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What if I get there and my parents are furious with me? God, I am so scared. What am I gonna do?

All these thoughts went through Jude's head on the car ride to her house. She wanted more than anything to see her family, but a part of her still wanted to be in the coffee shop in New York. It's not like she wasn't happy to go and see her parents, she just didn't want all the confrontation to why she just up and left 4 years ago.

And the next thing she knew Jamie was pulling the car up to Jude's house. It still looked the same as it did when she left. This was when her heart really started to beat. Jamie had suggested to wait until they knew for sure Jude's mom was home to grab her suitcase, but Jude knew the reason he said that. He wasn't even sure they would let her in.

As Jude walked up to the door, she thought it was only right that she would knock and not go right in, after all, she hadn't lived there for 4 years. Her hands shook as she went to knock. And as soon as she did the only thing she wanted to do was hide. It took a while for someone to answer. She turned towards Kat and Jamie, who were sitting in the car with the baby.

"Maybe no ones home…" she said hoping no one was so that she didn't have to see anybody and she could just leave.

And the next thing she knew the door opened and there stood a blonde girl who stood just a little bit taller then her, with Jade green eyes and a big smile. This smile was not on Sadie's face however.

"Uh, hey, Sadie…" Jude trailed off noticing the pain in her sister's eyes.

"Jude…." she stood there speechless.

"Uh, I knew I shouldn't have come I'll ju-" she was interrupted by a sudden unexpected embrace from her sister. Jude hugged her back. She had to admit, she did miss her sister a little.

"Oh my god, I have missed you! Where did you go? Why did you leave? Do you want to come in? Come in, Come in!" her sister said as she pulled Jude into the house. That's when Jamie and Kat got out of the car and walked up to the door with Samantha in Kat's arms.

"Mom, look who's here." Sadie said as she took Jude by the shoulders into the kitchen.

"Jude! Oh my god. You're back. Where have you been?" her mother said, now with tears streaming down her face. She ran to embrace her daughter with probably the biggest hug of all time.

"There will be plenty of time for that later, mom. Where's dad?" she questioned still hugging her mother. She missed her probably more than anything.

"He's at his house I would think. We should go over and see him and you can tell us together about where you have been. Do you have a place to stay? You can stay here!" her mother said over excited that her second born child was now home.

"Okay, how about I go get my suitcase and then we can go." she said as she went out to Jamie's car and got her bag and her guitar case. It was like her bible, she never went anywhere without it.

Jamie came out of the house to help Jude with her bags. He had a smile on his face that Jude hadn't seen for 4 years.

"Now aren't you glad you came?" he said helping Jude with her bags into the house and up to her old room, which was exactly the way it had been four years ago, a little bit cleaner though.

"Yeah, you know I really am. I needed to do this; I couldn't put my family through this anymore. It was time to come back home, for a little while at least." she said putting her bag on her bed and sitting down looking up at Jamie. He had a worried look on his face now.

"Okay….now what's wrong with you?" she said smiling at him a little.

"Jude, you know the only reason you came back wasn't all to see your family. It may have been the most part, but that wasn't why you were so nervous. I think you should go see Tommy, Jude." he said as her face turned from a smile to a slight frown. She knew he was right.

"Is this Jamie I'm talking to? The guy that hated Tommy the last time I checked? What's up?" she looked with a blend of curiosity and fear hanging in her eyes.

"Look, I know that Tommy and I have not been each others best friends. And I know that I hated that guy for quite a long time, but Jude, he really was heartbroken when you left. You have to go see him. He needs to know you're okay."

She knew he was right, again. She was just so afraid of what Tommy would say to her that she didn't even want to see him while she was here. But then again a part of her couldn't wait to see if he had changed at all.

"Yeah, well let's just take it one day at a time." she said walking out of her room and down to meet her mom and Sadie, who were talking to Kat about Samantha.

"Yeah she just started to crawl not too long ago, and Jamie is so happy, she is almost saying Daddy." Kat said proudly then looking up to see Jamie and Jude enter the kitchen again.

"So, are you guys ready to go?" her mother said getting her jacket.

"You know, this is a family thing, you guys need to be together right now, and besides Samantha is about ready for a nap." Jamie said holding Samantha in his arms with her head lying on his shoulder. She was half asleep.

"Okay, well I will give you a call later, maybe we can have dinner, you know, catch up?" Jude said smiling at the happy couple. She envied them. They already had their lives all set up for them.

"Sure, we're gonna take off, bye you guys."

Kat and Jamie left to go to Jamie's parents' house while Jude, Sadie, and her mom drove over to her dad's apartment. Jude wasn't as nervous now as she was before.

They went and knocked on the door. And heard someone yell 'Just a minute' and then come to the door.

Her dad opened the door with such a shocked look on his face and then did the same as Jude's mom did, embrace her so hard it almost cut off her air supply.

"Honey, you're back, come in, where did you go?" her dad said sitting on the couch next to Jude and putting his arm around her.

"Well, I left. It was suffocating me to be here. It wasn't you guys. It was this town in general. And I went to New York, graduated high school, and now I am part waitress/ part manager of a little coffee shop around the corner from my apartment. I missed you guys so much and I meant to come back so many times I just…" she trailed off with tears welling up in her eyes.

"Honey, there is no need to explain, we were just worried is all. You just up and left and none of us knew why. We just didn't expect it, was all." he said as he hugged her again.

"I'm so glad I came back. I really missed you all. I needed a break from the 'real world'. I also need time to relax." she said as she smiled for the first time in a while.

"Well you feel free to stay as long as you like. We are so glad you came back, Jude."

Jude knew for the first time in her life that things would actually be okay. The hardest part seemed like it was over. What she didn't know was the hardest part hadn't even begun. She still had to go to G Major and face Tommy. Would it work out as she thought? Or will it turn out that not all her welcomes be so warm…keep reading…