A/N: I was so happy with all of the reviews I got! So now I am posting earlier than I was going to. So I hope you all enjoy!
Jude finally broke free from Darius and ran off of the stage to go and find Tommy. Darius saw Jude run off and smiled at the crowd one last time before he walked off stage too.
Jude started to cry as she ran to the dressing room backstage and saw Tommy there facing the wall with his head in his hands and looking extremely stressed. Jude entered the room and shut the door behind her. Tommy didn't even have to look up, he knew it was her.
Jude went over and put her hand on Tommy's shoulder. He shrugged it off and continued to look at the floor.
"Tommy," Jude said as he tried to continue to ignore her. "You don't understand." That one sentence was enough to make Tommy snap.
"What don't I understand Jude! That now you want to go out with my producer! Just so you know, he's a lot older than you and me!"
"It's not like that!" Jude tried to explain. "You know that I love you Tommy!" Tommy looked up at Jude and saw that she was still crying. He had no idea what to say now.
"You what?" was all he could manage to say.
"You heard me," she said as she tried to calm herself down. "I love you." For a moment they just stared at each other until Tommy finally decided to say what he was thinking.
"I love you too Jude or at least I thought I did." Jude broke eye contact when he said this. "I did love you at one time, but that was before I found out that Darius wanted you. And I guess you want him back as well."
Jude looked back at Tommy when he said this with a hurt look on her face.
"You think that I want your producer? Just how blind are you Tommy?" At that moment Darius walked into the room.
"Good show Tommy, and of course Jude," he smiled as he said Jude's name and she turned away from him. "We need to get going now because we have another concert tomorrow and a long drive in between." Darius waited for someone to say something, but both Tommy and Jude stayed silent, lost in their own thoughts. "Okay then," said Darius.
Tommy scoffed as he got up and left the room. He stopped when he was right next to Jude and said in her ear, "I guess I'll leave the two love birds alone." Jude gave him a dirty look as he walked out of the room. Jude tried to follow him, but Darius held her back.
"Jude," he said as she was almost at the door. Jude sighed and turned around to face him.
"Yes Darius? How can I help you anymore than I already have?" Darius smiled at her cockiness and continued.
"Look, I know I'm kind of a lot older than you, but I really think that this whole you and I thing could work out." Jude's mouth dropped open at what he was trying to impress on her.
"I…," said Jude, but she didn't know what to say.
"Maybe just a night with you and me will change your mind."
'He wants to go out on a date with me? Now he's just being stupid. Can't he feel the chemistry me and Tommy have? But wait, how is he supposed to feel the chemistry if Tommy can't even feel it himself?' Jude blanked out as she thought about everything that was happening way too quickly in just one night.
"Jude?" Darius interrupted her thoughts.
"Oh, umm, I don't think I really want to take this anywhere Darius. I mean, I know that you…," she didn't know what to say next.
Darius narrowed his eyes as Jude scrambled for words. 'I know that there was something going on between Jude and Tommy. I guess I'll just have to tear them apart, which I've already started to do. And once they are torn apart, Jude will come crying to me to pick up the pieces and then I will have her all to myself, once and for all.'
"…Um," Jude was still trying to think of what to say.
"It's okay Jude, I get it," he said as he put on a fake sad face. "But trust me, sooner or later, you will change your mind."
'Yeah right,' thought Jude as Darius walked out of the room leaving her all alone.
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Tommy walked back to the tour bus and went straight to his bed. He didn't want to have to deal with Jude when she came back. He didn't know what to believe anymore. He really did love Jude, but did she really mean it when she said she loved him?
He laid in his bed trying to figure out what to do and how to handle Jude. How was it that just a few hours ago they were happily, but secretly, together? And now Tommy didn't know what he thought of Jude anymore.
He heard someone walk into his room on the tour bus, but I guess they thought he was asleep because they soon left again.
"Uh," Tommy sighed as he tried to get some sleep. 'How can she even consider liking Darius? He's like ten timed older than her.' Tommy tried to clear his head of all thoughts of Jude as he drifted off to an uneasy sleep.
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The next day Tommy woke up with a start. He wondered why he woke up so suddenly, and then he remembered. He was having a dream about Jude and Darius. He saw Jude and Darius kissing on the stage and then he ran off, as actually happened. Then Jude came to talk to him in the dressing room, as also really happened. While they were in the dressing room Jude told him that she loved Darius and not Tommy anymore. Then she walked out of the room into Darius's arms and then Tommy blanked out from there.
Tommy looked at his clock and noticed that it was only 3:30 in the morning. So he tried to fall back a sleep, but finally gave up and went out to the main part of the bus.
He was surprised when he saw Jude curled up on one of the couches with a cup of hot chocolate. He tried to sneak back to his room without her seeing him, but she saw him before he got there.
"Tommy?" he stopped as he heard his name and turned around very slowly to see her looking directly at him. "Couldn't sleep either?"
"No," he said as he looked at the ground. He couldn't bear looking at her much less talk to her at the moment.
"Please just listen, Tommy. I really have to tell you what really happened."
"Don't bother Jude, I was there, I saw exactly what happened." Jude looked like she was about to give up on this conversation, but then she found a new reason to explain what really happened, and that reason was that she still loved Tommy.
"I told Darius that I don't want to be with him!" she blurted out as fast as she could.
"Why would you lie to him," Tom said as he looked anywhere except at Jude.
"I didn't lie to him Tom. I really did mean it when I said that I loved you. I mean love you."
"Jude," Tom said as he was now starting to think that maybe she really did love him. "I just can't believe what happened. I mean first Darius is hinting at me that he likes you, and then you two kiss onstage? What the hell is going on with my life! It just seems to me like ever since Darius has been my producer things just seem to be taken away from me."
"But not everything Tom, because I'm still here," she said this with a smirk as she got up from the couch. Tom's first reaction was to go back into his room. But then he accidentally looked into her eyes and he got lost.
Jude walked up to him and placed her arms around his neck. Tom placed his arms on her waist, and in seconds the two had officially made up.
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Darius woke up the next morning around 3:45 and went out to the kitchen. Well he almost went out to the kitchen. He opened his door just a creak and saw that Tommy and Jude were out there, but they weren't just talking. Oh no, they were kissing. This hit Darius like a ton of bricks and he was about to go out there and break them up, but instead he watched them and thought about how he was supposed to break them up now.
"Want to go and get some hot chocolate?" he heard Jude ask.
"Sure," Tommy said. "I'll be right there, you go ahead." Jude shrugged as she walked toward the kitchen. Tom saw her leave and then turned around and saw Darius standing a few feet behind him. "So I guess you saw us then," Tommy said as Darius smiled.
"Oh yes. And let me just tell you now, when it comes down to the end of this tour, Jude will no longer be yours."
"I'd like to see you try and take her," Tommy said as he turned around to go and find Jude.
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Jude walked away towards the kitchen but stopped just around the corner to see what Tommy was up to. She saw Darius walk up behind Tommy and heard them talking about her.
"I'd like to see you try and take her," Tommy said and Jude smiled at him for sticking up for what they had. Then she saw Tommy coming toward her and she tried to run away, but Tommy caught her before she got anywhere.
"Were you eavesdropping?" he asked. Jude smiled at him.
"It's only considered eavesdropping if you heard what the people were saying."
"I know you heard what we were saying, because if you didn't you wouldn't be smiling so much right now."
"Hey, you know me. I like to smile." Tommy laughed as he put his arm around her waist and they both walked over to get some more hot chocolate.
A/N: I'm hoping to update this story again some time over the weekend. So please review and we'll see how fast I can update.
