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Violet and Julie walk into the studio seeing Luke and Reggie playing guitar, "Guys, you aren't supposed to be out here playing alone." Julie said. "But we're not alone, 'cause we always have each other." Reggie smiles. Julie groans while unplugging Reggie's guitar cord. "But... but we had the volume on one." Luke  says. "But we rocked it on volume ten. You want us to play again?" Reggie asks. Julie answered by unplugging the other cord.  

"we've actually been waiting for you guys to get here. OK, so we have some pretty major news to tell you. We had a band meeting earlier and..." Luke signals Reggie to make drums on his lap, "We wanna invite you guys to join Sunset Curve. And no, you're not dreaming." 

"oh." Julie answers. "oh? She said 'oh,' That's what you say when you get socks on  your birthday, not when invited to join the most epic band ever." Luke 

"Sorry, I'm honored, but I can't think about anything but Flynn right now. She's still mad at me for lying. She hasn't even texted me back." Julie replied. "I think she's mad at me too. I tried texting and calling, but no luck." Violet confesses.

"yeah, you're in a tough spot." Luke says, "So, you guys wanna join the band?" 

"read the room, dude." Violet says before walking to the door with Julie, "Hey, come on. We need you guys, and you guys need us because you need music. We found this poem that you two wrote and Reggie and I, we added this really cool melody to it. It sounds awesome." Luke desperately says. "Where'd you find that?" Julie asks. "uhh... definitely not your dream box." Luke pulls Reggie in front of him. "You went through her stuff?" Violet walked forward and chased after Luke. "yeah, we can do that now." Reggie said from where he stood. "No you can't!" Julie was behind Violet. "Boundaries, hello?" Violet said. "give it back." "No! Hey, you need to realize how insanely talented you are. Both of you are." Luke got on top of the piano bench in front of Violet. "okay? Listen to this. If somebody hurts you--" Violet tries to grab the paper from his hand, but is too late. "If somebody hurts you, I'm gonna get hurt too. And my life would be real low, zero, flying solo." 

"oh-oh!" Reggie adds. Luke looks up at him before looking back down at Violet, "it's a killer melody." Julie sighs, "we wrote that about Flynn, when she was helping me with all my mom stuff." "mine too." Violet adds. "I gotta go." Julie turns around to leave. "hey, what about the band?" Luke asks. "oh... I almost forgot. Stay out of my room." Julie closes the doors. Luke jumps off the bench and sticks his head through the door, yelling, "Yeah, we will if you join our band!" 

"What about you?" Luke looks at Violet. "I'm in," she looks at the grinning boys, "but." she stops. Their smiles drop. "Only if Julie is." the boys sigh.  

"On other news, I don't feel like leaving. So, I'll just be here, on the couch." Violet jumps over the back of the couch. Violet soon fell asleep, listening to their voices singing along the melody.

~~~

Violet woke up to "Wait, so when she means 'deep dish' is she talking about Pizza or...." 

She groans, sitting up, "Deep dish means deep secrets." making both of the boys nod before jumping when Alex appears.  "woah, hey man. Where you been?" Reggie smiles. "Um, kind of everywhere. Yeah, no, I met a new ghost friend." Alex explains. "For real?" Reggie is shocked. "yeah, he answered a ton of questions." Alex continued. 

"Yea, like whether Julie is gonna join the band or not?" Luke pulls the journal from under Alex. "I'm sure she will. We just gotta get this Flynn situation under control." Violet says before dropping her head back down to fall back asleep. But not before giggling when she heard the words, "get woke." That giggle did not go unnoticed by Luke, making him smile. 

~~~

"Okay, we got 30 minutes. Let's get going and rehearse" Julie bursts into the Studio making Violet fall off the couch. They all smile and get to rehearsing.

30 minutes later, Flynn knocks on the Studio doors. "Thanks for coming. We just wanted to rehearse the song so it was perfect." Julie opens them. "which it's not, but that's whatever." Violet steps beside Julie. 

"No, if I'm gonna hear song from your imaginary ghost band, I want it to be perfect. So, get back in there," Flynn points next to Violet and Julie, "all of you, you too." 

"they're not out here." Violet laughs. Julie then steps out of the way as Flynn says, "I know." Julie sighs and closes the doors. 

"Alright guys, you ready?" Julie asks the ghost band. They all agree, but Reggie says that he needs more space.

"uhh, actually, can you go over there? Reggie needs some space to rock out, and he feels kinda weird walking through you." Violet explains to Flynn. "boy, when you two create a world, you really live in it."  

"Just sit." Julie laughs, setting out a chair. 

"If you notice, there's no equipment that will produce a hologram. Feel free to look around." Violet says.

Julie gets behind the keyboard, "The guys took a poem that we wrote about you and put it to music." 

"Aww! I wish I didn't have to talk to your dads after this." Flynn pouts. Julie and Violet, "It's called 'Flying Solo.' Hope you like it" Julie starts to make beats on the Akai MPK 249, then moves to they keyboard.

Julie:

If I leave you on a bad note
Leave you on a sad note
Guess that means I'm buying lunch that day

Violet: 

I know all your secrets
You know all my deep-dish
Guess that means some things they never, they never
Change...

Julie: 

We both know what I, what I, what I
Mean...
When I look at you it's like I'm looking at me

The boys appear making Flynn scream.

Violet and Julie:

My life, my life would be real low, zero, flying solo
My life, my life would be real low, zero, flying solo without you

All:

Hey! yeah-e-yeah
Hey! yeah-e-yeah

Violet and Julie: 

My life, my life would be real low, zero, flying solo without you

Julie and Violet lean down in front of Flynn. Violet grabs her hand singing the next line, 

Violet: 

Yeah, you know who I'm likin'
Way before I liked them, duh...
Cause you liked them first

Julie {all}:

And if somebody hurts you
I'm gonna get hurt too
That's just how we work, yeah, that's just how we work
It will never
{Change...}

Violet {all}: 

We both know what I, what I, what I
{Mean...}
When I look at you it's like I'm looking at me

Julie and Violet take Flynn all around while singing the chorus.

All:

My life, my life would be real low, zero, flying solo
My life, my life would be real low, zero, flying solo without you

Luke yells the 'hey' at her, making her flinch.

Hey! yeah-e-yeah
Hey! yeah-e-yeah

The girls take Flynn to Alex and jam out.

My life, my life would be real low, zero, flying solo without you

They end at Reggie, Flynn sticks her hand through his shoulder, "Weird, right?" He asks. "They're ghosts!" Flynn shouts. "Oh, we prefer, uh, musician spirits." Alex says from behind the drums. "Violet? D- Julie? does this mean you're joining our band?" Luke continues to play the guitar. Flynn walks forward, "Actually, I think you're joining their band." Luke smiles and Violet and Julie, "I'm gonna go with what she said." Violet said smiling back, "same here." Replied Julie. 

My life, my life would be real low, zero, flying solo
My life, my life would be real low, zero, flying solo without you
Hey! yeah-e-yeah
Hey! yeah-e-yeah
My life, my life would be real low, zero, flying solo without you

Julie and Violet end, standing in front of Flynn. Reggie chuckles at the girls.

Violet: 

you.

Violet added riff to the end leaning foreheads with Julie and Flynn. 

"Still wanna talk to our dads?" Julie asks. "No, I'm good." Flynn replied. 

Luke laughs and Alex smiles. The girls giggle, then group hug. 

~~~

Later that night, Violet sits up on her bed, hugging her journal. "Are you okay?" Luke poofs in her bedroom. She jumps, looking up, "Honestly?" Luke nods, sitting at the foot of her bed. "I miss my mom." She sighs. "is she..?" Luke asks. "oh, no. She's not dead, but she's gone. I only ever get to see her once a year." Violet sighs. "I'm sorry." Luke apologizes. "it's okay, at least I have my songs." she looks at her journal. 

Luke looks around her room, ignoring the wall with the Sunset Curve shirt and poster, seeing a corner filled  with a mic, laptop, keyboard, akai mpk mini, music stand, and guitar. "Play me something?" he smiles. "Sure." Violet gets up, places her journal on the music stand, "A or B?" she asks. "what?" Luke laughs. "Choose one, A or B?" "umm, B." Luke chose one. "Happy Face it is." Violet smiles, opening her journal to 'Happy Face.' She plays a mini intro on the keyboard. "uhm... This song is about me talking to myself. About all of my struggles I had gone through." 

Violet:

I'd barely seen you when you asked me if I hated you
Wasn't surprised but still had nothing I could say to you
I'm sorry if I ever made you feel the way you do

Yeah, I know I know you better than your parents
I heard about 'em, you don't gotta be embarrassed
You go online 'cause that's where you can be the saddest
You've been acting careless

Now you put on a happy face
You need someone who's gonna stay
I know you're crushed under the weight
Wanna hold you up
Wanna hold you up
You keep things bottled up inside
I wish you'd give someone a try
You fell apart a million times
Wanna hold you up
Wanna hold you up
Before my heart gives out

You're losing track of all the friends I know you used to have
Don't know what happened but the old you wasn't half as bad
I'm sorry no one sees what's going on inside your head

Yeah, I know I know you better than your parents
I heard about 'em, you don't gotta be embarrassed
You go online 'cause that's where you can be the saddest
You've been acting careless

Violet has many tears streaming down her face by now.

Now you put on a happy face
You need someone who's gonna stay
I know you're crushed under the weight
Wanna hold you up
Wanna hold you up
You keep things bottled up inside
I wish you'd give someone a try
You fell apart a million times
Wanna hold you up
Wanna hold you up
Before my heart gives out

I know that you hate when I figure you out
You get so distant just so you can hear a sound
Swear that you've been gone but yet your body's still around
What are you doing now?

Now you put on a happy face
You need someone who's gonna stay
I know you're crushed under the weight
Wanna hold you up
Wanna hold you up
You keep things bottled up inside
I wish you'd give someone a try
You fell apart a million times
Wanna hold you up
Wanna hold you up
Before my heart gives out.

Violet turns around with a sad smile. Luke opens his arms and she shot into them. No one realized that they were, somehow, touching. 

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