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Julie was standing in front of the house of Trevor and Carrie Wilson, her former best friend who only caused trouble wherever she could. Actually, Julie hated being here. She was never looking for trouble, in fact she wanted to be able to just talk to Carrie normally again. But that would never be the case again. It had been the holidays for a few days and she hadn't seen Nick or Carrie in the last two days

She took a deep breath and pressed the doorbell. It wasn't long before Carrie opened the door.

"Oh, hello Julie," Carrie said, a shy smile on her face.

She didn't look her usual self though. She wasn't wearing make up or any weird expensive clothes, no, she looked very normal.

"Uhh hi Carrie, um is your dad around by any chance?" asked Julie, still unable to believe that Carrie looked so different, so normal.

"Yeah, he's upstairs in his room doing his daily yoga exercises. Come on in! He should be done soon!" said Carrie and Julie pushed past her into the house. The last time she was here was for Luke, Reggie and Alex. The three of them had been out looking for Bobby and had given him a good scare.

"So? Are you planning your next concert yet?" asked Carrie after they had sat down in the kitchen and she had filled two glasses with juice.

"Well, we're writing songs now, but we don't know when we'll be performing again yet!" said Julie, wondering about Carrie. Normally she wasn't interested in others, it was always about her. But somehow she seemed to have changed too. Carrie no longer gave the impression that she didn't care about others.

"Sounds exciting! I have to admit, I thought your performance at the Orpheum was really cool," Carrie said and smiled at Julie, who didn't know whether to take it as a compliment or not. Something inside her told her that she couldn't just trust Carrie again right away, but that she should rather wait a little longer before deciding.

"My dad's been acting all crazy since that night. You wouldn't believe how he's been acting. It's almost like he's seen a ghost," Carrie snapped Julie out of her thoughts. What had she just said?

"What do you mean?" asked Julie, who of course knew why Trevor, aka Bobby was acting like that. HE had seen Luke, Reggie and Alex and recognised them. Of course he was then blinded by reality at first and didn't know what was going on around him.

"Oh, all the time he's looking around like he expects people to be watching him. I've been trying to get him to understand that no one is after him and to calm the hell down, but he doesn't listen to me, he just freaks out even more," Carrie said, having already finished her glass.

"He'll calm down," Julie said, but she knew Trevor wouldn't recover from this scare that easily.

"Whatever. If he keeps acting like this, he's going to have a lot of trouble with his producers," said Carrie who knew about her father's life as a star and always benefited from it.

"Do you know anything about your father's childhood and teenage years?" asked Julie, because she certainly wouldn't be able to talk to Trevor under these circumstances, but maybe Carrie already knew something.

"About his childhood and teenage years?", confused, Carrie looked up.

"Well, not exactly, just a few things I know about him," she said then and Julie exhaled. For a moment she had thought Carrie wasn't going to tell her anything and send her back outside.

"I also found out something about my father the other day, and maybe there are things that happened back then. Our fathers aren't far apart in age," Julie said, hating herself at that moment for the lie she told Carrie just so she could get some information.

"Well, your house wasn't there before, only the garage was there, and my grandparents' house where my father lived. He also used the garage as a place to play music," Carrie explained and Julie nodded. She already knew this part of the story, but did Carrie?

"Did your father also make music on his own before, or did he have friends he played music with?" asked Julie, hoping for a proper answer that would strengthen her theory.

"No. My father has always made music on his own. He told me that himself and he also showed me pictures from back then. He even owned his own van, which he got from my grandparents when he turned 16. It used to belong to my grandpa," Carrie told me and Julie just nodded again and said nothing more. It was clear that Trevor had not told his daughter the truth, but had made up a story that he told her. Not only to her, but also to his fans and everyone he has contact with. Maybe it had also been very hard for him when his colleagues simply died. Maybe it had also left traces that he had never shown to anyone because he didn't want to have them himself and had tried to forget them. Julie was at a loss. She just wanted to know about her mother after Luke, Reggie and Alex said that she had talked to Bobby after they left to eat their hot dogs. So Trevor was the only one who could give her the answers she needed. And she just had to know. Maybe she wouldn't learn anything important, just the usual stories that had been known for a long time, but she didn't give up hope of learning something about her mother that might say something about her death. All Julie wanted was to finally be able to talk to her again. That was all she wanted at the moment, because there was still so much they had to tell each other. This just couldn't be over. Not yet.

"He's a talent too," Julie said, though she didn't mean it. Trevor had no talent at all. But when she thought about it again, he did have a talent. He was pretty good at stealing songs from others and selling them as his own. That was one of the reasons why Julie hated Trevor, after she had found out from Luke that the songs were his and not Trevor's. "I agree with you.

"I agree with you there. All the great songs he wrote. That's exactly what started his career," Carrie gushed about her father. If she only knew how it really was, she wouldn't talk about him like that anymore. She probably wouldn't even see her father as a star anymore, but as a thief who stole songs from a dead man. Yeah right, that's what Trevor could be called. Someone who didn't even respect dead people and could keep his hands off their stuff.

"But why do you care about all this anyway?" asked Carrie finally and Julie took a breath.

"Well, you know my mom died recently. And I recently found out something and I'd like to know if it's true or if I've been lied to. And your father could really help me get to the bottom of it," she said and Carrie listened carefully and then nodded.

"I know just about everything about my father. Maybe I can help you too. What kind of questions do you have? And what do you want to know?" asked Carrie and Julie felt it necessary to talk to her about it now, even though Flynn didn't want her to try to make proper contact with Carrie again.

"Okay well then, I guess I'll have to turn to you. So, I was wondering if your father and my mother ever spoke. Around 1995 during that time," Julie said and Carrie looked at her questioningly.

"Okay wow, I really wasn't expecting a question like that, but yes they did talk back then. My father told me he met her at the Orpheum just after a dress rehearsal and talked to her. After that they even met more often," Carrie said and Julie couldn't believe that her mother and Trevor had ever done anything together. It sounded totally wrong somehow, but even if it was true, then maybe it was actually a good thing.

"Do you know if they talked about certain topics, or what they talked about together?" asked Julie, but Carrie couldn't help her with this question.

"No, I'm sorry, you'll have to ask my father yourself. I'm afraid I don't know," said Carrie, pouring another glass of juice.

"It was worth a try," Julie said, smiling at Carrie.

"But what makes you think that my father and your mother used to do things together?" asked Carrie and Julie faltered. She couldn't possibly be telling her the truth could she?

"Well...so...", Julie hesitantly started to tell Carrie about all the things that had happened in the last few weeks. Carrie just sat there staring at Julie with wide eyes.

"I know this all sounds so crazy and it's okay if you don't believe me. You wouldn't be the first," Julie said after telling her everything.

"It's beyond crazy," Carrie told her and Julie nodded. If someone told her a story like that, she wouldn't believe it either. No. It was just too crazy to be true, and yet it was the truth.

"So your actual holograms aren't holograms after all, but ghosts?" asked Carrie.

"They were ghosts. Now they have become human again. But don't ask me how such a thing can be possible, we all don't know.", Julie took a breath.

"Wow. That's really crazy. So you make music with ghosts? How cool is that, musical ghosts. I've never heard of that before," said Carrie who didn't think it was as bad as Julie thought it was. No. Carrie's reaction to it was far too normal.

"Well, they are somehow connected to my mother, at least we think so. That's probably why I could see them all the time and everyone else could only see them when we were making music together," Julie remembered again the many songs she and Luke had written and sung together.

"You know, I had actually given up on music for myself and didn't want anything to do with it anymore, but then Luke, Reggie and Alex just showed up out of nowhere and it changed everything. All of a sudden I had this energy inside me that I can't describe. But it was only because of that energy that I started making music again," Julie said about the day Luke, Reggie and Alex first showed up. She remembered the feeling she had the morning after, and she remembered the music class she got kicked out of, and got back in the very next day after they helped her give a really cool performance.

"I have to say, I wasn't expecting a story like that, but I can understand you and I don't begrudge you that," Carrie said.

"Because your performance at the Orpheum, and the ones at school, were really brilliant. I can understand why they chose you and not someone else or me. You're just too good a team," Carrie added.

"Thank you, I'm really glad to hear that, but yeah right now we've got all these other problems and we don't get to make music. I can't concentrate on it anyway," Julie said dejectedly. She really wanted to play music again and just forget the world around her, but it wasn't easy. It wasn't like it was before. Luke was only thinking about his parents and looking for a way to talk to them again without them freaking out just because he had reappeared. Alex was only thinking about Willi and was busy worrying because Willi just wasn't here anymore since Caleb disappeared. And Reggie? He was actually still the same as before and tried to be there for everyone, even if he couldn't be there for everyone at the same time, but he did his best to make people smile.

"You know, actually it was said that the boys have something to do so that they can go to the other side and are no longer ghosts in the world. But that wasn't true. They had to play at the Orpheum, that's what we did, and now they're not gone, they've become human," Julie told Carrie. She just didn't know what to do and maybe Carrie knew something, or at least had an idea how it could go on with the boys, and why all this was happening.

"You know, I thought at first it was just the one thing and then I'd never see them again, but now they're still here and I think I'm going to lose it.",

"Now, calm down. I'm sure you'll figure it out. You always have a plan for everything and know how and what you have to do to make things better," Carrie said and squeezed Julie's hand.

"You just have to give it time to develop. Don't avoid things, just deal with them. That's the only way you'll know what's right in the end," Carrie smiled.

"Thank you.", Julie said and smiled at her too.

"It really helped to talk to you about it, but I'll see about getting back home now,", Julie said goodbye and was off the Wilson property after a short while. She made her way back to the studio, but first she wanted to go into the house for a quick dinner. Her father and Carlos were probably waiting for her.

"And you're sure you don't want to talk to them? Don't you think they've waited long enough for that?" asked Alex as the three of them huddled behind the large bushes that were in Luke's parents' garden.

"Are you crazy? They'll completely freak out if they see me, you or Reggie. They won't believe their eyes and my mum will faint again like she did on Halloween," Luke said and Alex remembered the Halloween Luke was talking about.

"Don't you dare talk about it," Luke hissed just as Alex opened his mouth to say something.

"I'm not saying anything!", Alex crossed his arms. Luke had to be totally exaggerating again just because he couldn't decide what he wanted.

"Maybe you should talk to Julie first. She'll probably go with you to your parents' house and talk things over," Reggie said, but Luke wasn't sure if he wanted to talk to his parents any time soon. Somehow it didn't quite fit yet and he preferred to be sure to hit the right moment before he did anything.

"You know, all this time I thought I really needed to talk to them about some things, but now that I'm standing here watching them, I'm not so sure anymore," Luke murmured as he watched his parents sitting together in the kitchen, eating dinner. How he would love to sit at this table with them again and just feel that he had someone by his side who was there for him even in the bad times. But his parents didn't want him to make music even then, and that was also the reason why Luke had to leave and never came back. He would have come back for sure if he hadn't died. And on a hot dog, too. How embarrassing is that?

"Well, don't go to them and let them think you're dead and don't think about them anymore," said Alex, who still had his arms crossed and was looking at Luke.

"Now don't rush me. I'll think of something, but it has to be well thought out, otherwise I'll just scare them," Luke replied.

"That's why I told you to talk to Julie. She always knows what to do and can help you," Reggie rolled his eyes.

"But nobody listens to me here," he added.

"That's not true either. They do listen to you, just in a different way that you don't understand," Alex tried.

"Oh? Which I don't understand? It's okay, I get it, more than any of you," now Reggie was offended.

"Oh great. What a perfect mess.", Alex muttered, thinking it better to leave his two friends alone for today. There was just no value in that right now. After all, they wouldn't even listen to him.

"You know, it's not easy. In fact, nothing is easy," Luke mumbled, still looking at his parents with tears in his eyes.

"We really need to find out why this is happening to us and make it stop. We're all going to go crazy.", determined, he straightened up.

"What are you going to do now? Reggie and I already tried, but we can't even find Willi, who I'm sure can help us," Alex said, looking after Luke, who was patting the dirt off his black jeans.

"Or Caleb," Reggie said.

"You're not serious, Reg," Luke and Alex both looked at Reggie at the same time.

"It's okay, I'm just saying," Reggie raised his hands and said nothing more, but looked a little closer at the plant he was hiding behind. All of a sudden this plant was extremely interesting.

"So, let's think about what we know about Willi and Caleb. Maybe we can find out where they are," Luke said and looked with a slightly disgusted look at Reggie, who had come a little closer to the plant.

"Okay good, so we don't know that much about Willi. He likes to skate through pedestrian zones, play pranks and take complete advantage of life as a ghost," Alex said and pondered what else he knew about Willi, but in doing so he realised that he actually knew almost nothing about the cute ghost boy. And this fact made him sad again and made him worry even more.

"Well, that's something. And what about Caleb?" asked Luke, but he was already answering the question himself.

"He's evil, knows no boundaries and will try anything to get free spirits into his club," Alex nodded.

"Which is totally horrible and dull, by the way," Luke added.

"Reg! Don't eat the plant! Get away from there!", Alex just managed to drag Reggie away from the plant in time before he would have bitten into one of the leaves.

"Oh man, can we please go? This is all getting a bit too much for my nerves around here!", Alex said, not letting go of Reggie but pulling him with him as they walked away from the house and onto the street.

"So, we don't know where his weird loser club is, because only Willi was able to get us there. So we can forget about that right now. It's not going to do us much good," Luke stated as they walked towards the setting sun, with the sunset directly in front of them. The sky had turned red and on the horizon the sun disappeared behind the houses.

"And we haven't found him in the places he likes to hang out either. So he must be somewhere else, maybe somewhere we haven't been or we don't know. But that would be nothing new with Caleb. He likes to cover his tracks," Alex said while Reggie tried to get out of Alex's grip but Alex wouldn't let him go.

"Forget it, or you'll do something we'll regret," Alex said and grabbed him a little harder.

"Well, there's only one option then. We have to wait until we find a trail he might have laid for us," Luke said, sounding determined.

"But he doesn't even know we're looking for him. How is he supposed to lay a trail for us?", Alex asked a little uncertainly.

"Quite simply because I think he would give anything to be able to come back to you. As many times as he's spied on us, I wouldn't be surprised that he already has an idea of how to get your attention without really having to do anything about it," Luke said, grinning cheekily at Alec.

"Honestly now? It's not exactly the right time for any jokes, Luke," Alex said but Luke had really meant it.

"Hey, I wouldn't be saying something like that if I wasn't," Luke said, boxing Alex against his shoulder.

"Willi is just as attached to you as you are to him. I can tell every time I see you two," Luke winked at Alex.

"You mean like how people can tell you're into Julie?", Alex grinned back just as cheekily.

"That...That has nothing to do with it!", Luke blushed. He couldn't keep it a secret from his two friends anymore though. They just knew too much about it already for him to prove them wrong, which he didn't want to, because they were right.

"Okay fine, you guys are right. Yeah I'm into her.", Luke said after getting a prompting stare from Alex.

"But we've already talked about how it's not that easy with me and Julie," Luke said, not wanting to talk about it now, at least not at this moment. They had to sort out some other important issues, after all, and for that they had some work to do. To get back to the studio, they had to walk through the small front garden, where the window directly faced the Molina family's kitchen. Julie, Ray and Carlos were sitting there having dinner and talking. Luke, Reggie and Alex were walking past the window crouched down when Alex stopped his two friends.

"Wait a minute." he said, gesturing to the window. Through the thick bushes and plants in front of the window, the boys looked inside. The window was slightly open and so they could hear what Julie, Ray and Carlos were saying to each other.

"Now, Julie. Now you're really going to have to explain to me how you do this with these holograms," Ray said, shoving a fork full of noodles into his mouth.

"Oh dad, it's mega complicated and you wouldn't understand no matter how I explained it to you," Julie said and had stopped eating, but that was probably more because her plate was already empty.

"Well listen, I'm not that old after all and I'm interested in things like this that my daughter has set up all by herself. Because you're a bit of a celebrity now with your band," Ray said, insisting on wanting to know how Julie had done it with the holograms.

"I'm interested, too, by the way," Carlos said with his mouth full, catching a warning look from Ray.

"Carlos? We don't talk with our mouths full," he reminded Julie's brother of the family rules. That's when Julie had an idea.

"Dad? About the holograms, the boys are from Sweden and would like to come over for some time so we can practice together in real life. Would that be possible?", Julie hadn't felt as stupid as she did after this lie for a long time. But sometimes a lie was better than the truth, as the truth would bring many a problem and Julie wanted to avoid any problems for as long as possible.

"Yes of course!" said Ray and Julie looked at her father.

"What now?" she couldn't understand the world. He had just agreed to let them come, even though they had been living in the studio for a few weeks and he had no idea?

"They are welcome to come. I want to meet them and talk to them," Ray said with a smile on his face. Julie didn't know exactly how she felt right now. On the one hand, she was sorry that she hadn't told her father the truth, and she was sorry to know that he might never know the truth. And if he ever did, she was sorry that he wouldn't understand and accept it, just because it was hard to believe such a story.

"You're the best dad ever!" Julie exclaimed before taking her plate and cutlery to the kitchen.

"I'm about to make a phone call to Flynn and I don't want to be disturbed right now. And I'm still practicing a new song, it's secret," Julie said, then she ran outside towards the studio. Luke, Reggie and Alex had in the meantime left the window and arrived in the studio and sat down on the couch, waiting for Julie to arrive at any moment.

"So, the Swedish guys from your hologram band want to come over for a while?", Luke greeted Julie as she came into the studio and closed the two big doors that looked more like two gates again. She flicked on the light.

"Hey, what else was I supposed to say?", She sat down on a small stool in front of the small table and sat directly opposite the three boys.

"At least he didn't ask any more questions, at least no questions about you guys, but if you've been eavesdropping, you probably already know that," she said, smiling. Once again, it was clear that Luke had to make his comment on everything.

"If I had told him the truth, he would have either freaked out and thought I was crazy, or he would have sent me to my room to study," Julie said and took one of the small chocolate bars that were on the table. In the last two days she had cleaned up and changed the studio a bit together with Luke and Reggie. There was also new furniture, but she hadn't changed anything and had left everything as her mother had decorated it.

"How did you get on?" asked Alex and Julie nodded strongly.

"That's right, you don't know yet. So Trevor, or as you like to call him, Bobby, was even out with my mother a few times. Almost like a date. Carrie told me," Julie said about her meeting with Carrie, which had gone very well.

"And so she really believed everything you said? I thought you weren't friends at all and didn't get along?", Reggie now asked.

"That's true too. We used to be friends, but the thing with her father just changed everything between us. And Carrie suddenly didn't care about hanging out with people like me anymore," Julie said, realising how much it depressed her to talk about it.

"But now everything seems to be getting better again. At least she believed everything I said and told me something about Bobby," she said again with a smile.

"But I don't think you'll like it so much," she added a little more quietly.

"So what have you been able to find out about Bobby?" asked Luke, hardly able to stand waiting any longer.

"Well, that Bobby aka Trevor is a thief, we already know that, but he's also a damn good liar who only thinks about himself," Julie said, sounding a little angry. To be honest, it made her angry too, because now Luke, Reggie and Alex were again the ones who had no one, even though they had fought so hard to finally become famous.

"What did he do?" asked Luke, bending over the table with his face a little closer.

"He claimed he'd always been in the music business on his own. He never played in a band but wrote all the songs on his own and has always made music on his own. Which of course isn't true at all," Julie told me and Luke's eyes seemed to change colour. The normally so light blue eyes turned darker all at once. They had turned almost completely dark blue by the time Julie had finished speaking.

"I don't believe it!" exclaimed Luke, standing up with a jerk.

"Not only does he steal MY songs," he started pacing.

"But he claims that we never existed in his life!", Luke finished his sentence, building up more and more hatred.

"Now calm down, Luke. What I'm interested in here is why he says that," Julie said and Luke actually sat back down and listened, looking grim.

"Does it even matter anymore?" asked Luke angrily, narrowing his eyes.

"I think it does, because people actually always have a reason when they repress something and banish it from their lives," said Julie, who had met a few people in the last year since her mum's death who hadn't asked anything good of her.

"And what reasons would he have had, please?" asked Luke, clenching his hands into fists.

"Maybe he was forced into it?" said Reggie.

"Ahhh, I don't think so. He's never let anyone tell him anything," Alex said to Reggie.

"But maybe that's not such a stupid thought. Remember? Caleb showed up just like that shortly after you came here as ghosts. What if he was also with Bobby shortly after you died?", said Julie who had already grappled with this thought.

"You mean he had a visit from Caleb? Twenty-five years ago?" asked Alex and Julie nodded.

"Maybe people can also see Caleb if they have recently lost someone in their life," Julie said again.

"So it could well be that Caleb had a hand in this and made him forget you and not even remember what actually happened, apart from your death he shouldn't remember anything.", The boys looked at Julie thoughtfully. As stupid as the whole thing sounded, it would make sense. They knew Caleb too badly to say he wasn't capable of such a thing. Maybe Caleb could do a lot more they didn't know about. Maybe he wasn't just a ghost, but had other things up his sleeve that he could do. You never knew with him.

"Okay, yeah that makes sense really. Maybe Caleb made sure he couldn't remember us," Luke said, but Julie wasn't quite sure.

"I don't think he can't remember you guys, if anything he just can't remember his time with you guys, but he can remember yourselves," she said and Luke looked at her questioningly.

"How is that possible, please? And why do you sound so sure about it?" he asked her and Julie took a breath.

"Because Carrie told me he must have seen something that spooked him. Ever since our concert, where he was a spectator by the way, he's just been hiding in his room and acting weird," Julie said

"So he saw us?", Alex got wide-eyed. Of course it all made sense now. If Bobby had seen them, then he must have just got a fright. If only for the reason that Luke, Reggie and Alex still looked the same and only Bobby had grown older. What kind of fright must that be? Alex got goosebumps.

"So I'm kind of scared of myself right now!" said Alex, running his hands over his arms.

"Why is that?", Reggie looked at Alex questioningly and confused as he ran his hands over his arms and pressed himself deeper into the couch.

"Because he's seen us and we're the only ones who haven't changed a bit over all these years, only he's changed and had a normal life for 25 years since then and all of a sudden we show up here again and mess everything up," Alex said quietly, sinking even deeper into the couch.

"You don't have to be afraid of yourself about that!" said Luke, squinting his eyes again as he showed his teeth.

"He deserves to be scared, doesn't he? Why should he be able to run away from his destiny and his past and we can't?", Luke was right again and Reggie and Alex, as well as Julie could only agree with him about that.

"Well, I wouldn't call it that," Alex started but was interrupted again by Luke.

"No question Alex, he deserved that. He's not a good person. He never has been and he never will be," Luke stood back up and stretched for a moment.

"So what are you going to do now? You're not going to go back to him and play tricks on him like you did then, are you?", Julie asked cautiously but Luke shook his head.

"That's too much of my time. No. He'll get what he deserves, but we have better things to do right now and I'd rather concentrate on the important things instead of a thief," Luke took Julie by the hand and pulled her to her feet.

"We need to find Willi. This is of utmost importance.", Julie nodded while looking into Luke's eyes which had turned back to the bright blue she knew.

"We were at Luke's parents earlier, by the way," Reggie blurted and Luke turned around indignantly while Alex looked at Reggie pleadingly to just be quiet, but of course it backfired again.

"Really? And how did it go?" asked Julie, turning back to Luke who was suddenly blushing slightly and saying nothing more.

"Well, let's put it this way, it didn't go as planned," Alex said after Luke had not commented.

"Have you spoken to them?" asked Julie but Luke shook his head and looked to the floor.

"We're working on a strategy so they won't panic when they see Luke or any of us. But it might be a while before the first word is spoken," Alex said and looked at Luke who was not at all pleased and embarrassed by the whole thing.

"Yeah well, you guys don't have to do it right away. Besides, I'm sure they'll react like Trevor did when they see one of you. Maybe you should just avoid that kind of thing in the future. This is all new even for us," Julie said and lifted Luke's head up by the chin so that he had to look at her.

"And we'll get that sorted out too. Believe me, all the things that are new to us now, we'll get them right!", Julie smiled at Luke who returned her smile.

"I hope so," Luke finally said, speaking the words softly so that they could hardly be heard.

"Good, I'll see you tomorrow then. I've got to run in the house now, Flynn was going to call me and you know how she can be," Julie hugged Luke, said goodbye to Reggie and Alex and left the studio.

"Gee Julie, what took you so long?", Flynn sounded annoyed. By the time Julie had arrived in her room, Carlos had already told her that her mobile phone had rung several times.

"I wouldn't wait for it to ring again if I were you. Looks like it's something really important," he had said to her before she had pushed him aside and run into her room.

"Calm down Flynn, I had something to talk to the boys about," Julie tried to reassure Flynn, who liked to start worrying as soon as Julie didn't answer her in the next few minutes.

"True. Sometimes I forget that you have three ghosts hiding in your mom's studio," Flynn said and Julie had to grin.

"They used to be ghosts. Now I'm hiding three cute boys there.", Julie replied and heard Flynn groan.

"I told you before not to let Luke wrap you up like that. You just can't. You and him, no.", Flynn said and Julie nodded. It hadn't been possible then either, but now everything had changed and things that weren't possible before were suddenly possible.

"I know Flynn, but things have changed and Nick is kind of untraceable," Julie said, worried about Nick who had just disappeared after the big performance.

"Oh, he was probably just jealous because you and Luke have been flirting so much lately," Flynn said, and if she were sitting next to Julie right now, she would have already gotten a tap on her shoulder.

"You think so? Well, it's not my fault and I can understand him being jealous. I was only thinking about Luke when we danced," Julie said quietly.

"Oh yes, and that was exactly the mistake that led to you not being able to get him out of your head. Why don't you just take Nick? You've always fancied him and now that he's not with Carrie you have a choice," Flynn said, but Julie didn't want to be with Nick. She didn't even know who her heart belonged to and if what was between her and Luke would stay forever or if it would change in the near future.

"You know, Flynn, I don't want to get into something that isn't right for me after all. I'd rather wait and dwell on the things that touch my heart," Julie said, already thinking about Luke again, who had something he wanted to tell her and hadn't spoken of it since.

"Oh come on. This thing with you and Luke, how is that going to work? Your dad doesn't know about the boys yet either," Flynn said and Julie nodded.

"But he'll meet them," Julie countered and Flynn took a deep breath.

"How come?!" she shouted formally and Julie had to hold her phone inches from her ear.

"I said to him if he would be okay with the boys coming over for a while and he said yes. He even wanted to meet them and didn't even kind of ask. I just couldn't tell him the truth," Julie said as Flynn got mega excited and couldn't calm down.

"But that's fantastic!" exclaimed Flynn and Julie nodded again.

"Now I just hope Carlos doesn't get any stupid ideas again. He's been acting very strangely for the last few days," Julie said, glancing at her locked bedroom door.

"Because I can very well imagine that he will find out something else and then he won't be able to be stopped," she added.

"And what about your aunt? Can't she look after Carlos?" asked Flynn, but Julie hadn't heard from her aunt in a few days. She had become strangely quiet and hadn't even come round to bring any food that didn't taste good. Julie hadn't heard from her in general and hadn't seen her aunt for a while. When she looked out of the window at her aunt's house, all the shutters were closed and there was never a light on. It was almost as if her aunt didn't live there any more.

"I don't know. We haven't heard from her. I think something happened and she's avoiding our house from now on," Julie had to start giggling at these thoughts.

"What's so funny about that?" asked Flynn who didn't understand why Julie started laughing. Her aunt was annoying, Flynn had heard that before, but she really didn't understand why that would be so funny.

"You know, back when Carlos was so obsessed with the fact that there were ghosts here, Tia had to deal with him a few times. And when I had Carlos' tablet in my hands the other day, I saw some very funny pictures, including one where my aunt had her face contorted in horror as if she had seen a demon," she laughed and Flynn had to laugh as well.

"Okay, that explains a lot, of course," Flynn laughed and it took them both a moment to calm down.

"So what are you going to do when your dad meets the boys?" asked Flynn and Julie had to think for a moment. She hadn't thought about that, at least not yet.

"Honestly, I don't really know yet. There will probably be some things that happen that no one expects," Julie said, secretly regretting asking her father that. She should have thought that she, Luke, Reggie and Alex would have to answer some questions and that it wouldn't be easy to answer them if they weren't allowed to tell the truth.

"Oh dear, I hope it goes well then. If you need any help then get in touch with me and I'll come over right away," Flynn said before they both finished their phone call and Julie finally went to bed.

"Luke? Is that you?" asked Alex as he woke up in the middle of the night because he heard something.

"Shhh, yes it's me!" replied Luke, whose outline Alex could only make out.

"What are you doing?", Alex asked sleepily and confused, as he was not at all used to Luke just sneaking out of the studio in the middle of the night. Neither in 2021 nor back in 1995.

"I can't sleep and I need some fresh air, so I'm going to walk around the streets for a bit and hopefully get a clear head," Luke replied as he reached the two large doors of the studio and grabbed them.

"Don't stay out too long though. We don't know where Caleb is hanging out, not that he'll ever strike and you're out there all alone," Alex said even before Luke had disappeared out the door and closed the two doors behind him. Luke strolled through the streets with his eyes fixed on the ground. Somehow he had got a headache because he couldn't sleep. He kept thinking about Julie and couldn't get her out of his mind. No matter what he tried, every time he saw her he got lost in her eyes. And only because his mind didn't want to think of anyone else but her.

"I've got to stop doing this or I'll go crazy!" he said to himself as he pulled his hood over his head from the hoodie he had gotten from Julie.

"But I can't forget her," he added a moment later, realising how he was already thinking about Julie again without being able to control it. He had never felt this way about a girl before. Not like he had with Julie. This was something completely different that he could not control. It just happened and prevented him from thinking normally and doing something about it.

But it wasn't that easy. He thought about Julie all the time

and couldn't do anything about it. His heart had decided for something for the first time, and this decision was the right one forever. Now there was nothing more he could lose, and there was nothing more that could stop him. He just had to tell her, because he was stopping himself from making it happen.

"Alex is right. Just because we're human again doesn't mean we can't enjoy life. You just have to think about yourself sometimes and learn to appreciate what you have," Luke continued walking as it started to rain lightly. He pulled his hood even deeper into his face and had his eyes down on the ground when he suddenly ran into someone and almost tripped. Looking up, he looked directly into the face of Caleb.

"Well look who we have here," Caleb had his typical grin on his face and looked sharply at Luke with his piercing eyes. Luke's voice trailed off for a moment and he searched for the right words, but he just couldn't pull himself together.

"Caleb?" he asked as he took the hood off his head.

"The real one himself!", Caleb grinned and that grin made Luke angry. If he remembered the pain then he had an incredible hatred for this human again that couldn't be put into words.

"What do you want? Haven't you done enough already?" hissed Luke, clenching his hands into fists.

"Oh come on Luke, why are you so mad at me? I see you did well and are back to your old self," Caleb eyed Luke once from top to bottom. Luke thought for a moment that Caleb couldn't believe that Luke, Reggie and Alex had become human again. Because, after all, it was practically and theoretically impossible.

"How did you guys do it again?" asked Caleb, and Luke was right: he really couldn't believe they were human again.

"It doesn't matter, does it? So, what do you want? You hardly showed up here just to ask me that question and stare at me stupidly?", Luke didn't feel like talking to Caleb. This man, or more this something didn't deserve to talk to him and steal his valuable time. This wasn't the plan. It wasn't supposed to be like this, not now that they were finally free again and could move around freely and were no longer invisible to others.

"Now then, how are you talking to me? I really just came to see this for real, because it just can't be possible...", Caleb healed himself strangely and had trouble finding the right words. He kept looking at Luke from top to bottom as if scanning his entire body, not wanting to admit it.

"How did you do it?" he finally asked, the words coming out of him hesitantly.

"How did we do what?" asked Luke, still looking angrily at Caleb.

"Well, that you are now human again. Actually, that couldn't have happened. No, something like that is completely impossible.", Caleb ran his hands through his hair after taking off his hat. Sweat had formed on his forehead and his breath was shaking uncontrollably. Luke didn't know Caleb like that. The man who had usually made a creepy impression on him, always in control of everything, suddenly wasn't.

"We have no idea.", Luke said dryly after he had calmed down a bit and got his hatred and anger under control.

"You don't know?" asked Caleb and Luke nodded.

"But then how is it possible?" asked Caleb again as he paced back and forth in front of Luke now, asking himself the same thing over and over while Luke just watched him.

"We don't know. We're looking for answers ourselves right now.", Luke said and then wanted to push past Caleb and continue his walk.

"Stop, you're not going anywhere!", Caleb had moved so fast in front of Luke that he almost walked back into him had he not jumped backwards in fright.

"Caleb, let me pass!", Luke ordered, but he didn't even think about it, but touched Luke on the arm. Luke felt his strength leave his body and he went down. But before he finally lost consciousness, he felt everything around him dissolve.