Beca remembered the day Jesse and her conceived their child. She remembered every detail. It all came rushing back when she saw that positive symbol. Most specifically the fact that it was inevitable for them not to aca-children when they first met. She remembered everything.
FLASHBACK
Jesse kissed her deeply with a fiery passion, so love filled that it ignited sparks between them setting their teenage hearts alight. Beca grasped the sides of his face and deepened the kiss even more letting their tongues explore each other's mouths. He grabbed her bare boob and began to arouse Beca with it gaining moans of pleasure, asking for more. Eventually, after a few duff condoms they managed to finally do it. It wasn't there first time, as normal it wasn't painful, or un-fulfilling. It was gentle and quiet and long. But not so long they became bored. They eased into a gentle thrust Jesse holding Beca's hips and gently rubbing back and forth. But after awhile it became cravy to close the final gap between them so they sped up, but still kept the gentle feeling. The alarm read 3:24am by the time they had finished. Exhausted they led facing each other a bundle of limbs linked together in a mess of a cuddle. But it still felt nice, feeling each others breathes against the others chest.
END OF FLASHBACK
She was sat on the toilet grasping the small piece of plastic in her hand that read positive and 4 weeks, a piece of damp toilet roll in the other. Her eyes were red and puffy, she was unsure how to feel in the moment. Whether to be happy that she was going to have a baby, or upset because she was just 21 and not prepared to be a mommy. Beca knew she had to tell Jesse, but was terrified that he would leave her, and her baby. Eventually she decided she would bring up the courage to tell him, next time they were alone she promised herself. Jesse knocked on the bathroom door. "You okay in there Becs? You've been in there a long time."
"Yeah im fine, it's unlocked could you come in please?"
"Um sure. You're not still on the..."
"No, no, no... I just need to show you something."
"Okay" Jesse opened the door wide, staring at Beca. "Becs what's wrong?" He noticed her eyes and smudged makeup. At him saying this she started to cry again and blotted her eyes with a tissue. "Jess...I dont know whether these are happy tears or sad tears but just promise me one thing..."
"Anything."
"You'll never leave me?"
"Never Beca. Why would you think that?"
"Because... Because..." She broke down into sobs covering her face with her hands. Jesse moved towards, kneeling infront of the toilet she was sat on, pulling her into a tight embrace hugging her tightly, trying to squeeze whatever broken pieces were there back together. Beca pulled her head up and rested her hands on her lap, which Jesse moved to covering her small hands in his own. "Beca please tell me what going on. You know im not going anywhere. I promise"
"Jesse... I-Im... Pregnant, and your the daddy of this little aca-child. I mean if you dont want it we can get rid of it. But..." Jesse raised a finger to her lip in shock that she would've even considered abortion for one second. "Beca Mitchell. I would not kill OUR baby for the world. It may have been an accident but it's an happy accident. I told you we would have Aca-children from day one so here we are a 2 years down the road and were going to have a baby together because so long as you want that, there is nothing else i would want for us in the world. I promise you im going to be with you forever because im your nerd."
"Your my nerd" Beca laughed, sniffling still. "Are we really going to do this though Jesse? I mean a child there so much responsibility and we've only just graduated and got our little jobs and a studio together. A baby's a whole new level. What if im a terrible mother Jess. What then?"
"Beca, i cannot imagine someone as a better mother in the world. We're going to have a baby because im sure together we can handle anything"
"Shouldn't we go to the doctors first to check?"
"Yes we should. But i doubt it'll change from a positive. This seems pretty good considering it says your 4 weeks. How much was it?"
"Only $30" Jesse nodded in surprise.
"Clean yourself up because at the moment you look like a cross between the grudge and the Beca i know with all that makeup down your face. Then we'll call the doctors. Okay?"
"Okay. Thank you" Beca almost whispered.
"No problem" Jesse said as he left closing the door almost all the way again. She pulled herself together to flush away the toilet paper, then cleaned the end of the pregnancy test, so she could keep it as a memory, before wrapping it in a wod of tissue. She picked up her makeup wipes and cleaned off the smudged mascara, not bothering to put any more on. Beca then opened the door and joined Jesse on the sofa of their studio. "Want me to call them, or do you want to?" Jesse said turning to look at her and wrapping an arm around her waist.
"Can you do it. Im kinda scared too."
"My Beca? Scared?"
"Okay it's fine ill just do it." Beca rose to leave and grab the landline phone.
"Beca, i was kidding, you dont have too" Jesse said pulling her back down to the sofa, kissing her then pulling out his i-phone. He searched up the surgerys number and dialed. An old sounding woman answered. *Hello, this is Georgia County sugery,who's speaking?*
"Hi, im calling on behalf of my girlfriend Beca Mitchell. We would like to book an emergency appointment for a pregnancy test."
"Okay, the only time i can fit you in is around 15 minutes time. Could you make it here by then?"
"Sure, i think. How far is this from Harrison Ave?"
"A ten minute drive i suppose, but i cant confirm. Just try to arrive as fast as you can."
"Okay, we'll be there." Jesse hung up his phone and turned back to Beca with a wide smile.
"What'd they say?" Beca asked nervously.
"They can fit you in, in ten minutes, we need to leave right now!" Beca almost screamed in excitement. This was it. They were about to find out whether this was really going to happen, and if it was, she couldn't think of anyone else in the world she would want to have a child with. Jesse took her hand and stood up holding it, pulling her up. "Lets go" Jesse said softly as he kissed her and grabbed his car keys and headed out of the door. Beca grabbed her bag, locked the door to the empty studio and jumped into the passenger side of his car. She gazed at him for awhile whilst they were plugging in their seatbelts. He took her hand on the gear stick and started to reverse, to head out onto the road of there future.
Later on, once they had arrived Beca became more and more nervous, tapping her feet, chewing her lip and biting her nails for their wait. As usual the Doctors office was running late, but that was usually to be expected. Atleast it could buy her some time to think things through. Jesse had tried to reassure her that everything was okay and held her hand as they waited for her name to be called. She stared at the little children playing with the teaset in the child waiting room corner. Pouring pretend cups of tea to one another before asking for more in a fake vaguely British accent.
"Beca Mitchell" Called an African-american woman after entering through the opposite double doors to the entrance. Beca stood holding her jacket and bag over her arm and her other hand holding Jesse's still gripping tightly, as they followed her into a nurse room lined with cabinets of boxes and jars. She sat down on teh little seat opposite the Nurses desk, Jesse standing behind her witha firm hand on Beca's shoulder. "Hi Beca, im Nurse Callie, i hear your here today to confirm pregnancy, is that right?" Beca nodded, nervous as hell. "Okay, were going to do a blood test as i assume you've already used a pharmacy bought urine test, right?"
"Yes, that's right. It read positive and 4 weeks."
"Okay, im just going to explain how this works. Im going to take a couple millilitres of blood from the vein in the crease of your elbow to test for the hormone hCG which is released during pregnancy, is there any concerns so far?"
"No."
"Very-well ill just prepare the needle and we'll begin." She spun around on her rotating chair, typing a few things into her computer before snapping on a pair of latex gloves and picking up a needle from a sterile towel that was laid out on a tray on the desk. "Right young man, if you could take her hand as it may make her feel more comfortable." Jesse did so, moved crouching next too her right side, taking her hand in his own. "There will be a slight pinch as the needle is put in, but after that you shouldn't feel the blood being withdrawed. I'll count too three. Now if you can relax your arm downwards and let it go floppy for me." Beca un-tensed her arm letting it dropp towards the floor. Callie picked it up in her hand, taking the needle closer to Beca's skin with the other. "Right, One...Two...Three." She injected the needle and slowly began to lengthen it as to withdraw the blood. Within thrity seconds the worst was over. The nurse gave Beca a cotton wool ball to hold over the minor bleeding. Before emptying the blood into a testube shaped container and sliding into a machine. "We'll call you later with the results, make sure you move your arm to keep it from going numb and dont apply pressure to the bruise that'll appear after a couple hours."
"Thanks."
"Thank you" Jesse followed, picking up her bag and jacket off the back of the seat so she wouldn't have to carry it. They exited and passed through the waiting room, eyes looking up from magazines to look at who passed. They reached the parking lot and climbed back into Jesse's car. "That really hurt alot more than i expected" Beca sighed as she lifted the wool from her arm to see if the bleeding had eased off yet.
"Stop complaining, it'll be worth it later. Are we going back to the studio or to one of our parents?" Jesse said starting the engine.
"The studio, I wanna sleep there tonight because it means i can be with you. Plus i gave them that number."
"Okay." Jesse said begging to pull out of the lot and onto the main street.
LATER ON
The phone rings to the studio Jesse gets up to answer as Beca is in the restroom, the familiar voice of Callie the nurse answers.
"Hi, is this Beca Mitchell speaking?"
"No, but it's her boyfriend Jesse, the one from the appointment today. Im here to listen to the results of the test."
"Well we have good news Jesse. Your girlfriend is pregnant and by 6 weeks. We'll book Beca in for scans at the Great Atlanta Hospital for 4 weeks times, another 6 weeks after that, another 4 weeks after that, 6 weeks after that and 4 weeks after that at which we'll sort the birthing plan. Then 5 weeks after that, then none until baby arrives. I can email you timings if you'd like and you can reply to which you have preferance of. Is that alright?"
"Yeah that's great. Fantastic actually. I'll talk to you soon, Thanks Callie."
"Your very welcome, its my job anyway." Jesse held in his excitement and sat back down on the sofa, until the toilet flushed and Beca came back from the bathroom. "Was that the surgery? Do they have the results? Am i pregnant Jesse?" Jesse turned putting on a sad face and standing to face his little girlfriend. "Jesse, whats going on?"
"Beca im so...Im so..."
"So what? Jesse your scaring me..."
"SO EXCITED TO BE HAVING A BABY WITH YOU! YOU'RE PREGNANT BEC'S FOR REALS!" Beca was left speechless, Jesse picked her up and spun her around kissing her and hugging her as tears of happiness left her eyes. "We're going to have a baby Jesse."
"Yes. We are."