follow your heart// L. Patterson { julie and the phantoms}

8

After what seemed to be hours of her life she would never get back, Lyric walked in her front door dropping her bag at the door and hanging her jacket up, slipping her shoes off and putting them in the cupboard. She shouts to her brother, "Hey brooke, I'm home!" But there was no reply.

She shrugged it off and headed upstairs. Opening her door she spotted three ghosts. One on her bed, of course, one in her wardrobe and the other at her desk. Walking in she places herself next to Reggie on the bed and the room just goes dangerously silent, so silent it felt like her ears were ringing.

She looked up and they were all looking at her, well except Reggie. He didn't see to care. "Um, hey lads" Reggie waves and Luke just looks at her. "Hey L!" Alex says walking more in to the girls wardrobe. "How long have you been here for?"

"We got here after you left, then we waited for your brother to leave and then we played music and Reggie...well I don't know what Reggie was doing honestly. We was watching..movies but with like a lot of dancing and singing teenagers"

"Jesus, right um what film did you watch Reg?" He points at the one that's on the TV and she instantly shakes her head. "Did you enjoy high school musical?"

"Yeah! It was great" she hums her response. And slaps his stomach which made him flinch. She giggled and looked back up. Alex was now deep in her wardrobe "Hey Lyric, your wardrobe is amazing!" He says, causing her to roll her eyes and smile. Luke was just staring at her and she raised an eyebrow. "Hey...Lyric, what's these sticky notes?" He asks. "oh um, they're just things I write on the daily. Like instead of using someone else's quotes why not make your own?" She smiles, Luke nods and turns around instantly taking one off and slipping it in his pocket, making sure the girl doesn't know.

"Hey, guys. How does this look?" Alex walks out with a mint green wig, a pink sparkly hat and a tutu on. "Make 'em say wow!" He says twirling around. Lyric starts giggling and Reggie starts smiling. Luke is just staring at the girl that sat on the bed. Smiling at her happiness.

"Hey Lyrical, I just got home. Want anything to eat?" Her brother walks in, "uh, depends Whatcha makin'?" Lyric was in deep conversation with her brother, so Luke thought it would be good to try and open the locked drawer at her desk again. Which causes it to make her desk shake, Brooklyn's eyes dart to the shaking desk raising an eyebrow. "L, are you keeping like...frogs or something in that drawer? Are you sure you don't want me to fix that?" She looks at him confused then turns her head. Seeing Luke trying to open the drawer. She picks up a pillow and throws it at him. "No, no just some really annoying thing that has been happening lately."
Luke gasps playfully. "Hey! I'm not annoying"

"Yeah you are dude" Alex says, "oh well, I'll take a look at it later for you if you want?" Lyric nods at her brother. "Right so, Paprika chicken with fries?" She nods her head and he walks out.

"Honestly Luke, what made you think trying to unlock a drawer is a good idea?"

The boy shrugged and looked down at the drawer again, "say, what's in the drawer?"

"You've asked before, and I said, nothing special. Just memories...why do you wanna know?"

"Oh no Luke! You are not going to try and get in there." Alex says shaking his head.

"You know where that got us with Julie last time!" Reggie says.

"Ok, what?" Lyric says.

"Are you aware of Julie's dream box?" Alex says. She nods her head in return. "Luke thought it would be funny to go in there and take a look, can't help himself if music's involved." The girl's eyes widen.

"Luke. Your seriously went through that? Jesus" he looks down at his feet and notices the drawers underneath her bed. He gets on the floor and pulls them out, Alex walks over and his eyes widen. Lyric raises an eyebrow and Reggie hangs over the bed to see what was going on.

"Oh my god! These skate boards are so cool!" Reggie squeals. Lyric giggles at his excitement and pulls one out of the drawer. "Lyric you so gotta teach me how to ride one!" Lyric nods her head and he claps his hands together. "When do you want me to show you?"

"Whenever!"

"Okie Dockie"

"Yes! Can I pick a board?"

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I'm back...again! I hope you're all doing well! I'm so happy I'm rewriting this story– and I'm grateful for the ones that are reading this story right now at this seconds <3