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Age Is Just a Number - Chapter 36: Valentine Surprise
"Beca!" Hailee's little face lit up as soon as the teenager entered her preschool classroom.
"What's up, lil one?" Beca chuckled as Hailee ran up to her and hugged her legs. "No way." The brunette muttered under her breath as she lifted her head and saw Hailee's teacher walking towards her. "Mrs Myers?" She asked in amusement.
The older woman furrowed her brows for a second before her eyes widened in realisation and she covered her mouth with her hand. "Beca? There's no way that's you." The grey haired woman shook her head with a laugh.
Beca hoisted Hailee up on to her hip as she nodded her head. Mrs Myers was Beca's old teacher when she went to preschool and she couldn't believe the woman was still here.
"What age are you now?" Mrs Myers asked with a huge smile.
"18, turning 19 in August."
"Oh don't say that to me, you make me feel old." The older woman laughed. "Graduating high school this year?" She asked and Beca nodded her head. "That's crazy. Little Hailee here talks about a Beca a lot but I didn't realise it was you."
"Yeah, her mom is my girlfriend." Beca smiled.
"Chloe? How is she doing? Ryan told me what happened since he's been picking Hailee up now." She asked softly. Beca internally thanked her for not asking about her and Chloe's age difference.
"She's getting there. She's mostly frustrated and gets a little upset now and again but she's powering through like always." Beca explained, glancing down at the floor.
"Well I hope she makes a speedy recovery, we all miss her here already."
"I'll let her know." Beca smiled. "Hailee why don't you go get your stuff and then we'll get going okay?" The brunette put the 4 year old down, who then walked off the collect her jacket and bag.
"Wait how old is Emily now?" Mrs Myers asked. Yup, she was Emily's teacher too.
"15, coming up 16 this year." Beca laughed when the older woman just shook her head.
"You two just need to stop growing up. Well tell your dad and Kat that I'm asking for them. It was lovely seeing you again Beca." Mrs Myers smiled, placing a hand on Beca's shoulder.
"You too." Beca returned just as Hailee walked back up to her with her jacket and bag already on. "Right we should get going before your mom starts calling me, asking where we are." The brunette joked as she took one of Hailee's hands.
"Bye Hailee, I'll see you tomorrow." Mrs Myers smiled, waving at the little girl.
"Bye!" Hailee waved wildly. Looks like she loved Mrs Myers just as much as Beca did as she was a kid.
"I'll see you later, Mrs Myers." Beca chuckled.
"Bye Beca."
The teenager led the 4 year old out of the building, Hailee's hand still happily clutched onto Beca's.
"I made mommy a picture." Hailee said as she skipped beside Beca.
"Did you? That's awesome, I'm sure that'll put a big smile on mommy's face." Beca said as she matched the girl's excitement. "Aubrey's gonna be at mommy's house." She mentioned. She knew the 4 year old loved Aubrey so she wasn't going show her dislike towards the woman.
"Is she?"
"Yeah." Beca's phone started to ring just after the words left her mouth. Rolling her eyes, she pulled her phone out of her pocket and answered it. "Hey."
"Hey, did you get Hailee okay?" Just who she thought. Chloe.
"Of course babe, you don't need to worry." Beca laughed, rolling her eyes. "You didn't tell me her teacher is Mrs Myers."
"You know her?"
"She taught me." Beca laughed.
"Holy shit, no way. That makes me feel old." The redhead whined down the line.
"How does it make you feel old?" Beca scoffed.
"Because it just reminds me how young you are."
"Oh come on, Mrs Myers must be like 100." The brunette laughed.
"Can I speak to mommy, please?" Hailee held up her other hand towards Beca.
"Hailee wants to talk to you." The teenager said down the line to her girlfriend.
"Okay, put her on." Beca carefully handed the phone to Hailee before the carried on walking slowly.
"Hi mommy." The 4 year old greeted excitedly.
"Hey, baby girl. How was preschool?" Chloe asked.
"Good. I made you a picture."
Beca smiled softly down at the girl, she had definitely warmed up to her these past months.
"Really? That's amazing, I can't wait to see it sweetheart. Right I need to go because Aubrey's here, I'll see you when you get home okay?"
"Okay, mommy." Hailee said.
"Remember to hold Beca's hand. I love you."
"I love you too, mommy. Bye." The girl handed the phone back to Beca.
"I'll see you when we get there, we won't be too long." Beca said when she pressed the phone against her ear.
"Okay then, I'll see you soon. Love you." Chloe said sweetly.
"Love you too Chlo."
For the rest of the journey, Hailee had talked Beca's ear off but the teenager didn't mind because she wasn't really one to keep her mouth shut herself.
"Mommy! I wanna play soccer like Beca." Was the 4 year old's first words as she entered Chloe's apartment, running to her mother.
"Aw really?" The redhead cooed and Hailee nodded.
"She was asking me tons of questions about it." Beca chuckled, awkwardly averting her eyes away from Aubrey. You can say she's childish but if Aubrey's not gonna respect her then why should she? "I'm gonna teach you some time huh?" Beca gave the little girl a playful nudge who nodded her head excitedly. "Right I'm gonna go and see Stacie but I'll be back later."
"What time?" Chloe wondered.
"About 6 or 7? I don't know, I'll text you." Beca shrugged before leaning down to give Chloe a kiss.
Saturday was the day of the quarter final. They were already deep into the second half of the game and the score line was 1-1. A late equaliser from Beca had saved the girls.
Things seemed to be going their way until Jennifer cried out in pain and dropped to the ground after giving Beca an awkward pass which caused her knee to buckle from underneath her.
The brunette kicked the ball out of play and jogged up to Jennifer. "What's wrong?" She asked, wiping the sweat from her forehead.
"My knee." Jennifer winced.
Beca motioned for the team doctor to come over and she took the opportunity to go over to the sideline to get a drink from her water bottle.
"Can she carry on?" Coach Corcoran asked as Beca picked up her bottle, Stacie soon following.
"Doesn't look like it." Beca shook her head. "Is Emily gonna come on?" She asked, motioning to her sister who was already warming up along the sidelines.
Coach Corcoran glanced at Jennifer who was limping towards the sideline, grimacing with every step she took. "Emily!" He called and the girl jogged over. "Right, Stacie, Emily, you two are going to play just behind Beca. Beca, you move into the centre forward position." Beca is what you call a false number 9, which is the striker who also drops deep back into midfield rather than just hanging about the box. Jennifer is the actual number 9 of the team hence why that's the number on her jersey while Beca's is 19. "We've got 15 minutes to go, we can still win this. Beca you just need to be careful because you're already on a yellow card. If you get sent off, you're suspended for the semifinal and we can't afford that."
The clock was ticking down quickly and 5 minutes flew by before their eyes and they still hadn't got the goal.
Beca had made a mistake in the middle of the field, accidently giving the ball away so she chased the other girl back deep into Barden High's half. Beca didn't give up though, even when the girl managed to get past the defenders to make her way into the 18 yard box.
Without even thinking, Beca slid in for the tackle, completely missing the ball and instead taking the other girl out. The brunette immediately stood up, holding up her hands in surrender as the referee blew his whistle, running towards her.
He pointed to the penalty spot and reached into his pocket.
"No no no no." Beca muttered, clasping her hands together as she walked towards the man. It was no use though, he held up the yellow card before replacing it with red. "Fuck." She cursed to herself as she took off her captain's armband. Not only had she given away a penalty, she was now going to miss out on the semifinal.
"Beca." Stacie said sympathetically as she took the captain's armband off the shorter brunette before enveloping her in a hug.
"I'm sorry." Beca apologised, feeling like she had just fucked everything up for the whole team.
"Don't worry, we got this." Stacie patted Beca on the back as the shorter girl walked over to the sideline with her head hung.
When she reached the sideline, Coach Corcoran passed the girl her water bottle. She took it off him but then just threw it away in frustration. She was so angry with herself that she could make such a stupid mistake that it had costed her place in the semifinal team.
Luckily for her, the opposing team missed their penalty and a last minute header from Stacie had put them through into the semifinal without having to endure extra time and penalties without Beca. She still kicked herself for doing something so stupid though…At least the semifinals wasn't for a few weeks from now.
Valentine's day quickly came around and even though Chloe made it clear that she didn't want to celebrate it, Beca still wanted to do a little something for her girl. She had been through alot lately, she deserved it.
So here she was in the redhead's apartment, waiting for Cindy (who was in on the plan) to bring Chloe back. Beca had made chocolate fondue for strawberries and marshmallows, bought Chloe a bunch of roses, asked Jesse to borrow some of Chloe's favourite rom coms he had on DVD and she also brought a bottle of wine (well more like stole it from her parents.)
As soon as she heard keys in the door, Beca stood up from the couch and made her way over.
"I told you that - Beca? What are you doing here?" Chloe was surprised when she looked up and saw her girlfriend. She maneuvered her wheelchair into her apartment, Beca having to jump out the way before her toes were crushed for like the 50th time since Chloe's been in that chair.
"Happy Valentine's day?" Beca offered with a shrug and a smile, motioning over to the coffee table where she had everything laid out.
"I'll leave you girls to it." Cindy chuckled before she left the apartment.
"Beca I-" Chloe didn't really know what to say.
The brunette got behind Chloe and decided to push her rather than risk her toes.
"Aww baby, you really didn't have to." The redhead said as her heart melted once she saw everything on the table.
"Well I know you said you didn't want to celebrate it after everything that has happened, I wanted to do something simple y'know? Just the two of us." Beca explained as she allowed Chloe to hold onto her as she helped her out of the chair and onto the couch. "We have chocolate, strawberries, marshmallows and wine. The only combination you need." She chuckled, lifting Chloe's legs up onto the table before taking a seat next to the redhead. "Oh and I also bought you roses."
"I love you." Chloe said softly, turning to her girlfriend.
"I love you too." Beca smiled, giving Chloe a soft kiss on the lips. "You're not on any painkillers right now are you? If you are it looks like I'm gonna have to down this bottle myself." She joked as she sat forward to pour two glasses of wine.
"No, I'm clean." Chloe laughed, taking the glass that Beca had offered her. "Happy Valentine's day." She clinked her glass against her girlfriend's who returned the greeting. "Babe, can you do me one favour?"
"Yeah?" The brunette placed her glass on the table.
"Can you go into my nightstand drawer and get my charger? My phone's completely dead."
"Yeah, sure." The teenager got up and shuffled through to Chloe's bedroom.
The redhead closed her eyes and relaxed back into the couch. She definitely had the best girlfriend in the world.
"Chloe?" The brunette laughed.
Chloe opened one eye and looked over at her girlfriend who was standing at the doorframe of her bedroom. "Oh my god, Beca!" The redhead sat up as she saw what Beca was holding.
"You have a vibrator." Beca laughed in amusement as she walked back over to the couch, bringing the vibrator with her.
"Why are you such a child? Give me it." Chloe held her hand out but Beca refused to hand it over.
"Are my fingers not good enough for you?" Beca asked in mock offence. She turned it on and found herself laughing once again.
"Beca I swear to god, give me it." Chloe was trying her hardest not to laugh at her goofy girlfriend. "You're finding this too funny."
The brunette just kept moving it away from Chloe's hands before she even joking pressed it against the redhead's crotch making her jump in surprise.
"Beca!" Chloe protested, playfully shoving the brunette who was still in hysterics.
The redhead took the opportunity to take the vibrator off her girlfriend and stick it in the brunette's mouth.
"Dude!" Beca called out, pushing Chloe away. "I don't want give your vibrator a blow job." She laughed and Chloe turned it off.
"Are you quite finished being an asshole?" The redhead asked in amusement.
"Does it hurt?" Beca asked after composing herself.
"I take it you've never used one before?" Chloe asked and Beca just gave her a funny look.
"I only turned 18 last year, I've never set foot in a sex shop." Beca scoffed.
Chloe rolled her eyes. "You get used to it." She shrugged.
"Oh yeah because you've had dildos and dicks in your lady business." Beca joked, a cheeky smile spreading across her face.
"You're an idiot." Chloe shook her head, once again playfully shoving her girlfriend. "You're gonna take this back and actually come back with my charger this time." The redhead said in a mocking stern tone, handing the vibrator back to Beca.
"Fine." Beca laughed, rolling her eyes as she reluctantly got up.
"Oh babe, can we watch Pretty Woman?" Chloe called through to Beca as she caught sight of the DVD on the table.
"Yeah." Beca said as she came back, this time with the charger and without the vibrator. "Gimme your phone."
Chloe pointed at her phone on the coffee table, trying to reach forward to get it but Beca had already picked it up. The brunette plugged it in before popping the movie in and dimming the lights.
"Can we lie down on the couch? I'm uncomfortable." Chloe asked just as Beca was about to sit down.
"Of course." Beca lifted Chloe's legs and gently placed them on the couch instead. She lay down in front of the redhead and pulled a blanket over them. "Here." The teenager dipped a strawberry in the chocolate and fed half of it to Chloe before she ate the other half herself.
"I feel bad for not doing anything for you now." Chloe said quietly, running her hand up and down Beca's waist.
"I didn't want you to do anything for me. This is all I need, babe." Beca smiled, turning her head to kiss Chloe.
"I'm so lucky to have you." The older woman rested her chin on Beca's shoulder as she looked over the brunette at the TV.
Beca smiled to herself because she could say the exact same thing.
This was mostly just some light hearted cuteness so I hope you liked it!
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Oh just so you know I'm not going to totally dwell on Chloe's accident, time will start to move a lot quicker now. Chloe's birthday will probably be in the next chapter :)