Okay you're going to have to bear with me on this one cause I went for it. We continue on with their story fast-forwarded into the future. With regard to the specific timelines, I apologise if it gets confusing cause it will. I keep getting confused myself LOL but stubborn me pushed through with this style of writing.

Chapter 1

Beca was alone in her office as she leaned back on her chair and closed her eyes. It was barely ten in the morning but she's already had it with this day. She had about fifteen minutes of alone time before her next meeting.

She looked around her office. It was decent sized with high ceilings and it was on the 14th floor so it had a pretty good view. This place has been her second home since they started. She smiled when she saw the different awards and several family photos that were on display all around her office.

Beca ran her fingers on the engraving on her desk. "Indie Music Group". She invested her all in this recording label company and so far so good with the help of her good friends and partners, Jesse, Cynthia Rose and Stacie.

She's living the dream, so they say. She must feel on top of the world, right? She sighed at the thought. Their label is just over four years old, there's so much work to do. There was so much pressure on Beca as well as the company's "success" depended on her. Beca was happy though. Such supportive people surrounded her and her fan base was growing steadily since she's laid low.

"No Beca you are not staying in tonight." Chloe would look up to her laptop screen. She had her hair up in a bun and her glasses on. "What's your excuse this time?"

Beca looks at Chloe fondly. She honestly could just stare at Chloe all day. "That there's nothing I'd rather do than watch my hot girlfriend study all night."

It's been about two months since Chloe kissed Beca at the airport on the day she left for LA. Everyday since then when Beca comes home from work, she would call Chloe. For tonight she had her laptop on the kitchen counter facing the kitchen as she was preparing her dinner.

"I'll most likely still be studying when you get back."

"You know how much I hate going to those things. They terrify me."

"I know. But hey, didn't you say you already made a friend from work? Why not ask her if she'll be there?"

Beca had a networking thing almost once a week where people she worked with would meet up in a bar, drink and get to know each other and mingle with other people in the industry. It was a perfect way to make connections if you were up for it.

"It would have been so much more easier if you were here with me. You're the only one I want to bring to those sorts of things."

"Stop being so cheesy. Come on I really want you to go."

"Why am I getting the feeling that you want to get rid of me?"

"Shut up. Don't flip this on me. All I'm saying is since I am not there you should go out more, make the most out of it. And please, we both know that if I was there, we would be staying in… first for sure."

"Stop being a tease. It's a good three more months 'til we see each other. But you're right. I'll send Amy a text to ask her if she'll be there. If and only if she says yes, then I will go."

"Okay. I think that's fair." Chloe was busy writing notes and Beca found herself just staring. "Well what are you waiting for? Send her a text."

Beca's assistant, who is also their receptionist, popped her head in her office trying to get her attention.

"Sorry, what were you saying?"

"I'm sorry Ms Mitchell. I just wanted to let you know that you're 10 o'clock is here."

"Thank you Katie. And please Beca is fine."

"Yes Ms Beca. I will try to keep that in mind."

When her assistant left her alone again, she chuckled to herself at how jumpy she was getting.

Beca got home that night a bit drunk having one too many drinks. Her new friend Amy was crazy and her mistake was she tried to keep up with her. The first thing she does is rush to her computer and facetime Chloe. Then she looks for her phone charger and plugged her phone. Her phone died halfway of the night and she couldn't wait for it to come back on.

The moment Chloe comes into her computer screen, she could tell right away that Beca was a more than just a little tipsy as Beca smiled back at her with all her teeth showing that made Chloe squint a little.

"Hey there. Good night?"

"It was awesome Chlo. But I missed you so much."

"I'm glad you had fun. How about we talk tomorrow? You look like you're ready for bed."

As if on cue, Beca let out a yawn.

"Are you sure? Weren't you waiting for me?"

"I was and I'm glad you're back home safe now."

"Are you still studying? You should rest too."

"I will. Just one more chapter and I'm done. So let's talk tomorrow?"

"No wait. I just want to say thank you."

"Thank you for?"

"Just thank you. You know sometimes I feel like you're too good to be true and it's scary"

"Bec."

"Shh please just let me say this please."

"Okay." Chloe bit her lip. Beca was being too adorable. If only she could, she would definitely fly to her right now just to hold her.

"Thank you for being you, for loving me and for not pushing me to come out to my parents. I know how much you hate lying to my parents about us and I'm sorry for putting you through that."

"Bec."

Beca looks at Chloe again as if saying to let her finish first. She pursed her lips together and allowed Beca to continue.

"You know I love you so much, right? You are literally the best thing that's ever happened to me." Beca's voice cracked and it did not go unnoticed by Chloe. Beca wasn't sure if it was the alcohol talking or she just really missed Chloe.

"And you to me. I love you too. What's going on? Why are you crying? You're making me cry."

"Something happened tonight and I've decided to come out to my parents. I don't want to celebrate our first Christmas together lying to them."

"Oh. You know I will support you with whatever you want to do. I just want to make sure that your heart is in the right place. I don't want you doing this just for me. At your own pace remember?"

Beca looks at Chloe. The alcohol won't let her stop crying. "Why are you so good to me?" She says as she buries her face in her hands.

"Please stop crying. If that's what you really want to do, I'm with you. Just please promise me at least sober up before you do tell your parents? You don't have to tell them tonight."

"Okay. I can do that. I promise. But I will tell them."

"And I'm not stopping you."

"I love you Chloe."

"I love you too weirdo. Are you going to stop crying and get some sleep now?"

"Promise me one thing."

"What?"

"Please don't leave me."

"Beca."

"I don't know what I'll do without you anymore. So don't leave me, okay?"

"I won't leave you. I promise."

"Thank you."

"Now. Make sure you bring a glass of water to your room."

Beca knew who her 10 o'clock was going to be but still here she was being thrown off as if being caught by surprise. She was sitting across Emilia, an up and coming artist, and they were discussing her vision for her debut album. Emilia was a Youtuber discovered by her team a few months ago.

Cynthia Rose was also in the meeting. She wasn't worried about the fact that Emilia was not bad looking or was very charming. It was because Emilia had red hair and in a very similar shade to Chloe's red hair. It had always been some sort of a trigger for Beca. But on top of that, she's also staring at blue eyes not very similar to Chloe but still blue and she knew what it was doing to Beca.

She knew as soon as the redhead entered that she would have to keep an eye on her friend.

Cynthia Rose had to clear her throat a couple of times to get Beca's attention, sometimes even going for as far as a light nudge to her side. A few more minutes have gone and Cynthia Rose couldn't handle it anymore. Because of all the staring Beca's doing, it seemed that she was flirting with their new artist and Emilia was getting flustered.

"Could you excuse us for a minute?" Cynthia Rose said standing up and grabbing Beca.

Once they were outside the meeting room and out of earshot, Cynthia Rose whispered to Beca.

"What the hell are you doing?"

"What do you mean?" Beca whispers back.

"You know what I mean. Can you stop it? You're freaking out that young girl and to be honest me too."

"Oh please. You always react like this. I'm not doing anything."

"Why do you always have to be borderline creepy? Do you like that girl?"

"Of course I like her. We're not signing her if we don't like her."

"God Beca, you are so dense sometimes. Do you want to sleep with her or not?"

"What? No. Oh my god. Are you fuckin' serious right now? I don't want to sleep with every red head in the planet."

"Yeah just the one, right?"

"Yes." Beca answered too soon. "Fuck you shut up."

"Becs."

Beca answered with her hand. "Look." She puts it up to stop Cynthia Rose from saying whatever it was she was about to say. "Now's not the time. We have a client in there."

"Exactly. Now can you please please stop being weird?"

"Okay."

"Did you need me to show you a photo of Chloe blonde?"

Beca finds that funny for two seconds. "Wait. Is she really blonde now? How would you know?"

Cynthia Rose just wiggled her eyebrows at Beca and shrugged.

"You know what, forget it. I don't think that's a good idea anyway. Then I'll have a thing for blondes as well."

"Yeah I think you're right. Forget I said anything."

When Beca and Cynthia Rose went back to the meeting room, all Beca could think about was Chloe not being a redhead. It had never occurred to her that Chloe could dye her hair. She's always been able to resist stalking Chloe on social media. This new information may be her tipping point.

It's been a week since Beca mentioned to Chloe that she wanted to come out to her parents. She's never mentioned it again to Chloe but she has been thinking about it a lot.

She decided to do it on her own and just tell Chloe how it went afterwards. She knew she needed to do this alone.

Beca took out her phone and facetimed her parents. It wasn't long before her mom answered.

"Rebeca my dear, how are you?"

"Hey mom. Is dad there?"

"Yeah, did you want to talk to him?"

"I wanted to talk to you both actually."

"Is everything all right? Are you okay? Did anything happen?" Linda looked so worried. "Ben! Come down here, I have Rebeca on the phone! She has news!"

"Mom, calm down I'm fine. There's just something I want to talk to you two about."

"Rebeca you're making me nervous."

"It's not that bad."

"Not that bad? What? What have you gotten yourself into?"

Ben sat next to Linda as Linda brought him up to speed and then they were both looking worried now.

When her mom finally allowed her to talk. Beca took a deep breath. "I haven't been completely honest with you guys. It's not a big deal but it is to me." Beca paused and surprisingly both her parents were not interrupting her.

"As it turns out." Beca continued. "I'm not into guys. I like girls and Chloe is actually my girlfriend. It's fairly recent so don't be mad at Chloe please. We haven't been lying since it just happened when I left for LA. Now, before you say anything, I can take anything that you have to say to me but please don't say anything bad about Chloe. You have no idea how much I care for her. So let's just keep her out of this. I understand if you hate me but I want you to know I'm still your daughter whatever happens."

"Rebeca. Listen to me." Linda was the first one to talk. "We are your parents, once you have kids of your own, you will understand but your father and I we love you no matter what even if we don't agree with all your choices."

"Mom."

"Now your father and I have a conference to attend to. Let's talk more about this later when we get back, okay?"

"Okay. I am sorry."

"So are we."

Beca's parents didn't call her back. She waited on her phone the whole day. She tried to keep busy at work but there were no missed calls, no messages, nothing from her parents. Beca didn't know what else there was to say or if there was anything else to say.

When she gets home from work she goes straight to her bed and under the covers. She decided to call Chloe.

"Hey. How was work?" Chloe says as soon as their call connected.

"Same same. How was your day?"

"We had an exam so at least break from the studying tonight."

"Are you going out?"

"Nah. I just want to rest tonight."

Beca didn't realise the sigh she let out.

"Aww Bec, was it that bad?"

"She hates me Chlo. They both hate me. I just know it."

"Just give them time."

"What if they never accept me? What if they never look at me the same way again? My own parents…"

"Don't worry you won't be alone. You always have me. But Bec, you have to remember it's a lot to process for them too. You've had sometime to process it already so give them that same time that you needed to allow them to process it as well."

Beca sighed. Chloe was right. She was always right. "You always know the things to say to make me feel better."

They were both smiling but then Beca's brows furrowed. "But wait. How did you know? I haven't told you I came out to them."

"Oh. Well. You sure? I think you mentioned it."

"Chlo. Tell me the truth."

"Okay fine. I have something to tell you. But promise me, you won't freak out or overreact."

"Oh my god. What did she do?"

"Nothing. Your mom just invited me over for lunch this weekend."

"She what?!"

"Don't worry, it's just lunch and we're just going to talk. It's not like she'll ban me forever and forbid me to see you. What are we in high school?"

"I don't know Chlo. I don't think I'm comfortable throwing you in like that. I would want to be there at least. This is between me and them."

"Bec I'm a part of all of this too whether you like it or not."

"If she wants someone to punish it should be me."

"Who said anything about punishments. It's just lunch. And I have lunch with your parents all the time, it's not anything new."

"Even you have to admit this will be different. I just want to be there with you. I really don't like the idea of you going alone."

"But you said so yourself that's going to be another three months. Don't worry okay, if it's really bad, I'll just walk away and leave."

"Leave? No. You promised." Beca panicked.

"No silly. I'll just walk away from the lunch." Chloe starts laughing.

"How are you so calm about this?"

Chloe continues to laugh at her. All Beca could do was roll her eyes.

Beca was never big on social media. From time to time, she would post for their company's accounts but aside from that she wasn't on it. She did get curious sometimes but never enough to make her own account. Her emails were already too much to handle.

She logged on to their label's Instagram account and looked up Chloe. She was impressed at how quick she found Chloe's profile but her heart sank when it was on private. She tried so hard to see the tiny circle icon that was Chloe's profile photo.

She seemed to still have red hair on that one. Beca was obsessing about this whole idea.

"What are you doing?"

Beca jumped from her seat. She didn't even hear Cynthia Rose coming in her office.

"Nothing." She was panicking and accidentally dropped her phone. It landed face up in between the both of them.

Beca and Cynthia Rose both looked down and saw that a request to follow was made.

"Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck." Beca picked it up right away and cancelled the follow request.

"If you wanted to stalk your ex, all you had to do was ask." Cynthia Rose smirked at Beca.

Beca was still trying to recover from what just happened. Why does this always happen to her?

"Are you actually being serious right now?"

Cynthia Rose took her own phone out and showed Beca Chloe's Instagram profile. Beca went wide-eyed and as soon as she did Cynthia Rose pulled her phone back.

"Wait. What? When?! How?" Beca was close to hysterical.

"What's all the commotion in here?" Stacie walked through the doors to Beca's office.

"Nothing." Beca squeaks out.

Stacie crossed her arms and looks at Cynthia Rose. Beca begged Cynthia Rose with her eyes to not say anything.

"You're going to love this Stace."

"Goddammit." Was all Beca could say.

Chloe was frantically running around the apartment she shared with Aubrey looking for her car keys, house keys and her wallet. She was supposed to pick up Beca at the airport and Chloe was running really late. Beca's plane was scheduled to land right about now.

She grabs a bag and starts stuffing everything in there. She jumps as soon as her front door opens almost hitting her in the face.

"Bec?! What are you doing here early? Oh my god!" Chloe drops the bag she was holding and lunged herself into Beca's open arms. "I was just about to leave to pick you up. Did I get the time wrong?" Chloe started kissing Beca's face.

Beca scrunches her face as she returns Chloe's hug and they embrace. "Relax Chlo. I wanted to surprise you so when there was an earlier flight I had it moved. Surprise!"

"I missed you."

"I missed you too."

Chloe kisses Beca quickly on the lips and then starts pulling Beca inside the apartment and tried to help her with her bags but Beca beats her to it.

"It's all good I got it." Beca assures Chloe.

"Come in, come in. I'll give you the tour."

"Where's Aubrey?"

"She's at her parent's place for the holidays so." Chloe starts to wiggle her eyebrows at Beca, which makes her blush.

Beca catches up to Chloe and hugs her from behind. "I missed you so much. What's our schedule going to be like?"

Chloe turns her head so she could kiss Beca properly. "My dads are working over the holidays but we are having Christmas lunch at theirs and then dinner with yours?"

"Ugh. I am not looking forward to seeing my judgmental parents. I'm so sorry you had to deal with them alone."

"It'll be fine. Don't worry about me. And it went well, didn't it?"

They settled down on the couch. Beca wanted to stay in for now. As soon as they were settled, Beca took out her phone.

Chloe had been trying to talk to Beca but she was too distracted. She's been on her phone this whole time taking selfies of them two. She wasn't paying attention to Chloe at all.

"Okay Bec, I love you and all your weird ways but you're starting to get to my nerves. What the hell are you doing?"

"Isn't it obvious? I'm taking pictures with you."

"Exactly. You never take our pictures. What's going on?"

Beca sighed and confessed. "People at work don't believe me when I say I'm seeing someone. They don't believe me more when I show them your picture. And then it doesn't help when I can't show them a single photo of us together."

"Is that so?"

"Yes. But now they can all suck it cause I'm going to shove these cute pictures of us together down their throats when work resumes next year."

"Okay. But how many more do you need? Do you plan to just keep on taking selfies this whole break or are you actually going to spend time with me?"

"You say that as if I'm not paying attention to you." It's funny cause Beca is saying this while being totally engrossed by something on her phone and never once looked up at Chloe.

Chloe stops talking altogether and crossed her arms. She stares at Beca who still had her head down.

She shakes her head when Beca's head shoots up to look at her wondering why it was eerily quiet all of a sudden.

"Bec god. Give me that." Chloe grabbed Beca's phone. "What do you have so far?"

Chloe scrolled through the pictures Beca already had. They were terrible.

"Oh my god." Chloe tried to keep a straight face until she saw Beca's selfies with her at the back doing whatever random thing. "What the fuck are these?"

"Pictures of us." Beca was blushing like crazy. "Don't make fun of me."

Chloe starts laughing. She couldn't help it now, not when Beca was being adorable again.

"You're so cute. I could just." Chloe reaches for Beca's face and pinches her cheeks.

Beca still doesn't find it funny and pulls away. Even Chloe being Chloe and this close to her wasn't distracting her.

Chloe takes a deep breath to control another wave of laughter coming but she still kept giggling. Beca was starting to get annoyed.

"Alright. Let's stop this." Beca stands up and grabs her phone from Chloe. "Who in their right minds anyway is ever going to believe you're my girlfriend?"

"Oh come on Bec." Chloe reaches for Beca's phone in her back pocket. "Come here." Chloe pulls Beca into the couch and puts her arm over her shoulder. "Explain to me what these are again and why are you taking them."

Beca leans into Chloe. "I wanted to show you off to people at work. I wanted them to see my girlfriend."

"Hot girlfriend." Chloe corrected her and started to extend her arm to take a selfie. "Now come on let's do this properly once and for all so I can have your full attention."

"You do have my full attention." Beca wanted to argue but Chloe just looked at her. "I just."

"I know. Now shut up and look up at the screen."

Chloe moved her face closer to Beca's and clicked. Then she kisses Beca on the cheek and clicked.

"Your turn. Kiss me." Chloe says pointing at her own cheek.

Beca rolls her eyes first then leans to kiss Chloe's cheek but as soon as she did Chloe turned her face to catch Beca's lips with her own for a peck and clicked.

Beca was surprised and then they both just laughed together.

"Alright. That's enough photos." Beca gently pushes Chloe and moves on top of her. "Let me properly say hello to you now."

Chloe drops the phone to the floor with a light thud.

Chloe completed her residency back in New York. She now found herself in a fellowship program here in LA for the past nine months under the supervision of Doctor Stefan Harrison.

Chloe met Doctor Harrison when he was in New York for a few guest lectures organised by her university.

She's been living at the accommodation the hospital has offered her. It wasn't bad but she couldn't refuse Chicago's offer for her to stay with them whilst she didn't have her own place.

She's practically stayed over whenever she could anyway. A week later, Chloe was officially moving in. She dropped the last box into her new room before she heard someone calling her.

"Chloe!" She could also hear footsteps going up the staircase running towards her.

She dropped the box she was holding and waited for her tiny intruder to arrive.

"Chloe!" Seven year old Jamie wrapped his arms around Chloe's waist. "You're here!"

"Hey little guy. Yes I am. Just like what we talked about. How come you're still here? Aren't you going to be late for school?"

"I wanted to see you first. Are you off to work?"

"Nope. No work for me today. I'm going to spend the day unpacking."

"I think my dad's tired. Maybe you could drive me to school today?"

"I would love to. But it's not my decision. Ask your dad and if he says yes then I don't really have a choice here do I?"

Jamie gets excited and starts bouncing in his place.

"Okay, deal!"

Chloe just shakes her head as she watched the little boy run out the same way he did coming in. She grabbed her phone and car keys. She knew Chicago did not stand a chance with Jamie.

Chloe and Chicago met in med school. They were in the same class until Chicago fell behind because he had to take care of his son, Jamie, too. They moved to LA a few months before Chloe did so that Chicago could start with his residency and be closer to his parents.

Jamie's mom is back in New York and doesn't want to have anything to do with him; with both of them actually. Chloe will never understand how she could do that to her own son.

"Hey." Chloe gave Chicago a quick hug. "Thanks for this. This isn't going to be awkward and weird, right?"

"No no of course not. Jamie knows. He's just happy you're here. We both are."

"I am too." Chicago lived in a three-bedroom apartment. Chloe would spend most of her free time here to either babysit Jamie or just hangout with them.

Chicago's place was a less than half an hour drive to both the Children's hospitals in LA and Orange County, which was convenient for the both of them.

"You don't have to do this Chlo."

"No, it's okay. I like spending time with Jamie anyway. Now we have to hurry, I don't want him to be late."

"I'm ready. Let's go." Jamie said as he held on to Chloe's hand. "And get some rest dad."

"I will buddy. Have a good day at school."

Chicago watched Chloe and Jamie walk to her car hand in hand.

"Tada!" Beca shows off her new apartment to Chloe.

Chloe doesn't often visit Beca in LA but it was her birthday weekend and she didn't want Beca spending her birthday alone.

Beca just got her own apartment and was able to move in that same weekend. She was showing Chloe around.

"And this is the kitchen and dining area. So what do you think? Do you like it?"

"Yeah. I think it's great."

"How come you don't sound so thrilled?"

"I miss seeing you everyday."

"You do see me everyday."

"You know what I meant."

"I know. I'm sorry. I miss you too everyday."

"I miss living with you too. So why did you get a two-bedroom apartment when you intend to live alone? Is that room for me when I come to visit you? Is that where I'll be sleeping tonight?"

"Don't be ridiculous. You are sleeping with me. Or more like I'm sleeping wherever you're sleeping. Which reminds me, please tell me you didn't book a hotel. I told you not to."

"I didn't. You assured me you had me covered."

"And I do." Beca steals a few kisses from Chloe. "But anyway I'm making the other room my home studio so I can work on a few things from home. I know the whole place looks a bit empty now but in time it'll be a lot more homey."

"You know. Anywhere with you is home."

Beca wasn't ready for that and feels a blush coming. "You're so cheesy."

Chloe loves it when she makes Beca blush. "I think we need to go for an IKEA run."

"There's nothing I would love to do more."

Chloe was about to grab her things and get ready to leave when Beca pulled her in again.

"Actually there was one thing…"

It was a short drive to Jamie's school. They were mostly just singing to whatever was playing on the radio. When they arrived, Chloe parked her car and turned to face Jamie.

"Alright, here we are."

"Could you walk me to the gates?"

"Of course sweetie." Chloe pulls up the brakes and the keys from the ignition.

They were walking hand in hand towards the gates when someone approached them. "You must be Mrs Walp. It's so good to finally meet you. I'm Ms Walters, one of Jamie's teachers."

Chloe reached for her hand to shake. Before she could correct her, Ms Walters turned to Jamie.

"You were right, Jamie, your mom is very pretty."

"Yes she is the prettiest." Jamie gives Chloe's hand a squeeze and smiles up at Chloe.

Chloe just smiles at Ms Walters politely. "It's nice to meet you. I hope this little one isn't much of a trouble." Chloe says as they continued to walk.

"Oh no. Jamie is one of the good kids. He's pretty popular with everyone actually."

"Really?" Chloe then looks down at Jamie who was looking a bit smug.

"It was nice meeting you again, Mrs Walp. Jamie I'll see you in Class."

"See you later Ms Walters!"

When they were left alone, Chloe slows down and pulls Jamie's hand gently as she slowly knelt to meet his eye level.

"Alright little man. What's going on here?"

Jamie sighed in defeat. "Well. I sort of kind of told everyone at school that you were my mom."

"You what?"

"I was so sick of everyone asking me about my mom cause they always see me with just dad. So I've been telling them you were my mom."

Chloe nods trying to process what Jamie did. She then looks around and really starts to pay attention. This explains why everyone was looking at them all curious.

"I didn't think you would have a problem being my pretend mom. I'm sorry."

"Hey, it's okay. I'm not mad. Don't think about it right now. Let's just talk about it after school, okay?"

"Are you coming to pick me up?"

"Do you want me to pick you up?"

Jamie nodded enthusiastically. "Yes please."

"Then I will see you in a couple of hours." Chloe leaned in to kiss the top of his head before standing up. "Have fun little man."

"Bye Chloe." Jamie whispers before he starts to run to the doors and turned back to Chloe. "Bye mom!" He shouts as he blows Chloe a kiss.

Chloe rolled her eyes. "God that little boy will be the death of me."