Chapter 2

"Come on Jude answer already" Lena said to herself staring at the laptop waiting for Jude to answer her skype call.

"Hi mom" Lena jumped from her chair

"Jude oh it's so good to see you, how you doing?"

"I'm good mum, I'm having a really great time, London is such a great city, I'm still trying to get used to the time difference but the course is fantastic and the teacher is great, there's a lot of fantastic people in my class and I've made so really good mates.

"Well I'm glad to hear it, where are you?" Lena said with a smile of joy on her face

"I'm at a café. How's everything back home?" Jude enquired

"We're all doing great, Brandon's doing really well at the music hall, Jesus is doing good so is Mariana and Callie's doing good as well"

"That's good to hear I hope to get back in the break and visit"

"How much time you got before your first class? " Lena asked
"I've got about an hour" Jud replied

"Well I won't keep you any longer… Oh before I forget I ran into someone today"

"Who?" Jude asked

"I ran into Connor". Jude stared with a surprised look on his face.

"Um how is he?" Jude asked

"He's doing fine he's back here on a baseball scholarship, he told me to tell you he says hi"

"Oh cheers" Jude said as he stared into space thinking about Connor

"Is everything ok honey" Lena asked seeing Jude's concentration lapse

"Um yeah…look I have to leave I need to get ready for class, I'll speak to you soon" Jude hurried as he shut the lid on his laptop

"Ok I'll speak to you soon" Lena said as she watched Jude disappear from her screen. Jude sat in the chair pondering over what Lena had just said. He hadn't spoken to Connor in years and now he was back in anchor beach and Jude was another country. Quickly he grabbed his laptop and scurried back to his home. Once he returned from class he sat on his chair. All day his mind had been on his conversation with Lena and he just couldn't get Connor off his mind. He started at his laptop, he slowly reached for it and began to look through his photo albums. He came across a series of photos of his' and Connor birthdays, holidays, graduation. He began to smile as he looked back on the memories he had.

Weeks had passed since Connor had spoken to Lena. He had soon forgotten bout Jude as he stayed focused on his scholarship. Connor had routine, every morning he would go for a run along the beach, something he did a lot when he was growing up. His run began just like any other but today was different ,for he ran into Stef who was miles away listening to her music. As she approached she stopped in her tracks "Connor?"

"Hi Stef"

"It's good to see you" Stef said

"It's good to see you to" Connor replied

"Lena said you were back, something about a scholarship"

"Yeah I'm back on a baseball scholarship. It's good to see the old place again brings back a lot of memories"

"Look I'm running late for work, you should come round for dinner sometime"

"Will do". As Stef started to leave Connor turned back to Stef

"Stef" he called " You don't happen to have Jude's number by any chance?"

"Yeah sure". Stef gave Connor Jude's number. He stared at it wanting to call but he wouldn't know what to say.

Connor spent the whole day trying to work up the courage to ring Jude. Word kept entering his mind as to what he would say but he just couldn't think of anything. 'Maybe if I sleep on it' he thought. The next morning Connor woke staring at his laptop, he glanced over at his phone and called the number. His world at that point seemed to slow down. His body become warm and tingly. He heard a groggy voice on the end "Hello". Connor froze "Hello…LOOK DO YO KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS?!" the voice angrily replied. Connor panicked he quickly cancelled the call and put the phone down. It was the first time he had heard Jude's voice in years and the first time he had heard him in that tone.