the afterlife • luke patterson

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after our chat, luke was insistent that i come back to the studio with him. i tried to get out of it, making all sorts of excuses ranging from homework to staff infection, but none of them seemed to worked.

he wrapped his arms around me tightly, and in an instant, we ended up on the couch in the studio.

well, actually i ended up on the couch, and he ended up on me.

he chuckled, looking down at me from his position on top of me,"guess i better work on the landing, huh?"

reggie coughed to gain our attention, clearly uncomfortable by the scene,"i'd say so."

luke quickly scrambled off of me, standing up and offering me a hand.

i grabbed onto it tentatively, my cheeks burning hot from the situation we had found ourselves in just moments ago.

"thanks." i muttered quickly, walking away from him to stand next to reggie.

the bassist gave me a small smile, clearly just as embarrassed to have caught us like that,"hey, jordan."

"hey, reg," i replied, aimlessly grabbing onto a lavender electric guitar,"lavender. nice."

luke smiled, biting his lip excitedly,"i'm glad you think that, cause it's actually...for you."

i gave him a confused look, barely able to follow his train of thought,"i'm sorry, you got me a guitar?"

"it was bobby's," he admitted, holding his hands up to stop me from responding,"and i'm giving it to you for a reason."

i stared at him blankly, expecting for him to
elaborate on his claim.

when he didn't, i sucked my teeth in annoyance,"and why are you giving it to me, luke?"

julie walked through the door, giving the room a slightly confused look,"i heard talking. figured it was either you guys or murderers."

i shrugged, glancing down at the guitar,"why can't it be both?"

julie chuckled and walked over to stand next to me as luke grinned excitedly,"we've actually been waiting for you to get home."

"why?" i knit my eyebrows, sharing a suspicious look with julie.

"we have some pretty major news to tell you guys," luke wrapped his arm around reggie, pulling him close. he was clearly ecstatic about whatever it is he wanted to let us know,"we had a band meeting earlier, and..." reggie started to drum on his legs, before luke continued,"we wanna invite you two to join sunset curve! and, no, you're not dreaming."

a small frown formed on my face, knowing this was probably the craziest thing he's ever said. it killed me to wipe the smile off of his face, considering the fact that it was such a cute one, but he had to know that this would never work.

"oh." julie replied flatly, both of us clearly on the same page.

"oh?" luke questioned, giving us an incredulous look,"she said oh. okay, that's what you say when you get socks for your birthday, not when you're invited to join the best band ever."

julie shrugged, his words having little to no affect on her,"sorry. i'm honored, but i can't think about anything but flynn right now. she's still mad at me for lying. she hasn't even texted me back!"

"yeah, you're in a tough spot," luke nodded in agreement, letting out a small breath. but clearly his mind was on something other than julie and flynn's relationship, because in the exact same breath he asked,"so you wanna join the band?"