A/N - Woohoo! finally! I was going crazy! hehe..anywho, thankyou for the reviews ya'll :) Ok I don't know where this story is going from here..I know where I could end this and maybe write a sequel? or I could just write maybe a few more chapters and leave it with something that just falls into peice, heh. It is totally up to you guys so..please review and tell me what you think I should do? Thanks again!

Disclaimer - I don't own Instant star or any other the characters, just jessica and my songs/poems..oh and the inn!

Chapter 13 - Finally

Lightning flashed through the sky and rain started to fall. Tommy felt the wetness against his back and he fluttered his eyes as if he were coming out of a dream. Jude knew what was going on all along, she seen him doing this and realized that this is the part where he wakes up. This is the part where he denys it all and this is the part where she gets hurt again.

He pushed himself off of her and then held out his hand, offering help to her. She took it and pulled herself up to him. His arms fell to her sides and his hands held her waist securely. It was raining now, the cool wind blowing against the two was enough to keep them shivering, but thats not the only reason they were shaking. Tommy didn't know what he was doing but he knew that there was nothing that could stop him this time. Jude stared into his cloudy blue eyes and she was getting lost in them. All at once tommy pulled her even tighter against him and he felt every part of her body tense, as did she, his.

They were both soaked to the bone and the rain was pouring down harder by the second, neither of them focused on anything but each others eye's. They were face to face and tommy felt judes breath against his lips, it was the only warmth he had. The lightning was getting worse and it brought tommy back from his gaze. His eyes finally left jude's and fell to the ground. 'Here it comes..' Jude thought.

"Tommy?" Her voice was weak but none the less it got through to him.

"We need to um, get you inside." He dropped one of his hands and slid the other all the way around her waist and then guided her towards the inn. It was a long walk but the two needed time to think anyway and they weren't exactly walking, it was more of a jog to the inn, considering it was cold and raining.

They finally reached the inn and the air was even colder in the building. People gave the two weird glances and jessica looked a little dissapointed from the desk when she seen how snug the two looked together. This time tommy ignored jessica and jude was slightly happy to see that. They made it to the room and quickly walked in. Neither of them said anything to each other but tommy sat in a chair in the far corner of the room, once again trying to process his thoughts. It always ended up this way. He didn't even bother drying off. Jude on the other hand, went into the bathroom and cried to herself silently, she didn't want tommy to hear her. She took a nice warm bath, the running water drowned out her sobs. Tommy was thinking about everything that had happened to him since he met jude. His world deffinitely changed..for him he'd say it was for the better but then again the way others would see it, they would disagree. He was too old for her, it would ruin their music, all the other reasons people could think of to keep them apart but things were getting too tense, too tight, too personal. The bathroom door opened and jude stood in the door way, her hair hanging in her eyes and dripping with water. He watched her small form walk towards the bed. Once she got there she sat and stared down at her hands. He slipped off his overshirt and left on the tanktop was skin tight and also soaked. After doing so he walked over to her and put his hand under her chin, bringing her face up to face him. Her eyes were red and poofy where she had been crying. He then grabbed her arms and pulled her up, carefully.

"Tommy.." She started, looking back down. She sniffed to herself.

"Don't. Just don't." She continued, trying to pull herself from his grip to hide her face but he wouldn't let her.

"Jude."

"Tommy please, don't you get it? I can't do this anymore." She broke free finally and ran out the door. Tommy was taken aback. He couldn't move, his heart had been torn into peices by the one and only and she didn't even know it.

Jude ran down the hallway, people watched her and seen she was crying so they shot sympathetic looks. Once she reached the door to the inn she easily pushed it open and collapsed on the porch. The door automatically closed behind her. Jude managed to push herself up against the wall and cry into her hands. She was now wearing a long T-shirt and some black pajama pants, that might have been another reason why people were looking at her weirdly but she didn't care. Tommy had to screw everything up again, she didn't want to hear any more reasons why they couldn't be together so she didn't stick around to let anything else happen. But, he did have a different look in his eyes, not anger but something. She couldn't quite put her finger on it. She tried to wipe the tears away but they just kept coming back, she couldn't help it.

"Jude?..thats your name right?" Jude didn't hear the door open but she did hear the faint voice so she turned to face the second to last person she wanted to talk to right now. Jessica.

"Look, tommy isn't here okay? if you want to see him hes in the room." She sobbed, her words were harsh but the girl came out anyway, ignoring her statement.

"Look, I just thought maybe you needed to talk? you don't look so good." Jessica sat next to jude and ignored jude's attitude towards her. Jude didn't say anything. She wasn't about to spill her guts to this girl, why should she? So she could feel sorry for her? No way.

"I'm fine, okay?" Jude looked at jessica and jessica smiled back knowingly.

"Trouble in paradise?" Jude looked down at her hands and sniffed the air again.

"What paradise?" She asked herself lightly.

"You know, you and tommy." The girl said, still smiling. Jude looked up with a confused look on her face.

"What?"

"You know..I see the way you guys look at eachother. Everyone seen that little show you gave on the beach." Jude blushed.

"If you don't mind me asking, whats wrong?" Jude debated whether she should tell her or not and finally settled with a yeah, if she didn't tell someone she was going to explode and jessica didn't seem as bad as she had thought.

Jude explained everything that had happened since she won the Instant star contest. How her life changed, how tommy changed it. How many mistakes she made, how tommy was there to pick her up when she fell. Lastly, how stupid she was for loving him, how hard the fact hit her that he couldn't love her back. Jessica listened and occasionally rubbed judes back, trying to comfort her. When jude stoped talking for a few minutes and jessica realized how much she felt for this guy she had a few things to say herself.

"When I was 16, my boyfriend was 20," She started, jude nodded.

"No one wanted to accept the fact that I loved him and he loved me..things were hard." Jude sighed.

"Yeah..." She said.

"But you know what?"

Jude said nothing, only waited for her to continue.

"We are now happily married, have been for 2 years. Was engaged for two before that." Jessica showed jude her wedding band.

"Oh..congratulations." She felt kind of stupid now about earlier, she thought she was hitting on tommy.

"Thank you, but anyway the point i'm trying to make is even though others don't like you two being together doesn't mean you just give up on it. You and only you can make it work." Jude smiled slightly.

"Yeah, tell tommy that." Jessica smiled.

"He doesn't need to be told, he is crazy about you and the fact that he can't have you, well, that he thinks he can't have you is killing him." Jude giggled a bit and wiped her face. Her eyes were red once again and they stayed puffy.

"Now, get your ass in there and talk some sense into that boy, don't let him give up this easily!" Jude smiled at jessica and said thankyou with sincerity this time. Jessica smiled back and said no problem. The two got up and jude took a deep breath before walking in, jessica following. The two parted at the hallway and jessica whispered goodluck. Jude walked as slow as possible towards the bedroom trying to gather her thoughts. She had no idea what she was going to say.

She stopped in front of the door and listened, nothing. It was silent. She opened the door to find tommy sitting on the bed in the same position she was in earlier.

"Tommy?" Her voice cracked. He looked up at her and his expression didn't change, his eyes were fixed on hers. He got up without hesitating and pulled her close to him. This time she did nothing to stop him and he took this to his advantage. He closed the gap between the two of them by kissing her softly but the kiss intensified almost immediately. Neither of them were feeling regret. Tommy pulled away slowly noting that things were getting a little too intense. She opened her eyes as did he and they smiled at each other.

"Tommy?"

"Yeah?" His voice was so faint that it sent shivers down her spine.

"Remember what I said at your apartment?" He nodded slowly.

"I meant it." She was determined to make him believe that.

"I love you too, girl." And with that he kissed her again with more passion than the first three times.

Jude forgot about everything bad in her life, lex, her mom, her sister..everything. Tommy finally told her the words she had longed to hear and she wasn't about to let him go. Jude pulled tommy towards the bed. At first he followed but just as he was about to stop her and himself from going a little too far her cell phone rang, causing them to break away slowly. Tommy smiled at her in reassurance that we wasn't regretting anything and she did the same.

"You might want to get that." He said, pulling the bag that was ringing off the floor and handing it to her.

She took it and pulled out her phone quickly and looked at the caller Id.

"Oh my god..."

A/N - Ya'll like it? Please review and tell! oh and I want your ideas about the sequel thing!