Jude strummed her guitar, the studio was her safe haven and she thanked God for the talent he had given her.
"Have a heart-. Make a start-. Take a chance to break apart." Jude smiled and wrote down the words.
Her cell phone dinged in her pocket.
"Hello?"
There was a pause on the other line.
"Hello?" Jude asked again.
"Hey, baby."
"Hey Dayton." Jude smiled.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm at the studio, writing."
"That's fun."
"Sure enough."
"What are you doing later?"
"Dayton, it's 3 a.m." Jude laughed.
"So. There's still a later." Dayton smiled.
Jude knew he was smiling and imagined his dimples.
"That's true." Jude smiled.
"Meet me at my apartment. I've got a surprise for you."
"A surprise? What kind?"
"You'll just have to see."
"Okay." Jude laughed slightly and looked at her phone.
She didn't know the number.
"Hey. Let me call you back someone's on the other line." Jude said quickly.
"Okay, I love you babe."
"I love you too. Bye." Jude clicked over.
"Hello?" Jude asked.
"Jude. It's you."
"Hello?" Jude asked again, her voice breaking. Was that Tommy?
No one spoke.
The line clicked.
Jude looked at her phone and gulped.
He had hung up.
She didn't even know if it was him.
It couldn't have been?
Could it?
"God, damn this phone to hell!" Tommy threw his phone on the floorboard of his car.
He raced down the highway, half blinded by rage.
Jude laid on the carpeted floor of the studio.
The booth was sound proof.
She could scream.
No. She wouldn't.
Her mind wandered to the time she and Tommy did.
She thought of all the things that were left unsaid and Jude started to cry.
She picked up her guitar.
"Because days come and go. But my feelings for you are forever. Because days come and go. But my feelings for you are forever."
She had promised Tommy forever.
But she had promised Dayton forever too.
'It wasn't Tommy.' She told herself.
'It wasn't.'
Jude grabbed her journal and guitar case and walked out of the studio.
She walked out the double doors several nights before, just the same as she did now.
But then, something stopped her in her tracks.
"Jude!"
She spun around.
"Tommy?!"