Here's chapter 18.

Alexz

Jude was standing against the wall, fear in her eyes.

Tommy made his way over to her and pulled her into his arms. He rocked her back and forth as she cried.

"He won't leave me alone."

Leading her over to the couch he sat down with her.

Tommy knew who had called her. He was going to make sure that his brother never came near Jude again.

The problem was. How was he going to do that. Tommy couldn't be with Jude every second of the day.

Tommy looked down at Jude, who had fallen asleep in his arms.

He carefully laid her down onto the couch, pulled a blanket over her and sat back to watch TV.

Jude opened her eyes to find sunlight streaming through the curtains.

She sat up, to find Tommy sat on the couch next to her, reading the paper. He put it down when he saw she was awake.

"What time is it Tommy?"

He smiled at her.

"9 in the morning."

Jude groaned and pulled one of the couch cusions over her head.

"Too early." Although it came out in a mumble.

He pulled Jude up from the couch.

"Girl, we were supposed to be at the studio an hour ago."

When the two arrived they went straight into the studio.

After a good half hour of recording and mixing, Tommy left to get coffee.

Jude was waiting in the studio for him when the door opened and someone walked in.

"Hey Tom. Did you get my coffee?"

She felt someone walk up behind her.

"Oh, I'm not Tom. Although people do get us mixed up."

Jude bolted off of the chair and backed up against the wall.

"What do you want with me?"

"You should know. Remember last month?"

At that point Tommy walked into the studio.

Dropping the two cups of coffee, he ran over to Brendan and punched him in the face.

Jude started to pull on Tommy's arm, yelling at him to stop it.

She managed to get in between the two brothers...

...just as Brendan threw a punch that was aimed at Tommy.

The force threw her onto the sound-board.

Three more people ran into the studio.

Georgia, Darius and Kwest.

"You Bastard." Tommy spat at his brother as he ran over to Jude.

Kwest and Darius held Brendan back, as Georgia and Tommy helped Jude up from the floor.

Her eye was slightly swollen and her left arm was bleeding, from where she had hit some equipment.

Ej phoned the police and Brendan was taken away.

"Hopefully we'll never see my bastard of a brother again."

Brendan is a bastard! Who agrees with me!