Chapter II

The Instant Dating Game

Memories and Explanations

"Hey Jude!" Mason shouts out as he enters G-Major and spots Jude. She doesn't respond so he goes up to her waving his hand in front of her. "Hellooo Jude!!" Mason calls out a second time. "Huh, what?" She finally responds. "Oh hey Mase! How's it going?! When did you get back from touring the states?!" She asks excitedly. "Oh, Friday night. Luckily I had the weekend to catch up on some much needed R an' R. " "So what has got you all dazed and dreamy eyed back here?! Huh??" Mason asks with raised eyebrows. "Oh, nothing just wishin' and hopin' and thinkin'…." Jude says then an idea for a song pops into her head, so she hastily grabs paper and pen in one of the kitchen drawers and jots down the lyrics. "Thinkin' about what, Jude? Or should I say WHOM?" Mason questions her stressing on the word "whom." "Oh, you know who!" she answers.

All of a sudden a voice comes over the P.A. system "Jude Harrison please report to studio A. Jude to studio A, PLEASE!" Jude realizes that it's Tommy who's calling her. 'Crap, couldn't he just come out and call me instead of announcing it to all of G-Major!!' She complains in her thoughts. "Hey Mase I gotta go and get recording before Quincy has a shit fit. We'll talk later. I wanna hear all about your tour." Jude shouts as she heads towards the studio. "Sure, just call me hun and we'll set something up. See ya!" Mason calls out.

Jude quietly waits at the door way of the studio. Her mind drifts back to the past and thinks about all the times that she had spent with Tommy whether physical or not. From the first time she felt his arms around her when they were at the pier and they were working on "24 Hours" to their actual first kiss on her 16th birthday that Tom initiated and took it back. The last kiss that they shared was right before he left for Thailand. Jude decided to not choose him or Jamie. She decided on this so she can keep the sanity of both relationships, but always knowing to whom her heart belongs to.

FLASHBACK to less than 2 years ago, scene "All I Want Is You"

JUDE SPEAKING TO JAMIE

"Hey Jamie!" She calls out as she sees him leaving his home waving good bye to his Nana. "Look I wanted to let you know that as much as I love you and care for you, it's not in the same way as you feel for me. I want to thank you for always being there for me, for picking me up when I'm down, for being my best friend." "What are you saying Jude?" Jamie asks. "That's just it, my feelings for you are just that, as my best friend, nothing more." Jamie's head drops down in sadness looking at the ground. "This is what's best for us. I wanted to let you know that I didn't choose Tommy either. I've decided to sort things out in my life first and get things back on track since G-Major is temporarily closed." "Jude, I am hurt that you don't feel the same for me as I do for you, but I guess this is for the best." He responds quietly. "Ya it is Jamie, I know it's the best for all of us." "I would rather have you as my best friend instead of nothing at all," he replies. They hug each other tight cherishing this moment and their friendship. "Look, Jamie I have to go, but I'm not going anywhere so we'll see each around. I have one other thing that I have to do," Jude says in rush and with that they wave good bye to each other.

JUDE SPEAKING TO TOMMY

(I don't know if anyone notice, but one of the most recent pictures that Tim took that is posted on the IS gallery website, if you enlarge the picture and you look at Tim standing in the door way, it has stained glass windows on the side. It probably means that Jude chose Tommy in the end. This was just an observation.)

Jude's running through the streets of Toronto trying to get to her destination before it's too late. She arrives and knocks on the door surrounded by the stained glass window. "Jude!" Tommy answers surprised as he opens the door looking at 'his' girl. "Hey Quincy, can I come in so we can talk?" "Sure," he answers but questioning her lack of enthusiasm. She enters his home and he guides her to the black soft micro-fiber love seat in his spacious living room. Jude takes his hands in her, her baby blues begin to water and slightly blur her vision and begins to speak. "Tommy, I want you to know that…. I won't be going to Thailand with you." Tom's head bows slowly to his chest. "But I didn't choose Jamie either." His head pops back up in confusion. "So what did you decide Jude?" He asks confused. "I've decided that Jamie is by best friend, and that's all he'll ever be to me. But you Tom…..I know that you are my best friend and so much more, but I think it's for best that I remain neutral with you and Jamie. With G-Major being temporarily closed, I've decided to sort things out in my life and get things back on track. I told Jamie the exact same thing. I want you to go and do this trip, something that you've always wanted to do but never had the chance to do. I want to give you something." Jude pulls out of her rear pocket an envelope and hands it to Tom. He carefully opens it….."Jude this is your music catalogue. Why are your giving this back to me? I got this for you. I want you to keep it." Tom utters. "I know you did, but I'm giving back to you. And why? The reason is because I want to give you a reason to come back to me. You know how much music means to me, other wise you never would've gone through so much trouble to get this from Darius. If you truly care for me….." Jude shies away from using the word 'love' "….. like you say you do, then you'll hold onto my catalogue Qunicy while you're away and because you know my love for music,

once you are ready to come home you will do anything to make sure that my music comes back to me safely to my heart and in my hands." Jude explains. "You know I will girl. I'll do anything for you," Tommy whispers lovingly. "I know you will Tom," Jude replies back.

Later on that afternoon, Jude takes Tommy to the Toronto International Airport. They enter the airport, Tom checks his bags in and they wait patiently for his flight to be called. They sit down at a bench in the terminal. Tommy begins to speak taking her hands in his. "Jude, I really wish you were coming with me." "I know me too, but this is the best for all of us, Tom." "I know," he replies. "Jude there's something I want to give you." Tommy takes off his favorite leather jacket and removes from the pocket a black velvet box and wraps the jacket around Jude's shoulders. He gives the box to Jude to open and reveals a platinum chain and attached to it is half of a platinum heart. He removes it from the box and shows to Jude that on the front it has half of the words "I Love You" then he turns it over to the back and shows her the initials "TQ" engraved.

Tom begins to explain, turns Jude around and clasps the necklace onto her…"Jude, the pendant on this necklace is basically half of another. As you can see it has my initials on the back." She silently nods in understanding and tears begin to fall from their eyes. He continues…"Well, I am wearing that other half." Jude turns and faces Tommy, then takes her left hand and brings it up to the side of his face and Tom closes his eyes and leans into her palm. With her right hand she brings it to his neck and carefully pulls out his necklace. She sees that it is exactly like hers, just the other half. She reads the other half of "I Love You" doesn't say a word about it, then turns it over and sees her initials "JH" engraved on the back and confirms what he had just told her. Tommy takes his left hand and brings Jude's head forward, she removes her hand from his face and their foreheads touch. He lightly but passionately kisses her, then takes both of his hands takes each of the hearts from their necklaces and joins them together show her that they fit perfectly.

Suddenly Tom's flight for Thailand is called. They stand up together, embrace each other tightly as if the world were to end. "No matter what happens between us Jude, I promise I will be back and I will keep in touch and we will always be together and best friends, forever." Tom says to Jude. She replies the same "I promise you too, forever." They give each other one final hug and loving kiss good bye. Mentally they had both avoided the words "I Love You" since earlier that day and both realize that their necklaces say it all. Tommy heads towards the ramp leading to the plane never looking back. She patiently waits staring out the window of the airport watching Tom's plane take off until it is out of sight, then notices she has his jacket, closes her eyes and breathes in his scent.

FLASHBACK ENDS

Since that one day when she made her final decision, "herself," things have been…well…okay. 6 months after the temporary closure of G-Major, the label reopened its doors with Darius still as the owner, but now partnered with Pegan Smith. Darius had basically used whatever finances he had left in order to keep Portia out of jail. Pegan heard about the situation, and instead of making his own label he decided to own the majority of G-Major. He being President and Darius as his Vice-President. Portia continued to work as the stylist under the watchful eye of Sadie, who is no longer the receptionist but the PR and Office manager of G-Major. She and Kwest have been dating since that night when all was the details of Angie's accident was discovered (scene-Sympathy for the Devil). Kwest is now a producer at G-Major working with SME, Patsy, Karma and Mason. SME continues to be Jude's back-up band. Speed and Karma are still married and have moved into their fully furnished mansion provided by MTV of course for their newlywed reality show. Jaime had rekindled his relationship with Patsy and it's still going strong to this day. After her accident she was sent away to rehab until she was better. Patsy's still the same, just tougher and rougher without the alcohol since now she can think clearly without it. Jude and Jamie hung out every so often when he had the chance, other than that he spent most of his time with Patsy or traveling to meet with new and upcoming potential artists for G-Major. Jude would sometimes tag-a-long on a few of Jamie's trips because he would ask for her opinion once in a while about the potential clients. They both now have a better understanding of their friendship and of each others relationships since Jamie has Patsy in his life now.

4 months later Tommy returned as promised. Throughout his trip he kept his promise and managed to write letters or send e-mails to Jude telling her all about his trip. On occasion he'd also sent pictures to her and she would share them with everyone at G-Major. But one of the most special things that Jude looked forward to was their weekly, but brief phone call that she would receive every Sunday so she could hear his sweet voice. (The time differences, I have no idea.) When Tommy returned he and Jude spent some time together, not as a couple but as friends, friends with small benefits. Things were somewhat normal between the two of them, nut cleared away from telling each other their feelings for one another, steered away from the words "I Love You," but they both managed to always wear the necklaces that linked them together.

They were both asked by Darius and Pegan to work at G-Major as co-producers and artists, Jude being the artist of course. They accepted the offer but only if they were able to return 6 months after the reopening. Darius and Pegan agreed to their requests and contracts were signed. The 6 months had passed and everyone was working as diligently as ever, since Pegan became the new owner things were busier, but not as tense when Darius was the only owner. Pegan refused to have bad chi lingering in his new found company, so he made sure that everything was up to standards in feng shui so that everything surrounding them was in harmony. Jude and Tommy started working together again in the studio. Tommy later took on SME's and Speed's solo as well since they were Jude's back-up and it would be convenient for them to work together.