Sadie looked up, her mind processed all the different people it could be behind the door. A long silence fell, the door almost seemed to be scratching and screaming at either one of them to just open it up and finally get the whole ordeal over with. Neither one of them budged.
"Sadie? It's Jude, please open the door," Jude asked, trying to stifle her emotions in her voice. That was one thing Jude could never master.
Another silence, Sadie didn't do a thing but just stared at the door. The power in her legs was gone, she couldn't move, her breath was short. She didn't know what to think about Jude. She hadn't stayed long enough to see if she had kissed Miguel back or not. All she saw, were her sister's lips, and her love's lips, both together.
"Sadie, please, I need to talk to you," Jude nearly cried through the door. Jude's legs had given in, as she slid down and crouched down in front of her door. Jude was nearly curled up into a ball, her head against it nearly banging against it.
"Please open the door Sades, I need to talk to you, I need to tell you what happened," Jude cried, her tears spilling down her cheeks as her voice just came out now in loud shouts instead of quiet whispers.
Sadie finally opened the door, to see her sister curled up, her arms wrapped around her legs. Her make up making lines down her face as the tears cleaned it off. Never had she seen her sister, the strong one of the two, so down, so low, so near rock bottom.
"I-I-I-," was all Sadie could muster from her mouth.
"Sadie please! I need to tell you!" Jude yelled from her cries.
"I-I-I-I can't talk to you right now," Sadie cried as she slammed the door and collapsed on to her bed her own tears streaming down her face. Jude just fell back, uncurled herself and fell on her back in front of her sister's door. All that she and Sadie had built together, had now been ruined.
Jude got up, and walked down the stairs. There was only one place she knew she could go. Jude wrapped her jacket around her tight, and walked down the street.
There was a knock at the door as Kat had gotten up to see who it was. Kat lifted her hand to her face to see a teary eyed, red nosed Jude who couldn't even bring her eyes to Kat's.
"He ruined it all," was all Jude said as Kat enveloped Jude into a hug and brought her inside.
Sadie lied on her bed for a while. Her phone had rang several times, three calls from Jude with one voicemail, twice from Miguel, "Damn him," Sadie muttered.
"Oh this should be good," Sadie said under her breath as she checked her voicemail. The first was Jude, her voice strained and now quiet. All Jude said was she didn't know Miguel would do that, that she was sorry, and that she'll be at Kat's all night.
Jude sat on Kat's floor, hugging her legs and rocking herself back and forth as Kat just rubbed her back.
"What if she never hears me out Kat? What if she never forgives me?" Jude asked wiping her eyes.
"She will Jude, she's your sister. You two were so close and had gotten along so well, Sadie is a smart girl, she'll never allow that to be ruined over a guy. Jude could only hope that.
The next day, Jude left Kat's early in the morning and had gone back to her house to shower and get dressed for work. She didn't care what happened to Miguel anymore, he ruined a friendship Jude could never get back, a friendship that took Jude and Sadie 16 years to make. When Jude walked in, her mother was asleep, and Sadie was downstairs in the kitchen drinking orange juice. When Jude saw her, Sadie immediately felt her eyes and looked at her. Jude quickly looked away and had gone upstairs. Sadie's look had said it all, Sadie didn't want to hear a thing, she was much too hurt for words.
Jude showered quickly, dressed quickly, and had just put her wet hair up in a ponytail. She didn't bother with her make up, she just grabbed her keys, a poptart and paced quickly to her car as she drove off to G Major. Sadie sat there in the kitchen, her eyes burning holes through the table, she didn't even lift her head up to see Jude take the poptart. She just kept her eyes down, she couldn't stand it. She was still in shock to what had happened.
Tommy was eating a bagel and drinking his coffee when he saw Jude walk in, her eyes were still red from the day before and Tommy could see this.
"Jude, what's up," Tommy asked, Jude just looked at him and then looked back down as she had walked into her studio. Tommy wasn't upset with Jude at all. He had seen the whole thing, he saw the way her arm was positioned, ready to strike at Miguel, the fear on her face when she saw Sadie, and the shock and utter disgust in her eyes and Miguel's lips met hers. Tommy followed Jude into the studio, only to find her sitting on the couch wiping her eyes as she grabbed her notebook and was getting ready to set it up for a song.
"Jude, Jude," Tommy said, Jude's actions were becoming more robotic, quick, and tense as she started setting up her guitar. Tommy grabbed her arm as Jude finally just dropped the wire and collapsed. She fell on to the floor, with Tommy's arms under her's as he had caught her. Jude's shoulders began to shake as she cried.
"She won't even look at me!" Jude cried bringing her hands to her face. Tommy moved so he could face her, he had finally seen the pain in her eyes. It wasn't like any other he had seen, not like when Shay broke her heart, or when he himself had, or when her father had, it was completely different. Tommy brought her into his arms, embracing her, holding her tight, he wanted his touch to just take away her pain. Jude relaxed in his arms, she started to quiet down, and just lean against him, her breath steadying. Tommy's touch acted like a sedative to her, a tranquilizer, relaxing all things unstable in her body.
"It'll all be ok Jude, Sadie will snap out of it, just give her some time," Tommy whispered in her ear, smelling her freshly cleaned hair, intaking it's aroma, bringing him up to near ecstasy.
Jude just nodded in his arms, when she finally pulled away, she wiped her eyes a little and just sat back against the couch. Tommy looked at her, giving her a small smile of reassurance, Jude just nodded back and stayed like that for a while.
"You going to be ok Jude?" Tommy asked, concern dripping from every word.
"I'll be fine Quincy, let's get to work," Jude said sitting up on the couch and pulling out her notebook as Tommy grabbed the guitar and sat across from her on the table.
Before Tommy could get a word into any input towards the next song, Jude placed her ear buds in and began to write lyrics down faster than he had ever seen. Tommy watched her write and then finally decided to interrupt her.
"Jude? Mind sharing what's in your song?" Tommy asked as Jude pulled out one of the earbuds.
"Oh, well, it's just. I don't know what to write about. All I've got are a whole bunch of one liners that have nothing to do with each other. I'm just at a mental block right now," Jude said sighing as she leaned back in the couch and closed her eyes. The two both had immediately felt the tension in the room when they had both found this situation to be familiar.