He looked back at his phone, double checking the number. It seemed impossible, unreal. He thought it had to be a joke, some prank that he wasn't going to find very funny. He could remember some of the things he had done in the past, things he thought were pranks, but were just bad. This could just be added to the long list of others. It not only wasn't funny, but it made him mad.
"Can you hear me?" he heard the man's voice come through his phone.
Placing the phone back to his ear, he looked around the loft, wondering where the hidden camera was. "What did you say?"
"Jude, dude, she's coming back. She'll be at the airport in a few hours." He whispered. "Darius wants her brought here, and Sadie can't go."
"And you're telling me this because?" he didn't understand. Why would it matter? Why would he care if she was coming back? She had left, without much of an explanation, she had chosen to live without him, and he had to put himself back together, refigure out his life, a life without Jude. It hadn't been easy. When she had left, when he watched her ride away in the limo, he knew the only thing he could do was to let her go. She was only 18, and she needed to live her life, live the life that he had already lived.
"Because I, unlike you, have seen her, and I'll never admit this again, but she's not the same Jude without you."
Tommy wanted to smile. He wanted to believe that it was true, he wanted to let himself feel that way again. He had told himself that he would let her do this, he would allow her to spread her wings, and discover who she was, but if she was to ever come back, he knew he wouldn't be able to stop himself from loving her. He would never be able to stop loving her. But he had also promised himself that he wouldn't act until she came to him, until she wanted him back in her life.
"Big Lou is picking her up, if you want to go." He whispered.
Go? Why would he go? He wasn't going to go somewhere he wasn't wanted. It would go against everything he had decided. But he knew once those words came through the receiver, he was already on his way. He's body reacted faster than his mind, and by the time his mind caught up it was too late to turn back.
He was standing in the airport, watching as she watched towards them; she seemed unaware of his presence while he signed an autograph. He could hear her make a joke. The sound of her voice made his heart stop, it always had.
"So what's the deal Big Lou, last I heard you still worked for Darius?" she asked.
He couldn't wait any longer, it was killing him inside to be so close to her. "He does." Tommy handed back the pen and stepped around Big Lou, smiling at the girl that had once shattered his heart. She looked just like the last picture he had seen of her. Her hair slightly longer, but still the same bright blond that seemed to make a whole room shine, make her shine.
Looking at her, he knew that he could forgive her for any pain she had ever caused him, and that scared him. To think that this girl, this woman could have such a hold on him, to have that much more over him. It didn't make him feel like a man, it made him shake in fear. He had loved before her, and maybe even after her, but he knew that Angie nor Portia had ever had this kind of power over him. He had never given them this much of his heart before, and now he knew he never wanted to give that much again.
"Harrison." He smiled, watching as confusion and panic took over. He knew it was a mistake to come, but he also knew that he couldn't wait to see her, he didn't want to wait to see her eyes in real life. She was everything he remembered.