Ghosted - Luke | Julie and the Phantoms

Chapter Thirteen

I stared up at the ceiling as I lied down on the couch. "Hey, how did haunting Trevor go?" I asked Luke, Reggie and Alex as they poofed into the room.

"We got a good scare out of him but, uh, Julie stopped us." Luke told me.

"Well, I don't think she should've done that." I admitted as I sat up.

"You don't?" Alex asked me. I shook my head.

"No. Trevor stole your songs and didn't even give you guys credit for it. There's not much you can do about it now other than punish him for it."

"Trust me." Luke said. "Bobby, or Trevor, is gonna get what's coming for him."

"We were actually gonna go and see Willie." Alex told me. "See if he can't teach us anything. Do you wanna come?"

"Sure." I smiled as I stood up.

***

We poofed into a park and a boy with long hair on a skateboard started to approach us with a smile on his face. "Hey." He said. "What's up, man? You brought friends."

"Yeah. These are my band mates, uh, Luke and Reggie." Alex said as he pointed. "And this is Sophie."

"Cool. I'm Willie." Willie told us. "So... you guys come here to learn some tricks?" He asked us before he made a car alarm go off across the park.

"Do it again. Do it again." Reggie exclaimed.

"Actually, we were thinking a little bigger." Luke said. "An old band age stole from us. We wanna confront him face to face."

"Alright. Is this, uh, old friend of yours a lifer?" Willie asked.

"A what?"

"It's fancy ghost lingo for the living." Alex explained.

"Right." I whispered.

"Ah, then yeah! He's a lifer." Reggie announced. "Too much of a fancy pants for street dogs."

"Yeah, I'm sorry." Willie frowned. "Speaking to lifers is even out of my league."

After a few moments of silence, Willie continued to talk. "You know, there is one ghost who might be able to help you guys. He's kind of a big deal."

"Literally anything would help." Luke said.

"Oh, alright. Well, um, I gotta go take care of some things, but I will meet you where Alex and I met, eight o'clock." Willie finished before saying bye and skating away.

"Okay." I began as I turned to the boys. "If he's saying want I think he's saying, does that mean that Julie will be able to see me?" I asked.

"Yeah." Luke exclaimed. "And we can get our revenge on Bobby."

"Oh, my god." I said. "What am I gonna say to her? I have no idea what I'm supposed to say. I mean, what do you say to your sister when she finds out you've been watching her as a ghost for the last six months?" Luke then put his hands on my shoulder and looked at me before smiling.

"Sophie, relax." He said. "You'll be fine."

***

Eight o'clock came by pretty quickly and we met Willie who took us to a hotel. "Right this way." He said as he led us to the top floor.

"Whoa." Luke said. "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?" Alex asked.

"That's because this area has been sealed off for decades." Willie smiled. "I mean, you wouldn't even know this place exists unless you're invited." We all looked at each other before looking back at Willie. "Alright. I gotta go make sure everything's cool, but I'll be right back."

Willie then walked off and I turned to my right to read a sign. "The Hollywood Ghost Club?" Reggie questioned. "This place is creepy."

"Yeah, well, so are we." Alex told him.

"I don't know about this." I frowned.

"Neither." Reggie added.

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

"You guys need to grow up, okay?" Luke said. "We're gonna get back at Bobby and Julie is gonna be able to see Sophie."

"Yeah." I said before turning to me and Reggie. "I'm still gonna hide behind him." He told us in a whisper.

"We're all good." Willie then smiled as he poofed in beside Luke.

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

"Oh, yeah. No worries." Willie said.

"Cool."

"Let's go." Willie grinned as he began to walk with us following closely behind him.