Tell Your Friends!

7.2 Edge of Great

After everyone had left the party they all started to play basketball of all things.

Reggie shoots a hoop, "Feels like we should be celebrating or something. What do you guys wanna do?"

They all get a jolt and groan in pain.

"Not that," Alex groans.

Luke stands back up, "That wasn't like the other ones. It's getting worse."

"Why is this happening to us?" Reggie pulls Lara closer to him, not wanting her to be far whenever they get those jolts.

Willie walks up to them, "It's because you guys are in serious trouble."

"Willie?" Alex asks.

"We need to talk."

They all go for a walk on Sunset Boulevard.

Luke tries to make sense of everything Willie just told them, "All these jolts that we're feeling is because Caleb put his stamp on us?"

"I knew that guy gave me a bad feeling," Lara quietly said to herself.

"He's threatened by you. He wants you under his control. I mean you're the only ghosts that can be visible to lifers without his help."

Alex looks at the skater boy, "And you let him do this to us?"

"I can't stop him. He owns my soul. All right? He owns everybody's soul at that club. If he even knew I was here talking to you, he..." Willie sighs... "He would destroy me."

Reggie grabs Lara's hand trying to calm himself down, "So if we don't join his club, then the weird power outage thing continues until there's no power left at all?"

"Yes."

"What exactly happens when the power goes out?" Reggie holds her hand tighter.

"That's... that's it. You're done."

"Uh-huh. Yeah. And what exactly do you mean by "we're done"?"

"You just... you don't exist... anymore. Not anywhere."

Alex asks, "What?"

"So we have no choice? We have to say goodbye to Julie, give up everything we've built together, and work for Caleb? That's some club you guys got going on," Luke starts to get angrier.

"But there is another option. That's why I'm here."

Alex looks at Willie, "Another option?"

"Just please hear me out. All right. If you guys could figure out what your unfinished business is, you do it in time, you could cross over and be free from all of this."

"Ok. So what's our unfinished business?" Luke asks.

"I don't know, but since you all died at the same time, it might be something you need to do together."

Lara's head shot up, but no one noticed. She had an idea, but she did not like it.

Alex sighs, "Why should we listen to a word you say?"

"Because I care about you, Alex. And I hate that I brought you... and your friends into this mess. I, uh... I can't be away much longer. I'm so sorry. For everything." He vanishes.

Lara says breaking the silence, "I believe him."

"This is all my fault. I...I met Willie, Willie introduced us to Caleb, and now... now we're screwed."

"No Alex," she put a hand on his arm.

Luke tried to make Alex feel better, "We all wanted to go see Caleb."

"We have to tell Julie," Reggie looked to Luke.

"No, we can't do that. This just means more loss in her life. But if we don't want Caleb to own our souls, then we have to figure out our unfinished business." Lara made eye contact with her brother, silently telling him her idea.

"Yeah, man. And how are we supposed to do that? All right? There was so much we wanted to do. What is it?"

"Yeah, but the night we died, there was one thing we all wanted to do together."

They all look to the Orpheum sign.

Reggie looks to Lara, "Play the Orpheum?"

"Getting that gig was literally impossible. Even after people knew who we were, we had to hustle, call in every favor we had. It took us years," Alex explained.

They all get another jolt.

Luke groaned, "We don't have years."

"We did it once, and we can do it again. Plus we are invisible to regular people now, I'm sure we'll think of something," Lara looks at each of the boys. 

They all vanish back to the studio, Luke and Alex go off and do their own things.

Reggie pulls Lara to the side and whispers to her, "Hey princess, come on." She notices her brother wasn't watching them and turns to him and grins. She shakes her head yes to whatever crazy idea he has planned. Reggie takes her hand and poofs them to the beach.

"So, Reg, what do you have planned for the night?"

He grabs her hand and twirls her, " Well, I figured a nice walk on the beach would be good for both of us, especially after what just happened."

"Ya, I'm confident we will figure something out," she puts her arms around him and looks him in the eyes.

He starts to play with her hair, "I trust your beautiful mind will come up with something."

She rolls her eyes and lays her head on his chest, he wraps his arms around her. The two just stay there hugging for a little while.

"Come on, I want to show you something," Reggie grabs her hand and starts to walk towards the ocean. Lara happily follows, enjoying their alone time.

The two of them walk for a little bit in comfortable silence just listening to the waves. They reach a pier and Reggie brings her over to one of the wooden poles.

"Wait, is it still here?" Lara looks to Reggie with a grin on her face. He nods his head at her and they both reach a far back pole, that has 'L and R were here' carved onto it (March 1991).

"How old were we when I carved this?" She ran her fingers over the carving.

"I think it was 8th grade? So like 13 probably."

Lara laughed, "Man has so much changed since then."

"Ya, we died," Reggie laughed and hugged her from behind.

Lara grinned and just enjoyed the moment not thinking about how little time they had left. 

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Sorry, this one's so short, I added the last scene to make it longer. I'm not sure if I should have done something different for it or not. Let me know what you guys think. 

-A