Amour Éternel
Eternal Love
Chapter 7: Deal With It
Tommy's POV.
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I've only been awake for a few minutes but my mind is already at work.
This is it, I'm going to face Darius. We're facing him for the first time. I don't know whats going to happen all I know is that its not going to be easy. After his threats the other day -wait, that was yesterday?- I don't know how much worse it's going to be in person. I shuddered at the thought.
I pushed myself up and rested against the headboard. Note to self: padded headboard. For more reasons than one. Jude was in the shower, surprisingly she got up before me. I usually have to drag her out of bed in the morning. I think now I'll be dragging her into bed.
Five minutes later she emerged, fully dressed. Damn it. She gave me a quick kiss on the cheek before she left the room. I almost grabbed her and pulled her back to me but I resisted the temptation. Sighing I got up and went into the bathroom.
Twenty minutes later I walked into the kitchen to see Jude, sitting at the counter, eating her breakfast.
"What are you eating?" I said as I looked at the mess in her bowl. I wanted to gag at the sight of it.
"Pop-Tart cereal. Don't look at me like that, its good." She took another large spoonful and put it in her mouth.
"What's Pop-Tart cereal?" I have to know. I'll regret it but I have to know.
"You cut up your favorite Pop-Tarts and put them in a bowl with milk." She looked at me as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Wanna try some? Spied and I had it all the time during our last tour," she held up a spoonful for me.
"No, you can finish it. I'm good." I help up my hand for good measure.
"Chicken," she said under her breath.
"Because I won't have something invented by Spied, that makes me a baby?"
"Yeah," she mumbled through her mouthful of disgustingness.
I grabbed a mug from the cupboard and poured myself some coffee. I'm going to need all the energy I can get. "Tommy?"
"Hm?"
"Last night, that really wasn't the way we're going to settle this, is it?"
"Do you really think I would let them off that easy?" She shrugged and looked at me expectantly. "Even though we won, or I did." Jude rolled her eyes. "Kwest should know that I'm not going to let this go away. If he does, he's stupider that I thought." I was leaning back against the counter, when I heard Jude humming softly. "What's that?"
"What's what?"
"The song," she looked at me like I was going bald. "That you were humming."
"Just something that's been in my mind for the past few days. Maybe if Darius likes it he'll be in a better mood when we have to talk to him." She was hopeful, not wanting to be in the path of Darius' destruction.
"Its not likely but you can try." I don't want her to get her hopes too high. "You ready?" She bit her lip and shrugged. "Darius won't kill us... today," I added under my breath.
"Alright. Let's go," she held out her hand to me as she put her bowl into the sink. This could be the end of... take your pick. Life, career, important body parts.
We've been waiting outside Darius' office for almost twenty minutes. I was told that I'm not allowed into the studio space until I spoke with the Head Bald Guy. Sadie didn't use those words exactly but close enough.
"Get in here," what? No hello, how was your vacation? Jude strolled into his office as if she was going into a ice cream shop instead of Darius' domain of evil torture.
"So what did you want to see us about?" She kept her tone light. Who is this and what have they done with my Jude?
"It was recently brought to my attention that your dating." Jude's eyebrows drew together. I don't think my expression was much different. The was a slight growl in his throat as he looked back at us. "Tom I had a talk with you about this, several times, I might add." You'll add all day long. You just want to hear your own voice.
The sound of his wheels turning overtook everything else. He's thinking of a new way to end this. Try your best, I was challenging him with my eyes. One word and I could be ruined. Jude on the other hand was sitting next to me calm as a Kwest with a sandwich.
"I don't want to clean up any more messes that you two will cause." He was stern, even more so. His eyes narrowing. "This won't last long, I can already see that happening. The end," he had a wild happiness in him after he said that.
Why is he so hung up on Jude being single? That time in the airport was just an act, wasn't it? I was lost in my own thoughts when I heard someone yelling my name. And not in the good way.
"How many times do I have to yell his name before he comes around?" Jude started to giggle as she took in another meaning to what Darius asked. "Jude, that's enough. Tom, you need to stay with us," Us? There's an 'US' with them? Nah.
"I'm not going to have this conversation with you two again. One disaster and there will be hell to pay. And I'm not going to be taking the fall in any way." Does he ever shut up? I think I answered that earlier. He dragged on for a few minutes more before Jude got fed up and couldn't keep her mouth shut. Not a bad thing any other time, when we're alone, that is.
"Oh, put your big girl panties on and deal with it," I heard her mutter next to me. I wasn't sure if I was going into shock or if I was holding in a laugh.
"What was that Jude?!"
"Nothing. Nothing at all," she grumbled as she rolled her eyes. Way to make the situation worse Jude! She looked over at me and saw my shocked expression. She shrugged turned her attention to something in the corner of the room.
"You've already made the covers of five tabloids and I know more are on the way. Jude you're barely eighteen." He was trying his best to remain calm at all cost.
"At least I'm not pregnant!" And that was when I knew something was going to snap inside Darius.
"She's pregnant?!" I heard Sadie yell from the other side of the door. Wow, the Harrison girls are discerning, aren't they?
Okay hold on, our first time together was only a few days ago. I'm good, but I'm not that good. I may want a family, but not anytime soon. I just got Jude, I'm not about to share her.
"No, I'm not pregnant!" She shouted to the closed door. I heard Sadie let out a sigh of relief. Relief? What she doesn't think a Quincy baby will be a good thing? Would be the best looking kid in the world.
That's not conceitedness, that's all fact.
"Get out of my office," he said almost quietly. Rubbing his head as if it ached. Which it probably did after an encounter with the two of us. "Just go home. I don't want to see the two of you again until this is fixed."
Fixed? What's there to fix? We haven't ruined anything, yet. I might mess up a broom closet, but no one would notice a huge change.
I took Jude by the hand and pulled her out of the office. Happy to be free from the clutches of the head bald guy. I headed for the door and pushed it open as I rushed to the parking lot. I've had a tense few days and I need my way of relief. It will take a few hours but not being allowed at work made it seem all the better.
It seemed like hours past as I drove to the house. Jude was humming her song again as I felt all my muscles tense more. Her voice still has its effect on me. Finally I saw the house come into view. Once the car got into the driveway I threw the car into park and pulled Jude out of her seat.
She squealed as I tossed her over my shoulder as I nearly ran towards the house.
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I didn't have much time to edit, so, I'm sorry for any mistakes. I wantede to get this out before I worked on anything else.
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