What A Small World - Julie and The Phantoms - Reggie

Chapter 8 - The Big Brothers

"Dude what did you do!" Luke came storming into the studio looking at a puzzled Reggie on the couch. He'd grown to feel a bit protective of this girl.

"Nothing, we were just talking and she took off." Reggie rubbed his hands over his face. Shit he thought. He knew he'd messed up but maybe it was for the best maybe she could find someone better, someone alive.

"You must of said something, girls don't just storm out like that, she was crying." Alex felt protective over her too but it was different like she was his little sister he always wanted, he wanted to shield her from all the pain.

"She's definitely gone." Julie said out of breath as she came back into the studio. She'd gone to try run after her but Olivia was fast, she knew how to run away from her problems. "I'm going to go back in the house but you better fix this. She was just starting to look happy and you know you were part of the reason." She said to Reggie looking straight into his eyes.

After she'd left the boys sat next to Reggie on the couch.

"I said she was a friend." He didn't look at either of them just straight ahead.

"What!" The both said together looking at him.

"Well that explains that then. You just friend zoned her dude!" Even Luke who didn't do emotions knew he'd messed up.

They all sighed. How were they going to fix this, Alex know he'd have to help out here.

"But why? Like why would you say that? Do you not like her? Dude I've never seen you act the way you do with her?" Alex was trying to get Reggie to look at him, he needed more information if he was going to fix this.

"Of course I like her!" Reggie ran a shaking hand thought his hair. This wasn't him, he was the fun one, the joke one. He didn't open up to the boys like this. "She's special. When I look in her eyes I feel safe, like safer than I even had even before we died. And I almost feel like I've known her forever. But she deserve more. She deserve someone who can make her truly happy. Of God sakes I'm died!" He got up and walked around the table starting to pace like Alex did.

"Someone else on the cat walk for a change?" Luke knew it wasn't the time of a sarcastic comment but he couldn't help it, Alex shot him a look. "Ok sorry, so why didn't you tell her that? Don't you think she should have say in this? Don't you want to know if she likes you?"

Reggie stopped looking at them thinking for a second. "No, thats the point I don't want to know, if I know I wont be able to not like her, she's been though enough." And with that he poofed out leaving the two boys on the couch very confused.

"I'll go see her in a bit see what I can do." Alex said wondering what he could do at this point.

"Ok, I had some super exciting new to tell her too."

Friends don't call you in the middle of the night
Couldn't even tell you why
They just felt like saying "hi"
Friends don't stand around, playing with their keys
Finding reasons not to leave
Trying to hide the chemistry

Olivia was sat on her bed the evidence of her crying on her face with her mascara under her eyes. She was lucky that Aunt Sarah was already in her bedroom watching TV by time she got back.

She was strumming along when she heard a poof next to her. She closed her song book quickly but she knew it wouldn't be him, she knew it would be Alex.

"Are you ok?" He approached her bed but didn't sit down until she patted the pillow next to her.

She signed running her hand thought her hair. "Yeah of course why wouldn't I be." She couldn't even look him, so he knew she was lying.