Let's Go-Clude

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by georgiawrite

by georgiawrite

DESCRIPTION: Cleo and Jude talk about what they are after their kiss. (S7)
WHAT TO READ: N/A
DATE PUBLISHED: 15/10/20

A/N Hey guys. Sorry I haven't gotten around to updating this week, but hopefully this makes up for it. Don't forget to comment which couples you'd like to see next. I'm still figuring a new schedule out, but I'll try to post again in the next couple of days. I hope you enjoy!

Jude's POV

The kiss was everything that I had ever dreamed of and more. We danced together, something I had been wanting to do since I met her at the alternate auditions, and then we kissed. But we haven't spoken since.

I'm not sure whether it's because B-Troupe is busy getting ready for Nationals, or if Cleo was so disturbed by what happened between us that she is avoiding me. I hope she isn't: I don't know what I'd do without her.

"Hey, Jude," Izzy says as we both sit down on the bench in Studio 1. "A bunch of us are heading down to The Next Steep to grab a drink. Do you wanna join us?"

I look around the studio at my teammates. Everyone's packing their bags and heading out (probably to The Next Steep), but not Cleo. She's standing in the middle of the studio as if waiting for us all to leave. And as much as I want to hang out with my other teammates, this could be my only chance to talk to Cleo about our kiss.

"Actually, I'm going to hang back for a bit," Izzy nods before zipping up her bag and standing up. "But, if I'm finished here early I'll come and join you guys."

"Okay, see ya," Izzy says before walking out of the studio with Maya and Pete, the three of them now leaving Cleo and me alone in the place where everything happened. The place where I find out what we are.

"You're not heading off with the others?" Cleo questions upon seeing me at the benches. She comes over and sits in the spot with Izzy once occupied. Except instead of feeling the calm that I had felt mere seconds ago, I now feel the knots in my stomach.

"No, I, um, thought that we, um, might need to talk." Cleo seems taken aback momentarily but is soon to adjust her body to face me.

"Yeah, I think we need to."

Great. She's probably going to let me down easy and say that the kiss was a mistake, that being in the same room as I was too weird - that I was too weird.

"So, that kiss." I look over at Cleo and see a faint smile on her face as she speaks. Maybe I've got it all wrong. "I'm sorry." Maybe not.

"What about?" Boy, I hope she lets me down easy,

"For avoiding you these past couple of days. I just needed time to process us, so I busied myself with B-Troupe and Nationals stuff. I'm sorry."

So she did like the kiss? She wasn't avoiding me because the kiss was bad; she was avoiding me so that she could think about us. Just like I had been doing since she left me alone in Studio 1 after our kiss. "I really like you," I tell her earnestly before taking her hand and hoping she doesn't push me away.

She squeezes my hand. "I really like you, too."

I should've known that she didn't hate me. After all, we did go on a group date together, and she seemed to enjoy the night. But I think I was putting into my head that she liked hanging out with her old teammates and not with me. Now I know I was wrong. She had enjoyed the night with me. "Do you want to go for a juice?" I ask pointing at the doorway behind us.

"I have a better idea," Cleo tells me before pulling us both off the bench and out of the studio.

"Where are we going?" I question as we pass The Next Steep, where all of our friends are.

"Do you like pizza?" She asks stopping abruptly, waiting for an answer.

"I love pizza!" I say excitedly and the two of us are soon back to hurrying down the halls of the studio. Thank God Nick and Emily are in Chicago, if they caught us running around like this, no doubt there'd be consequences.

For days I had thought that I had done something wrong - that the kiss was wrong - but it turns out Cleo and I just needed some time to figure out our feelings. Our mutual liking for each other. Even though I had told Izzy I'd meet the team at the café, spending time with Cleo is what I'd rather be doing.

She's the one, and I have a feeling that she feels the same way.