_________ ׂׂૢ་༘࿐ JUST WANNA BE WITH YOU

     LENNON SUNDER was a music person. Everyone in her school was. From Carrie Wilson, the girl who had it all. To Flynn, the school's DJ. Even Julie Molina, the girl who had stopped singing because her mother had passed away.

Lennon could understand Julie's sudden stop of singing. Her mother passed away a year prior and she had also just stopped playing everything.

Her father had been trying ever since to get the girl to play something, anything, whether it was just dabbling on the piano or just listening to anything by John Lennon. He tried his hardest but to no avail.

Lennon's mother had her secrets. The box had been sitting in her parents' closet for years. Her father took the box out and allowed Lennon to look inside. He hadn't known what was in it but surely, it was something for Lennon. He felt it.

Lennon opened the box. Sunset Curve. A ton of stuff with the words Sunset Curve written over t-shirts and CDs.

She pressed her back against her bed frame and held the CD in her hands. Opening the CD, the white disk with the same Sunset Curve font on it. Also inside, a tracklist and a picture of four boys on the cover.

She looked over at her record player with a CD player attached to it and placed the CD inside.

The sound of the guitar instantly filling the small room. Loud enough to say the least. As soon as the music started her father stopped typing at his computer.

Lennon stood from her spot and sat at the desk in her room. She grabbed the small notebook from its place and opened it up.

TOP ONE HUNDRED PLUS ROCK SONGS
number one hundred six: now or never - sunset curve
favorite line: "when all the days felt black and white. those were the best shades of my life."

Every genre of music had a list. Some pages not as full as others, but full enough for her to be able to listen to each song for decades on end.

Flashing back, Luke Patterson could hear the faint sounds of what sounded like singing. Singing his song specifically. He ripped his headset off and looked around the room. Alex Mercer and Reggie Peters, two out of the four Sunset Curve members, looked at him, confusion written on their faces.

"You guys don't hear that?" He asked.

"I hear you losing your mind for the tenth time this week." Alex answered, "What's up with you, Luke? You've been asking us the same question for the past couple of days."

"It's like- like someone is in my head just singing, but it's our songs and it's not just that." Luke stood from his chair, "This... John Lennon. All the time." He added, holding the vinyl close.

Reggie smiled, "Don't make a joke." Alex said.

Reggie's smile fell. He was, in fact, gonna make a joke but now seeing the seriousness of the ( if you want to call it ) problem, he sat back in his seat.

"Maybe it's just an in your head thing." Alex suggested.

"Obviously," Reggie added, "he's the only one that can hear it."

"I know I sound crazy, but trust me. It's a girl. She's mumbling or singing or something but I can hear it."

"Maybe she's just someone you remember from one of our performances?" Reggie said.

Luke grew frustrated. He would've remembered if it was someone from their shows. He would've known if it was just all in his head.

This only started a few months ago. The John Lennon song. That song just seemed to be on a continuous loop for weeks and the mumbling or singing, whatever it was, had been happening for months. It wasn't even the whole album. It was one song, Imagine, over and over again.

There was another song, he couldn't put his finger on it. Nothing he'd heard before.

Luke sat at the piano in the studio and played the tune. Starting slow before picking up the pace. He abruptly stopped and faced the others.

"That was good." Alex said, "Just come up with it?"

"No." He answered, "That's just another song I've been hearing. I- I don't know. You think I'm crazy don't you?"

Reggie smiled before nodding his head. Alex hit his arm and sat down beside Luke at the piano.

"Maybe it's just-"

Luke let his head fall onto the keys. Maybe it's this. Maybe it's that. Maybe Luke wasn't crazy at all and hearing this voice was a sign.

"Luke, bud, we play at the Orpheum in less than two weeks. We can't lose our lead guitarist and singer because he thinks he's going crazy." Alex said, "Bobby will be here soon. Just rest up before he gets here."

Nightfall came to both parties. Lennon laying in bed scrolling on Instagram. She heard a noise. The sounds of a guitar strumming. She dropped her phone and headed out into the hallway. Nothing. The lights were off, a sign of her dad either being out for work or him sleeping.

She shut her bedroom door and the strumming got louder. She peaked out the window to find the streets pitch black, no sign of anyone being close by.

Then the soft sounds of singing start. Mumbling the lyrics for sure, but she could make out the sound.

"The words I love you in replace. And maybe time would not erase me."

The same voice from the CD now playing on her head. That sounded stupid. That sounded so dumb.

Lennon fell onto her bed. She shut her eyes tight hoping that it would just stop and that she wasn't going crazy.

It didn't stop. Nothing stopped. Ever since she played that CD, she'd been hearing that constant singing of that band, but now it was just a voice. Just and voice and a guitar.

She stood up again, turning on her desk lamp, and quickly flipped through her notebook.

TOP ONE HUNDRED PLUS SAD SONGS
one hundred sixty-two: unsaid emily?
favorite line: "if i could take us back. if i could just do that."

Luke Patterson woke up at the crack of dawn. The day that would change his life and shoot him to stardom. Tonight. The Orpheum.

A smile on his face as he held his guitar in his hands ready for some extra practice before actually going to the Orpheum.

Alex counting down, hitting his drumstick at the same time. He stopped as soon as Luke sat his instrument down and sat down on his couch.

"Dude." Reggie called, "What's going on?"

Luke didn't answer. The sound of the girl coming back, singing that same song he'd just did from not even hours ago.

"Luke? Everything all right?" Alex asked.

Luke felt stuck. He felt like if he kept going on and on about something someone else couldn't even hear, they would think he actually lost his mind, but no one else ( beside Sunset Curve ) had even heard of Unsaid Emily. A song about his mother. A song he only sang in front of his band, and now some girl who he could only hear was singing the same song on the guitar.

Alex and Reggie looked at each other before sitting down beside Luke. His head now resting in his face.

Luke looked forward, "I know this crazy and I know you probably won't believe me, because trust me, I wouldn't believe me either, but the voice. The- the singing it's back. It never left. She's singing the song about my mother, the song I've only sung in front of you guys. That's gotta be something. Something to prove that this isn't a fan from a previous gig or just me hearing things."

Luke stood from his seat to face the two people who could only hope to believe him, "Please believe me."

He was practically begging at this point. Luke knew this wasn't a bad thing per se, but it would be a bad thing if his friend continued to not believe anything he was saying.

Alex sighed, "How long has this been happening?"

"Months."

Alex took one last glance at Reggie before standing, "If you say you can hear this girl singing... then I believe you."

Luke let his shoulders drop. Alex seemed to sincerely agree with Luke. Who was Alex to say Luke was wrong?

Reggie joined them, "Yeah, maybe it's good luck."

Well, yes. It was good luck. Good luck until that night the three boys decided to get hotdogs from their sketchy alleyway from a really bad car.

Bobby lucked out. Three of the four Sunset Curve members, dead. Dying from a tainted hotdog.

That's when Lennon stopped hearing the singing, but that didn't mean Luke didn't hear Lennon singing the current limbo state.

Twenty-five years. Luke, Reggie, and Alex, finally could be seen by Julie Molina.

Their instruments in hand, rockin' out. Finally, Lennon could hear the sounds of a familiar Sunset Curve song.

LENNON SUNDER

GERALDINE VISWANATHAN

LUKE PATTERSON

CHARLIE GILLESPIE

MADISON REYES ─── JULIE MOLINA
OWEN PATRICK JOYNER ─── ALEX MERCER
JEREMY SHADA ─── REGGIE PETERS
SAVANNAH LEE MAY─── CARRIE WILSON
JADAH MARIE ─── FLYNN TAYLOR
SACHA CARLSON ─── NICK
BOOBOO STEWART ─── WILLIE ORTEGA
CARLOS PONCE ─── RAY MOLINA
CHEYENNE JACKSON ─── CALEB COVINGTON
SONNY BUSTAMANTE ─── CARLOS MOLINA
JULIE AND THE PHANTOMS CAST ─── RESPECTED CHARACTERS

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DISCLAIMER !!

☐ i do not own Julie and the Phantoms. Everything other than my plot, character(s), and storyline. Other than what I own everything is owned by Netflix and the creators of the show.

☐ this story does contain the talks of death, cancer, and anxiety if any of this cause any triggers please do not read ( i have other stories that you can read )

BEFORE YOU READ !!

☐ this story is based on a previous tiktok trend ( the one where you can hear your soulmate from different timeline )

PUBLISHED !!

started: october twenty-eight twenty twenty
ended: may eleventh twenty twenty one

- lucy has something to say
this is my 3rd or 4th time editing this story but whatever i guess