Sisters...
Jude was looking at a picture of a two year old Sadie seated in an oversized chair with a new born Jude in her lap, and her mom helping her hold the baby.
They're supposed to be there for you in good times...
"Oh my God!! Sadie!!" Twelve-year-old Jude said, running into the house.
"What? What's wrong?!" Sadie asked as she ran in to the living room from the kitchen.
"Nick asked me out for Saturday night!!" said Jude hopping up and down.
"Really?!" Sadie asked, joining in on her sister's happiness.
"Yeah. Crap, what am I gonna wear?" asked Jude in panic.
"Don't worry. We're gonna borrow Daddy's card and go get you a new outfit and everything," Sadie said before running into the kitchen to ask her dad.
And help you though the hard times.
"Hey," Sadie said sticking her head in the room to find a slightly older twelve-year-old Jude sitting up against the foot of her bed, with her calendar held out in front of her. "You okay? You've been up here all day."
"I don't think so," Jude said still looking at the calendar.
"What's wrong?" Sadie asked while walking into her baby sister's room.
"I think I messed up Sades. Really big this time," Jude said turning to her older sister with tears in her eyes.
"Whoa, tell me what's wrong. We can fix it. Whatever it is, we'll fix it," Sadie said, rubbing her sister's red hair as she cried on her shoulder.
"We can't fix it. At least not for a few more months," Jude says though her tears
"Jude, babe, you're not making any sense."
"I'm three months late," the scared teen whispered.
"What?"
"At Tyler's end of the year party. Nick and I. We... Oh god Sade. What do I do?" The young girl asked looking up at her big sister, her role model.
"I don't know. I really don't even know what to think right now," Sadie said getting up. "You need to go and take a test. Just to be sure," Sadie said before walking out of the room and leaving her little sister alone.
They're supposed to have your back.
"Did you hear about Jude?" Jessie asked walking down the hall a few months into Jude's seventh grade year.
"What, that she's a total slut and trapped Nick with a baby?" her friend, Nichole asked.
"Yeah and he still took off to the States." They passed by Jude giving her an evil look while looking her up and down.
"Sadie, I can't believe your sister. Seriously, she's what, thirteen, and gonna be a Mommy?"
"Yeah, well that's Jude for ya. Never thinking before she acts," said Sadie while glaring at Jude before she turned on her heel and walked down the hall.
"Don't worry about her. She's just pissed that Nick or Jason didn't like her," Kat said coming to her best friends side.
"Yeah but she could still stick up for me," Jude said wiping her eyes. "Damn hormones make me emotional," she whispered under her breath.
And bail you out in you time of need.
"Please Sadie? I have to do the radio stops today with Tommy. Mom and Dad are both working, Kat has that school thing, and Jamie refuses to be alone with her. You know I wouldn't ask you unless it was last minute," Jude begged, running behind the stairs after her sister.
"MOMMY!!" Stephanie screamed from her room.
"No can do. I have to go shopping with Mir."
"MOMMY!!"
"Besides sounds like she wants her Mom," she said with a smug face.
"One second baby!" Jude called to her daughter. "Please? Tommy's gonna be here in like five minutes."
"MOMMY NOW!" Steph yelled on the verge of tears just as the doorbell rang.
"Come in," the two sisters yelled at the same time.
"TOMMY!!" Steph called from the top of the stairs.
"Hey squirt," he said sitting down at the bottom of the stairs so she could hop down to him. "You ready to go?" He asked turning to Jude.
"I can't go Tommy. I don't have a sitter," Jude said pulling her hair into a high ponytail.
"What about-" Tommy asked only to be cut off.
"Yeah, no can do. I have plans," Sadie said walking into the room.
"We can take her. I'll just keep her in the car with me," Tommy said bending down to pick up the toddler up and kissing her cheek.
"You sure?" she asked.
"Yeah. It's cool."
"Give me fifteen minutes to change and grab her stuff," she said running up the stairs. He turned to Sadie.
"Would it kill you to help her a little bit?" Tommy asked the older Harrison sister when he heard the door shut.
"Well if she didn't screw up in the first place then it wouldn't be like this," Sadie said before slamming the door shut.
But Not Mine.
"Thanks for helping me with her today Tommy," Jude said as Tommy pulled into G-major's parking lot later that night.
"It's fine," he said as he got out of the car. "She's a cool kid. A lot like her mom," he said opening the door for her.
"Okay Quincy. Let me grab her and we'll head in to see what was so important that we had to come in tonight," Jude said turning to take Stephanie out of her booster seat.
"I'll get her. Just grab her stuff," Tommy said while carefully lifting the sleeping toddler into his arms. Jude smiled as he started to walk away with her life in his arms. Quickly grabbing the bag she packed for Steph and the Punk Princess pillow that Kwest had bought for her a few weeks before, Jude locked the Hummer and ran to catch up to them at the door.
"Can our new favorite Rockstar handle both fame and being a Mom?" "What else is Jude Hiding?" "Rockstar Mom? Can she handle it all?"
Those were just a few of the headlines that were spread out on the conference table.
"You can't be serious..." Jude trailed off as she flipped though all of the magazines.
"And on top of everything else, "I'm In Love With My Guitar" isn't getting the air time we hoped," said EJ from her left.
"Why the hell is my daughter even being held against me in the first place? People don't know me. Or my past," Jude said before burying her head in her hands.
"Welcome to the music business," said Georgia. "Plus no one knew about Steph. They're going to use whatever they possibly can to tear you down."
"So how do we get the focus off Steph and back on Jude's music?" Tommy asked from Jude's right side.
"We need something that will prove to the media that Jude is the real thing. A new killer single," EJ started. "I'm gonna set up some interviews for you, but you're going to have to bring Steph along. Just to prove to everyone that you can be both a rock star and a mom. Got it?" Everyone nodded before they went the separate ways.
"I'm screwed Kat," Jude said that night on the phone while giving her daughter a bath.
"No you're not," Kat tried to reassure her. "You'll figure something out. You always do." Jude heard two voices in the hallway.
"Hold on Kat. Steph, sit still baby," Jude said before opening the door to see who was out there.
"It was just a joke sweetie," her dad said, looking Sadie in the eyes.
"You promise?" her big sister asked.
"I promise," he said, kissing her forehead. Jude just shrugged and shut the door.
"Okay Stephie, time to wash your hair!" Steph clapped her hands and Jude couldn't help but smile. "Sorry about that Kat," Jude said holding her cell phone to her ear with her shoulder as she rubbed the baby shampoo into her daughters blond hair.
"Too bad you can't get away for the weekend with Tommy or something," Kat said from the other end.
"Yeah right. Even if I knew of a place, my parents would never let me be alone with Tommy for the weekend. My mom is all worried that something's going to happen," Jude said rolling her eyes as she covered Steph's big blue eyes with one hand and poured a cup of water over her hair with the other.
"Oh my God!" Kat yelled.
"Ow. Kat, it may be hard to believe, but I need my ear drums."
"What about your family's farm house outside the city?" the teen asked excitedly.
"That could actually work. But back to the point where my parents would flip their lids before I was alone with Tommy for a weekend," Jude said wiping her hands on a towel before pulling the plug and standing up.
"Your mom does know that Tommy is like, super old, right?"
"Tommy's a year older then Jason. He's only twenty two," she said while wrapping Steph up in her pink princess towel that Sadie had bought her.
"He's a musician. That adds like ten more years."
"So I'm like twenty five?" Jude asked with a laugh as she placed Steph on her hip and they made their way out of the bathroom.
"Back to my original point. What if you and Tommy weren't alone?" Kat asked.
"Steph wouldn't exactly be counted as a chaperone," Jude said placing her daughter on her princess bed, while walking over to the white dresser.
"What if Jamie and I joined you after my fashion show?" Kat asked with an obvious smile in her voice.
"Kat, my dear Kat, has anyone ever told you that you are a genius?" Jude said with a laugh.
"Yes, actually they have. Anyways, so clear it with the rents and Quincy, then call me back. I'll break the news to Jamie."
"Will do," Jude said hanging up to get her daughter ready for bed.
"Mommy, tell me about Daddy," Steph said that night while they sat under the stars.
"I know he loves you very much," Jude said kissing her daughters hair.
"Then why he no come see me?" the little girl asked.
"He does see you little one. He sees you all the time. When you eat, when you go to Miss Jessica's, and when you sleep. He even sees us right now," Jude said as her daughter snuggled up against her chest.
"Does he loves us?"
"He loves us so much that he cried when he had to say goodbye," the young mother said closing her eyes and resting her head on top of her daughters.
Jude walked into the back yard that had been a second home to her since she was four. "Hey you," she said, sitting next to the dark brown haired teenage boy that was resting against the tree.
"Hey baby," he said leaning up to kiss her as he rested his hand on her stomach. "How is she?"
"Fine. Kicking up a storm. And worried about you. Have your heard anything back about the test you took?" Jude asked running a hand though her blonde hair.
"Yeah. A few days ago,"" he said leaning back against the tree.
"And what, you decided not to tell me? Thanks Nick, that makes me feel just freaking great," she said rolling her eyes.
"There was no point in stressing you out more."
"What could possibly stress me out more, Nick? Just tell me."
"You want the bad news or the worse news first?" he asked meeting her eyes.
"Will either lessen the punch?" she asked only to receive a shake of the head. "Fine then. The bad news first," she answered, not at all prepared for what she was about to hear.
"My dad was transferred. We have to be in LA by the October first," he told her looking down.
"That's in like three weeks," Jude whispered.
"I know. Everyone's already packing."
"What could possibly be worse then you moving?" Jude asked.
"I'm not going to be around like I promised," he said with sadness lacing his voice.
"I get that you're moving, but you can still fly back and stuff. You'll be here." Jude said meeting his eyes and trying to hold his hand. "We can make it work."
"Baby, you know how much I want to, but I won't be able to. I'm, um... oh man. Jude, the tests were bad. Really bad."
"Like... how bad?" He sighed.
"I have Leukemia," he said bluntly. "They don't know how much longer I have." Jude looked at him in disbelief.
"But they can fix it. There's chemo and stuff," Jude said as the tears fell from her eyes. He shook his head.
"It's too late. Nothing will help. There's nothing that can be done," Nick said as his own tears fell. He pulled Jude into his arms the two cried what felt like hours until they both dosed off under the tree.
"Don't tell me you feel asleep too," a voice said, pulling Jude back to the present.
"Jeez, Tommy. Don't do that to me," Jude said after she saw who it was.
"Sorry," he said sitting down next to her, smiling softly at the two year old fast asleep against her mom.
"So I think I figured out a way to get the new single done," Jude said rubbing her eyes and looking at him.
"I'm listening."
"My parents own a small farm house outside the city. We could go there for the weekend, have a cookout, play with Steph, write a new song…"
"That sounds cool. So your parents are cool with just the three of us?" Tommy asked.
"Yeah about that..." she said slowly. "They aren't all that cool with that. So JamieandKathavetocometoo."
"Woah. Run that by me again, please?"
"Jamie and Kat have to come too. But they won't be there till Saturday night. So they won't be in the way." He sighed.
"Fine. When do we leave?" he asked. This caused Jude to smile very widely.
"Early tomorrow morning. Sadie has some debate thing at school so I'll be up early anyway."
"Alright. I'll see you then. But make sure that Andrews knows that we're working," Tommy said as he was standing up.
"I will. Thanks Tommy."
"Not a problem girl. Get some sleep," he said then bent down and kissed each of the girls on their foreheads.
The next afternoon, Sadie stood out in the hallway talking with some of her friends that had come to support her. She had been up since five that morning getting ready for the debate and she could head Jude up at seven packing bags for her and Steph. She remembered the shock that had went though her body when Jude told her that she and Tommy were spending the weekend at their farmhouse together. She knew her sister had a crush on Little Tommy Q, and Sadie could tell that Tommy felt something for Jude. What it was, she didn't know yet, but it pissed her off every time she saw Tommy look at her baby sister with soft eyes and a smile. What pissed her off the most was that Tommy was the second guy that Sadie had liked that had picked Jude over her. What the hell was so special about her little sister? She would never understand.
"I wish you would have told me you were going to be here. I'm here with my wife. Sadie's the captain for Carson Hill," she heard her dad say to someone. She turned her head and saw Yvette place her hand on his check.
"Stuart, calm down. No one is ever going to find out," Yvette said rubbing his face while smiling at him before turning and walking away. Sadie looked on in shock. She knew something was going on between them, but had yet to admit it to herself. Now that she had seen it with her own eyes, she had no choice but to believe it.
"So your favorite color is silver, your favorite band is Green Day, and your favorite book is Twilight. But where is your favorite place to be?" Tommy asked as he unloaded the trunk of his Hummer. He and Jude spent the last two hours quizzing each other on their favorites, likes, dislikes, friends, and anything else that came to their minds.
"Seriously, Twilight is the best book ever. You just don't know what you're missing if you don't read it," she said while setting Steph down on the ground. She grabbed her guitar and Steph's bag in one hand and held her other hand out to her. Once her daughter's hand was safely tucked into hers, she started towards the back door of her second home. "And this is my favorite place in the world. I love it here," she said pushing the door open and leading the way though the house.
A few hours later after Jude left Tommy in the guest bedroom to unpack, she moved down to her room. After placing Steph on the bed with some toys, she quickly unpacked their bags and took her keyboard downstairs to set up the living room so she and Tommy could work and still see Steph from the playroom. When her notebook and the guitars were all set up, she ran back up the stairs to find Tommy sitting on her bed looking at a picture that her daughter held in her hands. "That's Mommy, Auntie Sades, Uncle Jason, Daddy, Auntie Tasha," she said as her little finger moved down the line to each person.
Tommy studied the picture not believing what he saw. Sadie and Jude had their arms wrapped around each other, holding each other close wearing the biggest smiles he had ever seen from either girl. On Sadie's left was a younger version of Jason probably around nineteen, and on Jude's right was a boy about a year older then her with his arm tight around her waist and his other hand resting on her thigh. Tommy had seen pictures of him before in Steph's room when he would pick up Jude. His eyes shifted from Jason, to the boy and then finally the girl on his right. The boy had to be Nick. The girl was probably Nick and Jason's sister. Looking up, he saw Jude standing in the doorway.
"Hey, you ready?" he asked, laying the picture down on her bed. He wanted to ask what changed between her and Sadie and why Nick wasn't around, but Jamie's "She'll tell you about it when she's ready," rang though his mind, so he decided against it.
"Yeah. Just let me get something," she said walking into the room.
"Come on Squirt. Time to work," he said picking up the little girl that he loved more then anyone would ever know and tossing her over his shoulder.
"Tommy!!" the toddler giggled as he tickled her while they walked.
"For Carson Hill: Senior Sadie Harrison," said the announcer before stepping away. Sadie stood at the podium and looked out at the crowd in the gym. Her dad sat with her mom and had an arm around her.
"Um, genetic modification is dangerous but it can, and will work," she said looking down at her notes to look up to see her dad and Yvette smiling at each other. "You know what, who am I kidding?" she yelled. "He's right. You can't change human nature. Take any man. Copy their DNA, and they're all still dogs," she said while glaring at her dad.
"You and Sadie use to be close," Tommy said, looking up from the picture of the two Harrison sisters that couldn't have been but three years old, when he heard Jude walk back into the room after putting a movie in for the little girl in the next room.
"Yeah," she said, joining him at the mantle that was filled with family pictures. "We were. Emphasis on were."
"What happened?" he asked.
"I got pregnant. Jason. Yeah."
"What's he got to do with it?" She sighed.
"Sadie had a huge crush on him, and when they moved to the States she got over it, but she was pissed off at me because I apparently was the neighborhood's biggest whore. Then when Nick-" she paused. "Jason stuck by me though my pregnancy and a bunch of other stuff. Sadie didn't like that he had turned her down so many times and that when everyone but Kat, Jamie and my parents pretty much disowned me, he was still right there with me. He came to take me out to dinner one night last year when he was in town, and Sadie was mad cause mom said she had to baby sit for me. When I didn't tell her where I was going because I didn't want her to get all mad at me, she said I was probably going to screw around with someone and get knocked up again. Well Jason had just walked in right then. So long story short, she got so pissed that she walked out. Jason took me and Steph out to dinner that night and hasn't spoken a word to Sadie since he yelled at her and called her a selfish bitch," Jude said wiping the tears away.
"Hey. Come here girl, " Tommy said pulling her into a hug. "Don't cry," he whispered into her hair while rubbing smooth circles into her back.
"I'm sorry," said Jude, lifting her face from his chest a few minutes later.
"Don't worry about it," Tommy said, still holding her body close to his.
"You wanna know about Nick don't you?" she said, reading his eyes.
"Yeah, but only if your ready to tell." Jude nodded and opened her mouth to talk just as the front door swung open.
"Hey guys!" said Sadie from the door. They both turned to look at her.
Well there it is. I hope you guys like it. Sorry we haven't update in a few months, things were nuts for the rest of the summer then we both started school and we both agree that being a freshman in College and a junior sucks. Plus I'm work a lot lately. I'll try to get the second part of hey sister posted next week. Also I have a prfile on my profile, if you guys want to check it out and vote. In the mean time please Read and Review!
