"Sometimes we become our own doppelgängers...
We still look the same but behave like someone else...."

-SM

~📱~🚔~📱~

Julie continued to scream as she reached her room, grabbing her phone she repeatedly text Flynn. "Come on, Flynn. 911 means 911! Why aren't you answering me?" Julie let out a squeak when a knock resonated in her room, only to Trina and see her father.

"Dad." Julie said letting out a sigh of relief. "Sorry. Just wanted to make sure you were ok. "

"You don't believe me, do you?" She asked seeing the familiar look on his face. "Honey, of course I do. Mija, I see your mom all the time."

"This isn't like that." Julie said getting frustrated with her father. "I know, it's different for all of us."

"Dad, you're not listening to me, I saw something out there." She said pointing out her window towards the garage. "All right. Ok, Ok. I'm listening. Tell me what you saw, it's just you and me here."

"You sound just like Dr. Turner." Julie said crossing her arms. "Well, maybe seeing Dr. Turner again isn't such a bad idea."

"Dad! Can we just drop it?" Finally done with the wannabe therapist of a father, Julie through her arms down in exasperation. "Alright, it's dropped. We good?" Ray asked holding out his pointer finger in front of his daughter, nodding she does the same thing.

Seeing that situation was somewhat handled, Ray snaps his fingers and left her room. Once her father was gone, Julie slowly snuck towards her window looking for any sign of the ghost boys. Acting quickly Julie grabbed her decorative cross that was hanging on her wall and swiftly left for the garage.

~👻~✝️~👻~

The three boys were still looking around the studio, lost on how they were back in a place they thought of as a safe haven.

"So anyone going to ask what happened last night?" Alex asked looking at the two band mates. "What are we suppose to say Alex, bad hot dogs, ambulance, death and you crying the whole time." Luke rolled his eyes at his best friend.

"I can see that, Lucas." Alex angrily stared ignoring the harsh glare he received from the boy. "I want to know why though. Plus are we not going to bring up the elephant in the room?" Reggie turned to Alex with a questionable gaze not understanding what he was trying to address.

"WHERES REESE?!?" He yelled, rolling his eyes at Reggies forgetfulness. Before anything could be said, Chris just so happened to walk in staring at her phone, not looking up to see the deceased boy band. Neither person acknowledged each other as Chris walked into the bathroom leaving the boys slightly confused.

"Who was that?" Luke questioned, looking at Alex and Reggie only to receive a shrug from the two. Just then a sound of feet dragging echoed into the garage, as the shower head turned on. The boys disappeared from the room as Julie walked in, the cross in front of her for protection.

Julie looked everywhere in the studio, hearing the shower running, Julie became much more protective, knowing her sister had no idea of the evil that might be in the room. "Are you still here... whatever you are?" When not seeing anything, Julie drooped her arms. "I know I saw something, I'm not crazy."

"Well, we're all a little crazy." Luke didn't hesitate to say as the three of them proofed into the room. Again terrified, Julie began to scream bringing the cross up, hoping to protect her from what she though was demons. "Oh my God! Please stop screaming!" Alex said covering his ears, terrified on what he might do to her, Julie silenced herself.

Chris popped her head out from behind the shower curtain, after hearing her sister and an unknown voice coming from outside of the door. Remembering what had happened a few minutes prior, Chris continued to shower.

"Who are you, and what are you doing in my mom's studio?" Julie said as Luke started walking towards her. "Your mom's studio? This is our studio, trust me, my..." As he tried to walk around Julie, she made sure the cross was up at all times, making it difficult for him. So, as he continued to speak, he had to hop on the piano and slide away, not knowing if the cross would affect him or not. "The grand piano is new, and... and... and...My Couch!" He exclaimed as he happily jumped on the all to familiar furniture piece.

While he enjoyed the comfort he happened to glance over and see an unfamiliar guitar. "That is definitely not my six-string." Finally getting a good look of the place he realized that maybe this wasn't they're studio.

"Can you give me just one second? Just... give me a second. Thank you." He responded finally fed up with the cross consistently being pushed towards his face, as he joined the other two. "Guys, what is going on? How did she get her stuff in here so fast?"

"Maybe... maybe she's a witch. There's chairs floating on the ceiling." Reggie said while pointing above their heads to the artistic style Julie and Chris' mother decided to do. "Ok, there is no such thing as witches." Alex responded not enjoying Reggie's half baked thoughts.

"You sure? I uses to think there was no such thing as ghosts."

"Fair." Alex nodded his head towards his friends logic.

"Ok, so we're going with witches?" Luke questioned, confused on what their answer was to this whole ordeal.

"No! We are not going with witch, she's not a witch. Ok, look she's just scared. Ok? Let someone with a softer touch handle this." Alex pointed at his chest smugly, as all three of them turned around, to look at Julie. "Why are you in our studio?" He yelled, defeating the purpose of why he was the one to talk to her.

Still terrified and hoping to get rid of these spirits quickly, Julie lunged the cross at him, only for it to go right through him. "Oh my gosh! How did you do that?" She asked.

"Clearly, you're not understanding..." Alex turned to the boys, "She doesn't get it." Only to turn back to Julie. "Ok, look. We're ghosts, all right? We're just three ghost, and we're really happy to be home. So, thank you for the flowers, they really brighten up the room."

"We're actually in a band called Sunset Curve."

"Tell your friends." Both Luke and Reggie responded as Alex rejoined the two.

"Last night was supposed to be a really big night for us, it was gonna change our lives." Alex looked at him as he slowly bent down and whispered in Luke ear. "I'm uh.... I'm pretty sure it did."

Not believing them Julie quickly grabbed her phone, "This is freaking me out." Realizing that she was letting her guard down, she quickly threw the cross back up. "What is that? What are you doing?" Luke asked not recognizing the rectangular box that Julie had in her hand. "It's my phone." She responded. "No! Stop talking to them. They aren't real, there's no such thing as cute ghosts." Rolling her eyes and berating herself for saying that out loud.

"Oh, you think we're cute?" Reggie slightly smirked not realizing now wasn't the perfect time to be flirting with the girl, even if he did think she was also cute. Julie started to feel heat rise to her cheeks from the insinuation.

"Who you calling?" Alex asked, "I'm Googling Sunset Swerve."

"SUNSET CURVE!" The boys yelled, sighing she looked back at her phone, briefly reading the headline of the first article. "There is a Sunset Curve. You did die, but not last night. Twenty-Five years ago?" She asked questioning if that statement was in fact true.

"What? No. No, no, no. Th-Th-That's impossible. After we floated out of the ambulance, all we did was go to that weird, dark room where Alex cried." Reggie said, not enjoying being thrown under the bus for being a cry-baby, Alex responded with a high-pitched voice, "Well.... I don't think...I think we were all pretty upset. Ok."

"But that was just like an hour of just wondering where we were and what happened to Re. We just showed up here."

"Look, I'm just telling you what my phone says. See? You died in 1995 when you were seventeen. It's now 2020" She stated showing them her phone.

"So, this is the future?" Alex asked shocked on how many years had passed in that so called 'one hour.' "Wait. So... So, it has been 25 years. I have been crying for 25 years? How is that possible?" Looking at his best friends for an answer. "Well, you're a very emotional person, more emotional than Reese a lot of the times."

"I am not!" Alex retorted back at his best friend.

"Thought you were afraid to come out here. You talking to your ghost friend? How does he look? Is he hideous?" Carlos asked, as walked into the garage, distracting the four from the hearing the shower faucet cutting off.

Joking around Alex looked at Reggie, "He can see you."

"No, he can't." Julie angrily stated looking at the blonde ghost. "What?" Carlos questioned looking around the room to see who Julie was talking to.

"Uh... What do you want?"

"A normal sister, for starters like Chris who actually can keep her head on straight. Stop being weird and come eat, and tell Chris the same." Carlos finished before leaving the garage, done with his sisters antics.

"He couldn't see you." Julie questioned. "Yeah, I mean that's usually how ghosts work." Alex responded. Letting out a frustrated sigh she looked at the boys. 

"Look, I'm very sorry for what happened to you guys, but this isn't your studio anymore. You have to leave, preferably before my sister comes out of the bathroom and questions me on why I'm talking to nobody."

"A little too late for that, don't you think?" A voice said, making the four of them turn. Julie looked like a deer caught in the headlights as she was scared that her sister just witness her look like an idiot. Meanwhile the three boys began to smile, hearing the beautiful voice of their missing friend. "Now can someone please explain to me, why there are three boys in our studio?"

Chris was startled when the three strangers, ran and began too....hug her? Julie was confused on how the three ghost were able to touch her sister, but also how could her sister see them if their brother didn't.

"Reese! Oh my gosh, how did you get here before us, and why didn't you show up in the dark room? It's so good to see you again, the band is back!" That was all Chris heard, and being slightly confused, she pushed them back and quickly ran to her little sister. The boys were hurt, but what broke their heart, one more greatly than the other two, was what she said next.

"Who's Reese?"

~🎵~⚡️~🎵~

So, the boys finally got to meet Chris. Though she doesn't recognize them. I do promise a lot more will happen on why she can touch, see and a bunch of other things (I'm not going to say yet). This chapter was a lot longer than the other chapters so far, and it barely had Chris in it so that's kind of funny. Also since this is a Luke love story, Julie needs a little bit of a love interest as well, and Reggie is an adorable bean, so these two will be together. If you don't agree sorry. Other than that I'm happy two chapters done in one day a lot more than what I usually do.

-Mech-x4fan