This is a story in the POV of Luke Patterson and rarely from other people's POV from Jatp. It's the night of the Orpheum and the band can touch each other. Will Julie and Luke's relationship grow? What happens with Caleb? Are they alive? Read to fin...
I wake up with light beaming in through to window. I get up out of bed, and check time on the clock on my nightstand, it read 8:30. I get dressed and brush my teeth. I run a comb through my hair and walk downstairs. I see Julie sitting on the couch tapping away on that small, rectangley thingy again.
"Hey Julie." I say, startling her a little bit. "Sorry" I say, not really sorry, I laughed a little bit. "What are you doing?" I say sitting down next to her. I lean over and try to read what she was typing. She holds it out away from me so I can't see it anymore. "If you need to know, I'm texting Flynn."
"Okay." I say going back over to my side of the couch.
"So, how'd you sleep last night?" She asks me.
"Great actually, it feels so nice to be in an actual bed again."
"I'm sure it does after 25 years!" Julie laughed. I laughed too.
"I told my dad the whole story yesterday. So we can talk about ghost stuff as much as we want now." Julie told me.
"That's great, how did he take it?" I asks, curious.
"Well, turns out that my mom and Bobby dated before she met my dad. She was working at the Orpheum the night of your sound check I guess, and Bobby stayed there later than you guys and I guess they started dating after that."
"Oh my god, your mom was that girl we gave the t-shirt to, the girl that was cleaning the piano during the sound check! I remember her now! She was so nice, and she complimented our band, Julie." I said, now remembering the beautiful girl from that night.
"Wow, you do remember her." Julie said with a slight smile.
I hugged her, I knew she was remembering the good times she had with her mom. She just needed a hug.
"Hey, are you ready for the date tonight?" I ask her, pulling away from the hug.
"Yes! I'm so excited, where are we going?" She asks me.
"You'll see, just wear something comfortable to walk in." I said, making her sigh in disappointment.
"I wanna know." She said dragging out the word "know" in a whiny voice.
"Well, too bad. You're gonna have to just wait and see." I said with my signature smirk.
"Ugh, you're no fun." She said turning away.
"Breakfast is ready!" I heard Ray call from the kitchen.
Me and Julie walk over to the kitchen and grab our plates and help set the table. I grab the pancakes and syrup, and she grabs all the plates, silverware, and napkins. "Wait!" I said. "Can't forget the butter." Julie just laughed and I grabbed the butter and set it next to the pancakes and syrup bottle.
"I'll go wake up the sleepyheads." I said, walking up the stairs.
"Guys! Get! Your! Butts! Up! It's breakfast time!" I yell, getting a couple of long sighs and groans from the drummer and bassist. I pull them off of their beds, letting them fall on the floor.
"No one wants to wake up like that, I can tell ya that much!" Alex yells.
"Yeah, now my elbow hurts, thanks a lot Luke!" Reggie whines.
"Come down and get you breakfast, before I drag you down the stairs, I'm hungry." I say before running down the stairs and into the kitchen.
"They'll be down shortly." I say with a smile. Julie just laughs, knowing what happened up there.
Julie and I sit down next to each other, Reggie and Alex come down and sit across from us, then Ray goes to get Carlos up and come down and sit at each end of the table.
Reggie digs in and finished his food within 5 minutes. And when I'm done I patiently wait for Julie and Alex to get done eating. Alex is the last to finish.
"May we be excused?" Julie asks Ray.
Ray nods his head yes.
We all walk to the studio and start practicing. I grab my guitar, Reggie grabs his bass, Alex sits at the drum set, and Julie sits at the piano.
"Wanna practice Bright?" I ask.
Everyone nods their heads yes.
Julie starts playing and singing. God she sounds beautiful. Her voice matches the lyrics perfectly. Then we come in at the chorus, all having a good time. We finish the song and we all take a breather and look for some more songs. Then Carrie walks in.
"Carrie, what are you doing here?" Julie asks, stepping back.
"Don't worry Julie, I'm not here to me rude. I actually wanted to apologize for the way I've been acting towards you, it was downright nasty and mean. I'm sorry, Julie, for everything. Back when we were friends, and your mother had just passed away, I didn't know how to help you, and so I just bailed on you, which was wrong of me. So I'm sorry and I hope you can forgive me." Carrie says in an apologetic tone.
Julie runs over to her and hugs her and for a long time too. Honestly, after the first ten seconds, I got kinda jealous...
"Carrie there is actually something I have to tell you, it's kinda crazy." Julie says, and they go to Julie's house and up to her room I assume.
Luke, Alex, and Reggie were left in the studio amongst themselves.
"Hey guys, so I wanted to ask you something." I ask.
"What's up, man?" Reggie says.
"Well, me and Julie have our date tonight. And I have an idea of where I'm gonna take her, but I was wondering if I could get your approval."
"I think the best person to talk to about that would be Flynn." Alex said.
"Alex, you're a genius!" I yell and run out the door. I come back in the studio realizing that I don't know where she lives.
"Do y'all know where she lives?" I ask.
"I'm pretty sure she lives 2 doors down." Reggie says.
"Okay, thanks Reg!" I say running out.
I knock on her door and she opens the door with a confused face.
"Luke?" She says with a smile.
"Hi Flynn, I'm taking Julie on a date tonight and I was wondering if I could get your approval on where I think I'm gonna take her.
"Yeah sure! Come on in!" She yelled.
"So, I'm thinking of taking her to this place, I showed her a photograph that I took out of my back pocket. It was a picture of a canopy with a tiny table and two chairs with candles on the edges of the canopy.
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"Luke... this is beautiful, she will love this." She smiled softly.
"I was hoping you say that."
"Well, thanks for coming to me, you know I can help you with any date stuff for Julie, you know that right?" She says pinching me in the shoulder.
"Wait, I can touch you. Give me your wrist." She takes my wrist and feels for a pulse.
"You have a heartbeat!" She screams and hugs me.
"Crazy right?!" I say, laughing.
"Yeah, it really is." She smiles and says, "well Mr. FancyPantsDateGuy, you better go get ready, it's already 2 o'clock." You're right! The date's at 6!" I yell. I run out the door, and I'm pretty sure Flynn is laughing at me, but who cares, I might have a chance with the love of my life.
