Chapter Ten: Getting There

Sadie was anxiously sitting next to Jude on the couch awaiting for Tom's arrival with Jude. As soon as she heard the news of Jude's boyfriend coming for dinner she knew right away and it irritated her to no end. She had hoped from the moment they started their fling that he'd eventually want a title, but clearly that was never going to happen.

Jude nervously bit her lip and turned to her sister, "Please Sadie I'm begging you don't fuck this up!"

Sadie sighed and turned to Jude, "Yeah I'm jealous Jude, but I think Tom will find his own way to eventually fuck this up." Jude's jaw dropped, "All I ask is when he breaks your heart you don't come to me. You'll get a big fat I told ya so."

Jude huffed as she stood up and crossed her arms, "Wow Sades, thanks for all your fucking support."

Just then the door bell rang and both sisters alert looked between each other. Jude saw her mom almost sprint from the kitchen and Jude ran up behind her. She knew this moment was about to be shocking for her parents. When the door opened Jude stood meekly behind Victoria and smiled nervously when she saw Tom. He had on a leather brown jacket over one of his polo button ups and dress slacks. In his hands were a Bouquet of daisies and a bottle of a Jameson.

Victoria tilted her head in confusion, "Tom, what're you doing?"

Tom looked between Victoria and Jude with his hands shaking, his eyes begged Jude to step in. "Well let's just get right to it," Jude spoke nervously, "mom, Tommy is my boyfriend."

Victoria's jaw dropped as Tom pushed out his hands offering his gifts, "Hi."

Sadie couldn't help but cackle from behind her sister and mom, "Well mom, aren't you gonna invite Jude's boyfriend in?"

Victoria backed up allowing Tom to enter the Harrison household, "You're right Sadie, where are my manners? Tom this Bouquet is lovely and Stuart loves whiskey. Thank you."

Tom let out a sigh of relief as she grabbed his offerings rather calmly, "I know this is shocking, but I promise my intentions are good."

Stuart interjected with a stern grunt from behind the gathering of Harrison women, "I'll make sure of that."

The dinner had gone over rather smoothly. Stuart and Tom sipped on the whiskey, both nervous and curious as to what each other we're thinking. Victoria was nagging Jude on details of the record company and her contract, although Stuart was excited for his little girl his mind couldn't wrap around why Tom was with her daughter. That thought had him to preoccupied. Stuart watched as Tom helped Victoria clean around the table and his respectfulness of the household was refreshing so he decided to give this a chance, but not with out the famous father-boyfriend talk.

Tom dried the last of the dishes and turned to Victoria, "Thank you so much for the lovely dinner Mrs. Harrison."

Victoria giggled and touched Tom's shoulder, "You can call me Vic, it's fine Tom."

Tom smiled knowing he got her approval and saw Jude gleaming at the kitchen table, that's when Stuart crossed his arms, "Tom I'd like you to come to my study with me."

Tom stood straight and nervously smiled at Jude before walking towards her father, "Of course Mr. Harrison."

"Stuart," is all he added before disappearing to the study with Tom right behind him.

Stuart took a seat behind his desk and placed his legs crossed on top of it and then nonchalantly crossed his arms behind his head, "So how does Tom Quincy, a man in his prime, end up with my 17 year old daughter?"

Tom scratched the back of his head and walked to sit in the chair before Stuart's desk, "Well that night at her birthday party, when I first saw her she literally took my breath away and-"

Stuart interrupted with a laugh, "You don't need to bullshit me here Tom. I'm a guy too."

Tom chuckled and shook his head, "No really mister, I mean Stuart, she was the most beautiful girl I'd seen. When I heard her sing," he took a pause to take in the first moment her voice hit his ears and his eyes lit up, Stuart noticed. "When I heard her sing I could just feel this tingle through my whole body. She was staring right at me Stuart. She was singing to me, I knew it. So we got to talking and I found there was so much more than beauty." Tom had stopped staring at Stuart and began to glance into space in a daze with a huge smile on his lips, "Her passion for music and her genuine personality just got to me. I'll be the first to admit I'm a player Stuart, but your daughter," he paused again to look directly into Stuart's eyes, "well she is without a doubt a special girl and I just got pulled in."

Stuart's lips pursed into a large grin, "That look in your eyes when you talk about my little Jude tells me everything I need to know."

After they're talk Jude and Tom kissed goodbye and she couldn't have been any happier with how dinner had went over. Sadie rolled her eyes every chance she could that night in jealously of how well it went and how badly she wished he would fail. Jude couldn't hold in her happiness with how everything went and she felt she was finally ready to let go of the Sadie incident with Tom, actually let go. She wouldn't just pretend it wasn't on her mind anymore, it would actually not be there every time they were apart. A weight lifted from Jude after that dinner and she was ready to fully trust Tom.

Jude had just gotten out of school and was ready to head to G Major for her first official day as an artist. She was more than ecstatic to get to work with Tom, who was deemed her producer. She walked through the doors of G Major with a smile on her face and her hands in her front pockets. That's when a tall dark man jumped in front of her with a flawless smile.

"You the new blonde shorty uncle D has been bragging about?"

It took Jude a few seconds to realize who she was talking to, "Wait you're Shay?" He shook his head with a devious smile, "And you know who I am?" It almost seemed unreal to Jude that someone of that magnitude of fame could ever acknowledge her.

"Yeah shorty that's me. So what's your name anyways?" He asked smiling at her star struck face.

Jude offered her hand for a nervous shake, "Right, um, my name is Jude."

Shay shook her hand, "That's a beautiful name for such a fine girl."

Jude watched as Shay licked his lips and she couldn't help but blush. But with seemingly perfect timing Tom saw the pair talking and he grew suspicious of the flirtatious smiles and decided to intervene. He walked up and claimed Jude eagerly by placing his arm around her, "Jude, babe, we got some work in the studio to do."

Jude jumped a bit at Tommy's touch and it hit her she was busted flirting, "Right! It was nice meeting you Shay."

Shay smiled while looking up and down at the pair before him and shook his head, "I'll definitely be seeing you around shorty." He turned around and walked away rubbing his hands together as if he were plotting something.

"Stay away from him Jude, okay?" Tom pleaded as they headed towards studio A. Yes, Tom wanted Jude to stay away for obvious reasons, but there was a hidden agenda, a past, that Jude had no idea about. The things that Shay could reveal about Tom put him on edge and he wasn't ready for Jude to know about any of it, fuck he didn't think he'd ever be ready for her to know some of his hidden secrets locked away over the years.

Jude nodded and kissed Tom on the cheek before sitting across from him on the chairs in the studio, "Sure babe, whatever you want."

"I mean it Jude. He tries to fuck everything." Jude laughed thinking at the irony of Tom telling her to stay away from a player, "I'm serious Jude. Me and Shay, we don't get along. If anything he will try that much harder to get to you since you're mine."

Jude stood up from the chair and walked behind Tom to lean down and drape herself over him. She lightly whispered into his ear, "That's right Quincy I'm all yours. Nothing to worry about."

He shivered under her breath and pulled her around him to have Jude placed on his lap, "Oh really miss Harrison, all mine?" Tom said teasingly while placing small kisses on her neck as she giggled under his soft lips. She nodded while facing her head towards him and nuzzled their noses together. He took in her eyes and drowned in the sensations between their bodies, "I'm all yours Harrison."