Okay, I'm back, I know I said I was going to update in November, but that didn't happen, because I've been really busy with school and also there have been a lot of deaths of family and friends. Also many of my relatives are dealing with cancer so it has been kind of hard. Next year with school work it will be even worse so I will try to finish this before I go back to school in August. This chapter will have a little bit of the play and a little bit of the ghost. Oh, side note, has anyone seen Supernatural? I love that show when I first saw it I was like, "it's So Weird, but olderand just with hot guys!" In my mind I found myself thinking that Dean and Sam could be like Clu and Carey. Sam was a Psychology major, I think, and remember when Clu came back when Annie was on he was like a Psychology major or was taking a Psychology class. There isthe logic in my crossover. So yes, done with that. Now here is chapter 9 hope you aren't disappointed.
Disclaimer: I only own the plot, Julie, and the ghosts. I also don't own Casper, you'll see.
Thinking About You Lately
Chapter 9
New Feelings
The next day after school and after play practice Fi and Carey decided to go over their lines. They decided to do the party scene where Romeo and Juliet first meet.
"Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much," Fi said, "which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saint shave hand that pilgrims' hand do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers kiss." She and Carey put their palms against the others.
"Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?" Carey replied.
"Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer."
"O, then, dear said, let lips do what hands do! They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair…I have no idea what the hell I'm saying." Carey said with that same smile he uses during that scene. Fi scowled at him,
"Carey, it's beautiful, you don't need to know exactly what he's saying in translation to today, because we probably don't have anything close to that today."
"They how are people supposed to believe that I am this guy who says stuff like that normally?" Carey asked. Fi rolled her eyes,
"Basically it's Elizabethan flirting," Carey smirked, he had a lot of experience picking up girls, Fi saw his expressions and held up a finger to clarify, "not picking up, timid, innocent flirting. Romeo is trying to charm her." Carey sighed,
"Okay let's start from the last line," he put his palm against Fi's again, "lest faith turn to despair."
"Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake."
"Then move not while my prayer's effect I take. Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purged." He leaned in to kiss her and Fi quickly turned forward,
"And we kiss," she cleared her throat as she continued, "Then have my lips the sin that they have took." She looked at Carey who was looking at her with a halfway smile. "What?" she asked.
"Every time we have a kissing scene you turn away and say we kiss. We're going to have to do it eventually Fi, cause I don't think the director or the audience will like in the middle of a love scene for you to shout out 'and we kiss'." Fi looked down at her hands. Carey leaned forward, "so what's the problem, if it was going to be your first kiss I would understand, but I know it's not." Fi's eyes shot up to meet his with a blush thinking he knew about her kiss with Clu. Carey smiled, "Ryan." Fi calmed down and nodded, hoping Carey hadn't seen her let out the breath she had been holding. He then decided to lighten the mood and smirked, "Also I know I'm not a bad looking guy, with so much experience and I know you might be nervous because of that." He sarcastically pretended to shine his fingernails on his shirt. Fi laughed and clasped her hands together and brought them up to her face as she responded,
"Oh, Carey you figured it out, you are just too charming for your own good. You speak Shakespeare not having any clue what you are saying and I just turn to goo." She fluttered her eyelashes sarcastically. Carey and her both laughed.
"Okay, enough with that," he said, "but you know, what I'm saying is true, we mine as well get used to it now." Fi shrugged,
"Why now? We have time." Carey stared at her,
"Fi the performance is in two weeks, we need to practice so it looks natural and like we are madly in love by opening night. So come on what is the problem?" Fi looked at him embarrassed,
"Carey," he motioned for her to go on, "I just don't feel that way about you." Carey nodded,
"Good, cause I don't feel that way about you either." Fi looked at him confused and he let out a laugh, "Fi there is a reason why it is called acting, you pretend that you feel that way for me." Fi shrugged her shoulders,
"I know that, I just don't know how I'm supposed to kiss somebody, making it look real, when I don't have those feelings for them." Carey let out a breath as he finally got it. He pursed his lips in thought then looked at her,
"Is there someone you do have those feeling for?" Clu immediately jumped to her mind but she brushed it away before a blush would stain her cheeks,
"No." She didn't think she had feelings for Clu, they were just confused with their feelings for a time, but now they were back to being best friends. Carey's eyebrows came together,
"Really, you don't have crush on a celebrity or anybody?"
"Oh, I thought you meant someone who I could realistically be with. But if it can be a celebrity, sure there are a few who I think are cute." Carey nodded,
"Good, just close your eyes lean forward and let me kiss you and just pretend I'm one of them while I'm pretending you're the person I like." Fi smiled and asked,
"Oh who do you like Carey?" She knew it was Julie. Carey blushed and stuttered,
"Uh, you don't know her." She smirked,
"Really." He coughed and nodded quickly. Fi rolled her eyes with a smile then cleared her throat, "Okay lets go from the line right before," she paused as they both waited for the other to speak. "Carey it's your line." He looked down as his script,
"Oh yeah," he cleared his throat, "Then move not while my prayer's effect I take, Thust from my lips by thine my sin is purged." Fi quickly shut her eyes as Carey leaned it. Then she felt his lips collide with hers. She tried to place all the celebrities she thought were attractive in that position but it didn't work, she pushed him away, "I'm sorry, it's too weird."
"Did you try what I suggested?" Carey asked.
"Yeah," Fi said, "but when I thought about it, I wouldn't feel comfortable kissing them either, sure the attraction is there, but I'm not the kind of girl who will kiss a guy just because she thinks he is cute." Carey pursed his lips again then smiled,
"How about this. Your dream guy." Fi looked at him confused, "Come on Fi, you can't tell me you have never had this ideal guy designed in your head, who you are attracted to but who is also like your best friend. He is everything you want, he's perfect. He's not a real person, heck you may not even have a physical description of him, but you do have one, everyone does. It's not weird, guys have the same with girls, even though some things are different." Fi realized he was right and nodded. Carey nodded, "Good, now just pretend I'm him. You don't have to picture him or anything, just imagine that you are having a little fantasy or something." Fi nodded,
"Okay I think I can do that."
"Okay," he paused then mumbled part of his line, "thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purged." Fi shut her eyes again and thought about the description of her dream guy then imagined her shadowy dream guy leaning forward and when she felt lips on hers she imagined it was his. In her mind her eyes shut as well as she smiled and kissed him back. Then she felt him pull away and her mind's eyes opened and was shocked to not see a shadowy figure, but an actual person who she knew quite well, Clu. Her eyes shot open and met Carey's. He smiled, "I guess it worked." Fi nodded and looked away still shaken from the image still in her head. Carey noticed, "Fi you okay." Her eyes met his again,
"Yeah, I'm just a little tired and hungry." Carey nodded,
"Yeah me too, we made a big step though, how about we call it a night, we deserve it." He then got up and grabbed his guitar and made his way towards the kitchen. Fi sat on the couch her mind spinning. She though she and Clu were just friends, no weird feelings messing that up, now she was imagining that he was someone she had feelings for and wouldn't mind kissing. What was going on with her?
"Hey Fi?" Her head shot over towards the kitchen where Carey was, "You coming." She nodded,
"Yeah, just trying to remember what homework I have to do. But I remember that I finished it at rehearsal." She then passed him as she went into the kitchen. He nodded,
"Yeah, you didn't have that many scenes today, we pretty much worked on the big fight scene in Act III, scene one," he laughed, "Clu is having way too much fun with his death scene, the ham." Fi almost choked on her orange juice when he said her name. Carey stared at her, "You okay Fi?" Fi nodded,
"Yeah, just went down the wrong tube."
"Okay," Carey said nodding not fully believing her.
Meanwhile…
Julie snuck up to room 425 after practice. She stuck the key in the lock and looked behind her to make sure no one was coming. She had told Fi and Clu that she had destroyed the key, but she just wanted to check to see if she was jut imagining what she saw or not. She then opened the door and went in closing it behind her. She turned on the lamp in the corner since it was getting dark outside so the windows gave little if any light. She looked around the room not sure what to do, should she say something, just wait, what? Then she turned back towards the window jumped slightly and let out a little shriek, which she quickly silenced by clapping a hand over her mouth. There by the window was a ghostly figure of a young man. He had neatly combed, what she assumed was either light brown or dark blonde hair. He was wearing one of the school's old uniforms. He looked at her,
"I am sorry, to have startled you, I tried not to." She removed her hand from her mouth,
"It's okay," she paused as she looked at his, "You're Alex McKay, Katie Anderson's boyfriend." He nodded
"Yes, I am…was." Julie smiled,
"Even though you're a ghost you're still you." He nodded,
"I know, I mean about being Katie's boyfriend. I have not seen her for almost one hundred years, she is gone, and yet I am still here. Why, I do not know." Julie shyly moved towards him,
"Maybe because you killed Jessica Martin." He stood up and looked at her,
"You think I killed her!" Julie shrunk back,
"Well we just assumed…"
"We, who is we?" Alex shouted.
"The ambassadors, we've been trying to solve Katie's murder for almost one hundred years, ever since the investigators declared it a suicide. We assumed that it was Jessica and that she revealed it was her so you killed her." Alex calmed down,
"Your logic makes sense, but it is wrong, I did not killed Jessica," he paused as Julie stared at him, "she killed herself. She felt so guilty about killing Katie that she thought she should die the same way." Julie shook her head,
"But a witness said they saw someone push her."
"I was there, but I was not pushing her I was trying to save her, but she did not want to be saved. She told me that she killed Katie and that she deserved to die," Alex said. Julie looked down in shock. "You have been trying to solve my Katie's murder for almost a century?" Julie looked up to meet Alex's gentle eyes. She blushed,
"Well not me particularly, the ambassadors, yes." Alex stepped forward,
"But you seemed to already have figured it out, so why do you continue to come here?"
"The curse," Julie said, "you must know, every ten years on the anniversary of Katie's death a girl falls from that window." Alex shut his eyes in pain,
"I tried to stop her but she would not listen, apparently her death caused her madness." Julie stepped up close to him,
"Who Alex, who?" Alex met her eyes,
"Jessica, it was Jessica."
"Jessica," Julie said in disbelief. Alex got upset again,
"You thought it was me, you thought I was doing it." Julie stepped back,
"Well we just thought since the hooks were gone maybe you wanted this place to be left alone, to be remembered as where Katie died. You didn't want people to feel welcome." Alex's tense shoulders dropped,
"I can understand that, I did remove the hooks, and the reason why was so people did not feel welcome, I did not want her to kill another one. I thought if I did that, it would stop, but people kept coming, I do not know what to do anymore. Anytime I make a friend she ends up killing them, I can never seem to protect them, just like I failed to protect Katie." Julie stepped forward and almost tried to put her hand on his shoulder but then realized that it might just pass through.
"What happened to Katie, wasn't your fault, you couldn't have know what was going to happen." He lowered his head,
"I know, but I still feel like I should have been able to do something." Julie went around and crouched slightly to meet his lowered eyes,
"I know, but you have to realized there was nothing that you could have done, I know it's hard to accept, but you can't keep beating yourself up about it. It wasn't your fault." He met her eyes and she stood straight. He nodded,
"You're right," he then gave her a soft smile that made her blush and look away. Sure he was a ghost, but he was cute, also Julie kind of liked how proper and polite he was. The number of straight men who she had met who were as open with his feelings as Alex was she could count on one hand. She looked back up at him to see him still looking at her that way,
"What?" she asked, "Is there something on my face." Alex shook his head,
"No. You look perfect. I just have never really met anyone like you. You're so kind, understanding, and beautiful." Julie blushed beet red again as her eyes widened. She looked down at her hands that were fiddling with the other. The way he was looking at her made her fidget uncomfortably. She felt like he could see right through her into her soul. Maybe he could, she had no firsthand knowledge about what exactly ghosts could do. "Do not look away Julie, what I say is true, you are an extraordinary person. You trusted me so quickly, most people it takes them time. Ghosts have been given a bad connotation of being evil, vengeful spirits, when we are still just people who just are not among the living. How is it any different then someone who cannot hear, or cannot see." She smiled up at him,
"So you're living impaired." He chuckled,
"That sounds about right." He then met her eyes and silence hung in the air. Julie felt her heart flutter. Then she was broken out of her thoughts as her cell phone rang.
"I'm sorry," she said as she looked at the caller id. It was Clu, "Hey Clu. What's up?"
"Hey Jules, it's Friday. Movie night at the Phillips-Bell abode, we have all the necessities, popcorn, soda, candy, except for the horror soon to be classic movies of Saw and Saw 2."
"Oh right," Julie said remembering she was supposed to pick up the movies, "I'm sorry, I lost track of time, I was busy talking to a friend." She smiled at Alex who smiled back. "I'll be there in a few."
"It's okay, don't rush. See ya," Clu said.
"See ya," Julie said closing her phone. She looked up at Alex with sad eyes, "I'm sorry, but I promised." He shook his head,
"It is alright, you are a loyal friend. Another one of your wonderful qualities." Julie blushed again, she began to feel like she would become permanently red in Alex's presence.
"I have to go, it's getting late." She turned to leave.
"Julie." She turned back to look at him. He looked at her hopefully, "Will you come back to see me tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow is Saturday, the school is closed."
"Monday then." She smiled,
"Okay." He beamed,
"I will wait all day then." A huge grin made its way onto her face. He then went up to the wall by the window. He moved away and Julie saw a hook on the wall, "Julie, you are always welcome here." She then turned to leave again. "Julie," he called her back again. She turned around. "You must not tell anyone about this. Not even your two friend who came with you that one day." Julie looked confused, she didn't like lying to them. She already lied about the key.
"But they're my friends. They'll trust you, they won't judge you, I know it."
"No!" Alex yelled then calmed down, "No, no one. Think of it as our little secret." She smiled, she kind of liked that idea.
"Okay, it will be our secret."
"Good," Alex replied. They shared a long look again then she looked at her watch,
"I have to go." She turned and opened the door. She turned back to him with a whimsical smile, "Until Monday then." She closed the door.
"Until Monday," Alex said, "until Monday."
Okay there is the end of this chapter. I hope Alex came off as kind of sweet, but kind of creepy, cause that was what I was trying to portray. I also know that many of you must be thinking, "No! Julie isn't being human again, she's all perfect." I know Alex was saying that, but there is a reason why he's acting all moony-eyed over her, it will be explained later, so just hold tight. I also hope you liked the first scene with Carey and Fi and that scene. Fi's feeling for Clu and vice versa are still unsure, they are friends, but the possibilities of being more than friends is bubbling right under the surface. They don't know if they want it to stay submerged or come topside. Yay for water references they are so awesome! Also even though supposedly the curse is "solved" Fi and Clu will still investigate, cause Fi still suspects that there is another reason, which their might be. So that might be the next chapter as Fi and Clu continue the investigation and Julie goes off to meet Alex again. So please R&R and tell me what you think!
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