bright | alex + luke

Reggie and his big mouth

Recently Reggie and Julie have found themselves hanging out a lot. That is of course when Julie isn't at school or with Flynn and Reggie isn't 'hanging out' with Julie's dad. With Alex spending his off time with Willie and Luke visiting his parents all the time it's just the two of them a lot of the time. Which is honestly a lot more fun than either of them were expecting. Sure they have some moments on stage where they're just jamming together but outside of that what do they really have in common?

Apparently a lot. Both of them spend years pining over one person. They have really similar humor and Reggie has a surprisingly good eye for women's fashion. Julie found this out when the one time they were organizing her closet together, Reggie was just really bored and Ray was no where to be found. Reggie just started putting outfits together from random pieces on the floor and Julie has worn every single one since.

Reggie is also the only person that knows Julie is bisexual and she's the only person that knows he is. It's their little secret. They're both not quite at the point where they want to scream it off the rooftops, but it's nice to have someone to confide in. Someone that gets it.

"How did you know you liked guys?" Julie asks Reggie, "Like you said you only find out recently, so what was the trigger?"

Reggie shrugs, "A combination of things I guess. I never really thought about it before, I spent most of my living life crushing on Ahaana and focusing on music ya know?" Julie nods, he has said that before. "But as a ghost I have a lot of free time to explore and also people are a lot more excepting now than they were before, so there that."

"No particular moment?" For Julie the moment she really realized had been at Carrie's 14th birthday party. It was a really big party and she had barely spoken to her at the time best friend, but when the clock hit twelve and it was officially Carrie's birthday the two of them were in her all pink bedroom under the covers eating cake and laughing. Looking at Carrie and how happy she was in that moment, Julie realized that the butterflies she felt for the blonde were not the same feelings she felt when she looked at Flynn. And for a bit she struggled with that, buried it deep inside of herself but talking about it with Reggie feels safe and like she can finally be okay with who she is.

"Not really, no" The other shakes his head. "I could say Luke singing to me, when he was trying to proof that he has chemistry with everyone he sings with." He offers. "But that would be a bit of a lie, cause I kinda of already connected the dots by then. That was more of a cherry on the cake, you know?"

"Luke sang to you?" Julie questions, hoping her voice didn't seep of the jealousy she was feeling. "Why?"

"To proof he doesn't like you?" He says it like it's the most obvious thing in the world. "It's not like he's singing with a lot of other people. I mean me of course, but other than that."

It feels like the world is spinning around her. Luke likes her too? Julie would have never dreamt of it. "He does?"

Knowing he's already said too much and there's no coming back from this, Reggie decides he might as well keep going. He's already exposed Luke's not so subtle crush on Julie so why not take away her doubts? It's the nice thing to do, right? "Yeah he does. God the only time I've ever seen Luke look at someone the way he looks at you was when Alex and him used to date!"

"What?!" Julie gapes at him, "Alex and Luke? Luke likes guys?"

And in that moment, that very moment, Reggie realizes he has fucked up. He really said too much this time and he knows Alex nor Luke will be surprised he has. Which somehow is even worse.