A/N: Hello. LeYoYo's back (I never left). I was just doing nothing, when I remembered one of the Asian shows I used to watch with my mother. It was quite a heartbreaking movie, it had me in tears (I'm not that emotional). It was a tragedy, and this will be as well... I think. That depends on your reactions. If you want a happy story, tell me. if you want me to stick to the original storyline of the movie, also tell me. My only goal to make people cry (I'm good at that, especially when I use people as a punching bag). So go on, Jeca shippers.
"Will you ever leave me?" Beca said quietly, her hands shaking.
"I never will," Jesse smiled, enveloping her numb hands in his.
Her eyes were grey with worry and insecurity, tears staining her eyes with sadness. Jesse leaned forward and pecked her lips slowly, allowing his emotions to melt into his kiss. Content with his sincerity, a small smile graced her lips.
"Promise?" her voice was still soft.
"I promise. I will never, ever leave you."
Beca leaned into his chest, listening to the gentle and comforting thump of his heart. She wrapped her arms around his waist and clung on, afraid to lose him. Brawny arms cocooned her into his embrace, and she could feel his tender lips on her head. A tiny droplet gradually made its way down her cheek, as she clamped her eyes shut, squeezing out the darkness of the night and the terrible childhood memories. She had Jesse, and that was all that mattered. But after graduation, that would all change. He would be off the New York, to fulfil his dream of becoming a movie scorer, and she would be travelling to LA, her childhood dream. She wanted to go to LA, but it felt wrong. Really wrong. Because Jesse wasn't there. Living without him would be a hellish nightmare. No Jesse would be like... death itself. Years ago, she'd brush off any guy without a second glance. But Jesse... she couldn't bear to be where he wasn't. He was her heart.
"Beca?"
She looked up at her guardian angel.
"You know how graduation is in two weeks right?" a sly grin was dancing on his lips.
"Yeah, two more weeks before we say goodbye, right?" she rested her head on his chest once more.
"Do you know why I took you here?"
Her eyes travelled over the landscape. She hadn't noticed where she was. Her gaze was only on Jesse the entire time. But this place... This was where she and Jesse would have their midnight escapades from campus. It had become a second home. The lake glimmered under the hazy moon, stars prancing across the water's surface. The grass swayed back and forth, in time with the gentle hum of the zephyr caressing her face. Crickets chirped their nightly lullabies and the trees rustled their magnificent plumage of leaves. This place was perfect in every way, but once they left Atlanta, she could only travel here in her dreams. But why had Jesse taken her here, specifically?
"No..."
Jesse gazed into her eyes with those two warm chocolate eyes, and took her hand in his. He took one step back and reached into his pocket. Beca could not fathom what he was doing, unless... Was he going to...?
"For three years, I've had the utmost honour of being your amazingly loveable boyfriend. The year before that, I was chasing you from the very first moment I saw you. You could say I was madly involve with all your piercings and tattoos. Let's not forget that amazingly scary earspike of yours. And in the radio station, whenever Luke got too close to you, it made my blood boil with rage. I vowed to get the better of him, and here I am, with you, Beca, as my wonderful girlfriend. But that's not enough for me. No, it will never be enough."
At this point, Beca was melting in the inside at the love Jesse had just confessed. The next part would be the inevitable. The inevitable four words would come. And it would be her decision.
"I know you are not the marrying type, but I just want to give it a shot with you. I don't care if you reject me, because I will always be by your side, in marriage or no marriage. Rebeca Lynn Mitchell, will you marry me?"
He knelt down and brandished the tiny black jeweller's box Beca had to come to dread so many years before. But now, her heart thudded in ecstasy. The tiny black diamond winked at her, enticing her to say 'yes'. He had remembered. All those years ago, when she said she didn't want the typical elaborate gold ring. So he got something that reflected her character. Just perfect.
"Yes!" she squealed and leapt into his arms, as he slid the ring onto her finger.
She clung his in a suffocating embrace, but he seem didn't care, as he caught her lips in a long passionate kiss. She had her man, forever.
Beca gazed at the little black diamond embedded in the silver ring. The memory of his proposal from all those years ago was firmly implanted in the back of her mind. That wonderful day when they could truly become each other's. She remembered the following morning when they had announced their engagement, the excited squeals of the girls and the whoops of the boys. Then, graduation. She remembered the ceremony, as the she performed with the Barden Bellas for the last time and how she and Jesse christened the seats of the hall afterwards. She remembered how they had had an enormous argument about their future, and how Jesse was determined to follow her to LA, despite his previous dreams. She remembered Jesse in his incredibly handsome tuxedo, as he kissed her in the church to seal their marriage.
And here she was, three years later in her double story home, a white picket fence and Jesse.
Time had treated her well. She had become the big-time music producer of her dreams and Jesse was a successful movie scorer collaborating with Steven Spielberg. They still kept in touch with their friends, most of who had moved to LA as well. Chloe lived up to her dream of becoming a dance instructor with her husband Tom, Donald and Stacie had a prosperous underground club, 'Down Under' (courtesy Fat Amy) and Fat Amy and Bumper ran a modelling agency. Benji and Emily moved to New York, but visited LA annually to visit their friends. To be honest, Beca and Jesse were living the dream life, which everyone desired.
They rarely had any problems. Just a few quarrels here and there about minor things, such as the car or the toothbrush, but otherwise, life was running smoothly. Their work hours were usually the same, so they'd arrive home only minutes before or after the other. They never considered the possibility of a baby, as Beca said, 'don't want the aca-babies screaming songs out of my vagina, y'know?'. It only wasn't until recently that Jesse began acting quite distant, and Beca suspected it as something to do with that excessively flirty partner he had. Despite Jesse's multiple insistences that there was nothing going on, Beca still had her suspicions.
But it wasn't until one fateful day when Jesse forgot his lunch at home, that Beca had the shock of her life.
A/N: Does that count as a cliffhanger? It's short because I want to see what people think. When I finally get some reaction to it, I might make the chapters longer. I'm not counting on any reaction though. If you don't like it, treat it as a bed-time story.
Happy reading/reviewing.
Cheers,
LeYoYo