A/N: I don't own Instant Star. Reviews are always welcome.
Episode 5 - Leaving on a Jet Plane
Part 1
I miraculously make it to Sadie's dorm room after getting lost for a couple of hours without knowing a single word in Italian and after all that effort I was afraid of seeing her. The things we both said to each other. "I'm not turning around," I tell myself and knock on her door. "Jude, what are you doing here?" she says. "I wanted to see you, Sadie," I say. She shushes me and I look at her quizzically. And then I survey her disheveled look. "Sadie Elizabeth Harrison is there a boy in there?" I say trying to catch a peak through the door. "Jude, would you quit it," she said shoving me further down the hallway. Just then a hand reaches through the partly open door and grabs Sadie. "Paolo," Sadie exclaims before sputtering something in Italian. I couldn't help myself and opened the door. I was looking him up and down when Sadie exclaimed, "Jude stop checking out my boyfriend." Then when I got to his face I couldn't help but stare because he closely resembled someone we both knew and was just about to say so, when Sadie said, "Paolo this is my sister Jude and you have to go." He then said something in Italian, kissed Sadie, and left after saying hello to me by kissing me on both cheeks, which of course made me blush' I mean he was gorgeous after all. He closed the door and it was just the two of us.
Part 2
"I wanted to fix us Sadie," I say as I embrace her. "I'm sorry about all those things I said to you," I said. "But Jude, I'm not," she says unapologetically. "You were right about some of the things you said," I say earnestly. "But in our entire lives you made everything into a competition. I just wanted to be your sister Sadie," I say. "I have a life here Jude. Where I can just be myself," she says. "And you can't be yourself when you're around me?" I ask. "Not when I'm constantly in your shadow!" she says a little forcefully. "Are you ever coming home?" I ask. "I don't know Jude. I'm happy here. We'll see," she says. I didn't want push anything else, so I ask her about Paolo and his resemblance of someone. "I met him a few weeks after Tommy dumped me and left me in Rome," she says. It was like I'd been punched in the gut and quickly collected myself, so Sadie wouldn't see my reaction. "He's really great Jude," she says. "And he makes me happy," she says. "That's really great for you Sadie. Plus he's gorgeous. And kind of looks like…" I say. "Don't even say his name Jude. He broke my heart," she says. I asked her what happened. "He was always distracted. We'd be spending time together and we'd be laughing and talking and then I don't know once we started to get close he'd just slowly distance himself for me," she said. "Then one morning I find a letter on my pillow and he just vanishes," she says. "What did the letter say?" I ask. "I can't really tell you because I have no idea," she says. "What do you mean?" I say incredulously. "Well, in my current state at that time, I kind of burned it. As well as whatever else he had left behind, so it'll have to remain a mystery. And besides I'm over him," she says. "Sadie are you crazy, Paolo looks exactly like Tommy." "I know, but he's a completely different person than him. Seriously Jude I am completely over Tom Quincy."
Part 3
My relationship with Sadie wasn't completely fixed, but you wouldn't know it if you saw us on the street. She decided I needed to go shopping, as well as see every tourist attraction in all of Italy. I hung out with Sadie and Paolo a lot and gave her the thumbs up on him before I told her I really had to get back to the studio and work on the album. That was about 2 weeks ago. As I was heading on the plane, she stopped me and gave me a hug. "We're in a good place now right, Jude," she says. "Yeah, Sadie we are." We hug again and I get on the plane and head home.