After taking a quick shower, getting dressed, and primping a bit, Tommy was finally ready. He walked into the kitchen, grabbed his cell phone, and walked into Jude's room.

"Hey, I'm going to go to work now. You sure you're going to be alright?"

"Tommy, I'll be fine okay. Don't worry so much."

"Okay. I'll probably be back around three. See ya."

"Bye."

Jude waited to hear the slam of the door before she went and locked all the doors in the house. "I'm not paranoid," she whispered to herself. "I'm just being prepared." After she was sure every opening to the house was locked, she went to the bathroom to take a shower. No sooner than she was undressed, the phone rang. She quickly grabbed a bathrobe and hurried to the living room.

"Hello."

"Hey."

"Hey Speed."

"What's up?"

"Nothing much, wait how did you know I was here?"

"Word travels fast around G Major, you should know that by now."

"Yeah, I should I guess."

"How are you?"

Jude smiled at his genuine concern. Speed had become like a brother to her after their second tour. She was close to Wally and Kyle as well, but Speed and her had a connection. Both their parents had gotten divorced, they both had older sisters, who could be very annoying at times, and they both had a passion for writing songs.

"I'm fine Speed."

"Sure," he said, in his know-it-all voice.

"I really am."

"Do you mind if I stop over today? Since you're not going into the studio, we don't have to either."

"Nah, that's fine."

"Gimme two seconds."

"What are you talking about?" Just then she heard a knock on the door. She looked through the peephole and saw Speed standing on the porch, holding his cell phone. She opened the door and set the phone down. "What if I would have said you couldn't come over?"

"I probably would have came anyway. Nice bathrobe by the way."

Jude looked down at the navy blue, oversized robe she was wearing. She just now realized she grabbed Tommy's robe instead of her own. "Thanks Mr. Sarcastic."

"You know you love me."

Jude laughed as he walked into the house and closed the door behind him.
"Hasn't changed much has it?" he asked.

"What?"

"The house hasn't changed much since you and Tommy broke up."

"Oh, I guess not. What does that matter?"

"You really don't understand guys do you?"

"Well not when you talk like that."

"He's still in love with you Jude."

"I know that."

"Huh?"

"He told me the other night at the hospital. I uh, I asked him and he said he did."

"Oh really? I sense a Quincy, Harrison reunion," he smirked.

"Speed, I'm still married to Jamie."

"Yeah, for now right? I mean you are going to get rid of that loser."

"Yeah. I'm going to go talk to my Dad's lawyer tomorrow about getting a divorce."

"Jude, I'm sorry."

Her eyes began to glaze over as she willed herself not to cry. "It's not a big deal. I just didn't realize how much of a jerk he was, until it was too late," she managed to choke out.

Speed saw her glistening eyes and pulled her into a brotherly hug. "I didn't mean to make you cry Jude."

"I'm not crying."

"Pretty damn close."

She pulled away and wiped her eyes. "Okay, yeah so maybe close."

"So what's it like living with Little Tommy Q. again?"

"It's nice. I don't think I ever realized how much I missed him."

"Aww, my little Jude is in love."

"Yeah well your little Jude has to cut off any ties she has with Jamie, before she can develop feelings for Tommy."

"I don't think that will be too hard to do."

"Okay, next time I get a freaky call from him, I'm going to come to you, and you can deal with it."

"He's called you?"

She nodded and put her hand on her forehead. "He pretty much said I deserved whatever I got, and that he didn't appreciate my new song."

"You mean I Vow is on the radio?"

"Yeah. Darius told Tommy if I record it, it instantly gets sent to radio stations."

"I'm glad you weren't there when he heard it for the first time."

"Yeah me too. If I was, my right eye would probably match my left."

"I still can't believe he'd do that. I mean, when we were in highschool, Jamie was like obsessed with you."

"Yeah I know. Maybe that's why he did it, because he was obsessed with me."

"That's just freaky."

"Tell me about it."

"So what are you and loverboy going to do tonight?" he teased.

She hit him in the chest. "He is not my loverboy Speed. What we had, it was a long time ago."

"But you can't deny that you wouldn't mind if it happened again."

"Well...no. I mean yeah I'd love to have what we had again, but I don't think that's even possible anymore."

"Why not?"

"Because I can't see myself jumping into a relationship right after I get a divorce."

"Jude, do you seriously think you two will last even two weeks before you or him start feeling even more towards each other and something happens? I mean you are living together, and he's already admitted he loves you. Why not just admit it to him too and save everyone a lot of heartache?"

"I'm not even sure if I love him anymore Speed."

"That is the biggest crock of shit I have heard all week. Come on Jude, if you're not going to admit it to anyone else, at least admit it to yourself."

"Speed-"

"Don't Jude. You know you love Tommy, I know you love Tommy. You know Tommy loves you, I know Tommy loves you, Tommy knows he loves...and now I just confused myself."

"Don't hurt the few brain cells you have left."

"Very funny Jude."

"Why don't you go watch some television, so I can go get dressed."

"Whatever, but I'm not going to just let this whole thing go."

Jude turned around to walk towards her room. "That's what you think," she said to herself.

AUTHORS NOTE: Hope you guys like it. And I've been getting a few complaints about short chapters. Well...you're kinda just gonna hafta deal because usually I don't have the time to write a longer chapter. That probably comes out sounding really bitchy and I don't mean it to, but I'm just kind tellin it how it is.