
18. Stand tall
"Don't blink no I don't wanna miss it"
Julie and Olivia are sat together on the couch in the studio waiting for the ghosts to come back. The silence is broken by Olivia speaking up. "Jules, I don't wanna let them go. I mean... I know we have to, but it hurts"
Julie turns her head to the side and sees Olivia's sad expression and frowns before turning her whole body to face her. "I know Vivi, but we have to, it's for the best. I mean, look at it this way" Olivia faces Julie and waits for her to speak again. "They helped me get back into music, and they helped you get your confidence back. This us repaying them back"
Olivia slowly nods her head. "I know, it's just..." Olivia trails off.
Julie gives her a knowing look. "Luke"
Olivia scoffs a laugh "Yeah, I mean it feels stupid because he's a ghost but, Julie what I feel is real and I finally except that, but now he has to go, and I have to perform with him one last time, knowing the second the instruments stop, he's poofing away and never coming back"
"I know hurts I'm gonna miss them too. I mean the way you two look at each other, anyone could see it was real. But you'll find someone like that again, it may take time but you will" Julie reaches over and takes Olivia's hand and squeezes it.
"Yeah." Olivia replies. It's silent for a few minutes before Olivia speaks up again her voice soft. "Would you think I'm crazy if I said I think I love him?"
Julie widens her eyes and smiles a little, before she can talk the three ghosts poof back into the room, making both girls forget their previous conversation and jump up anxiously.
"Oh my gosh! What took you guys so long?" Julie rushes out
"Did Willie do it? Did you talk to them? Did they watch it? Did they like us? Are we playing? Can somebody answer me? Why's no one talking?" Olivia breaths out
"Woah! That's a lot of questions!" Reggie exclaims "Luke, do you wanna take this one?"
Luke nods his head then looks at both girls "Take a seat." Olivia and Julie take a seat on the couch again whilst Reggie, Alex and Luke crouch infront of the table. "It's fine. Everything's fine."
Olivia and Julie smile, then Alex speaks up "Yeah. Julie should be getting a call right...now!" They all look down at Julie's phone but see nothing show up, they look at each other awkwardly "Ok. Right...now!" They all look back down, a second later Julie's phone starts ringing making Julie and Olivia cheer. "Nailed it"
"Go" Everyone gestures for Julie to answer the phone.
"Oh! Um..." Julie clears her throat and answer the phone and places it on speaker. "Hello?"
The person on the phone speaks up "Hi, this is Tasha from the Orpheum in Hollywood." Everyone stands up and start running and jumping around in excitement. "Is this Julie or Olivia from OJ and the phantoms?"
Julie quickly shushes everyone making them freeze and shut up. Julie grabs the phone, placing it off speaker and brings it up to her ear. "Yes it is" Everyone starts jumping around as Julie continues to talk to the lady on the phone. Luke grabs Olivia's hand and spins her around before walking over and crouching in front of Reggie as they both catch Alex and hold him above their heads and spin around.
Olivia laughs and high fives Alex and turns to hug Julie tightly.
"We're playing the Orpheum, baby Yeah!" Julie cheers and hugs Olivia back twice as hard.
"Yeah! I'm swimming" Alex does a swimming motion with his hands as he is still being held up, making Olivia burst out laughing.
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Olivia is sat on Julie's bed while Julie is off talking to her dad and Olivia's mom. Olivia stares down at the page of her notebook with the song 'So American' open. She quickly closes the book when she hears a whoosh right next to her.
Luke furrows his eyebrows. "You...okay...?"
"Yeah, course" Olivia smiles at him.
Luke sits next to her on the bed. "Well... nice lie, I mean you can't fool anyone, you make it very obvious that somethings wrong."
"I do?" Olivia questions and furrows her eyebrows
Luke nods his head "Yeah, you bite the inside of your lip a little"
Olivia looks at him shocked "How.. you noticed that?"
Luke nods his head again. "So, you gonna talk or are we just gonna sit here in silence before I go talk to Alex and Reggie again, it doesn't have to be about what's up, we can talk about what song we're gonna play?"
Olivia thinks for a moment. "We could start with 'Stand Tall' and then.. Julie could play a song on her keyboard and then we all follow after her, you know? Like a surprise for our last performance."
"Yeah, that's actually a good idea, I mean... random but good." Luke agrees and laughs a little, Olivia joining in. Luke looks at Olivia for a second before speaking "I guess, I'll go tell Alex and Reggie then?"
"Right! Yeah, of course!" Olivia smiles at him awkwardly. "Can I hug you?"
Luke looks shocked for a moment before nodding his head quickly "Yeah- yeah"
Olivia smiles before leaning over and wrapping her arms around Luke's shoulders, Luke reacts instantly and wraps his arms around Olivia's waist holding her close to him. They stay like that for a few moments before Olivia pulls back the slightest bit her arms still around his shoulders. "You better go tell them now"
"Yeah, yeah I'll go do that now" Luke removes his hands from Olivia's waist and when Olivia moves her arms from his shoulders he smiles at her before poofing out of the room at to the studio.
Olivia sits on the bed for a few more seconds in shock before smiling slightly and waits for Julie to walk back into the room.
After a few more minutes Julie walks into the room. "Hey, my dad and your mom are almost ready to go, wanna go down to the guys before we leave? Your mom has your dress in the car ready."
Olivia looks up at Julie and stands up from the bed. "Yeah, let's go"
Julie nods her head and both girls make there way down to the studio. Julie opens the door with Olivia standing next to her. "Are you ready?" Luke, Alex and Reggie all stare at the girls, making the smiles drop. "What's wrong?"
Alex walks forward. "Yeah. We just got rocked pretty hard by one of those jolt things."
Reggie walks up next to Alex. "Pretty sure I ghost peed a little"
Luke walks up next to Reggie "But we're fine."
Olivia looks at them all with worry as Julie speaks up "Actually, guys, I'm a little nervous." Julie turns to Olivia and silently asks if she can do what she was going to do. Olivia looks back and nods her head. Julie turns back to the others "Luke, uh, can I talk to you for a second?"
Luke looks at Olivia confused for a second, when he sees her nod her head with a desperate look on her face he turn back to Julie. "Yeah" Luke walks up to Julie and by the door while Olivia walks up to Alex and Reggie.
"You know, you guys are like one of the coolest people I've met, right?" Olivia says to them.
Alex and Reggie both smile at her and nod their heads.
"So are you, I mean the confidence you have up on stage it like, no match to anyone else's." Alex compliments her.
"If you and Julie, or just you separately don't get famous I'm coming back down here and haunting you." Reggie jokes making all three of them laugh.
Luke interrupts them from talking anymore and turns to face them "Guys, band circle"
They all walk up to each other, Olivia stood between Luke and Julie and grabs both their hands, she watches Julie hover her hand over Reggie's and stifle's a laugh.
"We don't know what brought us here, but..." Luke looks between Julie and Olivia "You girls are stars, and just because this is our last night together, it doesn't mean we won't be watching you from above... or..." Luke click and gestures his head downwards making Olivia scoff a laugh. "Now let's go rock this show. Let's give 'em a night they'll be talking about 'till the sun comes up, okay?"
Luke places his hand in the middle "Legends on three"
Alex places his hand on top of Luke's "One"
Reggie places his on top of Alex's hand and Julie hovers her's above Reggie's "Two"
Olivia smiles at Luke and places her hand on Julie's "Three"
They all throw their hands up "Legends"
They get interrupted from a car horn, Julie purses her lips. "That's my dad and Olivia's mom. He's driving us all there"
Olivia looks between them all her eyes falling on Luke "So we'll see you guys soon." Olivia and Julie walk up to the door, as Julie grabs her dress both girls turn back around one more time and smile at the guys before walking away.
Alysia speaks
Guys, this is the second to last chapter what the hell??? I might cry????
Okay I tried to add more moments between Olivia and Luke before my babies go :(
I hope you enjoyed!! Next chapter will be the last chapter and then..... A BONUS CHAPTER. I needed to give Olivia and Luke on last chapter before they go.
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