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"Jude, if you don't want to be here, we can go somewhere else."
"No, I'm not going to let him ruin this."
"Okay," he said, his arm protectively slinking around her waist.
She looked around at her fellow classmates, dressed in their expensive dresses, smiling, taking pictures, and laughing, things she should have been doing. She had no reason not to have fun. She was with a great guy, someone her cared for her, even if it was just as friends. Why couldn't Tommy be more like Kwest? Kwest didn't cheat, he didn't lie, or sleep around, he'd never been married, and he never drank himself into a stupor, which Tommy tended to do weekly, if not nightly, as of late. All of it, obviously made Tommy who he was, but she could name two good qualities to every one of his bad ones.
"Kwest I'll be right back, I'm going to go to the bathroom."
"Okay, I'll just go talk to Jamie or something," he said. As soon as Jude was out of sight, he pulled out his cell phone and called Sadie. "Sadie, where in the hell is he?"
"You don't want to know," she said.
"What do you mean? Where are you?"
"At his apartment."
"Why? Sadie, you two didn't-"
"No! I came over to persuade him to go, but he's not exactly in a state where he would be able to go anyway."
"What did he do?"
"He's drunk."
Kwest groaned and walked out to the hallway. "Well he just screwed himself over."
"Tell me about it. I wouldn't be over here if Jude wasn't so hung up on him."
"I know. She hasn't said much all night."
Kwest heard a loud thud in the background. "Sadie, is everything alright?"
"Yeah, Tommy just fell off the couch," she said like it was no big deal.
"Aren't you going to help him?"
"Wasn't planning on it."
"And why not?"
"Because he was a jerk, and still if one."
Kwest sighed and saw Jude coming out of the bathroom. "Yeah Uncle Bernard, everything's fine. Look, I have to go, bye."
"Uncle Bernard?"
"Yeah, he's uh coming for a visit, just a sec," he said as he heard Sadie talking some more.
"Whose Uncle Bernard...Oh Tommy, that's sick!"
Kwest couldn't help but smirk. When Tommy drank, he went all out, which probably meant he just threw up on something.
"Bye Uncle Bernard."
Kwest hung up the phone and turned to Jude. He heard the muffled sound of "There's Us" through the thin walls. "Do you want to go dance?"
"Uh sure," she said softly, taking Kwest's hand and walking into the auditorium. His hands rested on her waist as she wrapped her arms around his neck.
"You look really pretty tonight."
"Thanks, you don't clean up too bad yourself."
"I know you wish Tommy was here, and I know you're mad at him for the other day, but he really is sorry."
"I don't want to talk about it Kwest."
"Sorry," he said, noticing people were clamoring toward the hallway. People were yelling and pushing to get out of the gym. Jude turned around and saw Kat walking toward her.
"Why don't you come over here?"
"What's going on Kat?"
"I just, I really think you should come over here."
Jude looked from Kwest to Kat and picked up her dress, walking out to the hallway. The sight she saw in the hallway disgusted her. Tommy was stumbling around, hanging on people, his eyes glazed over. He tried to focus in on her, but he kept seeing two. He stumbled towards Jude and fell against her. "Jude I love you."
His profession of love brough giggles from her fellow classmates. She glared at Tommy, her eyes tearing up. "Tommy, you're drunk," she hissed.
"Nooo I'm not," he slurred.
Kwest walked over to him and pulled him off of Jude. "Tommy let's go."
"But she needs to know I love her," he said, his hands in the air.
Kwest shook his head. "Let's go."
He wrenched out of Kwest's tight grip and hung on Jude. "I'm sorry. I love you Jude," he said right before he puked on the front of her dress.
Jude let out a sob of frustration and sadness. She pushed Tommy away, so hard, he fell onto the floor, she then ran to the bathroom.
Kwest roughly grabbed Tommy and pulled him outside. "What the hell was that?"
Tommy slid to the ground. "I love her man."
"You just embarrassed her in front of her class, and not only ruined her dress, but ruined her prom."
"I didn't mean-"
"Please don't tell me he did anything stupid. I couldn't gethim to stay home," Sadie said.
"Take him home," he said roughly as he walked back into the school. He was Jamie and Kat standing outside the gym doors. "Where is she?"
"In the bathroom."
Kwest nooded and walked into the bathroom. Jude was sitting on the floor, her pouffy dress messily arranged around her, the tulle sticking out in different places because of the awkward way she was sitting. Her eyes were red and puffy, while mascara was streaked down her cheeks. He carefully wet some paper towels, walked over to her, and began to clean the front of her dress.
"Everythings ruined," she said softly, wiping her eyes.
"I'm sorry Jude."
She shook her head. "I just shouldn't have come. This is almost worse than that stupid scene in Carrie."
"Well I'll agree that it wasn't great."
"Kat spent so much time on this dress, and now it's ruined."
Kwest's futile attempt to clean the dress failed. He finally gave up and threw the paper towels away. He sighed and sat down beside her. "I don't even know what to say Jude. What Tommy did, was stupid."
"Everyone saw Kwest, everyone. It wasn't just people at G Major, I could live with that, but this, my whole class saw it, not to mention my teachers," she cried, a whole to flood of tears springing to her eyes.
"It'll blow over Jude, I promise."
"I hate him!" she screamed.
Kwest wasn't sure if it was in grief, sadness, or anger, or maybe even all three. He gently took her in his arms and rubbed her back, attempting to calm her down. Her cries rang through the bathroom walls. That was when Kwest knew for a fact that Jude was going to kill Tommy the next time she saw him. Her next song, was bound to be even better than her last, for her at least. Things kept getting worse and worse for Tommy, and Kwest couldn't say he didn't deserve it.