"Beca I hope whatever you are doing on your phone is more important then what I am teaching.."

Beca looked up at her teacher and sighed. "I'm sorry Ms. Abernathy."

"Would you like to share with the class what you were doing?"

Beca shook her head. "No, I can just put my phone away, I was just googling something."

Ms. Abernathy walked over to Beca and grabbed her phone. "Is it okay to be on your feet for a long time and get on a plane after a serious leg injury?" She read aloud, her face softened when she realized what she said. "Oh, I'm sorry Beca.."

"It's fine, I shouldn't have been doing this during class anyway."

She nodded. "Are you planning on leaving?"

"No, it's almost winter break I was just thinking about taking a trip with someone... You can go back to teaching now."

Ms. Abernathy nodded and handed Beca her phone. She leaned down to Beca and whispered to her. "Your legs will be fine."

Beca nodded and started copying the notes off of the board. An hour later Beca walked out of the class and felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned around ready to yell at the person but stopped when she saw it was Kate. "Hey, Kate it's been awhile."

Kate nodded. "Yeah it has, you've been busy... recovering and I've been.." She sighed. "I've been avoiding you because I feel like the whole thing is my fault."

Beca pulled Kate to the side and smiled at her. "It's not your fault, it was no one's fault, things happen. You didn't have to avoid me."

"Okay."

Beca smiled and hugged Kate. "So no more sitting all the way on the other side of the table at the far end at lunch okay?"

Kate nodded. "Got it! I'll see you later Beca."

Beca smiled as Kate walked away, but that smile instantly faded when she saw Chloe approaching her with worry on her face. "Chlo? What's wrong?"

"Brad's parents are here... I heard them talking about what happened."

Beca nodded and reached in her pocket. "Here are my keys, just in case anything happens and I can't be there for Riley."

Chloe took the keys with shaking hands. "Babe... what-"

Beca placed her hands over Chloe's shaking hands. "I'll be fine, but if I end up having to stay here for a bit or something else I need you to get Ry and let her know I'm okay, and don't forget to give her the medicine."

Chloe nodded. "Okay... okay, I guess we should go to our classes."

"Yeah.." Beca kissed Chloe and smiled. "I'll see you later okay?"

Chloe smiled. "Okay."

"I'm just gonna go to the office before they call me over the loud speaker."

Chloe sighed and wrapped Beca in a hug. "I love you."

Beca gently rubbed Chloe's back. "I love you too, now go to class I'll be fine."

Chloe gave Beca one last kiss and walked to her class, hoping Beca wouldn't get into too much trouble. Beca walked into the office and cleared her throat. The principal looked up at her with a small smile. "Beca, we were just about to have you sent down."

Beca nodded. "I heard Brad's parents were here so I took a guess and figured they were here for me."

Brad's mother rolled her eyes at Beca's nonchalant attitude. "You beat my son up again! He has to have his nose reconstructed and he has bruises all over his body."

Beca sighed and walked into the room more. "I apologize Mrs. Coleman, but your son has been nothing but disrepctful to me. A person can only take so much before they snap, so I'm sorry for upsetting you but I'm not sorry for what I did..."

"I let you get away with it the first time, and that was only because of what he was trying to do to your friend. But now I will not, I'm pressing charges and requesting to have people check out your home life because clearly your parents aren't doing something right."

Beca's eyes widened. "No! Um.. That isn't necessary okay? It won't happen again I promise."

Mrs. Coleman shook her head. "I've already made my decision."

"Please, my parents are gone and I live in my grandmothers house... I can't-"

"Well your grandmother is gonna be evaluated."

The principal cleared his throat gaining the attention of the people in the room. "Mr. and Mrs. Coleman if I may, Beca is a phenomenal young lady and I have seen first hand how your son treats her. I think you're going to extreme measures, Beca has a troubled past and she's finally getting better and I think doing all of this will push her in the wrong direction. Every kid has an issue and Beca was standing up for herself. I'm sure if your son was able to beat Beca up we'd be having a very different conversation.."

Mrs. Coleman nodded. "I understand that, but she has hurt my son she-"

"All I am asking is that you think it over for a little, you can come back tomorrow and speak with Beca again make up your decision. I'm sure Beca's grandmother doesn't need any of the stress, raising a teenager is enough for an older woman."

She nodded. "Okay, I'll think about and we'll discuss this further tomorrow."

The principle stood up and stretched his hand forward. "Thank you, and I will have a talk with Beca."

Brad's parents walked out of the room and Beca let out a small sigh of relief. "Thank you Principal Evans, I'm sorry about what happened."

He sat back down and gestured for Beca to sit down too. "I know things are tough, especially after the accident you were in."

"Brad said things to me about that, he also was speaking about my girlfriend in a disrespectful way. I couldn't let that slide.."

Principal Evans nodded his head. "I understand, I'll try to talk his mother down."

"Thank you."

He smiled at her. "I meant it when I said you are phenomenal Beca, I'm rooting for you." He wrote something down and handed it to her. "Give that to your teacher and you're free to go to class, come straight to my office tomorrow morning."

Beca smiled. "Okay and thank you.. I don't have many people who believe in me."

Chloe walked into the lunchroom later that day and sprinted to the table when she saw Beca sitting there. "Bec!"

Beca smiled. "Hey, I told you I'd be fine."

Chloe nodded and hugged Beca. "So what happened?"

Beca sighed. "His mom wants to press charges and get my home life evaluated, but Principal Evans managed to talk her down some. We're meeting again tomorrow morning and she'll make her decision."

"Well if she decides to press charges or anything I'm sure my parents will help you. They can pretend to be your parents even."

Beca shook her head. "I don't want to drag them into this.."

"Babe if people come and check out your living situation and find out that you and Riley live alone, they'll put the both of you in the system."

Beca sighed and dropped her head in her hands. "Okay, I might need a little help."

Chloe nodded and grabbed Beca's hand. "I'm here for you my love."

Beca smiled and kissed Chloe. "Thank you.. I love you."

Chloe grinned. "I love y-"

They were interrupted by clapping, they looked over and saw Aubrey standing there with a huge grin. "You guys just said the I love you's! How exciting!" She sat down across from them grinning from ear to ear. "Who said it first? Where was it? Ho-"

"Bree! Calm down.." Beca said with a chuckle. "I said it, and you were right.. It does come out of no where, we were laying and bed and it slipped out."

Aubrey's eyes widened. "Laying in bed?" She slapped Chloe's arm. "You didn't tell me you and Beca took the next step! That's like mandatory to tell one of your bff's."

Chloe rubbed her arm with a frown. "She said we were laying in bed, not having sex! We haven't taken that step yet."

Aubrey smiled. "Aww finally someone is making Beca wait."

Beca laughed. "Actually I'm the one making her wait."

"Whoa.. She's gonna marry you Chlo." Aubrey said with a smile.

Chloe blushed and grinned. "It's a bit early to be talking about that, but I do hope so."

Beca smiled and grabbed Chloe's hand. "Me too."

Aubrey smiled. "So where were you earlier Beca?"

Beca sighed. "Dealing with Brad's mom.."

Aubrey's eyes widened. "You did that to him? I saw him he's got this huge bandage on his nose."

"Yeah, he disrespected Chloe and I."

Chloe frowned a little. "I still think you should have let it go, now you could get in big trouble because of it."

Beca sighed. "Can we talk about anything else?"

Aubrey nodded. "Let's talk about where Stacie is, I didn't see her walk in the lunchroom did you?"

Chloe shook her head. "No, but she's staying away from us."

Aubrey frowned. "Why? What happened?"

"Nothing bad happened Bree, Stacie and I had a nice talk last night and we decided that maybe some time truly apart would be good for us." Beca said with a smile.

Aubrey rolled her eyes. "You guys are dumb asses, haven't you ever heard absence makes the heart grow fonder?"

"I-"

"Yeah, that won't work!"

Chloe sighed. "It might, that saying isn't always true you know.."

The bell rang signaling the end of lunch. Aubrey stood up and looked around for Stacie. "I guess we'll wait and see..." She looked at Beca. "So what's going on with that web series we started?"

"It's not happening... not for a while at least."

Aubrey nodded. "Okay, I'll see you guys later. Let me know how things go with Brad's mom."

Beca walked out of her last class of the night and let out a sigh of relief. People kept walking up to her and patting her on the back and saying she did a good job at beating up Brad again. She quickly walked to Chloe's locker and waited for her.

"Rough day?"

Beca looked up and smiled at Chloe. "I've had rougher days but it was a bit annoying. People are proud of me for what I did to Brad and that makes me feel kind of good, but then I think about you and how disappointed it made you and I get conflicted..."

Chloe sighed and started opening her locker. "While I am disappointed that you did what you did, I won't say he didn't have it coming..." Seeing Beca start to smile she spoke again. "I'm not saying it was a good thig though and I don't want you running around fighting."

Beca nodded. "I know, just glad you don't think I fought him for nothing. You ready to go?"

"Yeah. Let's go."

Beca smiled and grabbed Chloe's hand as they started to walk out of the building. "Do you wanna go out to eat somewhere? Just the two of us?"

"That's sounds nice but what about Riley?"

Beca opened the passenger side of the car door and watched as Chloe got in. "She's going to her friends house, her mom's knows how to take care of Riley."

Chloe smiled. "Okay then, let's go somewhere!"

Beca pulled into a diner twenty minutes later with a smile. "My grandma use to take Riley and I here." The moment they walked through the door Beca smiled warmly and a lady walked up to her.

"Oh my god, is that my little Beca Mitchell?"

Beca walked up to the lady and hugged her. "Yeah it is, hey Katherine."

"Look at you, last I heard you were cutting up and acting a fool." She said as she lightly slapped Beca's arm.

Beca nodded and put her head down. "Yeah, I started losing it when gram got sick and when she died... I lost it."

Katherine nodded. "You seem better now though." She said as she showed Beca and Chloe to their seats.

"Yeah I am, it's been a few years and I had to step up and take care of Riley.. She's been going through some things so I had to step up or I'd lose her."

Katherine smiled. "Aw Riley was practically a baby when I saw her how is she?"

Beca smiled as she thought about Riley. "Ry is amazing, she's a little fireball and she's so wise and loving.. I wouldn't be who am without her." She looked at Chloe and smiled. "This one helped me too."

Katherine looked at Chloe with a grin. "I was wondering when you were gonna talk about her."

Beca nodded. "This is Chloe, my girlfriend... She's absolutely amazing and we've been dating for a little under three months."

Katherine smiled at Chloe. "Nice to meet you Chloe, I'm so happy Beca's found someone that makes her happy."

Chloe smiled. "It's nice to meet you too, and Beca makes me very happy too."

Katherine nodded. "I'm glad." More people came in the diner and Katherine sighed. "I'd love to stay and chat but duty calls, look over the menu and someone will be over here shortly to take your order."

"Thank you Katherine."

Chloe watched as Katherine walked away with a smile. "She's nice."

Beca nodded. "She's always been nice, she tried to be there for me when things got bad but I shut her out and I was in a dark place for a while."

Chloe nodded in understanding. " Seems like you trust her."

Beca nodded and shrugged. "I've known her my whole life so I guess, why?"

"No reason.." Chloe said with a shrug.

Beca's looked at Chloe with curiosity. "What are you getting at Beale?"

Chloe sighed. "I was just thinking maybe she could help you out... I know you and Riley are fine, but she could be there to take care of you guys mainly Riley and you'd be free to do other things and not have to worry so much." Seeing the frown on Beca's face, Chloe continued. "Hear me out babe, there is a lot at risk if you get caught and losing Riley is the worst thing that can happen."

Beca nodded. "Yeah but that'd be weird, Ry doesn't really know who she is and I haven't seen her in years.. She might call the authorities if I tell her we're alone..."

"Or.. She could come to your rescue, help you raise Riley and give you a little freedom."

Beca sat in thought for a minute before nodding her head. "That does sound kind of nice.." She looked over to where Katherine was standing and stood up. "I'll be back if someone comes asking what drinks we want get me a pepsi." She walked over to Katherine and smiled at her. "Hey Katherine."

"Hey is everything okay? Sorry about the wait we get so busy around this time."

Beca shook her head. "Everything is fine sort of... I just needed to talk to you about somethings I think I can really trust you with and I'm hoping maybe you can help..."

Katherine looked at her with worry etched on her face. "What is it sweetheart?"

"Do you remember where gram lives?" Seeing Katherine nod her head Beca continued. "I still live there... Can you stop by tonight?"

Katherine nodded but looked Beca dead in her eyes. "Is everything okay?"

"Yeah, I'm not like in terrible trouble or anything I just... when's your shift over?"

Katherine shrugged. "Whenever I want it to be."

Beca nodded. "Do you think you could leave with Chloe and I?"

"Sure thing honey, just let me know when you're leaving."

Beca smiled. "Okay, thank you." She walked back to her seat and let out a sigh. "She'll be riding back with us and I'll talk with her at home."

Chloe nodded. "Okay, you didn't want anything specific right because I ordered you a double deluxe cheeseburger and some mega fries."

Beca's eyes widened. "H-How did you- that's my favorite order!"

Chloe grinned. "Wow I guess I just really know you!"

Beca laughed. "Yeah you do."

"Tastes just as good as I remember." Beca said as she rubbed her stomach. She looked at the time and dropped some money on the table. "We should probably head out now, Ry will be on her way home soon."

Chloe stood up and nodded. "Let's go, but we're coming back I need to eat those fries again."

Beca laughed. "Will do." She walked over to Katherine with a small smile. "We're ready to go."

Katherine nodded. "Okay, let me get my things and my daughter and we'll meet you outside." She walked away and Beca stood there in thought.

"Holy shit! She totally had a daughter I can't believe I forgot.."

They started walking outside and Chloe laughed. "Shame on you, is she our age?"

Beca shook her head. "If I remember correctly, she's a few years younger than me."

Katherine came out a couples minutes later with a tall brunette. Beca's eyes widened as they approached them, the younger girl laughed. "Hey Beca."

"Uh hey... I'm sorry I don't remember your name."

She shrugged. "It's fine, it's Emily.."

Beca snapped her fingers as she remembered. "That's right, Emily Junk... Wow look at you, you're so tall and grown up now.. How old are you?"

Emily laughed. "I'm fifteen and you haven't changed a bit."

Beca shrugged. "Whatever some people aren't blessed with height." She said with a smirk as everyone got in the car.

Beca pulled up to her house just as Riley stepped out of her friends' mom car. "Oh my gosh, is that Riley?" Katherine asked with a grin.

"Yup, she's was at a friends house." They stepped out of the car and Beca waved goodbye to the girls mother and hugged Riley. "Everything okay Ry?"

Riley nodded. "Yes I'm fine, I had a lot of fun at Emma's house."

Beca smiled. "I'm glad." Everyone walked inside and Beca told everyone to take a seat. "Ry did you take your medicine?"

"Yes, Mrs. Fields knows what to do." She looked at the two strangers. "Who are they?"

Beca grinned. "Ry this Katherine and Emily Junk, Katherine was a friend of Grams and she use to watch us sometimes and Gram took us to her diner all the time. Emily here use to play with you a lot and she was like your first best friend."

Riley looked at them with wide eyes. "I-I don't remember..."

Katherine stood up and walked over to Riley with a smile. "It's fine kangaroo you were little, but look at you now... you're a big girl now."

Riley smiled and nodded. "I remember that name.. is that what you use to call me?"

Katherine nodded. "You were always hoping all over the place and I started calling you kangaroo."

Beca watched how Riley interacted with Katherine and looked at Chloe who was already looking at her. "Hey Ry how about you and Chloe go play for a little, I wanna talk to Katherine and I'll get dinner started."

Riley nodded. "Okay Beca." She started walking up the stairs with Chloe and stopped. "Emily do you want to play with us?"

Emily nodded with a grin and quickly followed them up the steps. The moment they were gone Katherine turned to Beca with a serious face. "What's going on Beca?"

Beca sighed. "I uh... This is random and so didn't plan to do this when I came to your diner but Chloe suggested it and I think it's a good idea..."

"Slow down honey, just tell me."

Beca nodded and took a deep breath. "My mom died, you know that... Ry and I were left with Gram and my dad, Gram got sick and died and we were left with my dad.. only my dad is never around and we haven't seen him in years..."

Katherine frowned. "What are you trying to say Beca?"

Beca sighed. "I'm saying that I love my little sister and I take good care of her and myself but I am a teenage girl... We're alone Katherine, there is no one taking care of us. I-I have to be responsible for everything an-and I think I'm doing a good job but it's stressful, worrying about my sister everyday... being alone. Chloe's parents help a little but I just- I need your help.."

Katherine wrapped her arms around Beca who was now crying and rubbed her Beca. "Why didn't you come to me sooner?"

"I think it was one of the situations where I didn't know it was bugging me until I confronted my feelings..."

Katherine nodded. "This isn't right... Someone should have came and took care of you guys, he made sure of it or so we thought..."

Beca frowned and pulled away. "Who?"

"Your father.."

Beca stood up. "What?"

Katherine sighed. "He's still... around. He's trying to better himself and get his life together he asked his brother to come and take care of you guys but I guess he never showed."

"Never showed? Katherine it's been almost three years of us being alone. Two of those years I was reckless and barely took care of myself and I had to take care of a six year old! Why didn't you come check on us? On me!?"

"We thought your uncle came, so I spent my time trying to help your father.."

Beca scoffed. "It's been three years Katherine he still hasn't gotten his shit together?"

"Language.. but it's a long and hard road to recovery when you are in as deep as he was.. I'm here now though Beca anything you need I'll help you with, do you need me to take Riley?"

Beca's eyes widened. "I don't want anything from you anymore.. You can leave."

"Beca don't, you're not gonna shut me out..."

Beca rolled her eyes. "I can do whatever the hell I want to do, no one is in charge of me! Don't you understand! I'm alone, I've been alone my whole fucking life! I-"

Beca felt arms wrap around her and smelled a comforting scent. "Calm down Beca.." Chloe said as she hugged Beca tightly.

Beca looked up and sighed. "I-I'm sorry.."

Chloe nodded. "You were yelling and we could hear.."

Beca's eyes widened. "Ry-"

Chloe quickly shook her head. "We didn't hear anything bad, we just heard your voice getting louder."

Beca nodded and looked at Katherine. "I'm sorry for losing it, that hasn't happened in a while... I think we should call it a night though, I've gotta get Riley some dinner and then get her ready for bed."

Katherine stood up. "She could spend the night at my house if you'd like, take some weight off your shoulders.."

Beca shook her head. "No, not tonight maybe another night..."

"Okay Beca, I'm sorry by the way."

Beca nodded. "I know, we can talk some more soon... I'll be by the diner and we can talk."

"Okay."

"I'm just gonna go cook Riley something real quick, have a good night." Beca said as she walked into the kitchen.

Chloe looked at Katherine. "What happened?"

Katherine sighed. "I told her something she didn't want to hear.. You should talk to her about it, she needs you." She reached in her bag and handed Chloe a piece of paper. "That's my number, if anything happens or if you guys need me to look after Riley for whatever reason, call me."

Chloe nodded. "Okay.."

Katherine smiled. "Take care of Beca dear.." She squeezed Chloe's shoulder and called out to Emily who quickly came down and said goodbye to everyone before making her way out with her mother.

Chloe walked into the living room found Beca sitting in a chair looking blankly at her laptop. She came up behind her and wrapped her arms around her shoulder. "You know one of the duties of being a girlfriend is making sure that your significant other is okay..." She felt Beca nod and smiled. "Are you okay significant other?" Chloe asked as she sat down next to Beca. The talk with Katherine had happened three hours ago and Beca had been distant and silent since.

"I'm fine.." Beca said as she slowly looked to Chloe.

Chloe sighed. "Good thing I know fine is a code word for not fine.. talk to me babe."

Beca nodded. "My... father asked his brother to come take care of Riley and I nearly three years ago while he got his life together. Katherine has been helping my father all these years and never thought to check up on us.. My uncle sends us a Christmas card every fucking year and that's like the highlight of my Christmas, knowing someone still cares only he doesn't.. he's suppose to be here but he abandoned us. I was fourteen Chloe! Fourteen! All alone with none but my little sister. people question why I'm such a jackass, well this is why! My life sucks and nobody loves me..."

Chloe grabbed Beca's face with tears in her eyes. "You are a great person Beca Mitchell I don't know how many times I have to tell you that! And how dare you say nobody loves you because I sure as hell love you, and I know Riley does.. and my family, and we definitely know Stacie does, Bree, Kate, Jess.. You may think that you're alone but you're not, you have people around you who would die if anything happened to you. Fuck your uncle for never showing up, but guess what.. that made you a stronger person and he's missing out. I know right now things seem tough and I know you're angry and hurt, but don't shut yourself out from the world.. don't shut yourself out from me."

Beca hugged Chloe tightly as she tried to force the tears in her eyes away. "I love you so much."

"I love you too, always."

Beca nodded. "Is Riley okay?"

"Yeah, she could tell something was bothering you so she let me tuck her in and she went right to sleep."

Beca smiled. "You know this is all your fault Beale.."

Chloe frowned. "H-How?"

"You've got me expressing my feelings and shit.. it not a bad thing though, all of this needed to come out."

Chloe nodded and stood up. "We should get to bed."

"Yeah, gotta wake up to more drama."

They walked into the bedroom and Chloe pushed Beca onto the bed. "But after all of the drama, you get to lay with me.." She climbed on top of Beca and started kissing her. "Everything is gonna get better... and I'm gonna be here with you through it all."

Beca gripped Chloe's hips and bit her lip. "I want you." She lifted Chloe's shirt and started kissing her stomach.

Chloe sighed and pulled away. "As much as I want to, it's my turn to say no... It's not the right time."

Beca nodded and pulled Chloe's shirt down. "I'm sorry.."

Chloe climbed off of Beca and laid next to her. "It's okay, get some sleep baby."

Beca nodded and wrapped her arm around Chloe. "I love you."

"I love you too."

Beca closed her eyes and tried to think happy thoughts as she drifted off to sleep.

A/N: A change is coming... Hope you guys enjoyed the chapter I know it's a lot of drama.. but it will get better.. possibly :D

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