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"So he booked us a gig at your house?" Violet raises her eyebrows at Julie, who is leaned against the locker next to Violets. "Yea." Julie answered. "At least we have a new gig," Violet says, "I'll see you in class, I gotta go to my locker real quick." Julie nods. Violet sighs and shuts her locker. She jumps when there is a boy behind it.
Luke.
"aah. Normal people don't do that and ghosts definitely shouldn't. What are you doing here?" Violet asks. "I was thinking about what song we're playing tonight. I was thinking Great." Luke suggested. Violet clears her throat before grabbing her phone. "You're just gonna take a phone call while we're talking, do you know how rude that is?" Luke gasped. Violet answered the phone. "Hey, thanks for calling. Otherwise, people might think I'm talking to myself." "nice." "oh, but yeah. I think Great is a great choice." "Sweet, well, that was pretty much all I wanted to talk to you about." Luke awkwardly smiles. "oh, okay." Violet slides off. "Oh, well there's actually one thing I wanted to talk to you about. I know I'm not the easiest person to work with but I wanted to tell you that I think you make me a better writer." Luke scratches his head. "I think we make each other better." Violet smiles. "You know what, why don't you and Julie just skip school, let's go rehearse." Luke says. "Look as amazing as that sounds, I already missed last dance class and Julie promised her dad school first." Violet answered. "What's one more? Plus, Julie's at school first and now we should leave to go rehearse." Luke tells her. "Come on, I can't do this without you." "I can't... I- I told Ryan I'd be his dance partner."
"Hey V!"
"and he's coming this way. Heyyy, gotta go, byee." Violet ends the call. "Well don't you look sharp." Luke looks at Ryan. "I know we haven't gotten to practice much together yet, but I'm sure we'll do fine. Are you ready for our big performance?" Ryan asks. "Yeah, we're gonna do great." Violet replies. "I'm glad you're confident because even after 3 classes, I still think I got worse." Ryan makes Luke pout. "It's good I got my secret weapon." Ryan looks at Violet. "Oh, I think someone has a crush on V." Luke says. Violet gives Luke a weird glance. "Shut up." Violet says before having a one-second freak out. "Oh, I mean, shut up!" She lightly punches Ryan. "No, seriously. V, I'm nothing without you." Ryan looks at her. "Psshh, no. No, you're gonna do fine." Violet reaches up and lightly pushes Ryan into Luke. "See you in there?" She asks. "Yeah, I'll be the guy trying not to make us look stupid." Ryan walks off with Luke behind him, mimicking him and laughing.
"Well, he's just too cute!" Luke points at him, walking back to Violet. "Boundaries. I'll see you after school." Violet looks at him while walking off. "I guess we'll just have to carry you tonight, just like we always do." Luke tells her. Violet sighs and rolls her eyes playfully. She smiles. "Hey, I know you're smiling. Killin' it on the dance floor!" Violet can just picture him doing a mini dance with that talk. She laughs walking into the gym.
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"Boys, I want you to focus and leave it all on the field." The Lacrosse coach explains. Ryan gives Violet a look from behind her, she shrugs. "You're loosing 'em. Breathe in, shake out your nerves." The dance teacher tells them. All of the students shake out their nerves. Ryan smiles at Violet, making her give a smile back. It seems they would be good friends. "Surrender to the music and to your partner."
"When did we learn anything about surrendering?" Ryan asks Violet. "Nothing, Lu. We'll be fine, it was just- ya know." Violet answers, staring off into space. "Whose Lu?" Ryan waves his hand in front of her face. "huh? Oh, Lu- I don't know. I guess my mind was just wondering. I don't know." Violet lets out a nervous laugh, "But, my mind has now wondered back and I am ready to slaughter this thing, woah, big word." Ryan laughs.
They smile as they start to dance. Ryan spins Violet and all of a sudden, he's gone. She makes a weird face then looks in the mirror. Gasping, she realizes Luke is walking out of the mirror?
Her breath hitches at the sight of him.
Luke:
Step into my world
Bittersweet love story about a girl
Shook me to the core
Luke walks towards her. As they try to hold hands, her hand goes through his.
Voice like an angel, I've never heard before
Violet just realizes that is her song, she's been writing. Just then, their hands touch.
Violet:
Here in front of me
Their hands clasp together.
Shining so much brighter than I have ever seen
Luke spins her around.
Life can be so mean
But when he goes I know he doesn't leave
Both:
The truth is finally breaking through.
They push away from each other, as Luke spins on the ground, coming back.
Two worlds collide when I'm with you
Violet is now behind Luke.
Our voices rise and soar so high
We come to life when we're
Luke spins her around in the air.
In perfect harmony
Woah, woah
Perfect harmony
Woah, woah
Perfect harmony
They stare into each others eyes as he places her on the ground.
We say we're friends, we play pretend
Violets raises her arms along with Lukes.
You're more to me. we create.
Their arms are to their sides.
Lukes' thumb goes to caress her cheek as she smiles at him.
Violet:
A perfect harmony.
Violet gasps as Luke morphs into Ryan, not with his hand touching her cheek, but her shoulder. "That was amazing." He looks down at her. "Uhm, yea. I- I have to go." She pushes off his hand and walks out of the gym. Ryan shrugs it off and walks over to where Nick was, "Great job man." they do their little bro hug.
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Violet hums and plays the notes of 'Perfect Harmony' with a blank stare. "She's in here!" Julie shouts to Flynn as she walks into the music room. "We've been looking for you everywhere!" Flynn walks over to them. "yea, Why'd you run out of dance so fast?" "Oh, I just needed some air. It got a little intense in there." Violet looked at them. "Oh we noticed." Julie says. "Dancing with a cute guy will do that to you." Flynn told her. "yeah, but the whole time, we were dancing, I was thinking about Luke. And while Ryan had his hand on my shoulder, Luke somehow had his on my cheek." Violet looks down and then up at them. "Seriously?" Flynn asked. "Called it." Julie said. "I know you always want what you can't have but Luke is next level." Flynn looks at Violet. "I know. Luke and I just kinda clicked and he's so..." Violet blushes. "Not real." Julie finishes. "you can make all the music with Luke you want but he'll always be a phantom. So...," Flynn grabs Violets phone, "Here's what we're gonna do...." Julie looked over her shoulder, "Send Ryan a nice, little friendly text asking him to go to the party tonight."
Violet looks at the text, "I use 1-2 smiley faces, 3 at the most. Not 5." "You do now." Flynn smiles at her, "We're not gonna let you get your heartbroken, trust us." "Tonight, we, which also means you, are performing with Luke." Julie reminds her. "So the key is to avoiding those big, beautiful, Dead, eyes." Flynn continues. "Y'all are very pushy today." Violet looks at them. "Welcome!" They smile.
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"wassup everybody! Time to put your hands up, do a little dance, yup. Here's the new anthem from JV and the Phantoms." Flynn introduces the band.
"Thanks for coming everyone!" Julie thanks as her and Violet walk out.
Julie:
Running from the past
Tripping on the now
What is lost can be found, it's obvious
Violet:
And like a rubber ball
We come bouncing back
We all got a second act, inside of us
The band appears behind them.
Julie:
I believe
I believe that we're just one dream
Away from who we're meant to be
That we're standing on the edge of
Violet:
Something big, something crazy
Our best days are yet unknown
That this moment is ours to own
Violet glances at Luke before walking over to Reggie. As Julie walks to Reggie, Luke tries to walk to Violet but she walks to Alex instead.
All:
'Cause we're standing on the edge of great
(On the edge of great) Great
(On the edge of great) Great
(On the edge of great)
'Cause we're standing on the edge of great
During the chorus, Luke glances at Violet with a confused look.
Luke:
We all make mistakes
But they're just stepping stones
To take us where we wanna go
It's never straight, no
Luke and Violet make eye contact and Luke motions her over. She starts to walk over before remembering Flynn and walks to the front.
Violet and Luke:
Sometimes we gotta lean
Lean on someone else
To get a little help
Until we find our way
Julie, Violet, and Luke:
I believe
I believe that we're just one dream
Away from who we're meant to be
That we're standing on the edge of
Something big, something crazy
Our best days are yet unknown
That this moment is ours to own
Julie and Violet walk over to Reggies side while he walks to Luke.
All:
'Cause we're standing on the edge of great
(On the edge of great) Great
(On the edge of great) Great
(On the edge of great)
'Cause we're standing on the edge of...
Shout, shout
C'mon and let it out, out
Don't gotta hide it
Let your colors blind their eyes
Be who you are no compromise
Just shout, shout
C'mon and let it out, out
Violet:
What doesn't kill you makes you feel alive
Ooh-oh
I believe
I believe that we're just one dream
Luke walks over to her on the piano, playing a riff on his guitar.
Away from who we're meant to be
Violet smiles down at Luke.
That we're standing on the edge of great
All:
'Cause we're standing on the edge of great
(On the edge of great) On the edge of great
(Great, on the edge of great) On the edge
(Great, on the edge of great)
'Cause we're standing on the edge of...
As Julie plays the piano. Violet is standing off to the side of it. Luke walks up to her, getting close to her mic. They stare into each others eyes...
Violet and Luke:
Running from the past
Tripping on the now
What is lost can be found, it's obvious.
Their foreheads tilt forward, less than an inch away, before Luke poofs away. Violets smile falters before coming back to life as she looks at the crowd.
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