The 4th Phantom// Julie and The Phantoms

Darkness

 When I woke up I wasn't in my room, I was surrounded by darkness. I thought I was in some weird dream so I pinched myself but nothing happened. I walked around for a little bit but found nothing. Now way out, no table, no light, no nothing. I had no idea what was going on or what was happening, I didn't know how long I would be stuck here, but what I did know is that I wanted a hug, not just any hug, a hug from Alex. I sat down and closed my eyes in hopes that when I opened them again I would be home in my bed or in the studio or anywhere other than in total darkness.

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Alex's P.O.V

"Time of Death 9:43," The doctor said before looking over at me and my parents with sympathy. My mom was crying and my dad was holding her, but I just felt numb. I had lost my best friend and sister right then and there and I don't know how I was suppose to move on. She was always supporting me and I would never be able to express to her just how thankful I was. Even if my parents didn't support me I knew I would always have her, but now she's gone and I don't know what I'm suppose to do. How am I suppose to play music and not think about her, how am I suppose to walk down the hall and not think about her when I pass her room, how am I suppose to sit down at the dinner table next to her empty chair and not think about her.

The car ride home was silent, and the next few days, my parents didn't even really talk to each other and I didn't go to school, I just stayed locked in my room looking at old photos and thinking about all the memories we had together, and how all of that was gone now, and I would never get it back. I jumped when I heard a knock at the door.

"Hey Alex? it's Luke, Reggie, and Bobby, you and Autumn haven't been at school or band practice for the past few days and we got worried," I heard Luke say.

I almost started crying again at the mention of her name, but I held it together, and opened the door to let them in my room. "No one has told you guys?" I asked.

"Told us what?" Reggie questioned.

"Three days ago Autumn....she....she...she died," I finally managed to choke out.

"What? How?" Reggie asked.

"The doctors said that um, her....heart stopped while she was asleep and because no one knew we were too late and they couldn't bring her back," I said.

The guys were are shocked and hurt, but Reggie was the first one to start crying. Then Luke and Bobby followed. We all just sat there crying for a long time until finally Luke spoke.

"We have to play the Orpheum, we were working hard before, but now we got to work harder, she always wanted to play there and I think it would mean a lot to her if we still did it, for her, we won't let her memory die. I'd die myself before I let that happen," he said.

"I agree, she'd want us to continue on," I said, "So let's get to work."

We worked for months and did everything we could and finally we got a gig at the Orpheum, and we were going to make sure that everyone remembered who Autumn was and what she had done for all of us. Even though we only had a very early version of her singing her part, we left it on our demo because it felt like it was the right thing to do. We got to the Orpheum and started doing sound check and we sounded awesome, probably the best we've ever sounded, the only thing that would make it better would be.....

After we were done with sound check Bobby walked up to this girl who told us her name was Rose. The other guys started flirting with her and Reggie gave her our demo and a T-shirt, in his words it was "size beautiful". Bobby ended up staying behind a little bit longer to talk to Rose while the rest of us went to get street dogs. Unfortunately we weren't exactly swimming in cash so the street dogs were being served out of an olds mobile. We went and sat down on a couch some where and Luke gave us a speech about how everything was going to change because of tonight. Then we took a bite of our street dogs.

"That's a new flavor," I said while eating.

"Chill man, street dogs haven't killed us yet," Reggie said.

Not long after finishing my street dog I started to feel funny and then everything went black and I remember my last thought was maybe, this way I'll see Autumn again. I ended up floating up to a dark room and Reggie and Luke were there with me as well, but to my dismay Autumn wasn't. That's when it hit me, I had just died. I started crying, Luke and Reggie tried to calm me down but it didn't work, they didn't give me any hugs though. I just wanted to be anywhere else, the darkness was almost too much. I didn't know what was going to happen or when it was going to happen or if anything was going to happen at all. What if we were stuck in here for eternity? What if I never got to see Autumn again even in the after life? Was I never going to be able to play music again? All these thoughts and so many more were running through my head on a continuous loop and I didn't know if it was ever going to end. That's when I started falling down out of the dark room and eventually hit the ground were I was no longer surrounded by the darkness.

A/N: That's the end of the background, obviously part of it is from the show, but next chapter Julie will meet the phantoms, I'm going to try to post as much as possible but I have a project for school plus exams coming up so we will see. Until next time hope you have a great morning, evening or night :).