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Rythms is a song by Sum 41

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Rythms

Alexz Voice Over

Jude made her way down her street kicking a rock down the sidewalk.

So the parents are both over each other. It's official. It's been two weeks, two good dad all to myself weeks, and anytime soon now, Yvette will be marching in, bags in hands, and he's all hers. What can I say? If it were mom I'd be happy, and Sadie did say she tried to really make up with her for what she did. I guess the unexpected things will just never stop.

Jude gave the rock one final kick and watched it skip off the sidewalk, onto the streets, and into a car tire. She looked up and saw no one other than Cute-Camera-Boy. She gasped as she looked around and saw that she was alone.

"Jude!" he said as he leaned out his car window. "Well I'll be damned. How is it that we keep running into each other. It's a small world isn't it?"

"Pretty small considering the fact that you live over 100 miles away."

"Funny lil world." he told her, "By the way I realized something."

"What's that?" she said getting real uncomfortable and nervous.

"I never really introduced myself properly." he said as he stepped out of his car, and walked towards her and held his hand out. Jude took a step back as he came closer. "Don't worry. It's just my hand." he said as he showed her his hand, "Not even a shocker joke on here."

Jude just gave him a deep stare with his hand still held out.

"Shake my hand Jude." he said with a little more force in his voice.

Jude slowly stuck her hand out and he gently grabbed it, and shook it like a gentlemen, that he just wasn't. "I'm Jason." As Jude went to pull her hand away his grip instantly tightened and he pulled her close to him, leading her to the car.

"What are you doing!" she yelled struggling to get away.

"Keep it down, Jude. I have those pictures in an envelope ready to be mailed at anytime. A small detour to the post office won't hurt. So shut up," he said as he pulled his seat forward, "And get in." Jason pushed her head down and shoved her in the backseat. He checked around the neighborhood to see if anyone was watching, and when he didn't notice anyone he got in, buckled up, and looked back at Jude. "What's the matter Jude?" he asked rhetorically. Jude looked away from the drivers mirror and fought back the tears built up in her eyes. Jason laughed as he started the car and drove away.

Opening Credits

Jamie walked into G-Major, passing Sadie as he walked in, "Ah, good morning Sadie!" he said.

Sadie looked up at him like he was on something, then saw Patsy stroll in behind him, "Gees Jimmy!" she said as she wacked him upside the head and stalked her way into G-Major.

"Your pets off it's leash." Sadie told him.

"Eh," he said, kinda blowing off that she just wacked him.

"What's the 'eh' for? What'd you do?"

"You females are incredible. Why is it always us men who are in the wrong huh!"

"Are you in the wrong?"

"No."

"Then what's pullin' on her dread locks?"

Jamie gave a sarcastic smile to her, "I have a riddle for ya Sadie. What happens every, say about, twenty-eight days, that makes a man just want to ride off into the sunset lookin' forward to some nice relaxation and come back home like nothing ever happened."

Sadie nodded, "That bad huh?"

"Oh god," Jamie said as he threw his head down on the counter, pulling at his emo hair, "it's murder Sadie! She's a time bomb waitin' to explode, so if I were you, for the next few days, don't push her buttons. Be nice."

"Got it Jimmy."

"Mr. Andrews." Liam said from behind as Jamie turned around, "Why is it I always find you out here talking to Miss Harrison when you should be doing your job?"

"Sorry Liam."

"Sorry isn't gonna cut it. You better start getting serious here James or else look forward to flippin' burgers."

Jason pulled up to an old warehouse in the back skirts of town that looked like no one had been there since the 1800s. He stepped out and pulled the seat open. Jude climbed out cautiously, "Where are we?"

"A place I found a few weeks ago. Completely abandoned since 1998."

"Great, and uh," she paused, scared of the answer; she felt the tears building up again, "What are we doing here?"

"Well, I am going to talk to you and we are going to try and figure out how the hell I'm getting my money. Ya see," he said as he threw his arm around Jude's shoulder and grasped it tightly, pulling her alongside with him into the old warehouse. "I don't like being ignored, or having my bluff being called." he opened the door to an empty room. The ceiling was almost twenty feet high where the windows were. No escape route shown. He pushed Jude into the room. She scraped her palms of her hand as she skidded to a stop on the hard concrete floor and looked up at Jason. "This room here is a thinking room. See I'll be right outside this door on my laptop, which by the way is also easy access to getting these pictures to the press. You are going to be thinking of a way on how to get my money!" he yelled slamming the door shut.

Kwest folded a piece of paper, with a giant smile on his face as Patsy sang. "Shouldn't you be listening to her?" Jamie asked with his head ducked out of Patsy's view. She told him not to bother Kwest while she was singing.

"Dude relax she's doin' fine. Besides don't you listen to music when you're writing stuff, or doin' homework? Chill man."

"Did you not understand my warning to you! Patsy gets pissed—I get hit! She hits pretty hard for a girl, Kwest, let me tell ya. I got bruises, scars—"

"Then here. Make yourself useful, and can ya take this to Sadie for me?" he asked as he handed Jamie the note.

"What, are you in kindergarten man?"

"Do you want Patsy to know your distracting me from her singing?"

Jamie didn't answer. He evil eyed Kwest on his way out though. As he made his way up to the desk Tommy was just walking in, holding Julie by the hand. Porchia came around the corner looking like she was ready to beat the hell out of Tommy. "We gotta talk!" she yelled as she chased after him.

"Dammit Porchia!" Darius yelled as he came out of his office. Tommy tried to keep walking, but Darius caught him too. "No way you're gettin' outta here too, T. Both of you. In my office now!"

Jamie approached Sadie with a yikes look on his face. "What now Jamie?" Sadie asked, like she was sick of the normal everyday Porchia-Tommy face-downs.

"A letter from your man." he said as he flung the note over to Sadie.

A big grin came up on her face as she unfolded it. Jamie turned to leave and go back in with Kwest. "Oh wait Jamie!" she called as he turned around to see what she could possibly want. She called him over with her fingers, and as he rolled his eyes he walked back over, watching her scribble down a reply on the paper. She folded it in half, like Kwest had it originally. Jamie took the paper from her. "Thank you Jamie!" she said as he moped back into the sound booth.

"You've got mail!" Jamie announced, mimicking the AOL man, as he sat down handing the note back to Kwest who read it immediately. A smile grew on his face as Patsy finished singing.

"Is that a note for me, music man?" Patsy asked as she removed her headphones.

"Some notes Patsy." he told her.

Jamie mouthed the word 'liar' to him, as Kwest finished his reply and handed the paper back to Jamie again. "Ah, c'mon."

"Aw, how sweet you guys are passin' notes."

Jamie nodded to Patsy as he stood up and headed for the door again, but backed out of the way as Tommy charged through mad as a bull. "Whoa dude what's up?" Kwest said as he turned Patsy's music on so she could sing again.

"Alright here goes take six six six!" she yelled, getting pissed that Kwest was using her to kill time so he could write notes and argue with Tommy.

"I swear Porchia's getting on my last nerves."

"Dude, you're the one–"

"Kwest. I'm telling you as a friend. Don't get on her side right now."

"Alright man whatever. But you gotta stop this arguing. That's all that poor kid hears is you two bicker about who gets to watch her. She may only be three but she's not stupid."

"I know and that's why I hate when Porchia gets me fired up!" he said as he paced around the booth. "Where's Jude?"

"She hasn't been with you?" Jamie asked.

Tommy looked over to Jamie, "When'd you get here?"

"I was the figure you almost ran over in your stampede of rage five seconds ago."

"Well, she's not with me. Did she say she was?"

"No. But she didn't come with Sadie, and her car was at her house when I left, but I know she wasn't home because I called to ask her to ride with me and Patsy here."

Tommy pulled his cell out of his pocket and dialed her number, but there was no answer. "No answer."

First Commercial

Jude walked around the concrete room hoping to find a secret door or loose floorboard, even though there wasn't a crack in the wall at all and the floor wasn't even made with boards. She banged her fist on the wall a few times hoping maybe it would break down, but she had no luck with that either. There was no doors except for the one that had big-bad-Jason on the other side and the only windows were almost twenty feet high. She gave up. There was no way she could get out, she thought to herself as she leaned against a wall and slid down it. As she landed her cell phone fell out of the pocket of her jacket. "Oh my god!" she whispered to herself. It was like she found a million dollars. She flipped the phone opened to find that she had a missed call from Tommy. She sighed, wishing she'd of been able to answer it.

She quickly dialed the numbers to his cell and hit send, but there was a problem. "Come on. Come on." the call cut out. "Ugh!" she said as she slammed her fist to the ground. No reception. This guy had thought of everything. Maybe that was why he didn't ask for her cell. Another light bulb went off though. Text messages. She flipped her phone open again and texted Tommy, 'tom i need help! crazy pic boy kidnaped me. im stuck in warehouse. please respond.' "That should be self explanatory enough for now." she said as she hit send.

Darius came in the recording booth where everyone was. "T can I have a word." Tommy got out of the chair and followed Darius out, but stopped at the door when he cell started to vibrate. "Tom." Darius said.

"Wait. It's from Jude."

Jamie stood up to listen, and the worries in his gut grew when he saw fear strike Tommy's face.

"Tell Jude to get her butt down here while you're at it!"

"Oh my God." Tommy said as he ran his hand through his hair and brought it back down to cover his mouth.

"Is she okay?" Jamie asked.

"D, can I have a minute? One minute."

Darius shook his head and flew his arms up in the air, "I don't see why not. Everyone else does whatever they damn well please anyway! One minute Tom!"

Tommy closed the door. "That Jason kid's got Jude."

"What!" Jamie said as he went over to read the message himself.

"What's it say Jimmy?"

"Tom I need help. Crazy Pic boy kidnaped me. Im stuck in some ware house. Please respond."

Tommy closed the message and texted her back, 'where r u? what ware house?'

"Who's this pic boy?" Patsy asked, remaining completely cool the entire time.

"Some freak who's black mailing Jude for fifty thousand dollars and threatens to send pictures of the last time she got drunk to the press. A fine habit you got her into." Jamie sarcastically snapped.

"Well then. My little blonde rebel's doin' just fine."

"She's kidnaped Patsy! This isn't a joke and it's anything from fine."

"She wrote back." Tommy said, "It says all she knows is its by a big lake and its been abandoned since '98."

"The old O' Connor Factory?" Patsy asked.

"I know that place!" Tommy said as he closed his phone and headed out the door, but ran into Darius.

"Your minute's up."

"D, I'm sorry, but I gotta go. I swear I'll be back. And I'll have Jude." he said as he walked past Darius.

"Where you goin?"

"It's hard to explain."

"T, if you walk out that door, don't come back. I've had it up to here with this crap you've put me through with my sister these past few weeks. You leave now, don't plan on havin' a job when you come back."

"D, man this is serious!"

"I don't care." Darius said as he slammed his door to his office shut.

"Now what?" Jamie asked.

"I know where it is." Patsy announced.

"How you gonna take on this guy? The guy's a punk kid."

"I think she could do it actually." Jamie said as he started to put his arm around her shoulder.

"Don't touch me!" she snapped. "I'll go get the little blonde rebel, show pic boy who's boss and end this black mail thing."

"How are you going to stop him from sending the pictures to the press?" Tommy asked.

"Give me a video camera and that's all I ask."

Jude opened her phone, waiting for Tommy to write her back. It'd been twenty minutes since she last heard from him, and all she could think was he had no idea where to look and gave up. So she turned to the one thing she did best, and sang.

"And I wanna believe you,

When you tell me that it'll be okay.

Yea I try to believe you,

But I don't.

When you say that it's gonna be,

It always turns out to be a different way.

I try to believe you,

Not today, today, today, today, today...

I don't know how I'll feel,

Tomorrow, tomorrow,

I don't know what to say.

Tomorrow, tomorrow,

Is a different day.

And I wanna believe you,

When you tell me that it'll be okay.

Yeah I try to believe you,

Not today, today, today, today, today...

Tomorrow it may change."

A knock came from the door as she stood up, hoping that it could possibly be Tommy. "Ju-ude." Jason said in a sing-songy voice.

"What do you want?"

He walked up to her, "I want a lot of things actually. See the thing with sending these to the press, it's not benefitting me at all. All it does is embarrass you."

"Your point? You're not telling me nothing I don't know." she said sarcastically.

Rage filled up in Jason's eyes as he threw the back of his hand across Jude's face. "Don't back talk me! I'm in control here!" he reached down and grabbed a handful of Jude's hair and pulled her up onto her knees, angling her face to look right at him. Tears ran down her cheeks as she tried with everything to hold them back. She cried out in pain of Jason pulling her hair, "I'm in control!"

"Think again bud." Patsy said from behind.

Jason turned around and Patsy threw her fist across his face. Jason flew to the ground landing next to Jude. Jude crawled quickly away from him and looked up and saw Jamie video taping the whole thing. Patsy grabbed the back of his neck and faced his face toward the camera.

"Please sir," Jamie began, "state your full name for the record."

Patsy tightened her grip on the back of his neck, "Ahh, Jason!" he yelled

"Jason what!" Patsy said. Jason didn't answer but he jerked Patsy off of him and pushed her to the side, but Patsy was quicker than him, "Hell no buddy!" she yelled as she jumped on his back sending him crashing to the ground on his stomach.

"Sir, your full name."

"Smile for the camera Jason." she said as she pulled his face off the ground and let Jamie get a good shot of it."

"Jason Ridder."

"And where do you live Jason Ridder?"

"Ah, wait James!" Patsy said as she pulled Jason's wallet out. She plopped her butt down on the small of his back as she went through his wallet and pulled his drivers license out. Patsy read it over then slapped the back of his head. "Buddy don't kid with me," she yelled as she grabbed a handful of hair. "What's your name?"

"Jason Lucas. My last name is Lucas." he answered out of breath.

"Holy jumpin' crickets! We have a winner!"

"Sir, for the record again, where do you live? Including address and city."

"I live in Berry on 426 Willow."

"Another winner!" Patsy announced.

"And sir for the record, did you not blackmail Miss Harrison?"

"I did."

"And one last question, for the record of course, why are you two in some old abandoned building, which is trespassing, should I add. Is it because you kidnaped her?"

Jason hesitated. Patsy jerked his head, "Yes! I kidnaped her. I kidnaped her."

Jamie turned the camera off. "Okay Jason." he began as he made his way over to Jude, "You're not doing anything with those pictures you hear? They're gonna be deleted, and if you send them to the press, we put this on the nation wide news."

"That story won't sell."

"We got your confessions."

"And don't forget the part where I kicked his ass!"

"And the part where she kicked your ass. And you think fifty thousand is a lot, wait til she sues you," Jamie added as he put his arm around Jude and looked at her cheek which was swollen up like a balloon. "You'll be bone dry and in prison."

"Okay. Okay, I won't send the pictures in."

"Is that a promise pretty boy?" Patsy said as she grabbed the back of his neck again.

"Promise!" he yelled.

Patsy let go of him and got off his back and walked over by Jamie and Jude. Jason started to get up, "No, no, no. You stay down."

"Why!"

"Because you messed with the wrong group of people!" Patsy said, but Jason still just stood there.

"Oh, I don't think I recorded the whole thing love." Jamie said to Patsy.

"I'm down!" Jason yelled as he got back on the floor.

"Come on kiddo." Jamie said as he rubbed his hand up Jude's arm for comfort. "Lets get you out of here."

"Wait, now just one moment here. Blondie don't you want your revenge here at scum-buckets-r-us?" she said pointing down at Jason.

Jude looked over at him, met eyes with the man who stole her away from her life right out of the street and he didn't care, "No." she said removing eye contact with him.

"Not even right in the groin?"

"He's not worth it." she said as she sniffed and wiped at a tear and her and Jamie began to leave.

"Come on Patsy. No matter how big your mood swings are, I'm not leaving you here."

Patsy walked past Jason and stepped on his hand on her way out to catch up with Jamie and Jude. "Lets go get some grub."

Second Commercial

Jude laid on her bed and went through the pictures that Jason had taken of her. "I am never getting drunk again." she said as she threw them in the trash can next to her bed.

"Are you sure you're okay Jude?" Jamie asked as he and Patsy stood in the door way. Patsy said something too, but Jude couldn't understand since her mouth was full of food from Jude's kitchen.

"I'm fine. Thanks so much." she said as she sat up. Jamie walked over and gave her a big hug, but Jude pulled away when his cheek hit hers, "Ow." she said.

Jamie looked at her cheek, "Man, that's gonna swell up big time."

"Gonna? James' it already has."

"Well it's got a lot more to go. I know," he said pointing back at Patsy. "Trust me."

Jude laughed as she hugged him one more time, "See ya Jamie. Thanks Patsy."

Jamie nodded as they both walked out of site. Jude laid back down and tried to think of what she was gonna say to explain for her cheek? Her dad was gonna freak out. Her thoughts were interrupted though as her cell phone started to ring. Caller ID read Tommy. Jude paused, she didn't want to talk to him, then opened her phone, and hit ignore.

"Hey, it's me Jude. Leave me a message, and I'll try and call ya back." Tommy hung his phone up. Jamie had already informed him Jude was okay, but Tommy still wanted to talk to her, but instead of calling a million times he got back on Mason's recording session, his job, the job that kept him from saving Jude's life.


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I Hate Everything About You

Jude blows up at Tommy about Porchia and the two leave G-Major screaming. Jude goes home and finds advice from Sadie who points her in the direction where Tommy could be, a bar, with no one other than Eden.