Tom escorted Jude to the front of her house. It was dark outside and Jude could barely see a thing.
"That meal, it was way too expensive," Jude insisted.
"Nein. I can take care of it. So, I guess this is it for today."
She nodded in agreement. "Well, thanks for today."
She smiled and look up slightly. Tom was about four inches taller than her. Her eyes met his and she ended up giggling slightly and looking at her feet.
"Hey, Jude?" he asked.
"Yeah?" she replied looking up again. But, before she realized it, Tom lightly grabbed her chin and kissed her. She closed her eyes and rested her hand on his shoulder. When she finally pulled away she smiled wide.
"Uh… wow," she sighed. "I'd best be going now."
"Ja."
Jude opened the door and was relieved to see that it was unlocked and that she wouldn't have to search for her keys in her messy bag. She opened the door and walked in giving Tom a second glance.
It didn't go that smoothly.
She tripped at the doorway and fell. She was shocked when she realized that she hadn't crashed into the ground. She was caught by Tom and was bent over.
"Are you okay?" he asked picking her all the way up.
"Yeah. I'm just a bit of a klutz. Thanks again."
"Vell. Have a good night," he said letting her go.
Jude thanked him a final time and, carefully, walked inside and shut the door.
"So Jude, how was the date?" Sadie asked from inside the house. Jude hadn't noticed she was their and was almost shocked to hear her.
"I could ask you the same question."
"Mine was fine. Now, answer my question."
She shrugged. "Just great."
"So can we expect the tension between you and the band to go away now?"
"There never was any tension between me and the band. It was between me and that diva singer."
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(This segment will be spoken in German)
Tom walked into his hotel room and saw Bill taking off his eye make-up.
"Hey, Bill."
"Hello," he replied. "Out with Jude?"
"You know I was. Why do you care?"
He shook his head. "I don't."
"Sure…"
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(Back to English)
Tom and Jude sat in the corner of the studio waiting for when they would get the plans of the recording. Bill sat at a nearby table and watched.
Tom played his guitar to 'Live Every Second' quietly seeing as he wasn't able to plug his electric to anything. Jude sang her style of the lyrics along with his playing.
"…You can even get a planet for free
The whole galaxy is chilling out
And time is all you can see…"
She stopped because she had been singing for quite a while and her voice was getting little tired. She looked at Bill's glare and rolled her eyes.
"What?" she asked.
"Nein. Nothing," Bill told her. But he kept his gaze.
"Freak," she muttered.
Tommy walked in. "Jude, did you guys decide which parts you were going to sing?"
Jude nodded. She then ripped two pages out of her notebook and handed it to him. "Here. When are we recording?"
"Now would be best. You and Bill are going to have to be the only ones in the recording room. We already have the instrumentals in the system."
"Me and the pop princess?" Bill asked. "Nein. Not going to happen."
Jude stood up. "Stop being such a diva. Let's just get this over with. You're doing most of the singing alone anyway."
He rolled his eyes and followed her into the recording studio. They put the headphones and stood next to the one mike in the room.
A few minutes later Tommy and the others walked behind the screen and he queued them to start.
They waited for the forty second into to go by and Bill started.
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"Take 19," Tommy sighed.
"No," Jude protested taking of her head phones. "This idiot keeps screwing up. I shouldn't be the one left here to fix his mistakes. It's your damn song, why can't you get it right?"
"I am getting it right," Bill said. "You're just so picky vith my accent."
"I'll be picky if I want. The word is sorry, not sowwy."
"Vell sowwwy," he said mocking Jude's comment. "English isn't my native tongue. Of course I'm going to get it wrong. I can only imagine vat you vould sound like trying to sing one of our songs in German!"
Jude grabbed her bag and walked out. "Tommy, tell the dips hit to practice before I come back tomorrow. I can't work like this." She turned around one last time and looked at him with a look of disbelief. "And will you stop moving your hands when you sing? It's weirding me out!"
She stomped out as Georg, Gustav, and Tom were laughing. Tom reached over and turned the microphone on.
"She has a point," he said.
"Shut up," Bill replied.
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Jude sat the edge of one of the fire escapes of G Major. She loved it there, it was someplace she could be alone and stop to think.
"Halo?"
The door opened and Tom walked out of it. Jude let out a groan.
"It can't be too bad to see me, can it?" He asked.
"I- its not you. I just wanted to be alone."
Tom took a seat next to her. "Maybe ve could be alone together," he suggested in a slightly joking manner. "Hey, I know how Bill can be. If he doesn't get his way, then he thinks that everyone is against him."
She let out a quiet laugh. "Thanks for the heads up. I don't know how you can live with him twenty-four seven."
He shrugged. "I've met Sadie, she isn't a valk in the park either."
"Yeah, but I'm not constantly on the road with her."
Jude smiled, "You have a point there."