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Chapter 23: What the hell is wrong with you?
Sadie took Tommy Jr. from me. "I can't believe it…"
I stood up and wiped my eyes. "Sades, can you still watch him?"
"Yeah, sure, where are you going?"
"I need to go deal with something." I walked into Georgia's office. "Where is he?"
"What?" She asked looking up from her papers.
"Where is he?"
"Who?"
"Tommy."
"Oh, I don't know if I should tell you."
"How would you feel if you had a son and you're ex-husband, or in my case ex-fiancée, wanted to take him away? What would you do?"
"Probably rip him to shreds. But I get what you mean… He's staying at the Hilton."
"Thanks, Georgia." I walked out of G Major and headed towards the Hilton. As I walked, I started to get more frantic. What was going through his head? I started to jog. How could he do this to me? I broke into a run. All I wanted to do was get to where he was.
"Hello, may I help you?" A girl at the counter who looked to young to see a PG-13 movie let alone work at a hotel said.
"Um, I'm wondering what room Tom Quincy is staying in?" I asked.
She smiled and replied giddily, "Oh, yeah, he's in room 240."
"Thanks, and by the way, he has a kid." I twirled around and went up to his room. I knocked loudly and stood waiting. "Open up, Tommy!"
The door swung open and a girl not about a year older than me came out. Her hair was messed up and her shirt was buttoned wrong. She gave me a smile before she ran down the hall.
I entered the room slowly. I didn't know what I would find.
Tommy was standing right next to his bed. "Jude?"
I couldn't take it anymore and I just started to cry. "What the hell is wrong with you?"
"I don't understand," he replied confused.
I pushed him. "You want to take my son away from me!"
"He's my son too!"
"Barely! Technically if you left us alone for a whole year, it would count as abandonment! Then he wouldn't be your son!"
"I wouldn't do that to you!"
"Bull!"
He grabbed me by the upper arms and shook me. "No it isn't! I love you, Jude and I love our son! I'd never want to leave him!"
"But leaving me you're just fine with!" I tried to leave but he kept a grip on me. "Let me go."
"I don't want to."
"No matter what happens right now, I'm walking out that door without you. You might want to let me leave now."
"I don't want you to."
"It's over between us, get over it."
"That's just it! I don't want it to be over!"
I let out a sob. "But it is! I know it, you know it! 'Cause if you thought we weren't over, then that Twinkie wouldn't have been here!"
"I don't know how to respond to that. You've hurt me, Jude, I need something to numb the pain."
"What about before I hurt you? What about your tour?"
"You know what happens on tour."
"You misused my trust last time. Did you think the same rules applied?
"You have to know I'm sorry."
"I don't have to know anything."
"I don't want to fight with you anymore. Why'd you come here?"
"I want you to drop the lawsuit."
"I want to see my son."
"And no one was denying you that. I never said that you couldn't see our son. And if you don't drop the lawsuit, do you think you have a chance of winning? You were gone for the first four months of his life. Then you came back a month before you went on a six-month tour again. You've been gone for most of your son's life."
"I want to make-up for that."
"Just let it go, Tommy."
He paused. "Look, let me drive you back to G Major."
"Um, sure." I followed him out to his car where we drove off in silence.
Tommy pulled up in front of the building and got out. He walked around and opened my door for me.
I got out of the car and opened the door to the lobby. I looked back at Tommy. "Tom?"
He looked at me.
"We're throwing a party for Tommy's first birthday on the 1st of next month. You can come if you want…"
He gave me a weak smile. "Thanks, Jude." He climbed in his car and drove off.
AN: Poor Jude. Anyways, please R&R!