Beca slowly walked to him with tears in her eyes. "My name is Beca Mitchell and I'm the girl that shot you almost four years ago..."

The store owner said nothing as he looked at Beca and Bumper, memories of the last time he saw them together filling his brain. "What do you want?"

Beca took a deep breath before speaking. "I'm here to apologize sir... I've been haunted by what I did to you since the day it happened and I've finally got the guts to come here and apologize to you. Words can't explain how sorry I am, I was just a kid.."

"What do you want me to say?"

Beca sighed and shrugged. "Honestly I don't know..."

He shook his head and sighed before moving from behind the counter with his wheelchair. He rolled over to Beca and looked at her. "You did this to me..."

Beca nodded as tears started to form in her eyes. "I did."

"I'm still alive right?"

Beca nodded again. "Yes you are and I'm so thankful for that."

"Did you mean to shoot me?"

Beca shook her head and her eyes widened. "Absolutely not!"

He nodded and stuck out his hand. "I'm Ed."

Beca took a deep breath and shook his hand. "Hi Ed, I'm Beca."

Ed smiled. "Beca, how old were you when this happened?"

"Fourteen.."

Ed looked at Bumper before looking back at Beca. "I remember you trying to stop him from robbing me.. Then you tried to pay for your stuff."

Beca nodded. "I felt bad and I wanted to at least pay for what I was taking."

Ed smiled and nodded. "I appreciate it, even though you shot me..." He said with a small laugh.

"She was just trying to protect me you know?" Bumper said with a small smile. "I was all she had at the time."

Ed nodded. "If you are in need of anything, you can work here.." He said looking at the both of them. "You could also pay off your debt.."

Bumper nodded. "I just started working a job but another one won't hurt..."

Ed nodded and looked at Beca. "How about you?"

Beca shook her head. "I don't really need a job, I've come into some money from my family ad I'll be starting a gig at a radio station soon, but I'll definitely be paying my debt in the form of a nice big check."

"You don't have to.."

Beca smiled. "I do, you seem perfectly cool with everything that happened but in my eyes I ruined your life. I took away your mobility.. The least I can do is give some money to the store."

Ed nodded. "Well thank you."

"It's really no problem, I'll come back tomorrow with the check." Beca said as they started walking to the door.

"Hey Beca?" Ed called out.

Beca stopped walking and turned to look at him.

"Thank you for coming here today, I always wondered what happened to you.. It looks like you're taking good care of yourself."

Beca smiled and nodded. "Yeah, after everything that happened with you I got my act together."

"Well that's good." Ed said sincerely. "I'm good as well so you don't have to worry... and I don't hate you."

Beca took a deep breath and smiled at him. "Thanks Ed, I'll see you tomorrow."

Ed nodded and looked at Bumper. "And I'll be seeing you soon to pay your debt."

"Yes sir." Bumper said as he followed Beca and Chloe out of the store.

Beca walked to her car and let out a sigh of relief. "Holy shit..." She breathed out.

Chloe looked at her with a grin and kissed her. "You did great babe! I'm so proud of you."

Beca smiled and nodded. "He was so nice and understanding... I should have been did that!" Beca said happily. "I feel free.. Like this huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders and that's one less thing I have to worry about."

"Yeah you handled it like a champ." Bumper said as he bumped fist with her. "He looked at the time and sighed. "I've gotta get going, I've got somewhere to be."

Beca he could walk off, Beca grabbed him by the arm. "I hope you're not going off somewhere to cause trouble, you have a job and you just received another job offer..."

Bumper sighed. "I've got a meet up, nothing major it's something from the past I'm wrapping up."

"Bump.."

"I'm fine Beca I promise, I'm bettering my life. This is my last time interacting with any of them."

Beca sighed and nodded. "Do you need a ride to where ever you're going?"

Bumper shook his head. "Nah, go be with your girl."

Beca looked at him with uncertainty before nodded and giving him a small hug. "I'll talk to you later Bump."

"You got it." He looked at Chloe and waved. "See you around."

Chloe smiled and waved. "See ya, be safe please."

"I will." Bumper said before walking off.

Beca looked at Chloe's house as they sat inside of the car. "Okay so I wasn't nervous before but sitting outside your house is all kinds of scary right now..."

Chloe smiled and grabbed Beca's hand. "My dad just wants to apologize and hopefully you guys can get back to where you were."

Beca took a deep breath and nodded. "I'm ready for this whole thing to be over."

"Me too." Chloe said with a smile. "I miss being able to talk about you to my parents and have you over for dinner."

Beca nodded. "Well let's fix this." She walked out of the car and walked into the house with Chloe.

"Beca!" Caleb said as he ran up to the two of them. "I haven't see you in forever!"

"It has been awhile hasn't it?" Beca said as she hugged him. "How have you been?"

Caleb smiled as he grabbed her hand and led her to the couch. "I've been great! Riley and I are working on a project in school together!"

"I heard!" Beca said with a grin. "I'm glad you two get along so well."

Before Caleb could reply Richard and Laura walked into the room. Richard folded his arms and looked at them. "Beca.."

Beca stood up and looked at them as panic filled her body. "Mr. Beale..."

Richard took a deep breath and held out his hand. "Call me Richard, and I am so terribly sorry for how I've been acting.."

Beca looked at him with wide eyes. "Uh.. okay?"

Chloe slapped Beca's shoulder. "Forgive him." She mouthed.

"Oh!" Beca said with wide eyes. "Um I forgive you Mr.- Richard.. I forgive you Richard and honestly I should be apologizing to you, I mean I already have plenty of times but I want you to know I mean it when I say that I'm sorry for what happened."

Richard nodded and gestured to his hand. "Are you gonna shake it or..."

Beca quickly grabbed his hand. "Yeah, sorry I'm having like a million thoughts running through my head right now."

"Let's go talk in my office Beca."

Beca looked at Chloe nervously before nodding. "O-Okay..."

Richard looked at Chloe and Laura. "We'll be back."

They walked into Richard's office and Beca sighed. "You're gonna kill me right? Oh god this is where I die, I can-"

"Beca!" Richard said with a laugh. "I'm not gonna kill you. I meant what I said before, I'm sorry and I want things to go back to normal. I miss what we had, it was a father daughter type thing we had going and I honestly miss it..."

Beca smiled and nodded. "I miss it too, it was awesome hanging with you and the little inside jokes we have that piss Chloe off." Beca said with a laugh.

Richard grinned. "Exactly, the way I behaved was unacceptable... I mean I had every right to be upset by what you and Chloe did but I blew it way out of proportion."

Beca nodded. "I agree, on the you had every right to be upset part." Beca said rushing the last part out.

Richard laughed and nodded. "So can we just move on?"

"Absolutely." Beca said with a smile.

Richard nodded. "Bring it in." He said happily as he opened his arms.

Beca grinned and hugged him tightly. "I'm so sorry we did that at school and I can promise you we will never do that again in school."

"How about you just never do it again..."

Beca's eyes widened. "Uh yeah... That's what I said, we will never do it again... in school."

Richard nodded. "I heard you, now I want you to say you'll never do it again... anywhere."

"Oh!" Beca said with a small smile. "Okay, we'll never do it again anywhere... in school."

Richard laughed and shook his head. "Please take care of my baby girl."

Beca nodded. "Always."

"So everything's good?" Chloe asked as they sat on her bed.

Beca nodded. "Yup he even asked me to stay for dinner which is why I'm still here." She looked at the time. "I am gonna have to go though and get Riley from her friends house but I'll come right back."

Chloe smiled. "Okay, I'm so happy right now!" Chloe said as she bounced on her bed.

"Me too." Beca said with a grin before leaning in and kissing Chloe. "I love you so much."

Chloe pulled Beca in for another kiss. "I love you too." She smiled at Beca and pulled her close to her before laying down on her bed and gesturing for Beca to come on top of her.

Beca looked at Chloe's door before looking back at Chloe. "I don't know if this is a good idea... Your door is opened a little and I just made peace with your dad."

Chloe smiled at Beca and leaned up. "I just want to make out with you before you go..."

"I don't know Chlo.."

Chloe pouted. "Please baby..."

"Fuck!" Beca said with a sigh. "I can't resist you, you're a bad influence on me.."

Chloe laughed. "And you thought you were the bad ass in this relationship." Chloe said with a grin as she leaned in to kiss Beca.

"And here I thought my daughter was the innocent one." Richard said as he stood by the doorway.

Chloe's eyes widened and she pulled away from Beca. "Dad.."

Beca hopped off of the bed and looked at Richard with pleading eyes. "It's not what it looked like sir."

Richard shrugged. "I saw the whole thing Beca."

"I uh.. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing." Beca said as she scratched her head in confusion.

Richard smiled and walked further into the room. He looked at Beca and Chloe and let out a small sigh. "When I look at you girls I can really see how in love you two are... I spoke with my mom about how she was able to move on and she knocked some sense into me. You both will be eighteen soon, you're both mature, and you both love each other dearly I can see it." He took a deep breath and sighed before looking at Beca. "So Beca, I don't want you to feel uncomfortable with being affectionate with Chloe. I know you guys... do things."

Beca awkwardly nodded. "Yeah..."

Chloe looked at Richard with a smile. "Thank you dad, you have no idea how happy I am that you're being more accepting."

Richard nodded. "I get it, I was a teenager once and I know how it is when you love someone and are attracted to each other and you have certain urges-"

"Dude!" Beca shouted.

"Dad stop!" Chloe said at the same time in embarrassment.

Richard laughed and looked at Beca and Chloe with a smile. "I'll leave you girls to it." He said as he walked out of the room. He stood by the door and looked back at them. "I'm gonna leave this opened a little..."

Chloe nodded. "It's fine dad."

Beca let out a sigh of relief once he left and looked at Chloe. "That went better than I expected."

"It did, now we're free to do this.." Chloe leaned in and kissed Beca with a smile.

Beca grinned. "Still a little uncomfortable with doing that with the chance that he can come in at any minute, but totally down to do it." She looked at the time and sighed. "In about twenty minutes, I've gotta pick up Riley."

Chloe sighed but nodded. "Okay, don't be gone too long."

Beca nodded and leaned over to kiss Chloe. "I'll be back soon."

"Hey dad?" Chloe said as she walked into his office.

Richard looked up at her with a small smile. "Yeah?"

"I just want to thank you for how you handled things today... I know things have been rocky between all three of us since Christmas but really thank you for understanding."

Richard smiled and nodded. "She's the one for you, I can tell."

Chloe grinned. "You really think so?"

"She's not who I expected you to end up with but now that I see it, I can see that she's the one." Richard said with a nod.

Chloe smiled. "I think so too, she's amazing..."

"Where'd she go anyway?"

"She had to pick up Riley."

Richard nodded. "Can I get the full story behind that, she said about her father being dead then she said he wasn't..."

Chloe sighed. "I don't know if it's really my story to tell but basically her father is a dead beat so she's taking care of her sister so she doesn't end up in the system. Things are coming around there and certain things are happening that could change some things."

"Very discreet but anyway it's nice having Riley around." Richard said with a smile.

Chloe nodded. "Yeah, it's nice having both of them around..."

Richard smiled and nodded. "Yes it is."

"So I know we're all gonna have dinner tonight but I was thinking maybe we could all do something... Just me, you, and Beca." Chloe said as she nervously bit her lip.

Richard thought about it before nodding. "Yeah that'd be okay, did you have anything in mind?"

Chloe shook her head. "Not yet but when I come up with it I'll tell you and Beca."

"You got it kiddo." He gestured to the paperwork on his desk. "I've gotta get back to this before dinner."

Chloe nodded. "Yeah, see you in a few." Chloe said as she happily walked out of his office.

"Hey Chloe?" Caleb asked as he saw her walk in the living room.

Chloe sat on the couch and smiled at him. "Yeah Cal?"

"Are things gonna finally be better?"

Chloe frowned and looked at him in confusion. "What do you mean?"

Caleb sighed. "Everyone has been being mean to each other and you and mom have been mad at daddy and daddy's been being mean to Beca..."

Chloe wrapped her arm around Caleb and sighed. "I didn't realize you knew what was going on but yeah buddy everything is going to be better."

Caleb smiled and let out a sigh of relief. "Yes!"

"Where's Chloe?" Riley asked as she got in Beca's car.

Beca put on her seat belt and started driving the car. "She's home..."

Riley sighed. "I wanted to see her today."

Beca smiled. "You see her everyday."

"I know but something happened in school today and I want to tell her about it."

Beca looked at Riley before looking back at the road. "Do you want to tell me?"

Riley shrugged. "I'll tell you after I tell Chloe... whenever I see her."

Beca smiled. "Well you'll be seeing her a lot sooner than you think."

"What do you mean?"

Beca said nothing as she turned onto Chloe's block. "What do you think?"

Riley gasped and she bounced in her seat. "This is Chloe's block!"

Beca nodded as she pulled into their driveway. "We're having dinner with the Beales'"

"Finally!" Riley said happily. "It's been so long!"

Beca nodded. "Yeah well everyone is finally seeing eye to eye again."

"That's great!" Riley said as she took off her seat belt. "Let's go!"

Beca knocked on the door and smiled as Chloe opened the door. "Hello beautiful."

Chloe grinned. "Hey." She leaned over and kissed her before looking down at Riley. "Hey Riley."

Riley smiled and hugged Chloe. "Hey!"

"Caleb's in his room playing if you want to see him." Chloe said as she let them in.

Riley nodded and ran in the direction of Caleb's room. Beca grabbed Chloe's hand and pulled her to her for another kiss and smiled. "Today's a good day."

Chloe bit her lip and nodded. "It is... I think I want to go back to your place tonight." Chloe said with wink.

Beca laughed. "I'm with it but will your parents let you?"

Chloe shrugged. "I'll ask after dinner but if I can... it's going down." Chloe said seductively.

"Damn you turn me on." Beca said as she wrapped her arms around Chloe.

Chloe grinned. "The feelings mutual."

"What's going on here ladies?"

Beca looked at Richard and pulled away from Chloe. "J-Just talking.."

Richard nodded. "About?"

"How we make each other feel.." Beca said with a small smile. She grabbed Chloe's hand and smiled. "She's my heart."

Richard smiled and nodded. "Dinner's ready."

Richard folded his arms with a frown. "Why do you want to stay at Beca's tonight?"

Chloe sighed. "Because she's my girlfriend and I love her and I love waking up next to her..."

"Why can't Beca stay here?"

Chloe gestured to Riley. "She has her own room to sleep in and she has school tomorrow and no clothes here.."

Laura smiled and wrapped her arm around Richard. "She'll be fine honey, let's trust our daughter.."

Richard sighed but nodded. "Fine..."

Chloe squealed and hugged her parents. "Thanks! I love you guys so much!" She looked at Beca. "Let's go Bec!"

"Whoa slow down, don't you need to pack something to wear tomorrow?" Richard said.

Chloe shook her head. "I've got things at her house."

"Okay..."

Chloe nodded and looked at Beca. "Ready?"

Richard frowned. "Why are you in such a rush to leave?"

"Uh.." Chloe looked at the time. "It's almost Riley's bedtime and I don't want to mess up the schedule."

Beca looked at the time and nodded. "Yeah we really should be on our way."

Richard sighed and nodded. "Alright, be safe girls."

They nodded and made their way outside to the car. They got in the car and Chloe smiled and grabbed Beca's hand. "Things are finally looking up for us."

Beca smiled. "Yeah it is and it'll only go up from here." She said before pulling off. They got to Beca's house fifteen minutes later and Beca let out a satisfied sigh. "It's been a long day and it feels so good to be home."

Chloe nodded. "That's for sure."

"I'm gonna get Riley ready for bed, call your parents and let them know we made it home safely and I'll be in the room in a sec." Beca said as she made her way up the steps with Riley.

Riley hugged Chloe and ran up the steps. "Goodnight Chloe!"

"Goodnight Ry!" Chloe said before making her way to Beca's room.

Riley walked into her bedroom fresh from her bath and sat down on her bed. She smiled when Beca walked in slightly after. "Today was a good day."

Beca smiled and nodded. "Yeah it was." Beca said as she tucked Riley in.

"Can you lay with me for a sec?"

Beca nodded and laid next to Riley. "Is everything okay?"

Riley laid there quietly and nodded before speaking. "When are you gonna marry Chloe?"

Beca's eyes widened. "Uh why?"

"You've always been a good sister to me and you always take care of me, but when you met Chloe you became even better and I can see how happy she makes you." Riley said with a small smile.

Beca smiled. "She does make me happy but we're still very young... I mean I'd love to marry her one day but it's way too soon, we've only been dating for almost five months."

Riley nodded. "I heard that's a big deal... I know I'm only eight and I have no idea about love but I can tell how much you love her and how much she loves you and I don't want you to lose that. You don't cry as much as you use to."

"Ry-"

Riley shook her head. "I know you were sad Beca, you tried to hide it from me but just like you say you know me, I know you just as well."

Beca sighed and grabbed Riley's hand. "I felt alone.. I know I had you and I love that we're together but all we have is each other and I hated that I couldn't give you more stability. With Chloe we get her family as well and I love that. She makes both of us happy and her family makes us feel like we're apart of their family."

Riley nodded. "You're right... Thank you Beca for making the right choice."

"What do you mean?"

Riley looked at Beca and smiled. "Remember when you were with Kate and Chloe admitted she liked you and I told you to make the right choice that day?"

"Oh yeah!" Beca said with a smile as she remembered. "You plotting to get us together that day too."

Riley nodded. "Yeah, I'm so happy you took the risk and got with Chloe."

"Me too."

Riley yawned and looked at Beca. "You can go to Chloe now, I'm tired."

Beca smiled and kissed Riley on the forehead before getting out of the bed. "Goodnight Riley."

"Goodnight Beca."

Beca walked into her bedroom and smiled at Chloe. "Hey beautiful."

Chloe looked up from her phone and grinned. "Hey babe."

Beca crawled onto her bed and kissed Chloe. "I love you so much."

"I love you too."

Beca wrapped her arm around Chloe and smiled. "I never realized how much you changed my life until Riley talked with me about it."

Chloe smiled and nodded. "What'd she say?"

"She just told me how much happier I've been since you came into my life and she's right, I am much happier."

Chloe kissed Beca and looked Beca in her eyes. "I'm much happier too."

Beca grinned. "Life's much more prettier with you... I'm gonna marry you one day you know?"

"I hope so." Chloe said with a grin. "I can't see myself marrying anyone else."

Beca nodded and bit her lip as her hand crept up Chloe's shirt. "I can't see anyone else touching you like I do either..."

Chloe shivered at the touched and pulled Beca in for a rough kiss. "I can't see anyone else making me cum the way you do." Chloe said with a wink as she unbuttoned Beca's pants.

"Let me show you how well I can do it." Beca said with a wink as she got on top of Chloe.

A/N: Thanks everyone for reading! I hope you all enjoyed the chapter! Let me know what you thought.

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