Jude felt the turbulence of the landing, she took a deep breath and thought, No turning back now. Jude gathered her carry on bags and got up with everyone else, she wanted to see everyone again but wasn't rushing. She let everyone out before herself, being almost the last person to leave.
As she walked through the airport to the luggage tracks she got her phone back out and called for a cab. She found all of her bags and waited out side. The cab driver pulled up and popped the trunk. To Jude's surprise he got out and helped her with her bags, and here she thought all cab drivers were rude and inconsiderate.
"Thank you." She said sweetly. The driver nodded and smiled back.
He opened her door for her and she continued to be surprised. He got in on his side and asked, "Where to?"
Jude replied with an address guiding him when he lwas stumped after a good quite 10 minutes, a conversation started. "Miss Harrison, I know you probably get this a lot but would you mind an autograph?"
Jude smiled, "Absolutely no problem." He handed her a picture from his glove box, she graciously took the pen he handed her and signed the photograph. "So I take it you're a fan."
"My whole family, my daughters, even my son and my wife." He said looking at her form the rearview mirror. "Don't those pesky tabloids get you sometimes, you always seem so calm to the press."
Jude laughed a little remember all the troublesome encounters with the paparazzi. "Well, you get used to it, and I just want to make music, I try to let it bother be but it is hard, for sure."
"So have there been any embarrassing rumors that have been true? Or love secrets?" The driver asked.
Jude was still smiling to herself, "Lots of it actually, but I try and keep private, I assume by love secrets your referring to Tom Quincy?" She asked.
The driver silently nodded yes. Jude smiled doing the same. "So are you just visiting?"
"No, I think I'm staying. I love London but, I miss everyone here." Jude said looking out the window as the driver pulled up to her house. "Thank you."
She got out of the car and the trunk was popped, the driver got out once again and got her bags out. She paid him and gave him a generous tip. He drove away quietly. Jude grabbed her bag and searched frantically for her old house key. She found it long lost in one of the pockets that she never used.
She rolled her bags up to the door and unlocked it. Sadie's car was in the driveway and she tried hard to not wake her up. Jude finally got inside with all of her bags and left them downstairs she looked around and saw that nothing had changed.
Jude walked upstairs and before she could do anything she needed to sleep. The next morning Jude woke up to a scream. She heard footsteps up the stairs and her door flung open, followed by another scream. Jude looked up and saw Sadie, in her pajamas he hair a mess, it was defiantly still morning.
"Oh my god! Jude your back!!" Sadie said running up to her and giving her a huge hug.
"Sadie you saw me not to long ago." Jude said still trying to wake herself completely.
Sadie smiled and said, " I know but I didn't expect this! Come downstairs I was going to make a pot of coffee and we can catch up. You have so much to tell me. How was that week with Speed? Why are you back? When are you going back?" Sadie dragged Jude out of bed and down the stairs. She followed Sadie down the stairs and sat down in the kitchen while Sadie put on a pot of coffee.
"You know, I would have appreciated the coffee before the excitement." Jude said sarcastically, yawning afterwards.
Sadie took a seat across from her sister and smiled uncontrollably, "Sorry I was a little distracted, so tell me everything!" Sadie said almost squealing from excitement.
"Well I got home," Jude paused too look at the time, "6 hours ago, practically dismantled my bag looking for the key, I didn't want to wake you."
Sadie motioned for her to continue craving more information.
"I finished my album after Tommy left." Jude said awaiting her sisters reaction.
Sadie's eyes widened as she squealed, "Tommy?! What, Tommy?! What about Tommy? What about Dan?!"
"Sadie, Spied was suppose to come up, but he sent Tommy instead, so he and I spent a couple of days together and we wrote the last song for my album, Dan and I broke up, he thought that my music wasn't a good supportive job." Jude explained, Sadie handed her a mug of coffee and set the sugar and creamer on the counter.
"What a jerk. Wait so nothing happened with Tommy?" Sadie said sitting back down.
"Well, it was going to but, I wasn't ready." Jude said drinking her coffee.
Sadie questioned her statement slightly, "Wasn't? As in past tense, as in your ready now?"
"Well, Tommy basically told me that its not that I wasn't ready, it was that I was afraid." Jude continued to explain.
"He's right you know, Jude he loves you, you're the only one that doesn't see it." Sadie said agreeing with Jude's last statement.
Jude gave her sister a mockingly shocked look, "Oh! Guess who I saw, after forever!"
"Who?" Sadie said getting excited again.
"Mason!"
"No Way!"
"Yup!" Jude said finishing her coffee and feeling much more awake. "So I heard about your undercover scheming."
"Oh yeah, that, well I get paid double, so its fine with me, its fun, I never expected to be doing this." Saide said also finishing her drink taking both cups and putting them in the sink.
Jude got up and stretched, "Well, now that your caught up, I'm gonna go take my stuff back upstairs and head over to Jamie's, or I guess, NBR." Jude said walking out of the kitchen.
She grabbed her bags and went upstairs and came back downstairs to see her sister still in her pajamas under a blanket on the couch, Jude looked at her and laughed slightly.
"What? Today's my day off, I'm going to use it to my advantage." Sadie said smiling at Jude.
Jude walked over to the couch, "Well, I'm off to NBR to see everyone, I'll have my cell, sure you don't want to come?" Jude asked biting her bottom lip hoping she could get some back up, she was nervous to tell the truth, she wasn't sure how everyone would react, even though Spied probably told everyone already.
Sadie shook her head no and Jude sighed slightly "Fine." She walked over to the door opening it she saw Spied with his hand reaching for the doorknob, with no intention to knock, with Karma by his side he screamed, "DUDE!" And hugged her, he lifted her up and spun her around.
Karma laughed at her silly husband. "Good to have our best man back Jude."
"Thanks Karma, never expected to hear that from you." Jude said smiling as Spied let go of her. She saw Karma get closer and wrapped her arms around her in a hug, Jude was a little surprised but returned the gesture.
Spied was watching then laughing at little at the situation. When Karma let go of Jude spied said, "So, dude? you're back, what's on the agenda?" he asked anxiously.
"Well, I was thinking about going to Jamie's and saying hi to everyone, maybe even down to G-Major." Jude said thinking about it.
"Oh, not a good idea, Darius isn't exactly happy with his workers now, but Sadie should keep you safe. Oh, before I forget dude, my release party is in two days and you have to be there cause I, I mean we have a huge," He paused and looked at Karma, "Surprise." He said kissing her cheek.
Jude was a little confused as she stood on her doorstep watching them. "Well, I'll be there, so is Jamie at NBR?"
"Yeah he's waiting, but he wanted you to come to him. I have no idea why." Spied said making his way down the walkway with Karma by his side and Jude walking behind then closing the door on her way out.
Jude, and Spied in Karma, hand in hand, walked to Jamie's Nana's house and knocked on the door. His Nana's opened the door and let them in to go down to the basement. Jude walked down the stairs first saying loudly walking down, "Guess who's back!" as she made her entrance downstairs.
Jamie had his head phones on but heard her anyway , he turned around smiled wide and took off the head phones getting up and hugging Jude tightly, "Jeez, I thought you were never gonna visit." He said letting go.
"Well, I'm not visiting, I'm staying. London just isn't the same without my two best guys." Jude said putting her arm around both spied and Jamie, "And apparently, my new best friend Karma." Jude asked looking around.
"Aren't you forgetting someone" Jamie said, implying Tommy as one of her best guys, as he heard the door upstairs open.
Zeppelin emerged on the top of the staircase holding coffee in hand, "Oh, Jude, hi! Welcome back, oops," She said looking in her hand holding only two cups of coffee. "I didn't know you were coming I can go get you some if you want."
Jude laughed at her quirkiness. "No its okay, I got my coffee fix already. Good to see you again."
Zeppelin handed Jamie a cup and drank out of her own. "Good to see you too." She said smiling wide. Jamie put his arm around her. "So have you seen him yet?"
Jude knew very well who Zeppelin was talking about, "No, has he com in yet?"
"Quincy com in before noon? Its unheard of!" Jamie said smiling at her.
Sent him back a smirk, "So we have a lot to catch up on, are you excited I mean your first album release party!"
Jamie sat down with his coffee and Jude walked over to the couch taking a seat followed by Spied and Karma sat on the arm of the couch. Zeppelin took a seat in the chair next to Jamie. "Yeah, I didn't know so much could happen in so little time, now we have a huge name like Jude Harrison who knows what else will happen."
"I would think you would have been out of this basement by now." Jude replied.
"Well, we don't have enough money yet, but as soon as Spied's album goes out we are expecting massive money. He has built up quite a fan base on yahoo." Jamie said still grinning thinking about his success in the past few months.
Jude looked around, "Good thing Paegen left he stuff. So what about workers? I mean I know Tommy is a producer and Sadie is a A&R rep and all of that but, what about engineers?" Jude asked.
"Well, we aren't that far in, Tom knows basically all of that stuff so until we open in an actual building we don't worry about that. Just stop dancing around the Tommy Fact we all know that's why you came back." Jamie said, looking at her, "Couldn't stay away Harrison?"
Jude nodded blushing a little, "Its good to be home, I missed everyone, and when Tommy came back, I finally realized what I was missing, so I just decided I gotta come home."
"Well good cause Quincy should be here any minute." Spied said pointing to the clock on the wall above the soundboard. Everyone looked to the top of the stairway when they heard a knock at the door. Jude was nervous everyone else in the room was holding their breath anxious for Tommy's arrival.
They heard footsteps coming down saw nice shoes and blue jeans walking down the stairs reveling a handsome man in a swanky jacket who was most definitely not Tommy.
"Kwest?!" Spied said surprised.
"What are you doing here?" Jamie asked a little frustrated, he hadn't seen Kwest since he sold NBR out to Darius.
"Look Jamie man, im sorry about how things went down with Paegen." Kwest said trying to explain. Jude was in shock, she couldn't believe her eyes.
Jamie got up getting even more angry, "You should be, you're the reason we almost failed, but we made ti through in spite of you."
"Look man, calm down, I quit G-major before I left and I took a break, I know what I did was wrong, but I came back and I kind of need a job." Kwest said looking around the room. All the faces he saw were shocked, expect spied, he had a look of excitement. "Jude?" Kwest said noticing her on the couch.
"In the flesh." Jude said standing up and giving him a hug.
"Glad your back."
"Likewise."
Jamie's anger was still rising, "You cant just say your sorry and expect me to forget the way you stabbed me in the back."
"Jamie, man, I am really sorry, if it helps, Paegen only signed a one album contract so when he gets back form tour he is on his butt again."
"It doesn't." Jamie sneered.
Jude stepped in between, "Hey guys just cool it, Jamie," Jude started looking in Jamie's direction who was still glaring at Kwest, "Give him a chance, he was your friend once. Right? And I made some stupid mistake in our friendship but you forgave me, why not Kwest."
Jamie looked down at Jude and he knew she was right. "Fine, you can be out engineer, but I cant pay you, not until probably next month."
"Fine by me, thanks man." Kwest said.
Jude smiled, "So why'd you come back?" She said turning to Kwest.
"Well I got a phone call form a certain guy by the name of Quincy, he told me not give up on your sister, because I love her." Kwest said.
Jude smiled at his answer. "Wow Kwest, I'm pretty sure she loves you too." Jamie's phone rang and everyone looked over to him as he answered it.
Jude was talking to Kwest lightly and spied and karma were talking and giving each other Eskimo kisses, Jamie hung up the phone and Zeppelin was the first to ask, "Who was it."
"That was Tommy." Jamie turned directly to Jude, "He is gone, but he will be back the night of Spied album release party, guess he doesn't know that you're back yet, I'm sorry Jude."
Jude was deflated, she thought she was going to see him today, so she could tell him how she felt, but she would just have to wait. "Its okay, just a little disappointing, Well I should go home, spend some time with Sadie." Jude turned to Kwest, "I'll talk to her okay." He nodded and she said her good byes and headed back to her childhood home.
Sorry to disappoint on the Jommy stuff, but all in good time. I wanted to prolong it so I could build up to the release party!
I love writing for Zeppelin she is so Quirky and I love her Character.
Thanks for all the reviews again! You guys are aces and I will try and update as soon as possible!
