Okay look I'm super duper sorry I promise the chapters will be coming faster.

God! Why can't Sadie just back off! I'm doing the best I can. First she has to be all nosy about everything with Tommy. Then she has to put me down in front of her stupid girly friends.

The truth was that Jude was shaken up about the whole thing with Tommy. She could handle him if she hated him. If she believed he didn't care about her. She could pretend he didn't exist and focus on her music. But he did care about her. And she didn't hate him. He arranged everything. Like it or not, she owed him. She pushed her way out of the double doors, barely listening to Jamie and Kat argue, and froze.

"Is that MY song?"

"That's the dorkiest thing I've seen since the chess club's strawberry social." Jamie chortled.

Jude turned to glare at Jamie, but instead found herself staring, jaw dropped, at a bright blue viper. Speak of the devil. Her heart twisted pathetically. How many times had he picked her up from school? Even before he got a car he would walk her to and from school. Maybe things weren't so-

Quickly she shook off those thoughts. Things were different.

She headed over to his car.

"What are you doing here?"

"Saving you. No need to thank me. By the way, nice tubas."

"You just can't stop meddling with my life, can you?"

"What are you talking about?"

"You set up the contest."

"I……"

Jude waited, arms crossed. Tommy sighed, and all the bad boy attitude seemed to drain out of him. In its place was a tired man.

"Look just, get in the car."

"Where are we going?"

He managed a glare

"I was thinking somewhere where you won't walk out on me this time."

Jude scowled and climbed in.

Jude's throat tightened when she saw where they were pulling up to.

"Why are you bringing me here?"

"I thought-"

"You thought wrong."

The car fell silent as he drove into the pier where they'd had they're first kiss. Jude was drawn back into that moment, and then pulled abruptly back as Tommy slammed on brakes.

"Get out."

"Excuse me?"

"Get out. Now."

Jude was about to argue when she saw his face. It was angry, angrier than she'd ever seen him.

She got out.

Tommy slammed the door, then approached her.

"I have been busting my ass to try and get you to just look at me the way you used to, let alone talk to me. So why don't you stop being a spoiled brat and listen to my side."

"I'm not being a-"

"Yes you are. I left. Okay? Yeah I was wrong. I was tired of hurting you. I was tired of exposing you to the tabloids and the hurt. And you scared the hell out of me. A thirteen year old. Thirteen. Who had some-"

He paused and was his eyes on her lips? Or was it Jude's imagination.

"Dangerous qualities."

He finished.

"So when instant star came up, I jumped at the chance to see you again. To touch you. But you didn't even give me a chance to apologize. Instead you ripped my heart out. Everytime you would look right past me. Everytime you would act as though I was just someone to you. When you know damn well."

His voice softened. All the anger gone. His eyes burning a deep dark blue.

"That I am every thing to you."

"You assume a lot." Jude retorted, but there was no bite to her voice.

"I know I'm right."

"How?"

"Because you are everything to me."

The years disappeared as she wrapped her arms around him, as he kissed the top of her head, and as the easy silence enveloped them.

Hehehheh. I loved it.