Disclaimer: i do not own Instant Star, etc., etc.

A/N: this is basically and introduction- what Jude comes back to when she returns from touring.

Jude sat on one of the couches inside the G Major studio, her pencil scratching away at the notebook on her lap. Every ounce of her concentration was on that paper.

"Jude?"

Jude looked up and saw Tommy. Without a word, only a smile, she stood up and hugged him.

"Back from the tour and back to work already?" he asked, smiling.

"Yeah," Jude replied. I just had something in my head I needed to get out. I wrote a lot on the road too, ya know. We can go over them together…"

"Um, don't you think you should go over them with Darius?" Tommy asked her, walking backwards.

"But you're…"

"Not working with you anymore, Jude." Tommy told her. He turned around and walked off.

Jude opened her front door and went inside her house. She found it quiet and empty inside.

Where is everyone? They haven't seen me in 6 weeks and yet no one is here to greet me.

Jude sat down on the couch and turned on the television. After watching a few minutes of some sitcom she turned got bored and stopped paying attention. Suddenly the front door opened. Jude shot up, excited to see who was there.

"Sadie! Mom!" Jude got up and went over to them. Her mother hugged her and then Sadie did the same.

"How was your tour?" Sadie asked her sister.

"Never mind that," Jude responded. "How was Italy?"

"Good," Sadie replied, she felt a sudden tension, meaning that Jude now remembered who went with her. "Let's talk."

Jude followed Sadie into the kitchen. They both took a seat and looked at each other.

"First tell me about your tour," Sadie said, interested. "Really, I want to hear everything. Actually I saw you on TV! You were so good. And you don't know how many times I heard you on the radio."

"Well then what's to ask?" Jude said, surprised that her concert was on TV somewhere. "I had fun. I mean it's my passion so of course I did. It was good for me to be away also. I had to think about things…get over others."

"Jude…" Sadie pushed her curly blonde hair behind her ears. Her lips were covered in light pink gloss. "Tommy only stayed with me for a couple days. We sort of broke it off."

"Why?"

"It's complicated." Sadie replied.

"Well there's something I didn't tell you." Jude smiled. "Me and Jamie are together."

"Really?" Sadie exclaimed. "Wow! I mean…you were friends for so long it's kind of…weird!"

"Weird?" Jude asked. "How about we just call it…sweet?"

"It's…" Sadie searched for words. "Different."

"Girls." Both girls looked at their mother. "Would you like to come shopping with me? I know it's shopping but at least we can all be together."

Not all of us mom.

"Sure." Sadie responded, unusually happy about it. "Come on Jude."

Jude followed her mother and sister to the car and got in the back seat. She looked out the window to distract her from the awkward silence in the vehicle. Soon enough, her mom pulled into the parking lot of some sort of hall.

"This doesn't look like the grocery store." Jude said, pushing her bangs from her eyes as she looked outside. Jude then realized that her mother and sister had already gotten out of the car and were heading inside. "Hey wait up."

Jude opened the door and got out. She quickly tried following them but they were already threw the two big white doors of the hall. Jude pulled the heavy door open and walked in.

"Surprise!" came from many different voices in the room.

Jude smiled, Wow. I guess they did remember me!