Chapter 7 – Boys Like You Are A Dime A Dozen

"Let's get some incredibly bad disguises for today," Jude said. The band was finally back in their hometown getting ready for their final show. Things had gotten a little hectic for them, ever since the pictures of Jude and Speed appeared in the tabloids.

"How about we both wear 'staches," Speed said. Over the past few weeks, whenever they went somewhere, they chose to go incognito. Usually it was nothing more than a hat and sunglasses, but occasionally they would put on things they found at rest stops.

"You be Yosemite Sam, I'll be hat lady," Jude said handing Speed a fake mustache.

"You two don't need any disguises," Kyle said.

"Oh no, we do. You haven't been there," Jude said. When the pictures first appeared, neither Speed nor Jude could appear in public without being mauled by a bunch of people. They either wanted to know if it was true, or they wanted to kill them for taking away the objects of their affection.

"You're going to have to eventually get used it," Wally said.

"Yeah. And be glad that you're the new 'it' couple," Sadie said from behind them.

"Sades! I missed you," Jude said, hugging her big sister. The best thing about their last show had to be the fact that Jude could see everyone she'd been missing.

"We didn't want to be the new 'it' couple. We just wanna be us," Jude said.

"Yeah. We were fine before, I mean, yeah occasionally we would end up in a magazine, but that was whenever we were somewhere, like at a public place. And we were just goofing off. Now we're being followed everywhere we go, and there's no privacy. I can't even kiss my girlfriend without it ending up on the cover of some magazine," Speed said.

"Most people would love to be on the cover of a magazine," Sadie said.

"Maybe if I was older. You know, it's kind of like when your teacher catches you passing a note, and then reads it to the whole class. That's how I feel," Jude said.

"I'm just amazed at how they always know where you guys are," Kyle said. Everyone grew silent, the same name popping up in each of their minds.

"Carson! Can I get your autograph!" someone said. She was walking around the mall, trying to find an outfit to wear for that night's show. This wouldn't be any normal show. Besides being back in her home town, she was finally going to get Spiederman away from Jude.

It's not like she hadn't before, cause she had. This time she planned on making them break up because of it.

"Sure," she said, signing the girl's shoe. She was in a joyous mood and no one was going to spoil it for her.

No one.

"So, did she agree to party with you tonight?" Speed asked. He and Jude were sitting in his room, like old times. They were waiting for Jamie to get back from his fast food run with Patsy so they could catch up.

"Yes, and I swear, I won't drink," Jude said.

"I don't care if you drink, as long as you get her back for what she's been doing this whole summer," he said.

"Thank you. For giving me permission to get revenge," she said, rubbing her nose against his.

"Sorry to interrupt this little Juderman moment, but we'd rather keep our food down," Patsy said, walking into the room.

"Pats! Jamie! God, I've missed you two," Jude said.

"We called you everyday," Jamie said, laughing.

"I know, but you weren't in the flesh. And now you are. And I've missed you guys. And I'm pretty sure I can add more to that but I can't think of anything right now," Jude said and tackled her friends to the ground.

"We missed you too, Jude," Jamie said.

"Anyone missed little old me?" Speed asked. Jamie and Patsy looked at each other before saying "no".

He faked cried before joining their pile of friendship on the floor.

"Where are Kyle and Wally?" Jamie asked.

"We all went home to see our parents. Jude finished seeing hers, and her mother had to go somewhere, so she came over here," Speed said. Jude nodded and tried to squeeze out of the pile.

So far, it wasn't working.

"And then you came over here to make out like crazy, right?" Jamie asked. Jude blushed and Speed grinned.

"That's not all we did!" Speed joked, earning a smack from Jude.

"What? We wrote a new song, that's all I was gonna say. It's not my fault you have a dirty mind!" Speed said. Grinning. She knew better than to believe him.

"Did you guys really?" Patsy asked, removing herself from the pile on the floor, enabling the rest of them to be free as well.

"Yeah, well we didn't just write it, its something we've been working on for a few weeks now, but I'm pretty sure it's done," Jude said.

"I wanna hear," Jamie said. Speed grabbed the acoustic and they began singing.

"I won't share my life, with anyone but you, it's such a long way," Jude sang.

"With anyone but you," Speed sang.

"And I couldn't follow," Jude sang.

"With anyone but you," he finished.

"I like it. You two should sing together more often," Patsy said.

"We plan on singing it tonight. Kyle and Wally already know about it, so we just planned on surprising everyone else with it," Jude said.

"I love this song. She's amazing," Speed said.

"Awh aren't the two lovebirds a cute couple," Patsy said. Jude and Speed blushed and looked away from each other. That was one thing they still hadn't discussed yet.

"Or not," Patsy said.

"We'll leave you two alone. See you at the show," Jamie said, grabbing Patsy's hand and pulling her out of the room. The two were left with an awkward silence.

"Uh, so I'm gonna go get ready," Jude said, grabbing her bag.

"Yeah, I should start getting ready too," Speed said, standing up. He hugged his girlfriend and opened his mouth to say something.

"Yeah?" she said, noticing his hesitation to speak.

"I lo-love what you did to your hair," he said silently cursing at himself for not being able to say it.

"Thanks," she said, and left.

"I'm such an idiot," he mumbled. After going through everyone in his phone book he found someone he could count on to talk to, who wouldn't tell Jude anything.

Jude ran upstairs and shut her door.

"Whoa, whoa, Jude, what's going on?" Victoria asked, opening the door to her daughter's room.

"Oh, hey mom, I didn't know you were back," Jude said.

"Yes, I got back a few minutes ago. Now what's wrong did you and Vincent get into a fight again?" Victoria asked.

"No, we didn't get in a fight. We were talking to Pats and Jamie, and well Pats called us lovebirds," Jude said.

"And what are you two?" she asked.

"I don't know. I mean, I know I care about him. A lot. I don't think I've ever felt the same way about him as I have for anyone else," Jude said.

"Well, do you love him?" Victoria asked.

"Whoa, whoa, wait, you're my mom. Aren't you supposed to be telling me that I'm too young to know what real love is and calling me a whippersnapper and such?" Jude asked, confused. She didn't think her mother would be so understanding of her feelings.

"I would, but I know how you feel. I met your father when he and I were your age," Victoria said. Jude smiled and frowned. Bad example, seeing as now they were divorced.

"Jude, you will not end up like us. Your father and I were married for twenty years before we got a divorce. Believe it or not, that's a long time, and I still love him. You two will do just fine," Victoria said, leaving her daughter there to think about their talk.

"Alright, this next song is one that me and Jude wrote. It's different from all the others since, it's the first one we wrote since we've been together, about being together. And this is the first time we've ever played this, ever, so yeah, I hope you like it," Speed said while Jude was drinking her water. He talked to Tommy about what he should do, and surprisingly he was a lot of help.

At the end of the song, when everyone was cheering for their stellar performance, Speed knew it was the right time to say it.

"Thanks. Without Jude, this song would've never happened. I love that girl," Speed said and played the intro to That Girl. Jude and a bunch of others gasped at Speed's confession. She didn't believe he would say it.

"Awh, Vin, I love you too," she said, and began singing That Girl.

Carson heard the whole story and tried to not laugh. The fact that they confessed their love for one another made her want to break them up even more. Jude didn't deserve Speed.

At the end of the set, Jude and Speed went off into an empty dressing room, and no one bothered to stop them. They didn't know if they were talking, or doing other things, nor did they want to find out. Kyle and Wally, on the other hand, were setting up for the plan. Part 1 had already been completed. Carson was drunk off of her ass, but she still had a pretty good stage presence.

"Show's over, time to go partaaay," Carson slurred after she got off stage. Her backing banc knew she was wasted, and Kyle and Wally were pretty sure most of her fans knew too. That wasn't the plan. No. Jude had already planned on getting the tabloids involved, but now that she realized it was Carson who leaked Jude and Speed info to the paparazzi, she was getting her back good.

"Did you take pictures of her drinking, as well?" Wally asked.

"Yeah. Someone should go get those two," Kyle said. Wally walked over to where Jude and Speed disappeared to and opened the door to find them sitting on a couch staring into each other's eyes.

"Alright you two, stop being so darn cute. We've got a party to get to," Wally said. They looked up, seemingly snapping out of their trance, and followed Wally to the car.

At the party, everything had gone as planned. Even better than imagined. They hadn't made Carson do anything stupid, she did them all on her own.

"How'd you get her to drink?" Jude asked.

"We said we were going to a party right after the show and there'd be no alcohol so she said she wanted to get drunk anyway," Kyle said, laughing.

Even better was the fact that photographers were getting it all on camera. Nothing could ruin that night for Jude.

Except for the fact that Carson had drunkenly placed her lips on Speed's and snapped a picture of it with her camera phone.

The end. Of the chapter. Not the story. Lol. Review!