Flashback to the night when you said to me,
"Nothing's gonna change, not for me and you
Not before I knew how much I had to lose"
"What the hell Beca? Were you trying to screw us up?" Aubrey says angrily to Beca the moment they are off the stage.
"Are you serious?" Beca asks baffled. She made it so people were paying attention to them. Before she started singing everyone was bored.
"Newsflash. This isn't the Beca Show." Aubrey says barely concealing her rage. Beca looks at Aubrey still surprised as that she hadn't realized what she had actually done for them.
"Okay, I'm sorry that I messed you up, but in case you hadn't noticed, everybody pretty much dozed off during our set." Beca says trying to defend herself.
"It's not your job to decide what we do and when we do it. Why don't you ask the rest of the group how they felt about your little improvisation?" Aubrey asked. Beca looked around at the other silent Bellas. She was screwed.
"Amy?" She asked hesitantly. She saw the cautious look on Amy's face and knew that it was over.
"It was cool. But it did take us a little bit by surprise." Amy says cautiously as she looks over at Aubrey. Beca feels betrayed; one of the girls that she has gotten to know has just given her up. After glancing over at Chloe and Stacie; realizing that they wouldn't say anything Beca turned her steely gaze back to Aubrey.
"Yeah, a lot like surprise. I told you she wasn't a Bella." Aubrey says to the group but directing the last sentence towards Chloe. Beca's eyes look over and send a glare her way when Chloe doesn't deny Aubrey right away.
"Aubrey, don't." Chloe says a moment too late. Beca's nails were leaving crescent shapes into her hand as she tried to hold back all of her anger.
"No, that's okay. You don't have to pretend, you're allowed to have a say in the group, right?" Beca asks sarcastically. Her ire rises when none of the other Bellas speak up for her. She is one step away from trying to punch Aubrey in the face.
"Your attitude sucks. You're a grade-A pain in my ass, and I know you're hooking up with Jesse." Aubrey says haughtily. Beca's eyes widen at the accusation. Well they weren't hooking up, technically; they were together not just sex in the janitor's closet.
"Whoa, whoa, Aubrey, calm down. We're not hooking up, I swear." Jesse says walking behind her. Damn it, she had it all under control. She could've handled it herself. He doesn't need to protect her; she is fully capable of doing so herself.
"Jesus Christ! That's perfect. Of course you're here right now. I don't need your help, okay? Can you back off?" Beca asks blowing up from all of the stress of the Bellas and her school work and the worrying that she was never good enough for him. She regretted it the moment it passed her lips.
"Trebles. Time to bring the pain." They are warned them. This took Beca out of her daze and just felt as if she was being suffocated.
"If this is what I get for trying…" Beca says as she throws her hands up. Beca starts to walk away. She couldn't stand another moment of seeing the glares from Aubrey and the shame from the other girls.
Beca's feet start carrying her far away from where she was standing. She can hear Jesse call for her but she just can't stop; she doesn't want to see the hurt in his eyes that she caused. Beca pushes the door to the auditorium open and can hear two pairs of feet chasing after her. She would guess Benji and Jesse; but one can never be so sure.
Tears prick her eyes and she takes a deep breath to stop the horrible choking sound she was about to make. Beca ran as fast as she could out of the building and stopped to catch her breath when she had gotten outside. Beca heard the door open and she glanced over to her side to see Jesse running out.
"Beca," He says blowing out a puff of breath once he realized that she was not going to go anywhere.
"I'm sorry." She says. Beca is not one to apologize; she has once before; to Jesse. It was the one time that she has accidentally punched him in the face.
"Did Beca Mitchell just apologize to me?" Jesse asks faking surprise as he walks up and stands in front of her.
"Aubrey drives me crazy and I lashed out." Beca murmurs as he takes a step closer to her. She allows him to step closer and wrap his arms around her.
"Its okay, Aubrey seems like a bitch." Jesse says resting his chin on top of her head. She nodded, inhaling his scent.
"What about the Trebles? Did you just leave them?" Beca asks; Jesse lifts his head off of her head and looked down at her.
"Um, they should be performing right now." Jesse says sheepishly. Beca looks up at him, meeting his eyes.
"Jesse, you should have gone and joined them; instead of coming out here." Beca says punching his shoulder. He just shakes his head and pulls her closer to him.
"Let's get out of here." Jesse mumbles against her hair. Beca nods and grabs his hand before trying to drag him away from the building.
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"Are you ready yet, Bec?" Jesse asks plopping down on her bed.
"No, just another minute." Beca said packing up her music. She needed her music and of course waited until the last minute to pack it. He made muffled noise through her duvet and she looked over at him.
"Jess, should I pack this?" Beca asks holding up a lacy pair of black underwear that she had bought before she got to Barden as a surprise for him. She had never gotten to wearing it; but figured as to why not tease him then.
He lifted his head and she smirked as he gulped audibly. Jesse struggled to sit up against her bed and ran his hand through his face. She looked down and saw that he was slightly excited.
"No, my parents will be right down the hall. It's not nice to torture me like that." Jesse says as he rubs the back of his neck. Beca raises her eyebrows and drops the underwear into the bag.
"Shit," Jesse mutters under his breath.
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"Welcome back to the Swanson Family." Mrs. Swanson also known as Betty says as Beca and Jesse arrive. Before Beca is prepared Betty wraps her arms around the small brunette and smooshes her into her chest.
"Hi, Betty." Beca says as soon as she was released from her arms. Beca smiled as she took in the house. She has always loved visiting the Swanson house; they have always been a reprieve from her parent's fighting or when her parents got divorced and she wanted to run. The whole family had welcomed them with open arms.
"Hey Beca," Scott, Jesse's older brother said as he walked down the stairs. Beca waved in response. Jesse's siblings had always liked her; for which she was thankful. Jesse had one other sibling, his thirteen year old sister Alexis. She had always loved Beca since they first met when Beca was fifteen.
"Where's Alexis?" Beca asked Betty as she looked to see if there was any sign of her.
"Over at a friend's, though she couldn't wait for you to come." Betty said as she stood by Beca's side.
"I should go help him with the luggage." Beca says motioning to the opening door where Jesse was taking out the luggage.
"No, you're a guest he can carry the luggage up." She says laughing slightly making a shooing motion and she can see Jesse stick his tongue out at her when his mother isn't looking.
"Beca," Betty says as she leads Beca to the kitchen where she has some snacks set out. Beca grabs a chocolate chip muffin and peels at the wrapping.
"If this is too much to ask, feel free to stop me." Betty says, she knows of Beca's commitment phobe tendencies so she didn't want to scare the girl at all and that Beca wasn't typically a touchy feely girl. Beca looked up her and innerly debated whether she should let her; knowing Betty it could be asking about grandchildren or something as simple as what perfume she was wearing.
"Shoot," Beca said taking a bite of the muffin. Betty nodded in response to Beca's one worded answer.
"I'm just wondering about you and Jesse, do you two have a song or at least in his case a movie." Mrs. Swanson asks and Beca lets a small smile glide over her face.
"Oh, to the 'romance'" Beca says semi sarcastically as she uses air quotes over romantic. "Um, our song would be, um Don't You Forget about Me by Simple Minds; at least I'm pretty sure. Our movie would probably be The Breakfast Club. It was the first movie I liked and stayed awake through." Beca says and the smile that Betty displays almost blinds her.
"I'm gonna help Jesse take the suitcases up the stairs." Beca says and Betty just nods as she goes to work on preparing dinner. Beca wipes the crumbs off of her hands from the muffin and walks back to the foyer. She found Jesse just shutting the front door after moving all of the luggage inside.
"Hey," She says and he turns around walking over to her.
"Hey," He replies pecking her lips.
"How do you feel about going to a party tomorrow?" Jesse asks as he wraps his arms around her waist.
"At whose?" Beca asks as she looks back up at him.
"Toby's." Jesse says. Toby is one of their friends in high school. Beca had decided that he would be a good friend after he said that he disliked movies. Of course that made it torture for Jesse; with two out of his three friends disliking movies. Toby was a fun guy and Beca hadn't stayed in touch with him as much since college as Jesse has. Their third friend was a girl named Paige, she enjoyed movies so Beca and Toby were excused the torture. Everyone in their high school had expected Paige and Jesse to get together. But they were all surprised when Beca and Jesse started dating and then Toby and Paige had started dating not long after.
"Sure." Beca said leaning up on her tip toes to kiss his lips again.
"What about we just leave the luggage and get back to it later." Jesse whispers against her lips.
"Maybe, if we get the suitcases upstairs." Beca says pulling away and smirking at the disappointed look.
Fine," Jesse says sighing as he walks over to the luggage. He looks back up at her and tries giving her the puppy dog eyes; that usually work. She just shakes her head at him again.
It takes them about ten minutes to get all of their luggage into Jesse's movie poster filled room. Beca stood back with her hands on her hips and looked at their handy work with all of the luggage stacked near the corner of the room.
She can feel a warm pair of arms wrap around her waist and she leans back into his touch.
"So you said something about doing something if we got the luggage upstairs." Jesse says resting his head against her shoulder. A loud slam of the front door causes Beca to turn her head towards the bedroom door.
"Should we go see who it is?" Beca asks. She can feel him shake his head against her.
"Nope, we should just stay here." Jesse says as he kisses the column of her neck. Beca rolls her eyes but lets out a sigh when he sucks on her pulse point.
Jesse's door is thrown open and Jesse jumps back from Beca. Beca can feel her heart rate increase to an astronomical level for a moment before she takes a moment to realize who it was.
"Oh you're busy," Alexis, Jesse's younger sister says kind of sadly. Beca shakes her head and walks over to the girl before looking her in the eye.
"Crap, I'm the shortest now." Beca says looking over to Jesse. He just chuckles and walks over hugging his younger sister.
"How are ya doing little sis?"Jesse asks and she just shakes her head at him leaning towards Beca. Beca just smirks at him and he pretends to be wounded by the girls. He uses his puppy dog face on them and Beca just turns Alexis away and they leave the room; leaving Jesse standing alone in his room.
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After dinner and all of the dishes had been done the whole family was sitting in the living room; watching a movie. Jesse was sitting on the floor with Beca between his legs. Beca was content in that moment; she was very full from dinner and minutes away from dozing off. Mr. and Mrs. Swanson were sitting on the couch near them holding hands. Scott was lying on another couch directly behind them. Alexis was sitting on the loveseat on her phone probably texting one of her friends.
"We're going to go up to bed." Betty says as Mr. Swanson got up to head upstairs.
"Night," All of the children chorused as the parents left.
"So, I heard that both of you guys joined a Capella groups." Scott says looking over at Beca and Jesse. Alexis sets down her phone to see how the conversation unfolds.
"Uh, yeah. We did." Beca responds before Jesse could.
"Did you guys watch the competitions?" Jesse asks as he cranes his neck to look at Scott.
"Yeah, wait Beca was your group the one that looked like flight attendants?" Alexis asks gasping as she had a gaze almost made of fire looking at Beca.
"Yeah," Beca says looking at the floor. Scott started laughing and had tears streaking down his cheeks as he kept laughing until Jesse punched his arm.
"I'm ready to go to bed. What about you?" Jesse asks and Beca nods in response. Beca stands up and stretches as she walks towards the doorway of the living room.
"Night." She said to Scott and Alexis as she walked out. Beca knew that Jesse was behind her and exactly what he wanted. Beca purposely slowed her pace so he was almost stepping on her feet.
"Beca," He whined as she refused to move any faster. She smirked and slowed her pace a little more. She heard a huff of breath behind her before being swept off her feet.
"Dude," Beca squealed as he was holding her bridal style.
"You were taking too long." He said huskily by her ear. He moved quickly up the stairs towards his room. Jesse slowed his movements as he carried her past his parent's rooms. When he got to his room at the end of the hall he slammed his door behind them.
A/N: Hey thanks for the reviews. The song is If This Was a Movie by Taylor Swift. The chapter was originally going to be longer and a cliffhanger but I changed my mind and all of it will be the next chapter with what I originally planned for that chapter. I thought that Scott would look like Miles Teller and Alexis would look like Ruby Jerins. Please favorite, follow and review.
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