CHAPTER TWENTY ONE

THE GROUP OF GHOSTS HEADED TO THE ORPHEUM THE NEXT MORNING. panic! at the disco would be preforming that evening with the starting act of downslide and the band was determined to take their place.

the night prior alex had gone and found willie, asking for the boys help to make sure downslide would miss their performance no matter what.

all three boys had come into julies room to andy and julie just laughing and talking about anything and everything to tell them that the plan was to get willie to get downslide away while the rest of the ghost group went to the orpheum to get julie and the phantoms the newly opened slot.

andy, alex, reggie, and luke all walked up to the orpheum and alex spoke, "look, don't worry, guys. willie said he'd get us on that marquee."

the four stood outside the building and reggie questioned, "this is gonna work, right?" luke scrunched up his face, "it has to."

andy nodded, "yeah or else-" before she could finish, everyone was hit with another jolt that sent them all forward in pain.

andy felt reggie grab her hand and squeeze it as they tried to recover from the painful jolt.

"hey, are you all okay?" questioned willie, proofing up behind the group. they all turned around and alex tried to smile, "yeah. yeah, it's nothing we haven't felt before," willie nodded, "how'd it go?"

willie smiled, "well, when that opening band wakes up, they're gonna find their bus 200 miles outside of vegas with no chance of getting back in time." he let out a small giggle and did a dude hand shake with luke.

andy scrunched up her face, she'd never understand how all guys knew every handshake.

luke smiled, "and that means there's probably a promoter upstairs right about now freaking out." willie shook it off, "nah. this is hollywood, man. i'm sure he's being very professional."

alex took a step towards willie, giving the hint to luke who ushered reggie and andy away before noticing their interlocked hands and glared.

he pointed between their hands, "what- what- what is this? this right here. i don't like this what is this?" andy's cheeks flushed and reggie scratched the back of his head.

"uh- well... um."

"you see- uh, we- i-"

luke gasped, "you both aren't telling me something! tell me now." he stomped his foot on the ground trying to look serious and andy laughed a bit, "it's so hard to take your angry face serious because you just look like some angry puppy."

luke sent his sister a shocked look and reggie nodded, "yeah, man. you never look very scary." luke glared at the boy, "oh, i'll show you both scary."

andy shook her head and put her arms on lukes shoulders, "calm yourself before you do something that gets you punched."

luke looked at her confused, "what would even get me punched? i'm in the right-" before he could finish, andy punched his shoulder and luke gasped out, "hey! what was that for?"

andy shrugged, "you were being annoying." luke scoffed and quickly hit her back, making andy smack his arm, and this back and forth continue over and over between the two until reggie split them up.

luke went to ask his original question again but was stopped when andy turned towards alex and willie before making an awe sound, watching as the two boys hugged each other tightly.

andy's bottom lip pouted, "they are just the cutest ghosts i've ever seen together." a small gasp came from reggie as he smacked andy's hand lightly with his own to get her attention.

she turned towards the boy and he gave her a look saying "what-about-us" and andy smiled a bit and mouthed, "us too."

reggie smiled and the two went back to watching as willie road off and alex looked down sad. all three quickly walked over to the boy and andy maneuvered herself under alex's arm and wrapped her arms around his waist in a hug as reggie questioned, "alex, you all right, man?"

alex wrapped his arm around andy's shoulders, "yeah. yeah, i'm okay." luke quickly tried to lighten the mood, "well, thanks to willie, panic! at the disco needs an opening band."

alex squeezed andy's shoulders with a smile, "then i guess someone up there needs to know we're available."

they all quickly poofed into the office as the promoter spoke, "no.... no, stop. stop! stop saying the bus drove itself." he hit the phone against his desk multiple times, making the four bandmates jump and the promoter spoke again, "okay."

reggie whispered to his friends, "yeah, willie was right. this guys a total pro." luke laughed a bit and andy scrunched up her face, "reg, you don't have to whisper... they can't hear us."

reggie shrugged and luke spoke, "all right, boys and sister. let's make magic happen," he turned to alex, "alex, no dancing."

andy glared at luke before smiling at alex, "alex, yes dancing."

alex nodded her way before jumping up and putting his arms out in a spinning pose before moving them out gracefully as he chasséd and spun behind a women's desk, who was the only other person in the room, and knocked over her pencil holder.

she looked at it confused before rolling her eyes and bending down to pick up everything that fell. the group all quickly huddled as reggie typed in the video julies dad had taken of the band, luke watching, and alex wrote down their info as andy told it to him.

the women began getting back up and the group quickly moved back, reggie quick to press play before moving back.

she looked a bit confused at the video yet interested before her attention was taken by her boss, "tasha! hey me cj. tell him i need a band to open in three hours."

tasha smirked, "sure, but you might wanna check this out." the band smiled and the man got up to watch what tasha was looking at and she explained, "somehow this video started playing on my laptop. it's got half a million hits in just two days."

"who are they?" questioned the promoter and tasha added, "they're a hologram band. they call themselves julie and the phantoms."

"tell your friends." spoke reggie and andy winked, making the boy smile.

"where are they located?"

tasha smiled, "our very own city of angels." the promoter stood up and yelled, "book em!" the group all huddled in victory and tasha nodded, "sure, i just don't know how to..."

she looked down at the notebook alex had written on confused and a bit scared before picking it up and looking around.

luke frowned, "your hand writing is better than mine." reggie nodded and alex spoke, "definitely. yeah."

andy laughed a bit, "luke i think everyone has better hand writing than you." luke smacked her shoulder for that and the girl smacked his right back.

authors note!
go read my luke x oc book and my new julie and the phantoms imagines book!