A/N - Thanks again ya'll! I'm not going to put actual court scenes in the story. Why? because I'm not familiar with courtrooms and how the whole thing works..so..i'm guessing and compromising with that I do know so bare with me. Thanks again for the reviews you guys!

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Chapter 17 - Not fair

The trial went fairly well. The judge seemed to be on her side and her lawyer did a really good job displaying the evidence. Well it looked like she did a good job anyway, jude had never been in a court room before. Stuart must have told her mom about the court date because her and sadie were there. Jude didn't look at them once and afterwards when victoria and sadie came up to her, she grabbed tommy's hand and headed out without looking back. Lex kept looking at victoria for sympathy but he didn't get what he wanted. Jude couldn't look at lex but tommy on the other hand couldn't take his eyes off of him. If looks could kill lex would never have to be worried about again. At the end of the trial, before decisions could be made, lex got out of hand and started yelling a bit. The judge tried to hush him but he wouldn't cooperate, therefore; the judge decided trial would pick back up again tomorrow at noon and sentencing would be made. Court was let out.

-Outside of the courthouse-

"Ugh! why must they do this? can't we just get the sentencing over with? if he even is charged guilty..." Jude had her first outburst since the whole court thing started.

"Jude, it's alright. These things take time." Her lawyer assured her. This person was a woman around the age of 40 and she was really determined and independent, you could tell from her personality.

Jude shook her head.

"Look, we've got this." Her lawyer assured, putting her hands on jude's shoulders. Jude smiled slightly at her and sighed.

Tommy and stuart were discussing..more like yelling about how snug lex looked. His smirk, his eyes, everything about him made them want to kill. Jude walked towards the two after saying goodbye to her lawyer.

"Guys?" They didn't hear her nor notice she walked up to them. They continued their discussion.

"Hello? guys?" She tried again, this time she got her dad's attention.

"Oh, hey, sorry hun." His eyes went from tommy to jude and his voice softened.

"Hey, sorry jude." Tommy put his arm around her shoulder.

"So that went well." Stuart said awkwardly.

"Oh yeah." Jude replied sarcastically.

They stood there for a few minutes before the door to the courthouse opened and lex stepped out with his lawyer. He walked down the steps and spotted jude almost immediately. Jude also layed eyes on him, accidently. As much as she wanted to look away, she couldn't. He smirked at her and then winked before stepping into a car. Tommy clenched his fist and stuart was unaware of the whole incident until the car door was shut.

"Lets go." Tommy said flatly.

"Yeah." Jude agreed. The trio got into stuart's car and drove off. Once back at stuart's, where tommy left his car earlier that day, tommy asked jude if she wanted to come back to his place with him but she declined, she had plans with kat. Tommy kissed jude quickly but fully and then walked towards his car.

"Call me later." He said before stepping inside. She nodded and waved. After he drove out of the driveway and started down the road, jude got out her cell phone and dialed kat's number.

"Hello?"

"Hey, kat?"

"Hey, how'd things go?"

"Tomorrow at noon they do sentencing, that is if they say hes guilty."

"Oh, why tomorrow?"

"He made a scene before decisions were made."

"Jerk.."

"Yeah, so..where do you want to meet? I need to talk to you."

"My house?"

"Alright, I'll be there in a few minutes."

"Cya."

Jude hung up the phone and walked inside quickly. She was going to freshen up before she went to kat's, her face was stained from tears shed earlier that day. She looked in the mirror and seen her eyeliner was smudged and her eyeshadow was almost all the way off. She looked like a clown. She smiled at the thought.

"How does tommy put up with this?" She wiped the eyeliner off and applied new eyeshadow and then redid the eyeliner.

"Ah whatever." She jerked her bag off the floor and yelled to her dad that she was going to kat's.

-Once at kat's-

"Hey girl!" Kat hugged her best friend.

"Hey."

"Okay, so, you needed to talk to me about something?" Kat motioned for jude to sit down on the bed.

"Yeah.." Jude sat next to her friend.

"Ok, so spill!" Kat squeaked, she thought it was something else mushy that tommy had done for her, she liked hearing this from jude because jude was happy with tommy and that was different from her other relationships.

"Well..you know how tommy and I are together.." Kat nodded so jude continued.

"I don't think i'm being fair to him." Kat looked at her strangely.

"He is 24 kat! i'm 17..he deserves someone who he can be with.."

"You are with him jude." Kat was confused.

"No kat, be with." Kat widened her eyes.

"Ohh.. jude don't be silly, tommy loves you." Kat assured.

"I know but still..its not fair to him."

"Look, he knows how old you are. Hes known you since you were 15, thats 2years-"
"Almost 3." Jude corrected.

"Whatever, the point is hes waited this long for you and now he has you. He will wait until your ready." Jude considered her words.

"Kat?" Jude spoke timidly.

"Yeah?"

"I think i'm ready.."

A/N - Like it? sorry its short andsorry if its gettin a lil worse than how it started out..i'm trying to keep it interesting, I really am! Thanks again and review:-D