The song in this chapter is Lola by the Kinks. I hope you guys know what it is about, otherwise it isn't nearly as funny. Anyway ENJoy and REVIEW please!
Chapter 7
He's So Good At Demands
Jude and Tommy stared at each other as the man on the speaker phone continued to yell at them. They sat in the hotel conference room, where they had been summoned to take Darius's call the day after the concert. He had been going on for about 5 minutes and neither Tommy nor Jude had been able to get a word in. Tommy tapped his fingers on the table waiting for the man to finish and actually say something important. It's not like he had never been yelled at before. He had done plenty of things to push Darius's buttons, like elope with his sister. Jude pushed her chair back from the table and started to spin around, making Tommy laugh.
"What's so damn funny?!" Jude stopped turning and they both stared at the hated phone.
"Nothing D." Tommy finally said as Jude grinned at him. Darius continued to rant at them for being so stupid and how Tommy was ruining the Boyz Attack image.
"With all that being said. You two and SME are going to hit the studio on your first free day and record Broken."
"But D..." Jude protested. Their next free day was in Virginia and SME had been so excited to visit the King's Dominion amusement park. They were going to kill her.
"No buts! Georgia and I have agreed this needs to be released as a single right away while the fans still love it. We are going to at least make some money from this debacle of yours!" With that being said he hung up, leaving them to the loud dial tone.
"Who uses words like debacle? I'm glad he's not my manager." Jude grinned.
"So why don't you like Darius anyway? Besides the obvious I mean."
"He made Shay break up with me. Said it was bad for the image to have a girlfriend."
"And Shay did?" She nodded. "What is he 5?" Jude had to laugh.
"That's what I said to Shay. After that he decided to ignore his uncle at least." Jude had been dying to ask.
"So how'd your band take it last night?"
"Chaz and J.P. Were pissed. Sean and Bruno really didn't care as long as nothing in Boyz Attack really changed."
"Is this a problem then?" He shrugged.
"What are they going to do? Kick me out of the band?" He said cockily, knowing of course that he was the favorite Boyz member. Jude rolled her eyes at him. "So did you talk to Jamie?"
"Yeah...Do you remember a guy named Leon Weisz?" Tommy thought about it for a minute.
"Name sounds familiar."
"Well apparently he's Jamie's boss. He worked with you guys as an engineer on your first CD?" Tommy nodded, remembering him now. "He recognized your voice and sound right away and put two and two together. He knew I was a friend of Jamie's and that I was touring with you. After that, other radio stations called him asking for a copy and here we are."
At the next concert the fans asked for Broken again and after that they decided to just add it to the show. They made the single pretty quickly already knowing how they wanted it to sound. Sean the producer had been surprised that Tommy and Jude had so much input into the song. Most artists didn't help in the production process much leaving it to him. Sean didn't have to do much, but clean it up a little. They let SME do the instrumental first so they could run for the park as soon as they were done. Tommy and Jude had stayed behind to do the vocals and help with the mixing. Jude had learned how when she had been an intern at G-Major and Tommy had picked up some of it over the years. They had both gotten lost in the music and hours had gone by without them realizing it. Jude had wanted to go to King's Dominion too, but making music with Tommy hadn't been bad either. Tommy admitted he hadn't been to a an amusement park in years. The fans having made it almost impossible to be out in public like that. Jude had never really thought about how hard fame could be sometimes.
Bathroom Breaks
Jude saw him rounding the corner. Crap! She ran for the nearest door and as she opened it she ran straight into Tommy as he was exiting the Men's room. She pushed him back in in a surprising burst of strength and quickly joined him in the bathroom. As he started to speak she clamped her hand over his mouth and tried to listen for any noise from outside. He had the worst urge to lick her palm, but controlled himself. She heard Chaz's footsteps getting closer and the door began to swing open. She pulled Tommy into the nearest stall, locking it quickly and jumped on top of the toilet holding onto his shoulders for balance. He put his hands on her waist to steady her and mouthed 'Who?'
'Chaz' She mouthed back. She heard him starting to use the urinal and put her hands over her ears to block the sound. TMI. Tommy let out a chuckle making her glare at him. After a minute Tommy pulled her arms down and she heard the faucet running. They heard the door open and then squeak shut again and Jude let out the breath she had been holding. Tommy picked her up and placed her back on the floor. They pressed close as he swung open the stall door to let her out. He blocked the door before she could escape the bathroom.
"You know most girls chase after Chaz, not run when they see him." She blew on her bangs in frustration. Chaz tried to corner her constantly, even more so after the whole singing with Tommy incident and she was running out of excuses not to hang out with him. She even had SME run interference whenever they saw him focusing on her.
"He just..." She began. "He won't stop putting the moves on me. It's like breathing to him or something." Tommy started to laugh. "It's not funny!" She hit his arm. "He never takes a hint and just goes away."
"Did you tell him you weren't interested?" She rolled her eyes and gave him an exasperated look.
"Gee why didn't I think of that?" She said sarcasm dripping from every word. Truthfully Tommy had never seen Chaz show this level of interest in a girl before. There were always available fans after all.
"Wait. Is Chaz the reason half the crew thinks you're sleeping with your entire band?" She nodded, a little embarrassed.
"What? One boyfriend wouldn't have been enough? You had to have an entire harem?" Wally had gotten the bright idea to kiss Jude one day, when he saw Chaz coming and didn't have time to get Jude out of there. Then Kyle had been upset that he had been the only who had never kissed Jude. After that SME being SME took it over the top. They all got touchy feely whenever Chaz was nearby, but it didn't appear to work too well, because Chaz didn't really see them as competition. She explained the situation to him and he started to smirk.
"What you need is someone Chaz could really see you with." She raised her eyebrow at him.
"Are you offering to join my harem?"
"Oh you wouldn't need anyone else with me around." He said in a low husky voice as he gazed into her eyes. They stood like that for a moment before he remembered where they were.
"Come on. We should probably get out of here before someone comes in." As they walked out they ran into Kwest, who was one of the roadies, and Tommy's friend. He gave them a surprised look.
"Hey." Jude said before walking by him as if there was nothing strange, about her coming out of the Men's room.
"Hey." Kwest said as he gave Tommy an incredulous look, hoping what he was thinking was wrong.
"Get your mind out of the gutter man." Tommy punched his arm as he followed Jude. Of course it wasn't like Tommy had never pulled a groupie into the bathroom for an occasional quickie, but how could his friend think that of Jude? She was not that kind of girl.
She Squeezed Me Tight
Spied walked into the room that was set up for hospitality and saw everyone sitting around as if they had been waiting for him. Jude picked up her acoustic and started playing a familiar classic tune. Spied's face began to turn crimson and he turned to glare at J.P. And Sean. Jude, Kyle, and Wally had gone out to the movies last night, while Spied, J.P. And Sean had gone to a club. Spied had had a very interesting night apparently. He had hooked up with this amazingly hot older woman, who had hit on him when he walked in the door.
"You told them?!"
Jude started to sing and everyone who knew the words joined her.
I met her in a club down in old Soho
Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry cola
c-o-l-a cola
She walked up to me and she asked me to dance
I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said Lola
L-o-l-a Lola Lo-lo-lo-lo Lola
Well I'm not the world's most physical guy
But when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine
Oh my Lola Lo-lo-lo-lo Lola
Well I'm not dumb, but I can't understand
Why she walked like a woman and talked like a man
Oh my Lola Lo-lo-lo-lo Lola Lo-lo-lo-lo Lola
Well we drank champagne and danced all night
Under electric candle light
She picked me up and sat me on her knee
And said dear boy won't you come home with me
Well I'm not the world's most passionate guy
But when I looked in her eyes I almost fell for my Lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo Lola lo-lo-lo-lo Lola
Lola lo-lo-lo-lo Lola lo-lo-lo-lo Lola
I pushed her away
I walked to the door
I fell to the floor
I got down on my knees
Then I looked at her and she at me
Well that's the way that I want it to stay
and I always want it to be that way for my Lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo Lola
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for Lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo Lola
Well I left home just a week before
And I'd never even kissed a woman before
But Lola smiled and took me by the hand
And said dear boy I'm gonna make you a man
When they were done singing their eyes all focused on Spied for his reaction.
"You guys suck!" His face was still bright red and he walked back out the door listening to the sound of laughter.
"She really was hot..." J.P. Said to Sean who nodded. Even he hadn't known the amazingly hot older woman was anything other than she appeared.
Interlude
They stood on the roof top of the hotel, overlooking the city. Another hotel and another city. They all seemed to blend together she thought. He had followed her up here after seeing her enter the stairwell. She was trying to catch the sunset again. The wind whipped at her messy blond hair. Her arms rested on top of the railing as she leaned down, staring at the park below, the waning sun casting shadows among the trees. He mirrored her position a couple of feet over. They stood there in a comfortable silence until her voice broke the quiet.
"Have you ever been in love?" She asked looking over at him.
"If I was I didn't know it."
"Not even Portia?" He shook his head. She wondered why he had married her, but did not ask. It wasn't really any of her business.
"Have you?"
"I don't know." Telling him the partial truth as she could feel herself falling for him, even though she had tried so hard not to. "I always thought it would be like that feeling you get when you're just driving and you realize the sun is about to set. Everything is cast in that soft golden glow. Things just look different, better somehow." She shook her head. "That must sound cheesy to you."
"No." He was entranced by that image. "Is that why you always try to catch the sunset?" Her profile was silhouetted by that same light she spoke of and he couldn't look away.
"It's not the same though. For that moment to really mean anything, you can't go looking for it. You just have to find yourself living in it." He wondered if they were still talking about the setting sun.