Hey you guys! If anyone is an original reader of BCM and you waited a long ass time for an update, my answer to the review below will hopefully answer some of your questions. If you guess want to know anything else please feel free to leave your comments and concerns in a review or PM me. I'm super excited to be writing again, and I hope you guys are excited to read! I hope my extended absence won't have pushed you away forever. Thank you all for reading, you're awesome and I love you!

Kaez: Wow, honestly your review just made me smile so hard, like that was awesome to read. i guess I never really considered that people would really be invested in a story that I was writing. And seeing as how the last time I wrote for it was so long ago I can't tell you the reason I stopped writing, i do know that life sort of got in the way of me wanting to pick it back up though. Your words just reminded me of why I liked writing in the first place, to know that people enjoy my stories is always nice, but to know that they genuinely care about it is a whole other level of inspiration. A couple weeks ago I was waiting in Atlanta to pick up my girlfriend form the airport and I flashed back to a scene in one of my first stories of the Bellas running through the streets of Atlanta and it made me want to reread what I had written. So I started reading BCM and now here we are. In a way being 19 now and having this sudden resurgence of inspiration to write this story was nice, I've lived a bit more of life now and can definitely add things to this story that at 16 wouldn't have felt as real. I do know that I wrote the last chapter multiple times a couple years ago, and it was completely different from what I posted yesterday, I'm happy with what I put up and I am happy to know where the story will be going. Fan fiction is fun, its nerdy and weird and all of the things that I am so it will be nice to start writing again. And honestly having a review like yours, from someone who loves my story and was glad to see it reappear just further pushed me to want to finish it. I love to hear how invested you are in my characters, ones that I have created and ones that i am just writing for. Its always comforting to know that what I am creating and putting my time into is being appreciated, so thank you for your kind words. Know that the reason this chapter is up today is because your review gave me the motivation to get it out in a timely manner. Its awesome to know that you see me as a help to the Jeca community because, i hate to tell you I don't ship it. I support it, I support eveyone's ship because everyone's lives makes them want different things for the characters they relate to. I started writing Jeca when I was 15 because I was gay and I was scared and honestly you would think that fanfic would be a great outlet for me, but instead I stuck with what i felt I was supposed to be. Sometimes it is definitely much harder for me to write Jeca because I don't feel as strongly baout those two characters' bond, but at the end of the day I love writing and I knew I had a story to tell so I started telling it. It just so happened to be a Jeca story. Now my other stories, a Bechloe one I also just updated yesterday call I Know Places, will definitely be easier for me to write because thats my ship and its also my life. I've found out that its a lot easier for me to write now because I am much more comfortable and solid in my own sexuality. So in answer to your question i want Bechloe cannon but if Jeca is cannon I don't care. I'll continue to write my world for them and how I want them to interact and hopefully you guys will still read it. If that happens to be Bechloe I hope i can get a few of you Jeca shippers to read my story, but I will probably always have a few Jeca stories going on as well. So thank you for your words you're awesome and I appreciate you greatly.

Thecurlingiron: you know I love you

Jesse rolled over in his sleep, his hand searching the bed beside him, only to find nothing and no one. It had been a month and a half since he had last seen or heard from Beca, the days were getting easier, but the nights were when his subconscious slipped back to the hours spent with her by his side. He dreaded them. He dreaded the dreams that would inevitably come every night. He dreaded not being able to distract himself with work or friends. It was just him and his thoughts, all of them of Beca.

His phone buzzed loudly and he groggily opened his eyes, already knowing that it wouldn't be Beca, she had told Aubrey that she was staying in Shrader, with this other man Rhett, until she was ready to come home. In a month in a half he felt like he had lost all hope of having her back with him. His phone buzzed again and he grabbed it, squinting because he already knew it was going to be too bright.

Hey, I got off work late. Hope you're doing okay! I hope we can grab coffee again sometime!

He smiled and his heart tugged nastily when he looked at the empty bed next to him, life was proving to be much more difficult for him than any of the movies he had ever seen. In the four weeks since Aubrey and April had gotten back, he had changed his mantra, he knew that Beca wasn't going to be convinced into coming home, and he also knew that when she finally did he would not be the person she would run to. Beca's life was closed off and separate from everyone else's, she might open up to people occasionally, but Jesse knew that at the base of it, she was always going to be the type of person to sit in the corner with her headphones on and her head down.

He quickly texted back a response: Of course! I can't wait!

He leaned back on his pillows and thought about the girl he had just texted, Olive Ells, the nurse from the night he broke his hand. Apparently he gave her his number in his drug induced mindset when the doctors were setting his hand. But the two of them had been talking for the last couple weeks and had been getting coffee and hanging out. A part of Jesse felt like he was failing Beca for not waiting for her to come home, for not doing more to get her back, but another part of him knew that there was nothing he could do; Beca would do what she so willed and nothing else.

Olive had been great, and sweet, and understanding. She had listened to Jesse in his rants about Beca, hadn't pushed anything in the way of a relationship with him, at this point all they had been doing was talking, getting to know each other, and hanging out whenever they could with their busy schedules. For the first time since Beca had left, Jesse felt calm and not stressed out 24/7 and he knew that Olive was a huge reason for that. At first, Stacie and Chloe and Ryan had freaked out that he would even talk to someone else, but when they saw how genuinely caring Olive was, and how Beca was reaching out to all of them with the bare minimum, they lightened up towards the idea.

The more time passed, the more everyone knew just how counterproductive it would be to keep Jesse's hopes up, so instead they decided it was time to look out for Jesse by himself, not Jesse with Beca. Stacie and Chloe had made it their new mission to make sure that their tiny brunette friend didn't have horrible lasting effects on this man that they had both grown to love as a brother. And day by day, they slowly started to see improvements in him. He was going to work with a smile on his face, and coming home excited to talk about his day. He was talking to Olive and talking less and less about Beca. It was the small things that started to give them all hope, and also started to make them all worry about Beca's return.

At the same time that Jesse was texting Olive back, Beca rolled over in the early hours of the morning to find the arm that had been wrapped around her that night. When Aubrey and April left she and Rhett had had their own huge discussion and had grown into a mutual, no longer one sided on Rhett's part, relationship. Beca decided to take the risk, to not jump to conclusions and make fast paced decisions, she decided to slow things down and give Rhett a shot. And to her complete and utter surprise it was working out really well.

She was spending more of her nights at Rhett's apartment after days spent mixing music for Luke to release. She was starting to feel like she was home in Shrader rather than just visiting, and honestly that scared her a little, she was afraid the more time she spent there falling in love the harder it would be to go back to LA.

Back to La. Something that had been on her mind more and more over the past couple nights. As far as she knew, her going back to LA was no longer anything to do with Jesse. From the few and far between times that she had talked to Stacie and Chloe she knew he was doing better, she also knew that he seemed to be on his way to moving on. And while knowing that killed her, it also made it easier for her to want to go home, she didn't have to hide in shame that she broke his heart into pieces if he was happy with someone else, right?

And so going back to LA, going back to Stacie and Chloe, going back to the club, and finally going back to embrace her career for a fan base that was growing reckless was seeming like a better and better idea every day.

But now there was Rhett. And Rhett's and her relationship was every bit of understanding and happiness she could have thought would come from dating her lifelong best friend. It was inside jokes, and old memories mashed together with new ones, it was completely understanding him and being completely understood. It was right and it was good. Beca was happy and she didn't want to lose that because she needed to go back to LA.

It wasn't to say that they hadn't talked about it, Rhett had been really open to the idea of eventually moving to LA with her. They both didn't want to rush into anything, but the fact that they had known each other for almost 25 years was making the idea of making that kind of move together seem easier.

Beca rolled over again to look at the sleeping man before her, she smiled slightly while he slept on peacefully, not knowing the war that was waging in her head at that very moment. He shuddered in his sleep and pulled his pillow closer to him, Beca bit her lip and turned to look around the apartment she was in. It had become a second home to her, but not a good enough reason to stay here. She needed to go back to LA. She couldn't put her life on hold, couldn't put her career on hold to stay in Shrader, Georgia. She looked back at Rhett and her heart ached, she couldn't leave him either.

"Fuck me," she mumbled, sliding out of bed and crossing the room to the bedroom door and the living room. She paced around the living room for a little, throwing her ideas back and forth to herself, trying to make a decision and getting nowhere. She walked around the dark living room until the sun started to rise and trickles of golden light started to creep across the floor. Stopping in her tracks she checked the time on her phone, 6:20, she had been up for two hours already.

Sighing heavily, she went to the kitchen to make herself tea before heading to the patio to finish watching the sun rise, something that she just assumed would somehow help her make a decision. She sat there and watched the sun climb up the sky until her mug was empty and the patio door slid open and Rhett stepped out in just his boxers.

"Whatcha doing out here, beautiful?" he asked groggily, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes and kissing Beca on the forehead before he sat down beside her.

She sighed again and glanced over at him, she would never get over the fact that this man was her Rhett, her skinny, awkward Rhett. "I've just been thinking…about LA," Rhett put his arm around her and pulled her closer before kissing her temple.

"You're ready to go," he didn't ask a question, because he already knew the answer. "I honestly thought you'd be gone by now, Mitch," he smiled weakly at her and then glanced down at the ground. "I mean; you know I already don't want you to leave…but I get it. You've been here for a month and its time for you to go back to your real-"

"I want you to come with me," Beca said suddenly, looking up at Rhett with an idea that just burst into her head. "I don't wanna wait, Rhett, I don't wanna have to wait years before you're with me. I want you to come with me now."

She didn't know where the idea had come from, all she knew was that she heard herself saying it and immediately knew that it was true. Beca wanted Rhett with her, not just for the time she was in Shrader, but she wanted to do life with him. Or at least try to, and she thought this would be the first step in that trial. While the vast majority of her was excited another part felt a stab of pain at the thought of bringing Rhett to the place where Jesse was, but at this point it was her life and she had to make her own decisions.

Rhett was staring at her open mouthed, "Wait, so like you wanna leave…and me leave too?" It was early in the morning and he was trying to wrap his half-awake brain around the idea that Beca was proposing. She nodded, looking up at him expectantly, "I…Beca, that's a huge decision. I mean; my lease here still has three months left on it, I have my job-"

"Rhett, you help your dad out with the farm, I know that's not what you want to do. Hell, you can work at BCM until you find a job you really want. You won't have to pay rent at my apartment. I make enough money to have three of those apartments and a couple houses, it's okay. You won't have to worry about anything. Just come home with me." She was getting excited at the idea, her worry about Jesse was getting flushed out with her excitement about the possibility of going home with Rhett with her.

He stared off the balcony looking across the little downtown he had grown up with, the only place he ever knew. While Beca's mind had been hard at work over the past couple days, his had been too, and this wasn't the first time he had thought about going back to LA with her. But there was something that he was worried about, "What about Jesse?" he said slowly.

Beca bit her lip again, "Honestly, I don't know. From the sounds of it, he's doing better. He lives in LA and I live in LA, it's a big city and I guess what I'm trying to say is that I can't hide from him forever. We both have to go about our lives and right now, you're a huge part of my life," Rhett smiled broadly at that statement. "I know it will be rough, but it's my life too. I may not have been the best friend to Stacie and Chloe, but I know they will support me, and I know that I miss them more than anything. I can't let my fear of running into Jesse control my life." She finished with a finalized head nod.

Rhett looked at her for a few minutes, "What about my place?" He was smiling though, knowing that she was already going to have an answer and that this move was going to happen.

"I'm not making you pay rent, so pay yours over here, have your family sell your furniture and stuff," she turned to him and grabbed his shoulders, "come live with me in LA. Please."

He sat there in silence for a few more minutes thinking, then finally, very quietly mumbled, "Let's do it, Mitch. I'm moving to LA."

Beca's eyes grew wide in excitement and she jumped to her feet, "Oh my god are you serious?" he nodded and she jumped on the spot in the most un-Beca like fashion. "Holy shit! I'm going home! And you're coming with me," she leaned down and kissed him. "Thank you, babe," she kissed him again in all her excitement. "I have to call Chloe and Stacie!"

She ran into the apartment and Rhett sat in the sun smiling after her, seeing her this happy and excited made him that much happier. He had a good feeling about this, this was something he had wanted since he was 14, a life with Beca. And it was finally happening.

Stacie was fast asleep on her back, the man she had fallen asleep with the night before had his head on her chest and was snoring slightly. It was just past four in the morning when her phone rang and her eyes opened slowly, confused as to what the noise that woke her was. After a few seconds she realized it was her phone. Looking at the man on her chest, she sighed and rolled her eyes at herself, "Come on, Conrad, standards! You're supposed to have standards!" She wormed her way out from under him and grabbed her phone, as soon as she saw who was calling her she sat up straight in bed. "Holy shit."

The man beside her grumbled in his sleep as she pressed talk, "Beca?" Even at this early in the morning she couldn't contain the excitement in her voice to be hearing from her best friend. "Is everything alright?"

The man beside her rolled over and looked up at her through sleepy eyes, "Did you say Beca?" she slapped her hand over his mouth and he sighed under her fingers and settled for just listening to as much of the conversation as he could.

"Stace! Yeah everything is really great! I'm sorry it's so early, but I just really wanted to call you and tell you that I'm coming home!" Stacie gasped and so did the man, even though her hand was still over his mouth.

"Oh my god, Bec, are you serious?" a huge smile cracked across her face and she lifted her hand off the man's mouth. "When are you coming? Oh my god, I can't wait to see your little short ass dumb as fuck self and first slap you in the face and then love all over you forever."

Beca laughed on the other end, "Um, I think we're gonna leave in the next couple days, hopefully. So you can beat me up and love on me in no time at all."

Both Stacie and the man looked at each other in confusion as to what Beca had just said, "Did she say 'we'?" he asked before Stacie slapped her hand over his mouth again. He continued to mumble under her hand this time though.

"Bec, did you say 'we"?"

"Um…Rhett's coming with me," she said it quickly, hoping against hope that Stacie wouldn't be upset. Stacie seemed to take the news fine, but her man's eyes bugged out slightly. Stacie was quiet for a few seconds, "Stace, is that, is that okay?" she asked her uncertainly, not knowing how to take the extended silence.

"Ah, I mean it was just a shock, Beca, but I'm super excited to meet him-"

"What about Jesse!" the man asked loudly after jerking Stacie's and off his mouth. She glared at them hoping that Beca hadn't heard him.

"Who was that?"

"Oh, no one," Stacie emphasized with a glare. "Just this guy. Anyway, um, what about Jesse?"

Beca sighed heavily on the other end, "Its my life, Stace. I can't run from him forever."

"Respect," Stacie agreed. "Alright, little bit, I'm super pumped you're coming home to me, and I'm excited to meet Rhett since we've heard so much about him for all these years. It is four in the morning though, so I think I'm gonna head back to sleep. I love you more than anything." The two hung up and Stacie glared down at the man beside her, "Can you ever shut up?"

He smirked up at her, "Oh come on, Stace, you know that's not one of my qualities. You know I stopped pushing for this to happen and we've just fallen together." He pulled her down beside him and she sighed heavily while cuddling into his chest.

"I kind of hate you," she mumbled before kissing him lightly with a smile. "And I could do so much better than you. And I have done so much better than you," she added as an afterthought.

"Yes, I know, you tell me this quite often," he sighed happily and held her close to him. "You don't hate me, Stace," he kissed the top of her head and closed his eyes.

"I know," she agreed before falling back asleep.

"OH MY GOD! YOU SON OF A BITCH, I LOVE YOU!" Chloe's shout woke her husband up who looked around confusedly for some form of intruder. When he found no one but his wife on the phone in the wee hours of the morning he fell back onto their bed and looked at her in annoyance.

The look on Chloe's face was a mixture of pure happiness, excitement, and frustration. "You've been gone for a month and a half, you little shit," she snapped into the phone, with a smile still on her face. At this point Josh knew she was talking to Beca, but he was confused about what it could possibly be about from his wife's range of emotions.

"You guys are coming back together?" She looked down at Josh with a look of pure shock on her face. "Okay, I get it, sometimes if you know you know, right? Well, I think everything will be fine. No one is going to shun you, we all love you, and I'm sure we'll get to know and love him as well. Well, yes Jesse does hang out with us, we're all friends. But he's kind of talking to this girl and he's doing really well so I guess we'll cross that bridge when we come to it."

At this point Josh figure out what was going on and had his eyebrows raised, he couldn't help but think that they might be in for a few rocky months with everyone all in the same city, plus add Beca's new found fame that she ran from right out of the gate. Chloe finished up the conversation and hung up the phone, "So?" he asked her after a few seconds.

"She's coming home. And Rhett's moving here with her. They're going to live in the apartment, and Beca said she's ready to face all of the fame and Jesse…I guess we'll see how that all plays out. Oh shit-"

"This could go poorly, couldn't it?" Josh asked when Chloe laid back down beside him.

"Oh it definitely could," she agreed before curling back up with him.

Aubrey ran into her and Luke's bedroom, abandoning the breakfast she had been making for the two of them in the kitchen after the phone call she had just received. "Babe. Baby! Wake up, Beca's coming home!"