Strangelove

Chapter 3

Author's Note: Once again, you all have spoken and I succumb to peer pressure! Voila- another chapter for "Strangelove"! Sorry for the delay... it took some time to decide which direction this story should go in ... I almost feel like I should post more than one version... but please just let me know if you think this works...

Chapter 3

Somehow, ten months went by. Miraculously, Jude and Tommy managed to continue their illicit relationship; Jude laughed bitterly at the irony of it all. For once, everyone's indifference to her true self and her needs was actually getting her exactly what she always wanted. Tommy's feelings were no less genuine; she was what made him feel alive and whole. Each night they spent together further solidified their strong, if clandestine, connection.

"So dangerous..." Tommy thought, but not because of the obvious risk of discovery.

Dangerous because they had managed to sustain it for so long. They now were starting, inevitably, to consider the future and perhaps fantasize about things that shouldn't be.

"I shouldn't even be thinking about this... But she'll be 18 in just two more months... Legal and able to do anything she wants... Openly..." Tommy mused.

He paced restlessly, waiting for Jude to arrive that frigid winter evening. The sight of her bright red car blazing through the midnight darkness electrified him.

She confidently strode up his front steps, knowing how much her arrival meant to him. As always, his strong arms reached out to snatch her inside the second she reached the front door.

But this time, there would be consequences. Someone else had seen them...

Her feet crunched the gravel along the roadside, as she walked back towards her car in her pointy-toed high-heeled designer boots. Sadie Harrison shook her golden head as a toxic rage consumed her, poisoning her whole being. She had realized some time ago that Jude was sneaking out and not returning until morning several nights every week. She had not cared. Why should she? It didn't matter to her what Jude did.

Until she made a critical discovery...

Sadie noted that Jude's abrupt late night departures were always precipitated by the same ringing of her cell phone. Three times this week, Sadie listened in the tomb-like quiet of their home; even her non-musical ears easily deciphered the notes of 'Time To Be Your 21" when they sounded.

"He wouldn't... she couldn't... No!" she tried to convince herself. She failed.

Jealousy dictated her actions and tonight she tailed her sister to the very familiar location of Tommy's secluded house. Sadie became even more enraged when her suspicions of their affair were confirmed.

"He's fucking her! That slut! He wouldn't take me back, even when I begged... now it's clear why! He's got her! Really has her, from the looks of it! Bastard! But he's not getting away with this and neither will she! I'm gonna fix that..."

Retreating carefully from that house, she began to plot her revenge.

Back at Tommy's place, he and Jude firmly grasped each other's bodies, writhing in the aftermath of pleasure. Their months together taught them both well; each knew now exactly what satisfied the other. Both of them played each sensitive chord on the other's body expertly and with perfect precision. The result was unsurpassed, unspeakable ecstacy that only intensified over time.

Tonight, they were again lost in that unparalleled bliss, oblivious to anything but the way they brought each other's bodies and souls to repeated climax. Tommy pressed his lips to Jude's, claiming all of her with one fierce, possessive kiss.

"Dammit, girl!" he swore, moaning.

"Why? Was it that bad?" she baited him, with the sexy confidence he had instilled in her.

"Hell, no..."

"Then what? Out with it, Quincy."

"We gotta talk, Jude..."

"The three most dreaded words in the universe. Nothing good ever comes after them..."

"No way, baby. That's not what I meant... Not this time. I'd be an idiot if I gave this up."

"True" Jude agreed, smugly.

"So, then? What?" she challenged.

"You'll be 18 soon..."

"Can't wait. Finally, I can get the hell out of that house..."

"You should..."

"Finally, tell all of them to go to hell! Just screw off! Mom, Dad, Sadie... everyone."

"And you could do the same thing to Darius..." Tommy prompted.

"My contract is up with him and G-Major..." Jude's voice drifted off thoughtfully.

"You're so hot now..." he replied, stroking her long slender form.

"I know you think so..."

"I do. But that's not what I mean, girl... Darius and the record company... They need you more than you need them... You can start calling the shots now... Get the upper hand."

"Or leave his ass behind?"

"Yeah." Tommy smirked happily.

"I like the sound of that... me actually doing what I want for a change... like the way you think Quincy..."

"Good. Cause there's one other thing you gotta do. No choices..."

"Oh, really..."

"Yeah... The night of your 18th birthday, I'm gonna be right there next to you. I've had it with this. You're moving in here. " he demanded.

"Really? And what makes you think I want that?" she said petulantly.

"This" he said, brutally claiming her mouth.

"You belong to me, girl..." he grunted savagely

His hands trailed lightly, but with ownership over her full breasts; his touch was like fire, searing her insides.

"More..." he baited her, already knowing her response.

"Yeah..." she replied weakly, as one hand slipped down her stomach, parting her legs. His fingers stroked the insides of her thighs, moving slowly and pressing deeper and deeper inside her. His touch became firmer and faster, until finally she climaxed, screaming his name.

"You need me... Just like I need you..." he whispered.

"Yeah..." she whispered, her voice limp.

"I love you." he finally confessed.

"I know" she smirked, crawling on top of him and straddling his body, her lips and tongue nibbling and sucking on his chest, then slipping lower.

"I love you" she admitted, sitting up and taking him deeply inside her, and echoing with her whole being the movements his fingers had just made. They rocked together, as one body on that bed, until their simultaneous, potent explosion.

Exhausted, but totally satisfied, she collapsed against him. Finally, they had a plan.

However, so did Sadie...