girl, put your records on (deleted scenes)
Had to cut these out from the story because I felt like they didn't really fit for some reason? Because I felt like they could stand alone or something, idk. Sharing them with y'all anyway because most of you asked for them :) (They were originally four scenes but the other two weren't really...good...so yeah, just these two for now.)
01.
Beca's never really been anyone's girlfriend before. It's kind of freaking her out a little.
Jesse tries to use the word casually one day as they're stacking CDs. At least, Beca assumes he thinks he's being casual. He is, for as long as she's known him, anything but subtle. "Does the girlfriend want a burger when I go pick up Luke's?"
Her heart, annoyingly enough, starts pounding for some insane reason. She scrunches her nose a bit, trying to hide her face behind a tall shelf, because she feels the redness starting to creep into her cheeks, and Jesse will never let it go if he sees. She thinks he sees her wince, though, so he smoothly continues with, "Or does the lady prefer to be called my 'lover'?"
"Oh my god," she says, and she throws a CD in his direction (it's a Cher Lloyd album; it doesn't have any value as far as she's concerned). "Seriously?"
He starts laughing at the scowl that instantly replaces her grimace. "So we're resorting to violence now?"
"We are if you insist on calling me that – that dirty word."
She's actually a bit relieved when Luke sticks his head out of the studio, looking annoyed, because Jesse looks on the verge of breaking out into loud, probably mildly insulting laughter. "Oi! What's going on out here?"
"Nothing, Luke," Beca says immediately, fixing her features into one of boredom and indifference. She rolls her eyes, even though she's kind of enjoying how Jesse's a weird combination of annoyed and amused right now; she's not been privy to his belief that Luke somehow harbors unrequited feelings for her. She doesn't know where the hell that theory's come from, but she often enjoys maybe batting her eyelashes at Luke from time to time if only to make Jesse squirm. "Jesse's just being a klutz, as usual."
Jesse laughs – way harder than she's expected him to, and it actually is kind of insulting – once Luke disappears again after giving him a reprimanding look. "He's going to make me get his lunch for him until he graduates," he says, "but it's worth it, because the look on your face when I said 'lover' was priceless."
"Dude, lover? Really? How is that any better?" She punches him hard on the arm. "And yes, I want a cheeseburger. And large fries."
He ruffles the top of her head as he passes her on his way out. She tries not to look too relieved that he's dropped the whole 'girlfriend' thing (cringe), even though that's exactly what she is – relieved. She wonders if he's hurt or offended, and she tries to study his face, but he's just smiling at her, holding the answers she's been looking for; that he doesn't mind, he's not hurt, he understands. (And her heart kind of aches a little, because sometimes she honestly wonders why this nerd likes her, despite her being so closed off and protective of her feelings like this. She's everything he's not (save for the snark and the wit, because…come on) and the fact that they even get along is in itself a mystery.
"Coming right up," he says, as she reaches up to smooth down her hair (he knows it annoys her to no end when he tries to mess it up), "lover."
The second CD she throws at him only hits the door as it closes behind him, his annoying laughter still echoing in her ears. She ignores Luke as he scolds her for throwing things ("What have we just said about that, Becky?"), and tries to hide her smile behind a curtain of hair.
Jesse is pretty amazing (she's never telling him that, though), but he's also pretty insufferable.
02.
The day Jesse finds out he's on her speed dial, Beca just wants the earth to swallow her whole.
(Okay, not really, but come on, Jesse would never let her live this down.)
He borrows her phone because his battery's died and she's asked him to call Chloe, to ask what time he and Beca are meeting her for dinner tomorrow night. She's distracted, because this new mix she's making for semi-finals is killing her, so she hands it over without a second thought and tells him to just look under her speed dial list.
"Hey, what do you know," Jesse says, a grin coloring his tone. "I'm on your speed dial."
She looks up with a frown. "No, you're not," she says, and tries to snatch the phone away from him, but there's only so much she can do at five feet tall.
"Uh, yes, I am," he says, holding his phone high in the air like the asshole that he is. "Here, look. I'm the second person here, right under 'Mom.' Aww, Beca. That's so sweet."
"You're only there because it's such a pain in the ass having to scroll through my phone book to find the S's," she says grumpily. "And then having to scroll too far, then going back up, and scrolling too far again…"
His laugh interrupts her, and he swings an arm around her shoulders, pulling her into a loose headlock. "Relax, Bec," he says with a grin as she tries to pull away from him to no avail, "you're on mine, too."
She stops struggling. "Really?"
"Well, yeah," he shrugs, like it's no big deal, "you kind of call me all the time, you know, so I have to always call you back or else face your wrath…"
"I don't call you all the time!" she protests, but she feels her face redden. Damn it, she's kind of afraid to look at her call list now, because okay, maybe she does kind of call him a lot…but mostly because he won't stop flooding her phone with annoying texts telling her to reply to his messages, that's all.
"…and you've been on my speed dial for, like, months." He grins down at her, making her heart jump in a weird, unexpected way. "You know, right after my mom and then the really awesome pizza place just outside campus."
"You put me after that 'awesome pizza place outside campus'?" Okay, maybe she's a little offended now, because really?
"Well, you'd be much higher up if you were able to appease my super random pizza cravings at two in the morning – ow–"
"I fucking hate you," she says, walking away from him, and he grins and trots after her, massaging his arm and pulling at her scarf even though she tries to shrug him away.
He doesn't stop badgering her about being on her speed dial for a week (a week!) after that, until she threatens to take him off the stupid list.
(That finally shuts him up, thank god.)
Might add more if inspiration calls, but right now I have to get to class hahaha. Hope you all enjoyed!