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Whoa you guys sorry about the wait. I had like some severe writers block for the past couple days! Or maybe that was laziness...anyway! I'm sorry and I hope you enjoy this chapter! As always thanks for all the comments! They're great!
1) learn to pole dance DONE
2) go sky diving
3) hear the pope speak in the Vatican
4) laugh like Fran Drescher for a day
5) get a tattoo
6) have a paint fight
7) go cow tipping
8) drive a Ferrari
9) do the nasty in a car
10) go trick or treating so no one knows me
11) buy a family in need a new house
12) go through my old routine with an Olympic gymnast
13) ride a giraffe
14) ride a horse
15) make out with a stranger
16) go to Disneyland and act like kids
17) throw a gatsby party
18) fuck however an whenever the hell we want
19) finish building and decorating our house before the baby comes
20) Make out with Beca where both of us are sober and we're not avoiding a douche bag
"What the fuck? I don't want to be number 20!" I dropped my hands and the paper rustled at my side.
"I can make you number two if you want...it's not a chronological list. It's just whatever popped in my head," Amber said distractedly while she put on Parker's diaper and buttoned up her onesie, she was making life difficult with all the squirming. Lifting her up she kissed her while my baby squeaked happily, "time?" she asked, looking over at my still shocked face.
I glanced down at my phone, "45 seconds, now back to this make out thing." I watched her shift Parker to her left side around her finally prominent belly and then flop down on the couch with a sigh before she gave me her full attention.
"Cant you take it off the list?" I was staring at the paper wide eyed again. She laughed at me, shook her head, and then went to entertain Parker. "Jesse's parents are coming to pick the four of them up in five minutes," I said exhaustedly in a monotone.
"Beca, my parents are almost here. Where are the babies? Why can't I find the babies?" Jesses frantic voice sounded in an upstairs room. We could hear his feet pounding the floor as he ran from room to room. "Beca, seriously have you seen the babies?" He was a little flustered at the idea of letting his parents watch the babies for the long weekend. They had decided to move to California to help with the babies about two months after they were born.
Rolling my eyes I looked up at the balcony that went over the living room while Jesse dashed by. Lincoln sauntered after him, glanced down at the living room and smirked when he saw the babies in their carriers and me strapping in Parker. "Jess, they're ready to go, calm down! Oh and come downstairs because your parents are here!" I laughed as he clambered down the stairs noisily.
The door was pushed open and Jesse's parents walked in with huge smiles on their faces. "Ohh there's our precious babies! They all look so adorable!" Emma cooed as she crouched down next to her grand kids. "Hello, Junior. Oh he is just the spitting image of Jesse when he was a baby."
"Hey, mom," Jesse walked over to shake his dads hand and give his mom a kiss, I followed after him. "Thanks for taking them for the weekend!"
"It's not a problem, Jess. Beca, you look great! You too, Amber!" We both gave Zachary a hug and chatted for a few minute while Lincoln and Jesse got the babies into their car.
Our cars were already packed and we were ready to go on our road trip to el matador beach. I walked over to Zachary's car and opened the back seat, "Alright, you guys be good now. I'll see you on Monday," I kissed all of them. "I love you!" I picked up Lane's chubby hand between my fingers. "Mommy loves you," I whispered to them again, kissed his hand and then shut the door.
Not two seconds later I opened it up to look at them again. "You guys are all okay?" I heard Amber laugh at the way I was talking to them, like they would speak up and answer me. "Yeah you're fine, were all fine! We're gonna have fun this weekend right? Aw. Okay I love you, be good," someone started to blow spit bubbles and I laughed while I shut the door. I started to walk away, turned back, then turned back again.
"Beca, we don't have to go if you'd rather stay," Jesse pulled me close and wrapped his arms around me.
"I want to go...it's just my babies-"
"We'll take good care of them, Beca, don't you worry. Now you four need to get on the road and go have fun!" Emma gave us all a hug each and Zachary waved before he got in the car. Their engine started, they pulled out of the driveway, and then they were gone. I sniffled after them.
"Well let's get started then!" Lincoln put a final bag in the trunk of Amber's car, then shut it with a finalized bang.
"Beca, ride with me?" she asked with her eyebrows raised and not looking at Lincoln. I nodded my head, gave Jesse a kiss, and got in the passenger seat. They had been arguing a lot lately, I pulled my legs under me and watched what was going to happen. Jesse was already in his car and Lincoln was standing in the same spot, he looked at her confused. "We'll see you when we get there, alright," it wasn't a question. Walking around the front of the car she got in the front seat and slammed the door after her. "Ready?" I nodded my head and watched as Lincoln came around to her side and put his hands on the edge of the window to talk to her.
They whispered quickly to each other creating a hiss in the air, then Lincoln sighed and straightened up. "Alright, see you there...I love you," he bit his bottom lip and looked down at her.
"Love you too," she said quickly and he leaned in to kiss her, she offered him her cheek and then we were off.
We had started out with the music blasting and singing along loudly and obnoxiously, but within 15 minutes I was passed out and snoring lightly. Motherhood was taking a toll on me and Amber was nice enough to let me sleep. In just under an hour we pulled up to our beach house and she gently prodded me awake. I jumped and squinted around at the sun that was pouring over the roof of the house, "What?" I mumbled and dropped my head back down on the seat.
She sighed, "We're here, you can stay and sleep, but I'm about to pee myself," She pushed open her door and ran up the front porch steps while searching her pockets for the keys. Her legs jiggled as she patted her pockets and then finally found the key and jammed it into the lock and ran into the house to go to the bathroom. She came out a couple of minutes later to find me still hunched over in the car fast asleep.
"Becs, Beca, Becky, aye yo bitch, wake up," I slowly lifted my head and flipped her off with a little smirk on my face. "Babe, come on, get up!" She opened up my door for me and I rolled my head around so I could stare at her.
"I am so tired, Amber, you don't understand. They are just finally sleeping through the night. It's been four and a half months. That's four and a half months that I haven't had a full nights sleep!" I closed my eyes again. "I mean I love them, and I wouldn't trade them for anything, and I miss them right now, but I'm so tired...so tired," She squatted down next to me and I opened my eyes and smiled tiredly. "Sorry, I'll get up now." I slowly got out of the car and made my way to the front door.
She followed me and I flopped down on the couch trying to wake myself up some more. "We should go to the beach. Lincoln called and said that he and Jesse stopped for lunch and they're in the middle of some disgusting food challenge thing that should take a couple hours. So its just you and me for awhile!" She sat down next to me and rested her head on my shoulder.
"Going to the beach sounds exhausting," I scrunched up my eyebrows while she laughed at me.
"Nooo, it's gonna wake you up! So come on we're gonna have fun!" She jumped up and pulled me with her, I slumped over and let her drag me down the hall to mine and Jesse's room. She slapped me on the butt and I screamed which turned into me laughing, then she dropped me on the bed and it went back to a scream. "Hey, look you're awake now!" She smiled at me and I reached up towards her and pulled her down next to me, I threw my leg over her and dragged her closer to me. "This is very forward, I don't usually fuck on the first date," she laughed and kissed me on the cheek.
"Damn, I'm usually a before the first date kind of girl myself," I pouted at her and she rolled her eyes.
"Charming, Beca."
15 minutes later and we were making our way across the scorching sand to the water. It was October and still hot, one of the many reasons I love California. There wasn't anyone on the beach or around the rocks. Amber skipped towards the waves and called for me to hurry up, I chased after her with a smile. It was kind of nice for it to be just the two of us, we didn't have to worry about babies, or husbands, or fiancés, or albums, or anything. It was just me and my best friend...oh and I guess her baby counts too. She was standing knee deep in the water with her face turned up to the sun when I got out to her, "I love this."
"Me too," I watched her as she relaxed for the first time in weeks. "Are you and Lincoln ok?" I asked her suddenly.
She tensed up and opened her eyes against the sun. She sighed and sat down in the water, it only came up to a little under her shoulders and I joined her...unfortunately for me I'm a midget and I went under for a second. When I came back up she was laughing at me. Staring at her pointedly I waited for the answer to my question. "I don't know," she said quietly. "He's never home, he's always at work. And it didn't used to bother me, but I'm pregnant, shouldn't he be home a little? Well he used to be home way more... And then when he is home we're always arguing and I just can't deal with it. That's why I wanted to come here so we could just relax together and maybe get back to normal."
"Damn...you guys just need to work it out. That's what Jesse and I did-granted he was the opposite of Lincoln, he wouldn't get off my ass the whole time I was pregnant. We just need to combine them and then we'll have the perfect man!" A smiled twitched on her face while she watched me talk. "What?"
"It's just weird that you have kids, that's all."
"Thanks, as a mom I appreciate that," I winked at her while she scrunched up her face at the sound of me being a mom. A few seconds later she disappeared under the waves, I waited patiently for her to surface and she finally popped up by my elbow and sent a stream of water in my face. "You're a freak," I laughed at her before she started to make her way back to the shore.
About an hour later I was laying on my stomach with my headphones in and my eyes closed on a towel and Amber was on her back. "Oh my God, Bec," I didn't move, she looked over at me and saw I had my headphones in and couldn't hear her. "Beca, seriously!" She nudged me,I cracked open my eyes and pulled my headphones off.
"Whaaaat?"
"Um, look at those people walking down the beach," She whispered to me,I rolled over on my stomach to look.
"What about them?" I said dryly. From the look on her face she could detect the annoyance in my voice at being bothered over something stupid.
"Look at that girl in the middle with the long black hair, does she look familiar?" I squinted down the beach to the approaching people, then my eyes widened.
Quickly glancing over at her my mouth dropped open and my eyes darted back to the girl, "No...it can't be that-"
"Bitch who's nose I broke!" She laughed a little uncomfortably while she finished my sentence and tried to figure out how long we'd have before Ansley Knight would bestow her presence upon us. "Do you think she'll remember us?"
"Amber, what do you do for a living?" She looked confused at what I was getting at.
Rolling away from the fast approaching enemy she faced me on her side, "Um, I sing...and stuff."
I rolled my eyes at her and burst out laughing, "You're an idiot...you sing and stuff? Well anyway that's close enough, so how many people do you think could spot you in a crowd and be like holy fuck that's Amber Bennet?"
"Oh...right. Okay so we need to hide-"
"We're on a beach. I think you're getting stupider the longer we know each other," chuckling I closed my eyes and laid back down while she watched with apprehension the gap that was closing between us and Ansley. "Just don't pay her any attention, dummy."
She held her breath and closed her eyes, the sound of feet on the sand drew closer and closer. "Oh my gosh," some one from the group said when they were right in front of us, "Hey, you guys is that Beca Mitchell and Amber Bennet? Seriously look at them!" Her face started to redden and she kept her eyes firmly shut, if she cant see them they cant see her, right?
"What? Beca and Amber? I don't think so, when that bitch broke my nose the both of them were a lot skinnier," my head snapped up at Ansley's voice and Amber's did too, she was standing there with a smirk on her face and her stupid new nose. "Oh wait, it is them...my mistake." I growled next to Amber who sort of laughed at the noise before she locked eyes with Ansley. She quickly dropped her head back down and grabbed my wrist because I was starting to get up, "You guys are too famous to talk to me now or what?" she called out. Suddenly I was getting pulled along behind Amber because she had gotten up and was now standing in front of the raven haired girl. I looked between the two of them, pure hate was radiating off both of them. Amber's a tall girl, but Ansley easily had about 6 inches on her.
"Why are you such a bitch?" oh God, Amber, that question is never a good conversation starter. Ansley laughed it off though and threw her hair over her shoulder, Amber's fists were clenching and unclenching at a rapid pace.
"Do you guys know each other?" A small mousy haired girl at the back of the group asked in awe.
"We've had the pleasure of meeting," I said flatly.
"So what happened to you two? You used to be normal sized...now you just sort of expanded, it's not very attractive," she smirked again and looked up and down our bodies. We're not fat, just to let you know, in fact I just had four kids and looked better in a bikini than Ansley did. Not to mention AMBER WAS PREGNANT and had finally started showing.
"Well...Beca just had four babies and Amber's pregna-" someone said shyly behind Ansley. I smiled at her in thanks and she blushed before she got cut off.
"Would you shut up, Rachel, no one asked you!" she took a deep breath and glared back at my best friend. "Who would sleep with you two?"
"Um, I don't know maybe my husband and Beca's fiancé. At least we can get knocked up. You're such a bitch all your eggs probably shriveled up and died. Although that's a good thing, I'd feel bad for anyone who would have to have you as their mother." I held back a laugh, I'd never heard Amber get so mean before. I guess she'd been harboring her hate for the taller girl for years now. The corners of Amber's mouth curled up while Ansley's mouth completely dropped and she spluttered to find something to say back. "Now if you'll excuse us, gigantor, we have better things to do," pushing past her we trudged through the sand and back to our house.
"Holy shit, Amber, you're kind of a bitch too," I patted her on the back.
"It's these damn pregnancy hormones, I was about to break down crying that's why I ended it," she smiled at me as we got all the sand off us on the back porch. "Are you kidding me!" she was glaring at the house next to us where Ansley was currently showering down. "Beca, I really really don't like her."
I chuckled and nodded my head, "I know."
It was 2 o'clock, we had gotten to the beach at 11:30 and the boys were still not with us. Amber was splayed out on the couch with me and we were watching What to Expect When You're Expecting. "She doesn't look like me!" I said for the millionth time while the girl that plays Rosie was on the screen.
"Um, are you fucking blind? You guys look exactly the same! She's even a midget like you!" She turned her head so she could smile at me and I rolled my eyes in response. "Look at her, Becs! You're practically twins, although..." she smiled coyly again," she seems to have mastered the art of not putting ten pounds of eyeliner on, and she doesn't have tattoos. Otherwise, you guys could have been separated at birth!" I tightened my hold around her and she leaned back into me.
"You're stupid," I whispered into her ear and she laughed before she flicked me on the forehead. "Why's your ass vibrating?" The vibrations were making me laugh as it sent a tingly feeling up and down my leg.
"My t-t-t-telephone is ringing!"
"No Gaga," she got off the couch and pulled out her phone.
"Hey," she said breathlessly. Her face darkened almost immediately, "You're kidding me right? You're like trying to be funny and failing horribly?" she waited a few seconds, a dark red blush was creeping up her neck, oh God, that's a sign to take cover immediately. "Lincoln, what the fuck? What the actual fuck? We knew we were going to do this for weeks now, and you're fucking telling me that you have to go to your goddamn job?" she sank down on the couch and slouched over so her face was between her knees while she listened to her husband.
She noticed I was watching and put him on speaker phone. "-called me in like 30 minutes ago. This is important, it's like my big break, this could be the first film that I get to direct by myself, Amber."
"A film can't work with out its director, you think they could have possibly put it off for four days?" she had her head in her hands again.
"Amber, don't-"
"Don't what? Don't be upset that you're canceling on our very tiny vacation? Or that I don't see you anymore? Or that when we do see each other we fight? Please tell me what I'm not supposed to be getting upset about."
He was silent for a minute, "We don't never see each other and we don't always fight-"
"Bull shit. How many times have we had dinner in the past two weeks?" Silence. I shifted uncomfortably, she'd forgotten I was there. "I don't even remember the last time I went to bed with you or woke up next to you. And if you don't think we've been fighting then there is something seriously wrong with you." She waited a few seconds while he was silent again, her eyes were starting to look wet. "When is Jesse gonna get here?"
"Ah, he has to take me up today, so probably tomorrow night-" I sighed and curled up in a ball on the couch. I sort of missed him already.
A nerve twitched in Amber's cheek, "That's very considerate of you, Lincoln, this was Beca and Jesse's vacation too. You're just being really selfis-"
"Oh like you were your freshman year at Barden?" something snapped in her then, whatever had been holding back what all she was really feeling.
"You piece of shit," she said while tears poured down her face, I didn't know what to do. "This is nothing like that. For one we are motherfucking married now, and four years older. Maybe you haven't matured, but I sure as hell have. So if you want to bring that up again..." she stopped, apparently she couldn't come up with a consequence for it. Her voice was shaking when she started talking again, "And I am pregnant, Lincoln, with your baby, if I have to remind you. That is way different than me not hanging out with you in fucking college! You haven't been home and I am CARRYING YOUR BABY, if you can't see the difference in that then you're an idiot. So you can get off your fucking high horse because this is putting me through hell, alright?" she kneaded her knuckles into her temples while she sniffed and tears poured down her face.
"I think you're exaggerating, it's the pregnancy-" my breath caught in my throat when I heard him say that. Amber sprang up off the couch and grabbed her phone, she hadn't made it to her room before she was screaming at him, her door slammed shut, but I could still hear every word that was being said. I sat there for a few minutes thinking about her and Lincoln, in the scheme of things they were doing pretty good, they had been married for 11 months and hadn't really argued at all. All good things must come to an end I guess.
I felt bad for her, even with all the yelling I could hear her sobbing through it all. I sat on the couch and texted Jesse who was on the receiving of Amber's voice. He agreed with her though, he thought Lincoln needed to be home more and also he wished he was with me right then. I sighed and waited for everything to calm down.
30 minutes later it was quiet for a few seconds when Amber's door opened and she walked out, her eyes were pretty much swollen shut from all the crying. She sat down on the end of the couch and put her head in her hands again. I moved down next to her. "I don't want to fight with him," she said in a hoarse whisper, "I don't, Beca. It's killing me. I love that son of a bitch so much, its a little ridiculous," she leaned up against me and I wrapped my arms around her.
"I'm sorry you have to deal with this," I kissed her hair and we sat there for a long time. After awhile her breathing went back to normal and she relaxed into me a little more. "Want to finish this movie with my twin in it?"
Smiling at the word twin she nodded her head.
Oh no a twist in Amber and Lincoln's relationship! And a ghost from a cappella's past is at the beach! What are the chances of all of this happening to poor Beca and Amber? Very likely because I wanted the Ansley thing to happen. However the fight with Amber and Lincoln surprised even me, so we'll see where that goes! I have some funny stuff planned for when Jesse comes down finally, so look forward to that!
HOLY CRAP THIS IS COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC BUT MY PITCH PERFECT DVD JUST SKIPPED. I guess that's what I get for watching it multiple times every day since February 16th. I'm not exaggerating, I've watched it ever day. How am I not tired of it? I don't know, but my entire family can't stand coming near my room because it is always on! Alright I'm tired...I'm going to bed. Adios muchachos!