Beca walked into her house a couple hours later and found Chloe and Riley cuddled on the couch watching a movie. "Hey guys."

They both looked up and Riley ran to Beca and hugged her. "Where were you? I was worried."

Beca hugged Riley. "It's a bit past your bedtime, what are you still doing up?"

Chloe stood up and walked over to them. "She was ready to go to bed but couldn't fall asleep without you, so I told her we could hang down here and watch a movie for a bit, I hope you don't mind."

Beca shook her head. "It's fine." She looked down at Riley. "I was at Katherine's."

Chloe's eyes widened and she gave Beca a look.

Beca looked at Chloe before looking back at Riley. "We can talk tomorrow okay? Right now you should be getting some sleep."

Riley sighed but nodded. "Okay."

"Go on upstairs, I'll be there in a sec."

Riley nodded and hugged Chloe before making her way up the steps to her room.

Chloe waited until Riley was up the steps before speaking. "What were you doing at Katherine's?"

Beca sighed. "I had to talk to her about everything, I also recorded our conversation and a lot of what she said will help our case if John decides to take this to court and Katherine decides not to help us."

"I'm confused, why would Katherine help us?"

Beca took her jacket off and hung it up. "Let me go check on Ry and then we'll talk okay?"

Chloe nodded and sat back down on the couch as Beca walked back up the steps. She pulled out her phone and called her mom. "Hey mom, it's cool if I stay with Beca tonight right?"

"Sure, did you two patch things up yet?"

Chloe sighed. "Not quite.. We're on our way to that road but there's still some things that need to be said."

"I get it sweetheart, I hope you two work things out soon."

"Me too mom, oh Beca's coming back down so I'll talk to you tomorrow."

"Okay honey, have a goodnight.. Love you."

Chloe smiled. "Love you too mom, goodnight."

"Everything okay?" Beca asked as she sat down next to Chloe.

Chloe nodded. "Yeah I was just letting my mom know I was staying here tonight."

Beca nodded. "Oh okay.."

"So what happened with Katherine?"

Beca went on to tell Chloe everything that happened when she went to talk to Katherine and played her the recording.

"Wow.. So Katherine knows John wouldn't be a good a parent and she'd still help him?" Chloe said in disbelief.

Beca shrugged. "I'm just hoping she decides to help me.."

Chloe nodded. "Me too, are you hungry? I made you a plate.."

"Starving."

Chloe stood up with a small smile and placed her hand out for Beca to grab. "I haven't eaten yet either, I wanted to wait for you… Let's eat in the kitchen and.. Talk."

Beca smiled and stood up. "About..?"

"Us."

"I totally understand why you were mad and you had every right to be." Beca said as she grabbed Chloe's hand.

Chloe nodded. "And I understand why you were cool with me staying here for awhile, I'm sorry for overreacting."

Beca shrugged. "Like I said before, we both overreacted."

"Yeah but you can't go flip out and relapse every time something happens between us." Chloe said with a sigh. "Because I'm sure that's not gonna be the only argument we get into…"

"I know, and I won't.. It was a moment of weakness and I definitely learned from my mistakes, it's nearly taking away everything I love."

Chloe squeezed Beca's hand. "I'm still here."

Beca smiled. "And I love you for it."

"Everything is gonna be okay Beca."

Beca nodded. "I know and I'll fight until everything is the way it's suppose to be."

"So you and Beca look happier today." Aubrey said with a smile as she noticed Beca and Chloe stealing small glances at each other from across the hall.

Chloe smiled and nodded. "Yeah.. We're on the road to fixing things."

Aubrey nodded. "So you two got back together last night?"

Chloe frowned and shook her head. "We actually didn't discuss that I guess we probably should, there isn't anything stopping me from wanting to be with her. We had a nice long talk last night and I feel closer to her than I did before."

Aubrey smiled at the look on Chloe's face. "You look really happy Chloe, I'm happy for you." She saw Beca approaching and grinned. "I'll catch you later." She said before smiling at Beca and walking away.

"Hey gorgeous." Beca said with a smile as she stood by Chloe's locker.

Chloe grinned and looked at Beca. "Hey yourself."

"So am I able to kiss you or…"

Chloe laughed "You can kiss me, I know we didn't discuss it last night but I'd really like to be your girlfriend again."

Beca grinned and wrapped Chloe in a hug before kissing her passionately against the lockers.

"Beca…"

Beca pulled away from Chloe and looked at the person who interrupted them with an annoyed look before realizing who it was. "Oh… uh hey principal Evans.."

"Beca.." He said with a small nod. "Uh how are you?"

Beca shrugged. "I've been better but I'm doing pretty good today."

He nodded and looked at Chloe. "And you?"

Chloe smiled. "I'm doing good as well principal Evans."

"Alright." He said awkwardly. "No pda in the hallways… or the bathroom." He said before walking away.

Chloe laughed and looked at Beca. "I still can't believe he's your uncle."

" I know, but it does feel nice knowing someone's watching out for me."

Chloe nodded. "Maybe you should have a talk with him about everything that's going on with Riley… and maybe tell him about some of your past and what just happened the other day."

Beca nervously bit her lip and nodded. "Yeah maybe you're right… You think you can take my car and pick up Riley after school? I'm gonna hang back and talk to him."

Chloe smiled and nodded. "Of course Becs, talk to him and figure everything out."

Beca took a deep breath as she stood outside of the principal's office. She walked in the room. "Principal Evans?"

He looked up at her and smiled. "Beca hey, is there something I can help you with?"

Beca nodded."Yeah, but I need to talk to you as your niece and not your student."

Principal Evans nodded and cleared his throat. "Of course, I am your uncle after all… uh close the door and have a seat."

Beca nodded and closed the door before taking a seat. "I've had a stressful week, well a stressful year but this week in particular has been very hard."

"Talk to me, what's going on?"

Beca took a deep breath. "I've had a hard life growing up… my parents exposed me to a lot of things I shouldn't have seen and my father allowed me to to do things I shouldn't have been able to do, like drugs… I've been doing well for the past two or three years but I recently relapsed and now it could cost me my little sister.. I'm freaking out."

Michael sighed and looked at Beca sadly. "I'm sorry you had to go through all of that, what happened? Why did you relapse?"

"Chloe and I got in a fight and I got upset and I lost control of myself." Beca said with a sigh. "I knew I wasn't in the right mindset to pick up Riley so I asked a family friend who has been taking care of my father. Only now they're threatening to take me to court and take Riley away."

Michael's eyes widened. "Why?"

"They could tell something wasn't right with me and John is just a jackass, I don't know what I'm supposed to do."

Michael reached over his desk and grabbed Beca's hand. "I know you don't know me all that well as your uncle but I'm gonna help you, maybe I can look into being you guys' legal guardian.. I know you'll be 18 soon but you'll be under my care for a few months.."

"We're fine though, we have a house, the bills are paid, everything is good."

Michael nodded. "But all of this isn't legal, you're under age Beca."

Beca nodded. "Okay, that could be a good idea but you think you could stay with us? That's our home and we don't want to get rid of it."

"I have a family Beca…"

"Talk to your wife! There are seven bedrooms we can make it work!"

Michael sat back in his chair and sighed. "I'll talk with her and I'll see how things go legally and I'll talk with you again. I'd like to meet Riley before putting anything into motion."

Beca nodded. "Yeah of course, this meeting was supposed to happen awhile ago. Maybe Riley and I can come over to your place for dinner tonight…"

Michael smiled. "Yeah that'd be great." He wrote down his address and handed to Beca. "We eat at seven."

Beca nodded. "We'll be there." She stood up with a small smile. "Thank you uncle Michael. Even if this doesn't work, thank you."

"You've had a rough life Beca and I wish I could have been there to help you sooner."

"He offered to be your legal guardian?" Chloe said as Beca told her what happened.

Beca nodded. "I wasn't sure about it at first but he's family and I need help or I could lose my sister. I told him Ry and I would come over for dinner, you wanna come along?"

Chloe shook her head. "Maybe another time, this should be a family thing."

Beca smiled and kissed Chloe's cheek. "You are family."

Chloe laughed and wrapped her arms around Beca. "You know what I mean."

Beca nodded and kissed Chloe. "I do, I'll take you home when we're on our way there."

Chloe nodded. "Sounds good. I hope everything works out."

"Yeah me too. I'll call you later tonight and let you know how dinner goes."

"Whose house is this?" Riley asked as they stood in front of the door.

Beca looked at Riley and gave her a nervous smile. "So apparently mom had a brother, so we're going to see our uncle.."

Riley frowned. "Uncle? How'd you find him?"

"He's my principal and he found out about us and told me."

Riley's eyes widened. "Wow.."

Beca nodded. "Listen Ry, there's a lot going on right now and he could really help us out so let's see how we like them okay."

Riley nodded. "Yeah okay."

Beca knocked on the door and Michael opened it with a grin. "Hey you made it!"

Beca nodded. "Yup told you I'd be here, Ry this is uncle Michael, mom's younger brother… uncle Michael, this is your youngest niece Riley."

Michael smiled and crouched download or Riley's level. "It's so great to finally meet you, Beca's told me about you."

Riley smiled. "Nice to meet you too Uncle Michael."

"So what'd you think?" Beca asked Riley as they walked out of the house a few hours later.

Riley grinned as she skipped to the car. "I had a great time and I actually have cousins! They're awesome, Julia is the same age as me and we like the same things." She said happily.

"So you wouldn't mind if they came to live with us so they can help us out?"

Riley got in the car and looked at Beca. "Of course not! Is that what's going to happen?"

Beca shrugged. "It could but I'd only allow it if you're comfortable with it."

"I am." Riley said happily. "It's nice having a bigger family."

Beca nodded. "Yeah it is."

"So what'd you think of them?" Michael asked his wife Lisa as he helped her wash the dishes.

Lisa shrugged. "They seemed like lovely girls, Beca is a little closed off and I can tell she's protective over Riley."

Michael nodded. "She's been through alot… So did you give any thought to what we talked about earlier?"

Lisa sighed. "The whole moving in with her thing?" Seeing Michael nod she continued. "I don't know Mike we're all just meeting, don't you think that'd be weird?"

Michael shrugged. "Everyone seemed to get along great, I want to help my nieces and they've got plenty of space at their place."

Lisa nodded. "Can we have more time to think about this and talk as a family?"

"Of course, I've still gotta see what I have to do to become their legal guardian anyway."

Lisa smiled and wrapped her arms around Michael. "You're extremely sweet and I love you."

Michael shrugged. "I just want to help my nieces, I haven't been there for them but I want to be there for them now."

"Everything was pretty great." Beca said with a smile as she dropped on her bed. She was talking to Chloe on the phone and telling her how the dinner went. "Riley got along great with her cousins… it's so weird saying that, we have cousins."

Chloe smiled. "I'm so happy things went well, how was his wife?"

"Lisa was cool, I could tell she was trying to read me.. I hope I left a good impression."

"I'm sure you did babe you're amazing."

Beca smiled and let out a sigh. "I miss you, I wish you were here lying next to me… I got use to you being here with me."

"Me too." Chloe said with a small sigh.

Beca let out another sigh. "I hate to be the one to bring this up but when I go to LA it's gonna suck not having you in my arms every night."

"I know Beca." Chloe said sadly. "Let's not get down okay babe.. We just got back together and honestly who knows what's gonna happen next year. I might decide to go with you, I could go to school down there.. Nothing's for certain Bec so let's just enjoy us right now."

Beca smiled and nodded. "You're right."

"It's getting late babe, we should probably get some sleep."

"Yeah…." Beca said with a sigh. "I love you."

"I love you too baby, happy a goodnight."

"Goodnight."

"I want my daughter Katherine!" John yelled angrily.

Katherine sighed. "John calm down, maybe you should just leave them be."

John shook his head and stood up. "No! Beca thinks she's better than me and can talk to me anyway she wants? Fuck that, she's just as bad as me and getting my daughter."

Katherine shook her head. "I don't think this is a good idea anymore John.."

"I don't want to hear it Katherine, we're going to court.."

A/N: It's been awhile.. Hope you guys are still with me. What'd you think of the chapter?

Do you think Michael *Principal Evans* should try and take care of Beca and Riley? Should him and his family move in with them?

We're almost finished with this I think, a few more chapters. I'm so sorry for not updating this in two months, I'll be better. Hope you guys enjoyed it!

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