Chapter 13

Tommy stood where Jude had left him, gaping at her. His mind was working overtime to process what had just happened. She kissed me. He thought, and shook himself out of his funk.

"Fuck." He muttered, putting an arm against the wall and laying his head on it. All the feelings he had for Jude came rushing back 10 fold.

"This can't be happening, not now…not again…" He said to himself, and let out a frustrated groan.

Jude left the bathroom feeling pretty good about herself. She smirked to herself when she thought of the look on Tommy's face. And then, it hit her. I actually kissed Tommy! She let out a small squeal of delight and stopped, horrified at herself. OMG, I sound like Sadie! Bad Jude, Bad! You just kissed him for god's sake, not like you had sex…Jude thought about that for a second and scolded herself again. Don't think about sex with Tommy! Think Jude, think….but not about that! She frowned to herself. I did it again! I fell for him and his stupid hair and wonderful eyes and…Stop it! Don't think about how great his eyes are! This is not good! Jude thought, What do I say to him? Do I…arg! Why am I worrying about this!

Jude dropped her head to her hands. It's definitely temporary insanity. It always is with us. It was nothing, it meant nothing…we just had one of those damnly romantic moments and nothing can come out of it. OK, that's it. Just play cool, and pretend it didn't happen…I'll just follow his lead…yeah, that's it!

Jude managed to calm herself down with that thought and got up and tried to turn out the stereo. She studied it and tried to find the on button. After a minute or three of searching, she hadn't found it and began to hit random buttons until the music turned on, blaringly loud out of the speakers. Geeze! Jude thought, and frantically began searching for the volume button to turn it down.

Jude was about ready to throw the thing across the room when the music went down to a more tolerable level. Jude glanced behind her and saw Tommy looking very amused and holding the stereo remote in his hand.

"First you almost break my nose, then you nearly make me go deaf…Jude, if you didn't want me around, you could just say it." He said jokingly. Jude glared at him.

"It's not my fault it's so damn complicated."

"That's why they make these," Tommy said, indicating the remote and tossing it into a random corner of the room. Jude continued to glare at him and stopped when she let out a yawn, Jude glanced at a clock she noticed on the wall. It was almost 3:00 am.

"When do we have to be at the studio tomorrow?" Jude asked.

"8. Staff meeting." Tommy answered.

"Damn…" Jude said, and added "Can't we just skip?" Tommy smirked.

"Don't you think that'd look suspicious?"

"Fine. You go." Jude said.

"No way girl. If I'm going to face Georgia, EJ, and Kwest on only…4 hours of sleep, you're going down with me." Jude glared at him.

"Fine." She said, still glaring and Tommy smirked triumphantly back.

"Uh…Tommy?"

"Yeah?"

"Where am I going to sleep?"

"You can take the bed…" Jude gave him a look "I'll sleep on the couch, I didn't mean it like that!" Tommy said, defensively.

"Uh-hu." Jude stated and argued back "I won't let you sleep on the couch. It's you're house, I'll sleep on the couch."

"Nope. Can't let you do that."

"And why not?"

"Because, it wouldn't be gentlemanly of me to allow you to do that."

"You? A gentleman?"

"Hey! I try!" Tommy defended. Jude gave him a raised eyebrow. "Sometimes." He muttered. Jude continued to stare back at him. Tommy glared at her and they said nothing.

"I'm serious, I'm not kicking you out of your bed."

"And I won't let you sleep on the couch, the floor, or any of the similar." Jude glared at him.

"Fine." She said, and Tommy smiled. "But only because I'm too tried to keep up this argument."

"Duly noted." Tommy stated and led Jude into the bedroom.

Oh man, I'm in Tommy's bedroom! Jude thought, and stayed standing in the center of the room as Tommy crossed it and turned on a light switch on the wall and stepped into, what she thought was, a walk-in closet. Jude glanced around, momentarily surprised how plain it was. Then gain, Tommy spent more time at the studio than his own place. Tommy stepped back out of the closet and handed Jude a pair of sweats.

"Thanks." Jude said. Tommy gave her a slight nod in acknowledgement.

"I have the alarm set for 6:45, so don't be surprised if it goes off." Jude nodded.

"Are you sure we can't skip?" Tommy yawned.

"Stop asking me that. It's starting to sound more and more appealing each time you ask." He said, and grabbed one of the pillows off the bed.

"Night." He called and left the room. Jude sighed and watched him go, slightly disappointed he didn't give her a good night kiss.

Jude shut the bedroom door and pulled off her clothes and stepped into the sweatpants and sweatshirt Tommy gave her. They were too big for her and Jude had to roll the pants up a few inches so she didn't trip over the long hem. She left the sleeves covering her hands and she didn't fail to notice how much it smelt like Tommy.

Jude pushed the thought away and climbed into bed and got herself comfortable. She let out a soft groan. She was surrounded by his scent and she wanted nothing more than to have the real thing beside her. Jude closed her eyes and almost instantly went off to dream land.