Sophomore year- Spring

Beca covered her head under the pillows, isolating all sound around her. From the Treble's house, you could hear the boys rehearsing and clapping loudly. Her eyes narrowed with annoyance.

"They're working really hard" Flo glared out of the window. She had bags under her eyes. Moreover, her skin was pale. "They don't need to work that hard," Beca muttered and tried to balance her way up, out of the bed. "Maybe we should rehearse as much as them" Jessica shrugged. Chloe came up with a red mug. "Why would we do that?" She sneered. "We wanna beat them, right?" Jessica scoffed and sat down next to Beca on the bed. Chloe looked down, biting her upper lip. Beca heard someone sing high-pitched for a long time.

"How? Who?" Chloe gasped, looking out of the window.

Beca's eye twitched a bit of jealousy. "It's not impressive, it's annoying" She stood up and headed for her sandals. "I'll just tell them to keep it down" She sighed and headed downstairs, rubbing her temple. "Beca, it's not necessary-"Before Chloe could finish, she heard the door close and Beca trampling on the grass outside, aggressively. The closer she walked toward the door, the louder their singing went. Beca knocked on their door, with a tight fist. Suddenly everything went silent, she heard someone walk to the door, the grey door handle shook. As a Treble opened up the door, she crossed her arms, "Uh, could you close the door and get Jesse?" Beca mumbled. He nodded and slammed the door. She heard someone sing the same verse repeatedly. Suddenly, it all became quiet again, she heard Jesse's whistling coming towards her.

He opened the door and acted surprised, "Bec?" He gasped sarcastically

"Yeah, alright" Beca rolled her eyes. Jesse chuckled with a big grin, Beca tried to have a strict look.

"What's up?" He smirked, ignoring her facial expression.

"Ah," She hesitated, moving her hand from crossing arms to a shrug, then back to crossed arms. "Well," She cleared her throat. "Babe, could you guys keep it down, a bit? It's kind of too much" Beca scoffed, giving him a big bitchy look.

"Alright, we were just rehearsing to the-"

"I know, but it's like 9pm and it's kind of annoying" She scowled.

Jesse narrowed his eyes and leaned against the door handle. Beca rubbed her cold arms; "I guess we could just rehearse on the dancing routine" Jesse smiled.

Beca raised an eyebrow, "Right" Beca forced up a smile. "Thanks, Jesse" She turned on her heels and ran down the stairs. Hearing the door close, she groaned and kicked the grass. She stomped back in, with the Bellas crowding her with a curious look.

"Alright, we need to make some changes" Chloe said, snapping her fingers.

"We need at least 4 hours training in free time, outside the rehearsals"

"What, I don't have time for that" Stacie grunted.

"We're just asking you to use an afternoon every week," Beca said, trying to calm Stacie down.

Stacie crossed her arms and sighed.

"Are you even listening to your doctor, Stacie?" Beca frowned.


As the sun went up, Jesse stood up with a smile, as always. He rubbed his face and shook away the tiredness. He tiptoed to the desk, which was covered with pizza boxes and spilled beer. He sighed and pushed it all in the trash can, pulling out his phone that was under the last pizza box. As he picked it up, it vibrated and made the desk shake.

"Shit" He whispered and grabbed the phone, trying not to wake up the others. He ran down the stairs and answered the phone.

"What?"

"Sweetheart, can you come home the weekend?"

Jesse groaned, and crashed his head into the wall, "Well, mom," He said softly, "I'm planning on doing it, since it's your birthday this weekend"

"How did you know?" She gasped.

"Because I'm your son" He chuckled.

"Tell that to Chrissy, did you know that she-"

"Mom, I need to go-"

"Don't interrupt me, you know I hate that" She said strictly.

"Yeah" He scoffed and grabbed his earphones, going to the door.

"Well, she's always out late and doesn't come home before midnight, and she won't-"

"Mom, I really need to go. I'm taking a run" He put his phone between his shoulder and chin while taking on his shoes.

"Can't you just care about your sister for a minute?" She raised her voice.

"Alright" Jesse sighed and walked out of the door. He stood in the porch and stretched out while his mom kept complaining about his sister's attitude.

"Mhm" He responded every fifth second.

"Can't you have a talk with her?" She sighed with a weak voice. Jesse inhaled and gazed on the Bellas lawn, he noticed something laying on the floor.

"Oh my god" He whispered, noticing a foot. "Oh my god" He shouted, noticing Stacie laying on the grass.

"What?" His mom sighed.

"I gotta go, mom" He said, running down the stairs.

"Okay, just remember to have a talk with her-"

"Alright, love you" He said and hung up. He ran to the lawn and looked down at Stacie. "Hey, Stacie?" He poked her in the shoulder. "Shit" He whispered and sat down.

"You alright?" He whispered and lifted her chin up, hearing a groan.

"Fuck" She yawned. Jesse stood up and looked up at the window. Seeing the lights in Beca and Amy's room was on, he started yelling.

"Bec, come down" He shouted.

Amy rubbed her eyes. Beca groaned and covered her ears with a pillow. "Why can't you remember turning the lights off, Amy?" She sighed and threw the other pillow on Amy.

"BECA" She heard from the window.

"Jesus is calling on you" Amy mumbled.

"Really?" Beca sighed and stood up. "Why" She whined and looked out of the window. She rubbed her eyes, "Jesse?" She yawned surprised.

"Come down!"

"Fuck no" She rolled down the blinds. "Bec, Stacie is laying on the lawn," He said loudly.

Beca frowned, "What the hell?" She looked through the curtains, seeing Stacie's face planted in the grass. She jogged down the stairs and filled a glass up with water.

She walked down the porch in sweat pants and messy hair.

"Jesus" Jesse muttered, noticing Beca's morning face. "Shut up" Beca said, walking past him.

"Stacie?" She said loudly, fiddling with Stacie's hair.

"I'm up" She whispered.

"Prove it, or get water on your face" Beca said aggressively.

"Jesus" Jesse muttered again, but louder.

"It's the morning, Jesse" Beca snapped at him. Jesse threw his hands up in the air in defense.

"It's so soft, is it silk?" Stacie hummed, rubbing her palm over the grass.

"Oh my god" Jesse mouthed to Beca. She rolled her eyes and rolled Stacie on her back. Chloe and Lily came out and looked at Stacie with big eyes.

"What happened?" Chloe gasped and sat down next to Stacie.

"I think the party she went on was more of a creepy get-together kind of party" Beca sighed to Chloe.

"Stacie, who drugged you?" Beca said, poking Stacie's cheek.

"I wasn't drugged, I'm just a bit tired" She yawned, covering her eyes from the sun that was shining on her face. The strong golden eyeshadow that's smudged all over her face, made her face sparkle as the vampires in Twilight.

Beca poured the water on Stacie's face. "Oh my god" She squealed and sat up, gasping.

"Get your shit together," Beca said softly with a cold look.

"Fuck you Beca" Stacie grunted, and splashed the rest of the water on Beca.

"Stacie, the finals are in one week. We really don't need this" Chloe crossed her arms.

Beca dragged Jesse with her, sneaking out of the soon-to-come fight.

"Why?" Jesse whined.

"We don't want to witness another breakdown by Chloe, do we?" Beca raised an eyebrow.

"Well, maybe you should stop it, if you know what's coming" Jesse said, nudging Beca.

"Why?"

"You're her friend"

Beca sighed and walked up in the middle of the tension. Stacie stared at Chloe intense.

"We only asked you to take a night off, nothing more-"

"Hey, Chloe" Beca grabbed Chloe's shoulder.

"What?" Chloe huffed.

"Whoa" Beca put her hands in her pocket, "It's like 9am, can't it wait?"

Chloe stared at Stacie, "Go put on some clothes, slut" Chloe sneered and walked quickly up the porch.

Stacie gasped and ran up, trying to get to the door before Chloe.

"Stop it" Chloe whispered as they fought over the door handle.

"Well, fuck me" Beca sighed, leaning her head on Jesse's arm.

"At least you tried" He rubbed her hair, running his fingers through her curls. "Shit," He said as his finger was stuck in her hair.

"Nice job" Beca sighed, pulling his finger out of her hair. They stood there silently, trying to find something to talk about. They had not hanged in at least 2 weeks and last time they were on a date was 1 month ago.

"Well, I suppose you're going to jog, as you do every morning" Beca patted his chest and headed towards the door.

"Bec, wait" Jesse grabbed her arm, turning her around. "You wanna get some waffles?" He smirked.

Beca chuckled and looked down at her sweatpants, "I should probably change"

"Alright" He said softly, letting go of her arm. "I'll go get the car"

"Go and do that, dork" She jogged up the stairs, running in.

"Whoa" Cynthia mumbled as Beca rushed past her, up the stairs.

"Sorry" Beca yelled over her shoulder and headed for the closet. Beca closed the door and took off her top, looking for her a blue singlet to go under a black transparent sweater. She grabbed a grey skirt to go with the sweater.

"What's up?" Chloe smirked over her shoulder.

Beca gasped and covered herself, "Stop doing that!"

"Right, I'm sorry" Chloe sighed and turned around.

"Uh, I'm going out" Beca mumbled, with the singlet stuck on her head. She pulled it down and put the sweater on.

"Transparent" Chloe gasped and raised her eyebrows. "It's only 9am Beca" She smirked. Beca rolled her eyes and slipped into the skirt.

"Hah, don't be smug" She mumbled, putting her hair up in a ponytail.

"Have a good time, then" Chloe said, sweetly. "Get laid!" She yelled at Beca, as Beca walked out without responding.

/

Jesse turned the radio in the car on. Is this a date, or just a casual breakfast? He started filling his head up with questions. It was like they never even have been a couple, kind of. The last few weeks it was just awkward "How is your day?"-conversations and "Can you get me this song? I need it for rehearsal"

No special moment like they had before. Not that they were tired of each other, just that the schoolwork and the ICCAs was a huge disturbance for their relationships. Jesse looked through the window, seeing Beca walk out of the door with a small leather purse. She rolled down the skirt, making sure the wind didn't blow the skirt up. Jesse smirked and rolled down the window. "You should check the weather before getting dressed" He shouted with a big, idiotic grin. Beca stuck her tongue out and showed him her middle finger.

"Ow" He pretended that he was shot in the chest. Nice start.

Beca sat down in the car and put her seatbelt on. "So is this a casual breakfast or a date?" Beca asked silently as Jesse started the engine.

Shit, be confident. "Whatever it turns out to be" He smirked, and rested an arm on the seat. The fuck?

Beca nodded with a grimace, "Smooth, Jesse."

"Just rolling with it" He sighed and drove off.


Beca stuffed the last bite of the waffle in her mouth, "There, " She exhaled and leaned back, letting the waffle sink into her fat.

"Why are you thin, Bec?" Jesse frowned, concerned.

"I don't know, fast metabolism" She shrugged.

"What a benefit for a lazy person" Jesse smirked. "I'm not lazy" Beca laughed, throwing a tissue at him.

"Alright" He said, putting his arms up in defense. "So, uh," Jesse rubbed his temple and sighed. "I'm going to my parents this weekend"

"For what?" Beca stirred her coffee with her spoon.

"Well, it's my mom's birthday on Sunday-"

"Happy birthday lady Swanson" Beca mumbled against the mug.

"Yeah, so" Jesse chuckled and scratched the back of his head. "I just thought you could join"

"Oh, wouldn't that be a bit rude-"

"She insisted"

"Alright" Beca sighed and rested her chin on her palm.

"Yeah?" Jesse grinned.

"Ye- wait, no" Beca shook her head. "I have a, -" Jesse gave her big puppy eyes, "We were going to rehearse this whole weekend, the finals are one week away" She ignored Jesse's big eyes.

"Bec" Jesse grabbed her hand, rubbing his thumb on her cold knuckles. "You guys have rehearsed like crazy and-"

"Not as crazy as you" Beca scoffed, taking a sip of the coffee. Jesse chuckled and looked down, "Fair enough" He exhaled.

"Yeah?" Beca raised her eyebrows.

"I'm sorry, we should have thought about that people, in fact, sleep" He smirked and pulled her hand to his lips, pressing her palm against his lips.

"That's alright" Beca sighed and stroke his cheek.

"C'mon Becs, I doubt the girls will say no"

"Fine" Beca groaned.

"Yeey" Jesse shook Beca's hand, pretending to cheer with her.

"Yay" Beca sighed.

"What kind of problem do you have with family meetings?" Jesse raised his eyebrows.

"Uh" Beca looked up, "I don't know, I'm just not good with those things" She shrugged.

Jesse sunk in his seat, "You don't have to impress anybody, Bec. You're fine as you are" He muttered.

"Fine? Just fine?" Beca scoffed with a pout.

"Well," Jesse hesitated. "Average" Jesse smirked.

"Dickwad" Beca mumbled and threw a waffle crumb on him.


"Are you guys gonna rehearses all night or?" Jesse stopped the engine as they parked outside the Trebles' house.

"No, we're just going to rehearse a couple of hours" Beca ran her hand inside her purse to find her key.

"Maybe we could.." Jesse looked out of the window. "Maybe, - I don't know. Something" He shrugged.

Beca grinned, "What's up?"

"I don't know, can't come up with anything"

Beca opened the door. "Maybe we could watch a movie" She smirked as she walked out.

"The fact that you said that, turns me on" Jesse sighed.

Beca rested her elbows on the door and looked at him with a frown, "That's really disturbing" She deadpanned and closed the door.

Jesse pulled the keys out and walked up to his porch, "See you then"

"Yup" Beca shouted and walked over to the Bellas' house.

Stacie, Jessica and Flo were laying on the lawn with sunglasses, rubbing sunscreen on their arm.

"Isn't it windy?" Beca frowned.

"Yes, but it's sunny so" Jessica shrugged.

"And Stacie said I needed to do something without getting a dick in my mouth" She sighed.

Beca narrowed her eyes, "Alright". Noticing that Ashley wasn't with Jessica, Beca started looking around. "Where's Ashley"

Jessica frowned, "I don't know" She hesitated.

Beca shrugged and walked inside. She threw her keys on the kitchen bench. Chloe and Ashley were sitting, reading books.

"What are you two doing?" Beca sat down next to Chloe.

"I'm just helping Ashley rehearsing"

"Shouldn't you be doing your finals?"

Chloe frowned, "Is it weird I'm planning on failing?"

"Pretty much, yeah" Beca shrugged. Chloe looked down, "Are you serious?" Beca gasped. "Don't you want to get out of this shithole?"

"This is my home Beca, with the Bellas'. And I love college, it's awesome"

Beca looked down, "That's so fucked" Ashley mumbled to herself. Beca looked at her with big eyes, "We can hear you, Ashley"

"Sorry" She muttered and covered her face with the book.


Beca wrapped a yellow scarf around her neck. "Haven't you guys already been one a date?" Stacie asked, leaning against the doorframe. "No, it was a casual breakfast"

"Thought you guys were taking a break, that's all" She shrugged. Beca looked down, Was that what Jesse thought?

"No, we just haven't had time" Beca sighed.

"Maybe he wants laid tonight" Stacie fiddled with her jewelry.

"Night, Stace" Beca rolled her eyes and walked past Stacie.

"You said night" Stacie gasped.

"Screw you, Stacie"