Author's Note: I HIGHLY suggest that you read this with the song. If you don't have it already, look it up at and search "Day Tripper - The Beatles" then click on the third one you see.

Three knocks sounded from the apartment door. Jude and Lucy had just returned from their honeymoon and taken up residence in their new apartment that wasn't much more than 20 minutes from Sadie's. It was still cluttered with cardboard boxes and small pieces of peanut-shaped packing material littered patches of the floor. Jude got up from opening a box and went to the door.

He wasn't surprised when he found Max standing on the doorstep, his face redder than usual. "Hey Max," Jude said, grinning. "Come to see the new place, eh?"

His brother-in-law shrugged and looked down at his hands. Jude got the message. He was either in trouble or needed help. Jude brought him in. Max looked around and asked, "Where's Lucy?

"Store. Won't be back til later."

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They went to the kitchen. Jude cut straight to the chase. "What happened?"

Max leaned on the window and answered, "It's not gonna work with Mindy."

"That girl you met at the wedding?"

"Yea."

"She leave you?"

"No. I left her."

He got up from the window and faced Jude, singing,

"Got a good reason for taking the easy way out

Got a good reason for taking the easy way out now"

Jude rolled his eyes and smiled.

"She was a day tripper, a one way ticket yea

It took me so long to find out, and I found out"

Jude beckoned him on. "Yea. And?"

"She played me," Max answered. "She didn't really love me.

She's a big teaser, she took me half the way there

She's a big teaser, she' took me half the way there now

She was a day tripper, a one way ticket yea

It took me so long to find out, and I found out"

"When did you find out she didn't love you?"

"Two days ago when I caught her in our bed with another man."

Jude understood that feeling. It was when that Don Won Lucy was working for kept her at work for longer than they wanted.

"So you kicked her out?"

"Yea. And who would've thought! She was Lucy's friend at school too!

Tried to please her, she only played one night stands

Tried to please her, she only played one night stands now

She was a day tripper, a Sunday driver yea

Took me so long to find out, and I found out."

"Well," Jude said. "Maybe one day you'll find a better lover, Max."

"Easy for you to say. You're married already!"

"Just stay away from the easy type, okay?"Max shrugged. "If it keeps me away from another Mindy, but I can't make any promises."

"Who can? It's love."

Walking out, he asked Jude, "Say hi to Lucy for me?"

"Sure."

As Max descended the stairs, Jude sang in murmer to himself, "Day tripper."

Max did the same, "Day tripper, yea."

"Day tripper."

"Day tripper, yea."

Jude shut the door and went back to opening boxes.