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Chapter 16 - I'm ready

This room wasn't the same one tommy was in, yeah right..they wouldn't give her the satisfaction. No, instead this was a cold room with white walls and a small window revealing the only light. Jude's eyes finally adjusted to the weird lighting and the weird feeling she had when she walked in. The guy motioned for her to sit down so she did as instructed.

"Okay, Jude my name is debt. Collins and I don't want you to be nervous, okay? just answer the questions truthfully and you'll have nothing to worry about." Jude smiled and said 'k'.

After the attachments from the machine were hooked to jude and everything was set, the questioning started.

"Simple yes or no answers." Jude nodded in response.

"Ok, Miss harrison have you ever had sexual contact with someone?" Jude bowed her head and clenched her eyes shut.

"Yes." The needle stayed in its usual pattern on the paper, indicating that she was telling the truth. The man kept his eyes on the machine and nodded.

"Have you had sexual contact with Thomas Quincy?"

"No." The needle did the same as before. After the long line of embarrassing questions, the man turned off the machine and unhooked the wires and straps from her.

"Well miss harrison, you passed the test." Jude smiled.

"So can tommy and I go now?" Debt. Collins smiled back.

"Yes, you can go now."

Jude said thank you and then left the room, quickly. Stuart stood as his daughter walked out.

"Where's tommy?" She asked, walking up to her dad.

"He is still in there." He pointed to the room tommy was in earlier. Her eyes narrowed. She was tired of all this nonsense so she burst through the door.

"Tommy, come on we can go now." Tommy was sitting at a table with two men opposite side of him. Tommy looked at one of the men as if for permission. The police officer nodded so tommy got up and followed jude. She closed the door behind them.

"Tommy, I am so sorry." Would he still want to be with her now that he knew the kind of stuff he'd have to face? Tommy smiled down at her.

"Don't be sorry, girl."

"No, that would be my place." Stuart decided it was his time to step into the conversation.

"No, Mr. Harrison. Don't apo-"

"Tom, I am sorry. I never should have doubted jude.." He looked down at his daughter and jude smiled up at him. Tom nodded with a slight smile painted on his face.

"So, you passed the test?" Stuart asked, though he didn't really need to.

"Yeah." Jude started to pull tommy towards the exit but stuart stopped her.

"Honey we need to get this over with." Jude looked away from tommy and her father's concerned faces.

"Dad, there is no evidence. My statement wouldn't hold up in court." Tommy now knew what the conversation was about and decided to keep quiet until he needed to interject.

"It will. It's not uncommon. I will do my best to help you through this." He looked at tommy who had put an arm around judes shoulder.

"And I know Tom will be here for you as well.." Jude looked back at her dad, confusedly.

"He cares for you jude. I'm not getting in the way this time." Jude's eyes widened and tommy's face was blank, he didn't know what to think. Did he have her now? was this really happening?

"You mean.." Jude started, staring at her dad. Stuart nodded.

Jude first hugged her dad almost a split second after he nodded and then she walked calmly over to tommy who pulled her close to him. She kissed him lightly and he held her in his arms for a few minutes, treasuring every second of this. When they finally let go people were staring but she didn't care and neither did he. They were together now, officially. No one was going to ruin this.

"Ok...I'm ready." Stuart nodded and held out his hand. Jude took it and they walked out of the exit. Tommy followed closely behind.

Once in the car stuart and tommy talked about lawyers and who would be best to deffend her. Jude sat in the backseat staring out into space. She knew she should be listening to them and she should be just a little more concerned about the whole situation but, she was just too happy. Tommy was with her now. It was her dream come true..could it possibly be real? It had to be. How was Darius going to take this? he didn't seem too fond of the idea from the tabloids..Oh! the tabloids!

"Tommy, what exactly was in the tabloids?" She interrupted their conversation.

"I don't know." He said, looking back at her.

What if they got a picture of her and him in bed together? There was a really huge window where people could have looked in. Nothing happened but, they would make something out of nothing. People love drama.

"Don't worry about it." He assured, and then stuart and tom went back to their earlier conversation.

She sighed.

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A few months passed, tommy and stuart spent most of their time with the lawyer, leaving jude alone. They had actually found certain evidence, seems like outside of her studio there was a security camera. The reason for the security camera was because of the neighborhood. Crime occured all the time and so the security camera was put there a few months before the incident to catch this kind of stuff on tape. The camera caught footage of lex walking towards the building and then around 30minutes later running out with his shirt in hand, which appeared to be bloody. During the first 10 minutes faint screaming was heard.

The first ones to watch the video overlooked it and didn't think much of it. Thank god they saved it.

The first court hearing was over and another one was schedueled. At the next one, lex would be there making his statement. Jude would have to see him again.

Everything at G-major was okay. Tommy talked with darius and they both decided that jude and tommy's relationship wouldn't affect their work at the studio. Darius knew this was going to eventually happen but he was hoping it would be when jude was 18 so they could use it for her image. It would boost her cd sales and everyone would love the fact that tommy and jude were together. Most people knew tommy and jude were together now but, they tried to keep it out of the tabloids as much as possible.

During the last few months sadie and victoria had tried to contact jude but jude still didn't want to speak to neither of them. She was staying with stuart and yvette. Yvette and her had actually gotten pretty close, she never thought that would happen. At first jude's idea was to stay with tommy but even though they were together stuart objected. She was still his daughter and only seventeen.

It was now the day before the trial and jude was spending the day with tommy at his place. Tommy was sitting on the couch and jude was laying on it with her head on his lap, with her eyes closed. He played with her hair because he knew it drove her crazy.

"You nervous about tomorrow?" He finally asked, seeing if she was still awake.

"Mmm.." She replied so tommy stopped messing with her hair.

She groaned and he laughed lightly. She opened her eyes and smiled at him. He was perfect in every way and she loved him more than anything.

"You know..3months next week." Jude continued smiling, he remembered!

"Yeah." She timidly spoke.

"Anything in particular you want to do?" He asked. He already had plans for them but if she wanted to do something special, he would cancel plans for her.

"What? no surprises this year?" She asked, acting pouty. He smiled.

"Jude, come on..you know me." His ego would show sometimes but jude found it cute.

"Yes I do." She leaned up and kissed him and he intensified the kiss. They stayed like this for a while before she broke away. She wasn't ready for anything else. Everytime they kissed it seemed like she had to stop before things went too far..they had gotten pretty close a few times and she didn't want to end up like that again. She opened her eyes and smiled at him. He smiled back and then kissed her quickly.

"I should get you home. Big day tomorrow." She slightly frowned.

"Yeah." They got up slowly and he took her home. That night she debated whether or not she was being fair to tommy. He was 24 years old (Correction) and he deserved someone he could be with mentally and physically.

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