𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐄𝐂𝐓 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐘, juke

V

Emily came home from school. with super good news.
She closes the door and walked to the kitchen.
"Hey mom, dad. I have some news."
"You got into the program! We know."
Julie tells her daughter. But Emily wasn't so happy to hear that both her parents knew about her audition.
"Why do you look so bummed?" Julie asked.
"Yeah, you're making this face." Luke imitates his daughter's face. Just like he did with Julie 25 years ago.
"Woah, I'm getting some flashbacks here." Julie smiled.
"I'm just bummed cause I wanted it to be a surprise. I mean how cool would it have been to hear now that your daughter got into a music program all by herself. Playing the song you
sang when you tried to earn back your spot.
You never told me you got kicked out of music." Emily starts to sob.
"Emily.."
Emily runs up to her room and locked the door. She began to cry.

Emily didn't want to talk to her parents right now. She's always been the 'sensitive one' , so she needed a little more time to accept that the past can't be changed. To accept that her parents are actually really proud of her daughter.

It was the next morning and everyone was still asleep.
Emily woke up, 2 hours before her alarm. It was 5 a.m. She took her clothes and got dressed after a quick shower. She took her books and everything she needed for school. Emy texted her best friend Finn, to meet her in the park. Finn knew that if she wanted to talk in the park 3 hours before school, that something was wrong.

Emily took her jacket and her guitar and went trough her window so she didn't wake up her parents.
She walked to the garage and saw a skateboard.
"Willie"
"What the hell? Who's Willie?"
She took the skateboard to the park. Maybe Finn knows something.

She arrived at the park and didn't see Finn yet. She waited at their bench and looked at the shateboard.
She felt like she was being watched and looked around. She didn't see anyone, so she shrugged it off.
She saw something again.
"Someone there? This isn't funny!"
"Oh I agree." A man's voice said.
"Who are you?"
He stepped forwared. He was wearing some sort of cape.
"Caleb Covington. Pleasure to meet you. You look like someone I know."
"Look I'm not supossed to talk to strangers, my dad is a big worrier so I should probably go." Emily started to grab everything and wanted to leave, but she lost the skateboard.

"Looking for this?" Caleb said holding the skateboard.
"Yeah. Do you know who Willie is? It was in my garage."
"Willie was a good friend. He lived at the Club I hosted."
"Hollywood Ghost Club." Emily wishpered under her breath.
"I need to go, can I have that back please?"
"Sure. Sorry for scaring you." Caleb gave the skateboard back to Emily.
Emily reached out and felt something sting in her skin.
"Ow. What is that?" Emily hisses in pain.
"Nothing to worry about. It will give you the power to know all the answers."
"Thanks? Anyways I'm waiting for a friend so I should get going."
"Aah Finn Peters. Haven't seen him in a while."
"How do you know Finn?"
"There are alot of things I know off. Except, who are your parents."
"As if! I'm not telling you."
"You sure?" Caleb was holding Finn.
"Finn!"

"Now tell me your last name and I'll figure out the rest. Cause it's a bit weird, isn't it?"
"You? Yeah I totally agree. Now let him go."
"Nuhu. Last name please."
"Molina."
"And?"
"If you know I have more than 1 name, why do you bother to ask me?"
"You look alot like Luke Patterson. That's all."
"He's my dad. Why?"
"It's really odd to see the kids of the ghosts that were in the hologram band and they were clubbing in my club."
"As if! Our parents weren't ghosts."

Caleb wanted to say something but there it was. The flickering. The jolts.
Over the years Caleb must have been growing his power.

This wasn't good. And due the fact Emily didn't know anything about her father's past. She knew this wasn't good.