Have you ever fed a lover with just your hands?
"Don't say lover," she reminds him as he closes his eyes and opens his mouth. When nothing happens, he opens his eyes and looks at her expectantly.
"Told you you couldn't do it," he grins smugly, and with that, she shoves a big piece of cake into his mouth, smashing frosting all over his face in the process.
They're both laughing as he grabs a napkin from the table and attempts to clean his face. "Very funny," he rolls his eyes at her, "Now it's your turn."
"No way," she replies.
Closed your eyes and trusted, just trusted?
"Come on!" he exclaims, "I trusted you enough to do it!"
"And look how well that turned out for you," she teases, pointing to his sticky chin.
"Beca," he warns, and she reluctantly shuts her eyes and parts her lips.
He takes a small piece of cake and places it gently on her tongue, and she smiles, opening her eyes to look at him just as he smears a dollop of icing on her bottom lip. Before she can protest, his mouth is on hers, his tongue expertly licking the icing from her lips.
Have you ever thrown a fistful of glitter in the air?
"Glitter is from the devil," he grumbles as he tries to rid his hands of the sparkly stuff. "It sticks to you and never washes off, and it ends up everywhere!"
"I agree, it's horrible," she says, wiping her hands on her jeans, "But Aubrey's insisting we have to wear something shiny tonight, and I settled for this," she points down to her shirt which is black with a silver start outlined in glitter. "I didn't realize it would wipe off on you."
"I guess it's my fault for trying to pry it off of you," he winks.
"With your teeth," she adds, smacking him playfully on the arm.
He flops on his bed, exasperated. "Seriously, now my bed is covered in this crap."
She climbs on top of him, the peak of the star reaching between her breasts as she leans over him. "Sorry," she whispers breathily in his ear before kissing him hard.
Their first April Fools' Day together, she attacks him with a fistful of glitter, and the stuff is in his hair for days afterwards. He retaliates by shaking his head over her naked body, and then she's covered in it too. She has to take many showers to remove all traces of it, but when he joins her, she decides it was totally worth it.
Have you ever looked fear in the face and said I just don't care?
She considers herself to be a brave person. But it's when she's confronted with the idea of losing him, for the first time in a long time, she allows herself to feel fear. When Aubrey finally allows her creative reign of the Bellas, she knows what she has to do. It's hard, not just running to him during the weeks of practice before the finals, but she knows she needs to wait. He hasn't forgiven her from her apology alone, and she knows him well enough to realize that in order to win him back she's going to need to do more. She needs to prove to him that he matters to her, she's been listening to him all this time, and that he's amazing.
So she sings to him.
When he nods his consent, and raises his fist in the air, a wide smile spreads across her face because she knows she's forgiven. The Bellas finish their number, and when she exits the stage and kisses him, she's aware that this is only the beginning.
It's only half past the point of no return
The tip of the iceberg, the sun before the burn
The thunder before the lightning, and the breath before the phrase
Have you ever felt this way?
While he knows soon after they meet that he's in love with her, it takes her a little longer to admit her feelings for him to herself. During the time when they don't speak, she watches his movies, and she knows she cares about him, but it isn't until he switches from just a friend to something more that it turns into anything resembling love. She wakes one night and looks over at him in the darkness, his arm slung over her abdomen as he lies on his side, his breathing even, and she just knows. It takes her another two weeks to tell him.
Have you ever hated yourself for staring at the phone?
They're fighting, and she's said some horrible, hateful things. She didn't mean a word of it, was just lashing out at him because he was there, and now he isn't anymore. She's left countless messages on his voicemail, and even went by his dorm room a few times, but so far she's had no contact with him in three days.
She checks her phone every few minutes, making sure not to miss a call or a text, but nothing comes her way. She sends him another text that says simply, I love you, I miss you.
Your whole life waiting on a ring to prove you're not alone?
He looks at his phone as it buzzes, and sees her message. He knows she loves him, and he knows she didn't mean what she said, but that doesn't stop it from hurting. Beca has always been a challenge, and it's one of the many reasons he fell in love with her. He knows he's forgiven her, he knows he always will.
He picks up the phone to dial her number, and he can hear the relief in her voice when she answers.
And years later, after waiting for ages for a different kind of ring, they finally slide each other's wedding bands on their ring fingers, sealing them together forever.
Have you been touched so gently you had to cry?
It is the first night of their sophomore year together, and they're lying in her bed, the moonlight casting shadows across her dorm room. They had missed each other desperately over the summer, and after so many months apart, their love making had been heated and frantic, the pent up love and lust overflowing with need for release. They're on their backs, the sheet loosely covering their naked forms as they stare up at the ceiling, trying to regain their breaths. His fingertips are lightly skimming her forearm.
They both roll on their sides so that they're facing each other, and he smiles at her.
"I missed you, Bec," he says in the darkness, grazing the backs of his fingers along her jawline, and her breath hitches in her throat. Her heart swells with love for him as she scoots closer to him, pressing her body against his as she closes the distance between their mouths. When she pulls away there are tears in her eyes.
"Beca?" he questions, the concern evident in his voice as he tilts her chin up, forcing her to look at him. "What is it? Did I hurt you? Are you ok?"
"I'm fine, you're perfect," she manages, taking a deep breath. "It's just…I love you."
He smiles, relieved. "I love you too," he replies simply.
Have you ever invited a stranger to come inside?
His openness rolls off him in waves, but she's a closed book. And although they work together and discuss everything from music, to movies, and to their classes, they don't really know each other. Originally, Jesse falls for the mystery that is her, and she falls for his kindness, his resolve to know her. But for all intents and purposes, they are strangers to one another.
His invitation comes in the form of relentless flirting. He's telling her that he wants more, and she knows it. His message is loud and clear.
Hers comes in the form of a song. It's on stage in front of throngs of people and all their friends, and yet it's far more subtle. Only they know the meaning of that song in the course of their relationship. It's telling him she's ready to let him inside her world.
When she looks back at it years later when their children are grown and they're enjoying a comfortable life together, she knows that the most defining moment in her life was when he raised his fist in the air in acknowledgement, and she answered him right back.
It's only half past the point of oblivion
The hourglass on the table, the walk before the run
The breath before the kiss, and the fear before the flames
Have you ever felt this way?
She recognizes the fear in her heart soon after she meets him and understands instantly that he is unlike any guy she's ever known in her life. No one in her life before him has ever bothered to fight for her, and she knows she makes it hard on purpose, a test almost, and he passes every one.
His family teases him when she meets them finally, asking him how he managed to win her heart, but she knows she's actually the lucky one. Girls are drawn to Jesse, and it isn't just because of his amazing voice and adorably dorky dance moves, but it's also because of who he is. He's charming, and handsome, and genuinely kind. There's passion in everything he does, and she's so fortunate to be on the receiving end of it.
It's how she feels as she's walking down the aisle towards him on the day of their wedding, terrified yet overjoyed, and so in love.
There you are, sitting in the garden, clutching my coffee
Calling me sugar, you called me sugar
They're on their honeymoon, and the resort has a lovely garden that overlooks the beach. They can walk there from the private entrance to their room, and when Jesse is not in bed one morning when she wakes, it doesn't take her long to find him.
She quickly slips into shorts and a tank top and walks across the grass to him. He's sitting on a bench, sipping his coffee. And as she approaches he hands a mug to her.
"Hey sugar, did you sleep well?" he says casually, a bright smile on his face, and it's dorky, and cheesy, and perfect, and him.
Have you ever wished for an endless night?
There were a few times in their relationship when they knew they were going to be apart for a while. The summers in between semesters at college, and the winter and spring breaks when they each went their separate ways. But nothing is quite like their last night at Barden, when she's heading to Los Angeles the next morning and he's heading to New York City.
They make love more than once, and lay wrapped in each other's arms. In typical Jesse fashion he serenades her with Maroon 5's Daylight, and she fights sleep because she doesn't want the next day to arrive. She wishes this night would never end, and that she could keep him forever.
Lassoed the moon and the stars and pulled that rope tight?
When he comes back to her, she again wishes the night would never end. She spends most of it just looking at him in the moonlight, and frets over how close she came to losing him.
They have other nights where they wish time would freeze. She loves the nights where they cuddle up in bed together and just talk. He loves the time she spends curled into his side, fast asleep as they watch a movie. They both enjoy every moment they spend as a family with their children.
Have you ever held your breath and asked yourself will it ever get better than tonight?
She wonders that after they first make love, only to realize soon after that it just keeps getting better.
The night of their wedding is also amazing and one for the record books. She vows to always remember the way he looks at her that night, a mixture of pride, love, and adoration etched across his handsome face. And as he holds his new wife tightly to his side that night, he can't believe that everything they've gone through so far has led them to this.
The day that Melody is born, she wakes to find him talking to the newborn in the dark hospital room, and again she wants to freeze frame on this moment.
And when Aria is born, he finds Beca singing and dancing with the baby in the middle of the night, and he quickly gets up to join them.
Tonight.
Yes, there are a million little moments in their lives that might seem insignificant, but in the grand scheme of things they make them who they are. From Beca Mitchell and Jesse Swanson, to Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Swanson, to Mommy and Daddy, and to Grandma and Grandpa, what's most important in it all is that they found love.
A/N: The song is Glitter in the Air by Pink.