Luke's PoV

"This is perfect Luke, you guys are perfect, I love you so much!" Julie said before leaning up to kiss me gently on my lips. It was our first kiss but that wasn't what caught me off guard, I kissed her back gently before pulling back and feeling my cheeks, they felt warm.

Julie gasped as she held my hands tightly in hers and I could hear Reggie and Alex coming to the same conclusion from around the corner in the kitchen.
"What is happening?" asked Julie as they walked over to us.
"We are warm to the touch, that means blood flow right? Do we have a pulse?" said Alex as he started searching for his along his wrist. I quickly found my pulse and was surprised to feel it and shared a shocked look with my brothers.
"How is this possible? We died twenty five years ago?" I asked.
"Maybe it's because Julie expressed her love towards us? Who knows, but we need to go out and see if people can see us when we aren't playing, I'll go start the car" said Reggie as he zoomed off to the garage.

I pulled Julie into my arms for a quick hug while Alex went to go find his shoes.
"I don't know how this is possible Julie but thank you!" I whispered into her ear before kissing her cheek.
"Come on Luke, find shoes, we are going clubbing!" called out Alex as he headed to the garage.

We quickly found suitable shoes and Julie changed her t-shirt to a sparkly purple top that flowed down in layers with a black cardigan over top. I was mostly in shock but somehow found myself in dress shoes with a dark blue shirt on but kept my jeans. We made our way into the car after putting on jackets and immediately realized that Julie could no longer fall into Reggie so he could drive, he was solid so we decided to risk it and let him drive. I got to wrap my arms around Julie in the back which made me happy as Alex had called shotgun.

When we arrived we thankfully were not checked for id since none of us had one but it looked to be an underage rave party with no alcohol which was a pretty good find.
"Alright guys, let's go see if anyone can see us! I'm going to try to talk to that girl over there" said Reggie over his shoulder.

We stood for some time watching Reggie engage conversation with some cute girl with purple locks. Next Alex had singled out a guy and made a move to go say hi while I dragged Julie off to the bar to order some sodas for us. The bartender looked me in the eye, took my order and let me pay for it. I felt on cloud nine, we were alive, people could see us, and it was all thanks to Julie, somehow a miracle happened and we got a second chance.

Shortly after Alex and Reggie made their way back to us and I bear hugged them both before resuming holding Julie from behind with my arms resting around her collar bone, I was alive and people could see me, I wanted the world to see that she was mine. A few guys had looked her way but most had moved on once they saw how happy she was. One of them had tried walking towards us but chickened out once he saw Alex and Reggie return.

We stayed for another half an hour dancing before heading home, tomorrow night was going to be a big night, we were alive and we were about to perform Finally Free. Only difference is that we would actually be there this time, not as 'holograms'.

Julie was currently having a shower while I was jamming on my guitar and contemplating what the next step would be. We would have to ask Bobby for help to get birth certificates and Id but what about my parents, I knew where they lived and I could actually go see them. It would be such a massive surprise though and I wasn't sure if I was ready to go that far, I missed my mother and wanted to make amends but something told me that the moment they knew I was alive, they would want me to stay with them again and things would go back to the way they were.

"Luke, are you awake?" asked Julie, wearing cute bunny slippers, a tank top with no bra and purple shorts.
"Oh sorry, yeah I was just thinking. Bedtime?" I asked.
"Yeah sure" she said as she closed the door and climbed into my bed. I carefully put my guitar down, and turned off my bedside light. I then pulled Julie into my arms and gently found her mouth to kiss softly. I was going to stop there but she deepened the kiss and started pushing my tank top up so she could touch my bare chest. It definitely threw me off guard as I wasn't expecting so soon after our first kiss to be tangled in each other's arms in bed, I was going to follow her lead though as I didn't want to ever hurt her. Julie continued deepening the kiss and exploring my bare chest before I pulled away for a moment.
"Are you okay with this Julie? We don't have to do anything else, with you in my arms, I'm already the happiest man alive" I said, taking a moment to catch my breath.
"It's fine, I've wanted this forever Luke, you could never hurt me" she said before kissing me again, harder than before.
I rolled us over so that Julie was underneath me, boxed in by my arms as I snaked one hand under her tank top to caress her stomach. She gasped in surprise which gave me the perfect opportunity to dart my tongue into her mouth quickly. I then retreated and started kissing along her jawline and down her neck.
"Let me know if you want me to stop at all, I know what you've been through and I don't want you to ever be a victim again Julie" I said into her ear before gently kissing her temple.
After no reply I crashed my lips into hers and pinned her down with my weight against the bed. One of my arms snaked underneath her top and rested on her back while the other gently rubbed up and down her inner leg and the side of her stomach. I eventually let her breathe and started making my way down her neck again to kiss along her collarbone and up again to her neck as I caressed her face gently with one hand and held myself up with my other arm.
I felt myself begin to feel hard down below so I pulled back and rolled over onto my back to call it a night. Julie was breathing heavily and had curled into my side to catch her breath.
"Why did you stop?" she asked.
"Oh I didn't want to, but then what would we do tomorrow night?" I asked and felt her shiver in excitement. I fell asleep soon after with a massive smile on my face that I could cause her to feel breathless with a few kisses.

Julie's PoV

I woke up feeling way too warm in Luke's embrace, it was definitely going to take some getting used to suddenly having a heater next to me. I moved the blanket off of my body to cool off while stroking the hair off of Luke's face. Going to sleep last night had been hard with my hormones going crazy. I had been waiting for him to kiss me forever and finally I decided to just do it instead of waiting. Then he expected me to go to sleep after that intense kiss. I knew from the first conversation we ever had, that whoever he ended up loving, he would love with so much passion it would break space and time.

I closed my eyes just thinking about every small touch he made, caressing my face, his soft kisses then his crazy deep kisses. I decided to be brave and wake him up by kissing softly in a trail from his earlobe down his neck. I felt him wake up and desperately tried not to react but once I got to his collarbone he couldn't hold back a moan and rolled over to cup my cheek and pulled my lips to his.
"Mm good morning Julie" he said, his voice husky from sleep.
"Good morning Luke!"
"It's Saturday right? Why are you waking me up?" he asked as he rubbed the sleep from his eyes.
"So I can do this" I said as I leaned forward and kissed him softly again before pulling back.

Before I had a chance to react, he had pushed me back with him laying on top as he started kissing me deeply again. I had my hands rested on his arms that were boxed in around me and could feel every muscle flex.
"Guys are you awake yet?" called Alex from the hallway outside. I had to cover my mouth to hide my giggles as Luke cursed, moved off of me and called out.
"No, go back to sleep Alex!"
"Well that's rude, I'm coming in!" he said a beat before he slowly opened the door. The murderous look on Luke's face had me falling apart in giggles again.

"What do you want Alex?" asked Luke, his words traced with so much toxicity it was a miracle Alex didn't notice.
"I, ah, um, it's snowing out, wanna build a snowman?" he said while fiddling with his hands.
"Of course Alex, we'll be down in ten minutes okay?" said Luke, changing his hostile tone to one of love. Alex's smile was so bright it was infectious as he left, closing the door softly behind him.
"Sorry Julie, you get me for five minutes then we gotta help Alex, building snow monsters was kinda our thing when we were kids and well it's been a long time since we got to be kids I guess, all of us having been forced to grow up and deal with our dysfunctional families. Come here" he said as he pulled me back down under the covers, hiding us from the world.

We cuddled for five minutes just enjoying each other's warmth before getting dressed in warm clothes then snow outfits. Reggie was already outside, bundled up, cooking sausages on the barbecue and had coffee ready to go in individual thermos. Alex was like a child on Christmas as he sat on our deck on the edge of his seat patiently trying to wait for Reggie to finish cooking. Thankfully someone had thought to put up the sun umbrella to keep the snow at least out of our food while we ate. Reggie kept looking between me and Luke and giving me a strange look with raised eyebrows. I didn't understand at first as we weren't doing anything we hadn't done before, we sat down together, ate next to each other, talked and all the usual things. Once Luke went off with Alex to start on the base, I helped Reggie clean up quickly before joining them, that was when he pulled me aside out of ear shot.
"You're both different, you're both glowing, more than normal" stated Reggie.
"You're alive, like breathing, have a pulse alive! That's all you see is us being happy for each other" I said, I knew Alex and Reggie hadn't seen us kiss last night and had only heard my declaration of love towards them.
"Yeah sure," he said, not really believing my words. I quickly went to join the others before he could think of any other questions.

The morning resulted in building a massive snowman that was as tall as Alex, a few snow walls as barriers, a snow fight that quickly ended when the boys discovered they could no longer poof which meant the snow fight was played on even terms once it was started again. Everyone was completely and fully alive and Luke was mine. A few times he had sneaked in kisses behind a barrier or behind the house when Reggie and Alex weren't looking, everything was perfect.

Later in the evening we began piling our guitars and instruments into our car, we worked out that the drum set could stay at home since the venue did have one that Alex could use. We were going to perform Finally Free tonight and I was bouncing on my toes with excitement as Luke held my hand tightly in his.

When we got there, it was packed, a lot of people had remembered us from last time and we finally had a name to give! Reggie and Alex decided that Julie and the Phantoms would be a rather decent name. We contemplated changing it since the boys were alive now but none of us could think of anything else on the spot. Everyone was shocked to see the boys in flesh though and not as holograms so once our instruments were safely with security we had a lot of people asking questions. Thankfully we had already worked out the kinks in our story, we had tested being a band, played at a few places, decided we worked and so they flew down from Florida and found a place to stay for a few months. It wasn't that crazy to believe since it was a small flight. I had noticed that a lot of people were looking at me and Luke, and that Luke refused to let go of me, if my hand wasn't in his, his arms were around me and he was holding me from behind, resting his chin on the top of my head. It was a nice feeling, to be loved, to feel special, like you matter to someone, that you don't just exist to please others but that someone actually cared about you, all of you and I lost myself a few times in the evening in that feeling of bliss.

Eventually it was our turn to play and hell did we rock it, we told the lighting to only put a light on me till the boys started playing then light up the whole stage. It still had the same effect as poofing in which is what we were going for. I had noticed Luke kept sneaking glances at me as I took the lead so when I got to the bridge I called him over with my eyes wanting to share my mic with him. We kept moving our faces closer and closer as we sang the bridge together while losing ourselves in the other's eyes. We knew Reggie and Alex were smirking at us and this was probably going to result in them figuring out that we had kissed later on.

After our performance we made our way to the bar to have a few sodas before heading out, but Luke and I were cornered after we got our sodas by Reggie and Alex.
"So?" Reggie asked with eye brows raised high under his hair and arms crossed, Alex stood next to him with a similar pose.
"Okay so we kissed last night when you two were dancing, then we kissed a lot more once we were in bed and this morning, happy dad?" I retorted at him while trying my best to hold back a smile.
A huge smile broke on his face and Alex's.
"I knew it! Your bed was a mess when I walked in this morning and it was so hard not to comment, we're happy for you, we really are! We had seen you guys cuddling at movie time but we weren't sure if it was going to go anywhere outside of a friendship and both of us had been anxiously holding our breaths hoping it would develop into something more. I'm so glad you're finally there" said Alex.
"Yeah seriously, I'm really happy for you two, what Alex said, we had been watching and waiting night after night to see if your relationship would change, thank you Julie" said Reggie with tears in his eyes.
I blushed so hard that I buried my face in Luke's chest as he wrapped his arms around me and buried his face in his hair.
"You guys are the best brothers ever but please stop making us blush" Luke mumbled into my shoulder.
We were then embraced by Reggie and Alex for a few minutes.

After a few more performances, we made our way home and started making plans for Bobby to come over on Wednesday now that he could see the boys. He was going to spend Christmas with us since his daughter was going to spend it with her mother so he would have been alone. But now that things had changed, we needed him to come over sooner to help with id's, driving licences and tackling parents that were still alive. I mostly stayed out of it and dragged Luke off to his room the second I could to let Alex and Reggie do what they did best.

I quickly got out of my stage clothes, showered and made my way into Luke's room to find him freshly showered and only wearing his underwear.
"Oh Julie, sorry, let me just finish getting dressed?" Luke mumbled as he fumbled around for his pants.
"It's fine, it was really warm this morning, I was thinking maybe we shouldn't have that many blankets any more?" I said as I looked at the wall to give him privacy although I did enjoy the view of his underwear half falling down his butt while he was looking for his singlet.
"Yeah I never really realized you couldn't feel my body heat after we could touch, I just assumed and you always looked cold" he said as he rubbed the back of his neck, finally and sadly dressed.
"It's fine, we could always just wear only underwear to bed" I said as I turned off the light so he couldn't see my massive smirk. I shouldn't push so hard, he was from a different time and I of all people should want to go slow. But I trusted Luke, he spent forever holding my hand, being a friend, a brother and taking it slow. I was ready for more and from the way he kissed me this morning and last night, he was too. Luke would never do anything to me to hurt me and I knew that, there was no reason to hold back. I climbed into an empty bed and realized I had stunned the poor boy so hard that he had frozen in place.
"Are you coming to bed Luke?" I asked.
"Oh, yeah, um, yup, coming!" he said as he suddenly climbed in and wrapped his arms around me. I turned over in his arms so I could cup his face in my hand and gently kiss his lips. I wasn't going to ask him for anything else since he was already so frazzled so I pulled back after a few seconds to tuck my head under his chin.