Chapter 4

"I Need To Hear You Say…I Love You"

Things were not always easy…I mean, after her big spat with me over the whole "I love you" Thing, things didn't automatically go back to normal…She needed time to really register what happened that day, as did I. We didn't talk for about a week, until she showed up on my door step in the pouring rain.

Flashback

"Jude!It's like 40 degrees out! And pouring rain!" He pulled her into the house, immediately pulling off her jacket, and wrapping a blanket around her. "I know…but, but I had to see…see you…"
"Girl, your shaking…" He hugged her, trying to bring he body heat back up. After she calmed a little, he let her go.

"Okay, what was so important that you had to come to my house in the pouring rain on a night where we have to be at the studio at 7 am the next day?"

"I have to tell you something…"

"Okay…"
"Last week…you stormed out of 620, because I was mad, and I wanted to apologize… If I hadn't ripped your head off, you would've been there…and I'm sorry…"

"It's not your fault girl…know that, always…I love you, TOO much…" He realized what he just said, and immediately stopped talking, as his voice faded.

"You just…You just told me you love me?"

"I think so…"

"I love you too…"

She jumped in his arms and kissed him. "I love you, Tom Quincy…"

"I love you too, Jude Harrison…."

"Well, that was a great 19th birthday present…"

"What?"

She pointed to the clock on the microwave. It read 12:17.

"Yeah… I guess it must be…But you should get some sleep…"

"Yeah…"

I lead her up to the guest room, and gave her some dry clothes.

"Tommy?"
"Yeah, Jude?"

"Will,….will you stay the night with me?"

He looked at her, and then the ground, and then back at her.

"Sure…"…

Flashback Ends

I remember that night fondly. I remember getting up 5 hours later, to my alarm, and by 6 am, Stuart called to see where the hell his daughter had trailed off to the night before at 11:30 in the evening. But she assured him that she was fine, and safe. I mean, some nights back then, she could be really immature, but at that point, she WAS an adult, so there wasn't much I could do to change that.

A/N: Okay guys, I know this was a fairly short chapter, but there wasn't much that I could come up with to really put the pieces together. But 3 and 4 both kinda go together. I just planned everything out, (I'm a plan-in-advance kinda girl), so hopefully I'll have the rest of this story up by the end of the year, if not by the end of the summer…I don't know though…I have everything set, so expect at least 19 more chapters. Also, coming after this is A LOT OF DRAMA! And I mean A LOT!

Here's some spoilers, in case I don't get to update for a while….

"I think I'm pregnant…"

"But we haven't…"
"I know…"

"Will You marry me?"

"YES!"

"THE WEDDING IS OFF!"

"I…can't…you understand, don't you…"
"Yeah…but they're telling you…she's not gonna…"

"Yeah…"