Aubrey liked to think of herself as the commander and chief of the house, she had a knack for barking orders and making sure everyone was nice to each other and not picking arguments. Although, living with someone like Beca Mitchell, making sure to limit the arguing was nearly impossible since the hero had somehing to say about everything. Most of the time Aubrey just assumed Beca would add a snarky remark just to piss her off. She loved Beca, of course, but there were CERTAIN moments when she just wanted to strangle the living daylights out of her.

It was their first week in the loft and everyone, omitting two others, were in the kitchen preparing dinner. Aubrey sat back on the couch with her feet propped up on the coffee table. She was slowly drifting off the sleep, completely unaware of her roommate quietly repelling down from the ceiling. Beca stopped once she reached Aubrey's shoulders, reaching over to the laptop that sat beside Aubrey, a cable inserted on the side while the other end was connected to the TV, she grabbed the laptop and brought it up as far as it can go and turned the movie off. After a moment of typing and glancing back down at Aubrey, Beca quickly lowered herself back next to Aubrey and placed the laptop down where it had been. With a light chuckle she clicked the spacebar to start the video, raising the volume to its highest setting and shot herself across the living room.

The loft was soon filled with the sounds of grunts and moans coming from the TV. Aubrey jolted awake, her eyes widening when she got an eyeful of a woman's breasts bouncing up and down while her partner hovered over her.

"WHAT THE HELL!" Ignoring the rushing footsteps coming out of the kitchen, Aubrey searched frantically for the remote, it had been next to her just a moment ago.

Amy folded her arms and turned to the screen, "Now I see why you won't let anyone use your computer."

"Shut up, Amy! Oh god, where's the remote!"

Chloe and Stacie tried their best not to look over at the TV, the volume still very loud. Jesse ruffled his hair and stiffled a chuckle as he helped his girlfriend look for the missing remote.

Aubrey slapped her hand down on her thigh from her place bent down beside the couch, "This is ridiculous! Where the fu- " Her eyes drifted up and her blood began to boil, up to the point where she was certain she had steam seeping out of her ears, when she saw the remote in question webbed to the ceiling.

Looking across the room, she shot up to her feet when she saw Beca, teary eyed and red, clenching onto the doorway of her bedroom as she held back her laughter.

"REBECCA MITCHELL!"

Chloe held two finger against her lips, biting back at smile, as she watched the two girls run around the nearly empty livingroom. Which reminded her that they still had a lot to shop for.

Looking back at it now, Aubrey had to suppress a lopsided grin. They were all growing accustomed to living together at that time, Aubrey understood that Beca didn't have any kids her age to grow up with so she obviously had some bottled up childishness that she was just itchy to let out. Even Jesse had trouble remembering to put the seat down when they all first moved in together. Amy had taken it upon herself to potty train him and teach him the lifestyle of 'Living With The Opposite Sex'. An act that Aubrey didn't dare nor want to know about. But according to everyone else..there was pee everywhere.

So, after reciting how difficult it is to live with people of different personalities and the opposite sex, you'd think Aubrey would somehow find a way to tolerate having Curt around. Although, given the circumstance of their prior situation, it will obviously take some time.

Aubrey was pulled out of her thoughts when Jesse walked up behind her, resting his hands on her waist.

"Can we talk?"

Aubrey moved out of his grip and walked over to the windowsill. She held up her cup of water to her chin, looking out the window and watching the the headlights of cars dash down the street.

"There's nothing left to say, Jesse."

Jesse won't accept that. Communication was the one thing they took seriously and he wanted to fix his lack there of with a talk. With the sick feeling in his stomach and his clammy palms, he walked over beside her.

"Can I at least say I'm sorry? I know it wasn't fair to spring this up on you but you need to understand from Beca and I's point of view."

Aubrey turned to him and lifted a finger off the condensing glass cup, pointing it at Jesse and tilting her head.

"You don't think I understand?"

Jesse darted his eyes back and forth, "What?" Confused by the question.

"You don't think I understand?" Aubrey repeated, "The fact that you need an antidote couldn't be more important to me. I want you to get better. I'm kinda iffy about Curt having to be the solution but I understand. The thing that I don't understand is why you felt the need to keep it from me."

Aubrey watched his face shift from confused to guilty by the time she finished talking. Jesse looked down at his hands and back at her, his lips parting and his eyebrows furrowed.

"I'm sorry." Jesse said in a hushed tone.

Aubrey sighed and turned her head to glance around the living room, it was relatively still and calm. Beca and Chloe had turned in quite early which was odd. Curt retired for the evening as well, his body laying still on the couch, Aubrey was only able to see the top of his head on the armrest. She turned back to Jesse and reached out to give his arm a squeeze.

"Alright. We'll move on from this. But I don't want you to keep things from me, okay?"

Jesse smiled brightly and nodded, his arms slightly raising but dropping back down as if he were mentally debating with himself if it was too soon to ask for a hug.

Aubrey rolled her eyes and grabbed his chin and pulled him down, pecking him on the lips and patting his cheek before turning away.

Jesse watched her walk over to their room, stopping at the doorway to look over her shoulder.

"Well come on. Isn't after making up the best part?" Aubrey asked, her smile growing less innocent and more predatory.

Jesse inhaled sharply and scurried over, closing the door behind him.

A/N: short chapter, i know. I just wanted to focus a bit on Aubrey and Jesse for a moment. At least now, everyone seems to be on good terms with one another :). Now, about the time jump. How do i explain this...its going to be a small portion of a chapter but then it'll go back to the present. Its pretty much gonna be like a teaser IN a chapter. So the time jump will be a scene from a future chapter. If youre confused, im sorry lol, but once i put it up itll make sense. On another note, I still think this story is getting too...happy, so to speak. So i may need to take drastic measures to keep you on your toes. So the time jump could or wont be a happy one..

As always let me know what you think of the chapter :) btw the porn thing with the tv actually happened with me and my friend. Only i, of course, just hid the remote under the couch lol.

alright guys :) have a good one and see u all in the next chapter!