What's up guys? The reason why I haven't been writing is because I've been really busy but also because I've been pretty lost with this story. I don't know guys it just seems like too many different people want different things from this story, I can't please everyone. Some people think it's too repetitive, other people think it's going too fast so I don't really know how I'm suppossed go cater to everyone because at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what I write, there's always going to be one person that doesn't like it. If you don't like it then don't read it because I'm sorry because I can't please everyone.

There's also been some complaints about Beca's swearing and how she's coming across as a dick. Is this about her calling Chloe a cunt? Well she was joking, Chloe knew that too. I'm the same age as Beca in this fic, I'm a Scottish 18 year old who swears as much as Beca does. I joke around and call my friends everything under the sun. I'm sorry if it offends you guys but I'm just taking some of my attitude and mixing it with Beca's and if that makes me a dick then so be it, none of my friends have ever taking offence to it so I have no idea! XD

To all of you that have stuck by and love the story as it is, I love you guys, it's the reason I continue it!

Age Is Just a Number - Chapter 35: For Once In My Life

"Hey." Beca announced herself as she entered Chloe's apartment.

"Hi Beca." Cindy greeted from the couch where she was sitting with her daughter. "Did you go home first? You're later today."

"I had soccer training after school." Beca replied dropping her soccer bag at her feet with a exhausted huff. "You not talking?" She teased the redhead as she sat down beside her.

"I'm bored." Chloe sighed, resting her head against Beca.

"Are they nearly done in there?" The brunette pointed to the bathroom. For the past couple of days workmen had been in removing Chloe's bath and instead installing a wet floor and shower chair for her.

"Yeah they're just finishing up." Cindy said and Beca nodded.

"How was school?" Chloe asked, running her hand over Beca's knee.

"Alright. Emily made the team by the way. Coach said she won't start on Saturday but he thinks she's got amazing potential." Beca explained and Chloe smiled, her eyes lighting up.

"That's amazing." She said softly. "How long are you here for?" The redhead linked on of her hands with Beca's and sighed heavily. She got bored and frustrated easily, even more so when Beca was at school or when she had to go home.

"I was thinking of staying the night."

"But you have school tomorrow." Chloe reminded her as she stared at their intertwined fingers.

"I can wash my uniform and just leave from here in the morning. That means your mom can go home for a night." Beca shrugged giving Cindy a smile.

"You really don't have to." Chloe shook her head. Of course she wanted Beca to stay, but she didn't want to be a burden.

"I want to." The teenager said seriously.

"Well I guess I'll leave when the workmen do and you two can spend a quiet night in together." Cindy smiled.

"Would you quit huffing and puffing?" Beca chuckled as she was currently helping Chloe was her hair in the shower. It was much easier now with the shower chair and the wet floor.

"This is only meant to happen when we're old. I'll be the first one to lose my head cause I'm older and you'll have to help me do everything. Not now, I'm only 23 and you're only 18, we're like an old married couple that isn't married or old." The redhead rambled on, flailing her arms around.

"Oh so just a couple?" Beca teased.

"Shut up." Chloe grumbled.

"Babe, you're just gonna have to get on with it and let me do things for you. It's not gonna last forever, you're gonna walk again." The brunette reassured and Chloe sighed, tilting her head back slightly as Beca ran her fingers through her hair.

"By the way, Aubrey is coming over tomorrow so you don't have to be here if you don't want to." Chloe said. Beca and Aubrey still didn't like each other, it was clear as soon as they looked each other whenever they saw one another.

"I'll still come over." Beca assured and Chloe smiled. The brunette knew how much it meant to her girlfriend for her to come see her every day.

"So uh...Valentine's day is coming up." Beca said a little awkwardly as she lifted Chloe's legs up onto the table before taking a seat next to the redhead on the couch.

"Yeah?"

"Well...Do you wanna do anything?" The brunette shrugged. Okay this wasn't exactly her thing so cut her some slack.

"Normally I'd love to but with everything that's happened, I'm just not feeling it. I'm sorry, baby." Chloe apologised, rubbing her hand along Beca's arm.

"Oh no don't worry about it. Valentine's day was never really my thing anyway." Beca shrugged with a laugh.

"Ugh why do I suck at free kicks so much?" Stacie groaned as Jesse caught the ball firmly in his gloves once again.

The girl had invited Jesse to help her with her free kicks after soccer practice. You see Jesse is the goalkeeper on the boys soccer team so he was the perfect person to help her.

"Maybe I'm just an amazing goalkeeper." Jesse teased, rolling the ball back out to her.

Stacie rolled her eyes, stopping the ball at her feet. "It's just Beca gets to take everything, free kicks, penalties, corners."

"There's a reason Beca gets to take corners Stace, she's tiny." The boy laughed. "Stacie you're awesome, you don't have to be in Beca's shadow in the team." He added softly, walking towards her.

Stacie sighed heavily.

"Here, why don't you go in goals and I'll try it. I'm a goalie, surely I can't do any better." He smirked, taking his gloves off before handing them to Stacie.

"I don't like that look, Swanson." Stacie chuckled, slipping her hands into his gloves.

"You ready?" He asked as he took a few steps back.

"Yeah."

The boy ran up to the ball and struck it with his left foot, making it curl into the top right corner of the net, right past Stacie.

"What the fuck was that Swanson?" Stacie asked, dumbfounded.

"Learned it from Beca." Jesse laughed and Stacie rolled her eyes.

"Of course you did."

"Stacie!" A voice called, making both their heads turn.

"Oh shit." Stacie cursed under her breath as a familiar face walked on the pitch.

"Who's that?" Jesse asked with a furrowed brow.

"My ex." The girl whispered as the other guy got closer.

"There's my girl." He approached Stacie with his arms open but she just stepped back.

"Jason, how many times do I have to tell you that we're over." She placed a hand on his chest and pushed him away from her.

"Oh come on babe, you didn't really mean that." He grinned, running his fingers through his messy blonde hair.

"I'm serious, Jason."

"Who's this?" Jason asked in amusement as he pointed at Jesse.

"That's Jesse, my-"

"Her boyfriend." Jesse quickly cut Stacie off, walking up to her before placing an arm around her. "So why don't you just leave us alone. It's over dude, she doesn't want to see you anymore."

Jason just laughed. "You dumped me for him?"

"Just go." Stacie sighed and he shook his head, still laughing as he began to walk away. "God he's such an idiot." She said once her ex was out of ear shot.

"He's turning around again." Jesse said quickly just as he was about to remove his arm.

"Forgive me." Stacie whispered to Jesse before she grabbed his face, roughly kissing him just as Jason turned around.

"Woah." Jesse said as they broke apart after realising Jason was gone.

"I'm sorry but surely that'll make him stay away." Stacie said, wiping her mouth.

"Don't be sorry." Jesse chuckled. "Can I ask you something?"

"Yeah?"

"What are we?" The boy asked in amusement. "We're constantly flirting, we even kiss sometimes and we've literally had sex before. Stacie, what is this?" He asked a little more seriously.

She just stared at him for a second. "I...I really don't know."

"Well...Can I at least take you out on a date sometime? I mean I'm really into you and I don't want this to be some friends with benefits kind of thing." Jesse reached out and held onto Stacie's hand.

"That'd be really nice, Jesse." Stacie shyly smiled at the ground. She wasn't used to going out on actual dates, the guys she normally went around with just wanted sex from her.

"How about this Saturday after your game? I'll take you out to dinner." Jesse grinned.

"Sounds great." She chewed on her bottom lip before kissing Jesse on the cheek.

Chloe had contacted Ryan telling him she wanted Hailee for the night since Beca was staying over and was willing to help.

When Ryan and Hailee arrived though, the 4 year old was hysterically crying.

"Baby, what's wrong?" Chloe asked, holding her arms out for her daughter.

"She's cried the entire way here." Ryan sighed, lifting his daughter up onto Chloe's lap.

Hailee latched onto Chloe as she cried into her shirt.

"Why, what's wrong?" Chloe furrowed her brow, soothing rubbing her daughter's back.

"I told her that the sitter will have to pick her up from pre school tomorrow because I have to work, she wanted you." Ryan explained.

"Honey, mommy can't come pick you up." The redhead explained softly into Hailee's ear.

"I-I-I don't want th-the sitter." The little girl cried.

Chloe sighed, looking at Ryan. "My mom can't do it either, she has meeting at James' school."

"I'll do it." Beca volunteered.

"Babe, you have school." Chloe said.

"It's just around the corner from my school, I'd get there in time." The brunette shrugged.

"You don't have to do this Beca." Ryan interjected.

"Hey, Hailee." The 18 year old softly tapped Hailee on the shoulder and the little girl turned away from Chloe's chest. "What if I picked you up from school? Would you like that?"

Hailee sniffed and wiped her eyes, nodding her head.

"See?" Beca chuckled.

"You okay with Beca picking you up, sweetheart?" Chloe asked her daughter who run ally cracked a smile.

"Yeah." She said in a small voice.

"Thank you so much, Beca." Ryan smiled at the teenager in relief. "She's had dinner so she just needs to shower." He explained, spinning his keys on his finger.

"Hey, Beca can you take her for a shower now?" Chloe asked sweetly as she checked the time on her phone.

"Yeah, of course." The brunette replied in a heartbeat.

"Hailee, Beca's gonna take you for a shower okay?" The redhead said to Hailee, urging her to go with the brunette.

"Okay." The 4 year old climbed off her mother and dragged Beca by the hand to the bathroom. "Will you sing to me? Mommy normally sings to me when I'm in the bath."

Chloe couldn't help but laugh at Beca getting bombarded by questions already and they weren't even in the bathroom yet.

"Maybe, little weirdo." Beca laughed as she ushered Hailee into the bathroom.

"Chloe are you sure letting Beca pick Hailee up from school is the best idea?" Ryan whispered, taking a seat on the arm of the couch beside his ex.

"What do you mean?" Chloe asked, narrowing her eyes.

"Well...Beca has epilepsy-"

"Ryan, don't start." The redhead warned.

"What? I'm just saying, what if they're on their way home and Beca has a seizure?" He asked.

"She's on medication." Chloe said seriously. "She knows her triggers now, Ryan. She's completely fine and she wouldn't offer if she didn't feel fit enough."

"I'm just making sure, y'know for Hailee's sake. Is she allowed to drive?" He asked as an after thought.

"No." Chloe shook her head. "Just let her do this okay? For so long, she's had to depend on so many people and now I'm having to depend on her and she's liking having the responsibility. Just let her enjoy it." She explained.

"You're right. I'm sorry." Ryan apologised.

It was true, Beca really was enjoying helping Chloe, she liked to feel needed. She had been relying on so many people for so long that it was nice to have some responsibility again.

Sorry it's short guys but like I said, I've not really known what to do with this story. I have a plan on how it's gonna go but I don't know if anyone will like it so...

Anyway I'll be writing Valentine's day next.