Jude and Sadie walked into the clearing at the edge of that small Indiana town, the same one she's lived in for the past eighteen years. Someone had hooked speakers up to the small radio so it was loud enough for all to hear.
Jude looked around and spotted a boy she had never seen before, sitting on the tailgate of a two tone ford truck "Who is that?" She asked Sadie, lifting her chin in his direction. Sadie glanced that way "Oh, that's Billy's cousin, Tom Dutois. Remember, he use to live here with his mom, but then he went to live with his dad when he was like eight, he just moved back about a week ago, when he finished school."
Jude nodded her head once "He's not in school anymore? How old is he?" Sadie shrugged "I'm not positive, but I think he's about twenty-one now. From what Billy said, he finished school a little early by going through last summer."
They walked farther into the clearing, along with their other friends, where some were dancing to the radio.
Jude smiled when she heard the song "I love this one." She said, glancing at Sadie, but her gaze landed once more on Tom. He looked up and cought her eye, and gave her a smile. She nodded her chin at him and he turned away once more, laughing at something Sam Drake, a boy she had known forever, had said to him.
Jude walked over to her friend Kat, just as Tom and Billy jumped up into the bed of the truck and started acting like they were playing the guitar and drums for the song.
Kat chuckled when Jude walked up "Have you met Tommy yet?" Jude looked at her "Tommy? Sadie called him Tom." Kat shrugged "He called himself Tommy, I guess that's what he likes better." Kat noticed Jude had looked over at him again and smiled "He's cute."
Jude nodded "Yeah, he's alright." Kat chuckled "He's pretty green eyes." She said, knowing they were blue, but wanting to see if Jude noticed. Jude looked over at Kat "They're blue. But yeah, they're pretty." Kat shook her head "Why don't you go talk to him?" She said, giving her friend a slight shove in his direction.
Jude nodded "Alright, don't want to seem rude." She said, and Kat chuckled again.
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Tommy looked at Billy when he saw the two girls walk into the clearing "Hey, who are they?" He asked, more interested in the one with the short wavy hair, in the red tank top.
Billy glanced over to them "Oh, that's the Harrison sisters, Sadie is the older of the two, she's the one with the longer hair, the other one in the red is Jude."
Tommy nodded "Jude." He thought for a moment that she had heard him when she saw her glance his way, but she just let her gaze slide past him, before turning back to her sister.
Tommy was slightly swaying to the music as he sat on the tailgate of his cousins old ford, when he felt eyes on him and turned to find Jude looking his way. He smiled and she gave him a nod. He was about to nod back when his old friend Sam said something to him, and he turned and laughed, when he looked back she was walking away.
Billy turned the radio up and they both hopped up into the truck, and he played the air guitar while Billy had the drums, just like they always did when they were kids.
He danced around the bed of the truck while the song played on. When it was over, he looked down and saw Jude standing close to the truck now so he thought it was time to introduce himself.
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Jude watched him dance around the bed of the truck, and smiled, then when the song was over, he jumped down and walked over to her. "Hey." He said, when he got close. Jude raised a brow and smirked "Can I have an autograph, I'm your biggest fan, you can really play that guitar." Tommy smiled and held up his finger "Hold on." He said and walked to the cab of the truck, then emerged a moment later with a pen "Let me see your hand." He said as he grabbed for her fingers. Jude let him write on her palm, and when he was done, she looked to see he had written his name and phone number. He smiled at her "There, now if you want to hear me play again, you can always call."
Jude chuckled and nodded "I just might do that." she said.
When the song had ended, someone started flipping through the stations until they landed on one that was playing the same song, and left it there. Jude smiled as she listened to it again "I love this one." She said quietly, but Tommy heard her words. He put a hand on the side of the truck and hopped up onto the tailgate, then standing up he held a hand out to her with a smile on his face.
Jude looked at his hand, and for some reason she couldn't name, her heart started thumping as hard as the speakers blasting the music. She raised her hand, the one without the writing, and laid it in his, smiling as he helped her into the truck bed. And They Danced.
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A couple of hours later, they were sitting side by side talking.
Tommy told her how he had just gotten a degree in Buisness Managment, but he had no idea what to do with it, and Jude told him about her songs, how she wrote all the time, she hardly ever went anywhere without her journal, and she played the guitar. "But" She told him "I don't play anywhere as good as you play the air guitar." causing him to laugh.
He told her about how even though LA was great, he missed home while he lived with his dad, and was glad to be back.
Before she left with Sadie a little while later, she looked at him "I'm glad you're back to." She said with a smile before walking away, with one last look over her shoulder.
Billy walked over to Tommy and put a hand on his shoulder "I see you made a friend." Tommy nodded "Yeah" He looked at Billy and smiled "I am so glad to be home man, you have no idea."
Billy laughed "Oh I'm pretty sure I have an idea, he said, glancing towards the backs of the Harrison sisters as they left the clearing.
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Jude went home and wrote his number down on a post-it and stuck it to the computer on the desk in her room, wondering if tomorrow would be to soon to call.