Bread Crumbs
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5. She has four (sorta) siblings
(Part II)
"BECA!" there is a blur of pink dress and brown hair that crashes into Beca's side as they walk into her dad's house, almost knocking his tiny girlfriend off her feet with its intensity that Jesse has to put an arm around Beca to steady her.
"I missed you" the now on focus blur whispers against Beca's hip, little arms around her big sister with this complete look of adoration on her eyes.
"Missed you too girly, but next time maybe try not to knock me down okay?" Beca says with a smile, her fingers brushing the little girl's hair away from her face.
"Hey! Where's my hello?!" Jesse asks, kneeling so he is face-to-face with Isla (who somehow can do a perfect imitation of Beca's eye-roll he wonders if it's genetic).
"Hey nerd" Isla manages through a fit a giggles at his pretend shocked face.
"Isla!" Professor Mitchel says as he walks into the living-room, followed by Sheila who is checking she has everything in a tiny little black bag.
"Beca calls Jesse that" the four-year-old responds as an excuse, still firmly attached to Beca's side. Jesse straightens up laughing gently and telling his girlfriend's dad that it's perfectly okay, he is used to the Mitchel women making fun of him.
They go through the general hello's and how-are-you-doing's before assuring the young couple they will be back before midnight and to please help themselves to anything in the house (Professor Mitchel pulls Jesse aside as they leave the house to explicitly warm him that they are not allowed together upstairs near any rooms under any pretense), before Jesse and Beca are left in charge of a very happy little girl who has managed to convince Beca to pick her up.
Jesse loves helping Beca babysit, though generally she does most of the work and he just picks a movie and jumps on the trampoline with Isla. She is a natural, walking around the house with the little girl firmly attached to her hip telling her big sister all about her day and dance class, nodding and wow-ing at all the right places. Jesse always wonders why she complains so much whenever she gets a call from her dad asking if she would be able to watch her little (half) sister for a few hours, because she always has a permanent smile on her face through the whole time they are there.
He loves the little girl, who is all sunshine and rainbows and pink, but somehow still manages to be exactly like Beca. Beca told him the first time she dragged him along that Isla is a total surprise baby and she tried really hard to dislike the little girl when she was born, but obviously she failed because the little girl has Beca (and almost everyone else too) wrapped around her little finger.
After a full night of movies, trampoline jumping, ice-cream, and an impromptu tickle-fight (that Jesse is proud to say he won), Jesse watches from the doorway as his girlfriend tucks her baby sister in, rubbing a hand over her back and singing a lullaby in the sweetest voice he's ever heard until Isla loses the fight with her too heavy eye lids, a gentle "I love you Beca" tumbling from her before she falls asleep.
He watches as Beca leans forward to place a gentle kiss against the little girls forehead, brushing brown bangs from her face and whispering the sentiment back.
As she makes her way back to him, Jesse really can't help but know that someday (years from now, when they are ready) she will be an amazing mom and he falls in love with her just a bit more for it.
It's a little fluff but hopefully not too over the top. One more of the sibling chapters to go hope I'm doing them justice.
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