Luke was bored. Julie was at Flynn's house doing something, he didn't know what. Alex was hanging out with Willie, and Reggie was hanging out with his best buddie Ray.

He was at a crossroads with Julie, on one hand, he really did have feelings for her as much as he tried to deny them, but on the other hand he had no clue where they stood on that front and he did not want to risk what they had now.

He was worried about the whole ghost thing, but since the night of the Orpheum they were able to become corporeal and be seen whenever they wanted as well as do everything else a living person could do. The only difference at this point from being normal living people was their added ghost powers.

He tried playing his guitar, writing songs, going through and editing songs, listening to current music, literally everything he could think of to distract himself from his own mind. Realizing his endeavor was pointless, he decided to go somewhere where he knew he would be forced to think things through more thoroughly: Julie's room.

Where else could he surround himself of things that were hers, forcing his brain to focus on her and try to decipher his dilemma. 

So he just sat down on the floor in front of her bed and looked around.

He really liked her. Like really really liked her. He loved writing with her. He loved singing with her. He loved hanging out with her. 

He loved everything about her, even the fact she was horrible at peeling oranges, even those little Cuties mandarin things that were supposed to be for little kids to peel. Seriously he had watched her use a knife to peel them the other day and it still took her like five minutes, but he still loved her for it.

Honestly he could hang out with her all day and never get tired of being around her, she just made him happy. There were some moments where he just knew she felt the same way, like when they were first able to touch and she cupped his face. The look in her eyes, he was so certain. When she had gotten back from his parents house, going to take each others hands... He just knew they felt the same, but then there were other moments that made him question everything.

Like when they were singing Edge of Great, she avoided him like crazy. Only interacting with Reggie and Alex until he went to her. Then there was Nick, who obviously had a crush on Julie, I mean why wouldn't he she is awesome, but he was at the performance, maybe that's why she avoided me...

He was pulled from his thoughts when he saw something, a piece of paper, and it was peaking out of Julie's dream box. Looking like it had been hastily put there. 

Technically he wouldn't be going into her box because it was already partially out. He would never have to open her box to get the paper out, rather he would just be closing it all the way stopping the paper from permitting it to fully close...

He gave in and rushed over pulling out the paper.

It was a song, and a good one at that, the lyrics seemed as though she had rushed to get them out. Messier than her normal handwriting. The lyrics were beautiful, and it was a duet.

He read the lyrics, and they reminded him of himself. 

He was getting excited, if Julie had written this and is was about him, he really hoped it was and he wasn't just that desperate, then she felt the same.

He had a huge smile on his face until he got to the end of the song and saw a small note,

"Dance Class."

Those two words destroyed his world.

Nick was in her dance class, and he was her partner...

But that didn't make any sense, the lyrics did not line up with Nick. Not to sound conceited, but two worlds collide? That had to be him as a ghost and her living. It did not make sense for it to be Nick, there wasn't any sort of crazy differences in their worlds to make it a collision. "More than chemistry"? That was what Alex and Reggie kept using to describe them.

or there was, "Love me as I am", Nick didn't even pay attention to her until she had risen from the ashes like a phoenix. If anything he only loves her for what she has become, he never seemed to notice her before. 

Luke sat there for an hour analyzing every lyric for any sort of clue, when he realized their band practice was about to start, and he had an idea.

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Luke flashed into the studio as Julie walked in from Flynn's house.

"Hey guys." She greeted, each replied back.

"So, where we starting boss?" Luke asked picking up his guitar.

"I was thinking we go over "Keep on Going" and then run through our set list."

"Sounds good"

Each of them got ready and ran through the songs stopping every now and then to make notes of what needed to be fixed, finally they got everything into place and moved onto their set list.

"Julie you were killing it on that last one, not that you don't always kill it, but you were really killing it." Reggie complimented after one of the songs.

"Yea, voice like an angel." Luke casually threw in, Julie gave him a strange look for a second but shook her head thanking Reggie.

They kept going when Alex absolutely rocked his drum solo.

"Dude, if you keep playing like that we will shine so much brighter." Luke once again casually threw in a line waiting on Julie to pick up on it. She once again shook her head after giving him a look, but kept going.

Eventually they reached the end of the set list.

"I think we had perfect harmony today." Luke commented as they discussed different things from their practice, once again Julie's head shot in his direction, but this time she didn't shake her head ignoring it. She kept an intense stare on him confusing Alex and Reggie.

"Well, dinner should be done soon and we can go hang out and watch a movie or something." Julie tells them, her eyes never leaving Luke.

"Sounds good, what are the plans for tomorrow?" Reggie asks.

"Well I am meeting up with Willie again, he wants to show me this cool skate park he likes to go to, and then he wants to go to this really cool café that has this amazing grilled cheese, so I won't be here for lunch, but I will be back in time for rehearsal." Alex told them.

"Well, when you go you never really leave. We always have your drumsticks randomly placed about to remind us." Luke comments, once again getting a look from Julie, but this one is much harsher than any of the others he had received thus far, when suddenly she stood up.

"Luke. Outside. Now." She commanded stepping out of the studio.

"Dude what did you do?" Reggie asked shocked.

"Technically, nothing... ignoring technicalities... well, let's just say I made a few comments to make her realize what I found. That she sort of had in her dream box but not entirely..."

Alex just shook his head at him.

"You know what the only thing scarier than two girls crying is?" Alex rhetorically asked.

"One angry Julie." Luke answered with his head down.

"Yep." Reggie said popping the 'p' sound at the end.

Luke took a deep breath before walking out of the studio to where Julie stood waiting for him.

"You went through my box." She accused.

"Technically, I didn't"

"I know where that song was, don't lie to me Luke."

"Like I said technically I didn't. The corner of it was outside of the box therefore making it be out of the box. I merely pulled it the rest of the way out allowing the box to close. So I didn't even open your box."

Julie just glared at his response.

"You read something private from my private dream box."

"Look, I'm sorry, but I'm also not sorry. That song is killing me, who is it about?"

"No one, that's just something I tried."

"Julie, you can't use my own words against me." He told her referring to her using the exact words he did when she found Unsaid Emily. "Plus you put it in your dream box, meaning there is more to it and it is about a person. You said it was private. So it is about someone, so who?"

"No one-"

"See now you are lying to me. Who is it about? I need to know okay?" Luke told her, pausing for a moment choosing his next words carefully. "I need to know, because I need to know if you feel how I feel."

"Luke..." Julie trailed off.

"It's about Nick isn't it." He said defeated. "You put dance class at the end." Luke shook his head wishing he had never said anything.

"It's about you Luke." She admitted as Luke began to walk away with his head down, seemingly about to flash away. When his head shot up at her four words. Four words that changed everything, but this time in a good way.

"What?"

"I was in dance, and I was dancing with Nick, but all I could think about was you. I imagined this whole dance scene with you, and that song. I needed it out of my head, because I knew you were a ghost, and Flynn had convinced me it couldn't happen because you were dead. It's why I avoided you during Great, trying to prove her wrong about my feelings, but I couldn't because they are real and I didn't want to mess with what we had, but now you are practically alive and it could work, but I didn't want to mess anything up and I didn't want to be misreading the signs. I mean it could just be our chemistry during songs and that's it but-" Julie rambled before Luke cut her off. He wanted to kiss her to stop her, but he wanted to have her permission to do that and not just ambush her.

"Jules, I feel the same." He told her, and her eyes widened. Her expression turned into a bright smile.

Luke leaned closer to her, their noses brushing,

"Can I kiss you?" He asked softly, he felt her softly nod before his lips captured hers.

Eventually they came up for air and leaned their foreheads against each others.

"I guess we aren't playing pretend anymore?" Luke joked.

"We're more than friends. We're perfect harmony." Julie smiled up at him before his lips captured hers once more.