It was late now and Jude opened her eyes and groaned when the body next her shifted in the bed and accidentally kicked her. She sat up and ran her hand through her hair squinting at the clock next to the bed…1:30am. The next thing she felt was panic.
"Tom, Tommy, baby" she said as she pushed on him gently.
"Hum?" he said never opening his eyes.
"It's 1:30"
"So" he said rolling over to look at her.
"So…what about Sadie?"
"Oh I told her I was out with Kwest, checking out a new band and I would be back late."
"Ok, I'm going to get some water," she said as she slid off the bed.
"Bring me some?" he asked. She nodded and walked down the hall into the kitchen. The granite floor was cool and smooth beneath her feet, and she instantly had the urge to lay down on it. So she did enjoying the cold against her skin, she closed her eyes and let it relax her. She must have dozed off because she opened her eyes to Tom standing over her.
"What are you doing?" he asked her completely serious.
"It felt good" she said shyly as she stood up.
"You know I had a dog that used to do that lay down on cold floors" Jude opened her mouth wide in amazement as she smacked Tommy in the stomach.
He laughed and pulled her into a hug.
"You're silly" he told her.
"You love it"
Jude picked her head up off his shoulder when she heard her cell vibrating on the counter.
"Who's that?" Tom asked.
"Umm," said Jude as she walked over and looked at it. When she saw the caller ID she was afraid to pick it up.
"It's coming from your house…" she said.
"It's Sadie," he said.
"I'm not answering it," she said as she rejected the call, sending it to her voice mail.
"What if something is wrong, it may be about your parents?"
Jude groaned inwardly, he was right; Sadie was still her sister after all. She picked up the phone and called her back.
"Hello?"
"Sadie? It's Jude,"
"Ya I know, I have caller ID." She said snottily.
"Did you need something?"
"Ya look; Tom's birthday is coming up. I'm throwing him this massive party at his favorite club"
You mean your favorite club.
"That's nice," Jude said not really getting the point of the call. Did she need something or did she just want to rub it in Jude's face.
"Look just because we are related doesn't me I have to like you, but unfortunately MY husband does, so I'm doing the right thing and inviting you." Jude could tell Sadie didn't really want her there, but Jude couldn't help but respect her just a little bit more for having the guts to call her.
"Thank you, I guess." Said Jude, this was weirding her out, she hadn't spoken to Sadie in over a year.

Flashback
"Look Sadie we need to talk" Jude told her as she pulled Sadie aside one day at the studio.
"What's wrong Jude? Is everything ok?" she asked her little sister.
"I just, I have something to tell you. And you're going to hate me, but you need to know. I can't walk around with this inside anymore. You have the right to know."
Sadie's face paled somewhat and she sat down on a couch in the room they were in. Jude took a deep breath and played with the star ring on her hand.
"You know I love you right Sadie?" Sadie just nodded and looked at Jude.
"Tom kissed me," she said, "Twice, but Sade he wasn't with you or anything it was before…on my 16th birthday and when I wrapped my 2nd album."
Sadie didn't say anything; she didn't cry, scream or yell either. She just calmly stood up and left the room. Jude had tried to talk to her more later on, over the next few days and Sadie was always very very short with Jude, never speaking more then a few words to her. Eventually Jude gave up, and then it became weird. Sadie had this way of just looking at her that made her skin crawl, so she just started to avoid her…
End Flashback

"Look Tom is out right now with Kwest, so I'm trying to make plans when he's gone, don't tell him. I'll call you tomorrow with all the details." Jude muttered her thanks again and hung up the phone. Tommy leaned on the counter eating an apple, staring at her.
"So?" he asked.
"I can't tell you" Jude said as she plugged her phone into the charger.
"What?" he said throwing the rest of his apple away and walking up to her.
"I said, I can't tell you. Sadie is planning something." Tommy groaned.
"I told her not too!"
"Forget about it, your still here, and you don't have to be home for at least an hour…and that huge bed in there…is empty." She said, she pulled on his hand towards the bed room but stopped to whisper in his ear.
"The cold sheets will feel good against your naked skin" He smiled from ear to ear, and followed Jude to the bed.
She and Tommy were recording the next day when Jude's cell rang around lunch time. Tom picked it up from the soundboard and saw it was Sadie calling. He cut Jude off and spoke to her from the other side.
"It's Sadie" he told her.
"Let her leave a message, she didn't want to talk to me for a year, I'm in no hurry to talk to her now," she said. Tommy laughed and cued Jude's music back up. She put her lips up to the mic and began to sing…

when I look in your eyes
I know you understand
That good things always
Seem to slip right through my hands
And everything but love
Is just grains of sand
But with you this is my life
Here with you this is my life
This is my life

"Cut, perfect take Jude," Tommy said as he looked at her through the glass. "You're amazing, I love you," he told her.
"I know, run it again." He laughed and did as he was told.

Later that night when Jude got home she flipped open her phone to listen to her sister's voice mail.
"Jude," she said curtly, "Look, Tom's party is a week from today, it's not on his actual birthday but this was the closest I could get. It starts at 11, at Mystik, downtown; bring a bottle if you want. Oh, and make sure you dress decently at least."

The voice mail ended and Jude shut her phone and threw it on the counter. "Dress decently" she muttered to her self… "Just you wait Sadie, Tom is deffinatally not going to be looking at you that night."
Jude pulled the hat down over her head and put her large sunglasses over her eyes. The hoodie she had on was zipped up with her hands inside the pockets, she was in disguise, and this was one shopping trip she didn't want to be recognized on. She walked into the boutique the next day and found a sales lady.
"Can I help you?" she asked, afraid almost that Jude was going to rob the place, judging from her appearance.
"Yes, I have a birthday party to attend for someone very…special, and I need to have something killer on."
"Ok, well why don't we start with taking off that hat and glasses so maybe I can pick out something that goes with your hair and eyes."
"Well," she said as she went to whisper in the ladies ear, "I don't want anyone to recognize me…" The lady pulled back and looked at Jude a little harder, Jude slipped off the oversized glasses and the lady recognized her right away.
"Of course, lets get you back in the dressing room, and I'll start bringing you things" she said as she led Jude to the back of the store. Once she felt it was safe she removed her hat and unzipped her hoodie.
"I'm Mary, it's nice to meet you Jude, let's get started ok? So where is this party at?" she asked.
"It's at a club, and my sister is going to be there, and I HAVE to look better then her. I want something sexy, something very new if possible, I don't want to walk in and see somebody else wearing it too…and price doesn't matter."
"Isn't your sister the model?" Mary asked as she looked Jude up and down trying to size her. Jude groaned and Mary laughed.
"Ughh yes and we don't get along."
"Well once I get done dressing you…your not going to get along with lots of girls…" Mary told her as she left the dressing area. Mary came back a few minuets later with two girls following her, their arms full of clothes and shoes.
"Let's get started!"

When Jude had picked out the outfit with Mary's help she couldn't even believe it was her she was staring at in the mirror. She looked like a hooker…and hot hooker. The skirt was extremely short, tight and it was somewhat shiny black. Her top was take top style black as well, and somewhat lacey. She had on thigh-highs which stopped right below her skirt, she wasn't so sure about those, but Mary insisted it was the "in" thing to do. The shoes she had on added about 4 inches to her height and were decorated with little rhinestones on them. She stood in front of the mirror playing with her hair, putting it up and down, up and down, and pouting her lips…could she pull this off? She dropped her hair and her hands down to the side. Mary came up next to her and put a gentle arm around her.
"You look amazing for a club, and if he's not impressed then he doesn't deserve your love." Jude looked at her with a surprised face.
"How did you, I mean, I didn't say anything-"
"You didn't have to," Mary told her, "Sisters, I have one, and we fought all the time and you know what the main reason was?" Jude shook her head no.
"A boy," Mary told her, "it's always a boy." Jude looked down and fidgeted with the ring on her finger as she started to cry a little.
"Oh, sweetheart, it's ok." Mary told her as she took Jude in her arms for a comforting hug. Jude pulled back and looked at her laughing a little.
"You must think I'm stupid," Jude told her.
"No I think you're just in love," Jude looked at Mary and wiped her face.
"Maybe, do you think, I can come back sometime?"
"Anytime sweetie, anytime."
Jude hugged the older lady again and paid for all of her clothes. She next went to Victoria's Secret and bought a black push-up bra to wear with her dress, then returned home.

The night of the party Jude was again staring at her self in the mirror. Her makeup was dark with silver throw in there, her lips a pouty red color. She wore her hair down, flowing, and reckless, Tom liked it best that way. She picked up her large red bag and shoved the bottle of vodka in it. She had a feeling tonight she would need it…all of it. When she got to the club it was already 11:30, and most everyone was there already. The first person she saw was Sadie who just stared at her.
"Decent enough for you?" Jude asked her as she walked by further into the club. Sadie didn't even say anything, and just watched at her sister walked by. Jude pushed her way through the crowd to the stairwell in the back. A bouncer was standing there and he asked for her name.
"Jude Harrison" she said and he checked his list and letting her through. When she reached the top of the stairs, everyone was already partying. Darius, Portia, Kwest, even Liam, along with everyone else from G-major. She went over to the open bar and gave the bartender her bottle.
"Keep this for me will you please, its good Vodka" the bartender nodded looking at the bottle.
"Anything I can make for you now Miss Harrison."
"Umm," Jude thought, "Sure I'll take a Kamikaze, double, extra rocks."
"Double?" he asker her.
"It's going to be a long night." She assured him as she waited for her drink. He handed it too her and she began to chug it right there in front of him. When she was done she licked her lips and set the glass back down on the counter.
"Thanks, I needed that…I'll be back later"
Tommy was still nowhere to be seen and this was his own birthday party. Jamie and Kwest were talking to her as she felt the vodka start to tingle her senses.
"Kwest, you wanna dance?"
"Sure Jude lets go" she followed him through crowd and onto the main dance floor. Kwest grabbed Jude by the waist and pulled her close as they danced. Other guys tried to come up behind and she would just stop and look at them. Kwest laughed and started dancing to the music again. Jude turned around and backed up against Kwest as he placed his hands on her waist. Jude closed her eyes and listened to the music letting it flow through her body. When the next song ended she opened her eyes and met his. He was sitting on a chair closer to the main bar just watching her. When his eyes first met hers he was awestruck. She looked stunning and his breath caught in his throat. He knew he was in for one hell of a night. She noticed how his eyes never left her, staring intently as she moved to the music, as if he was hypnotized. She noticed his intensity and started to dance more sensually against Kwest, seeing if she could get a rise out of Tommy. It wasn't long before he stood quickly from his chair and made his way to the dance floor. Kwest saw him coming and politely left Jude and Tommy standing there looking at each other. He pulled her close to him and spoke into her ear, "How could you come here looking like that, when you know I can't do anything to you…"
"It's your birthday present…if you're good, maybe I'll give you a lap dance too…" she said smirking as she started to dance in front of him. She raised her hands above her head as she moved her hips in circles, not caring if her dress rose up any…not like it could get much shorter then it already was. Tom ran his hands up her body and pulled her close, he slipped his leg in between hers. She put her hands around his neck as she moved her hips against him. The songs changed and a techno song stared pounding through the club.

When I'm with you,
I feel naked and sacred.

When the words registered in Tommy's head he immediately gripped onto Jude's body a little harder and pulled her a little closer.

And this world can be so cold.

Jude ran her fingers into the collar of his shirt as she started moving her body to the music. She could tell by the way he was responding that he was enjoying every second of their synchronized movements.

I wanna hold you naked
And sacred till I grow old.

Tommy ran his hand down Jude's thigh and held it tightly. She picked her leg up and wrapped it around the outside of his. She moved her hips back and forth, then in circles, grinding against him. He ran his hand up her exposed thigh, and cupped ass. It was when she started doing body rolls against him that he lost it.

Baby I wanna be good for you.
I wanna be true.

She could feel him getting hard as she danced against him and she smiled. He slipped his hand more under her ass and roughly pushed her underwear aside and plunged two fingers into her. Jude threw her head back and closed her eyes. He moved his fingers inside of her to the beat and buried his head in her neck. She could feel his hot breath, and his body so close to hers, and she knew she was going to cum right there.

Don't know how I'd live with myself,
If I ever hurt you.

She felt herself start to release as she leaned her body back letting him look at her. He used his other hand to stroke her down the middle of the body, starting with her neck, down through her breast, and across her tight stomach. She squeezed her leg tighter around his as she finally came down from her orgasm. He removed his hand from inside her and she spun around so that her back was to him. Now it was going to be him who was having the "hot" time.

When I'm with you,
I feel naked and sacred.

She danced against him lowering her body all the way to the floor then coming back up, in a way that made him groan and grab her hips almost as if he was thrusting inside of her. She put her hands on her hips and moved her butt in tight fast circles against him. She could feel him pressing into her back as he finally just wrapped an arm around her and pulled her flush against his body with no room for air. He copied her movements as they danced as one. He brought his hand up over her shoulder and placed it on her chest.

And this world can be so cold.

He slowly moved his hand and dipped it into her dressing, caressing her breast. His lips found her neck and she knew that this needed to be taken somewhere else. But she just leaned her head back against as she let his touch take her over.

I wanna hold you naked
And sacred till I grow old.

He couldn't take it anymore, as she rubbed up against him. He brought his lips to her ear and spoke loud enough she could hear it over the music.
"Meet me outside, in 5, go get another drink first."

And with that he let her go completely. Jude looked around in a daze almost and moved off the dance floor. She walked past the bouncer and started up the stairs where Kwest was walking down. She smiled at him as he began to pass her, but he placed a gentle hand on her arm.
"Jude,"
"Hum?" she said as she looked at him.
"Be careful ok?" Jude smiled and looked down. She shook her head and they both knew what he meant. She looked up at him with tears in her eyes. The 4 shots in the drink she had earlier really affecting her.
"I just love him so much Kwest" He smiled and hugged her.
"It will be ok girl, it will all be ok." He told her as he let her go and walked down the stairs. She did as Tommy told her and went to the bar and ordered another drink, the same as before and downed it just the same. She got her bottle and purse from the bar tender and started to make her way downstairs and out of the club to meet Tommy.

Kwest was not the only one aware of what took place between Jude and Tommy on the dance floor. Little did the know they had attracted an audience right from the beginning.