2
The Next Day…..
Tommy was sitting in his hotel room unpacking his suitcase as a knock sounded on his door. He sighed deeply, putting down his folded shirt and walking to the door to answer it.
"You need to go pick up Sadie and bring her back to the hotel." Darius demanded while holding out a set of car keys. Tommy took the keys timidly and stared at Darius questioningly.
"Isn't Sadie staying at the hotel like the rest of us?"
"No. She's staying with her sister while we're here. I need you to go pick her up and bring her back here for the staff meeting before we start the auditions. Here's her address. " Darius explained, exasperated, handing Tommy a piece of paper.
"Can't she take a cab or something? Why do I have to do it?" Tommy queried.
"Just do what I say." He requested annoyingly before turning around and walking away. Before turning back into his room, Tommy got stopped by someone else.
"Did I hear right? Sadie is staying with Jude? And you have to go pick her up?"
"Yeah, you heard right." He replied, turning to speiderman, standing in his own doorway across the hallway.
"Can I come?"
"Yeah." Tommy sighed again as he shut his door and led the way down the hall toward the elevators.
"Next time Sadie is taking a cab. Now I remember why I always had a driver when I was in Europe." Tommy lashed as he got out of the Mini Cooper. Speiderman got out of the car and stood next to Tommy as he stared at the ivy covered chateau that Jude was apparently living in.
"Huh, I would've pegged Jude to live downtown in a townhouse or something. But not out here in the open in a cottage." Speid whispered. Tommy knew. He felt miserable. She was living their dreams without him.
The front glass panel door opened quickly as Sadie hurried out and jogged down the stairs.
"Hey guys. Ready to go?" she asked as she made her way to the mini cooper and opened the passenger side door.
"Where's Jude?" Speid asked excitedly. Sadie paused and turned to Speid.
"She's downtown at the studio. Come on, let's go, D will be furious with us if we're late." Sadie concluded.
"Aw man. We're here at Dude's house and we don't even get to see Dude?" Spied turned around sadly with his head lowered and walked back to the car. Tommy looked back at the house for a moment longer and spun around to walk back to the car. He opened the door and sat down. After turning on the car and pulling on his seatbelt, he looked at the house one last time before pulling out of the driveway and swore he saw somebody peek out from behind a curtain on the second floor.