Unfinished business 🥀

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"Oh, great angle. Yeah," Reggie nodded as he watched a woman take a picture of the food she ordered. Alex and Sophia shared a glance before looking at the boy in front of them as he continued to watch the woman take pictures. "Now that's a good pic."

"Is this what we're here for? To watch people take pictures of food?" Alex asked.

"It's fun. Watch this," Reggie said as he moved the plate away from the woman.

"People never stop looking at their phones,'' he added as the woman reached for her plate. "Oop! Ehh! Whoop!" he said each time he moved the plate. Only stopping when the woman finally looked up from her phone and at the plate, she then picked it up and walked away from the table.

"Luke said something about this place being a hot spot for music industry people." Reggie added then the three of them turned their heads to watch as Luke went up to the counter and added their name to the lineup.

Luke turned around and wrapped his arms around Reggie with a smile,

"Boys and Sophia, being a ghost definitely has its privileges. I just wrote our names on the playlist for tonight." Sophia sighed as she shook her head, she knew Julie wasn't going to be that quick to forgive them. After all, they left her to be embarrassed in front of her whole school, Sophia knew how hard it could be to recover from that. She never experienced it herself since she used to be in a group of girls that caused other girls to be embarrassed.

Luke took a seat and Alex turned and looked at Reggie and Sophia, "I'm getting a little worried about him. He keeps forgetting that Julie quit the band." He said enunciating the last part of his sentence.

"And that she's gonna come back as soon as she knows we have a great gig," Luke replied.

"But if she doesn't come back, let's not forget, we do have somewhere else we can play and eat pizza" Reggie reminded them.

"Dude, I know. It was awesome to be seen by lifers at Caleb's party, but we got this with Julie. We don't need him," Luke stated.

"We're too good for him anyway," Sophia jokes, but before the boys could laugh at her statement another bolt of pain was sent through their chests and they all groaned in pain.

Alex coughed out, "oh! it's the same thing again!"

"Just like yesterday," Luke added. "It feels like that time I was fixing my amp in the rain," Reggie claimed.

"You shouldn't... Okay." Alex

"I remember when you did that," Sophia said as she chuckled.

"Look, do you think something is wrong with us?" Alex asked, looking between his friends.

"Yeah, yeah, we ate ten pounds of pizza yesterday without a stomach. I'm sure it's just our bodies working through it," Luke suggested.

"I knew I shouldn't have let you give me that pizza," Sophia sighed.

"So, we're just gonna forget about getting back at Trevor? That jerk stole our music." Reggie asked the group.

"And he has to live with that guilt," Sophia stated as Luke nodded in agreement. "It's just like what Julie said. We have a new band, a new sound, okay? That's what we should be focusing on."

"Isn't that willie?" Alex asked as he pointed to the window. The four ghosts turned as they saw Willie watching them from outside the cafe. When Willie realized he had been caught he quickly began skating away, Alex following after him before stopping outside the cafe.

"Well, someone's not focusing on our music," Reggie commented, making Sophia and Luke chuckle.

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Julie walked down to the studio, all she wanted to do was forget all about the band and school. But of course, when she walked in she came face to face with the boys and Sophia who had been waiting for the Molina girl to get home.