a/n: Wow ok. I seriously love you guys. Everybody who had reviewed, alerted, faved, or just added: you are freaking awesome. I went to school the morning after I posted chapter 1 and I checked my email during lunch; there were eight emails with review alerts. You don't even know how happy I was :) You guys rock. But I'd like to apologize for the slow update / I had a hard time figuring out what I wanted to do next. AKA; Serious writer's block.

And I'm glad you liked Full Throttle. Lol, it seriously cracks me up though, just because I could actually see that scene. I originally wrote it for Perfect Chemistry as song Jude wrote for Damien, but then I really didn't get that far into their relationship. So it was just sitting with no use, so I figured I could put it in here for some comic relief.

But really, they should seriously make and Instant Star Movie. I would go. :)

And I forgot the disclaimer:

I don't own anything but this story and a few songs in it. Oh, and Damien. :)

Anyways, here is your next chapter. It's kind of short but I hope ya'll aren't too disappointed.


I was raining. Not just that sprinkle that made hair frizzy, but full on pouring. Jude was sitting in her car in the parking lot of G Major with her cell phone in hand. She hit 2 for speed dial and listened to it ring three times.

"Hello?" The familiar voice said.

"Will you come out to my car with an umbrella?" She smiled as laughter erupted from the other side of the call.

"Are you serious?"

"I don't want to get all wet." Jude whined. "Pleeease."

"No need to grovel."

"Thank you." She hung up and smiled. The entrance to G Major was barely visible through the downpour.

A few minutes later somebody knocked on the car door. Jude opened it up to reveal Tommy carrying a small black umbrella. He held his hand out for her and helped her up. She cringed as the puddle formed over the entire parking lot splashed her jeans.

"Though I know that I am slim, this can't cover us both." She bumped Tommy out into the rain.

"Hey!" He jutted out his hip so that it bumped Jude out from under the umbrella.

"My hair!" She screeched. A cap of water fell and began to soak through Jude's golden locks.

Tommy laughed and began to run away from Jude.

She moaned; her hair was now completely soaked and her clothes were getting there too. "You are so dead, Tommy!" Jude chased after him and quickly caught up when he stopped to answer his cell phone.

"Ah ha!" Jude jumped on him and wrapped her legs around his waist, which was a big mistake.

"Ow, Jude." Tommy began to stumble. As if in slow motion, the two began to tip over and then hit the ground with a enormous wave of water.

Jude lay on top of Tommy laughing hysterically while he moaned and tried to get her off.

"You look like you weigh 60 pounds, when in all actually I think you're hiding a sumo wrestler in your coat." He said as they stood up. Both of them were drenched head to toe.

"You're not exactly a light weight either." She crowed.

Tommy scoffed and started to walk towards G Major again. Jude chases after him and stopped him by grabbing his hand. A mischievous smile lingered on her lips.

"What are you looking at me like that for?" He asked with a chuckle.

Jude grinned and pulled him closer. "You look awfully irresistible when you're all wet."

Tommy laughed lightly and surveyed Jude. Her teal blouse and jeans clung to her figure in a very flattering way; he could barely hold himself back from jumping on her right then and there.

"When did you become a woman, again?" He asked as he spun her around for a three-sixty.

"When you were gone." She shrugged, pecked him on the lips, and began to pull him inside. Sometimes it was better to be a tease.

"Wow, I think you two need a change of clothes!" EJ was talking to a receptionist in the lobby when she spotted the couple walking in.

"Yeah, that would be nice." Tommy mumbled. They were starting to shiver.

"Come on, we have clothes in the dressing room."

EJ led Tommy and Jude to the dressing room. Most of the women's clothes were way too small and clingy, but everything for the men's clothes was Tommy's style.

Jude came out wearing a pink top and a pair of jeans. She had to toss her hair up in a messy bun because it was ruined from the rain. Tommy had just a plain white shirt and a pair of jeans.

Tommy guffawed as soon as he saw Jude. "You look like you just walked out of Sadie's closet."

"Oh, shut up." She smacked his arm and began to walk towards Studio A.

Inside Spiederman Mind Explosion was beginning to record the music for Full Throttle. Kwest, with headphones on, was bopping away to the sound. Jude slid into the seat next to him and grabbed the other set of headphones.

They were playing loud and rough, just like she wanted. It was supposed to be an energized song, and she was glad SME got that from her vocals.

Somebody tapped her shoulder and she spun around. Tommy had his arm crossed and his eyebrows raised. "I think you're mixed up. You see, I sit in the chair. You go behind the glass and sing." He said pointedly.

Jude shrugged and pointed to her headphone-covered ears. "I can't hear you." She mouthed.

Tommy made a reach for the headset but she pulled away and gave him a weird look, even though she was laughing inside.

He made another lunge and this time Jude backed up all the way into Kwest. Kwest toppled over and let out a high-pitched scream, obviously not noticing Tommy and Jude's entrance at all.

Tommy doubled up in laughter and Jude was giggling quietly.

Kwest looked flustered as he threw his headphones on the soundboard. "Can't you see we're recording?" He snapped.

Tommy just shook his head and continued to laugh. "Y-you," He wiped tears from his eyes, "You really are a ten-year-old girl."

"That was the chair; it screamed when it thought a giant Barbie was attacking it." Jude glared at Kwest when he said this.

Before Tommy could retort and a tall figure appeared in the doorway.

"Tom, Jude, follow me please." Darius sternly ordered.

They both nodded and followed promptly.

Darius's office was a little more messy than usual. Papers piled on top of all counters. He had a few empty cups of coffee on his desk and a stained napkin with scribbled phone numbers written randomly all over it.

"You two have kept me busy all night." Dark circles were etched under his eyes. He sat down and looked up at the two. "Your movie writers want to have a meeting where you both tell what really happened." They exchanged glances. "Don't worry about anything youtoo revealingfor comfort, I'm sure they wouldn't want to hear that muchl." A weight was lifted off their shoulders. "We have it scheduled for tomorrow at noon, so for today I want you both to sit, write down everything that happened, and lay it out so you're both ready tomorrow."

Jude got up to leave but Darius continued to talk.

"Since this movie is a big thing, I want to put your album on hiatus, Jude."

"What!" She was horrified. "But I need to write music… It's what I do."

"Well you're famous, you do multiple things. And besides, you'll need to be writing for the movie anyways. There's definitely going to be a soundtrack." Jude sighed as Darius rambled on. "Which also means that we're going to be cutting a few of the song you've written in the last couple of months from your album and put them on the soundtrack."

Great, I'm starting from scratch again. Jude ran her fingers through her hair in anxiety.

"We also want Perfect Chemistry on the soundtrack, Tom."

He solemnly nodded. "Is that it, D?"

"Yeah, go ahead and take Studio C and work for a while, I expect you here at eleven sharp tomorrow morning."

They left quietly and both settled on the couch in Studio C with blank stares.

"I don't want to drop my album for this." Jude finally spoke up.

"I think it's a little too late…" Tommy scratched his head and pulled Jude against him.

"I'm not an actress, Tommy." She sighed. "I'm a singer. There's a reason I always pulled the curtains for my school plays."

He chuckled and kissed the top of her head. "It's not really acting, 'cause you've already done most of it."

Jude rolled her eyes. "I bet they're going to make you look like a man-whore."

Tommy snorted. "Hardly."

"Wanna bet?" She began to grin. "Lets see, they're gonna want to start from you and Sadie. And why did you break up? Because you cheated on her."

"I didn't cheat on her." He snapped.

"Then they're going to fast forward to you kissing me, again. 17th birthday. Remember?"

Tommy smiled a little at this. "Yeah."

"Then they'll show you hooking up with a million different girls in California."

"Not that many." He mumbled.

"Then you'll come back with a girlfriend. Soon fiancé. Then you'll breakup with herbecause of me. But low and behold, I have a boyfriend."

"Wasn't much of a boyfriend if you ask me." Tommy was growing very grumpy.

She ignored this comment. "Then you seduce me with your Boyz Attack moves." Jude fake feigned at him. "And forced me to cheat on him. But thenDamien breaks up with me because he knows you will do it again! Naturally this royally pisses me off, and you run away." She looked sad at this. "But I chase after you because of your charm and good looks. And then we are together."

"Ok, over-exaggerating much?"

"No, not really." She grinned and kissed him softly. "But you're my man-whore. So I really don't mind."

Tommy nodded and smiled. "Well if I'm a man whore then I guess you're going to be my hooker, right?"

Jude shrugged. "Probably. They'll change 'G Major' to 'G String'."

He chuckled. "So what are we going to tell them?"

She shrugged again. "The truth."