Disclaimer: I don't own Instant Star and I'm about ready to lose my mind if I have to say that again. And that would actually happen if my mind wasn't lost already. I also don't own the Evanescence song, Imaginary.
Chapter 17: Paper Flower.
G Major was quiet. It seemed deserted without her there. The place couldn't be more crowded but it felt so empty without her. She wasn't running around nagging Jude about her clothes or on her phone trying to get Jude an interview.
Jude sat in the studio, strumming her guitar, figuring out the tabs of the song she wanted to play. Tommy watched her from the control booth, heart breaking at her pain. She had never really been the same since last week. The gun had pointed right at her. It had been fired at her, and she could've died. But that's not what changed her. It was the bullet hitting EJ.
"We could've been great together, but you wanted him… Now you must pay." He shot the gun at her.
"Jude!" Tommy yelled.
EJ dived in front of her, the bullet implanting itself in her torso. She let out a terrifying scream, causing Jude to stop breathing for a split second.
"EJ!" Jude screeched.
"Fuck you, Chaz," EJ managed to whisper before passing out.
Tommy came back to the world around him as Jude continued to strum.
"Tommy?" She finally spoke.
"Yeah," he replied, solemnly.
"Can we lay down a track? I think I got this song down. It kind of expresses how I've been feeling lately."
"Jude, are you sure?"
"Yes, of course," she insisted, unsurely.
"Okay…"
She stepped up to the microphone and began to sing.
I linger in the doorway
Of alarm
clock screaming
Monsters calling my name
Let me stay
Where
the wind will whisper to me
Where the raindrops
As they're
falling tell a story
In my field of paper flowers
And candy
clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my
purple sky fly over me
Don't say I'm out of touch
With
this rampant chaos- your reality
I know well what lies beyond my
sleeping refuge
The nightmare I built my own world to escape
In my field of paper flowers
And
candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch
my purple sky fly over me
Swallowed up in the sound of my
screaming
Cannot cease for the fear of silent nights
Oh how I
long for the deep sleep dreaming
The goddess of imaginary light
In my field of paper flowers
And
candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch
my purple sky fly over me
She broke down. She couldn't handle it anymore. EJ was in the hospital because of her. She had screwed up. She fell to the ground, sobs escaping from her throat.
Tommy came into the studio and wrapped his arms around Jude. "Shh… It's okay…" He whispered to her, rocking back and forth.
His phone rang, shaking him. "Hello?" He passed as he listened to the person on the other line. "Okay, thanks, Georgia." He hung up the phone and looked at Jude. "That was Georgia, she said that EJ just woke up."
"Can we go see her?" She whimpered.
"Yeah."
The hospital was quiet. It had an eerie feeling to Jude.
She entered the room that the nurses' station said that EJ was in.
"Jude…" EJ muttered.
"Hi, EJ," she replied, trying not to cry. "How are you doing?"
"I'm doing better. The doctors said that I could've died from the bullet."
"I'm so sorry."
"Don't be. Chaz is the one that shot. How are you doing? He shot at you."
"Don't worry about me. I'm fine, thanks to you."
"It was nothing."
"Wrong, it was everything."
"I guess."
"I just want to thank you. You saved my life."
"Your welcome, Jude."
Jude could feel that she was about to lose it. She hugged EJ and said, "I should go."
"Bye."
She left the room and the hospital all together.
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