A/N: Ok...2 reviews...not exactly what i'd hoped for but...Here you go, chapter two. Not very long, but what I can come up with at the moment.
Chapter 2-
It's been 3 days since Jude and Tommy's agreement not to talk to eachother. Sadie and Jude weren't talking either, but that was a whole other story. Pure and Jude grew closer over the past three days and he was finally learning her boundaries and where he stood with her. They got along just fine. Jude had 2 new songs recorded already, and Darius was quite pleased with the results. Jude walked into G-Major, smiling at everyone as she passed by them. She walked past Tommy with ease. Her heart still fluttered around him, and her pain started to surface, but she was teaching herself how to control and save her emotions for later when she was alone. Pure greeted Jude as she walked up to him. She smiled when she saw his smile, it was like a chain reaction.
"How are you this morning?" He asked. She shrugged
"How was I yesterday morning?" She responded. He laughed. He loved her comebacks.
"Lets get to work then" He said. He led her to the studio and shut the door. "Should we try to sing Open?"
"No..that's too deep right now. I wanna make a new one" She said
"This is the third new one in 4 days!" He exclaimed. "Were you always like this?"
"Sort of...whenever I needed to get something out" She replied
"Jude...I know we aren't that close yet or anything, but if you ever have something bothering you, you know you can talk to me"
"Yeah, I know. Tommy's not worth the pain though" She said. This was the first time she actually told somebody that it was Tommy bugging her. He raised his eyebrows and bobbed his head, motioning for her to enter the soundbooth. She did and sat on the stool, bringing the mic to her. She picked up the guitar and started strumming.
I'm gonna get away
Just fly...
and I heard you say
We couldn't take it
but I don't see how
Just fly away...fly me away
Jude put down the guitar and wrote down the chords. Pure just smiled and watched her in amazement. She was always working so hard. Even if those lyrics weren't the best she'd ever come up with, they seemed to fit with the song. Pure raised the volume on the microphone and told her to sing it like she means it. She smiled and blew him away with her voice. She stopped singing when Tommy walked into the studio. She just stood in the soundbooth staring at him. He noticed this and smirked, rolling his eyes a little bit.
"Pure, Darius wants you in his office" Tommy said.
"I'll be there in a minute" Pure replied. Jude scoffed and kept messing with tunes on her guitar. Pure put up his index finger, indicating he'd be back in a few minutes. She nodded and continued playing.
A few minutes, Pure came back holding a box of donuts. Jude giggled and walked out.
"It's donut day?" She asked "Darius only does donut day once a month...this makes it twice a month now"
"For now, he said he just wanted to buy something because his poor credit card felt neglected"
"You mean he bought donuts with a credit card?"
"Well, these are the most expensive donuts...and there is a number of people here at the studio"
"Right right. Well you tell Darius that I'll watch over his credit card anytime"
"Will do"
Jude finished her donut and walked out in the lobby, looking around for Darius to tell him thank you. She turned a corner and found Tommy discussing something with Tina, his new artist. She was a short brunette with alot of makeup on. Jude guessed she was only about 5 feet tall. Suddenly, Tommy put his arm around Tina and they walked away. Jude's eyes started to fill with tears again but she controlled it and continued her search for Darius. She found him outside his office with Liam.
"Thanks D..for the donuts" She said without looking at him.
"No prob, Jude. Hey.." He brought her chin up to see her eyes "You and Tom get in another fight?"
"Nope."
"Then what's up with you now?"
"I donno, but I'll be okay. I'm working on this song with Pure..it's coming along...so I should get back"
"You do that" Darius shook his head and looked back at Liam. Jude heard what he was discussing. Something about Sadie and those french people again. She walked away and back into the studio with Pure. He spun around in his chair to face her. She eyed him, then the floor, then back at him.
"I trust you..okay?" She said
"okay...what's this about?" Pure asked.
"It's about...needing somebody to talk to and everybody I have is against me" Jude voice started to crack. She sat down in a chair next to Pure and started to tell him everything. She told him about her sixteenth birthday, then her seventeenth birthday, about the kiss in Darius' office, and about the one they just had. She told him about their agreement not to talk to eachother. Pure just nodded and rubbed Jude's back.
"It hurts to know that he doesn't want anything to do with me anymore" Jude cried.
"I can't say I know the feeling..." Pure said
"Then don't" Jude replied "But thanks for listening. And please...don't tell anyone alright?"
"Not on my life" He swore. She gave him a weak smile and returned into the soundbooth. After warming up her voice a little, she started with her song again.
Tommy walked into the studio with Tina, watching her enter the soundbooth. She was more of a folk rock type, wasn't exactly Tommy's favorite style of music, but she played it off nicely. He smiled and watched as she sang her heart out. She was almost as good as Jude---almost.
"How was that?" She asked when the song was over.
"It was great. Just work on your beginning pitch..." Tommy replied, pushing some buttons on the switchboard.
"I've been working on it" she complained "It's not going to get any better"
"It will if you really want it to"
"Tom, I'm 19. I don't need pep talk. I need this album finished" She said.
"I'm not giving you a pep talk I'm telling you I want that pitch hit right or not at all!" Tommy snapped.
"What is wrong with you?" Tina asked "I'm trying the best I can"
"Well it's not good enough. You're not..."
"I'm not what Tommy?"
"Nothing. Try again"
"You were going to say that I'm not Jude, weren't you?"
"Just try again!" Tommy refused to face her.
"Fine" She got back in the soundbooth and the music started. Hesitantly, she gathered up her voice and hit the first note dead on. She took off her headphones and looked at him in a "are you satistfied?" look. He nodded his head and kept on mixing on the switchboard.
"You know..." Tina began "It's a shame you guys don't talk anymore"
"Huh?" Tommy was confused.
"You and Jude"
"How'd you know?"
"Come on, she's like a crybaby everytime she's around you. You haven't even said anything to her, and I know about you being her producer. I know how close you two were"
"It's not you're business" Tommy muttered.
"You really should give her a chance"
"A chance on what? Ruining both our careers? Goin' to jail? Huh?"
"Yes."
"Stay out of it" Tommy handed her the demo cd and walked out of the studio. He informed Darius that he was done for the day and was going home.
Jude put her second album in the cd player and hit "play". Pure had asked to listen to it since he'd only heard a few of her songs. He liked what he heard, but he seemed to like her first album way better. She wasn't sure if to take this into offense or not, but she just shrugged and allowed him to keep listening. The final song finished and he gave her the CD back.
"It's really great" He said "I can't believe you wrote all these"
"Well...a few I wrote with Tommy but alot of them I wrote when I was on tour last summer"
"That's a good deal then"
"Very"
Pure smiled and scooted his chair closer to Jude's pretending to read over her shoulder and what she was writing.
"Jude..What would you say if I asked you out on a date?" Pure asked. She couldn't do this again, not with somebody who was just as illegal as Tommy was. It couldn't happen.
"Uh..Jamie said he wanted help with something. I'll be back later" She got up from her seat and walked out the door. She went to where Patsy was practicing and found Jamie in there with her.
"Hey!" Jamie greeted.
"Hey" Jude replied "I don't feel like singing today"
Jamie felt Jude's forehead.
"Are you sick? Jude Harrison doesn't feel like singing? That would be the apocolypse"
"Well then the apocolypse is happening" She said back
"Something the matter?"
"Nope. Just felt like hangin out with my good ol' friend"
"Who? Patsy?" Jamie joked
"Oh stop" Jude laughed. "You know...Kat still hasn't talked to me"
"She doesn't intend to"
"You've spoken to her!"
"Yeah...we still talk all the time" Jamie said as if Jude should have known it already.
"What is her deal? I didn't do anything!"
"She's just extremely jealous"
"Jealous in the psycho swimfan way, she's nuts over you"
"Yeah, well, I'm with Patsy right now"
"You really wanna be with Patsy more than Kat?"
"Yes...yes I do"
"Fine then" Jude smiled and watched Patsy. She was so free when she sang. Jude was kind of jealous. It was like, Patsy didn't care about how her voice sounded. She just let everything out. Jude had to pay attention to herself or she screwed up, badly. Patsy just didn't care.
"Well..I better go" Jude said after a while. She took Jamie in her arms for a brief moment and then released him. "See you later"
"See you" Jamie retorted.
Jude walked down the street on her way home. Her cell phone started ringing and she saw that it was her mother so she picked it up. Victoria had asked Jude to go to the grocery store for her. Jude sighed and did as asked of her. She walked into the grocery store to see Tommy checking out. She scoffed at him and kept walking.
"What's wrong with you?" He asked
"Oh, look who's talkin to me" She said sarcastically.
"Don't give me that attitude, Jude"
"I'll give you an attitude, Quincy. Get out of my way" Jude said. Tommy was now standing in front of her.
"It's not that easy to stop talking to somebody when we were so close" Tommy said
"Well, you've seemed to move on. You were all over your new little Britney Spears"
"Excuse me? We were talking"
"And you had to have your arm around her because..."
"Why do you care? You jealous?"
"I'm about as jealous as I am fat" She responded. She jerked around him and kept walking.
"Good to know!" He shouted back. He walked out of the grocery store. Jude walked behind one of the aisles and took out her cell phone. She searched her contacts and found Pure's number. She hit send.
"Hello?" He answered.
"Um..yeah...about that date.."
A/N: Okay...done. Review pleaseeeee. they motivate me for the next chapter.
