Ghost Band. | JATP

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"So he booked us a gig at your house?" Violet raises her eyebrows at Julie, who is leaned against the locker next to Violets. "Yea." Julie answered. "At least we have a new gig," Violet says, "I'll see you in class, I gotta go to my locker real quick." Julie nods. Violet sighs and shuts her locker. She jumps when there is a boy behind it. 

Luke.

"aah. Normal people don't do that and ghosts definitely shouldn't. What are you doing here?" Violet asks. "I was thinking about what song we're playing tonight. I was thinking Great." Luke suggested. Violet clears her throat before grabbing her phone. "You're just gonna take a phone call while we're talking, do you know how rude that is?" Luke gasped. Violet answered the phone. "Hey, thanks for calling. Otherwise, people might think I'm talking to myself." "nice." "oh, but yeah. I think Great is a great choice." "Sweet, well, that was pretty much all I wanted to talk to you about." Luke awkwardly smiles. "oh, okay." Violet slides off. "Oh, well there's actually one thing I wanted to talk to you about. I know I'm not the easiest person to work with but I wanted to tell you that I think you make me a better writer." Luke scratches his head. "I think we make each other better." Violet smiles. "You know what, why don't you and Julie just skip school, let's go rehearse." Luke says. "Look as amazing as that sounds, I already missed last dance class and Julie promised her dad school first." Violet answered. "What's one more? Plus, Julie's at school first and now we should leave to go rehearse." Luke tells her. "Come on, I can't do this without you." "I can't... I- I told Ryan I'd be his dance partner."  

"Hey V!"

"and he's coming this way. Heyyy, gotta go, byee." Violet ends the call. "Well don't you look sharp." Luke looks at Ryan. "I know we haven't gotten to practice much together yet, but I'm sure we'll do fine. Are you ready for our big performance?" Ryan asks. "Yeah, we're gonna do great." Violet replies. "I'm glad you're confident because even after 3 classes, I still think I got worse." Ryan makes Luke pout. "It's good I got my secret weapon." Ryan looks at Violet. "Oh, I think someone has a crush on V." Luke says. Violet gives Luke a weird glance. "Shut up." Violet says before having a one-second freak out. "Oh, I mean, shut up!" She lightly punches Ryan. "No, seriously. V, I'm nothing without you." Ryan looks at her. "Psshh, no. No, you're gonna do fine." Violet reaches up and lightly pushes Ryan into Luke. "See you in there?" She asks. "Yeah, I'll be the guy trying not to make us look stupid." Ryan walks off with Luke behind him, mimicking him and laughing. 

"Well, he's just too cute!" Luke points at him, walking back to Violet. "Boundaries. I'll see you after school." Violet looks at him while walking off. "I guess we'll just have to carry you tonight, just like we always do." Luke tells her. Violet sighs and rolls her eyes playfully. She smiles. "Hey, I know you're smiling. Killin' it on the dance floor!" Violet can just picture him doing a mini dance with that talk. She laughs walking into the gym. 

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"Boys, I want you to focus and leave it all on the field." The Lacrosse coach explains. Ryan gives Violet a look from behind her, she shrugs. "You're loosing 'em. Breathe in, shake out your nerves." The dance teacher tells them. All of the students shake out their nerves. Ryan smiles at Violet, making her give a smile back. It seems they would be good friends. "Surrender to the music and to your partner." 

"When did we learn anything about surrendering?" Ryan asks Violet. "Nothing, Lu. We'll be fine, it was just- ya know." Violet answers, staring off into space. "Whose Lu?" Ryan waves his hand in front of her face. "huh? Oh, Lu- I don't know. I guess my mind was just wondering. I don't know." Violet lets out a nervous laugh, "But, my mind has now wondered back and I am ready to slaughter this thing, woah, big word." Ryan laughs. 

They smile as they start to dance. Ryan spins Violet and all of a sudden, he's gone. She makes a weird face then looks in the mirror. Gasping, she realizes Luke is walking out of the mirror?