By the time Chloe gets to the coffee shop, Jesse is already there waiting for her, with a big grin on his face. "Sooooo," he begins in a sing-song voice. "How's Beca? Has she told you yet?"

Chloe opens her mouth, confused. She knew this was coming, but Jesse's level of giddiness has her stomach in knots. "Told me what?" she asks, hoping that the answer she wants is the answer she'll be given.

"Uh, that she's in love with you obviously. What, she hasn't said it yet? Dammit. She's going to kill me."

Chloe beams. Well, that answers that question.

Jess's face goes into absolute panic as he realizes what he's done (or what he thinks he's done), and Chloe just smiles at him, waiting for him to realize. It only takes a minute, but soon he's looking at her suspiciously. "Wait. You already know, don't you?"

Chloe grins mischievously, not even a little bit sorry for tricking him (kind of). "Welllllll, let's go with yes and no. She hasn't said anything to me, you were right about that. Which means I technically didn't know, but I suspected." Jesse raised an eyebrow. "There's a reason I wanted to meet up, and it's not to congratulate each other or gain your blessing."

Jesse looks at Chloe and she can tell he is incredibly confused. "Okay, first of all, you don't need my permission. Second of all, can you please explain what is going on?" Chloe sighs. She isn't worried about a lot, but if anything, it was Jesse's participation in this scenario. She starts explaining everything. How Beca is always the one confusing her and leaving her hanging and making her feel distracted and letting Chloe forgive her no questions asked, but never the other way around. Jesse nods along the whole time. "Uh-huh, so Beca didn't talk to you at all after lunch with me?"

"No!" Chloe announced, exasperated. "She said she was in love with Aubrey!" Chloe scoffed. "I mean, I know Beca is a terrible liar, but really? After she told me about your breakup and how "similar" your best friend situation is? Yeah, right."

Jesse looks at her, obviously feeling moved by whatever perfect movie-moment-music he hears in his head. "So what happened next? Did you believe her?"

Groaning more to herself than to Jesse, she launches into the everythings story she forgot to tell Jesse, starting with, "Yes I believed her! I was so stupid!" and ending with, "I'm definitely in love with her."

Jesse looks at her, dumbfounded for some reason, like he can't already see it in Chloe's eyes. "Alright, so you love Beca, but she thinks that you think she loves Aubrey, Aubrey is probably dating Stacie, Aubrey is at the Bellas' house, and Beca thinks you're mad at her?"

"Exactly, but with one little correction. Stacie and Aubrey are definitely dating." Chloe rolls her eyes at Jesse's loud "I KNEW IT!" before continuing. It's important that Beca thinks I'm mad at her. It's a distraction. Something to make her have a taste of what she's put me through today."

Jesse half-grins, like he isn't sure he should be. "So where do I come in?

A half-hour after Chloe stormed out, there's a knock at the door. Even though Stacie is already up and looking through the peephole, Beca groans, "I can't deal with anymore drama. Can someone else get it?"

She hears the door open and peeks one eye open, completely losing her sneaky composure the minute she sees Jesse and hears Stacie's surprisingly meek "actually I think it's for you."

"Jesse!" He jumps to attention, double-gunning it with his fingers right at her.

"Beca, hey!"

She interrupts before he could continue. "What do you want? What are you doing here?" She lets out a groan that probably makes the book of world records. "I do not need this right now, man! I've kind of got a lot going on!"

He rolls his eyes in an attempt to be nonchalant, succeeding in his own eyes, but doing far more than failing in Beca's. "Yeaahhhh. I heard."

Beca was on her feet faster than their audience after catching a glimpse of Fat Amy's crotch. "What? You heard? What the hell is that supposed to mean?"

"Ah, I might have run into Chloe just a little while ago."

Beca's hand meets her forehead immediately. This cannot be happening. And she told Jesse she was going to talk to Chloe! She prays to the aca-gods (or whatever deity it is that Chloe prays to before a competition) that Jesse didn't say a single word to her. No doubt he messed this up more than it already was. Damn movie buff always attracting drama. She glares at him. "And?"

"And I gave her a great big congratulatory hug and said we all needed to go on a double date." Jesse shrugs, a grin on his face. "Isn't that a great idea, Beca? Oh, maybe a triple date. Can't leave out that beautiful couple over there." Jesse winks as he made a grandiose point in the direction of Stacie and Aubrey on the couch, no longer trying to hide their relationship but hide from the situation. They huddle together on the couch as if willing themselves to disappear. Needless to say it doesn't work.

"Great idea?! Jesse! Do you have any idea how much shit I'm in with Chloe right now?!" And as if on cue, the door swings open to reveal a fiery, red-hot (and not necessarily in the good way) Chloe.

She storms into the room, looking at Jesse, a look of total frustration and bewilderment spreading across her face. "Beca? I thought you broke up? What's he doing here? Am I once again the only person in here not fucking everyone else?" To Chloe's surprise, Beca just loses it, looking like she is half sobbing, half stoic, and just darts out the door. She looks at Jesse concerned, and she agrees with the look he gives her. Maybe they went too far.

A/N: that was short, and I'm sorry, but I left you guys hanging for too long. I had to post something. I'm currently working on another fic from my AO3 account, so if any of you ship Swan Queen, find me over there gaypanic, or on tumblr swenswanswoon. Hope this was okay, and I'll have the next chapter up hopefully soon. I'm thinking two more chapters on this one