"Do you ever think, when your all alone…all that we can be, where this thing can go? Am I crazy, or falling in love…Is it really, just another crush? Do you catch a breath, when I look at you? Are you holding back, like the way I do? Cuz I'm tryin', tryin', to walk away, but I know this crush…Ain't goin' away…" sang Milo into the mic. He strummed out the melody on his guitar and hit the last note with sonic perfection before moving onto the next verse.
Tommy looked down from the dividing window and fixed a few knobs on the sound board before quickly switching a couple of things on his laptop. Tommy flashed an okay sign through the window before getting up off his chair and grabbing the power chord off the shelf. Milo's voice continued to float through the sound system, and remained one of the few that didn't kill Tommy's ears.
Well played guitars with solid lyrics were his thing…that's why it had lasted so long between him and Jude when she was younger. She wrote her own music, constantly switched it up, and never ceased to amazing him with her guitar skills. The fifteen year old red head rivaled his experience and made the music that he only would have killed to have been able to produce at her age.
Tommy chuckled to himself silently, trying all the while to suppress a grin forming across his face, as he thought of Jude trying on wedding gowns at that very moment miles away.
"What you so giddy about?" asked a voice from behind as the door to Studio A opened and closed with a small snap.
"What?" asked Tommy taken aback.
"You're nearly grinning your skin off" joked Kwest walking over to stack of electrical wires piled over on the shelf on the far wall.
"Just thinking" waved off Tommy, leaning over his laptop and pretending to busy himself.
"Hey you want to run out and grab a bite to eat?" asked Kwest with a coil of chords in hand. Tommy glanced up at Kwest.
"I wasn't even really going to bother by now" sighed Tommy, running his fingers through his hair.
Kwest glanced over at the clock hanging on the wall and let out an audible breath of air "Is it really that late already?"
"My thoughts exactly" replied Tommy sarcastically before hitting the intercom button between the two booths. "From the top again Milo". Then Tommy reset the track and Milo started recording again.
"How's it coming" asked Kwest indicating towards Milo on the other side of the glass.
"This one" sighed Tommy pointing at Milo "…no problem. I still have hours of work to do on Karen's though". Tommy let out a breath of air before leaning back over his computer again and changing a few more settings.
"Hey look I've got a few more hours before I'm going to run home and change, I'll see you tonight" said Kwest gripping Tommy's shoulder before walking back out of Studio A.
Tommy rubbed his forehead and tried his best to concentrate back on the project at hand. He just needed to lay down the last tracks and start the mixes for Darius. He could finish them tomorrow; he just needed to lay down the foundations tonight.
"…But I know this crush…ain't going away…" drifted off Milo's voice. Tommy's head shot up.
"Good Milo, I think that's a wrap for today" said Tommy through the intercom.
Milo peeled off his head phones and Tommy quickly saved the new tracks to Milo's settings. Milo pushed open the door into Studio A's sound booth.
"How'd it sound?" asked Milo laying his guitar case down at his feet.
"Great, I have all I need to mix" sighed Tommy straightening up and looking at Milo "Next time you hear this song it'll be on iTunes".
"Thanks man" said Milo, grinning broadly, before walking over and shaking Tommy's hand and quickly picking up his guitar and exiting the studio. It was oddly silent after the door snapped shut and Tommy soaked in the moments as he sat back down and started moving tracks around on his laptop.
Then Tommy nearly jumped out of his skin as his phone buzzed in his pocket. "Jesus" Tommy whispered pulling out his vibrating phone.
Tommy looked at the front screen and flipped it open hurriedly upon seeing Sadie Harrison written across the screen. A text message popped up on the screen.
Don't tell J but i am sending you pics of the gowns, not saying which 1 she picked! C U 2night! Sadie 3
Tommy chuckled silently to himself as he read Sadie's text. Then he opened the three pictures she had sent him along with the text. His heart nearly stopped at the sight of Jude in front of him. He squinted his eyes to get a better look. She looked even more beautiful in the gowns, if that was even possible. Her blonde hair complemented each dress but his heart stopped at the sight of her in a full on gown with a veil draped over her head, adding the final touches to the whole thing.
Tommy gazed at his phone, cursing the small screen, before letting his mind drift back eight years…on tour…with Portia…in Vegas…the wedding that never should have happened. The wedding that was, and was over before it began. Nineteen and naïve, oh so bittersweet.
This time was going to be different…this time was with Jude. But Tommy's memories were cut short when the door to Studio A opened and snapped closed behind him again. Tommy spun slowly around in his chair to look at the new occupant of the room.
"You decided to surface?" asked Tommy sarcastically "I thought after your rant yesterday you were gone…"
"You honestly think I would quit?" asked an all too innocent voice before she strutted into the studio and locked her eyes on Tommy with all the forces of hell.
Author Note:
Dun Dun Dunnn...I bet you can all guess who that is. Stay tuned and see what happens!
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