Title: I Can't Deny What I Feel For You

Summary:Takes place shortly after"UnsweetSixteen"and Jude is having trouble sticking to the plan of "Just Friends" withTommy. Will it work out? Or will she be left brokenhearted again?

Disclaimer: I dont own Instant Star or any of the characters.

Jude is sitting in her room with her guitar in her hands and writing lyric after lyric in her notebook. She starts humming a melody as she strums the strings. She then shakes her head and crosses out something in her notebook.

"God, I can never get this right," Jude said frowning. She had been working on this new song for Tommy the past few weeks and she had been kind of slacking because she was mad at him, but she new deep down, that no matter what happened on her birthday, that she was lucky to have him as a producer.

She then smiled a little, it was obvious she was thinking about the kiss. It didn't matter that he wanted to pretend it never happened. Now she knew. She knew he cared for her…She knew it happened…

"…Jude! you are asking the wrong guy!" Tommy said as he grabbed her arm and pulled her into the most passionate kiss of her life. Even more passionate then when Shay had pulled her into the room and kissed her. No, this was real. She had wanted this forever. And now she knew he had too.

She suddenly frowned when she thought about what happened afterwards…

"I can keep working with you, but you have to pretend like it never happened. Jude say it! Say it!" Tommy said, regretting those words. "Okay, okay, it never happened" Jude managed to say between sobs. It wasn't fair. The one man she wanted in her life wanted her to pretend nothing happened between them.

"What's on your mind honey?" Jude's mother said standing in the door frame looking at her daughter with concerned eyes.

"Oh, nothing mom. Just concentrating is all. Got this song I have to write for Tommy. You know how that is." she said avoiding eye contact which made her mother worry more and more.

"Well, not really. You're the one with the gift. And you do have one, you know?" Her mother said smiling.

"Really? And what gift is that?" she said a smile forming on her face dropping her notebook on her bed.

"You have the gift of just being able to hum a tune and you have a song. That's really good, you know?" she said smiling.

"Thanks mom." Jude said half-smiling playing with her pen.

"Your welcome honey, well dinner is in half an hour. Okay?" she said walking out.

"Okay, thanks mom." Jude said picking up her notebook again.

Why? Why can't I breathe? Why can't I breathe without you? Jude belted the words out as she strummed her guitar. Her singing was put to a halt by someone standing in the doorway.

"It sounds good Jude, did you just write it?" Tommy said with a half-smile on his face and his hands in his pockets.

"Yeah, I figured I might as well try to get you to not yell at me and do what you say." she said looking at him with cold eyes. Her cold eyes lit up soon enough. She couldn't help but smile when she saw Tommy. Even though he broke her heart.

"Well that's good, what ya got so far?" he said sitting beside her on the bed.

"Nothing really I can't seem to get this melody right." she said, uncomfortably. She then scooted away from him a little.

"What's wrong, Jude? Something on your mind?" he said concern in his voice.

"Why does everyone keep asking me that? God, I'm fine." she said a little angry now putting her notebook down once again.

"Well, I'm sorry, but I don't think you are. You're making me worry about you, Harrison." He said his eyes changing from the usual cheerful to more sad and worried.

"What do you care? And don't call me that, Quincy." she said getting more spiteful by the minute.

"Okay, okay sorry. I just….I don't know…I worry about you. You mean a lot to me."

Jude rolled her eyes at this remark. She had enough of him and his lies. She sat there shaking her head.

"Oh, come on, Tommy. You and I both know you don't care about me. Sadie is the one you truly care about. What happened between us…was a mistake…remember?"

He didn't know what to say. He didn't care about Sadie. He didn't want to tell Jude that it was her he stayed up late at night thinking about, and not her sister. Then he got angry at this comment.

"What the hell is that supposed to mean, Jude? You calling me a liar?"

Jude pressed her lips together debating whether to say what she was going to say next.

"Yeah, maybe I am." she crossed her arms at this remark.

Tommy had enough of this. His face got redder and redder.

"You know what! Forget this then. Forget I even worried about you. We will just never talk about this again." he said throwing his hands out to his sides.

"That was the plan anyway, right?"

"What?"

"You know. Pretend like it never happened. That's what you told me. You told me that you would still work with me if I just said nothing ever happened between us. And I said it. I said it because you wanted me to, Tommy."

Jude's voice was breaking. Tears started to form in her eyes and she tried to hard to fight them and not let Tommy see her cry.

"I-I'm Sorry, Jude." Tommy's voice was clearly concerned. He never wanted Jude to get hurt. Especially after what that asshole Shay did to her. But Tommy did the same thing, but worse. Jude trusted him. She trusted he wouldn't hurt her. And that's exactly what Tommy did, he hurt her, bad.

"Maybe you should go." Jude said a tear running down her cheek at the same time trying to hide her crying.

"I'm not going anywhere until you-"

"Tommy! I said go! Now leave." Jude's tone was different now. She was getting mad.

"I never meant to hurt you, Jude. I swear." Tommy whispered as he walked out of her room leaving Jude to cry in peace. She threw herself into her pillow as the tears kept flowing. She wanted to be strong. But she couldn't. Not when it involved Tommy.