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Chapter 5

Tommy slowly parked the viper in front of the Harrison house. "Guess I can't call it that anymore," he muttered softly to himself. He opened his door and walked quickly towards the front door with his hands in his pockets. He didn't expect anybody to answer when he knocked on the door and was looking around for a way to break in but first he tried the door knob and smiled when it opened in his hand.

"Jude!" He called out making his way from room to room. He'd already gone through the living room and was in the kitchen when he realized how empty the house really was. When Sadie had said they didn't have a home anymore, she hadn't been kidding. There wasn't one thing left of the Harrison's and that made Tommy that more determined to find her.

He ran up the stairs and barely glanced into any of the rooms. It was like he already knew where she was and didn't need to look anymore.

When he opened Jude's bedroom door and didn't see anything, he actually felt let down. He'd mentally been bracing himself for her anger and pain but she wasn't even here. He turned to walk back downstairs when his eyes finally caught sight of her. She was curled into the fetal position and sound asleep.

Tommy smiled as he walked towards her quietly, not wanting to disturb her. She looked so peaceful but yet, uncomfortable. He sat down leaning against the wall watching her sleep. He had no idea how long he sat there but it was hours before she stirred.

"Oh God," Jude said when her back groaned in protest as she tried to stretch.

"Here, let me help," Tommy said jumping back as Jude screamed. "Jude, hey, it's me, Tommy."

Jude closed her eyes as she tried to calm her racing heart. "Were you trying to give me a damn heart attack?" she asked loudly hitting his shoulder.

"Ow," Tommy said rubbing his shoulder.

"How long have you been here?" Jude asked after an uncomfortable silence fell upon them.

"Hours," Tommy answered.

"So Spied finally spilled my whereabouts, I thought he'd at least keep silent for 24 hours," Jude said rolling her eyes.

"I didn't give him much of a choice," Tommy said smiling when Jude looked at him.

"Threatened him, did you?" Jude asked sarcastically.

"You had us worried Jude," he replied calmly. He wasn't going to let her get to him, he wasn't here to fight.

"I just went home, I needed a break," Jude said softly deciding to drop the attitude. "With all the G Major drama and seeing you, I needed to just be alone. Think about things, write a song or two."

Tommy smiled sadly. "Going to be hard to write a song in here."

"Can you believe this?" Jude asked still a little shocked. She looked around the room and threw her hands up in the air. "My room is gone and I don't even know where it all went."

Tommy ached to wrap his arms around her and hold her. She looked so hurt and confused. He almost hated to tell her what he did know about her situation but he knew it would be worse if he kept silent. "Jude, your mom had to sell the house. She couldn't afford the payments anymore."

"What?" she asked even more confused.

"I ran into Sadie at the concert and she told me some stuff," Tommy said knowing his next words were going to hurt. "Your Dad has been really late with his child support payments so your mom had to get a second job. But she still couldn't afford the house payment."

"She's selling the house because of me," Jude said softly.

"That's not what I meant," Tommy said quickly.

"But that's what it does mean," Jude interrupted him before he could say anything.

"Jude, with or without you, she couldn't afford the house payments," Tommy said seriously. "If your Dad would make the damn payments she could most likely keep the house. If it's anybody's fault, it's your dads."

"I have enough blame towards him, thank you very much," Jude said rolling her eyes. "Well, it seems I've come home off a great tour, to a mess of a situation. G Major is royally screwed, my family, royally screwed, my friendships, royally screwed. Just call me Screwed."

"You're not screwed," Tommy said wanting to smile at her drama queen antics. She was definitely not the type to look at the glass half full, she was the glass half empty all the way. "All you need to worry about is getting back into the studio and starting your sophomore album. Darius has a great up and coming producer set aside for you. He's got big plans, real big plans."

"What producer?" Jude asked.

"Because I told Georgia what you said at the coffee shop and she told Darius. I'm going to be producing the next Instant Star," Tommy said quietly.

"The what?" Jude asked even more confused.

"Darius is holding another Instant Star contest, he thinks it's the next American Idol," Tommy said rolling his eyes. "I really can't say anymore though Jude. I'm sure he's going to let you in on all of his ideas tomorrow morning."

"Did I step off the tour bus into an alternate reality or something?" Jude stood up and started pacing back and forth in front of Tommy. "I mean, I had myself prepared for a lot of things when I got home but so far, none of what I thought might happen, has happened! No, instead I get a new G Major, a dead beat dad, no home and there wasn't even a damn-" Jude stopped before she let out too much. She didn't want Tommy's pity.

"There wasn't even a damn what?" Tommy asked wondering where she was going with her little rant.

"There wasn't a damn person that cared about me waiting to tell me how proud they are of me," Jude said softly. "Spied's parents were there. Wally and Kyle had their parents there. Why couldn't mine be there for me, just once, when I needed them there. I got off that bus knowing Sadie was probably still angry at me. I got off knowing Jamie wouldn't be there. I even knew that you would be there only because everybody from G Major would be there. So when I was standing onstage that night, I realized that there wasn't a single person there that gave a damn about me."

"Now that's where you're wrong," Tommy said standing up and walking so he was standing in front of her. "You had thousands of fans in that audience ready to greet their Instant Star home. They wanted you, not Shay; and Georgia didn't have to be there but she came to see you. Because she cares and I wasn't there because everybody from G Major was there. I was there to see you; for three months all I've wanted was to see you but I stepped back and let Kwest go whenever you needed a producer on tour."

"What does that mean exactly?" Jude asked softly

"I don't know," Tommy said honestly. "I didn't choose Sadie over you. I never saw it that way, I was just hanging out with somebody who I thought was cool. You can never have too many friends right?"

"She doesn't want to be your friend Tommy," Jude said coldly.

"Oh I realized that, about five minutes after you left that coffee shop," Tommy said smiling. "I never went with her to Europe. I haven't seen or spoken to her until tonight. I was actually surprised she sought me out at the venue. Her last voicemail said she was never talking to me again."

"Sadie always was the drama queen," Jude said smiling back.

"Oh I think you have a little in you too," Tommy teased her. He wanted to give her a hug so bad but knew that he couldn't unless she started it. She had set boundaries and he'd already broken most of them.

"Tommy, I wish I could take back some of that stuff I said," Jude admitted her voice cracking slightly. There was so much more she wanted to say but she couldn't. Tommy would have to start that conversation. She was done putting herself out there to be rejected.

"Don't, some of that stuff made me take a good long look at myself and I didn't like what I saw," Tommy said shaking his head.

"I don't want a new producer," Jude said.

"Now that you'll have to take up with Darius, like I said; he's got plans for you and I personally can't wait to watch the sparks fly," Tommy said chuckling softly. When Jude just smiled and looked away he backed away and decided to end the moment. "Lets get you…well, somewhere that has a bed at least. As it is, you only have 3 hours until you have to be at the studio."

"Lets just go to the studio," Jude said walking towards the door. "I know I can't record anything, can't step on my new 'producers' toes but I just want to mess around a bit."

"Can't wait to hear it," Tommy said following her out the door and down the stairs.

"Oh you can't hear it, not 'til it's finished. It's only for my producer's ears until it's done," Jude said smirking at Tommy.

"You are so going to rectify that tomorrow with Darius," Tommy said seriously. He had to be Jude's producer, if he wasn't, he'd never get to see her.

"Definitely, can't wait," Jude said getting into Tommy's viper. She turned and watched Tommy's profile as he pulled out onto the street. Over the past couple months she had felt many different emotions towards Tommy but this was the first time she actually felt they were okay again. They weren't really friends yet but hopefully, they were on their way. Because that's all she wanted, was to be his friend again. Jude rolled her eyes at her own thoughts, maybe if she kept telling herself that, she would really mean it.