Teenage dream - ᴿᴱᴳᴳᴵᴱ ᴾᴱᵀᴱᴿˢ

Other side of hollywood

"Right this way" willie said, leading the four phantoms around.

"Whoa" Luke said, stopping by the staircase railing. "So this is where your hotshot ghost lives, huh?"

"Yeah, we've walked past this hotel, like, a million times. How come we've never heard of it?"

"That's because this area has been sealed off for decades. I mean, you wouldn't even know this place exists unless you're invited" willie exclaimed.

"Fancy" Jess said, adjusting her jacket.

Willie smiled. "All right. I gotta go make sure everything's cool, but I'll be right back."

"Hollywood Ghost Club? This place is creepy."

"Yeah, well, so are we" Alex countered.

"I don't know about this" Reggie said.

Jess looked over at Reggie grabbing his hand in her own. "We're fine. We're already dead right?" Jess asked smiling softly. Reggie nodded his head, trying his hardest not to blush.

"Yea Well, if you get scared, you... you can always hide behind me. I'll be hiding behind Luke" Alex said, moving behind Luke.

"You guys need to grow up, OK? We're gonna get back at Bobby. He need to pay for what he did to us" Luke said determined.

"I'm still gonna hide behind him."

Jess nodded before jumping as Willie appeared next to Luke. "We're all good."

"Oh, uh, cool. Hey, just so you know, we have, like, an hour, because we got a gig with Julie" Alex informed.

"Oh yeah. No worries. Let's go" willie said with a nod.

He led them towards the staircase. "Normally, I'd have my deck, and I'd backboard this heavy 20 set, but tonight... we have company. Hope you guys are ready for this."

"What's that mean?" Jess whispered to Reggie.

"No clue" he whispered back, quickly glancing down at there still intertwined hands.

Willie slide down the banister, leaving the phantoms at the top of the staircase.

"Are you guys seeing what I'm seeing?"

"I think we're a little overdressed" Luke said popping his collar.

Reggie hummed in response as the phantoms made their ways down the stairs.

Jess felt her hand slip out of Reggies, and looked back over to him with a small frown.

Reggie shivered slightly. "Whoa! I thought these people were all going to be ghosts" he said, causing her to smiled slightly.

"These are all lifers" willie said gesturing around the room.

"Oh, uh, lifers are actually..."

"Alive people. I was listening" Reggie intervened.

"But this is a very exclusive crowd. Everybody here has, uh, paid a lot to get a sneak peek at the afterlife."

"I always knew rich people did weird stuff like this" Reggie said nodding.

"Gentlemen, Miss, I have a table for you. Right this way" a employee said approaching them.

Willie gestured to the man, and they followed quickly behind him. Jess took the seat in between  Reggie and Luke.

"William."

"Oh yeah. Thanks, man."

"OK. So who's gonna make us visible so we can confront our old bandmate?" Luke asked.