Tommy looked shocked. "Me?"

"Yeah, you! You've only been back for about an hour and you managed to ruin my life. Give yourself a pat on the back, Quincy. Not many people could have done it as swiftly and as effectively as you did." She spat at him, angry and upset as hell.

"You're blaming this all on me?" He asked again, disbelieving. "So you're just gonna forget that Chris just humiliated you on your birthday? In front of everyone?"

"No, you humiliated me when you decided to play possessive ex-producer with my boyfriend." She shot back at him.

"Uh, Producer." Kwest said quietly.

"Shut up, man." Tommy growled under his breath.

Jude's eyes flew to Georgia. "What? Is that true?"

"Well, yes, but-"

"Are you serious?" When Georgia said nothing, she took it as a yes. "Great, that's just great." She answered sarcastically. "That's all I need-" She stopped, realizing something. "Wait. If you hired him back, than you knew, you knew he was coming tonight? You knew he was here?" She questioned. When Georgia only nodded her head, Jude gave her a hurtful look, than turned towards Kwest. "Did you know too?"

"Yeah." Kwest mumbled, feeling uncomfortable.

"Okay, did anyone else here know that Tommy was back today, besides me?" She said, meaning it as a rhetorical question. When Kat, Sadie, and Jamie raised their hands reluctantly, she gave an incredulous look to everyone, feeling shocked and distressed. "Wow, good to know that loyalty runs strong here among friends. So what was this, some sick birthday prank you were all in on? You know, let's make Jude's day as miserable and embarrassing as possible? Cause if that's what it was, real nice job, you all succeeded."

She gave a mocking applause that filled the silenced room. "Guess joke's on me, huh?" She whispered on the verge of tears. But no, she wouldn't cry. Exhausted, wounded, and having not much else to say, she figured it was time to bow out as gracefully as possible.

"Well, I'll leave now because I don't think I wanna stick around to see if this night could possibly get any worse." Jude walked towards the chair where Tommy was sitting, leaned real close to him and pulled her bag out where she had left it over an hour ago when she first came in to the room. She proceeded to walk towards the exit, but turned around. "Ironic, huh? My birthday parties, you know the day that's supposed to be carefree and joyous are never anything close to that. I think it's safe to say that this one's been no exception." She murmured as she gently closed the door behind her.

"Wow," Kat began. "I feel like a total heel right now."

"Tell me about it." Sadie said, folding her arms across her chest. She hated to see how upset her sister was.

"Nice job, man." Kwest sarcastically remarked, patting Tommy on the shoulder as he made his way towards the door. "I'll go out there and make sure everyone's having a good time, and that nobody caught that little scene." He nodded to everyone in the room and then focused in on Georgia "I'll give Jude's mother the condensed version of what just happened." He added as he left.

Tommy ignored Kwest as he continued to stare straight away. He would have rather been punched again by Jude than to have witnessed how hurt and upset she was. Tommy slowly got up, and looked at Georgia. "I, ah," He started as he ran his hands through his hair, feeling restless. "I need to get out here." Tommy walked out and figured he needed a drive.

"And then there was four," Jamie said as he looked around at the three females, who were still absorbing what just happened.

Jude drove around for hours, thinking. For the third time that night, she pulled over to the side of the road because tears were blinding her vision. She threw the car in park, and sighed loudly. She slammed her fists on the steering repeatedly, cursing everyone she knew. She glanced at the car's clock which just blinked 12. She forgot to set the time, she remembered as she wiped away tears. She grabbed her purse and rummaged for her phone which had a clock on it.

The phone read, 12:25. So the birthday from hell was finally over. Under the time, her phone blinked '16 missed calls.' "Sure, now they care." She said to herself. She scrolled down the list and saw Georgia called once, Jamie called four times, Kat called three, Sadie five, and her mother three. She wondered absently why Tommy hadn't called her. 'Gee, you'd think after all that went down tonight, he'd want to make sure I was okay.' She felt bad for a second about her Mom though, toying with the idea of calling her. Jude hated to make her mother worry, but the last thing she wanted to do was talk. She had some time to think things through and realized she was guilty of what she accused Tommy of. Jumping to conclusions. She didn't know how long any of them knew or why. She was just so upset with herself about Chris that she took it out on everyone, especially Tommy. Not wanting anyone to stress over her, she quickly sent a text to Sadie, simply saying 'Tell Mom not to worry, I'm fine,' and hoped Sadie passed it along to her and anyone else. She sighed again as she pushed the car back into drive. She needed to hide out for a while and she knew just the place.

Jude fiddled through her keys as she found the one to G Major. Georgia had given her a key to the place several months ago, knowing that Jude went there when she needed some place to think, to unwind. She pushed the piece of metal through the door, and turned it. She stepped in and was prepare to turn on the lights, but they were already on. 'Funny,' Jude thought. 'Georgia never leaves all these lights on.' She shrugged it off and continued to walk in. She stopped, however, when she heard the sound of an acoustic guitar. Instead of being frightened to have the studio disrupted so late at night, she was curious. She highly doubted somebody broke into play music. She walked towards the room where it was coming from and pushed opened the door.