Fate or coincidence?
"Damn Mason" Jude whispered. Tommy looked at her. She was totally mad, clenching her fists and walking around the room. "Damn Mason, damn Kyle, damn Wally!"
"Don't forget about Kwest...I'm totally sure he has something to do with this too"
They both started to look around desperately, trying to find a way to get out of there. Suddenly Tommy smiled.
"There must be a way to get out of here" Jude said, walking in circles around the place.
"Jude, calm down. I'll call my dad or your mom to get us out of here" he said smiling widely "after all, we've still got our phones"
Jude went up to Tommy and stood in front of him, sighing in relief.
"Gotta love phones" she said with a smile "our friends aren't very smart...they didn't think about the phone thing"
Tommy rolled his eyes and took his phone out of his pocket.
"Oops" He suddenly said, turning pale.
"That was an oops yay, or an oops oops?" Jude asked, not even trying to hide her fears.
"It was a "my phone is dead" oops" Tommy answered, still looking at his phone.
"Oh God. Well, I still have mine" Jude said smiling again, looking for her phone inside her bag "And I'm pretty sure it has battery because I haven't used it since...Oh no"
Tommy rolled his eyes again
"Let me guess, that was a "my phone is dead too" oh no?"
"No. I lent it to Mason. He borrowed it from me right after he..." Jude expression change from a confused one to an angry one "right after he passed me the note!"
Tommy opened his eyes wide.
"Kwest and I talked for almost two hours and he was saying nonsense things" Tommy added. They were obviously fitting all the pieces together "of course he wanted my phone to die!"
"Well, our friends weren't that stupid after all" Jude said, trying to control her anger "what are we going to do now, Quincy?"
Tommy shrugged his shoulders
"I guess we will have to stay the night here then"
He walked away from Jude and sat down on the couch, totally calmed. Jude looked at him suspiciously as he grabbed a magazine and started to read it
"Tommy, tell me the truth"
Tommy just looked at her innocently and nodded.
"Do you have something to do with this?"
Tommy stared at her, totally shocked.
"Sorry, what?"
"Did you plan this?" Jude asked, but it was like she already knew the answer.
Tommy looked at her, opening his eyes wide.
"I don't know what you're talking about" Tommy said honestly.
But Jude didn't believe him. She just took her hands to her head and looked at him, totally mad.
"Of course you planned it. You planed to get me locked up here with you, who knows for what!!"
Tommy stood up immediately and tried to calm Jude.
"Of course I didn't, I wouldn't do something like that" he said, but then he though about earlier and how he had locked Jude in the dressing room "ok, maybe I would do it, but that doesn't mean I..."
"I can't believe it!" Jude screamed
"Jude, please don't jump into conclusions" Tommy pleaded, but Jude was totally out of control. She grabbed her bag and took out a black permanent marker. Tommy watched puzzled as Jude looked at the floor holding the marker tightly.
"Jude, what are you going to do?" Tommy asked intrigued, trying not to sound too scared. But he was. Jude wasn't a normal girl and he knew it: when she gets mad, she goes crazy. Jude walked towards Tommy and stood right next to him and bent down smiling. That's when Tommy realized what she was about to do.
"Are you crazy?!" Tommy said raising his voice as Jude drew a line across the room. Once she finished she looked at Tommy, smiling proud of herself.
"I'd be crazy if I don't do this" Jude affirmed, looking back at the line she had just drawn "you will stay there and I'm gonna stay here. Don't even try to cross this line, Tommy Quincy"
She turned around and went up to the couch, grabbed a magazine and started to read it. Tommy stood there paralyzed. He looked at Jude. He couldn't believe that her Jude and this crazy girl were the same girl. Maybe that was one of the reasons why he had fallen for her. She was unpredictable, mysterious, but at the same time so fragile and beautiful. Jude noticed he was looking at her and immediately looked back at him, totally serious.
"Oh, and you can't look at me either" she added bitterly and went back to her magazine.
Tommy rolled his eyes and turned around. He looked at his side of the room and realized he had all the musical instruments and the fireplace in his side of the room. He smiled. Maybe he could do something to convince Jude to forgive him. Maybe after this, he could forgive her too for stealing his journal.
After an hour or two of total indifference coming from Jude, Tommy couldn't decide what he was going to do yet. Suddenly he looked at Jude and noticed she was paler than usual. Actually, she was shaking.
He stood up immediately and walked to the fireplace. After a few minutes he had started a fire and the room wasn't an ice floe anymore.
"Now you won't die from hypothermia" He said to Jude, trying to set up a conversation, but she didn't even look at him to thank him.
Tommy sat down next to the fireplace and though about the last days he had shared with Jude. He had to do something to get her back, he said to himself.
"You know what Jude?" He said suddenly. Jude was listening, but she hid her face behind the magazine she was "reading" "I know I messed it up, ok? And so did you. You can blame me for stealing your journal and being a jerk most of the time" He stood up and walked towards Jude's side of the room. He stood just before the line "but you can't blame me for loving you"
He waited for an answer, but Jude didn't say a word.
Tommy looked down and turned around. Jude looked at him and was about to say something, but then she regretted of it. She put her eyes on her magazine again as he sat down on the floor and grabbed Speed's guitar. He strummed it for a couple of minutes, but then he suddenly remembered the song he had written for Jude before they broke up. It was perfect for his plan. Jude was still reading a magazine, but he knew she was looking at him with the corner of the eye, so he cleared his throat and started to sing with a soft, almost inaudible voice.
I'll be your dream
I'll be your wish
I'll be your fantasy.
I'll be your hope
I'll be your love
be everything that you need
Jude looked up from her magazine and their eyes met. He meant every single word. Jude was everything to him and he wanted to be everything to her. He wasn't going to mess things up this time. He was willing to give up, to let her win just to see that beautiful smile on her face.
I love you more with every breath
truly madly deeply do...
I will be strong I will be faithful
'Cause I'm counting on a new beginning.
A reason for living.
A deeper meaning.
Jude tried to look away, but it was almost impossible. Tommy was singing that song for her and she knew it. Her heart was racing, because deep inside, she knew that he was telling the truth.
I want to stand with you on a mountain.
I want to bathe with you in the sea.
I want to lay like this forever.
Until the sky falls down on me...
Jude finally made a decision. She stood up and walked towards him, but Tommy didn't stop. He had to let everything out. He needed to tell her how much he loved her.
And when the stars are shining brightly
In the velvet sky,
I'll make a wish
Send it to heaven
Then make you want to cry
The tears of joy
For all the pleasure and the certainty.
That we're surrounded
By the comfort and protection of
The highest power.
In lonely hours.
The tears devour you
Jude hesitated for a moment, but then she grabbed her bag and took out a bunch of papers: Tommy's journal. She looked at him, directly at the eyes and then crossed the line and walked towards the fireplace. She looked at the papers for a moment and then threw them to the flames. She watched as them burned to ashes
I want to stand with you on a mountain;
I want to bathe with you in the sea.
I want to lay like this forever,
until the sky falls down on me
Tommy finished the song and looked at Jude. Her eyes were lost in the flames.
"I though that those papers would give me your love...and I can bet you though the same thing" she said, almost whispering. Tommy was listening to every word carefully. "But now I realize that you love me, even if you're a stupid jerk that doesn't know how to love properly" she laughed to herself
"It's good to know you realized of it"
"I always knew it, but I was trying to...push you away"
Tommy looked at her, totally puzzled
"I'm so scared of this feeling...I didn't break up with you for the journal thing. It was just an excuse. The truth is I'm terrified"
"You don't have to be scared"
"But I am. I'm just fifteen and I'm feeling this for you...I don't know if I can handle it"
Tommy smiled and walked towards her. He sat down right next to Jude and looked at her beautiful face, just illuminated by the flames.
"I'm scared too, Jude. I've never felt something like this before. And the journal thing...it was just a plus to get to know you better, to fall even more for you. Of course I love you, and it's not because of the journals. It's because of us. Me and you. I love you because you're Jude and just Jude"
Jude blushed and looked down, but then looked back at Tommy.
"And I love you because you're Tommy, my stupid stepbrother that has slept with all the girls in town but has never been in love" they both laughed weakly, and then Jude looked at Tommy, smiling "but I'm willing to try...I will teach you how to love me without hurting me"
Tommy looked at her blue eyes in amazement
"How can you still trust me?" He asked, his eyes never leaving hers. "Just because I wrote a song for you?"
Jude got closer to him
"I trust you now because I've written songs too. I know that you're not lying to me. You can lie all the time, but you can't lie in a song...that's something we both know, because we love music"
Tommy nodded in agreement and looked at the floor.
"I will teach you how to love, Tommy. we will go slowly, step by step"
"And I will learn how to love you in the way you want me to" he said smiling "promise"
Then he looked at Jude, who was looking at the fireplace again. They stayed silent for a moment, but then Jude looked at him serious.
"Aren't you going to kiss me?" she asked, totally serious.
Tommy didn't know what to say and just looked at her, totally shocked
"But I though you said I should slow down..."
Jude rolled her eyes and smashed her lips against Tommy's, who opened his eyes wide. Jude pulled away and smiled sexily
"I said slowly. Not retardly"
She pushed him onto the cold floor and climbed on top of him, giggling.
"Jude, don't do this please" Tommy pleaded, knowing that he wouldn't be able to control himself later.
Jude just shook her head knowing that there was no escape now, noone to interrupt them, nowhere to run. Because it wasn't a coincidence that they were all alone that night. It was fate.
