Defenceless - jatp/reggie

1.04

when luke came back into the garage, i was laying on the couch scrolling on julies laptop and reggie was tuning his bass over by the amp.

"hey check out what i found." luke holds a piece of paper to us. "it's a poem julie wrote, and i already have an idea for a melody. you guys wanna work on it together?"

"do i want to know where you found that?" i point at the paper and luke looks at me with a guilty look.

"probably not." he admits.

"okay, just don't tell me and i can have deniability." i nod, hopping over the table in front of the couch to grab the paper from him and reading it. "wow this is really good." i pass the note to reggie who had moved to stand beside me and grab my guitar.

"yeah and check this out," luke starts a riff on his guitar and i can already tell which part of the lyrics he was matching to.

we had been playing for a while, shooting ideas off of each other and jamming out.

"okay what do you think about this riff?" luke asks us and begins playing.

"sweet, i'm feeling that." reggie nods. "and then i come in with a little-" he starts strumming a bass line. both of them nod at me to join and i add in a rhythm guitar line, making both of them smile.

"guys, you aren't supposed to be out here playing alone." julie says, walking into the studio.

"but we're not alone," reggie says as luke wraps an arm around his shoulder. reggie does the same to pull me into a small band huddle. "because we always have each other." luke and i grin at the dark hair boy between us. he can be so innocent some times, it's kind of adorable.

julie rolls her eyes and unplugs reggies bass from the amp.

"we had the volume level on one." luke defends.

"but we rocked it on volume 10." reggie adds.

"yeah, want us to play it again?" i ask as julie looks at us deadpanned and rips the plug to mine and luke's guitars out of the other amp.

"i really don't think she does." luke tells us.

"we've actually been waiting for you to get home!" i turn back to julie after setting my guitar down.

"yeah, so we have some pretty major news to tell you," luke continues. "we had a band meeting earlier and" he points to reggie and i to start drum rolling, "we want to invite you to join sunset curve!"

"and no, you're not dreaming." i add.

"oh," julie sighs.

"oh, oh she said oh." i whisper to the boys.

"that's what you say when you get socks on your birthday, not when you're invited to join the most epic band ever!" luke tells her.

"sorry! i'm honoured, but i can't think about anything but flynn right now." julie sighs. "she's still mad at me for lying. she hasn't even texted me back."

"yeah you're in a tough spot." i sigh with her.

"so you wanna join the band?" luke asks again.

"read the room dude." julie and i say simultaneously. julie starts to walk out of the studio.

"oh come on. we need you, and you need us because you need music!" luke says and julie starts to turn around. "i found this poem you wrote and, the three of us, we added this really cool melody to it, it sounds awesome-"

"where did you find that?" julie snaps.

"uh, definitely not your dream box." luke grabs my arm and pulls me in front of him, to which i grab reggie and pull him in front of me. julie stomps towards luke as reggie and i each jump out of the way, and reaches for the paper.