A/N - Hey ya'll, I'm sad to say that this story is coming to an end..sniff..not sure when exactly but probably in the next couple chapters (Watch me get carried away and make like 10 more chapters lol) And I am sorry about the whole statutory rape thing. I didn't know the age was 14 and under but since I already have it I'm just going to continue the way i've been using it. Thanks so much for reading you guys and I really appreciate the reviews, keep them coming! OH! and omg, can you believe the finale? I was going crazyyyyyy! I'm gonna die without instant star..okay maybe not die but I will miss it so much!

(Sorry about they typos last chapter..I usually have a bunch anyway but last chapter was just unacceptable!)

Disclaimer - I do not own Instant star or any of the characters (cept for those obvious)

Chapter 20 - Is it over?

"The jury finds you..guilty on the count of statutory rape."

Jude's eyes filled with tears as she hugged her lawyer. Sighs of relief could be heard all around the courtroom and then there were the usual groans and crazy outbursts from the opposing side. Mr. Mitchell threw his hands up in the air in defeat. Lex was pulled away in handcuffs by the bailiff.

"We did it!" Jude squealed. When she turned around she saw tommy, sadie, victoria, kat, jamie, and stuart standing in front of her, some crying and some smiling.

"Wow..you are all here." She tried to avoid looking at sadie and her mother.

"You were great..jude." Sadie was the first to speak.

"Thanks.." Jude replied as nicely as she could.

"So, jude, shall we go out and celebrate this wonderous event?" Kat squealed.

"Um, are we done here?" Jude asked Ms. Levine.

"Yeah hun, go celebrate." She assured.

"Then..yeah." Jude forced a smile and let kat take her hand and pull her out of the courtroom. Jamie and tommy followed.

"Women.." Jamie muttered. Tommy laughed.

Victoria bowed her head and scowled at the floor.

"Vicky, she'll come around." Stuart assured. Sadie hugged her father forcefully and stuart rubbed her back in a comforting way.

"Its alright." He cooed

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After they opened the door from the courthouse people crowded around again and cameras began flashing. Tommy, once again sheilded jude from the flashing and the four of them managed to get down the street away from the mess.

"So Miss Harrison, what would you like to do?" Jamie asked.

"Actually you guys..I was hoping to spend time with tommy, we really need to work on a song."

"After all that happened today you want to work on a song?" Kat raised an eyebrow at tommy.

"What have you done with my jude? the one who use to WANT to hang out with her friends?"

Tommy held his hands up in deffense and jude laughed at his gesture.

"Aw, kat don't be like that..we just..need to be alone to concentrate." Jude smiled at kat.

"Alone to concentrate..oh..oh! ok well jamie lets go get some pizza or something." Kat pulled jamie down the street before he could object.

"Alone to concentrate?" Tommy asked, pulling her towards him. He wapped his arms around her and intertwined his fingers, resting them on her lower back.

"I'm sorry you had to hear..that.." Jude looked directly in front of her at tommy's chest. Tommy brought one of his hands to her chin and pulled her face up to face his.

"I'm sorry I couldn't prevent it from happening in the first place.." She smiled.

"I love you quincy." Tommy smiled back.

"I know." He cockily replied. She slapped his arm playfully and then backed away from him and grabbed his hand. They started down the street.

"My car is at your place."

"Yeah, its not that far from here."

"You want to walk?"

"Is that surprising?"

"Kind of..its a first for sure." He joked.

Jude glared at him.

"Calling me lazy, tommy?"

"Nope, wouldn't dream of it." Jude smiled. After walking for a while tommy decided to ask something he had wanted to ask before the trial was even thought of.

"Hey.."

Jude looked up at him skeptically.

"Yeah?"

Tommy tried to gather his words properly before speaking.

"Do you want to..talk about what happened?" He asked, promise lingering through his words.

Jude stared for a minute, trying to process this, did she need to talk to him about it? no, why would she? it was over with..lex was going to be put in prison and everything would go back to normal. Better than normal, she was with tommy now.

"I'm fine tommy, really." She insisted. Tommy watched her eyes to see if she was lieing, as far as he could tell, she was being truthful.

"Well just know.. i'm here if you want to talk."

"I know."

After that it was back to silence. The two walked side by side and hand in hand until they reached stuarts house.

"So, where do you want to go?" Tommy asked as jude, and he himself, got into the viper.

"Your place." She replied rather quickly. Tommy smiled.

"My place it is."

-At Tommy's-

The two walked in and tommy dropped his keys on the kitchen counter and then started to look through the fridge, his usual routine. Jude walked immediately to his studio and picked up her guitar. It now always stayed at tommy's because she was over there all the time anyway. She began to strum certain strings, trying to make a nice tune. Tommy bobbed his head to her sound. He already liked it. Here came the words.

"Letting go..

Of everything that surrounds me

Letting go..

This will not get to me

Now I know..

Everything they said was true

I'll force another smile and deny the truth.."

She began. Words were coming from nowhere. She hadn't been inspired lately but darius wouldn't be too happy if she came into the studio lyricless. The last few months have been rough and not very many songs had been produced.

"How can this be happening?

I'm at a loss of feeling

Push me, bend me, I will not break..

Not till the last breath I take."

Tommy walked into the room and continued to bob his head. Jude stopped playing.

"Why'd you stop?" He asked, walking up and sitting in the chair next to her.

"That was all I could think of." Dissapointment rang through her words. Tommy grabbed the guitar and pushed the 'record' button before he started to strum the strings and pick up the tune that she had earlier. He nodded towards her and she closed her eyes and started to bob her head slowly. After thinking for a few minutes she opened her eyes and told him to pick up speed a little. He did as he was told.

"Who would've known?

I just need to let it go

Take away the pain

Who would've known?

I am losing control-

I'm breaking down and I cant lie

No I can't say I Love you-

Let it go, letting go"

Tommy smiled and hit the button once again.

"I like it," He stated.

"And I think D will too." He continued.

"You think?" She asked, hoping he was right.

"Yeah..after we make a few adjustments it should be all set." He put the guitar back in its case and then walked out of the studio and into his own room. Jude followed.

She watched him fumble with clothes that were hanging in the closet.

"Looking for something special?" She smirked and sat on the bed.

"Nope, just want to get out of this outfit." She couldn't blame him, who would want to be in a suit? talk about uncomfortable. Tommy finally found something decent and headed towards the bathroom.

Jude took this to her advantage and layed on her side, comfortably on tommy's bed. She loved it so much, it smelled like his cologne and it even somehow weirdly felt like tommy..

He came out of the bathroom and watched her lay on his bed carelessly. He smirked.

"Comfortable?"

"Oh yeah." She turned to lay on her back.

Tommy walked over to the bed and sat down next to her, looking down at her. He had that look in his eyes.

She had wanted to be alone with him all day and here it was, the chance. They were alone and he looked so adorable. Her heart started to beat faster and she couldn't speak.

Tommy finally leaned down slowly to kiss her. Jude watched his loving blue eyes, which assured her that everything would be okay. She closed her eyes as their lips met tenderly, tommy did the same. They both got lost in the kiss that seemed to never end.

Jude sat up a bit so she could get to tommy more easily. He pulled her close to him and started to run his hands up and down her back. His hands slowly made their way to her waist and he rested them there for a moment before one of them headed towards the button of her pants..

A/N - I can't tell..is it short? I know theres a lot of dialogue in this one and I don't think its one of my better chapters but I haven't had any good ideas lately so my writing isn't that great. Do you still like? Please review ya'll! and thankyou for your reviews so far:)