𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆 ~ 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒈𝒊𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔

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by the time amelia had made it to julies house, she'd started crying. her mind was racing to a thousand different possibilities about what ollie was doing with savannah right now. she knocked on the door, meeting the concerned face of carlos, julie's little brother. "you okay?"

"erm, yeah?" it came out as a question "where's jules?"

"she's in the studio with dad" carlos smiled slightly

"really?" amelia asked in shock "thanks los"

amelia made her way out towards the molina's garage converted studio. she didn't even wait as she stormed into the studio in panic "julie!" she yelled

"okay i'm gonna leave you two girls to it, this sounds private" ray commented

amelia didn't even glance at him as she let out a breath and started to rant at julie "is there something wrong with me? like am i unlikeable? because ollie seems to think savannah is better company than me" amelia then took the opportunity to look around the room, noticing the presence of three other people "sorry i didn't realise you had company.." she trailed off staring at a particular chestnut haired boy

"you can see them?" julie asked in shock

amelia felt like the air had been taken from her lungs. she couldn't breathe. "j-jules" she stuttered

"meels? what's wrong? mils?" julie asked concerned

"julie" amelia started to hyperventilate

"amelia. i need you to calm down for me. come on take a breath, follow my breathing, in and out" julie guided grabbing her best friends hands and sitting her on the couch. amelia wasn't calming down, her eyes locked on the brunette boy. julie seemed to notice this "you guys need to leave. why can't you be normal ghosts and haunt an old mansion in pasadena or something!"

julie kept amelia's hand and started to guide her towards the house, they made it as far as outside the studio before amelia fell to her floor and managed to gain control over her breathing. "i'm gonna get you some water and then we are going to talk about that"

julie started to walk away when luke appeared in front of her "stop doing that!" she scoffed "i'm serious"

"i'm sorry, look i know this is completely insane but do you know how rad this is? people. actual people can hear us play" luke said

julie glanced at amelia "yeah it's just. i've had a really awful day"

"i'm sorry you had a bad day, but three guys just found out they've had a bad 25 years" luke said, amelia's breathing hitched again "and then they find out that the one thing, the one thing they lived for in the first place, they can still do. that's pretty rad"

"you're right. it's just..."

"your bad day i get it. look i'm sorry that we came into your life but, what i felt in there actually made me feel alive again. we all felt alive again. so you can kick us out if you want but we won't give up music. we can play again, that's a gift no musician would ever turn down" luke explained "you gotta know that. clearly, your mom is into music"

"was. she passed away"

"i am so sorry"

"yeah. we didn't know" alex said as him and reggie appear

"you guys haven't seen her anywhere have you?" julie asked hopeful

"no, sorry, i mean your kind of the first person thag we have seen" alex said

"but she's not dead so that doesn't really answer her question" reggie added

alex shot him a glare "i think she knows what i mean"