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Chapter Twenty-Six

Over the next few days, Jude had practically no time to spend with Mason. The day after she got the letter for the charity fashion show, she had been paired with her stylist to start making the dress. Her name was Laura Till and was in her late twenties, by Jude's guess. Jude had absolutely no experience in making a dress what-so-ever; this was more of Sadie's area of expertise. Nevertheless, she had to do it and would put herself through the misery anyway. Anything for Jeff…she thought sarcastically, sifting through different materials. She settled on a soft metallic material that was a deep crimson color. She brought the material over to show Laura, who had already begun to draw up a few designs on her notepad.

"Great choice, Jude! Just look through these designs and see which one you like best. If you don't like any of them, you can create your own," she stated taking the material and handing Jude the notepad.

Looking through the designs, Jude liked a few of them, but none were really…her. They all showed too much skin and made her look like everyone else. Jude wanted to stand out and tell people that she's not the whore they all think she is. Well, at least the girls on the show think I'm a whore…

She loved the idea of a strapless dress and decided to go from there. Flipping to a new page she grabbed a pencil and started sketching an outline. The top was tailored to fit her like a corset, but only not as painful. The rest of the dress flowed outward, but didn't make her look like a big puff ball either. From the waist down, the fabric would be in layers, with a black lining showing from underneath. When she was done drawing, it looked simple, yet elegant. She also realized that her skills for artwork weren't first class either.

After showing the design to Laura they began to work on their newest creation. Mason came into the room admiring their progress.

"Wow, for not wanting to design a dress this looks like it has some potential," he said to Jude, looking at the mannequin. It only had the first black layer on, but was actually starting to look like a dress. Jude stepped back and turned to Mason.

"Thanks. Hopefully we can get this done today so I don't have to slave on it for the rest of the week. Being on camera and pretending to enjoy it really takes out a lot of my energy," she replied taking a sip out of her water bottle. "But what are you doing here? Didn't you say you were going down to the studio?"

"I was until sexy ass showed up. It took all that's in me not to hurt him, but I didn't want to damage his cute little face." Jude laughed trying to imagine Tommy's face if he ever found out Mason was gay.

"No, you don't have to hurt him. I'm slowly getting used to this whole 'Bachelor' thing. Plus, he didn't even do anything to me to hurt me, besides ask out Sadie. I mean he told me he loved me and I blew him off. It should be him trying to rearrange my face, not the other way around," she said calmly turning back to work on the dress.

"True, but I just hate to see you when you get hurt. Oh have you found your journal yet?" He asked remembering her state when she found that it was nowhere in her room. He had asked the limo driver about it, and he said that he gave it back to Jude before they entered the mansion.

"No, I have no clue where it is," she said, her anger building at remembering her conversation with Jeff earlier, "oh and Jeff…told me he wants me to sing at the end of the fashion show! What am I supposed to do now! All of my songs were in there," Jude continued becoming very upset.

"Don't worry, just sing one of your other songs off of your album."

"But I don't want to! I was planning on singing a very special song for our dear Jeffery," she said, her tone dripping with disdain. "If you find it will you tell me?"

"Of course. Listen, I promised Sadie I would hang out with her today, so I have to go."

"Sadie wants to hang out with you?" Jude said clearly shocked. "Why is she being so friendly all of a sudden?"

"Well seeing as how we'll be having lunch with Tommy and Rachel, I'm guessing it's just to get Quincy jealous," he said laughing, "Oh if only he knew I was gay," Mason stated in a dream like state.

"Hah, yeah that would be a day to remember for the rest of your life."

Outside in the courtyard Sadie was walking and talking with Tommy. Well, more of walking and flirting heavily trying to gain his attention again. She had linked her arm with his and was rambling on about how much she adored him. Tommy was just nodding his head, every once in a while giving a short response when needed. Sadie saw that he was distancing himself and decided to change the subject to something where she, unfortunately, knew would grab his attention.

"So I found my sister's journal the other day, I guess she misplaced it when her and Mason were cleaning through her room."

Tommy's eyes lit up and darkened at the same time at the mention of Jude and Mason. He didn't like Mason; the way he possessively had his arms around her whenever he was around. How he just stares him down for no good reason, with a look to kill. There was definitely something going on that Tommy didn't know about, but there was one thing he did know. He sure as hell did not like the way things are looking right now. Realizing that if he didn't talk he wasn't going to get any more information out of Sadie, he spoke up.

"Jude keeps a journal?" Tommy asked. It was the first sentence he had formed on their walk. Sadie's heart sank knowing the affect Jude had on him, but kept going with the same demeanor.

"Yeah it has all of her songs in it that she writes. She takes it everywhere with her, always finding new inspiration."

"Do you mind if I take a look at it?" he asked trying not to sound like he was intruding. Sadie knew that this could possibly be a dangerously bad idea, but decided that it could only help her in the competition. Searching through her bag, her fingers finally reached the hard cover of what was Jude's. Lifting the journal from her purse she almost hesitated before handing it over.

Tommy flipped open the cover and skimmed through her songs. Many of them he recognized, some he didn't. Probably from her first album…he thought turning the pages. He finally came to the newer songs, songs that he, sometimes painfully, remembered. One caught his eye that he hadn't heard yet. It was right before "There's Us" and looked old, like she had thrown it away but changed her mind. His brow furrowed as he read through the lyrics. Who is this about? He asked as he progressed farther in reading her song, "Skin". Is this about me? Has to be, she's been so hostile to me lately. Plus, all of her songs she has written since being on the show have been, in some way, directed toward me. He thought feeling very unsettled about the whole thing. All of a sudden he was struck with a wave of guilt at reading her journal and quickly closed it before returning it to Sadie.

Sadie could tell something struck him hard by reading his expression. Hopefully this is a good thing…she prayed to herself placing the journal back into the bag. Sadie looked into his eyes trying to see what he was thinking, but it was no use. She looked down to her cell phone and realized it was about time for their lunch date with Mason and Rachel.

"We better hurry up and get back to the mansion. Remember we have a date with Mason and Rachel," she reminded him. Great…just great…Tommy thought sarcastically before pinning a fake smile on his face.

"Sure let's go," he said linking his hand with Sadie's and heading to the house. They passed through the hallway looking for Mason, reaching him when he was coming out of Jude's room. Doesn't he have anything better to do? Tommy thought, a mean glare fixed on his face.

"Hey Sadie, what's new with you guys today?" he asked glancing over at Tommy. Ouch, something's got his boxer's in a twist today…

"Oh not that much, we just finished our walk. Have you seen Rachel?"

"Um…I think she told me earlier that she was just going to meet us down there," he replied taking Sadie's arm, "Shall we?" he motioned toward the staircase, looking back to see that Tommy's glare hadn't moved from his face. Sadie smiled at Mason, thinking the reason of Tommy's actions was because of her.

"Sure let's go! Oh, first I have to give this back to Jude," she said pulling out the journal.

"Oh my god you found it! Jude's been going ballistic ever since she found out it was missing, here I'll give it to her," he said grabbing the journal and going back into Jude's room leaving the door open.

"Jude, look what I've got!" he said holding up the journal. Jude's eyes shot wide open as she jumped up to give Mason a huge hug, not seeing Sadie and Tommy behind him.

Tommy looked away jealously, hating Mason more every second. He coughed and made his presence known. Jude looked back and became very uncomfortable with the situation, even though she knew Mason was gay…Tommy didn't. She eased back and took the journal, choosing to just ignore Tommy all together.

"You found it! Where was it!" she exclaimed holding her songs protectively.

"Actually I didn't find it, Sadie just did," he replied.

"Well whoever found it, thank you! Now I can finally start rehearsing that new song for the charity fashion show."

Tommy's ears perked up hearing this. She's performing that song?! Oh great…just great…he thought while his piercing stare seemed to heat up a few notches. Jude met his stare with a confused one full of questions. Sadie saw Tommy's rage begin to skyrocket and decided getting the hell out of there would be a very, smart choice.

"Guys? We have that lunch date with Rachel that we were supposed to be at 15 minutes ago," she said pushing Tommy out the door, his stare still fixed on Mason and Jude. Jude gazed at him with a weird look on her face before leaning in to whisper to Mason.

"Be nice to him today, something has him all worked up and I'm scared to find out what it is."

"He's probably just jealous, seeing as how he doesn't know I'm gay," he said trying to contain a short laugh.

"Just be nice," she warned.

Mason gave Jude a short hug before walking out to meet Sadie and Tommy in the hallway. Tommy's glare had fallen down to a respectable 'I want to kill you' from its former 'I want to castrate you then let you die a slow and painful death'. Mason tried hard not to smirk as he took Sadie's arm, guiding her down the steps to meet Rachel.

Tommy was slow in following them, concentrating on his thoughts. Ok, so Jude's going to play that one song, eh? Well maybe I should be prepared and have my own ready and prepared. Plus, it's for a good cause…the producers would go nuts over the idea…yeah this could work…Tommy finally met up with Sadie and Mason, who were very glad to see that his death glare had suspiciously vanished.