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Facing the Music.
The alarm clock read 8:00am and she had to be in the studio at 9:00am. She didn't want to get up, she wanted to crawl back under the sheets and stay there. She didn't want to face the music; she didn't want to face Tom Quincy.
She knew he'd be there today, didn't know when, but he would and she was dreading it, dreading seeing him, dreading hearing his voice, but mostly, dreading him looking at her the way he did. She considered calling in sick, since just thinking about him made her feel ill, but she had to face him sooner or later, she knew that.
So, she got up, got dressed and grabbed a pop tart and out the door to G Major, the same daily boring routine.
As she went to open the door to G Major she noticed the palms of her hands were sweaty, and she felt butterflies in her stomach. "Stop it." She told herself, her brain just didn't listen to it. "I can do this."
She walked through the doors, instantly looking around every corner, every open door, searching for him. She saw Kwest, and looked away from him, but he walked up to her anyway "Jude" she looked up at him "He's not here…" she blew out a sigh of relief she didn't know she was holding and then "…Yet" he said finishing what she wanted to hear. She stopped breathing, he was defiantly going to be here, and she knew couldn't deny it anymore.
She spotted Wally and Kyle by the fridge. "Well I better go and get some coffee, want some?" she asked Kwest, trying to excuse herself. "Nope, already got some." He showed her the coffee mug he was holding. "Okay then" She walked past him, and then turned around "Oh and Kwest?" He turned to look at her, while taking a sip of coffee "Tell Sadie I know."
"What?" he asked almost choking,
"I know, about you and Sades, I'm not as naïve as you both think. Tell her I'm happy for you both, and to stop sneaking around, oh and that we need to talk later" she listed,
"Will do." She turned back around and continued making her way over toward the guys.
"Hey"
Wally nodded, "What's up dude?" She shrugged at Kyle's attempt of a greeting.
"You guys seen Speed?"
"Not since last night, said he'd be late in" Wally answered. "Okay, so when we in the studio?"
"Not until later, Darius called a meeting wants everyone in there by 10am." Kyle answered. "Great." Jude stated with no enthusiasm.
She walked over to the coffee machine and got herself a mug. She walked back over to the guys and saw Speed coming through the door "Uh, I'll see you later guys." Not waiting for them to say anything else, she walked straight over to Speed, leaving the coffee on the counter. "Hey" she needed to talk to him,
"Hey" he replied, there was some tension between them and neither new why. "Jude"-"Speed". They both said at the same time then laughed at their nervousness towards each other. Jude was the first to speak, "Can we talk?"
"Yeah, let's go over there" motioning to the sofa in the dark corner, so no one could overhear them.
"So…." Speed started noticing the tension in the air again. Jude decided to just cut to the chase "I just wanted to say thank you..."
He looked at her confused "…for yesterday, you were there for me when you could of just left, you stayed, and I needed that, needed someone just to be there, and I really appreciate that, so thank you." She finished,
"Well, what are friends for?" trying to lighten the dark atmosphere that appeared, looking at her,
"I'm always here for you Jude, always, I'm not going anywhere." He noticed the tear that slipped down her cheek. She looked down at her feet then back at him,
"Thanks", he pulled her in for a hug. They stayed like that for awhile.
Darius appeared from the meeting room, "Jude, Speed in here." They both pulled away from the hug, just noticing the lobby was mostly empty. Jude was the first up "You coming?"
"Yeah, in a minute, need caffeine."
"See you in there then." She said, walking of into the meeting room.
Speed just stood there, watching her, remembering what happened between them the past year and a half, only a few knew the secret they shared.
He decided to go and get the coffee.
Jude walked into the meeting noticing that Kyle wasn't kidding when Darius said he wanted everyone in the meeting. There sitting around the long wide rectangle table was, Darius, Liam, Karma, the new engineer who part-time replaces Kwest while he's producing Patsy and the new Producer who she remembered as Dave, Kyle, Wally, Patsy, Jamie, Kwest, Sadie and Mason, there were two seats next to Mason she also noticed there was an empty seat next to Darius, she knew who for, she just hoped she was wrong.
Sitting down by Mason she gave Sadie a knowing glare, Sadie smiled and mouthed a 'Thank You', she gathered Kwest already told Sadie.
A couple of minutes later and Speed still hadn't come in, she was getting anxious, she wanted to know what this meeting was about. "What's taking him so long?" she whispered out loud, Mason heard her "Huh?"
"Speed, what taking him so long" She whispered over to him, he shrugged his shoulders in response. Just then Speed came strolling over, he looked over at Darius and saw Darius looking back at him. "Sorry" he mumbled out while he walked over and sat down next to Jude. She looked up at him "What took you so long?"
"Coffee machine decided to go all manic on me, went to Portia for a different shirt." She then noticed the shirt he had on and laughed. It said 'Look up and you'll see an idiot' "She said it would suit me" Mason overheard and started laughing alone with Jude. There was a bang on the table.
"Okay, now I have all your attention, we can start." Darius announced. "Finally." Jude and Mason whispered.
"Getting to the task at hand, I asked you all here to discuss two important things that are going to change most of our lives" He started staring down at the table then stared at Jude, with that she knew what the first was going to be.
Darius carried on "First of all I'm going to start off with what some of you already know-"Darius was cut off with a knock at the door, and the person opened and walked through. Jude's breathe caught in her throat, and her pulse raced. She knew who it was; she just wasn't ready for him.
The person sat down next to Darius.
"T, glad you could make it, now as I was saying…" He continued
But she couldn't hear anything, her heart was pounding and all she could hear was her pulse banging against her ears. She didn't want to look at him but she couldn't help it, she wanted to see how he's changed. She took in everything, his hair was a little shorter, clean shaven face, maybe a wrinkle or two, but his eye's, those blue eyes she used to get lost in, there was something in them, something different about them, something behind them and she didn't know what. Something changed, something changed him and she could see it. She felt him his eyes on her, scanning her like she did with him. She couldn't stand his gaze; she looked over at Speed and saw that he was looking between her and Tommy; he grabbed Jude's hand and whispered into her ear "Jude, it'll be okay, just get through this, and the hard parts done. You'll be okay." She smiled at him and whispered back "I needed that." She could do this, just avoid his gaze, look at Darius and listen.
"So, about this tour…"
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Kirsty.