A/N - It is now 2:55 in the morning..I am tired out of my mind and I spent the whole day writing this..didn'tthink it was possible for a story to wear you out but boy was I wrong! Thank you for the reviews, once again yall are the best! Did ya'll see instant star? that was cute..but that preview..I'm seriously going crazy thinking about the season coming to an end soon, isn't that sad? Ok i'm done babbling..Hope you like it

Disclaimer - Forgot to add this last chapter, I do not own Instant star or any of the characters, just my songs/poems and ideas

Chapter 7 - Gotta love Birthdays Part 2

"Happy birthday!" Her other crowd of friends said in harmony. No matter how many times she heard that phrase, it never got old.

"Hey everybody." She smiled. There was a banner hanging over the stair case that read "Happy 17th Jude!" She walked towards jamie who was trying to avoid her attention.

"Mr andrews, I could recognize the hand writing from a mile away." He rolled his eyes.

"Thanks." She laughed and hugged him.

"Just wait til you see the napkins." Sadie interupted. Jude gave her a weird look and then decided to ask about it later. Kwest then walked in with a couple of presents he brought from G-major. Jude's eyes lit up.

"Hey kwest." She walked towards him and smiled sweetly.

"Nope, not til' everyone is here." He swiftly switched which hand he was holding the presents with and smiled at jude.

"Fine." Jude pouted.

"Jude, come here." Victoria's voice came from upstairs once again. Jude did as she was instructed and walked upstairs to her mom's room.

"Hey mom." She smiled at victoria.

"Happy birthday." She extended her arm, jude came to her and took her hand. Victoria held a small box with her other hand.

"I have something for you." She handed her the box. Jude looked at her weirdly.

"Just open it." She urged her daughter. She openned it to find a locket.

"I know it's not exactly your style but.." Jude opened the locket and there was a picture of her, sadie, and her mom and dad together. It had been taken when sadie and jude were very young. The locket was shaped as a heart and had a crystal on the front of it. In the picture they looked so happy, whatever happened to that? She then remembered yvette. Judes eyes were now shining, she was holding back the tears.

"I didn't want to make you cry, but, I thought you would like to have that." Her mother's arm made it's way around jude and she tightened her grip.

"Thanks mom." Jude cleared her throat and and whiped her eyes.

"That's not your only present but..we'll save the rest for later, k?" She whiped a tear off of her daughter's face that she must have missed. Jude smiled.

"K."

"Alright, well, I am going to go see what lex is doing." Victoria got up anxiously and started towards the door. Jude bit her lip and watched her mom go. The picture was getting to her, lex was getting to her, but..she promised herself today was going to be a good day and she didn't want to break that promise. She put the locket back in it's box and went into her room, placing it carefully on her dresser. Just then she heard the doorbell ring and walked quickly down the hall way and down stairs.

"Hey you guys!" She smiled as speid, wally, and kyle walked in. They all smiled and handed her envelopes.

"For me?" She asked innocently.

"Nope. Its the rent for this month." Speid joked.

"Oh..well that works too." She played along, knowing he was kidding.

As soon as she closed the door, someone knocked. She opened it once more.

"Tommy! Georgia!" She suddenly forgot about everyone else and ran up and hugged the two.

"So this is the famous tom quincy?" Those few moments where she forgot about everything and everyone else faded and she wished she could have them back, why do these things happen to her? Jude turned to face lex and her mom. Tommy and georgia stepped inside the house and shut the door.

"That would be me." Tommy's eyes were like daggers aimed towards the other man. Lex smirked.

"I've heard alot about you." Lex extended his hand, wanting tommy to take it..almost in competition if that makes sense.

"Really, now?" Tommy took his hand and gripped it tightly. Lex was loving this, he knew jude told tommy, why else would he be acting this way? Lex had the charm to fool anybody and he knew tommy wasn't fooled, that's what was so fun about it.

"Yeah, this is my producer." Jude said, trying to take tommy's attention off of lex but it didn't work. Tommy's eyes were still on lex's. Was he suppose to feel intimidated? by this chump? tommy wanted to laugh at this guys nerve but he knew now wasn't the time. The two dropped their hands at the same time.

"So you're lex?" Tommy said inbetween clenched teeth, trying to make his question as simple and clear as possible.

"That would be me." He mimiced tommy. Tom half-smiled and squinted his eye a bit.

At that, the doorbell rang. Jude mentally thanked god as she opened it.

"Kat! where have you been?" She asked, pulling her friend into the house and pointing to tommy and lex.

"I went to the sto-oh..." Kat looked back at jude and gave her a look that basically said 'Good luck'.

"So, anybody hungry?" Victoria sensed the tension between the two guys and decided to break it, and it worked. A few people had already eaten at G-major so there were only a few eating. Tommy, jude, and georgia weren't hungry, kwest on the other hand decided to eat again. Tommy and Georgia walked over to one side of the room and the others walked to the other.

"Tom, what was that about?" Georgia asked, she knew tommy and how mad he got. She had only seen him mad like that once before, it wasn't over something stupid, it had actual importance behind it.

Tommy, still trying to regain calmness, looked at georgia.

"I don't like him." He stated bluntly, she laughed.

"That's so hard to believe." He didn't find it funny.

"Tommy, I can feel the heat projecting off of you from over here, what is going on?" Georgia questioned.

"That's Ms. Harrison's boyfriend." Tommy glared at lex who occasionally looked over at tommy, smiling.

"And?" Georgia couldn't figure out why that had anything to do with why tommy wouldn't like him.

"I just..don't like him." He looked at georgia with pure worry. 'This has to be bad', she thought.

Jude was sitting with Kat, sme, and jamie on the couch. They were talking about their most embarrassing moments, while eating.

"So kat, what was your most embarrassing moment?" Kyle asked.

"Oh jeez..um, well..I guess when I was little I had to do this dance recitle thing and I kinda tripped and fell in front of everyone."

"Oh yeah, and...and then you ran off stage crying... for the longest everyone at school talked about it... I remember that." Jamie said in between laughs. Kat punched his arm.

"Oww." He rubbed his freshly stinging skin.

Jude wasn't paying much attention, she finally built up the courage to look over at tommy. He was talking to georgia. She didn't know what about but, she kinda figured he was going to tell her eventually about lex.

"Jude? you going to answer the question?" She looked at speid.

"Huh?" She didn't hear a word he had said.

"Most embarrassing moment?"

"Oh, I could tell you that one." Jamie smiled at jude.

"Don't you dare." She threatened.

"Alright kids, you guys have fun but not too much fun, we'll be back around 11:00" Victoria and lex walked towards the door.

"Be good." Lex looked around the room, his eyes stopping at two particular people before he left with victoria.

"Ok, now the fun starts." Speid said, jumping off the couch and running towards the radio. He turned it up loud. Jude's head started to ache a bit, everyone else seemed to enjoy it though so she kept it to herself.

Sadie got up and started dancing, she grabbed kwest's hand and brought him up to her. Jude was speechless, watching sadie. Kwest was smiling, obviously he was having a good time, oblivious to her other relationship. Tommy sat and watched, slightly amused.

Jude walked over to tommy who was still sitting next to georgia.

"Tommy, kwest is going to get hurt." She said.

"It's just a dance." He said, trying to convince her that it was harmless, she disagreed.

"Yeah and it's just sadie." She reminded.

"He's a big boy, he can handle himself." He insisted.

She sighed.

"Alright I give, you win." She said, sitting next to tommy. He smiled.

"I didn't know this was a contest." She smiled back.

"Georgia, you having fun?" Jude asked, remembering the older woman was on the other side of him.

"Yes actually, I miss being around this." She said, motioning her hand towards all the people.

"You're not missing much." Jude joked.

"Come on jude, lets dance." Speid said, pulling her up by her arms.

"Speid, I don't really dance." The whole experience with shay suddenly replayed in her head.

"Neither do I." He smiled, putting his hands on her waist. Her hands automatically went to his neck. The dance wasn't exactly slow, but it wasn't a fast one either. Wally and kyle spotted jude and speid and smirked evily. They ran full speed into the two of them forcing jude to hit the corner of the couch hard with her stomach. Speid was pushed into jude, adding more weight to the force. He landed on top of her. Speid immediately got up and jude lay on the floor with a few drops of blood on her lips that had escaped her mouth.

"Jude!" Tommy rushed over to her side and put his hand on her stomach.

"Ow." She winced.

"That hurts?" He asked, pulling his hand away.

"Yeah." She managed to whisper.

"I can't breathe." And with that she passed out.

Tommy picked her up in one swift move and started towards the door.

"I'm taking her to the hospital, someone open the door!" His voice quivering. Sadie raced to the door and opened it. Everyone ended up going with him, in seperate cars. When they got there he took her to the emergency room. Sadie was quick with the paper work and everyone sat, waiting to see if jude was okay. Tommy was pacing back and forth in the waiting room, everyone else was sitting. He couldn't take much more of this. How could something like this happen? One minute everyone was having a good time and the next..it just wasn't common.

"You two! how could you be so ignorant?" Tommy snapped, standing in front of wally and kyle.

"Dude, it was an accident. Don't blame them." Speid jumped in. Tommy didn't want to hear it, he wasn't in the mood.

"And you," He turned to speid, "She said she didn't dance, so why didn't you just leave it at that?" He was too irritated to stop. Just then, victoria burst through the door with lex.

"Sadie! is she okay? what happened?" She ran to sadie.

"We were just playing around and jude fell against the edge of the couch, speid fell on her and then when he got up she had blood on her lips and she passed out."

Sadie summed up what had happen. Victoria sent speid a death glare.

"Excuse me are you Ms. Harrison?" A man wearing a white coat and glasses asked while looking down at a clipboard with a bunch of papers attached.

"Yeah, thats me." She answered, a bit nervously.

"I'm afraid I have some bad news, may I speak with you alone for a second?"

A/N - Once again take note that its late and it may not be the best I could've done but..I do hope you like it..Please continue sending me some reviews, I love reading them:) OH! and sorry about the "Porsha" instead of "Portia" thing, thought it was spelled portia but I was going by this website that I no longer trust, heh. Ok review people..Goodnight! for me anywayz...