A/N: Hey guys! Here's chapter 17 aka the one where Luke is the best step-bro in the world and he may or may have some secret talents showcased here, Jesse tries to make it up but doesn't exactly make things better, Stacie contemplates things while I personally geek out (you'll know what I mean), and Beca chooses to step-up a little.

In simplified words, Stacie's thoughts explain the general consensus of the mess of things, Luke is a talented badass, Beca is a badass, Jesse is genuinely trying to help but makes everything even more messy. And a certain someone gets what's coming.

It has been a woozy writing this chapter, but I hope you guys enjoy. :)

I don't own pitch perfect.

The day had already started out on the wrong foot and things were just about to get worse. Jesse could still feel the sting from Beca's surprisingly powerful slap when he found his way into the radio station that afternoon.

He was still trying to process everything that happened when he saw Luke marching out of the booth right in the middle of his program. The next thing he knew, Luke's hands were grabbing the collars of his shirt, he was at least a feet off the ground, and his back had been slammed against the wall.

"Tell me why I shouldn't kill you right now Swanson." he said through gritted teeth.

"I was just trying too… Look, I wanted to show Beca that I'm here for her. That…"

"That what?" Luke spat out in response not letting Jesse finish. "That you're her knight in shining armor? She doesn't need a prince charming, get that in your thick head, Swanson. Beca Mitchell is her own person. She's no damsel in distress. Sometimes princess don't need a prince, they can shine on their own just fine. That's how Beca is, and trust me, if she needs someone to make her shine even better, it's not you. You can't do that for her because Beca doesn't need someone for her to change, she needs someone who accepts her for who she is so that she can accept herself and face who she is. She doesn't need someone else trying to fit her in a mold, she needs someone who'll show her that she doesn't need to change to grow and be accepted, she just needs to be herself. She's not the girl you chase after. This isn't a movie Jesse, this is real life, and while life imitates art sometimes, you don't have a leading role in Beca Mitchell's life. What she needs from you is a friend she can trust when the going gets tough, do you hear me you bloody oaf?"

Jesse nodded as vigorously as he could to show that he got the point. With every word, every phrase that Luke had said he could feel himself being shoved over and over again against the wall. And Jesse would have protested but he knew that what Luke was saying made sense.

Every word rang true.

"Answer me Swanson so that I know you understood or I swear I'll…"

"Yeah, I get it. Alright?" Jesse spat out not entirely sure what Luke would do if he didn't speak up.

Luke eventually dropped him back to the ground, taking a deep breath before turning around to the rest of the interns there with them. "What are you lot staring at? He kissed my sister when she didn't reciprocate his feelings, I'm doing my big brother job of scaring the crap out of him." he said before everyone else disappeared to their own little corners and went back to work.

"Luke, I'm sorry okay. I've been meaning to apologize to Beca too but I haven't had the chance to reach her."

"You better really be sorry…" Luke grumbled as he tried to calm himself down. "Beca's mad at you, I had her take the day off."

"Right. I really do like her Luke, if it's any consolation."

"It's not, but I know Beca likes you too. Just not in the way you hoped."

"Yeah, I get that, the slap drove home the point."

"Does it still hurt?"

"Yes."

"Good, now get to work Swanson and don't try anything funny." Luke said before turning back to get to work, leaving Jesse to gather himself for a moment and get to work as well.

He really messed up big time.

Beca had been dodging Jesse for a good thirty six hours when he finally ran into her at party that Friday evening.

"Don't even…" Beca had begun to say as he run towards her.

"Yeah, yeah, I know." Jesse said after reaching her. "Look Beca, I'm sorry okay. I… I messed up big time."

"Yeah, you did." Beca replied.

"I just, I thought you might just be falling for me." Jesse then said looking a little disappointed. "But I should've known better, I mean, it's not like you ever gave me a reason to believe that you did."

"Jess, I'm sorry, but I just don't feel the same." Beca said, her voice had a hint of sadness that made Jesse realize she really did care about him. It just wasn't meant to be.

"Yeah, I guess. But I do bet whoever it is you end up falling for will be lucky. They'll have you." Jesse said making Beca blush a little.

"What does that even supposed to mean Swanson?" Beca retorted but Jesse saw right through the brave front she tried to put up.

"Wait, hang on, there is someone, isn't there? Well, are they here in the party? Where did you guys meet? Is this person in the party?"

"Jesse…" Beca warned.

"Right, you're still mad, I'm still not forgiven. But Beca, trust me, well maybe not considering I failed and all but that's different. If like someone, don't let anything stop you."

"Why are you even telling me this right now?"

"Because I want to be a good friend Beca. And I want to support you on these types of things. Actually, hang on, I have an idea!" Jesse said before giving Beca a wink and running towards the make-shift DJ booth.

"Jesse! What on earth…" she heard Beca say, her voice trailing off.

Jesse didn't get to hear what Beca was trying to say, but he was dead-set on making it up to her. He made a song request to the DJ before deciding on running to grab him and Beca a drink. The drink mostly for some liquid luck or courage? Maybe both.

Welcome to the planet
Welcome to existence
Everyone's here
Everyone's here
Everybody's watching you now
Everybody waits for you now
What happens next
What happens next

Jesse turned around and gave a thumbs up to the DJ for accepting his request. Here's to hoping his plan works.

Welcome to the fallout
Welcome to resistance
The tension is here
Tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should be

She was going to kill him.

That was the first thought in Beca's mind after seeing Jesse run to the DJ booth with the song immediately playing after.

What, was this his not-so-subtle-but-hopefully-subtle way of pushing Beca to her happy ending story? Probably.

What annoyed Beca the most is that she really couldn't hate him much. He disarmed her with his questions of liking someone. She wasn't prepared to be asked with that question by anyone.

But what took her off guard the most was the immediate answer that flashed through her mind.

Chloe.

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened before

So maybe Jesse had a point, especially with the song. But Beca was still stuck in whatever it was that was going on at the moment. She really couldn't catch a break.

"You okay Shawshank?" Amy asked as both she and Stacie finally found Beca.

"Huh, yeah, just a lot on my plate. Have you guys seen Chloe? Do you know if she's here or anything?"

"You ought to know that better Beca, you spend more time with Chloe than either of us." was Stacie's reply.

"Yeah, except she hasn't exactly been reply to my messages. Feels like she's actually dodging me." Beca said absent-mindedly.

"Hmm, maybe she was the girl they've been talking about. Apparently there was a Treble who got slapped hard after professing their love."

"Ah, wait, what? People are talking about that?" Beca asked a little surprised, although she wasn't sure if she was more surprised that neither Amy nor Stacie looked like they knew it was Jesse who pulled that off.

"Yep." Stacie replied. "Although people weren't exactly sure who the Treble was or the girl. I did hear that she might've been a Bella."

"Yeah, that would've been me." Beca bluntly.

"Ugh, that would mean that the guy must've been…" Stacie said, rolling her eyes as just as Jesse showed up again with drinks in his hand.

"Hey Beca, what did I miss?"

"You don't think…" Amy then asked, looking at Stacie who looked all sorts of exasperated.

"You…" Stacie started to say, fury rising in her voice.

"Wait, wait Stace. The Treble got slapped remember." Amy then said, trying to calm her down before she managed to sink her claws into Jesse and rip him into shreds.

"Yeah, I did. And it made me do some serious thinking. I'm here as Beca's bro from now on."

"Already have one." Beca replied thinking of Luke.

"BFF?" Jesse offered.

"That would be me." Amy then replied.

"You're way down the list of best friends right now Swanson." Stacie then added.

"I'll take what I can take, I just want to make it up to you Beca." Jesse said in response, turning to Beca as he said it.

Beca sighed. She heard Stacie sort of growl in a bit of a scary way and Amy just chuckled. "How about we leave you two to sort things out." Amy then said. "I'm watching you Treble, don't go making trouble. If this whole misunderstanding propagates and gets out of hand, we're going to get you."

"Yeah, I promise I won't." Jesse replied with rather visible gulp.

And so Beca was once again left with Jesse.

Which isn't exactly helping anything other than complicate her already complicated thought process.

Ugh, great.

Entropy.

The second law of thermodynamics states that the total entropy of an isolated system increases over time.

In other words, the natural course of things is to head into a state of increasing chaos. In a state of gradual decline to disorder, deterioration, collapse.

Stacie never really thought about it, not until then but it would seem that the universe was trying to tell her that the statement was true. And it applies to more than just thermodynamics.

"What are you thinking Stace?" Amy asked just as they turned to leave Beca be and figure out the whole thing with Jesse.

Stacie shrugged. "Nothing much. Thinking of grabbing a drink. Do you want me to grab you some?"

"No, I think I'm good." Amy said and Stacie excused herself, her thoughts still on the things going on with all of them.

The misunderstandings between good intentions and desires to win, between matters of the hearts and fears and insecurities.

Wouldn't it be so much easier if they could just tell the truth and magically understand each other? That they could simply detect what each of them have meant? That things didn't get so confusing or misconstrued, that reality didn't warp the truth what was on the surface, with the things that they see without knowing the stories behind them?

Yep, entropy. Stacie understood the concept for ages, she just never thought that she would the word in describing her freshman year of college.

And just when Stacie seemed to have grasped what Fate had placed upon her path, Fate sends her into an even furious storm.

The storm of her own emotions.

Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna go?
Salvation is here

She had reached the drinks table but she found herself frozen in place, the expression in her eyes reflected in Aubrey's when they meet. They haven't talked about the incident, and quite frankly Stacie wasn't sure what ground they were standing on.

Aubrey wasn't sure how to react either. She offered up a weak smile which Stacie reciprocated before she grabbed two cups and walked away. One was probably for Chloe somewhere.

Stacie took a deep breath. She wasn't sure why she didn't even react. She was partly still upset with the fallout, maybe a bit angry both at herself for her own mistakes and at Aubrey for not exactly being easy to deal with. But then there's her own emotions and quite possibly developing feelings for the girl to muddle everything up some more and all of a sudden everything becomes a mesh of conflicting emotions and thoughts getting jumbled up in the web that is called life. It was just too many things, too much to handle for a college freshman. Yep, her life is definitely in a state of entropy.

Perhaps all of theirs.

And Stacie can only hope for things to get better.

Eventually.

"Would you just stop bugging me already?" Beca sort of snarled. She gets it, she really does, Jesse was just trying to be a sweet friend trying to make up the whole misunderstanding but it was starting to get annoying. You don't just hyperactively support the girl you liked at least twenty four hours ago and the ventures of the heart or whatever it was that she had with Chloe just like that.

Even if you wanted to make it up for all the misunderstanding of situations and whatnots.

Beca sighed as a thought hit her, maybe, just maybe, this is all that Jesse could to move on. To see that he doesn't really have a shot, he probably wanted some sort of closure, an understanding that they just weren't meant to be. And maybe, again, just maybe, Jesse wanted to make up to the things he messed up in the first place because he wanted to desperately salvage whatever was left of their friendship. To still have Beca in his life somehow and prove to her that she could take it.

"Look Beca. I know I'm not your leading man." Jesse said, the usual boyish grin on his face dropping down into some sort of brokenhearted smile. "But I think I get it now. I'm the best friend, the one who hopefully helps the lead get the girl, or boy, or girl really. Love is love, right?"

"Yeah." Beca sort of coughs, not fully realize what was happening. Mostly because thoughts of Chloe started flashing in her head when Jesse was stalking about 'getting the girl'. Mostly because here was Jesse ready to back down. It was something she wished he'd do and now it's real and the thought of Jesse possibly helping her get Chloe was something that she somehow couldn't comprehend.

Like her brain started flashing 'Error 404'.

But then her brains started to malfunction again because did she really just thought about how the thought of Jesse helping her get Chloe was something she couldn't comprehend.

And now you're thinking about thinking about the thought…

And the whole 'thought-ception' just kept coming up in her brain in lightning speed that Beca couldn't really process any coherent thought because not that she thinks of Chloe that way but she does think of Chloe just not in that way, maybe a little bit in that way, but more on the gentlewoman kind of way if it made sense and in a sort of like-like way but…

…and now she's rambling in her own thoughts… who rambles in their own thoughts?

Ugh!

SYSTEM CRASHED

"Earth to Beca?"

"Huh? Yeah, uh, what?" Beca asked, blinking her eyes a little rapidly as if to readjust to seeing the reality in front of her once more.

"With all honesty, I am sorry."

Beca took a deep breath and released it slowly. "Fine." she relented and Jesse smiled. "You are forgiven Swanson, just don't mess up again."

"I won't, I promise!" Jesse chirruped giving Beca a hug.

"Ugh! Jesse!"

"Right, no invading of personal space because you don't like it... wait a minute… you don't… but she… it's that redhead isn't it? It's Chloe Beale!"

"Yeesh, Sherlock! Don't shout!" Beca then said, her words coming out from barred teeth and giving Jesse a slap to the arm. "It's not, well, I mean, I do… it's…"

Jesse then gave some sort of chuckle. "Guess I should've known. From the way you're getting all flustered, it's a telltale sign."

"Shut up Swanson." Beca grumpily replied.

Stupid Jesse and his stupid logic.

Jesse laughed a little more much to Beca's own annoyance. "For what it's worth, I think she really cares about you Beca."

"Yeah, well, she's suddenly not talking to me so…" Beca admitted, giving a shrug and a look of disappointment. It hurts so much without Chloe in her life. And that was just for thirty six hours. Missing her left a massive aching hole in her chest.

"Well, then Watson, we have another mystery to solve!" Jesse said, placing an arm around Beca, trying to act like some hero on a quest.

"Don't push your luck Swanson." Beca said flatly although she had to admit, sorting out her Jesse problem did make her feel like a weight had been lifted on her shoulders.

That was one less problem to worry about.

And Beca would have focused on the Chloe problem next.

But then she got distracted when a drunk Luke got up the make-shift stage at the corner of the room, his friends shoving him guitar and…

"Wait, are they making them sing?" Jesse asked, looking incredulously at Luke who was laughing and acting somewhat bashful all of a sudden.

"Well, Luke can sing." Beca said matter of factly. "He just doesn't like to show off his vocal chops."

"Alright, alright." Luke started to say as he adjusted the mic. "I'm only doing this because my mates dared me too. Ladies, heads up, no falling in love with me alright?"

Beca scoffed at the comment, typical drunk Luke, while everyone else laughed. Luke wasted no time and started playing the first few chords of the song before stopping, "This goes out for a certain few people I have in mind. You know who you are. Hope my musical arrows hit you."

And with that, he started to sing.

Beauty queen of only eighteen she
Had some trouble with herself
He was always there to help her, she
Always belonged to someone else

Chloe spent the good amount of the other day and practically the whole of Friday convincing herself that she was fine. That everything will be fine. That Beca made her choice and that she respects her decision and that she was going to be fine. That she'll swallow that very bitter pill no matter what it takes and smile for Beca, act like there was no problem at all. Nope, her heart didn't just explode, it was intact, or at least bandaged up as best as Aubrey could try and help her – although to be honest it was mostly Aubrey helping her process things through, and to be fair to her, she didn't exactly badmouth Beca… she did want to strangle Jesse, however – and yep, all was good.

Except all was not good.

As soon as she and Aubrey got to the party, she had wanted to go see Beca, say 'hi' at the very least. It was back and forth thing going in her head, a decision not made lightly at all mostly because when she arrived, she had immediately seen Beca with Jesse. Beca was with Jesse now, she might want to spend alone time with him instead of her now. Beca had already been nice enough to let her invade her personal space more than often and…

…oh what the hell was she thinking?

A few drinks in, and Chloe finally built up the courage to do the thing but then she saw Jesse hug Beca and that instantly send her running back to the drinks table.

She wasn't ready.

Because it just hurt so much.

Especially since a part of her had hoped and believed in maybe.

Maybe Beca felt the same way.

It made her feel special that she would open up to her, and that meant something so much to Chloe. And now, she was jealous of Jesse, insanely jealous. And the thought that someone else knows Beca in ways that Chloe could never know.

Some party music had been playing but one song, on line was stuck in Chloe's head.

Do not make me think of him
The way he touch your fragile skin
It haunts me everyday

And with that thought, Chloe's stomach felt like it was being twisted into knots, making her feel sick.

Then a different song came to mind, mostly because it was being sang by a very drunk Luke.

Although the singing was actually pretty good, who knew Luke could sing?

I don't mind spendin' everyday
Out on your corner in the pourin' rain
Look for the girl with the broken smile
Ask her if she wants to stay awhile
And she will be loved, and she will be loved

Chloe felt terrible. Mostly because the song kept reminding her of Beca.

Beca who she now believed she could never have.

Chloe quickly ran out to get some fresh air, it felt like she was drowning in the sea of her own emotions. How could she have fooled herself she could do this? Keep being okay with seeing Beca with Jesse when it was killing her inside.

"Chloe." a familiar voice had said and Chloe looked up to see it was Tom.

Not again.

They've had this conversation so many times and it looked like they were going to have it again. Chloe was just really tired of it.

The crowd was cheering and praising Luke, all of them clamoring for an encore performance. Luke was loving every moment of it and Beca chuckled. At least he was enjoying himself. Between her and her unexpected college drama that she was totally not accounting for never mind even think plausible, Luke deserved to have a break.

Unlike her.

Because she really just can't catch a break.

Chloe finally caught her eye during Luke's performance. She looked quite thoughtful before rushing out of the room and outside the fraternity house where the party was out.

Beca immediately excused herself from Jesse, feeling compelled to follow Chloe out. The redhead looked like she was about to cry and Beca could feel the worry and sadness from her. She won't let Chloe cry over anything, no matter what, she wanted to make Chloe smile despite the pain or sadness of whatever it was that was upsetting her or she was going to die crying.

And Beca would have followed her anyways even if it looked like it was just a simple matter.

It was kind of hard to find the way out, with the flux of students all wobbling through the house without any sense of direction, most completely past beyond being drunk, and so it took some time before she reached outside.

Beca found herself almost stumbling out the door thanks to a couple who decided to make out in the middle of the doorway. That's when she found them, a good distance away from the house.

Chloe looked a little inebriated, Beca could tell. She was with shower guy. Tim? Tony?

Oh, right, Tom.

Almost forgot he existed.

They looked like they were having some sort of argument from where Beca stood. For a few seconds Beca contemplated on whether or not she should jump in or something, make sure Chloe's okay. But then again she didn't want to meddle with things she wasn't a part of.

But Beca completely made up her mind once she saw Chloe trying to walk away and Tom grabbing her by the arm to pull her back despite Chloe's protests.

"I said we're done Tom. It's done. For a long while now."

"Is it because of that guy who was singing, I saw you watching him up the stage. Are you with him now? Or it's some other guy? Right? You did say you're heart wasn't in it. Who is it Chloe? Is he better than me?" Tom spat out in a jealous fit.

Chloe scoffed. She looked like she wanted to say something in response to what Tom was saying but he tightened her grip on her as he twisted her arm, pulling her closer. "Tom, let go that hurts."

"Answer me, Beale!" was Tom's response.

"Dude, she said let go." Beca said, thundering in and pushing him violently away. Her own anger boiling over to the tipping point with the way he had hurt Chloe.

"Oh don't tell me it's this squirt." Tom said in a mocking tone. "Whatcha' gonna' do little champ? " he taunted. "Why don't you just go back to the house and mind your own business?"

"You. Leave. Chloe. Alone." Beca said in a cold and formal tone. A growl forming in her throat with each punctuation.

"Oh, yeah? Whatcha' gonna do champ?" Tom then said, his voice laced with venom as he continued to mock Beca. "Sorry, but this is between me and my girl."

"Ex-girl" Chloe interjected.

"Well that's not yet decided." Tom adamantly said as he tried to make a grab of Chloe yet again.

Beca immediately got between them and threw Tom back, as far away from Chloe that she can push him. It helped that he was drunk, making him a little off balance.

"If you don't mind your own business…" Tom started to say.

"You're going to what?" Beca threw back. "Piss off dude."

Tom scoffed and shook his head. He gave out a dry chuckle before attempting to reach Chloe yet again, this time a little more forceful so that he can move past Beca.

Beca wasn't exactly anticipating that but she gave it her all in pushing him away, Tom fighting back in some sort of scuffle until he managed to push Beca down and reach Chloe.

But Beca wasn't going to give up. He wasn't going to let some scumbag do away with Chloe whatever he pleased. And so Beca did what she knew best. She picked herself off the ground, pulled Tom to twist him around, and before he knew it, her first landed squarely on his jaws, the force of the punch throwing Tom down, a tooth or two actually getting knocked out of his mouth.

"Mmphf." was all that Beca could say, trying not to curse as she started shaking her own fist, the punch had hurt her more than she had anticipated, and she just had to punch with her mixing hand.

And turning around Beca realized that everyone from inside had finally made their way outside. "Chlo." Aubrey said rushing towards a shocked Chloe, checking to make sure she was okay.

It was a lot to process after that.

For one thing it was the first time Beca had ran into Aubrey again and she didn't know what to say.

Then of course was the realization that the worried look in Chloe's eyes weren't for Tom but for the fact that Beca had just gotten herself in a fight.

Fight equals trouble.

And trouble means her dad will find out.

Giving Beca a dozen different thoughts on what was happening at the moment.

But one thing she knew for sure, it didn't matter.

The stupid oaf didn't get his way with Chloe. That was what was important for her.

There was sound of something hitting the ground and then a sudden gasp from everyone else around them, bringing Beca's attention back to the present. She turned around to find Luke standing behind her, Tom trying to stop the bleeding of his nose as he whimpered on the ground.

"Don't think I'll let you fight dishonorably against my sister and get away with it. Mess with any of these girls again and you go through me." Luke said darkly. "And trust me, I don't make empty threats."

Stacie and Amy were then quick to the scene, dispersing the crowd with the help of some of the Bellas at the party. Luke pulled Beca as far away as possible as he could while Aubrey started to get Chloe to go home with her.

"Wait." Beca said weakly still confused to what was happening. "Wait, Luke where are you taking me?"

"Home Beca, before Tom and his frat bros decide to make this bigger. I'm taking you as far away as possible from the scene of the crime as fast as I can."

"Luke, wait." Beca protested. "Luke!" she said a little louder as she spotted Aubrey with Chloe who still looked shaken. Luke heaved a heavy sigh but decided to let her go.

She was still worried about Chloe.

"Chloe." she heard her name being called. "Chlo, are you okay?"

Beca's voice brought her back and away from her thoughts. Her very muddled up and confused thoughts.

Beca shouldn't have, she could've handled Tom.

Now Beca was in trouble again.

And what if… what about Jesse?

Why did… what was Beca thinking?

"Chloe, hey are you okay Chlo?" she heard Beca say again, her voice soothing, calming.

And she was, okay, in a sense of things. Beca just did step in for her. She knocked Tom right off impressively.

And Beca was there caring for her.

"Beca!" she then heard Jesse call out, and somehow Chloe's thoughts jumped right back to heart ache.

"Hey, you okay? Hey Chloe, are you okay too?" Jesse had said sounding concern for her as well.

"Jess, would you leave us a moment?" Beca snapped and Jesse quickly found his way to Luke who for some reason Chloe couldn't understand didn't really look so pleased with him.

"I can take her home fine Mitchell." Aubrey said a little too coldly after that little interaction.

"You're not the only one entitled to care about Chloe Posen." Beca retorted.

"I'm fine Beca, you should go." Chloe said as she tried to compose herself. Between her currently conflicting emotions and the possibility of having to diffuse another argument between Beca and Aubrey, Chloe just really wanted to have a moment of peace and process things through.

"But Chlo…" Beca protested, her voice dropping to a soft tone once more as she addressed her.

"Beca I'm fine."

"That jerk hurt you Chloe, who knows what else he would've done. I'm not leaving you alone until I know for sure he won't try anything again."

"Beca I said I'm fine." Chloe tried to reason, although in truth Chloe was sure she wasn't exactly that.

"But Chlo…"

"Yeah, but I'm not yours to protect Beca. Not even…"Chloe started to say, her voice sounding more broken than she would have liked. But she couldn't finish the sentence, the words won't come out, and Chloe made sure it won't. She was already trying to fight the tears that were threatening to fall and if she said the words, she would cave.

Not even if I wanted to be yours.

Instead Chloe just shook her head and asked Aubrey to take her home, leaving a stunned and confused Beca behind…

…and everything that Chloe knew was simply falling part.

Songs in the chapter: 'She Will Be Loved' by Maroon 5; 'Dare You to Move' by Switchfoot; and a line from 'Gotten' by Slash ft. Adam Levine

PS: The guy who plays Luke was in that musical A Cinderella Story movie so I thought, why not make him sing here? *shrugs* I at least hope you enjoyed that bit. Bechloe is happening real soon I promise! There's a countdown of how many chapters to go before 'that scene' on my desk with every chapter I post :P They may or may not be on post-its…

I may or may also have snippets of said scene already written… so… yeah… I really got into that one… haha… hang tight friends! I blame this anime I'm currently watching for all the feels that made its way to this fic (it's so good but I needed to release some emotions, piano pieces + well done story = sobbing mess for me) If you do want a sneak-peak for that, message me. I won't mind. Or you know, if you want to wait, that's fine too. I won't spoil anything. ;)

Also, I readjusted my outline for this fic because too many things end up happening than planned. So yeah, expect 30 chapters. Sorry for the ramblings :P