A/N: I am really, really sorry for the long wait (it's a long story), but I hope people are still reading. Please review! (Sorry again!)

Jude ran into her dressing room and slammed the door without even bothering to lock it, she knew Tommy would be coming in soon anyway. She was right; he ran right in and saw her sitting and staring into her vanity mirror still crying only silently.

"Jude you have to listen to me…"

"Why, why should I listen to you?" she said as she turned around to stare at him. "I don't want to be hurt anymore. I just want to be by myself so no one can hurt me like you did ever again."

"Jude I understand that I hurt you, and I know that I've made many mistakes before, but I really have to tell you that I've never felt like this for anyone ever before."

"Felt like what? A lying, deceiving…" she never finished her sentence because right at that moment he rushed forward and crashed his lips against hers. She struggled to pull away for a moment but then found that she didn't really want to.

They finally pulled away and Jude stood staring into his eyes for just a moment thinking about what she wanted to say. Tommy stared right back at her and felt that she was going to say something back.

"Before you say anything, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I lied and I'm sorry that I hurt you. Earlier today I only said that because I thought you were really moving on. I…I don't know what else to say."

"Tommy," she finally said finding the right words, "I already told you that I haven't really moved on. I only said that because you were becoming so close to Eden and I just thought that…"

"Eden! That's what I wanted to tell you. Eden's only here because Darius hired her. He just wanted something to distract me so he could get to you."

"Looks like it worked," she said with a sigh.

"Of course not, anything she told you was a lie. The only thing that happened was that kiss and that was just to get you jealous, which worked." Jude smiled shyly.

"I'm sorry too; you weren't the only one hurting people around here." They both smiled as they leaned in for another kiss.

"That song was amazing! The crowd is still cheering for it!" Darius yelled as he walked in. They both pulled back and Darius stared at them.

"Hey Tommy I…" Eden walked in and felt the tension in the room. "What's going on here?" she asked seeing Tommy and Jude still holding each other's hand.

"Well um…" started Tommy.

"Tommy and I were just making up," said Jude easily. "So what did everyone want?"

"You are definitely singing that song next time too," Darius said staring at them still. "And I have a few other changes but those can wait until later," he said as he walked out of the room with a very suspicious grin on his face.

"Tommy we need to work on some new material," Eden said as she grabbed Tommy's free hand and gave Jude a nasty smile.

"Why do we need new material? We just wrote three new songs," he said as he pulled his hand away from her.

"Well Darius told me that we need more material and that's all I know," she said with a smile that didn't come off as quite innocent.

"Then I'm going to talk to Darius," he said as he left and pulled Jude along with him.

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"Why do Eden and I need more material?" he said as he walked right into to Darius's office. "We just wrote you three more songs."

"Well I told you that I was making a few changes," he said as he gestured for both of them to sit.

"And what exactly are these changes?" Jude asked as she finally let go of Tommy's hand.

"The concert schedule for one; I'm thinking we could start off with Jude, and then Tommy, next Eden, followed by Eden and Tommy, and then end with Jude and Eden."

"What about Jude and me?" Tommy asked knowing that he had left them out on purpose.

"Well I thought we could try Eden and Jude for a while instead. You know, mix things up a little bit."

"No," Jude said firmly. "I won't work with her. I'll only work with Tommy and that's that."

"Well you don't have a choice. You either work with Eden or I can get Georgia to come up here and take you off this tour right now. So what's it going to be?" Jude looked at Tommy who nodded his head meaning to just go for it.

"I'll have to think about it," she said as Tommy grabbed her hand again. She looked at him to see his worried face.

"You mean you would sacrifice all of this just for…him?" he asked in a totally insulting way. Jude looked up at him with a fire in her eyes.

"You bet I would," she said as she got up. Tommy got up as well and they left together.

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"Jude you shouldn't be doing this," Tommy said as they got back to the bus.

"Doing what?" she asked innocently.

"Thinking about jeopardizing your whole career for us," he said as they went into Jude's room and closed the door.

"I know what I'm doing Tommy. I have my priorities straight."

"Then you should know that singing comes first." Jude bit her lip.

"Lately I haven't been so sure," she said honestly.

"What do you mean?" he said as he sat on the bed next to her.

"I don't know. All my passion about singing and such has grown since I met you so wouldn't that make you the top of my priorities list since you add the fire to my flame?"

"Jude I don't think you have that right. Singing has always been your life, even before we met, so why should I, someone you've only known for a few months, replace that?"

"Well, because I love you…I love you even more than singing," she said staring at him with serious eyes.

"I love you just as much," he said staring at her intensely. "But you shouldn't put me over the one thing that you have loved the longest."

"Oh stop it, you know you would do the same."

"Jude, please don't do this…at least for me?" Jude thought for a moment.

"Okay," she said finally. "But I won't like it."

"As long as you get to stay here that's fine with me," he said as he hugged her.

"So we'll never sing together again?" she asked as he pulled away.

"Tell you what, when we get back we can try and do a CD together."

"Really?" she asked excitedly.

"Sure," he said as she hugged him tightly.

"Okay, so now get out."

"What?" he asked in a fake hurt voice.

"I'm tired, today was a long day so…go."

"Fine, but I won't be coming back."

"That's fine with me," she said as she led him to the door.

"Goodnight," he said as he stood in the doorway.

"Night," she said as she gave him a quick kiss and shut the door. Tommy went back to his room and lay on his bed thinking about what they were going to do when they got back home and how much fun making a CD together would be.