Chapter 1

"You ready to do this?" "You ready to show me how it's done?" "There are a lot of inappropriate answers to that question" Jude looks at him shocked. Tommy blushes. Jude,

feeling brave, ruffles his hair with her fingers. Tommy stops her and brings her fingers to his lips and kisses her fingertips. For a moment they lock eyes and feel as if they are the only

ones left in the world. Suddenly a knock on the door sent them spiraling back to reality. Jude quickly pulled her hand down to her side. It was Spiederman. This was the second time

he walked in on them and it was the second time Jude felt guilty. She could feel the waves of anger rolling off of him, not directed at her but at Tommy. Tommy discreetly moved out

of the booth.

"Hey Spied. What are you doing here?" Spied took a quick look at Tommy. "I heard about you going back to that school and I wanted to say how proud I was" "Yeah thanks. It

was actually Tommy's idea." At the mention of Tommy's name, Spied's face fell. "Oh, really? Well can Tommy do this?" Spied went in for a kiss but Jude stopped him. "Not now

Spied. I have to record and besides everyone is here" "So? It never bothered you before." He goes in for a second kiss but this time Jude pushed him off, hard. "No Spied" Spied

looked as if he was going to yell at her when a voice came over the intercom, it was Tommy. "Jude we really have to start recording." Jude turned to Spied, "I'll talk to you later

okay?" "Are you sure you can? You might get 'locked' up again" with that Spied walked out and slammed the door shut. "Jude.." "Don't Tommy. Not now." Jude starts to sing her

new song

A couple hours later

"Okay Jude, we're done for the day." Jude walks out of the recording booth and into the mixing room. "Jude you don't have to stay here. You look tired, why don't you go home

and sleep?" "I'm not tired, besides no one is home. No, I'll just stay here and do some homework or something." Tommy looks at her sadly." Jude, I'm sorry about what's going on

between you and Spied." "Why? It's not your fault he is an incredible jackass." "Because I feel like it's my fault. I think he feels like I'm stealing you away from him." Jude looked at

Tommy carefully. "Well that's kind of hard to do." Tommy looked at her weirdly, Jude took a deep breath and continued softly "because it's hard to steal something you already

have". Jude looked at his face, worried about his reaction but his face did not betray any emotion. Tommy walked closer. Jude immediately jerked away. "Umm, I'm really thirsty, I

think I'm gonna go buy a soda." She began to walk out. "Jude?" "Yeah yeah I know, red licorice." Tommy watched her walk out.

Walking outside, Jude sat down on a bench with her soda and Tommy's candy. Jude couldn't shake the feeling of guilt that had been following her like a personal rain cloud. 'Why

do I feel like this. It's not like I did anything wrong. Yeah right. You just practically threw yourself at Tommy in there." Jude was so deep in thought that she almost didn't

notice the pair of hands the covered her eyes. "Guess who?" "Spied, I'm not in the mood to joke around." Spied sat down. "You're never in the mood anymore." "I guess I've just

had a lot on my mind lately." "An ex-boy bander maybe?" Jude stood up " You know that's not true." "Really? Then whose candy is that because you hate red licorice...yeah that's

what I thought," Spied got up and looked at Jude "Jude I love you. I might joke around a lot but not about how I feel for you." She looked at him dumbfounded. This was the first

time he had ever told her those three words. She had always dreamed of the day when a guy would say those little three words to her but as she heard them come out of the mouth

of her boyfriend, she couldn't help but wish they were coming from someone else. Spied waited a moment for her to respond but with every passing second he grew more and more

uneasy. "But you don't feel the same way." He turned and walked away. "Spied! It's not that." Jude ran to catch up with him, " I've been hurt a lot in the past and it's hard for me to

open up to people. Every time I've given my heart to someone, they handed it back to me in pieces." Spied took her hands in his, rubbing her knuckles with his fingertips. "Jude, I

will never hurt you. I promise you that." Spied kissed her cheek "I'll be at your house later, ok?" She nodded "Yeah later". As she watched him walk away she couldn't shake the

feeling that she would be the one to hurt him.