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Chapter 4 - Greetings..
"Jude, Sadie I'd like you to meet Lex." Thier mother practically squealed.
"Vicky, you never told me how pretty your daughters were..they look just like you." He held out his hand, sadie took it immediately.
"Nice to meet you." She smiled sweetly.
Jude stood shocked at what she saw, emotions started to consume her. It was him.
"Jude, arent you going to say hello?" Victorias voice brought jude out of her thoughts.
"Oh..yeah hi." She said lightly, not taking his hand. He smirked and pulled his arm back.
"Hi." He said simply.
"Well now that that's out of the way, whose ready to eat?" Victorias cheerful voice rang.
"I've waited all day." He replied, grabbing and squeezing her hand.
"ALright then lets eat." Sadie jumped in and lead her mom and lex to the dining room.
Jude couldnt take anymore of this.
"Um, i'll be right back." She excused herself before dinner started. She walked calmly around the corner and then started running upstairs and all the way to her room and then she closed the door behind her.
'Oh my god...what am I going to do?' She sat up against her door and cradled her face in her hands.
'I will not cry.' She thought, holding back the tears that threatened to fall.
'I could call someone..' The only person she could think of to call was tommy. She groaned, picking up the phone and
once again looking through the contacts and stopping at his name, she hit the button.
Tommy was now at home in his built in studio. He was strumming on his guitar. He'd been thinking about jude for the past week and for once, that moment he wasnt thinking about her, he was thinking about his life, his music, this song.
The cell phone rang, this time he looked at the caller id and his eyes lit up when he seen who was calling.
"Hey jude." He smiled to himself.
"Tommy, I dont know what to do." She whispered.
"You okay?" He dropped his guitar and stood.
"He's here." Tommy clutched the phone a little tighter.
"Jude you in there sweetie? who ya talkin to?" Lex was outside her door. She hesitantly got up and closed her phone, hanging up on tommy.
"No. Jude? Jude?" He waited for a response and then finally took note that she hung up.
Her door opened.
"Hey babe." He closed the door behind him.
"Who were you talking to?" He came closer to her, she started shaking.
"No-no one." She tryed to sound convincing.
"Whoever it was better not know anything." He grabbed her arm lightly.
She squirmed under his touch, it brought back so many memories.
"What do you want?" She shook off his hand and walked towards the door.
"Making sure you werent doing anything stupid." He turned to face her.
"Jude, honey come down and eat." Her mother called from down stairs.
"Me do something stupid? no I think you take the cake on that one." She openned the door and started to walk out but he grabbed her arm again.
"Don't say anything or else you'll never see your precious mother or sister again." His breath tickled her ear. He let go of her after she silently agreed. She walked down stairs and sat down ignoring sadie and her mothers concerened glances.
"Sorry, took me a minute to find the bathroom." Lex came down stairs a few minutes after jude, flashing his sneaky smile.
They all sat around the dinner table and started to eat the food that had been placed there a few minutes earlier.
Jude ate extremely fast, trying to get it over with.
"Jude, you in a hurry?" Victoria asked.
Jude swallowed the remains of food in her mouth.
"Why do you ask?" Jude asked innocently, taking another forkfull of food and shoving it into her mouth.
"Oh I dont know.." She nodded towards judes half eaten plate.
She swallowed again.
"Nope, just good food mom." She put on a fake smile.
"Why thankyou, but you dont have to rush." Her mother smiled and then flashed an even bigger smile at lex who had been unusually quiet.
"So lex, what do you do?" Sadie asked.
Jude couldnt believe it..sadie was actually flirting with him! her mothers boyfriend and a rapest at that! how could she? look how old he is! 'Disgusting.'
The door bell rang.
"I'll get it!" Jude jumped up and literally ran towards the door. The three at the table watched in disbelief.
She opened the door.
"Oh thank god." She whispered, teary-eyed. She flung her arms open and squeezed the only person who mattered at the moment.
"Jude whats going on?" He asked.
"Tommy..just hold on a second." She was still whispering.
Jude turned and grabbed a jacket off the coat rack and then went around the corner to face the three again.
"Mom its kat, i'm staying over at her house tonight..dinner was great!" She ran out again before her mother could process what she had said.
"Kat?" Tommy asked, walking towards the viper.
"Tommy, can I stay at your place tonight?" Jude pleaded.
Tommy didnt like the idea of jude staying at his apartment, he'd let her there once but that was an emergency and she didnt stay, wait..was this an emergency?
"Why whats going on?" He asked again, sitting inside the car and about to start it.
"He's here..and he's my moms boyfriend and sadies flirting with him and he threatened me and-"
"Woah woah woah, wait. Hes in there? right now?" Tommy began to turn red in the face, clenching the steering wheel a little too tightly.
"He came in my room." She looked out the window towards the house.
"What did he do?" He asked flatly, showing nothing but anger.
"He just threatened me..he said if I told anyone I'd never see my mom or sadie again." A single tear slid down her cheek.
Tommy put his arm around her trying to comfort her. He wanted to go in there and kill the guy that hurt the only person he cared about but, after considering the concequences and how dangerous this guy could actually be he decided to think more about it later and maybe even talk to jude about what they should do.
"Can I please stay with you tonight? I cant stay here." She whiped away the cold tear.
"Jude, I dont know if thats a good Idea.." He drifted off thinking about all the things that could possibly happen if she stayed there. He knew if he had her alone he might not be able to stop himself from doing something stupid.
"I have nowhere to go tommy." She looked up at him and pleaded with her beautiful blue eyes.
Tommy groaned, she knew he couldnt resist that face.
"Alright." He sighed, letting go of her and starting the car.
She grabbed his hand and rubbed it lightly.
"Thanks." She smiled and let it go. They drove to his apartment.
"Wow." It was the only word that came to mind when looking at something so perfect. Tommy chuckled as he closed the door behind them.
"So you like it?" He asked sarcastically.
"Tommy, its beautiful in here, and just what I expected for a batchelor pad." She smirked, sitting on his black leather lazy boy recliner.
"Yeah well.." He sat on the matching couch.
"You've seen it before." He leaned back into the couch.
"Well I guess I wasnt paying attention before." She remembered that night..coming to tommys appartment soaked in blood, how embarrased she was. He was so sweet taking care of her and helping her clean up.
"So, would you like a tour?" Jude raised her eyebrow.
"Sure quincy." She got up and followed as he lead the way.
They walked into the second room which appeared to be the dining room.
"This is a really big apartment." She squeaked, looking around.
"Well..I like space." He smiled, "This is the dining room..nothing important here." He motioned her down a hallway. She followed.
"This is my studio." Before he could finish his sentence jude was already in there checking out his guitars and the soundboard.
"Oh my god!" She squealed.
"This is awsome!" She continued, running around the studio picking up everything in sight.
Tommy stood against the door frame smiling at her. He loved seeing her happy.
She picked up a peice of paper that had writing on it, it was laying on top of an acoustic guitar.
She began to read.
"Tommy, did you write this?" She looked up at him, she could barely hide the anxiousness in her voice.
He cleared his throat.
"Yeah, its no big deal." He ran his fingers through his hair.
"I've never read anything before that possesed this much emotion." She could tell this was making tommy uncomfortable so she put the paper back where she found it and then walked passed him.
"So, this cant be all of your apartment." She smirked, waiting for the room she wanted to see the most. She could swear his cheeks turned pink when she said that.
He cleared his throat again. "Come on." He lead her to the guest room.
This time he smirked. "This is where you'll be sleeping tonight." She frowned at his comment.
"Aww..you're breaking my heart quincy!" She hit his arm playfully.
"Its pretty." She smiled, looking around the room and then plopping on the bed. Tommy took this to his advantage.
"Oh so I guess you dont want the rest of your tour." He shrugged and started to walk out of the room.
Jude jumped up and nearly tackled him. "You're not getting away that easily." He sighed again.
"Alright alright, come on." He walked her to his door.
"Dont go all crazy on me now, ok?" Jude laughed.
"Yeah sure, you got it..now let me in already!" She managed to turn the knob and open the door without him holding her back. There was a bed in the middle of the room and sitting in front of it was a flat screened plasma tv. The carpet was black and the walls were white yet everything else in the room was black making the room have a comforting feel to it. Jude walked over to the nightstand which had a lamp and a picture of herself and him on the peir.
"Aw, tommy, you kept this? and you framed it?" She picked it up and looked at it for a while.
"Of course." He smiled at the expression on her face then he sat down on the bed and watched her look around his room some more. She came to a wall full of pictures of himself with different celebrities. She stood in awe.
"You know all these people?" She asked, shocked.
"Yeah you could say that." He smirked.
She finally backed away from the wall and started towards a stack of cds that seemed to be in alphabetical order and never ending.
"Got enough cds?" She asked sarcastically.
"I'm a producer, what did you expect?" He gave her a look.
"Yeah yeah yeah." She said, looking through the different cds.
After looking through the cds she finally came and sat next to tommy on the bed.
"Hi." She said, feeling dumb.
"Hi." He smiled at her.
They sat there for a moment starting to get caught up in their gaze. Jude began leaning towards tommy.
"So." Tommy quickly jumped up. "What do you want to do? are you hungry? thirsty?" He asked, trying to be the mature one in this situation, knowing he had to be so nothing they'd regret later would happen.
"No." She said quietly, looking down at her shoes.
Tommy looked around the room and stopped at the second door in the room.
"You want to take a shower?" He asked before thinking fully about what he was asking.
Judes head popped up and she raised her eyebrow.
He shook his head, knowing what she was thinking.
"Alone." He added with a smirk. She blushed.
"That sounds nice but I have nothing to wear." She got up off the bed.
"You can wear something of mine, its fine." He said, walking towards his dresser.
Jude walked over to the second door and looked at tommy.
"Tommy?" She pointed in front of her at the door.
"Yeah thats it." He grabbed some boxers and a T-shirt.
Jude openned the door revealing a huge white tile bathroom, with a jacuzzi bathtub and also a walk in shower, not to mention the toilet and sink, those are a given.
"Jeez tommy this is bigger than my room and sadies put together." She walked towards the jacuzzi.
"How do you work it?" She asked, messing with a few nobs and not getting the result she wanted.
Tommy, without thinking, dropped the clothes on the dresser and headed towards the bathroom shaking his head.
He laughed at her scrunched up face, she still couldnt figure out how to turn it on.
"Girl, you push this in and turn the nob." He pushed a small white button and then turned the nob in the direction of the 'H'.
"Oh.." She laughed innocently.
"You want the jets?" He asked, pushing another button, turning them on.
"Ooo." She smiled.
"Thankyou." She said impatiently pushing him towards the door.
"Okay I can tell when and where I'm not wanted." He joked, closing the door behind him. He walked over to the bed, layed down and propped his head up on his hand, he then turned on the t.v.
'Oh my god i'm in tommys bathroom...naked..and hes in the next room!' She lay in the jacuzzi thinking.
'Oh god he didnt lock the door.' She jumped out of the tub and ran over to the door and then locked it afterwards running back to the tub. Tommy heard the nob being fumbled with and figured out what she was doing, then he laughed to himself.
Jude jumped back in the tub. 'Well its certainly cold enough in here.' She shivered.
Tommy stared at the t.v. To the naked eye it would seem as though he was watching it but when it actually came down to it tommy was thinking about jude, whats new?
'Jude is in your bathroom right now..shes staying the night at your apartment. Keep your cool man.' His glance suddenly went to the door that was being opened by a wet jude who had a towel around her. He sat in awe and couldnt look away, mentally he was yelling and cursing at himself to look else where.
She laughed, embarassment written all over her face.
"Uh.." He said, still not being able to look away.
"Clothes?" She asked.
He snapped out of it.
"Oh yeah." He got up and picked the clothes up off the dresser. Tommy walked slowly towards jude, trying not to make it too noticable that he was examining her. She could feel his eyes burning her skin, she loved every minute of it. He finally reached her.
"Here." He held out the clothes waiting impatiently for her to take them, he couldnt take this much longer. She knew how he felt, here he was in front of her and her in a towel, who wouldnt be going nuts? She smirked to herself. He seen this and closed his eyes.
"You ok tommy?" She asked, taking the clothes.
He opened his eyes and seen her smiling and backed up slowly.
"Yeah i'm fine." He reached the bed again and sat.
She turned around confusedly and walked back into the bathroom to change.
'Jesus tom get a hold of yourself she is 16. 16!' He mentally scolded himself. Jude was also doing this in the other room as she was getting dressed.
'Come on jude he doesnt want you, remember? he made that pretty clear.' She sighed, putting on the last peice of clothing, completing her outfit. She looked in the mirror and smiled at what she saw. She loved being in his clothes and oh god the smell..it smelled of tommy. She sighed once again and finally walked out of the bathroom.
Tommy jumped when he heard the door being opened.
"God." He blurted. She noticed how startled he was and looked at him innocently.
"Sorry." She smiled sweetly and walked over and sat next to him.
'Chill tom..' He exhaled slowly. "So, what do you want to do?" He asked.
Jude smirked. He noticed and smirked back.
"Well you know tommy.." She scooted closer to him and he started to lose his nerve.
"Yeah?" He asked lightly.
"You know.." She got off the bed and stood directly in front of him.
"Ju-" She cut him off pressing her finger against his lips and she got on his lap, straddling him and pushing him down on the bed. He tryed to talk again but this time she cut him off by saying something.
"You know tommy..." She smirked again. "Its been way too long since.." She brought her head towards his. Their lips were only a few inches apart when she stopped.
"I did this." She whispered and then smiled. She started tickling him. He quickly switched positions with her and started to tickle her back. Both smiling, laughing, and having a good time, ended up on the floor. After about 10 minutes of this jude managed to convince tommy to stop yet they continued to lay on the floor, jude laying next to him and resting her head on his chest. He had his arm around her waist. Neither noticed their positions nor did they care at the moment.
"I miss this." She said out of breath and lifted her head to look at him.
He looked back at her and laughed at her messy hair.
"What?" She felt hurt that he laughed at her comment.
"Nothing..you just look funny in my clothes." He lied, he actually loved the way she looked in them.
"Thanks tommy you sure know how to make a girl feel special." She acted hurt.
"I'm just kidding. You look great." He assured her. She looked up at him again but this time he looked different..he had a rugged look to him and he looked older. 'Oh no..'
She pulled away from him and started to crawl backwards, trying to get away from him.
Tommy was confused by her actions and he sat up.
"Jude?" She heard lex' voice. She stopped where she was and held her legs infront of her, sobbing into her knees.
Tommy crawled over to her and put both of his arms around her trying to bring her out of whatever she was in.
She didnt look up, she couldnt look at the face of the man that touched her, not again. She wouldnt give him the satisfaction.
"Girl, look at me." He pleaded, brushing her hair out of her wet face.
"No." She cried, not letting him see her eyes.
Tommy didnt know what to do.
"Whats wrong?" He asked, obvious concern in his voice.
Judes head shot up.
"Tommy?" Her voice bled out.
"Yeah girl, who else?" He pulled her towards him in a hug.
"I cant do this..I dont know what to do anymore." She cried into his shoulder.
"What are you talking about?" He was getting more worried by the second.
"I just..when I looked at you it wasnt you I..I seen him and when you spoke I heard him and it was so real." She pulled away from him. His eyes showed understanding and comfort.
"Its alright, you're here with me..he wont touch you." He rubbed her cheek lightly.
"He threatened me..what if he hurts my mom?" The thought of him even touching her mom made her sick to her stomach. She stood up and started to walk around his room aimlessly. She needed to think things through, here she was with tommy safe at his apartment and her sister and her mom alone with some psycho? how could she do that? she left them without even thinking twice. For all she knew he could have murdered them both and he could be waiting for her to come home. She gasped. At that moment she grabbed her cellphone that she had earlier placed on the bed and dialed sadies cell phone number. Luckily, within two rings sadie answered.
"Hey sadie, hows everything going?" She was relieved just to hear her sisters voice.
Sadie laughed into the phone.
"Why'd you leave? you're missing out..lex is really cool and isnt he georgous?" She squealed.
Jude rolled her eyes at her sisters comment.
"Hows mom, is she okay?" Jude looked at tommy who was still sitting on the floor and he in return gave her a supportive look.
"Yeah I think she really likes this guy, and who wouldnt?" She smirked at lex who was carrying on a conversation with victoria yet eyeing sadie.
"Just keep your eyes open alright? theres something about him that.." Jude trailed off.
"Chill jude, as long as mom is happy..what more do you want?" Her voice was more harsh.
"Well goodnight." Jude closed the phone not wanting to put up with sadies crap.
"Everything ok?" He finally got off the floor and sat back on the bed. Jude sat next to him again.
"I'm just worried, you know?" She sighed. Her tears had dried on her face leaving it sticky yet smooth.
"I'm sorry jude..you didnt deserve this, no one deserves what that jerk did to you." He said inbetween clenched teeth.
"He will pay for that." He looked at her.
"Tommy, hes not worth it..all I want is him away from my family..especially sadie, she was flirting with him! and knowing him..he might go after her too." She bit her lip.
Tommy looked at the clock and it read 12:30.
"Well girl, we need to get some sleep, I gotta be at the studio early tomorrow." He groaned.
"Oh okay." She spoke sadly, getting up off the bed. Tommy grabbed her arm and brought her back to her sitting position.
"You going to be okay?" He asked, brushing her blonde locks out of her face.
"As long as your with me." She quietly admitted, looking up at him with her watery blue eyes.
"I hate seeing you cry." His words were full of sympathy.
"Heh yeah I probably look horrible..as usual." She pushed her hair behind her ears and whiped her dry face, it was a habit now.
"You've never looked better." He brought the palm of his hand to the back of her head and slowly pulled her towards him, she didnt resist. There was no stopping it now, this was temptation that had been bottled up for almost two years and now at the chance neither of them wanted to leave each others grasp. Tommy stopped only a hair away from jude and whispered her name, slight reality taunting his actions. She didnt want to hear anything more and she brought her lips to his lightly before tommy lost it and intensified the kiss. This went on for only a few minutes before jude leaned back on the bed, bringing tommy on top of her, neither of them breaking the kiss. She began to move her hands from the back of his neck to his back and then under his shirt. Loving the feel of his bare skin, she rubbed it ever so gently. One of tommys hands slid down to her waist and he held her, the other he used to balance himself over her. Without even noticing it himself he slipped his hand under her shirt and brushed her stomach. His touch was just too much as she giggled into the kiss. His eyes were closed the whole time..until now. He openned them smiling until he looked into the eyes of the 16 year old girl. His smile dissapeared.
"Damn it!" He rolled off of her and then sat up, burrying his face into his hands. Jude sat up slowly, slightly embarrased and pulled her shirt down because it was revealing her stomach. She was at a loss for words.
"I'm going to take a shower." He got up without another word and entered the bathroom, closing the door behind him.
No forget about it? It never happened? She was confused. Was he actually going to wake up and realize these things are happening?
She sighed, feeling sudden inspiration. Go figure. Jude got up and walked back to tommys studio. She grabbed his guitar and started strumming one chord over and over until the first word came to her, after that she sang her heart out, letting her emotions be her guide, her fingers followed.
A/N - This was my favorite chapter so far, I hope yall feel the same way..review and tell me if you do feel the same way! thankyou again!