost a dad then someone's lost a son. And they're all missing out, yeah they're all missing out, so if you get a second to look down on me now. Mom, dad I'm just missing you now." Jesse stepped back a huge grin on his face, Beca patted his back smiling stepping up to the mike, she belted out the chorus again.
"Oh, would you call me a saint or a sinner? Would you love me a loser or a winner? When I see my face in the mirror, we look so alike that it makes me shiver." Beca nodded her head singing the chorus twice more before letting Adam and Tommy echo the last lines.
"If you could see, you could see me now." The men sang back and forth to one another before ending the song. Beca hugged Tommy and Jesse.
"That was fucking great!" Beca yelled and Tommy laughed nodding.
"Pretty damn great for the first time." Tommy agreed, Beca jumped off stage walking back over to Chloe she wrapped her arms around the redhead kissing her soundly as the boys moved onto a cover of Promise by Eve 6.
"That was amazing Becs." Chloe grinned and Beca shrugged.
"Eh I try." Beca smiled.
They stayed till everyone else was gone, dragging their tired bodies up the stairs to the lofted apartment, falling faces first onto the bed. Beca smiled when she felt Chloe crawl over her back laying down on it, arms around Beca's middle, Chloe's head snuggled in close to Beca's shoulder as they fell asleep, legs intertwined, Beca never felt more comfortable.
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"Becs…" Chloe whispered poking the woman in the side.
"Whaa…" Beca groaned pushing the hand away, it was too early for this.
"Beca… that song… was your mom wasn't it?" Chloe asked.
"What song?"
"The one you sang."
"Yes." Beca murmured, pulling Chloe back to her she buried her face in the girl's neck. "Sleep."
"It's nearly 1 in the afternoon."
"Don't care." Beca said making Chloe laugh.
"Nope come on, I wanted to go out today, you promised to take me out in the McLaren and teach me to drive it!" Chloe whined and straddled Beca's hips kissing up her back.
"Soon." Beca said, and Chloe bit her shoulder not too gently. "Don't go getting me all worked up as a way to get me up. It won't work." Beca deadpanned and Chloe smirked.
"Who said I'd just work you up." The woman said running her hand up Beca's thigh cupping the younger woman listening to her groan.
"I hate you." Beca growled rolling over, she flipped them pinning the redhead to the bed kissing her.
"Remember I want to go out." Chloe moaned as Beca sucked on her neck.
"Soon, promise, I have things to do to you first." Beca smiled and Chloe caught the wicked glint in her eyes, they'd be there awhile.
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a/n: Song would be If You Could See Me Now by The Script. Sorry for the gap, trying to figure out where this is gonna go before the end.