Disclaimer: I don't own the characters or anything to do with Instant Star. I also don't own the song "I'm Better" by Ashley Parker Angel but I did change one word in the song to make it fit this fanfic. Enjoy & Read and Review.

In the morning Speed sat at the table eating his cocoa puffs. He was reading the back of the box when Jude came over.
Jude: "Are you feeling better today?"
Speed: "Yeah."
Jude: "That's it just one word? I mean I was scared yesterday. What was going on? I called Jamie to ask him what was wrong with you and all he said was, 'You mean he didn't tell you?'"
Speed: "Oh...uh...yeah. That... My...um...grandma died and I wasn't in that great of a mood."
Jude: "Oh. I'm sorry."
Speed: "It's okay. You didn't know."
Speed's thoughts: Thank god she doesn't know that my grandma died 6 years ago.
Jude's thoughts: I still don't believe that that's what Jamie was talking about.
Jude could tell that Speed didn't want to talk about it anymore, so she stopped asking questions.
Jude: "Okay well I'm going to go. I think I have a new song."
Speed: "What's it going to be about?"
Jude looked him right in the eye with a serious face and said, "Love." Speed almost choked on his cereal and Jude laughed.
Speed's thoughts: Girls are so confusing.

Jude's thoughts: Maybe this song will make him realize that I have feelings for him.
Jude started jotting down some lyrics, but she stopped. She looked up with a frustrated look on her face and started chewing on her pen. Wally then came in the room.
Wally: "If you're hungry, there's real food in the kitchenette."
Jude: "Ha-ha."
Wally: "You know I'm joking. Now whatcha working on?"
Jude: "A new song but I have some writer's block."
Wally: "Well if I read it maybe I can help."
Jude: "It's kind of a personal song and I wanted it to be from me to Sp-- I mean um…"
Jude caught herself and Wally smiled.
Jude's thought: CRAP! Jude just say something. Make up a name if you have to!
Jude: "Um…"
Wally: "Jude it's okay I won't tell him, but I already knew. I mean have you heard the song 'Anyone But You' lately? I know you wrote it for him."
Jude: "How do you see it but he doesn't? I mean aren't you like his best friend? Shouldn't he be like you?"
Wally: "He's oblivious Jude. Maybe he thought you wrote it for Tommy. I mean a lot of your songs are for Tommy."
Jude: "Yeah, but 'Anyone But You' was after the whole 'Tommy Drama Fiasco'"
Wally: "Well maybe you have to tell him that."
Jude: "Oh I don't know, but thanks for trying to help."
Wally: "No problem. Well I'll leave you alone to work on that song, and it better be a hit missy!"
Jude: (laughing) "Okay dad. Thanks again."
Wally left and Jude completed the song with a smile on her face.
Jude's thoughts: Guys can be so confusing.

Jude heaved a sigh of relief as she finished writing her song to Speed. She reread the lyrics and a smile grew on her face.
Jude's thoughts: If this doesn't make him realize that I have feelings for him, I don't know what will.
Jude got up and stretched. She saw that Speed was tuning his guitar and she walked over to him.
Jude: "Hey."
Speed: "Hey. Did you finish your song?"
Jude: "Yeah. I think it came out really good."
Speed: "That's great. What are the chords? This way I can play at the next concert."
Jude: "Actually, I kind of wanted it to be a 'Me and My Guitar' Kind of song."
Speed: "Oh, Okay."
The next day at the concert, Jude and S.M.E. played all the songs from her newer CD and some from her old one.
Jude: "Thanks guys. Now the last song is a song that I wrote yesterday for someone very special to me. It's called 'I'm Better'

Hey, tell me what's going on
Hey, tell me where I go wrong.
I've been losing all I got,
Then you, you just walk right in,
You just walk right in.
When I'm here with you,
I just block it out,
It's cool we talk about whatever,
And yeah, you know I've been around,
My world came crashing down,
But when I'm here with you I'm better.
Hey, I'm watching the worlds collide,
Hey, there's nobody else inside
Boys they don't know what they want,
But you, you just walk right in,
You just walk right it.
When I'm here with you,
I just block it out,
It's cool we talk about whatever,
And yeah, you know I've been around,
My world came crashing down,
But when I'm here with you I'm better.
Used to be that I just had to fake it,
All my life,
Over and over I just couldn't take it,
Not this time.
But you, wherever you walk, I'll run,
Yeah you, anything goes tonight.
When I'm here with you,
I just block it out,
It's cool we talk about whatever,
And yeah, you know I've been around,
My world came crashing down,
But when I'm here with you I'm better.
When I'm here with you,
I just block it out,
It's cool we talk about whatever,
And yeah, you know I've been around,
My world came crashing down,
But when I'm here with you I'm better."

When the concert was over, they head back on the tour bus.
Wally/Kyle: "THAT SONG WAS AWESOME JUDE!!"
Jude (laughing): "Thanks guys!"
Speed is just staring at the ground. Wally and Kyle notice this and leave them alone.
Speed: "I liked the song and I know who it was about."
Jude smiled thinking he finally realized that she liked him.
Jude: "Oh really? Who?"
Speed: "Tommy. I mean all the other love songs you write are about him."
Jude: "GOD SPEED! Could you be anymore oblivious? It wasn't about Tommy!"
Speed: It wasn't?
Jude: "NO! I mean yeah I was upset when he left but I'm not into him that way anymore!"
Speed: "Oh... Then who was it about?"
Jude: "You have to figure that out by yourself."
Jude walked into her room and decided to call someone who may be some help to her.

Jude took out her cell phone and dialed a familiar number
Person: "Hello?"
Jude: "JAMIE!!"
Jamie: "Jude? Hey! Any new songs yet?"
Jude: "Yeah. I wrote one."
Jamie: "Well who is it for?"
Jude: "Umm...Well…"
Jamie: "It's about Speed isn't it?"
Jude: "OH MY GOD! You're not even here, you never heard the song, yet you know it's about him but he doesn't!"
Jamie: "It's obvious that you like him alo-"
Jude: "Jamie I don't like him."
Jamie: "But Jude you-"
Jude: "I love him."
Speed came by only to her that Jude had said she didn't like whoever her and Jamie were talking about and that she loved him. So of course now he is upset.
Speed's thoughts: Well she said she was over Tommy. She's talking to Jamie. So that only leaves Shay, Kwest, Kyle, Wally and... Me. But I'm still confused about how I feel for her. I mean I really like her, but we have been arguing a lot lately. Wait...Why am I getting myself SO worked up over this when I don't even know who she loves yet?
Jamie: "Wow… um...Wow.…"
Jude: "Great help Jamie."
Jamie: "Why don't you make a move on him?"
Jude: "This coming from the guy who took years to make a move on me."
Jamie: "You want my help or not?"
Jude: "Fine. I don't even know if he likes me yet!"
Jamie: "Well ask him then."
Jude: "I can't just ask him! I mean what do I say? 'Speed I love you, do you love me?'"
Jamie: "Well that's a start."
Jude: "Thanks Jamie. Bye."
Jamie: "Bye."
But unfortunately for Speed, he walked away before Jude said that. Kyle, however, was listening from the beginning of the conversation and his eyes became very wide.
Kyle walked away. He couldn't believe what he had just heard.
Kyle's thoughts: Oh...my...god…!... Does Jude like speed? Well, love anyway. I hope Speed loves her back. I mean some days he is all like 'Jude I wub you,' well in his sleep at least. But one time he told me and Wally that Jude was so annoying. But it's not like we can force him into liking Jude...or can we?
Kyle: "WALLY! GET YOUR BUTT IN HERE DUDE!"
Wally ran to where Kyle was thinking something was wrong.
Wally: "What? What is it? What's wrong? Did you set your hair on fire again?"
Kyle: "You're not going to believe this dude! AND HEY I ONLY DID THAT ONCE!"

Wally: "Just continue!"

Kyle: "I heard Jude on the phone with Jamie asking him how she can tell Speed she likes him and it turns out that she loves Speed!"
Wally: "Stop joking dude. She just likes him as more than a friend but not love."
Kyle: "She loves him dude! I'm not joking. She said to Jamie, 'I mean what do I say? Speed I love you, do you love me?'"
Speed walked through in time to hear that comment.
Speed: "Sorry Kyle, but I'm not into guys like that."
Kyle (sarcastically): "Ha-Ha dude. Very funny."
Speed laughed his way into the room where Jude was. Wally started cracking up.
Kyle: "Shut up man."
Wally (trying to hold in his laughter): "Sorry."
Kyle: "Whatever. So anyway, that's when I heard her say that she loved him. Then she said 'Thanks Jamie. Bye.'"
Kyle said that in a girly voice making Wally laugh even harder.
Wally (talking in between laughs): "You...sounded...like...you're...going...through...puberty."
Kyle: "Come on man this is a serious situation. Does Speed like Jude or not? I mean we don't need a heart broken girl on the tour bus writing songs like 'Skin,' towards Speed."
Wally: "You're right man. I never knew you could be so smart."
Kyle: "Should I take that as a compliment or an insult?"
Wally: "Both... Wait... I think I have a plan to get the two of them together."