You turned your back on tomorrow
'Cause you forgot yesterday.
I gave you my love to borrow,
"Jesse," Beca murmured shaking his shoulder. He grunted a response and tried to pull the blankets higher around his head. How did he deal with her in the morning? And she thought that she was a terrible morning person.
"Jesse, I need to get going." Beca says as she shakes his shoulder a little harder. He lifts his head for a moment opening a single eye before he dropped his head back onto the pillow. Beca slowly removed her body from his and apparently the loss of her body intertwined with his was enough to wake him up.
"Beca," He whined and Beca turned her head at him as he kept his eyes closed.
"I have Bellas rehearsals today and I would like enough time to shower beforehand." Beca says as she starts to put on the clothes that were shed quickly the night before. She snapped the bra clasps back into place and that seemed to at least get Jesse's attention. He sat up slowly rubbing his eyes and watched as she got dressed.
Once Beca was dressed and satisfied with how she looked; at least the most that she could in the Bellas uniform. She could look like she was in jail all night; which could be a valid excuse to use for being gone. If she was late for rehearsals Aubrey would skin her alive and she wouldn't put it past her.
"I need to go. See you later. M'kay." Beca says as she walks back over to Jesse's bed side. He looks barely awake and she doesn't blame him. Beca starts to walk towards the door when Jesse makes a grunting noise. Beca turns around to see him making a motion for her to come back.
Beca sighs and trudges back to his bed. She leans down and kisses his lips; she can feel him respond and she just smiles. Ugh, this nerd has turned her into a softy. Beca stands back up and walks over to the door. She opens the door and looks back.
"See you later," Beca says as she watches Jesse lower himself back into his bed. Beca shuts the door behind her and walks into the hall; to head to her dorm room.
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She puts her key into the lock and pulls open the door. Beca is surprised to see all of the Bellas but Aubrey asleep in her dorm. They were draped over her bed, on the floor and on her computer chair.
"Guys?" Beca says semi loudly to wake them up. One by one the Bellas wake up and sit up. Lazy smiles stretch across some of their faces as they wake up others look like they would cut her for waking them up.
"Hey!" Chloe says first yawning.
"What up, Shaw shank?" Amy says as she takes her head off of Cynthia Rose's shoulder where she had been sleeping.
"Did you get yourself a bitch?" Cynthia Rose asks as she looks Beca up and down. Beca fidgeted for a moment; not sure how to reply.
"Did they spray you with a hose?" Amy asks suspiciously and in that moment Beca wished that she had let Jesse show her some of the jail movies.
"I did a turn at County." Lily says and Beca stares at her oddly for a moment.
"You guys waited for me?" Beca asks, surprised. She walks farther into the room and set her jacket down near her closet.
"Of course we waited up for you." Chloe says as she looks back up at Beca. Beca hopes that they ignore her surprise, maybe most parents or friends do wait up; but she wouldn't know.
"Beca, I'm glad you're finally here. I'm calling an emergency Bella meeting." Aubrey says barging right into the room. Beca's head whips back to the Bella leader who looked like she was perfectly awake.
"Noooo." Fat Amy says trailing off. Beca silently agrees with the Australian as Aubrey eyes each of them. Beca prays that she can't notice that Beca was actually at the police station all night.
"First up…" Aubrey starts and Beca just wishes that she would stop. She should have just stayed in Jesse's dorm and said screw Aubrey.
"Our score sheet revealed that the Sockapellas almost beat us. And Fat Amy, you need to do it exactly how we rehearsed it, okay? No surprises." Aubrey says glaring at Amy. Amy looks unaffected and Beca inwardly applauds the girl.
"We should be taking risks. It's not enough to be good, we need to put ourselves out there, be different." Beca says. She had been complaining this to Jesse the other day. He agreed with her and yet she wouldn't have been happy if he didn't.
"Beca's right. The Trebles never sing the same song twice." Cynthia Rose says agreeing with Beca. Beca hopes that the whole group could band against Aubrey and they could actually win a competition.
"The audience loves the Trebles, they tolerate us. We could change the face of a cappella if we…Oh my god, that sounded so queer balls. What's happening to me? Um...let me show you this arrangement I've been working on." Beca says as she walks over to her mixing equipment. Beca tries to ignore the small urge of wanting to actually help this group.
"I didn't know you were into this stuff." Chloe says as she leans over to look at the screen.
"Yeah." Beca says as she prepares to play something of substance for the group.
"Okay, I have the pitch pipe, and I say that we focus on the set list as planned. From now on, there will be no more wasting time with work or school or boyfriends or partners. Sorry, Cynthia Rose." Aubrey says as she looks at all of them. She can tell that Amy, Stacie and Chloe have glanced at her. It doesn't make Beca feel any better that they know about Jesse.
"But Aubrey, this stuff is pretty cool. I mean…" Chloe says trying to support the small brunette.
"Okay rehearsal 8:00am sharp." Aubrey says interrupting Chloe before walking out.
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Beca was stoked; her song was on the radio. Her freaking song! She ran as fast as she could in her heels into the radio station. This was the beginning for all that she was working for. She rushed into the radio station and wove through the various shelves. She saw that Luke was in the booth; Beca ran up and started hitting the window of the booth.
"Hey! This is my track! You're playing my song right now! That is awesome! You like it? You put it on the radio! That is amazing!" Beca says excitedly; she felt as if she was five years old, innocent and free.
"It's a sick beat. Your Jesse had been bugging me to listen to it" Luke says nonchalantly as he gets up from the booth to put a CD away. Beca's eyes widen and internally thank Jesse a thousand times. She can tell that he is smiling; she could hear him moving around on the upper levels when she first arrived.
"Hey, Becky, listen spring break, I want you to take the night shift. Play your music. The DJ at the garage does a brilliant version of this, but yours? It's better." Luke says smiling.
"Um, I'm not gonna be here for spring break." Beca says and Luke's smile falls from his face. She fidgets slightly, not sure what to expect from Luke's reaction.
"I'm gonna listen to her tonight. I think you should… You should come with." Luke says. Beca shakes her head slightly.
"I have a thing." Beca says as she becomes aware of how tight this outfit is on her.
"Flight attendant training?" Luke asks jokingly. Beca suppresses the urge to roll her eyes; she is slightly calmed by seeing Jesse behind Luke.
"It's Barden Bellas. I have the semi-finals tonight." Beca says readjusting the strap of her bag on her shoulder.
"Really? I did not have you pegged as an a cappella girl." Luke says surprised.
"That's because you don't know Becky like I do. See you tonight." Jesse says as he walks by. Beca's stance grows more rigid as Jesse skims his hand against her ass. She really hopes that Luke didn't notice, she didn't need it to get awkward between her and her boss.
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"Okay, don't you flat-butts worry, I got this. I'm just gonna pump and dump." Fat Amy says. Beca sits back in her seat and takes a deep breath. She had been texting Jesse back and forth; he was sending her either very bad jokes or pictures of the Treble bus.
From: The Nerd
Sent: 2:37
I see your bus
From Beca
Sent: 2:38
What?
And then she hears Amy screaming an array of various profanities.
From: Beca
Sent: 2:39
Dammit
Beca quickly gets up and runs outside to help Amy. What the hell did they do to her? She rushes out to see various Mexican foods spread all around Amy.
"No, no, no, I'm talking, I'm talking…I'm sitting up." Beca sees Amy say as Cynthia Rose backs up from her. Beca walks up quietly to the girls with Lily trailing behind her.
"Alright, cool." Cynthia Rose said leaning back brushing off her skirt.
"There's no need for that. No mouth to mouth. Shit. Bumper threw a big-ass burrito at me. I'm gonna kill him, I swear. I'm gonna finish him like a cheesecake." Amy says looking at the other girls. Beca was sure that Amy was going to follow through on that threat.
The girls trickled back into the bus and Beca took her previous seat. When she picked it up a new text alert was flashing. She opened it and rolled her eyes.
From: The Nerd.
Sent: 2:40
;D
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"You've got yourself a little something there." Beca whispers to Fat Amy as she leans forward pointing at the Mexican food on her neck.
"Just leave it. It fuels my hate fire." Amy says. Beca leans back nodding; it made total sense to her. She has been sending threats to Jesse for the past half for what Bumper had done to Amy. The dickhead; hadn't responded to one and he knew that that was the best response.
Beca craned her neck when she first heard Chloe start to sing. Before she knew it the whole bus had joined into Chloe's rendition of Party in the USA. Beca had to admit that she did have fun singing with them. But she would never admit it to anyone; maybe Jesse, maybe.
"What the hell?" Aubrey says as they hear the bus sputter.
"Um…it's pretty cool actually. I think we're just running out of gas." Amy says relatively quietly. Beca's eyes widen as she remembers exactly why the bus was stopping.
"No, that can't be. You just filled the tank." Aubrey argues, Beca ducks her head. She is not a particular fan of arguments of any kind.
"Yeah, I did. And, yet maybe I didn't, because I got hit by flying Mexican food. And…we're out." Amy says as the bus pulls to a stop. Beca releases a sigh as she tries to think of any possible way that they can still possibly get to the competition on time.
"A-ca-scuse me?" Aubrey says aghast.
"A-ca-believe it. Man, what are we gonna do?" Amy says with her jaw almost to the floor. Obviously playing up the shock so Aubrey doesn't take all of her anger out on her.
"Maybe we could call…" Chloe says trailing off and Aubrey's head snaps over to Chloe.
"No, don't even say it, Chloe how dare you?" Aubrey asks putting her hand up to her chest.
"No, actually that is a really good idea, I've got Bumpers number." Amy says reaching to grab her phone.
"Why do you have Bumper's number?" Aubrey asks and Amy freezes under her gaze. Beca looks over at her wondering if there is another that has broken the oath. She glanced at Chloe knowing that she too had broken the oath.
"Uhhhh….uuhhhhhhhhhhhh…" Amy stutters trying to find an answer.
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"So, Bellas…what boring, estrogen-filled set have you prepared for us this evening?" Bumper asks and Beca rolls her eyes. She is squished between Chloe and Stacie. Across from them are Jesse and Hat. Hat is directly across from Chloe and Jesse from Beca. They called it coincidence; Beca was not so sure.
"Excuse me? But you guys are gonna get pitch-slapped so hard, you man boobs are gonna concave." Amy says and Bumper puts a hand protectively over his chest.
"Nine miles guys." Donald says to the back.
Beca is holding her phone in her hand in a death grip when she feels Stacie's hand wrap around hers. Her momentary pause was enough time for Stacie to take her phone.
"Stacie, give it back." Beca hissed under her breath. Stacie discretely shakes her head and Beca can tell that they have caught Chloe's attention. Beca looks across them and can see that Jesse is checking his phone. And from the look on his face she can tell that Stacie had sent him something bad, very bad.
His eyes meet hers with a question. She tilts her head at Stacie and he picks up his phone and his fingers fly across the keys. After a moment Stacie hands back her phone and Beca scrolls through her messages and her eyes widen considerably. Stacie had tried to sext him.
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"Five minutes, Bellas." They get as a warning until their request to be on stage.
"Where did he come from?" Stacie asks as they watch the group before them perform. The group is in panic, they don't have a chance.
"Shh!" Jessica says watching the group in amazement.
"It's over. There's no way we can beat the Footnotes and the Trebles." Amy says to the group and them all but Aubrey, nod in agreement.
"A-ca-huddle, now. The top two teams go to the finals, so we just have to beat one of them. And if we do it exactly how we rehearsed it, we will get there, okay? Exactly. Hands in." Aubrey says trying to give them a pep talk.
"On three or after three?" Cynthia Rose asks; the team looks at each other in question of what to do.
"Screw it. Let's just do it." Aubrey says as she stands straighter and smoothes her skirt out. Beca's eyes shoot back to Jesse before preparing herself for the performance. He sends her an encouraging smile and for some reason it helps calm her nerves.
"Put your hands together for the Barden Bellas!" The announcer says before running off to the side.
The lights are bright and Beca has to watch her step as she walks out. She just has a feeling in the pit of her stomach that they won't do well.
"One, two, three, four…" Aubrey says after blowing on the pitch pipe.
A/N: Hey so one part of this chapter wasn't originally mentioned in the previous, but I edited it so it is now. The song is Payphone by Maroon 5. Please follow, favorite and review.
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