Thanks you guys for being so patient. Y'all are the best.

Jude was still standing there looking at Tommy, who oddly still had the look of shock on his face. He had changed a little, but she still had that deep attraction towards him, like a magnet. He still had those icy blue eyes and that jet black hair that she had always imagined playing with. She then shook out of her day dream. He had finally decided to speak.

"Jude, uh, you're here?" he said standing up and keeping a good distance from her, as if she was a hallucination.

"Yeah, I'm back, at least for a little while." she said smiling at him.

"Oh, uh, well…um…" he was still speechless even though he had decided to speak.

"What?" she said looking at him curiously.

"Uh, welcome back." he said walking out of the room. He didn't say all that he wanted to tell her. He wanted to grab her, hug her, and kiss her and tell her that he was worried about her for the last 1,460 days. He wanted to tell her so much more, but he couldn't.

"Oh, well, that was nice." she said confused as she turned to face Georgia, which all she gave was a shoulder shrug.

"Maybe, he isn't used to having you back yet, that's all. Like I said before, he was really hurt when you left." Georgia said with a slight frown on her face.

"Yeah, maybe…" Jude said looking out the door and seeing Tommy sitting on the couch out in the lobby.

"So, where have you been? Tell us all the details, kid. And don't leave anything out." Kwest said smiling and patting the chair next to him motioning for her to sit down.

"Well, it's kind of a long story…" she said trailing off.

"Girl, we've got time." he said again as she sat down and told everyone the same thing she had been saying for the last few days.

Later on she went out into the lobby and let Kwest and Georgia get back to work. Tommy was still sitting in his same position, slumping on the couch with a confused look on his face.

"What's wrong with you?" Jude said sitting down next to him, but not too close.

"Huh? Oh, nothing. Just thinking." he said looking at her and scooting into an upright position.

"Sure, uh huh, and you just have that look on your face for what reason?" she said smiling at him again.

"No, it's not that. It's just…" he trailed off.

"What?"

"It's just, for four years, I have waited to see you walk back through the door, and I left, I went and I looked for you, I don't know why, if you don't want to be found, you wont. And now that you're here, I don't know…" he said looking at her with pain in his eyes.

"What don't you know?"

"I'm glad you're okay, Jude. Everyone was really worried about you." he said as he put his hand on hers as she looked down at it and then he moved it again.

"Well, I just, had to get out of here, you know? It wasn't working out for me." she said smiling, but with a hint of sadness in her face.

"You mean 'We' weren't working out for you." he said looking at her and then looking down at the ground.

"Tommy, it was-"

"No, Jude. I get it okay? I told you I didn't want to work with you anymore and that's what made you leave. I wouldn't blame you. I hurt you so bad Jude." he said not giving her eye contact.

"Tommy, it wasn't just you. My mom and dad weren't speaking to each other, Jamie and Kat weren't talking to me. And then you, well you were just the icing on the cake. So, I went back to my empty house and…." she trailed off remembering what really made her leave.

She went to make herself a sandwich in the kitchen when she stumbled across a letter on the counter addressed to Sadie from Tommy. She couldn't help but open it.

"Jude, what's wrong?" Tommy's voice broke the thought. Now she remembered why she left. It was because of him. She didn't want to tell him that though. She wasn't angry with him anymore, was she?

"Huh, oh nothing. So…how are you and Sadie?" she said sarcasm suddenly drenching her voice.

"Jude, we broke up four years ago, we haven't said 6 words to each other since. Why?" he said looking into her eyes trying to figure out what she was thinking.

"Oh, well before I left, I read your letter you gave her. And I remember that was what set me off to leave. I realized the one person, that I wanted most to care about me, cared about my sister instead." she said suddenly breaking the gaze and looking at her feet.

"Jude tha-" she put her hand up to interrupt him.

"You know what, save it, Quincy. I don't even want to hear your sorry excuses anymore. It- it was a big mistake that I came. I'm sorry. But now you don't have to worry. I'm okay. You can sleep at night. You don't have to worry about causing heartbreak to a sixteen-year-old girl. Well, newsflash, you did. But I'm going to survive. I have a life somewhere else now. I don't even know why I came, goodbye."

And with that she got up and went to say goodbye to Georgia, E.J., and Kwest, and told them she would be in touch and stole one more look at Tommy, who was sitting on the couch staring back at her. Then, she left. She didn't want to cry in front of him. She got in her car and that's when the tears came. She couldn't help but cry. He broke her heart. And she didn't know if she would be able to be friends with him again.

Just then there was a knock on her window. There stood Tommy with his pleading blue eyes. He mouthed the words 'Are you okay?' and then walked around to get in the passengers side. Jude unlocked the door so that he could get in. He got in and looked at her and then went to wipe her tears away with his hand. She let him, she had missed his touch.

"Jude, that letter- that letter was because Sadie had told me she was heartbroken because of what was going on with your parents. I was writing her telling her it was okay. The reason-"

"Tommy, you don't have to explain yourself to me okay? We both know that what happened between us didn't mean anything, right?"

He looked away when she said this, the truth was, it meant something to him. He had missed her the entire time she was gone. There was no one else for him. It was only her.

"Jude, do you want to go out to lunch maybe. I know you're probably starving. We can talk." he said smiling and wiping away the last of her tears on her face as she smiled.

"Yeah, I guess that would be okay." and with that her and Tommy were off. She didn't know what was going to happen but what she did know was that she missed hanging out with him.

Sorry I didn't get a chance to update yesterday, there was a huge snow storm and I didn't have time to get on the internet. But here's that chapter. Hope you liked it. R&R