LUKE DID sing Lennon to sleep last night. A well-needed sleep for sure.

The hallways of the school were quiet as the majority of the students were at the spirit rally either helping setting the event up or rehearsing.

Lennon opened her locker and just looked inside. It was one of those days. One of those days where she felt like doing absolutely nothing. She was unmotivated and honestly rather just be alone.

These days for Lennon could last for weeks. Unmotivated and unwilling. It sucked. It made her feel bad and she felt like she couldn't control it. It was draining.

She continued to just stare inside her locker before switching out textbooks and shutting it once she was done.

She slid down and once she was on the floor she pressed her back against the cold metal.

Lennon was glad Luke sang her to sleep because if she knew one of these days was coming she probably would've asked him to stay.

The "having a soulmate and not telling him" was eating her up inside. She just didn't want Luke running off. Not like he could just completely dissolve, but she felt like he would try and just denounced having one.

She knew it was wrong to hold this information and there was no stopping Julie if she found out and told Luke before Lennon did.

No search on the internet could explain why Luke, a ghost from twenty-five years ago, was her soulmate. Yes, the singing in their heads made sense, if he were alive.

Lennon still had her life. She would have to grow up, get old, and hopefully died a peaceful death. She couldn't hold out on a guy who couldn't even touch her.

Speaking of, Lennon couldn't stop thinking about her love language either. She questioned what Luke's could've been and with all honesty, she didn't know how to approach him with the question either.

Finally, to add the cherry on top, it was missing her mother kinda day. Lennon's relationship with her mother was golden. She loved spending time with her parents. So, she felt bad when she distanced herself from her father. She thought ( and yes, as bad as it sounds ) that if she distanced herself from him it wouldn't hurt as bad if he met the same fate as her mother. Stupid sounding, but that's how she felt, she knew it was stupid, so she only did it on these days.

In conclusion, Lennon's head was full of thoughts. Whether she wanted them or not.

The sound of the empty hallway was loud. This is why Lennon always had something playing. The silence was loud. She hated it.

Then it wasn't. It was weird, but Lennon sometimes thought Luke just knew when to just start singing to her. Maybe it was just a coincidence or maybe he genuinely knew. Either way, that's what she needed.

She shut her eyes and allowed her head to press against the lockers.

"Lennon!"

She slowly looked over at Carrie who was dressed in her Dirty Candy outfit.

"Spirit rally is getting ready to start. You said you were coming, right?"

Lennon didn't know why Carrie wanted her there so badly. She and Carrie weren't the greatest of friends in Lennon's eyes. Maybe Carrie saw differently.

"Yeah." Lennon said.

She stood from her spot and smiled.

"Everything all right?"

Lennon would've thought that would've been the last question Carrie Wilson would've asked her. Especially coming from Carrie Wilson.

Lennon nodded, "Yeah."

Though not knowing Lennon well, Carrie thought she was lying.

"Come on, you've still got time to practice don't you?" Lennon asked.

"Yes, yes I do. Trust me. This dance and song are going to knock people's socks off."

Carrie looped her arm with Lennon's and guided her to the gym.

And when Carrie practiced, she really got into it.

THE SPIRIT rally had been in full swing. With Carrie's performance literally wowing the crowd.

Julie and Flynn walked in shortly after her performance started. Flynn stating that Carrie spent all of her daddy's money on Katy Perry's choreographer. Impressive to be honest.

Julie looked over and saw Lennon standing close by.

The two of them approached her. Sooner or later Julie was going to have to talk to Lennon about this ghost stuff in more detail.

Julie rested her hand on Lennon's shoulder, "Hey." She smiled.

"Hey."

Julie could sense the awkwardness arising. She felt it when Lennon came over the other day. She felt it when she first invited Lennon over for the chemistry project. There was no intent for it to be awkward, so Julie had to break the barrier somehow.

"Want to hang out after school today?" Julie asked, "We can talk about the Mostly Ghostly we've been seeing."

"Yeah, that's fine."

Lennon could tell Julie about the whole, ghost soulmate thing, but, she knew it would get back to him. So, for right now, Lennon was going to keep that to herself.

The three of them watched Carrie and her group dance in front of the crowd and it didn't take long for Lennon and Julie to look over to see the three boys standing beside them.

"What are you doing here?" Julie asked.

"We wanna see you stick it to the man." Luke answered, "Isn't that right, boys?"

"Man, I miss high school." Reggie sighed.

Julie's nerves grew as she watched Carrie's performance. The crowd wasn't helping and the boys definitely weren't making it any better.

Once the performance was over, Carrie and the rest of Dirty Candy sashayed away. The principal and their music teacher approaching the center of the gym.

Reggie drew his attention away from the two centered staged and looked over at Julie and Lennon. Julie's arms now resting on Lennon's shoulder.

He gently waved at Lennon. For some reason, he felt like Julie was the only one to be able to see them. Yes, he remembered seeing her and yes, he did remember her speaking, but truthfully he just didn't want this to be a one-time thing.

She looked over and sent him a small wave.

Reggie smiled and faced the two adults. Truly, that was all he needed.

"What are you waiting for?" Reggie asked.

"Yeah. I mean, you look really nervous. Like yack in a bowl nervous." Alex added.

"I just don't think I had enough time to work on the song."

Lennon looked over. She could say Luke and Julie worked on that song all night even early this morning. All she could hear was Luke singing and the faint sounds of Julie in the background.

"I wouldn't have given you the song if I didn't think you were gonna rock it." Luke said, "Now, there's a piano on that stage with your name on it."

"He's right." Lennon said, "You sounded great. You'll be fine up there."

"You could hear me?"

"Yeah, and honestly, you sounded wonderful. Don't worry."

Julie smiled. She gave one final look at the others and headed on stage.

"Could you really hear her?" Luke asked.

Lennon nodded, "I hear all of you because of you. I hear Alex and Reggie because of you. It's just really, really faint."

Their attention was drawn back to Julie, still hesitant on playing.

"You got this."

Julie soon started the song over. The crowd-drawing in more and more especially when the boys by Lennon side soon appeared on stage with her.

Now how was the Molina girl supposed to explain how the three guys appeared on stage with her and with a snap of their fingers, gone.

THE BOYS had reappeared beside Lennon.

"Hey. Where did the rest of the band go?"

"Wait. We're those holograms?" Kayla asked.

"Yes!" Julie answered, "Yes, they were holograms, and Lennon will explain."

Lennon shut her eyes for a moment and headed on stage with Julie. Making her way towards the stage, she only had a limited amount of time to come up with some type of story.

"I plugged the holograms into the ceiling projector before the show. Julie and I'd explain it, but it involves algorithms and science stuff, and if you weren't listening it would completely fly over your head." She explained.

Regardless of whether someone believed it or not, the crowd went into a frenzy of applause.

"Okay, people, show's over. Let's get back to class, please."

"Good luck with Mrs. Harrison." Lennon whispered.

"Hey, thanks for the help."

Lennon smiled, "Anytime, Molina."

Lennon hopped off stage, no sign of the boys being close by, but regardless of that, she made her way out of the gym.

To only be stopped by Carrie.

"How'd you do that?" She asked.

"Do what?"

"The holograms. How'd you set it up? I was with you that entire time in the gym."

"You are so right about that."

"I'm behind you." Luke sang.

"You know, I got here so early this morning and got a really big ladder and did my science stuff and just like that, holograms." Lennon answered, "The science would take so much time to explain."

Carrie kept her arms crossed, "I've got time."

"So you do?" Lennon smiled, "That is wonderful, well... the holograms are actually people, you know, but I- I don't know these people personally. It's such a science thing that I can't even put into words how much science that is, you know what I'm saying?"

"No."

"Well, maybe some other time I can explain that science to you, but I have to go to my locker to get my bag so I can go to class." Lennon said, "Your performance was great though. Really good."

Carrie let her shoulders drop slightly but kept her arms crossed, "Thanks."

Lennon gave her one last smile and walked off, Luke trailing behind.

"That was the craziest thing!" He smiled, "People can not only hear us play, but see us play when we're with Julie."

Lennon pulled her phone out and put it towards her ear.

"You're just going to take a phone call in between our conversation?"

"Yeah, because people may think I'm talking to myself, so that's why you're not on Bluetooth." She responded.

"Oh... that makes sense. What's Bluetooth?"

"Don't worry about it."

The two of them stood by her locker as she grabbed what she needed for her next couple of classes.

"Did you see that up there?" Luke asked, "You can't say that wasn't the craziest thing you've seen."

"I did see, but I can't say that was the craziest thing I've seen because here I am, on the phone, with a dead guy."

Luke smiled. He was too excited. He could bounce off the wall. He was able to be seen by people when playing and he didn't know what to do with himself.

"I would do anything to hug you right now." He said, "Like, oh my, God. That was crazy. I don't even know where Alex and Reggie are, but-"

"You're rambling." Lennon smiled.

Luke looked down at her as she wrote in the same book he had seen on her desk.

TOP ONE HUNDRED PLUS SONGS HEARD AROUND SCHOOL
number one: wow - dirty candy
favorite line: "see 'em look, hear 'em "ooh-ah". hands up, throw back, boo yah."

number two: bright - julie and _____
favorite line: "and times that i doubted myself. i felt likе i needed some help."

"Number two?" Luke questioned.

"They're in order from how I hear them. So, yeah two."

"So, how many Sunset Curve songs are in this book?"

"You're not finding out anytime soon."

Lennon, if being honest, was a fan of Sunset Curve, but she really didn't need her soulmate to find out and teasing her about it.

"It's okay to say you're a fan." Luke smiled, "You know good music when you hear it."

Lennon returned the smile and shut her locker after grabbing her stuff for class.

"You would know, you hear me sing it all the time." She replied, "I've got class. I'm sure you'll find Julie and be excited as you were when you got off that stage. Tell Alex and Reggie I said hi, and see you later."

She brushed past him only for her to turn back around, "By the way, I would do anything to hug you too."

Luke softly smiled and watched as she rounded the corner. Lennon was hard to read in Luke's eyes. Still confused on how he could hear her singing.

There was a reason why Luke and Lennon could do what they were doing, and he was going to do everything to figure out what was going on.

LENNON DECIDED it would be best for her to walk home. She made it halfway down the hallway before the sound of her name rang through the empty corridor.

She turned around and saw Flynn rushing towards her.

"Hey, I have got a question."

Lennon nodded, "I've got time. What's up?"

"When did Julie start playing with the hologram band?"

"I think that's a question for Julie, isn't it?"

"I mean, she did say that you helped her set up the holograms, right?"

"She did say that and I did agree with her, didn't I? Uh, it was probably a one-time thing. It's not really Julie's band, it's a band, just not Julie's?"

Flynn furrowed her brows, "Okay, but why would you two keep three cute boys a secret?"

"If I'm being honest with you, Flynn. We aren't really that close of friends. Not like you and Julie. So, maybe that's another question you ask her?" Lennon explained, "But, you've probably, already talk to Julie and that's why you're here with me."

Flynn nodded, "I asked her if she lied and she didn't deny it."

"Look, Julie's your best friend, right? I know what I'm gonna say next is gonna suck, but Julie and I have something weird going on with that band, okay? It's not my place to tell you Julie's business, but if I say something about what's going on with me, you'll think I'm crazy. Then you'll think Julie's crazy." Lennon said, "Maybe she'll come around and tell you."

"Why don't you tell me what's going on with you?"

"Do you care? Or do you care because you'll get Julie's secret out of it too?"

"Lennon-"

"I get that Julie lied, but I don't need you to pretend that you care about my problems. Julie will come through, she always does for you doesn't she?"

Lennon gave Flynn one glance before making her way towards the exit.

"By the way, I know you mean no harm with your question and I'm not upset that you asked. I just wanted it to be a genuine concern."

Lennon could really use a hug right now.

- lucy has something to say
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these were two separate chapters and i combined them :) and you can probably tell :)

um, i know people want perfect harmony updated but it's almost over and i get into a place that if a story is almost over i don't update it because i know it will be over :) update on this: perfect harmony disappeared so idk

anyway

bye :)