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Chapter Twenty-Five

"Whorebag. I like it," Beca said, looking at the sign as she walked over to where Jesse, Shane, Brayden, and Maxie were waiting. "Surprised you were able to hold it up without getting in trouble."

"Me get in trouble? Please," Shane said with a smirk.

"How was your flight?" Jesse asked as he kissed Beca hello and took her luggage.

"Screaming kid, fat guy next to me, the usual," she shrugged. "I hate flying."

"I'm so glad you're here," Maxie said, hugging Beca. Brayden stuck out his fist for a fist bump since Maxie didn't look like she was letting go for a while.

"I'm super excited for this family reunion thing," Beca said dryly. "Exactly how many people are going to be there again?"

"Just a couple," she shrugged.

"You all need a new grasp on the concept of 'a couple of people'," Beca said, rolling her eyes. "How come it's the Swanson family reunion if your dad only has one brother?"

"He only has one brother in New York," Brayden said. "He has two sisters and two more brothers that live across the country."

"You looked a little overwhelmed at Christmas after being by Aunt Cindy's house," Jesse said. "Didn't want to inform you there's even more cousins."

"Mom's side of the family is coming, too. They can't wait to see you," Maxie said excitedly as they all climbed into the truck.

"I don't remember any of their names. It all turned into a blur after being introduced to your Uncle Sal."

"Well, Uncle Sal is married to Aunt Cindy, and they have three kids: Joey, Sal Jr., and Tony," Maxie said.

"And your mom is related to who?"

"Uncle Sal is Mom's older brother, along with Uncle Jack. Her younger sisters are Anne and Lisa."

"And they all have significant others and children that I have to remember the names of," Beca said, rubbing her temples.

"Maddie's going to be there. She was actually asking for you the other day," Jesse said.

"Strange how you turned out to be a kid person. You don't strike me as one," Brayden said.

"That's because I'm not. Kids just love me for some reason. Baffles me too," she shrugged.

"Maybe they think you're like a really pale Oompa Loompa or a munchkin since you're so short," Shane said.

"If you weren't driving, I'd punch you so hard for that one."

"Good thing I am."

"We'll be home soon," Jesse said with a smirk. "I wouldn't mess with Beca."

Like Jesse expected, Beca punched Shane right in the arm once they got out of the car and his arm went numb. Jesse's parents were sitting in the kitchen when they all walked in.

"Mom, Beca gave me a dead arm. I can't feel it," Shane said as he sat down at the counter.

"I'm sure you did something to deserve it," she rolled her eyes at her son as she hugged Beca. "It's good to see you, Beca."

"You too. Thank you for having me again."

"Nonsense, you're welcome here whenever you want."

"Jesse's been counting down the days until you were coming to visit," Mr. Swanson said as he hugged her too. "He was so excited this morning he bolted out of bed and started to run out the house without pants on to go pick you up. Three hours before your flight was supposed to land."

"Dad," Jesse moaned in embarrassment.

"Oh, I'm sorry, son. You mean you didn't want her to know that?"

"Not really, no," he said, frowning at the smirk his father had plastered on his face. "You're not funny, old man."

"No, he's pretty funny," Beca laughed.

"Don't encourage him," Jesse muttered as he took Beca's bags and headed upstairs to his room to avoid further embarrassment. Beca took the bags he left and followed him up.

"Three hours early, huh?" she asked when she walked in and closed the door.

"He's exaggerating," he said as she walked over to him and sat down next to him on his bed. "It was only two and a half hours."

"I missed you too," she said quietly as she rested her head on his shoulder. It's been over a month since they had seen each other. They Skyped, texted, and talked on the phone all the time, but it wasn't the same as actually seeing each other.

"How's Shelia?"

"Happy, all the time. I don't know how someone can be that happy over getting fat."

"Right, completely not understandable," Jesse laughed. "You ready for tomorrow?"

"No," she sighed. "What if they don't like me?"

"What's not to like? My parents love you, my siblings love you, and I love you. That's all that matters, anyway."

"Yeah, but I don't want to have to worry about that one aunt who hates me if I'm around still."

"You plan on leaving anytime soon?"

"I'm just saying, Jesse. Who knows if we'll still be together after Barden?"

"I know we will," he said, pulling her closer to him. "At Chloe's wedding you were the one who said our wedding."

"Yeah, well I was caught up in the wedding-ness of everything. Plus I was drunk. The realist in me came back full-force a week after you left."

"Even more of a reason to keep me around, my optimism is contagious and you clearly need that, Miss Doom and Gloom."

"Shut up," she rolled her eyes. "I'm just really happy to be here, with you, right now."

"Me too," he said, pushing her on her back and rolling on top of her. "My parents are going out for dinner. Shane has a date and Maxie and Brayden are going to some party."

"So we're alone?" she asked, reaching up and wrapping her arms around his neck. He nodded. "I wonder what we could do with this alone time we suddenly have?"

"A little bit of this," he said, kissing her cheek. "Some of this," he kissed her neck. "A lot of this," he pressed his lower half into hers, making her moan. "I missed this."

"Sex?"

"Having you in my arms," he said and kissed her nose. Beca felt her heart melting at how sweet he could be one minute and then in the next how he could be such a nerd the next.

"I love you," she said quietly as she snuck her hands under his shirt, running her nails up and down his abs.

"Love you too."

"So you're Beca," was what Beca heard over and over again for the past hour since they arrived at the reunion. There were a couple of "so Jesse really does have a girlfriend", which made her laugh and made Jesse's face turn bright red. His smile would get bigger every time when a relative would come over and tell him that Beca was definitely a keeper, which definitely made up for the embarrassment.

"I don't get it. I went out with Bree," he said after his uncle was saying he was worried about Jesse joining the Trebles when he heard it was an all-boy acapella group.

"Maybe since you grew up with her, everyone thought it was a cover."

"What?"

"You do like to call yourself the pretty one," Beca said with a smirk. He pinched her butt and she squealed "Hey!"

"You should know better than anyone that there's no need for a cover," he said.

"Jesse!" someone yelled out. Beca looked around and saw a guy with dark hair who looked about their age walking toward them.

"Miller, what's up?" Jesse said, hugging the guy. "Beca, this is Miller. Our dads were best friends growing up so he's like family."

"Yeah, I'm the only reason this kid is relatively cool," he said.

"Really? Because then you failed because he's the biggest dork ever," Beca said.

"If he's such a big dork, then why are you dating him?"

"He grows on a girl," she said as she poked Jesse's side.

"Please, I'm the coolest person ever," Jesse said.

"Right," Miller laughed. "In high school, I had force him to participate in the senior prank."

"We were freshman. The only reason we were even apart of it was because of your older brother."

"Still had to force you to participate. It was an awesome prank."

"They set three pigs around the school and labeled them 1,3, and 4. We had to go to the principal's office to let them know."

"Kid almost shit his pants and it wasn't even over something we'd get in trouble for," Miller laughed.

"That's really funny," Beca laughed. "I'm sure you guys had a great senior prank then."

"Each floor had an activity to do. Bottom floor had a slip and slide, middle floor was filled with big, bouncy balls so we could surf down the hallways, and top floor we set up ping-pong tables. Plus, all the sports teams played freeze tag. It was an interesting day."

"Sounds it."

"I smacked my head against a locker on the second floor. Had the biggest bruise," Jesse said.

"Almost got a concussion from it," Miller said. "His ex-girlfriend was pissed though over the bruise because of prom pictures. Wanted him to get the bruise airbrushed with make-up that morning so it wouldn't be there."

"And she called me a controlling bitch," Beca rolled her eyes.

"So you have had the pleasure of meeting Bree."

"I really wouldn't call it a pleasure."

"She is really nice to look at that. Great legs, nice ass," Miller said in a weird, dreamy voice. "You look like you have a nice rack though."

"Dude, come on," Jesse said. "Don't start."

"I'm just complimenting your girlfriend. Don't see anything wrong with that."

"Of course you don't," Jesse sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose.

"Anyway, have you met Great-Aunt Dolly yet? She's a real winner too."

"I don't think so," Beca said and looked over at Jesse, who was shaking his head. "Why is she a winner?"

"She hates any one of Jesse's girlfriends."

"You had more than just Bree?"

"She set him up with this girl when they were thirteen and she's still convinced they're going to get married. See, Dolly gave up on Shane a long time ago and she just left Brayden alone."

"Lucky bastards," Jesse mumbled. "Aunt Dolly comes up to me every time I see her and shows me pictures of Kristin, like it's going to change my mind."

"That girl was busted. Acne all over and the greasiest hair I've ever seen. Plus she had eyebrows that were like a forest on her face. Wouldn't want to know what the carpets looked like, if you know what I mean."

"That's awful, that poor girl," Beca said. "Your Aunt Dolly is probably going to hate me, isn't she?"

"Probably," Miller said, patting Beca on the cheek. "Don't feel bad though, she hates us all."

"Jesse! I've been looking everywhere for you," an older lady called out. She was walking over with some girl that Beca didn't recognize, but figured it was one of Jesse's cousins she hadn't met yet.

"Incoming," Miller muttered in Beca's ear.

"Hi Aunt Dolly," Jesse said, giving her the fakest smile Beca's ever seen. "How are you?"

"I'm good. Listen, you remember Kristin, right?"

"Uh, yeah," Jesse said. "I have a girlfriend though, Aunt Dolly."

"Nonsense," she shook her head. "You should be with Kristin."

"Well this is awkward," Beca muttered.

"No, no, Aunt Dolly," Jesse said, wrapping his arm around Beca's waist. "This is my girlfriend, Beca. We go to college together."

"It's nice to meet you," Beca tried, but just received a dirty look from the woman.

"What in God's name are those things in your ears?"

"Okay then," Jesse said, going to walk away. "It was good seeing you."

"Jesse, this is Kristin. Remember?" Aunt Dolly said, pulling Jesse back and pointing to the girl that was with her.

"Oh shit," Miller said. "That's not the Kristin I remember."

"Hey Jesse," she said shyly. Kristin definitely didn't have acne anymore, and her long, blonde hair was no longer greasy. She was actually a very pretty girl.

"Just goes to show you, you always have to watch out for those girls with ugly duckling syndrome."

"Hey Kristin," Jesse said, ignoring Miller's remarks. "Been a while."

"Yeah, your aunt invited my parents to the reunion. She said you were going to be here, so I thought we could catch up. I didn't know you were seeing someone."

"Yeah, we've been together for a year," Jesse said and smiled happily at Beca.

"That's really sweet. I'm going to go back to my parents now. Maybe I'll see you later," she said and smiled before walking away.

"Go talk to her, Jesse," Aunt Dolly said.

"I'm with my girlfriend. We're going to go find food," Jesse said, taking Beca's hand and walking away from his aunt.

"She seems nice," Beca said.

"She's crazy, absolutely bonkers," Jesse rolled his eyes.

"There you two are. Where'd you go?" Mrs. Swanson asked as she handed Jesse and Beca a plate filled with food.

"Ran into Great-Aunt Dolly," Jesse said.

"Oh no, she's here?" Mr. Swanson said. "She's crazy."

"She still hates me and we've been married for over twenty years," Mrs. Swanson said, rolling her eyes. "She thinks she's the family matchmaker and no one is better than who she picks."

"She brought Kristin?" Shane asked and Jesse nodded. "She was gross though."

"Didn't look gross to me," Beca said.

"Ugly duckling syndrome. Gets people all the time."

"She wasn't too fond of me. Wasn't a fan of my piercings," Beca muttered as she stabbed her chicken with her fork.

"Don't take it personally," Mrs. Swanson said. "Everyone knows the woman is bat-shit crazy."

"That makes me feel better, thanks," Beca laughed.

"As long as we like you, who gives a shit," Maxie shrugged. "Even if you and Jesse break up, we're still hanging out."

"Thanks, Maxie," Beca smiled, feeling better over the whole situation.

Beca was sitting at a picnic table with Jesse and Maddie, coloring in a coloring book.

"The grass isn't orange, silly," Maddie said as she looked over at Jesse's picture.

"Are you sure? I'm positive it's orange."

"No, it's green. See, Beca's doing it right," she said, holding up Beca's picture.

"Well, I guess we all can't be perfect like Beca."

"It's tough being this perfect," Beca nodded. "I think Maddie has the better picture though. She even drew in ducks."

"That's amazing."

"Are you guys married like my Mommy and Daddy?" she asked out of nowhere, surprising Beca and Jesse.

"No, she's my girlfriend. It's what you are with someone before you get married," Jesse explained.

"But do you love each other?"

"Yes."

"Then you're supposed to get married and make pretty babies," Maddie said, and Beca almost spit out her drink. "Mommy says that babies come from pictures that mommies and daddies draw so they can get the baby they always wanted."

"That's a new explanation for where babies come from," Beca muttered and Jesse agreed. "We're still in school, so we can't get married. It's a rule."

"Well when you're out of school?"

"Dude!" Miller yelled as he ran over to them. "You have to come with me."

"Perfect timing," Jesse said. "What?"

"Found golf carts. We're racing."

"That's awesome. Let's go," Jesse said and got up. "You wanna come, Beca?"

"No, I'll stay here with Maddie."

"No, go with them," Jesse's aunt said as she picked up Maddie. "This one needs to go to sleep anyway, it's getting late."

"Okay, but Maxie's coming with me. Boys against girls," she said.

"Sounds good, let's go," Miller said, grabbing Maxie out of her seat and the four of them headed to where he found the golf carts.

"Are we supposed to be using these?" Beca asked and Jesse shrugged.

"Who cares? Let's do this," Maxie said, jumping in behind the wheel. "Get in, bitches."

"Is it a good idea to let you drive?"

"Nope, but this whole idea is a bad one, so might as well make the most of it," she said as she floored it and Beca had to hold on to one of the bars so she didn't fall out.

"First one to the bottom of the hill wins," Miller said. "Ready?"

"Ready," Beca and Maxie yelled at the same time as they took off before the boys.

"Cheaters!" Jesse yelled, which made Beca laugh when she heard him.

"We've got this in the bag," Maxie said as she swerved around garbage pails and benches. "So, I was forced to talk to Kristin. The girl is weird. She knows way too much about my dorky brother."

"Like stalker amount or just stuff your great-aunt would have been able to tell her?"

"I'm not sure. She was saying she's watched a few of the ICCA rounds on TV that you guys were in, and that you and my brother disgustingly made out in. Seriously, that needs to stop because those commentators definitely get off to you two at night."

"That's disgusting."

"Anyway, I'm sure she's harmless. Just wanting to keep Aunt Dolly happy, I guess."

"She looks like a little church girl."

"Maybe we can stick Miller on her so he can corrupt her," Maxie laughed.

"Maxie, are we going too fast?"

"No, I don't think so," she said until they hit a ditch. "Yeah, this might be a problem."

The golf cart tipped over and fell on Beca and Maxie. Beca groaned in pain as she tried to move out from under it, but she couldn't.

"Oh shit," she heard Jesse say. "Are you two okay?"

"We'll be much better when you get this off of us, thanks," Maxie said. "I think we won though."

"Good, because I might have lost feeling in my legs," Beca said as Jesse and Miller moved the golf cart off of them. "Don't wanna move."

"Can you move?" Jesse asked, concern lacing his voice. "Do I need to call someone?"

"No, I'm good," she said, finally getting off the ground with Jesse's help. "It's so much funnier watching someone fall."

"Are you sure you're okay?" he asked again, grabbing her face and looking into her eyes to make sure she wasn't lying.

"Really, I'm fine. Better than fine since we beat you two," she said with a smirk.

"You guys cheated!"

"And God punished us for it," Maxie said, jumping onto Miller's back. "Let's go."

"Go where, you little gnome?"

"Rude," she slapped his shoulder. "Back to where people are."

"I wanna watch the fireworks," he whined.

"Aren't fireworks illegal in New York?" Beca asked.

"Like that's stopped anyone before," Miller scoffed and then yelled when Maxie pulled his hair. "Okay, okay. God you're annoying. We're taking the golf cart back."

"Thank you," she said with a smile.

"Wanna head back too?" Jesse asked, but Beca shook her head 'no' and sat back in the golf cart that was back in its rightful position. "You wanna go for another ride?"

"Let's just sit here," she said, resting her head on his shoulder when he finally sat next to her.

"So what kind of baby are we going to draw when we get married?" Jesse asked, breaking the silence they were sitting in.

"You better be an artist if you want those aca-children to not look like monsters," Beca laughed. "Your family is really great, Jesse. You're lucky."

"They all love you. Everyone said you were definitely a keeper," Jesse said, noticing the blush on Beca's cheeks. "Guess your stuck with the Swanson's for life."

"For life, huh?"

"I told you from the beginning, Becs. It's inevitable," he said, grabbing her hand and playing with the ring pop ring he gave her during winter break.

"You did tell me that," she smirked. "I think at that time I was just hoping you wouldn't remember."

"Oh, I remember everything."

"Expect for bursting out into a Spice Girls song when you were drunk, or how we woke up handcuffed together after Chloe's bachelorette party."

"I think that was just something that went wrong."

"Clearly it went wrong," she laughed. "Couldn't find the key either."

"That was a bad day, and that tube sock gave me a rash."

"Poor thing," she said in mock sympathy. "Good thing you had me to take care of you."

"Very good thing," he said, winking at her.

"After I leave, we won't see each other until school starts again."

"Let's not think about that," he said, wrapping his arm around her shoulders and bringing her closer. "Maybe we can go on vacation together."

"Just me and you?"

"That's usually what together means, Beca," he teased her. "Maybe you're the one who needs the dictionary."

"Shut up, nerd," she rolled her eyes. "Where would we go?"

"Disney World!" he said excitedly, his whole face lighting up.

"You really are a giant man-child," she said. "Why Disney World?"

"Because I'm sure you were deprived of the fantasticness of Disney; and we can go to Universal for Harry Potter World."

"And then you can completely geek-out on me and I might consider breaking up with you."

"You would never."

"I know," she said. "But it's a good threat."

"An empty threat."

"Still a good one. So, when would we go?"

"Right before school? I can fly down and leave my stuff by you and then we can drive to Florida."

"You've been planning this out, haven't you?"
"Of course. I have everything set, all you have to do is say yes."

"Fine, nerd," she sighed. "I guess we can go to Florida."

"Really?"

"If you make me wear those stupid Mickey ears though, I will shove them up your ass, got it?"

"Got it," he said and hugged her. "Maybe I can get you a dwarf hat that says Grumpy on it. Since you're the right size and everything."

"I hate you," she said, punching him in the arm. "Don't even start."

"You know, you're pretty cute when you're angry," he said, his smirk growing. "Kind of a turn on."

"There is no room in this golf cart and the grass is itchy."

"We can leave, since I drove," he said and began to kiss her neck when he noticed she was going to say 'no'. "You know you want to."

"What about the fireworks?"

"We'll see better ones in Florida," he said as he ran his hands under her shirt and up her back.

"We can't," she said breathlessly.

"We can drive somewhere in the woods."

"And get killed by some ax murderer?"

"Those don't exist in Long Island."

"Right," she laughed, but her laugh turned into a moan when his lips found a sensitive spot. "Okay."

"Seriously?"

"Let's go before I change my mind."

"You wouldn't," he said as he started the golf cart and began to drive toward the parking lot.

"Might want to go faster, nerd."

"It can't go any faster," he said.

"You sure?" she asked as she unbuttoned her shirt a little bit, showing him the navy blue corset that the Bellas got her. She liked how it looked under the button-down shirt since it kind of looked like a cami and it meant she didn't have to wear a bra, which was a good thing in Beca's opinion.

"I'm sure this thing can go faster," he said, slamming down on the gas pedal as he stared at Beca's chest. She couldn't help but laugh at the expression he had on his face as she buttoned her shirt back up.

"Thought so."

I got the golf cart idea from Jackass when they were racing them around a golf course lol. & Miller is from 21 & Over. His character was just so awesome & just SUCH an asshole that I had to make him a childhood friend of Jesse's lol. (So he's added to Gabi, Asher, Dylan, & Bree). I really have a lot of OCs in this story, which I usually never do because it gets confusing for me when I write and then when I read it, but for some reason it's working out so far. Don't want to jinx anything, especially since you all are responding really well to them (especially Noelle lol.)

I'm not sure when the next update is going to be, which is sad since I've been doing rather well with the quick updates. I'm getting a bit stuck on trying to figure out not exactly what to write, but what to write next. The story is not coming to an end any time soon, & I have future chapters written that need to be tweaked a bit, but they're not like the next chapters I need. I'm bouncing around now a bit after the next chapter because I feel like writing their junior year will just be repetitive, so I'm going to go through some more important moments. Which is where I'm getting into some trouble lol.

If anyone has any suggestions for moments for future chapters, please let me know. I could use a couple ideas to get things moving. Um, I don't write any sex scenes just because, if you guys really haven't noticed yet, I'm not the best at describing feelings and actions and stuff like that. I'm more of a dialogue person lol.

So, to end this extremely long author's note (sorry ..) leave any suggestions you have. Let me know what you thought of the chapter, anything at all. You guys are awesome, seriously. My days get so much better when I see I have reviews to reply to :)