Getting out of the nightclub, Beca took a deep breath as she looked at the clouded sky.
"Becs" Jesse called
Beca glanced behind her then quickly wiped the tears that escaped.
"Yeah?" She said after clearing her throat.
"Bumper said you were looking for me"
"Yep" Beca nodded.
"What is it?" Jesse asked catching up with her.
"You know, I spent a whole week trying to think of why you should forgive and maybe take me back, but I couldn't think of any reason" Beca looked up meeting his gaze.
"Like, you're seriously better off without me." She sniffed.
"Beca are you drunk?"
"No, I'm not" Beca shook her head "I wish I was, though."
Jesse nodded.
"So, turns out I'm delusional too, congrats, you call it from the beginning." Beca wiped her tears. Before she looked at him to find him watching her.
"And it sucks to know that I won't get my happy ending, but then again I can't complain, I fucked up," She blew a breath.
"You should probably get back inside if you want to get laid tonight" Beca said glancing behind her when she heard her friends.
Jesse silently watched Beca wipe her tears that won't stop falling before she turned on her heels
"Hey, you just gonna walk away?" Jesse asked
"What am I supposed to do?" Beca turned to him and threw her hands in the air then quickly caught her crutches.
"I don't know, not walk away?"
"And do what? Thanks for the awesome birthday present, by the way"
"Why did you send Bumper to invite me to come?"
"To apologize and tell you— You know what? Never mind."
"Tell me what Beca?"
"It doesn't matter, because it won't change anything" Beca said walking away.
"You okay?" Stacie asked.
"Nope, but let's do this. If we get caught I'm leaving you, I don't care, campus security thought I was a student the other time" Beca said taking Chloe's lead.
"Well you do look young" Chloe said crossing the street.
"How did it go?" Stacie asked
"Not so good. We'll talk when you're sober"
"Ohkay—Oh there's a taxi"
"Where's Amy?"
"She said she'll catch up" Chloe answered her.
"You coming with us Em?" Beca asked when Emily joined them
"Of course" Emily said waiting for Benji to catch up.
"Holy shit, there's someone inside" Stacie laughed
"How did you know?" Chloe said holding on to Beca
"The lights are on" Beca rolled her eyes. "I don't want to do this anymore" Beca stop walking as she watched Emily knock on the door.
"C'mon Mitchell," Stacie groaned
"No, I want to go back to my hotel room, eat ice cream and drink vodka until I can't remember my name. I don't even know what we're doing here. This is stupid"
"Hey, not 'cause things didn't go as planned you're gonna get all grumpy, it's your birthday, and we're celebrating"
"This is your idea of your celebrating, Chlo?"
"Listen, you made bad decisions we all tried to knock sense into your head but you were too stubborn and realized a bit too late, so you don't take your frustration on us, okay?" Chloe said holding Beca's shoulders.
Beca nodded then glanced up when a girl opened the door.
"Um, hello?" the girl said looking at them.
"Hi" Emily waved as she rested her elbow on Benji's shoulder.
"This is the Barden Bellas house, right?" Emily asked.
"No, they don't live here anymore, they got the house that has a pool"
"The trebles house" Aubrey laughed.
"And you are?" the girl asked.
"We're formal Bellas" Stacie said.
"Do you mind if we took a look inside?" Chloe asked
"We won't do anything I swear," Beca said.
"Okay" the girl said hesitantly letting them in.
"I had sex there" Stacie said nostalgically as she looked at a corner in the house.
"We didn't need to hear that, Stace" Beca said looking around.
"Hey, is the basement locked?" Stacie asked.
"No, but we were told not to go in there"
"Ha" Beca let out a sarcastic laugh. "I'm out"
"You don't want to see your room?" Chloe asked
"Nah," Beca shook her head walking out. "I'm gonna go walk around campus" Beca glanced at the kitchen "Hey, do you mind if I took that cereal box with me?" Beca asked "I can pay for it if you want"
"Take it" the girl said.
"Thank you" Beca said walking to the kitchen.
Beca threw her crutches on the grass before she sat down using her massager bag as a pillow then laid down watching the sky as she ate cereal.
"How does it feel to be thirty?" Jesse asked walking to Beca.
"Feels like getting one year closer to dying" she replied.
"Wow" he chuckled sitting next to her.
"You make it sound like you turned eighty" he said pulling a lighter from his pocket.
Beca sighed filling her mouth with cereal.
"Age is just a number Becs" Jesse lighted a candle then put it on top of a muffin.
"Well, that's just something you say to old people so that they won't feel bad, it's like when you say beauty is on the inside to ugly people"
"That is a horrible thing to say" Jesse said turning to her
"It's true" she shrugged glancing at him. "What's that?" Beca asked sitting up.
"Make a wish" Jesse held the muffin with both hands.
"I don't need wishes, my life is perfect" Beca said sarcastically as she tried to get up but couldn't as Jesse held her down.
"Just blow the damn candle" Beca sighed then blew the candle.
"I'm really sorry Jesse" Beca said meeting his gaze
"I know you are" Jesse nodded. "Today at the aquarium I lied, I didn't get what you meant by weird in a good way, so I tried it myself and you're right. Kissing someone else feels wrong" Jesse handed her the muffin.
"I didn't mean for you to see me." Jesse said hesitantly stroking Beca's cheek as she put the muffin down
"I disagree with you though, I can think of a million reason to why we should be together"
"Like?" Beca asked.
"We both can sing, that should mean something" He said first
"Not really" Beca shook her head.
"I'm way too optimistic and you're cynical"
"How is that a good reason?"
"We keep each other grounded," he explained
Beca nodded watching him lean over until he kissed her. Smiling against his lips, Beca wrapped her arms around his neck bringing him closer to her.
Jesse pulled away first then peeked her lips before laying down and pulling her down with him.
Beca rested her head on his chest as she watched the sky and smiled when he started stroking her hair.
"How did you find me?" Beca asked breathing in his sent.
"a hunch" Jesse shrugged. Beca looked up at him narrowing her eyes and making him chuckle "I ran into Amy she told me where you went, and that she's going there too, I tagged along then the girls told me you went for a walk"
Beca nodded then reached for the cereal.
"Want some?" she shook the box.
"Sure" Jesse said grabbing a handful of cereal
"C'mon, get up" Jesse said getting up.
"What's wrong?" Beca asked watching him stand up
"We're going somewhere awesome" Jesse said picking up her crutches before he gave her his hand.
"I've been here before" Beca said when the taxi pulled over.
Jesse paid the taxi driver then unlocked the door.
"Yeah, I came here with dad, I had a great nap" Jesse took her hand to help her out chuckling "Why am I not surprised?"
"How are we getting in though? It's two am Jesse" Beca glanced at her watch then looked up at the Fox Theater.
"We're sneaking in" Jesse shrugged
"Can't we wait until daytime and come watch a show or something?" Beca said watching him cross the street.
"No" Jesse shook his head "C'mon" he gestured for her to cross the street.
"Jesse, this is cute, but there are probably surveillance cameras and I promised myself that I wouldn't have my dad come in the middle of the night to bail me out of jail."
"I love it when you're sane" Jesse said cupping her face before he leaned down and kissed her "But we're sneaking in"
"How are we doing that exactly?"
"I don't know" Jesse said looking around.
"Okay" Beca said yawning.
"Okay fine, this is starting to look stupid" Jesse turned to Beca.
"Well, that was quick. Let's go back to the hotel. We'll come back tomorrow morning" Beca said watching Jesse who was thinking then smiled looking at her
"Now what?" Beca asked
"How do you feel about going to New York City?"
"Jesus, honestly I was fine just laying on the grass, I would be more than happy to lay on a bed and watch a movie with you. We don't have to do anything exceptionally cheesy" Beca said then looked up at the sky after she felt a drop of rain.
"Talking about cheesiness" Jesse laughed walking to her.
"We're doing this, huh?" Beca exhaled when Jesse was standing in front of her.
"Yep" he nodded looking at the sky and grinned when a lighting stroke.
"This is awesome" Jesse grinned looking down at Beca when it started to heavily rain.
"Very" Beca said.
Jesse leaned down and kissed her softly under the rain as he cupped her face in his hands.
"Okay, I see your point about making out in the rain." Jesse sniffed pulling away
"But it's romantic" Beca smirked. "On a serious note though, you should be grateful I'm wearing waterproof mascara"
"Why the theater?" Beca asked watching Jesse waved his hand at a taxi passing by.
"I chose it but it didn't get picked" Jesse said before he whistle to stop a taxi.
"C'mon" he gave her his hand when a taxi pulled over.
"I can't" Beca smiled tightly looking at her crutches.
Jesse sighed picking her up bridal style and ran to the taxi.
"Wait" Beca said when they reached the taxi.
"What?"
"Put me down first"
Jesse put her down puzzled as he watched her run a hand through her hair after handing him the crutches
"Hey stranger" Beca said over the rain.
"What?" Jesse said looking around him.
"You're the least rapist looking guy and I might be in love with you, could you take me home?" Beca asked watching Jesse's expression go from confusion to realization as he grinned leaning down to kiss her.
"Sure" Jesse nodded opening the door for her.
"How was that on the cheesiness scale?" Beca asked when they got inside the taxi.
"Let's see," he said stroking his chin. "Confessing your love under the rain while recreating the moment we met. Over the charts"
Beca shook her head watching him grin as he leaned over.
"Ahem" the driver cleared his throat. "Where to?" he asked.
"Hilton Atlanta" Jesse said gazing into Beca's eyes.
"Hey, Becs what were you doing at a bar with Bryan" Jesse threw an arm around Beca's shoulder remembering how she told him Bryan kissed her at the bar.
"He asked me out" She answered looking through the window. Jesse nodded.
"I went out with him to tell him that I'm not interested and he kissed me" Beca explained tilting her head to Jesse.
"I'm sorry you had to see me kiss him at the parking lot" Beca apologized
"Stop apologizing" Jesse leaned down "It was a wrong time wrong place kind of a situation" he added when their noses touched. "It sucked to see you with him, but I'm over it" Beca nodded knowing exactly how he must have felt.
"What are we watching?" Beca asked as they walked to the elevator
"You seriously wanna watch a movie?" Jesse asked looking at Beca. "You don't want to do something else?" He added in a low voice.
"You made me like movies, deal with it" Beca shrugged "I'm also tired, and this has been a long day" Jesse nodded as he pushed the elevator button.
"So my room then?" Jesse asked when they got inside the elevator
"Yeah" Beca tilted her head to look at him as she rested the crutches against the wall. "Dude, we'll have sex tomorrow morning" she laughed watching him give her puppy dog eyes.
"I just miss you" Jesse said pulling her into a hug.
"Me too" Beca hugged him back. "I need to go to my room first, to get dry clothes." Beca said against his chest.
"You can wear my clothes" Jesse shrugged pulling her closer to him as he pressed the button for his level.
/La fin./
AN: Boy this has been fun to write.
I wanna thank you all for reading and review and being awesomely supportive of this fic. I wouldn't have finished it without you.
I'm gonna celebrate finishing it by the thirtieth chapter by getting Pizza or Shawarma or both.
Virtual hug and I'm out.
PS: If you guys wanna see a sequel let me now.
EDIT: The sequel is happening, it's called "Sticking Together" you should check it out, if you want