"Stop it" I hiss, laughing as Reggie, tries to jump on my back, then lets out a girly squeal, as he continues to tumble off my back and down the stone stairs.
"You used to let me do it" He grumbles
"You used to be smaller than me" I laugh.
"Let's go, guys!" Luke says, rolling his eyes. Reggie and I look at each other, trying to conceal our laughter, as Alex grabs our hands, as though we were two little children and drags us through the door, into Julie's house. We start moving forward, towards the dinner table, when we notice her, then we freeze as she yells out-
"AGHH" Her Dad and a woman, who I assume is her Mum give her weird looks "That's me... ripping off the bandaid..." She quickly catches herself, making her family all nod in understanding.
"There's my brave girl" the lady coo's grabbing Julie's face
"Hey, Julie," Luke says leaning closer to her, making her rip her face out of the woman's hand and face Luke "I really like what you did with the place."
"You shouldn't be here!" Julie hisses
"Oh, I'm just here to help Mija!"
"Uhhh, I think we should leave," I say hesitantly, as Julie gives us another glare.
"We should have called first!" Reggie says, stumbling back, pushing us out the door with his arms, I pause as I hear Julie's Mum say
"and now that your no longer in the music program, you can concentrate on things that matter-" before I can hear any more, Luke's arm is stuck through the door again, grabbing my wrist, and pulling me out after him.
"Did That woman just say no longer in the music program? That means Julie was in the program before! She must have played an instrument, like the piano... or even sung!" I exclaim
"We should ask her," Alex says thoughtfully
"wait... why piano... why not guitar like us, or bass or something?" Luke asks as we step through the garage doors,
"because," I say and gesture to the piano "of this beautiful piano"
"jeez sorry little miss observant," Luke says, rolling his eyes, and lifting his guitar strap around his head
"Hey, where did you get that?" Reggie asks, turning around from where he was examing the plants. Luke gestures over towards the loft, and my and Reggie scramble up the ladder, racing to try and get our instrument first,
"MY GUITAR!" I squeal, grabbing the neck of my blue electric. I plug it into the amp and run my fingers lightly down it, then cringe away from the speaker
"that is out of tune" Luke laughs
"Oh, my ears! My eaaarrrrssss" Reggie gasps dramatically, falling the floor, clutching his bass, making sure not to damage it.
"Let me hear yours then" I reply, narrowing my eyes. Reggie and Luke plug their guitars in then strum the strings. Their's weren't nearly as bad as mine, but I still pretend to clutch my ears. Can we play already? Alex asks, sitting behind his drumkit, twirling the drumsticks in between his fingers.
"Calm down" I wink at him, after adjusting the pegs on the end of the fingerboard "Now count us in" Alex smirks at me and places his foot on the pedal of the bass drum, hitting it four times before Reggie, Luke and I join in, I stand next to Reggie, as Luke starts a little riff on his guitar. Out of the corner of my eye, I notice Julie come stomping in through the doors, she steps in front of us and starts shouting, but because we had our amp turned up so high, we couldn't hear her. We continue playing, until Reggie starts getting scared, and drops his bass, letting it hang off his neck, and I do the same to mine. Reggie grabs my hand, pulling me towards him until my back is to his chest.
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Shards of a Star || Reggie Peters
FanfictionAlexis Mercer isn't interested in boys, not after last time, she is perfectly content with her music, and playing with her band. But when her world gets flipped and she and her band get turned into ghosts, she starts falling fall her leather clad, t...
