Jude walked out of Tommy's room and into the one she was staying in. She walked over to one of her bags and threw it on the bed while getting clothes to fill in it. While putting something into the bag she saw the letter from her mom.
'Might as well get it over with now.' She thought to herself. Jude sat down on the bed and slowly opened the letter.
Jude,
Don and I just got married and we are on our way to Europe. We will be coming back, but I'm not sure when. I'm sorry that I didn't get to say goodbye in person, but it doesn't seem that you are home and our flight leaves soon. You and Sadie will be fine while I am gone, just don't get into anymore fights. This is something I have to do; get away for a while. After all that has happened in the past two years. I understand that you might probably, will be mad at me for this so I'm not going to force you to talk to me. When you want to talk though, e-mail me and I'll give you a phone number. Maybe you and Sadie could even come visit. If I don't talk to you soon, good luck with everything at G Major.
Love,
Mom
Jude put the letter down and continued packing. 'I should have read this a while ago. I also should have taken my own advice and just listened to her.'
When done packing Jude picked up her cell phone and dialed her house number. After a few rings the answering machine picked up.
She didn't even bother leaving a message. 'I'll just call tomorrow.' She thought.
"You glad I made you talk to her?" Jude asked when she noticed Tommy standing in the door way.
"Yes." He admitted. "Did you read the letter?"
"Uh huh."
"What did it say?"
"She just said that she needed to get away. Which I guess I understand. She also wanted me to e-mail her and visit, but I didn't read the letter so I didn't know…"
"So you are going to call her?"
"I already tried, well at my house and there was no answer. I'll try again tomorrow. You and Alex are fine now?"
"Yeah. She is part of the reason why I left Boyz Attack. When she got cancer, I stayed with her to help out. She didn't want me to give up everything again for her, so she tried to get me to want to stay here on my own."
"I can't imagine having to go through that twice, let alone once."
"Yeah." Tommy looked at his watch. "You ready to go?"
"Yep." She picked up her bag and handed it to Tommy.
"Why are you giving it to me?"
"You are going to play the part of nice, helpful boyfriend."
"Lucky me." He said taking her bag.
"Did you tell Alex about us?"
"It wasn't the best time."
"She told me that she expects us to get together."
"Really?" He asked as the door bell rang.
"Yeah." Tommy opened the door. "Aparently, you don't hide your feelings very well."
"Hey Kaiden."
"I was so surprised when Nick told me where you wanted to go." She said in a rush to get the words out, walking past Tommy and into the house carring two bags. "After last time you were there I didn't think you would ever go back." She put her bags down and turned to Jude. "Hi Jude."
"Hey. What happened when you went to the resort?" Jude asked.
After Tommy didn't answer Jude turned her head to Kaiden. "He broke his leg in three places."
"What did you do?"
"I have blocked that trip out of my mind."
"Let's just say he isn't the best skier and he decided to go down the biggest mountain with Nick and I."
"Really smart, Tommy."
"I am a perfectly good skier. There was a patch of ice on the mountain."
"That is what you forced your brain to think happened. You said yourself that you tried to block that trip out of your mind."
"That trip, but during other trips, I was a great skier."
"You just keep telling yourself that and you will end up with another cast by tomorrow." Karma turned to Jude. "You ski?"
"No, I have snowboarded once though. I'm going to be sticking to the small slopes."
"Try and keep Tommy there with you. I don't want to see him cry like a baby agian."
"I did not cry. And I can go on the big slopes if I want to."
"He is going to stay with me on the smaller slopes, I'll make sure of it." Jude told him.
"I really didn't cry."
"Sure you didn't." Kaiden said before making herself cry as Tommy glared at her.
"What's wrong?" Nick asked coming into the room and noticing that Kaiden was crying.
"Nothing. I was just annoying Tommy here."
"You crying does that?"
"No we were-"
"Let's get going, we don't want to get there too late." Tommy inturpted so he wouldn't have to go through the whole thing again with Nick.
"I'll tell you in the car." Kaiden mouthed to Nick and he smiled. Tommy noticed this and sighed.
'This is going to be a long ride.'
One and a half hours later
"It feels good to stand." Jude said getting out of the car.
"We weren't even in the car that long." Nick told her once he was out.
"That doesn't mean I can't be tired of sitting."
"I hope we can get rooms. It looks really crowded." Tommy said.
"If not then we will just have to leave tonight."
"But then we'll have to be in the car for another hour and a half. I'm not sure Jude can handle it." Nick joked. Causing Jude to hit his arm.
Tommy and Kaiden started taking everything out of the car while Nick and Jude had gone back to arguing about something that they had talked about in the car, which Tommy had thought was over.
Eventually, after they were all inside the resort in line to get a room, Kaiden had gotten into what Jude and Nick were arguing about.
"Great, I feel like I have to baby sit you guys." Tommy said getting them to shut up.
"Aw, do you feel old Quincy?" Jude mocked walking up to him and giving him a swift kiss when she thought no one was looking.
"How many rooms are we getting?" Nick asked once he got up to the front desk.
"Get a sweet. Plenty of room." Kaiden told him.
"How may I help you?" The man behind the counter asked.
"Do you have any sweets available?"
"We actually only have one room avalable. There a family reunion here tonight. The room has a king size bed and a sofa bed." The man said after a few seconds of checking on the computer.
"Should we take it?" Nick asked turning to Tommy.
Everyone agreed to get it and a few minutes later they were on their way up to the room.
"The beds here are extramely comfortable!" Kaiden said putting her stuff down on the ground and then falling back onto the bed.
"I call this bed." Nick said quickly before anyone else could think to.
"We are going to figure out a way to determine who sleeps where later." Tommy told everyone. "First, lets go outside."
"I need something to eat first." Jude told Tommy. She opened up her bag and pulled out poptarts.
"You brought that with you?"
"Yes, is there something wrong with that?"
"There is food here you know."
"It's something I can eat when I want food and no one else does." She said opening the pack and taking a bite of one.
"What if I was hungry too?"
"You want a bite?" She held her poptart out for him. Without saying anything, Tommy took it and instead of just taking a bite, he began to eat the whole thing.
"Hey, I was going to eat that!"
"You gave it to me."
"I said you could have a bite, not the whole thing."
"Be more specific next time."
"You are going to be sorry." She said smiling.
"Yeah, okay." He said in disbelief.
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"I can't believe you did that!" Nick said surprised.
"Wish I was there to see it happen." Kaiden said pretending to be sad.
"I really didn't mean for it to go that far. I feel terrible."
"Tommy is going to kill you. You know that right?"
"Yeah, I know."
