Jealous Much?

Jude backed off a little, but kept her eyes on the person in front of her. Sitting on a wheelchair, his legs covered by a black blanket, the hazel eyes boy gave her a nasty look, but his expression changed when he looked at her face. They were like that, looking at each other silently for a while before he abruptly looked away. His blonde hair covered his cheek and eyes.

"I'm…Jude Harrison, and I didn't mean to get in your room without permission" Jude said, apologizing as she walked towards the door.

"No!" the boy half screamed. Jude looked at him intently. He should be her age, but there was something in his eyes that made him look older and tired.

"Okay, I'll stay, but say something, because I get bored when people don't talk…maybe it's because of sister Cheeks, she's talking all the time and…"

"Could you stop? You're confusing me"

Jude smiled and walked towards him.

"I'm sorry…hey, you haven't introduced yourself yet"

The boy looked down as he thought for a moment.

"I'm Vincent. Vincent Spiederman. My aunt is married to the owner of this house…"

"So the bitchy mistress is your aunt…" Jude commented distractedly as she looked at the paintings on the walls.

Vincent nodded as he smiled.

"You painted all these beautiful things?" she asked as she looked away from the naked girl to him.

"Yes. Years ago, when my life wasn't a mess, as you can see now"

He said as he looked around, plunged in a sad melancholy. Jude rolled her eyes.

"Of course your life is a mess…you don't let the Sun come in!"

"The sun? I don't see it since I got tied up to this thing"

Jude made a sound of disapproving as she opened the curtains, just a little. Then she walked around the desk as she picked the right words.

"Look Spied…I can call you Spied, can't I? ...okay, Spied, you're an asshole"

"Sorry, what?"

"And asshole. A complete jerk. I don't know what happened and what got you in that chair, but hey, it's not the end of the world. You're the same person, just a little smaller and instead of two legs now you got four…isn't that great?!"

Vincent looked at her and smiled. She was so innocent and so frank, so different from all the people he had met in his life.

"Look, tonight we're going to party….you wanna go?"

"We?"

"Me and Kat. She's the maid of the house, you surely know her"

"Actually no. I don't leave the room and Mason is the only one who's allowed to get in here"

Jude rolled her eyes and looked at him, amused.

"Oh. You're a pain in the ass Spied. But I'll change that. C'mon, come with us to the bar tonight. Maybe you find the perfect face for that stark naked girl" she said, pointing at the painting on the wall.

He looked down as he shook his head.

"No, I'm sorry but I'm not in the mood and I don't want to ruin your night. And besides, I think I already found the face I was looking for" He commented, looking up into her eyes.

Jude didn't understand the real meaning of Vincent's words and looked around again. A clock on the wall made her come back to reality.

"Oh crap! I gotta go! The guys must be waiting for me at the orphanage!"

She turned around and ran towards the door, but before she could open the door, someone else did. Tommy was now in front of her, looking at her completely puzzled.

"What the hell are you…"

"Get out of my way, asshole!" she yelled at him, angrily. Then she turned around to look at Vincent "I'll come to see you later, just if you want"

Vincent smiled as he nodded.

"Come every time you want...you're welcome here"

"Thanks Spied!" she walked towards him and gave him a kiss on his left cheek before she walked out of the room, giving a last nasty look at Tommy.

He looked at Jude walked away and then got inside the room, shutting the door behind him.

"Spied?" he said, frowning.

Vincent laughed again.

"It's okay…I like it"

There was something in his cousin's voice that disturbed him. A lot.

"Please cousin…why did you let her in?" he asked him with a reproaching tone, as if he had just stolen something from him.

"I didn't…but she's great. Is she staying here?"

Something inside Tommy made him want to jump over his cousin and kill him, in the most painful way. Why was he asking if Jude was staying? He didn't care…he couldn't care.

"Mmm…I don't know. I heard they're leaving in a few days" he said distractedly as he looked away, trying not to be too obvious.

The goofy smile disappeared from Vincent's face immediately.

"Oh"

Tommy cleared his throat.

"And where did she go?" he asked as if he didn't care at all.

Spied thought for a moment.

"I don't know…she said something about guys and an orphanage…"

Before Vincent could finish the sentence, Tommy stormed out of the room.

"Tommy, we're late…can you please…" Kwest told him when he saw his friend walking out of the house.

"Later Kwest" He said, determined as he looked for his car keys inside his pocket. "Now we're going to pay a visit to an orphanage"

"Ok. What the hell are we doing here?...wait, this was the place where we met Charlie. When she hit you…you know where"

Kwest pointed at the lower part of Tommy's body as he smirked. He gave his friend a deathly look before he walked towards the entrance of the orphanage. Before he knocked the door, he heard a familiar voice.

"Yes, but move that leg…yes, I love it!"

It was coming from the yard next to the orphanage, which was separated by a wall from the rest of the building. As the anger rose inside of him, he walked towards the yard just to find Jude, wearing man's clothes again and hugging a guy from behind. She took his hand and he looked into her eyes, both of them smiling.

"No!" Jude screamed, but she was still smiling.

That was enough for Tommy. Completely blinded by the situation, he jumped over the boy.

"Hey you! Take your hands off of her!!" he said as he took him by the shirt and hit his face as hard as he could. The guy fell on the floor, screaming in pain.

"What the…"

Tommy looked at his victim on the floor and smiled proud of himself as he raised his eyes to look at Jude. She was looking at him as if she was about to kill him. Instinctively, he backed off a little.

"What?" He asked innocently.

Jude rolled her eyes as she rested her hands on her hips.

"I was trying to teach him how to kick the ball and you come here to bug me?!" she screamed as she hit him across the face "You're worse than sister Cheeks!...come here Bryan, take my hand"

Tommy looked in shock as Jude helped the guy to stand up. The boy gave him a nasty look and walked away, with his hand over his face.

"I was just defending you!" Tommy defended himself.

Jude laughed as looked at him, totally angry.

"From what, stupid?! He's my pupil! I teach football here, asshole!"

Tommy was about to protest, but Jude's words made him shut his mouth. The silent was filled by Kwest laughs.

"Sorry, I didn't know…" he tried to apologize, but she interrupted him.

"And why did you have to know?"

"I…I…"

Jude took a deep breath

"Just stay away from me…it's already a torture see you at home"
Giving him a last deathly stare, she walked away to join the other guys she was teaching.
Tommy looked at she walked away, unable to speak.

"She hates you!" Kwest said, cracking up.

Tommy looked at him. No, that couldn't be true. Nobody hated him…there was not a woman on the face of earth that hated him.

"What? No! She's just hiding her feelings for me…" he said, trying to convince himself more than Kwest.

He laughed again.

"Tommy…that girl doesn't have feelings…I'm not even sure she has a soul"

They both looked as Jude hit a boy's head and screamed something. A smirk appeared across Tommy's face.

"You wanna bet?"

Kwest looked at him, opening his eyes wide.

"What?!"

"Charlie is dying for me, I'm sure of it…and I can show you…"

"How?"

"You know how I show you…"

Kwest gave his friend one of his "no way" looks.

"She's not gonna sleep with you…that's only a dream, Quincy"

"Ok…if you're afraid…"

"No, I'm not. Ok, let's bet…It won't be bad to have some extra money, after all" Kwest replied, confidently.

Tommy looked as Jude hit the ball and sent it right to the goal.

"I'll have her in my bed before you can say ´I lost my money´"

That night.

"Okay Jude, we dress like this one more time and I bet we'll be excommunicated"

"C'mon Kat! No one knows! Sister Cheeks thinks I'm sleeping in my bed and it's your free day, so…"
"I don't know, Jude. I don't even know why I do everything you say"

"Because you know it's a good idea…c'mon, lets dance!" Jude took Kat's hand to drag her to the dance floor, but she stood there, completely pale.

"Now I'm done…the boss is here again!" she pointed at the table at the other side of the bar. She was right, Tommy and Kwest were there, drinking and laughing.

"I'm leaving"

"Please Kat! Tommy won't say a word…and if he does, I'll hit him so hard that the rest of his life he'll be known as the walking whistle"

Kat took a deep breath and nodded. Jude smiled and walked towards the dance floor, followed by Kat. Suddenly something blocked her way. She looked up to realize that the something was indeed someone. A male someone, wearing rags, with a big mane of black hair and a long beard. Jude backed off, but immediately felt her hands around her, pulling her closer to him. His eyes were so familiar, she thought.

"It's amazing…" he said amazed as he looked into her eyes.

Jude was totally paralyzed, just as Kat. In the right second she was about to scream she felt as someone dragged the ragged man away from him. She just stood there, looking as a man fought with the creepy guy. Her smile faded immediately when she realized that the man was Thomas Quincy.

"You fiancée is defending you from a psycho... That's so romantic!" Kat yelled as she looked as the two men hit the other. Tommy hit the guy's stomach and he hit Tommy back, with a disparaging smile on the face. Jude rolled her eyes.

"No when the psycho is winning"

There was a bunch of people around, cheering up the fight. Suddenly the ragged man hit Tommy on the face and he fell on the floor, unconscious. Before Jude could react, the creepy guy ran away, totally scared.

"What the hell was that?" Jude said, totally puzzled as she looked at Kat, who simply shrugged.

"Jude, what are we gonna do now?"

"Why?" Jude asked, as she kicked Tommy to wake him up.

"Well, Mr. Kwest is in the bathroom and Mr. Thomas is gonna wake up soon…"

Jude turned around and looked at her friend.

"Oh, I see your point. Kat, we have to think about this…" She stared back at Tommy and then at Kat.

"Yes, I know..."

Jude raised her hand on the air and smiled happily.

"I've got an idea!"

Kat looked at her, puzzled and motioned her to tell her the idea. Jude looked around and straightened her skirt.

"Run!"