---Cherry Red---Chapter Four---

Tommy knocked on the Harrison's front door; he waited patiently for Sadie to answer. When she finally did he invited himself in. "Tommy, what's going on?"

"It's Jude!" he said frustrated while running a hand though his hair and sitting on the couch. "I went over to their rehearsal space and she's hanging out with all these people that I don't know; some guy is acting like he owns her!! Who are they, what's going on?"

Sadie looked at him confused, "You come to me to ask about her friends? As for the guy, Tommy Jude is nineteen, she hangs out with people whose ages range from 18 to 25, she's hot and she's single, some guys are going to act possessive over her if they're into her."

Tommy rolled his eyes, "No I mean he called her his girl and everything, and they kept calling her Cherry. She hasn't had red hair since she was sixteen!" Sadie's eyes widened.

She suddenly ran upstairs and into her room, Tommy looked at where she was sitting on the couch confused, when she came back home she had something clutched in her hands and she was holding it against her chest. "Were they wearing these?"

Tommy looked at the chain that Sadie had, he thought back and realized that a lot of them were wearing them and the people that weren't had something like it in their pocket or something. "Yeah, why?"

Sadie sighed and looked down to the chain again, lightly stroking it with her finger tips.

"It's called the Chain Gang."

Tommy's eyebrows raised, "Gang?"

"Let me finish…" Tommy sighed and nodded.

"Me and Jude, we weren't the only kids in the family…" Tommy looked at her confused but let her continue without interruptions. "We had an older brother. He got involved with the wrong people. He was in a motorcycle gang and they called themselves the Chain Gang. John was the leader and Paul, our brother, was his right hand man. He and Jude always had this, special bond. He took her out with him, but never once did he invite me to come. I wasn't interested in what was going on but I still would have gone, he was my brother and I loved him. He was a good 7 years older than me making him like 9 years older than Jude; I never understood why he liked her so much. He would go out to clubs and stuff and she would go with him, she was freaking TEN YEARS OLD! But he always was careful with her, never once did she get hurt…" Tears started to build up in Sadie's eyes. Tommy didn't know how to comfort her so he just sat back and let her continue.

"Anyways, when Jude turned thirteen I was fifteen and Paul finally started taking me out too. All we did was hang out and old, beat down apartments and be with his friends. They all loved Jude and talked with her, hung out with her like she was part of their little family. I was invisible. The only person that would talk to me was Paul, he tried to make me feel comfortable but that was it…"

Sadie wiped the tears from her eyes and took a deep breath to continue. "Then when I turned sixteen I finally realized what was going on. Paul started staying out later and later, he got a motorcycle, they were all wearing identical chains. They were in a gang. A few times the police would show up asking for Paul's alibi for something. I told Jude to stop hanging out with him but she refused, she loved him even more then she loved my dad, and you know how close they were."

Tommy nodded and rubbed the back of Sadie's neck gently, knowing this was hard for her. "Anyway, John was going out with Sabrina, even though John was eighteen and Sabrina was fifteen. Sabrina was Jude's best friend. This was before the Jamie era. John and Jude got really close, closer then anyone was comfortable with. Even Paul tried to limit her time with him. Sabrina started getting insanely jealous and she and Jude started their falling out. Well one night, Jude was getting all ready for her night out with the boys, she was fifteen now, and was waiting for John to pick her up. I remember sitting on the couch and she came down the stairs wearing the shortest jean skirt I ever saw, and a really sexy red top. Her hair was in a high ponytail and was curled; she had bangles on her wrists and some really long chains around her neck. She was wearing red heels; you don't wear heels to go dancing. When she opened the door John came in and handed her the chain. He saw me and handed me one too…"

Sadie laughed nervously and held the chain close to her chest again. One single tear fell from her eye and went down her cheek. "We were officially part of the Chain Gang, sisters."

"Anyways, um…after they invited me out with them but I said no…"

Sadie was silently crying now but she took a deep breath and regained her composure. "That night, right before they got in the car, I saw Jude and John kissing. I mean like really kissing. Then they got in the car and drove away. That night, Paul didn't come home. The police came and told us that they found him in some alley, a bloody brick next to his head. When Jude got him I told her and she broke down. I told her that the police were looking for John; apparently he was the number one suspect. When he didn't have an alibi they put him away. I guess he got out on parole or something…"

Tommy ran a hand through his hair, frustrated. "Jude's hanging out with a whole bunch of murderers! She doesn't even care!! They killed her brother and she is down there having drinks with them!!" Tommy quickly rose from the couch and stormed out of the house, slamming the door behind him.

When Tommy got to the rehearsal space he stormed in and was going to grab Jude's arm to talk to her but he felt like he got a slap in the face when he saw Jude sitting on John's lap, making out with him.