"Jamie what are you doing here?" Jude asked frantically
"Oh, well you know I usually come here to unwind after a long day, oh wait that's right you wouldn't know because we haven't talked since you broke up with me, for unknown reasons" Jamie said bitterly staring at Tommy as he spoke, knowing he was the real reason.
"And who's fault was that Jamie? I remember clearly that you said that we were nothing anymore, not even friends." Jude responded letting the anger in her rise, staring down at her coffee mug, just wishing that Jamie would disappear.
"Well, Jude when you see your 'at the time girlfriend' kissing her pedophile of a Producer you tend to be very angry." Jamie retorted, only hoping to get an answer from Jude, but didn't
"Wait, hold the phone, are you calling me a pedophile, Are you on Crack Andrews?" Tommy said standing from his seat angrily. "Where do you get off walking up to a table and starting crap that is not needed, Jude just got back from being gone for a year and she doesn't need or want you coming around making her feel bad about her decision about breaking up with you, so why don't you run back to your petite girlfriend, Kat." Tommy said knowing he got the best of Jamie.
"How do you know about me and Kat?" Jamie asked almost embarrassed about starting something he knew he wasn't going to be able to finish.
"Oh, well you know by me spending time at the Harrison residence over the past year I tend to arrive at times when you happened to have you tongue shoved down her throat."
"Are you kidding me Jamie, you come over here when I'm having a private conversation trying to make me feel guilty about breaking up with you when you ended our friendship and the friendship that I had with Kat, when you were keeping your own secrets, How Dare you make me feel guilty." Jude said standing up walking to him and slapping him across the face. "I have nothing to say to you and I owe you nothing, so how dare you come up to me and start something." Jude said she turned and looked at Tommy reached in her bag and put a bill on the table and walked out of the café.
"Good going moron, great way to welcome Jude home."
"what are you talking about Jude left?" Jamie asked astonished, How could he not know he lived right by here.
"You must be really stupid, to not realize that Jude hasn't been around for a year, that she never came out with her third album, do you think she just happened to hold off on it for a year? Wow you must really be on crack to realize that I never go over there on a regular basis." Tommy shook his head and then added "You of all people should've realized that she left, but then again you abandoned her, so really you among other things were the reason why she needed to leave"
Tommy adding the last part to see a reaction, because he never knew that Jude, Jamie and Kat had a falling out. He just thought that they didn't hang out around the studio anymore because it'd be distraction that no one wanted or needed to cause, so he thought on Jude's off time that'd they'd be all hanging out. Tommy shook his head looked at Jamie with disgust and headed out of the café in search of Jude. When he reached the Viper he realized she wasn't in the passenger seat where he hoped to have find her. He pulled out his cell and hit speed dial '1' and let it ring, then he heard a faint ringing in the distance and walked towards it finding the red head sitting on a bench on the sidewalk just outside of the café parking lot. He took a seat next to her.
"Do you want to talk about what just happened in there?" Tommy said hoping for Jude to look at him
"No" Jude said meekly, while having every even from tonight reply in her mind and staring at her hands.
"I don't understand what just happened back there, but I'm sorry, for what it's worth, Jamie's an idiot for coming up toyou like that." Tommy stated truthfully while putting his hand down on hers "Look at me"
When Jude looked up at him her face was filled with sorrow, guilt, and pain. She shook her head at him while the tears spilled down her face "I guess thinking that everything would be better if I came back would be a stupid Idea about now, huh?" Jude said while sniffling.
"Jude, just listen to me for a few." Tommy began to think what was he going to say to her, how was she going to take it. "I never knew that you, Jamie, and Kat, weren't friends anymore, and I should've I'm sorry that I didn't know that you were going through some hard time last year, and that was probably one of the reasons why you left." Tommy paused only to receive a nod of agreement from Jude. "But, that doesn't mean you should beat yourself up about what he said to you. He had no right to come in there and start a fight, he's bitter and he just needs to move on, you two had a great thing while it lasted, but you two in my eyes were always better off as friends." Tommy finished.
"Yeah, thanks but we aren't even that anymore. I just don't understand how everything got so messed up in my life, this, everything started when I won the contest, my life started to fall apart at the seams, but only one good thing came out of it." Jude said inbetween tears.
Tommy felt a ping of hurt, he didn't know Jude felt that way, he thought that winning the contest to her was the greatest thing that had ever happened to her, because it was the greatest thing that had ever happened to him, then without missing a beat he added. "what was that good thing?"
When Jude finally looked up at him again staring right into his eyes with her peircinggreen innocent ones, she added.
"Metting you, falling in love with you was the best thing, I know that I'd never be any where without you, I'd probably be turned away and my first album would have been crap. Tommy you became my bestfriend over the three years I've been at G-major, and at times I found myself wishing that we were always something more, but now I'm just glad that we have our friendship back, we do right?" Jude asked like she was a five year old asking if she could play with her dolls after eating dinner and finishing her homework.
The only thing that was going through Tommy's head right now was when she said "Falling in love with you" thas was the only good thing that came out of her winning the contest, he couldn't help but smile to her.
"Jude, of course, we'll always be friends, we may never agree on much of anything besides music, but that's why we have such a strong bond, because we fight about stupid things, but then realize that we're better working as a 'we' then working as just 'you' or 'I'."
"I totally agree."
They sat in silence for a few moments.
"Tommy"
"yes, Jude"
"I'm kind of tired, do you think you could umm maybe bring me home, actually back to your place, home isn't exactly where I want to go right now." remembering about the bet her family made about her seeing Tommy.
"yeah, you're always welcome at my house, but can I ask why you don't want to go home?"
"Can I tell you in the morning when I'm not about to drop dead of exhaustion and jet lag?" Jude said as she rose herself off the bence and holding her hand out for her best hand.
"Is that a promise?" Tommy said while taking her hand. Walking back to the Viper hand in hand Jude finally gave him the answer he was looking for.
"That is a promise."
"Good, now I'm beat lets get back to my place, you left some clothes there from the last time you spent the night." Tommy said as the both entered the Viper and took off towards Tommy's apartment, but the night no scartch that the early morning was no where nearing an end for these two friends.
So there you go, Enjoy thank you to everyone who loves this story. I'll get the next chapter out tomorrow!
Jess