Is this the Happily Ever After?
4 months had gone by, and now they were sitting at auditions once again, but instead of being put on display as when they were freshman, they were each watching their future potential Bellas and Treblemakers. Since the Bellas were the current ICCA's champs, they had the decision of picking the song; the girls discussed between one another and came to a decision
. "Alright nerds," Beca said in her usual sarcastic tone, "the song we picked is… Blow Me One Last Kiss by Pink. You all have an hour to prepare your rendition, so move it nerds."
All of the groups started to talk amongst themselves about their days, and look through the potentials when Jesse got up to walk over to say hello to his girlfriend. Beca and Amy were in the middle of an in depth conversation about the messiness of burritos, recalling the incident with Bumper last year on the way to Regionals, as Jesse came up behind the girls.
"Well hello boy toy…" Amy drawled out, "What is your opinion on the potential burrito messiness and its usefulness in a food fight?"
Beca turned around to look at Jesse for his response, as Jesse looked to his girlfriend for some sort of help, which he found out he wasn't going to get any since she was laughing at this potential disaster of an argument.
"….Hmmmm…. well see, I haven't really eaten enough burritos to get the full effect of messiness that you are asking me about, so sorry Amy, can't help you out." Jesse stated praying he got out of being sucked into this conversation.
Beca got up out of her seat to move near Jesse as they waited for the freshman to finish preparing for the auditions. The girls continued to discuss the ridiculousness of the conversation as Beca settled in and snuggled up against her boyfriend.
"Hey there nerd," she said, calling him the term of endearment that has been caught on since the year prior.
"Hey yourself," he retorted, "how was moving into the new house?"
"It was… interesting to say the least."
"Why do you say that?" Jesse questioned knowing that his girlfriend was pretty blunt and that if she is being hesitant, that means something threw her off.
"Okay, so you know how we are all in the house together…?"
"Yeah…?"
Beca took a deep breath and started her recap of the day, "Okay, so I walk into the house and it's totally awesome but as I started walking through the house, I notice that the house is right next to your house…"
Jesse nodded his head, knowing how excited both of them actually were that they were closer to one another this year being neighbors.
"So anyways, I am walking down the hallway and Amy's door was ajar and I decided to knock and see if she was there… and well she was…"
"Okay… go on…"
Beca took another deep breath and said really quickly, "IsawBumperandAmyhavingsex".
She exhaled, praying that her amazing boyfriend understood what she was saying, but of course he had to be a smart ass and make her say it again.
"Sorry what did you say?" he said smirking at his already flushed girlfriend.
"Ughhhhh," Beca moaned frustrated "you know what I said nerd; I am scarred for life right now and Amy has been saying it's only a matter of time till we get walked in on." Beca finished, scared as to Jesse's reaction because they had decided together they would wait for the perfect moment.
Jesse looked to his girlfriend and put both of his hands on her face and said to her "Bec, I am so sorry you had to witness that since I will have images in my head for as long as I live,"
Beca snorted and smirked, making Jesse feel a little less worried over his girlfriend, "but when we decide to finally do IT, we sure as hell are not going to be in either one of our houses but somewhere perfect for the occasion."
Beca looked to Jesse in awe, because not only could he ease her fears and insecurities, he knew how much of a step making love means to her, and that he knew she was the one he wanted for the rest of his life. Beca too knew that Jesse was the one for her, but she couldn't admit that in such a public place with many nosey ears, especially those of her nearest and dearest Bellas who she would do anything for, but the line was drawn when it came to Jesse.
The couple remained in their own little world for the remaining time till Fat Amy decided to interrupt, "Okay love birds in the back, get your little flat butts down here so we can get this show on the road!"
The couple headed down to their original seats not before they embraced in one last kiss, that would last them till auditions were over and the Aca-initiation party began. As each audition went by, only a few girls stood out to the Bellas- Anna and Brittany. Anna seemed like a sweet and shy girl, but when she got into the song, she belted it out and Brittany had a wonderful voice and range, but was going to take a lot of work with the dance moves. The girls were excited of their choices and that they were hoping no drama would ensue this year for that they had their eyes once again on the prize, winning ICCAs.
Practices were going by quicker than Beca liked. Life was becoming quite chaotic between bringing up her grades and attending classes, creating mixes for the Bellas, working with Stacie on the choreography, and Jesse. Beca had to give up her job at the station because when it came down to it, she realized that her dream of going to LA was not as important that she had originally deemed it to be.
These girls had become her family, more reliable that even her own mother; the relationship between Beca and her father had made leaps and bounds since ICCAs and that her dad was quite eager to re-meet the boy Beca was kissing at the end of her performance. The most important person of them all, Jesse, had helped Beca become a better person and open her heart to those who truly cared about her. Even though she had pushed him to his limits last year, and made up for most of it during the Bellas final performance where Beca put herself out for him and the rest of the world to see.
Beca knew she loved Jesse; she knew that he was the "one". He was the one that pushed her to become a better person, to let love in and love more, and to see the world outside of mixing tracks and be a normal college student. However, she had such a hard time actually telling him that she loved him, that it had gotten to the point that after he said it to her the first time she burst out crying because she was so frustrated that she couldn't say it back because of her stupid nerves. But tonight, after the Halloween party, Beca will be saying those infamous three words in such a romantic setting that she could imagine Jesse's face full of shock when he sees where they were going.
All of the girls had gotten together at the house (freshmen included) to get ready for the Halloween party that the Trebles were hosting next door. The costumes ranged in various degrees of "dingo-sexiness" as Amy declared from Amy being a Mermaid to Cynthia Rose as a police officer, which gained a lot of giggling because no one could see that coming at all. As Beca stood in front of her closet mirror, analyzing each crevice of her face and adjusting her extremely short skirt that she had borrowed from Stacie, wondering if it was this short on her how short was it on Stacie being that the skirt just barely covered her female parts. The costume that Beca had decided on being a sexy librarian, which the other girls helped, put it all together and she even picked up fake glasses to add to her being a librarian.
As Beca finished getting ready, Amy barged into her door with Stacie following behind her. "Beca… LET'S GO!" Amy yelled anxiously to get to the party.
Beca turned around and stifled a giggle as she took in her best friends' costumes with Amy being a mermaid, which was quite appropriate since she was planning on doing her infamous mermaid dance and Stacie being a sexy sailor since she had this thing now for sailors.
"All right, all right… sheesh. Stac- if this skirt is this short on me, how short is it on you?" Beca asked, fidgeting with her skirt.
Stacie laughed and just said "I wear boy-shorts under it, which I recommend."
Beca rolled her eyes and thanked God that she decided to wear some, but they were somewhat skimpy so she could tease Jesse for the most of the night before she brought him back to the house. Beca put all of the necessities she needed to put in her wristlet and finished adjusting one last piece of the surprise for Jesse as she was walking out of the door trailing the girls.
As soon as the girls stepped out onto the front porch of their house, they heard the bass of the music playing in the house. Amy, Stacie and Lilly led the girls towards the house as Beca hung out towards the back so she can talk to the freshmen but also make an entrance for Jesse. Anna and Brittany looked adorable as cheerleaders, not really "sexing" (as Stacie would say), but also quite nervous being that this is their first college party besides the initiation party. Beca took note and nudged Cynthia Rose to help her out in calming the girls down so that they wouldn't make fools of themselves.
"Ladies listen, it will be alright. The Trebles aren't that bad, hopefully Bumper won't be there, but overall they're good guys." Cynthia Rose told the girls.
"Will there be other people there besides us and the Trebles?" Anna asked.
"Yeah, totally. Some of the Trebles are in a frat as well, the older ones at least; so it will be a total mix of people aka typical college party." Beca said.
The girls continued to talk about random things as they walked over, all of them (with the exception of Stacie) already complaining about the heels they were wearing, they finally made it to the house. As the girls climbed up the stairs, some random guy stopped Amy, Lilly, and Stacie from entering the house.
"Yo! you guys aren't allowed here! Hot chicks only!" the guy said.
"Who the hell are you, dingo face? We are the Bellas, and my captain is at the other end of our group; do I need to get her?" Amy yelled at the random guy.
Meanwhile, while standing in the back of the group talking to the other girls, Beca noticed that they had stopped at the stairs. She moved her way up through the group to get to where Amy was standing to see what the problem was.
"Okay what's the deal guys? Why aren't we inside yet?" Beca asked a bit afraid of Amy's answer because she never knew on nights like these she was going to say next.
"Look at you hot stuff… wow" the guy said after Stacie and Lilly both snorted at the guy's pathetic attempt to hit on Beca.
"Excuse me, who are you?" Beca asked starting to get annoyed.
"I'm Chad, Head Treble maker of this house. I was telling the large mermaid over there that her group can't come in and that she was going to get the "Captain" to come up and tell me to let them in. Pathetic huh?" Chad said with a smirk.
Beca's jaw dropped at this dude's audacity to insult not only her, the Bellas, and horrible attempt to make them believe he was the head Treble when all of the girls knew Jesse was the actual captain and they all had texted him about the issue going on outside. Beca took a deep breath and climbed to the top of the stairs so she could be eye to eye with this jerk so she could tell him off.
"Listen nit-witt. I AM the captain of the Bellas. I AM the GIRLFRIEND of the actual CAPTAIN of the Trebles, which by the count of 5 he will be out here wondering where I am, since I can guarantee you that he has received at least 8 text messages from the rest of the girls telling him you are causing problems." Chad paled as she continued with her rant.
"So let's start the countdown shall we… 5…4…3…2…"
"Bec?" Jesse called out through the front door, looking for his girlfriend and her mass of best friends.
He saw the girls at the foot of the stairs and their leader i.e. his beautiful yet stubborn girlfriend going toe to toe with one of the new freshmen. Jesse smirked at the sight of his 5 foot 3 inch girlfriend standing on the top stair so she could be eye to eye with the freshman as she told him off. Jesse was internally debating whether or not he should intervene , knowing that they would get inside eventually, but the girls all looked a bit riled up so he needed to stop this before it got out of hand and Amy releasing the Kraken on the new kid.
Jesse walked over and kissed Beca on her forehead and asked "What's going on guys? I thought you guys would be here earlier?"
Beca rolled her eyes, knowing that he was watching the stare off between her and the freshman for the last couple of minutes.
"This dingo-head didn't believe me we were the Bellas, and Beca had to come up and have a discussion with the little boy, and still didn't believe she was your better half… can we go in now because I need to make wrong decisions like NOW!" Amy stated.
Jesse laughed to himself and told the girls to head on in, Beca as well, as he turned to the freshman to get the record set straight about who to let in and who not to.
Once inside, Beca realized that since she had her coat on over her costume and that she didn't have her glasses on yet, she pulled Stacie aside to help her finish getting ready in the hall bathroom. When Stacie asked her why she wasn't finishing in Jesse's room, Beca said it was quite likely he would find her in there and she wanted EVERYONE to see his reaction to her costume. Stacie giggled at Beca's antics and that if someone would have told the girls last year that Beca would be going to such extreme lengths for a guy, they would all have laughed in their face. But the girls had seen such a huge change in Beca over this past year, and that with Jesse, Beca found her place in the world. Beca sent Stacie out of the bathroom to scout for Jesse, and when Stacie stuck her head back in to say it was all clear, Beca quickly put her stuff in one of the closets in Jesse's room so she wouldn't forget it later. Taking one quick look in the mirror and adjusting her glasses Beca made it to the makeshift stage the guys had in the front of the house ducking behind people so Jesse couldn't see her quite yet. As she got to the stage she ran into Benji and Donald, both with their jaws dropped as they saw Beca approach them and the girls.
"Dayummmm Beca, Jesse is one lucky dude… "Donald said as he gave her a once over receiving one of Beca's infamous eye-rolls.
Benji just shook his head laughing and asked "Have you seen Jesse yet?" Beca giggled and said "Yeah, BUT I had my coat on over this little get up… and he has a big surprise coming after the party too!" Beca said smirking because she knew the guys would use seeing her first as blackmail before Jesse was able to really "see" her in her costume.
"Benji continued to shake his head and say "I need to get the camera for this, to capture what his face will be like, hah."
Both of the guys walked away laughing as the Bellas got ready for their Halloween performance. The first song they were singing was Starships by Nicki Minaj mixed in with a little Mariah and Pink. As the girls huddled together, Beca said what she always said to the girls
"I love you, you awesome nerds and have FUN tonight like you're supposed to" smiling at all of the girls.
Cynthia Rose chimed in finishing off the pep talk saying that "I bought some extra earplugs for anyone staying at the house tonight seeing that Beca has some plans for the boy toy over there," causing all of the girls to giggle.
The girls quieted down as they waited for Donald to introduce them and the girls filed out to the stage with Beca being in the back row so she could hide from Jesse at first.
Instead of using the pitch pipe, being that the girls all knew the song by heart, Beca just counted out "1,2,3,4" and they began to sing. As they began through the song Beca worked her way from the back to the front shedding her coat and singing and dancing scandalously to the song. Amy quickly nudged Beca to look at Jesse's priceless face. He watched his girlfriend wear one of the shortest plaid skirts ever worn with glasses (he presumed they were fake since they have been together for quite some time now) and hair up in a perfect little bun, with more skin being shown on her midsection than he knew she was comfortable with. As she went through her solo she stared straight at him, making parts of him come alive that he wanted to wait on till after the party, but of course with Beca- things don't ever go exactly as planned. He shook his head and laughed at his at first emo-badass girlfriend, to now being the captain of the Bellas, enjoying life outside of making music, having such close friends and being with him.
As the girls finished up the first song, they decided with the help of Donald and Benji, to do their set they did last year at ICCAs for everyone as well. Being that it was all Beca's idea, everyone was joking that someone slipped happy pills into Beca's drink and all she could do was shrug with a Cheshire cat grin on her face since they all knew it was Jesse that made her this way.
As the first set finished the lights got brighter so that everyone knew to keep on partying till whenever the lights went down. As the girls were back behind the stage, Amy peeped her head out to check on the crowd, also at Beca's insistence, to check on Jesse to make sure no "Dingo Hoes" (Amy's lingo started to rub off on Beca after all) were near him. Amy spotted a short skirted, fake little "Dingo Hoe" making her way over to Jesse. So of course, Amy leaves backstage and waddles (Amy was beginning to regret the fins) over to where Jesse was standing with a few of the other Trebles and the Dingo Hoe and her group were at. As Amy makes her way over to the group the first Dingo Hoe puts her hand on Jesse's arm and strokes his arm up and down, causing Jesse to become quite uncomfortable and he doesn't know Amy is even near him quite yet.
He pulls his arm back and says "Sorry, who you are?"
The girl giggles and says "I'm Tiff, and I'm new here and would love to get to know you!"
Jesse struggles to say something that would push away from the girl, because that doesn't appear attractive to him, to some of the other guys yeah, but for Jesse, Beca is his soul-mate.
His eyes show relief when Amy comes up behind the girls and says loud enough "Hey Jesse, your girlfriend is making us sing another song for everyone!"
Amy smirks once she is done, seeing the "Dingo Hoe" stiffen up before she says anything to retort to Amy.
The guys are all biting their inner cheeks trying not to laugh at this situation because this new girl thinks she can win against Amy by saying "I don't see the girlfriend here, do you? If she wanted to be with him she would be here this moment."
Amy just laughs in the girls face as she makes her way to the stage once more and the Bellas all begin to find their spots. The lights go down low, as the girls perform their award winning performance, as solos are changed around since Chloe and Aubrey graduated last spring.
Tiff watches the girls from the sidelines glaring at Amy, but doesn't notice the subtle nudge Beca gets from Amy pointing out the trouble maker. Beca smirks and since they had changed the choreography so that Beca can walk to Jesse. Since he was close enough to the stage and sing to him for his solo, she will be making her presence known to this "Dingo Hoe" after all.
As she began to sing "As you walk on by… Will you call my name…" she makes her way down the stairs slowly towards Jesse causing him to grin from ear to ear, hearing only Beca's voice above all else in the room.
Tiff the "Dingo Hoe" glares at Beca as she goes to Jesse but as her solo finishes up, Beca skipped to the stage, winking at Tiff and mouthing "He's Mine" to her and the Dingo Hoe and her groupies make their way out of the party. The girls finish the song and finally realize the amount of people that are actually in the house to hear them sing. The girls all hugged each other and head off the stage to "get my freaky butt on" as Amy said. As Beca made her way through the crowd in search of Jesse, saying hi to everyone, he finally caught up to her from behind, and spun her so she could face him.
"You could have least warned me about your impromptu lap dance," Jesse said smirking at Beca's out of character antics this evening. He caught Beca blushing before she put on her poker face as he talked to him.
"Well, it wouldn't have been a surprise now would it?" Beca said.
Jesse just shook his head laughing and said "Yeah you're right… but Bec, what's the occasion? Not that I mind at all, but I was not going to be responsible for my actions if you kept the dance going much longer."
Beca giggled, which caused Jesse to become speechless and Beca smirking at him. "I have something special for you tonight at the house, and I already have talked to the rest of the Bellas, and Donald said he can help keep them at the party as long as possible so we can have some time to ourselves," she said trying to gage her boyfriend's reaction to her planning behind his back.
Beca continues to say, "Before you say anything, I wanted to make this night special for us, because we don't have any time for us anymore, like yeah we have class, practices, and spend time together each and every day, but it is always with both the Bellas and the Trebles around so I asked them for help on this whole thing."
Jesse looked at his girlfriend with surprise and awe written all over his face and thought how happy she has made him, and how much change Beca has gone through for the better ever since the Bellas and even himself has done to her life.
Jesse pulled Beca against him and asked, "Since we both have spent enough time here, do you want to go now?"
Beca just smiled at him and said "Let's Go."
They both headed up to Jesse's room to get Beca's coat and purse and headed out after saying bye to everyone and smirking at the catcalls the both groups were giving the couple.
And of course it wouldn't be an actual goodbye without Fat Amy saying "Make good choices and if you need more condoms, they're in the kitchen."
As Jesse became slightly mortified at what Amy said, Beca laughed because there could never be someone to replace Amy and her out of this world personality.
They make it to as far as the front porch stairs before hands are grouping at the other. Even though they have officially been together since last spring, and had whatever you could call it for the rest of the months before hand, the sexual tension between the two seemed to never disappear. As they made it up the stairs (with Jesse's guidance) still kissing and feeling the other up, it took at least 5 minutes for Beca to find her keys because Jesse was quite insistent on distracting her the whole time.
With a smirk on her face, she pulled back from him and told him "If you don't stop distracting me right now, I will call Amy over here now with the rest of the girls, and see how long it takes them to walk in on us."
Seeing Jesse's jaw drop and his face pale, she knew she got him even though he wasn't fully sure if she was kidding or not. As Beca opened the door, she noticed Jesse was still rooted in the floor of the porch, still looking at her nervous of whether or not she would call. Beca started to hysterically laugh at him and just shook her head.
"Jess, seriously… you really think after all of the rearranging and promoting of free alcohol and whatever else they are doing over there, that I would call my roommates back to the house on our free time? And do you think they would come over by themselves? You and I both know for a fact that the guys for example Donald, Bumper, Unicycle, and Koolio would make an appearance as well!"
Beca was tearing up now at her poor boyfriends expense. Jesse finally moved from his spot on the porch, closed and locked the front door and stood in front of his hysterical girlfriend with his eyebrow raised waiting for her to finish her laughing fit. About a minute later, Beca finally sobered up and looked at her boyfriend and stopped laughing only to not be able to keep a straight face and let out a giggle before finally calming down.
Jesse smirked at Beca and said "Are you done now?" Beca just nodded. "Okay good because you and that skirt have been tormenting me enough tonight and I want to see what's hidden underneath those clothes," Jesse huskily said making Beca noticeable shiver.
Instead of waiting for him to come to her, she literally jumps on him and wraps her legs around his waist so he can carry her to her bedroom.