1995 || julie and the phantoms

𝟿. 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚙𝚝𝟸

June • 1994

[continuing on from last chapter]
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"You ready, Reg?"
"For what?'" the boy asked, cluelessly.

"Oh my god, I can't do this." Bobby face-palmed. "To go break up with Sam for gods sake!"

"Oh yeah! Okay. Now?" Reggie asked, his eyes darting between the couple standing in front of him.

"Yes now! Go!" Delilah lightly pushed him towards Samantha before she reached the seat.

Reggie, Delilah and Bobby were sat at their lunch table. Luke and Alex were up collecting their lunch just as Samantha was making her way over to her usual seat between Delilah and Reggie.

"Hey can I talk to you for a second?" the boy quickly asked Sam. She nodded and both left the cafeteria.

~+~

"How do you think it's going?" Alex nudged Luke to look at the couple leaving the room.

"I don't know but I'm sure it will be fine. As long as he doesn't say the wrong thing then what else could happen?" the singer spoke while collecting what the school would call 'food'.

"This is Reggie we're talking about. I mean I love him but the boy can only ever say the wrong thing."

"......Yeah he's fucked." Luke sighed and scrunched up his face, partially at what his friend had just told him, partially at the 'food' that had just been slapped on to Alex's tray. "I have a back-up plan though."

Alex dropped his head while deciding to ignore the last sentence as he had no interest in finding out whatever his friend had planned.

"Hey so since Bob has to babysit Charlotte and Reg is out, do you wanna come over to mine after school?" asked Alex, lightening the mood slightly.

"Uh yeah sure." Luke replied before the pair made their way back to the table with Bobby and Delilah.

~+~

Meanwhile, Reggie was trying to work up the courage to actually speak to his not-so-much girlfriend in front of him.

"Reg? You ok?" asked Samantha with a quite concerned expression on her face. The bassist was currently just kind of staring at her, mouth opening every now and then as if to say something but ends up shutting.

"C'mon spit it out." the girl encouraged him. Reggie finally gave in with a large sigh.

He took a deep breath before speaking. "So I know that we've been dating for a while now and I really really like you, like a lot and I have since last year but Luke and I were talking the other day and you know Luke, he's a great guy and you know who else is great? Bobby, Alex and Delilah and I-" He stopped as he felt a hand on his shoulder.

"Calm down and get to the point." Sam chuckled lightly before retracting her hand.
This calmed Reggie down a bit.

Maybe a bit too much.

"I want to break up."

Samantha's eyes widened and she wore a look of confusion on her face. "Woah. Ok then. Please explain."