Chapter XVIII

JULIE'S POV:

When Luke and I had decided that we should be heading back to the garage I moved away from him as I needed to head downstairs to leave the house.

"Luke how did you actually get in here? I thought you guys couldn't ghost anymore." I questioned finally thinking that Luke would have had to open a locked door to get into his room.

"I really don't know, I walked here. When I got here though I stood at the door and I wanted to be in my room and next thing I knew I poofed into here. I don't know what's going on with us Julie, one minute I can't go anywhere or walk through anything and then next thing I know I can pop into a room just by thinking of it."

"It'll be okay Luke, we will figure this out. We will figure out what all this means." I comforted by reaching to pull his hand to pull him off the bed.

Luke smiled as he stood to his feet, he was a lot closer to me than I had thought when I reached out to help him up. His face was so close to mine that I could feel his body almost pressing against my own. Although this was probably an awkward position to be placed in I couldn't help but want to stay right here. Luke's eyes kept hold of mine as we stood there. I didn't know who moved first but all I knew was that Luke had offered to walk with me to the house but I felt that I needed that time to think. Leaving Luke in his room to poof back and meet me in the garage I walked out of his room back into the upstairs hallway.

As I walked down the stairs I could hear Mitch and Emily talking at the dining table. I didn't know whether I should pop in and say goodby or just leave. I decided on quietly moving into their dining room to at least let them know I was leaving.

"Uh, Mitch, Emily. I'm heading out now. Thank you for that, it meant a lot to me."

"Oh sweetie no trouble. It was nice seeing you again Julie." Emily spoke as she stood up from the table as she was helping me to walk out the front door.

Emily pulled the door open for me as I walked through. I turned around quickly saying one last goodbye to Mitch and Emily before I started my walk back home.

I had been walking for about 10 minutes when I began humming songs out loud. I knew that I couldn't get the song Luke wrote for me out of my mind. It was so beautiful and meaningful, yet there was still so much that we had to talk about when we got a chance. Without paying attention I bumped into someone who had been standing in front of where I was walking. Of course with my clumsy skills I fell down straight onto my butt.

"I'm so sorry." I apologised as I stood back up on my own.

When I finally lifted my eyes I was shocked with who was standing in front of me.

"I thought I told you to go home." I laughed as Luke lent against the tree that was perfectly situated behind him.

"Yeah well you should know by now I don't really do what I'm told," Luke laughed as I brushed off the dirt from my jeans.

I gave Luke an unimpressed look due to his laughter at my clumsiness.

"Well you could have helped me up." I groaned at him.

"Nah, it was more fun watching you do it on your own." Luke spoke his smirk creeping onto his face.

"Well are you at least going to walk home with me." I asked.

Without any form of a verbal answer Luke reached out and quickly scooped my hand up in his own. I smiled at his small gesture, I knew there was something more going on between us, something deeper.

On the walk home Luke and I talked about anything and everything. From our music, to school to what Luke used to do as a kid. As we neared the front gate of my house I couldn't stop laughing at Luke's story he was telling me about Alex and Reggie. Apparently back when they were in Sunset Curve back in the 90's Reggie got caught playing Alex's drums and Alex chased him around hitting him with his drumsticks.

As we walked into the garage I couldn't help but smile seeing that the boys weren't there. Don't get me wrong I love Alex and Reggie so much but I know how they are and 100% they would never let it go if they saw Luke holding my hand. Luke spun me around letting me go as he walked further into the garage. I saw him take his black writing journal out of his jacket and place it in his usual spot in one of the table draws. As he turned around I moved over to flop onto the couch, putting my feet up on the coffee table.

"I don't know about you and your ghosty abilities but I'm so tired from that walk." I spoke to him as I patted the spot next to me, gesturing to him to sit down.

"I don't know about you and your humany abilities but I'm tired to." Luke laughed as he jumped onto the empty seat next to me.

For a moment we just sat there in comfortable silence just wanting to spend time with Luke.

"I uh."

"I uh." We both spoke at the same time.

I started giggling after we both tried to fill the silence at the same time. Luke followed my lead laughing at our actions.

"Nah you go first." Luke spoke pointing to me.

"I just wanted to say that I really loved your song Luke. I don't know how else to word it but it meant the world to me."

Luke turned his body to face me. "Julie you don't know how much it meant when I found out that song was about me. You honestly are one of the best songwriters I have ever met."

Luke and I grinned at one another for a brief moment. "You know I haven't actually got to play it for you." I remembered.

"Well do you want to?" Luke asked with a huge grin spreading across his face.

"Maybe if you ask really nicely I can play it for you sometime soon." I teased him.

Luke shook his head at my teasing nature. "Hey Julie?" Luke asked me.

"Yeah Luke," I answered.

"Would you want to maybe go somewhere tomorrow with uh... with me." He stuttered over his words.

"Like a date?" I was shocked at his question, I never expected Luke would like me in this way.

"Yeah like a date." Luke smiled.

"I'd love to Luke." I smiled looking down at my lap. I was so nervous and excited at the same time for so many different reasons. I couldn't even contain how much I just wish it was tomorrow already.

I stood up from the couch straightening my shirt and turning towards the piano packing up the sheet music I had left here from practice. While I was packing up the sheets of paper I turned my head over my shoulder to check on Luke. I could see him doing some stupid happy dance when he thought I wasn't looking. Even when he was a dork I found him unbelievably cute. While packing up I couldn't help but start humming Luke's song he wrote for me again. This time however I felt Luke come over standing close behind my back.

"You really liked that song?" Luke smiled as he asked.

"Of course I did. You wrote it for me."

"I did, I actually wrote it where we played the first time with you."

"Wait, you wrote that in the school gym?" I asked, turning around super confused.

"Oh yeah, I went there one night. Just needed some place to think." Luke shied away.

"To think about me?" I asked.

"Yeah, needed to think about you." Luke mumbled moving closer to me, as my back hit against the keyboard.

Luke had almost his entire body pressed against mine for a split second when we heard the doors being pulled open. I had never seen someone move as fast in my life as Luke moved to the other side of the room. I stood there in shock at both the door being opened as well as the fact that we got interrupted. I didn't know what was going to happen had no one come into the room.

I turned around spotting my dad poking his head through the small gap he made in the door. I could tell that he was checking to see if I was talking to the band, online as far as he was concerned. When he noticed that I was just standing near the keyboard he slipped into the garage to speak to me.

"Hey Julie I was just wondering...." My dad stopped in the middle of his sentence.

I looked at my dad confused as to what he was doing, why had he stopped talking. I followed where his eyes were focusing. Luke?

Luke looked over at my dad, when he locked eyes with him I could tell Luke was more confused than I even was.

"Oh...hi. I'm Ray." My dad called out to Luke.

What the hell could he see Luke? What was happening? 

A BIT OF A LONGER CHAPTER TODAY - THOUGHT YOU GUYS DESERVED ONE AFTER SOME SHORTER CHAPTERS!! I AM SO BLOWN AWAY BY ALL YOU GUYS LOVE AND SUPPORT! I LOVE REPLYING TO YOU COMMENTS AND YOU GUYS ARE HONESTLY THE SWEETEST. I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO WRITE (I DON'T KNOW IF A BOOK, SONGS, TV OR MOVIES) I DON'T KNOW BUT IT IS SOMETHING I AM VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT. 

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