One Week Later:
"That plan didn't work." Tommy whispered and opened his eyes, pulling away from Jude and resting his hand on the steering wheel.
"No." Jude replied.
"Why can't you just give me a normal, friendly goodbye?" She asked him.
"I don't know. Why don't we just forget about it?" He suggested, and Jude gave him a glance that showed she was kind of hurt by the fact that he had just said that. But she nodded and left the car without another word.
"Good morning, sunshine." Tommy said sardonically as Jude slumped into his car with her eyes half closed and a coffee mug in her hand.
"I don't have the energy for you to be an ass, just drive." She mumbled and took a swig of her coffee.. Tommy grabbed the mug and took a sip of it, as well, handing it back to her.
"Excuse me." She glared at him.
"What?" He asked her. "It's not like we haven't swapped spit before." He mumbled under his breath.
Jude heard him and smacked him on the arm playfully.
"What happened to forgetting about it, eh?" She asked him, but he was silent for the rest of the ride to work.
"I think I should leave, Kwest." Tommy told his best friend later that day.
"What? Where to?" Kwest asked back, fixing a sandwich.
"Some other branch of G Major. The Jude thing is way too out of hand." He said quietly, running a hand through his hair.
Kwest stopped fixing his sandwich and looked up at his friend.
"You need to tell her."
"Tell her what? That I'm leaving or that I'm in love with her?" He asked him.
"Both." Kwest said.
"Nuh, uh. No way. If I tell her I'm in love with her and then say I'm leaving that will just make everything so much more complicated. I'll just tell her I'm leaving, and that'll have to do. And don't try to persuade me into telling her. I'm not going to." He said, walking out of the kitchen and into the studio to work with Jude.