Hey guys! I know I said I would update Hold on to Sixteen but I have insane writer's block for it just now!
Anyway I hope you enjoy this!
Age Is Just a Number - Chapter 25: I Just Want to Make Her Happy
Jesse woke the next morning with a killer headache, instantly regretting how much he drank last night. Once his eyes finally adjusted to the light he sat up and the duvet fell from his bare chest. "Holy shit." His eyes widened once he realised he wasn't in his own room.
"Oh no, no, no." He muttered under his breath as he realised he wasn't alone in bed, the one and only Stacie Conrad was lying there sound asleep beside him. "Stacie." He shook the girl's shoulder and she groaned. "Wake up." He hissed.
"What is it?" She whined into her pillow.
Jesse was taken aback. "Are you not even slightly freaked out?" He asked incredulously and he put one of his hands under the duvet and his eyes widened once again. "Are you naked?" He asked slowly.
Stacie moved in the bed beside him before sitting up in a shot, holding the duvet over her chest. "What the fuck did we do?"
"Did we?..." The boy trailed off with a look of horror on his face.
"Holy shit we did Jess, I remember now. This is bad. This is really bad." Stacie began to panic, this is exactly what she didn't want to happen.
"Oh my god." Jesse ran his hand down his face. "I'm so sorry Stacie, I didn't mean for this to happen. I mean you have a boyfriend!"
"It's not your fault. Don't worry I'll figure it out, just don't tell anyone about this okay?"
"You've got my word."
A few days later, Beca and Chloe's trip was finally over and they were on the plane home. Beca was pretty bummed out when Chloe took her period early on New Year's Day because it was her plan to try and sleep with her girlfriend whilst they were away but the redhead's ovaries decided to get in the way. Since the older woman was feeling pretty shitty, Beca did try her best to make her feel better though.
"How you feeling?" Beca reached beside her and began softly rubbing Chloe's lower abdomen.
"Hm." Chloe only hummed, trying to get herself comfortable as she snuggled into the side of her girlfriend as best as she could whilst her daughter was sleeping by her other side.
Beca reached forward and picked up her bottle of water before taking a drink of it.
"Can I have a drink?" Chloe asked, sitting up slightly.
"Sure." Beca handed her the bottle and she took a few gulps of it before handing it back.
"Thank you." Chloe pulled Beca's arm over her as she snuggled back into the younger girl and began toying with her fingers. "Are you looking forward to getting back on the team?" The redhead wondered.
"Yeah, I'm kinda scared at the same time though. I literally haven't stepped foot on the pitch since the accident." Beca said honestly as she glanced out the window.
Chloe loved how Beca was being emotionally open more often, she felt like she was able to help her more if she was honest about her feelings.
"You'll be fine babe. Your meds have seem to be working so that's a good thing."
"Yeah I suppose." Beca shrugged.
"I've been meaning to ask you, what's the deal with your license since you were diagnosed?" The redhead asked curiously.
"My driver's license? It got taken off me. If my seizures didn't knock me unconscious, there could've been some exceptions but since they do, they just took it off me all together." The brunette explained bitterly. "I have to have my seizures controlled for 6 months before I can get a new one. In the meantime, my dad's selling my fucking car." She huffed and it reminded Chloe of Hailee when she doesn't get her way.
"Don't worry, you'll get it back eventually. And your car is an Audi A5 right?" Chloe asked.
"Yeah. Why?" Beca furrowed her brow.
"What year?" Chloe continued.
"2011."
"I might buy it off your dad. I'm selling my car too and yours is better than mine, I've had mine for about 7 years now." Chloe chuckled lightly and Beca thought for a second.
"I guess then you could be my personal chauffeur and I wouldn't completely lose my car." The brunette joked as she began softly running her fingers through Chloe's hair.
"Oh is that how it is now?" Chloe challenged.
"Sure is. I'm your epileptic girlfriend, I need you to be my personal driver." The brunette said in a baby voice which made Chloe giggle.
"In a way I'm glad you're not driving anymore, I was always kind of worried about you."
"Why?" The teenager scoffed.
"Let's just say...You're not the safest driver." Chloe tried to word it in a way that wasn't offensive.
"Excuse me, when was the last time you were in a car accident because of me?" Beca asked and Chloe sat up, trying not to laugh. "You've been in my car plenty of times and you haven't complained."
"It's not that, you just like to go fast is all." Chloe shrugged.
"Yeah, and?"
"I just worried about you when you drove yourself." The redhead shrugged. "You're my girlfriend, I'm allowed to worry okay?"
"I've been hit by a car by the way." Beca said out of the blue with a chuckle.
"Why am I not surprised?" The redhead rolled her eyes and settled back into the brunette. "How did you manage that?"
"I've was 12 and I was out skateboarding with Jesse. I tried to do this trick but completely failed, stumbled backwards and got hit by a car. I broke my arm and my leg, I don't know if you've seen the scar here-" Beca pointed to the side of her right leg, just below her knee. "-I had to get an operation on it and then go to physical therapy to practically learn to walk again. It was hell." She explained and Chloe just shook her head.
"Should we just roll you in bubble wrap so you don't hurt yourself?" The redhead chuckled. "So tell me how else you've injured yourself in those 18 years of yours."
"I broke my big toe at a soccer game years ago." Beca began laughing at the memory. "I missed a penalty and out of sheer frustration I went up and kicked the goal post. Regretted it instantly because that was me hobbling around for a while."
"For god sake Beca, you're seriously the clumsiest person I've ever met." Chloe couldn't help but laugh at her accident prone girlfriend.
"Look." Beca held out her right hand in front of Chloe. "Have you ever noticed that?"
"Your weird finger that's bent? Yeah I've noticed." Chloe laughed.
"Hey, it leans slightly to the side, it's not bent." Beca playfully slapped Chloe.
"How did you do that?" Chloe reached forward and took Beca's hand in hers, examining her 'bent' finger.
"Fucking too many girls." Beca said nonchalant and Chloe burst out laughing.
"What's the real reason?" The older woman rolled her eyes.
"Let's just say there was me, Jesse and a basketball."
"Wow I've never heard of that type of porn, any good?" Chloe said, barely even able to last a second after saying it before laughing.
"Shut up you weirdo." Once again Beca playfully smacked her before explaining what happened. "He threw the ball really hard and when I tried to catch it, it bent my finger the wrong way and broke it. Hey look at me."
Chloe lifted her head and turned to Beca. "What?"
"How did you get this?" The brunette asked, softly running her finger over the small scar on her girlfriend's forehead.
"Oh yeah that. I was 2 and I fell over a brick-"
"What an idiot." Beca couldn't refrain her laughter.
"Says the one who kicked a goal post! I had to get 14 stitches in my head, I'm pretty sure I could've died." Chloe laughed, leaning back into Beca.
"We've both almost died. Now that's match made in heaven." Beca joked and Chloe giggled.
"Hey Beca, I want to tell you something but you have to promise that you won't freak out." Emily said quickly as she entered her older sister's bedroom. Beca had been home for a couple of hours now and she was just relaxing in her room on her laptop.
"Well this can't be good." The older girl set her laptop beside her on the bed before she sat up properly. "What is it?"
Emily took a deep breath as she sat down at the end of Beca's bed. "Benji and I are dating." She rushed out and Beca almost choked on her own saliva.
"What?" Beca furrowed her brow. Her hearing aid mustn't be working because surely she didn't hear what she thought she heard.
"Me and Benji...are seeing each other." Emily still didn't make eye contact with her sister.
"Dude I knew he had like the biggest crush on you but I didn't expect him to do anything about it. You're 15 it's weird." Beca shuddered.
"How is that weird?" The taller girl squinted her eyes and furrowed her brow.
"Because he's 18."
"Need I remind you that your girlfriend is 23?"
"Ha ha." The older girl deadpanned. "Anyway, how did this even happen?"
"He kissed me on New Year's Eve-"
"Cliché." Beca cut her off and Emily just scowled at her before she continued.
"And well we spoke about it and decided to give dating a shot." The girl shrugged. "Please don't be the over protective sister you always are, I'm sure I'll get enough of that when I tell your dad." John was very protective over Beca and Emily, Beca obviously since she is his actual daughter but Emily too. He has known Emily since she was only the tender age of 4 and has always treated the girl like a second daughter.
"You haven't told them yet? Not even your mom?" Beca asked incredulously.
Emily shook her head. "I was planning on talking to them now but I need you to be there to."
"Ugh that requires moving." The older girl groaned, falling back into her pillow. "Fine let's go."
Beca followed Emily downstairs into the living room where Kat and John were sitting on the couch together.
"I wanna talk to you guys." Emily sat on the arm of the couch beside them whilst Beca took a seat on the chair, not really paying attention, instead deciding to just watch the TV.
"You're not gay too are you?" John joked.
"Thanks dad." Beca gave him a mocking thumbs up but didn't look away from the TV screen.
"No it's not that. You know Benji? Uh me and him are kinda dating." She said awkwardly and Kat and John just blinked at her.
"Aren't you a little young to have a boyfriend Em?" John said and Kat just sighed at him from the side.
"She's 15 John." Kat reminded him.
"And Benji's 18." John quickly countered.
"So? Dad you've known Benji for years." Beca scoffed from the side.
"Beca you're dating a 23 year old, stay out of this." The man rolled his eyes. He was outnumbered in this house, far too much estrogen around, the 3 of them always ganged up on him.
"Exactly! How is she allowed to date someone 5 years older than her when I can't date someone 3 years older?" The 15 year old protested.
"Honey I think I can handle this." Kat placed her hand on her husband's thigh.
"Alright. I need to run out to the store anyway." John got up and left.
"Right girls, both of you come here." Kat patted the couch either side of her and both the teenagers took a seat. "I want to first start of by saying, Em you need to remember that Beca is 18, she's an adult. Trust me, I can't count the amount of times we've told her not to do something and she just laughs and does it anyway, isn't that right Beca?" She laughed as she nudged the girl and the 2 teenagers chuckled. "John would never admit this to you but the reason he's getting so worked up is because of the sex aspect of it and the consequences that come with it."
"Mom do we really have to talk about that?" Emily cringed.
Kat just laughed and carried on. "You see Beca can't get pregnant from sex but you can. That's his main worry, he's just too embarrassed to talk about it with you."
"But mom I'm not gonna do anything like that with Benji-" Emily began but her sister cut her off.
"Yeah right." She said whilst coughing.
"No I'm serious." Emily said seriously.
"Here's an idea. Why don't we go out for dinner tonight and you guys can invite Chloe and Benji." Kat suggested.
Beca scoffed. "Yeah like dad's gonna let me bring Chloe to dinner."
"I'll make sure he does." The older woman reassured. "Why don't you call her and ask if she wants to come."
"I left my phone upstairs so I'll just call her from the landline." Beca sat forward and grabbed the phone off the table before dialling Chloe's number.
"Hello?"
"Hey ba-Chloe, it's me." Beca cut herself off quickly before she could say 'babe' feeling slightly uncomfortable about it since her step-mother was sitting right beside her.
"Hey, what's up?"
"Uh are you doing anything tonight?" Beca wondered if Chloe noticed how weird she must be acting over the phone just because Kat and Emily are literally listening to every word she says.
"Apart from dropping Hailee off at Ryan's in about 20 minutes, I'm free for the rest of the night. Why? Are you okay? You're talking kinda funny."
"Well Kat's here asking if you want to come out to dinner with us tonight." Hopefully that answered her questions.
Chloe thought for a second and sighed. "I don't know Beca, I still feel like shit."
Beca finally stood up and went into the kitchen to get some privacy. "Please baby." She pleaded, knowing fully well that one of Chloe's weaknesses was when Beca called her 'baby.'
Chloe sighed.
"It's just Emily's told us she's dating Benji and Kat wants to have this dinner with all of us." The brunette explained further as she drummed her fingers on the kitchen counter.
"Alright, I'll come." The redhead finally gave in and Beca smiled widely.
"Thanks babe, I'll text you later with the details."
"Okay. I need to go and take Hailee to Ryan's so I'll talk to you later."
"I love you." Beca sang down the phone, trying to cheer her girlfriend up a bit.
"I love you too. See you later." She managed to make Chloe laugh a little which made her smile.
"Alright, bye Chlo."
"Bye."
Beca hung up and walked back into the livingroom to find Kat and Emily both looking at her with stupid smiles on her face.
"Why are you guys looking at me like that? Stop it, it's creepy. You look too alike." Beca furrowed her brow and shuddered before sitting down. "Seriously what's wrong?"
"I love you!" Emily sang, completely taking the piss out of her sister, clearly hearing their conversation over the phone.
Kat just laughed at her daughter.
"You suck, quit eavesdropping on my phone calls!" Beca protested, feeling a blush coming on. "For the record, she can come to dinner." She stood up and walked towards the door, smacking Emily in the side of the head on the passing.
Everyone had already ordered their drinks (and food but they were still waiting) at the restaurant and things seemed to be going okay so far. Beca was slightly envious that Chloe had ordered a vodka and coke (the girl needed it, she felt like a bag of shit as it is) because the first dinner with your parents and girlfriend are always tough right? She could really do with some liquid courage right now.
The conversation was focused on Benji and Emily just now though so Chloe took the opportunity to whisper something to Beca. She put a hand on Beca's cheek and pulled her closer so she could whisper into her ear. "Listen, don't be afraid to act like a couple in front of them. They're going to have to get used to it one day anyway." She reassured before pulling away.
Beca nodded, a little weight had been lifted off her shoulders and she turned to smile at her girlfriend before draping her arm over the back of the girl's chair.
"So girls, how was the trip?" Kat asked, sipping on her drink.
"Great actually! We had fun didn't we?" Chloe answered and turned to Beca.
"Yeah. There's things I'd like to forget about it but other than that, yeah it was really fun." Beca added and John furrowed his brow.
"Like what?" He wondered with concern.
"Like the fact I collapsed at an ice rink full of people. Not one of my best moments." Beca mockingly winked before taking a drink of her soda, eyeing up Chloe's drink as she did so.
"Oh yeah. Sorry about that honey." John apologised, completely forgetting that Beca had told him about that earlier in the day.
"You guys have to meet Hailee though. She's literally the cutest little kid ever, she's just a mini Chloe." Beca said with a huge grin and Chloe sat back and smiled with glee as her girlfriend spoke about her daughter.
"Is she going to go after my other daughter?" John's ill timed joke caused Beca to narrow her eyes and Kat to kick him under the table. "What?" He protested.
John didn't tell anyone this but before he came out here, he had a little drink to put himself at ease.
"My daughter is 4, John." Chloe reminded firmly.
"Well if she grows up to be anything like you, age won't really matter to her now will it?" Although this was mostly the alcohol speaking, there was still some deep feelings of John's that didn't approve of his daughter's relationship.
"Dad!" Beca gasped.
"John." Kat said through gritted teeth.
Chloe just looked down at the table, trying not to let her hormones get the better of her.
Emily and Benji just glanced at each other with wide eyes.
"Babe, I am so sorry. Don't listen to him." Beca said quietly, rubbing her girlfriend's back.
"I don't even know why I let you go on that trip! What father in his right mind let his 18 year old daughter run off to another state with her 23 year old girlfriend? I mean Chloe I don't even know you. How do I know you're really 23? How do I know you're not just using my daughter for sex?" He shrugged, taking another swig of his drink.
"John that's enough." Kat scolded.
"Beca I'm so sorry." Chloe turned to her girlfriend with tear rimmed eyes before standing up and walking away.
"Dad, what the fuck is wrong with you?" Beca spat as she ran off after Chloe. She exited the restaurant to find her girlfriend standing outside, crying her eyes out. "Baby…" The brunette's heart broke as she walked up to the redhead, pulling her hands away from her face before enveloping her in a hug.
Chloe held onto her girlfriend tight, sobbing into her shoulder as he whole body shook from crying.
"I'm so sorry about him, don't listen to a word he says." Beca spoke softly into her ear.
Beca had such a soothing voice, although most of the time the girl was loud and always talking fast as hell, when she's having heartfelt moments with Chloe she always spoke softer and slow.
"It's just I love you so much and I'm trying my best for him to like me." The redhead sobbed into Beca's neck, her voice cracking with tears.
The shorter girl slowly began to sway them side to side, trying to soothe the older girl. "I know you feel like shit right now baby...I can call a taxi if you want to go home?" Beca suggested as she pulled away, rubbing her hands up and down Chloe's arms.
Before the taller girl could answer, a cab pulled up and John and Kat exited the restaurant.
"What's going on?" Beca asked Kat, not even wanting to look at her father.
"Your dad's going home for completely ruining the night. He doesn't deserve to be here. Plus he's been drinking." Kat explained, ushering her husband into the cab before walking over to Chloe and Beca.
"Chloe, I'm so sorry honey. He was totally out of line and had no right speaking to you like that." Kat apologised, pulling the woman on for a hug.
The redhead started crying again. "I just want to make Beca happy." She sobbed into her ex-collegue's shoulder.
Beca smiled down at the ground.
"I know, I know." Kat rubbed Chloe's back before pulling away. "And you do just that! I've never seen that girl smile so much!" She smiled, glancing over her shoulder at her step-daughter.
Chloe wiped her eyes with a slight laugh when she turned around to Beca.
"Now our dinner shouldn't be ruined because of him, why don't you girls come back inside?" The older woman suggested and Chloe nodded, holding her hand out to Beca.
Dinner went really well without John. Kat asked the girls more about their trip and even asked about Hailee. It was now time for their dessert and Beca and Chloe decided to share a chocolate sundae together.
When Kat was too busy in deep conversation with Benji and Emily, Chloe grabbed Beca's empty glass off the table and poured half of her vodka and coke into it.
"You know me too well." Beca winked as she scooped up some ice cream with her spoon. "C'mere." She placed a finger under Chloe's chin, tilting it up slightly before feeding her the ice cream off her spoon.
The redhead smiled sweetly at her.
"You're so cute." Beca laughed, leaning forward to kiss her girlfriend on the cheek.
They didn't realise that Kat was watching them with a soft smile. She was glad that her step-daughter had found someone that made her happy.
"So your birthday is coming up…" Beca trailed off.
"In March." Chloe laughed. "It's only January babe."
"I know, I just want an idea of what you'd like." The brunette shrugged.
"You don't have to get me anything big." Chloe shook her head with a chuckle.
"You're going to be hard to buy for m'lady." Beca rolled her eyes as she took another spoonful of ice cream.
"I live to make your life difficult." The redhead joked, tilting her head to the side so it was resting on Beca's for a second.
"I know you do."
"You love me for it though." Chloe said with her big puppy dog eyes.
"Of course I do." Beca giggled, slipping her arm around Chloe's waist as she just stared at her girlfriend for a moment, admiring how beautiful she is.
They definitely didn't let John ruin their night that's for sure.
Uh oh John kinda lost it!
Stacie and Jesse have a little secret.
At least Beca and Chloe were allowed to have some cute moments despite John being an asshole.