Cait had an amused look on her face as she looked at her niece, before looking at Julie, "This is a very long story, Jules, okay?"
The 16-year-old nodded slowly, still a million questions on her mind, "Okay, but who are they and how did they get here?"
"I can answer the first part of that," Cait held up her hand that was now interlocked with Luke's, "so this one here is Luke," Luke gave a wave at the mention of his name, "the one in the leather jacket is Reggie and blondie there is Alex and as for how they got here I have no clue I was passed the hell out in the loft when that part happened."
Julie gave the blonde ghost a look, "Okay, but Cait how do you know them?"
Cait laughed as Cat raised her hand as if to ask a question, making the blonde laugh, "You want to answer that question don't you?" Cat nodded at her, "Well, looks like Mel's been telling stories again… kind of curious to see how much of this you actually know."
Caid laughed, giving his aunt a look, "Oh, you'd be surprised… Cat hangs onto every word of Mom's stories, especially those stories."
"All right, Cat, go for it."
The 16-year-old beamed and turned to Julie, "Okay so basically, Cait and Luke met when they were kids, and they became best friends, and then they met Bobby who would later be the rhythm guitarist in their band Sunset Curve, and then they met Reggie and then lastly Alex and the group of 'em become really close, and then they were 15 when the boys formed a band called as I mentioned Sunset Curve, Cait was their number one supporter from the get-go and then when Cait was 16 she formed a band of her own called Fear on Fire they were a pop/punk/rock band." she blew out a breath as she finished that.
Cait whistled, "damn, she did not leave anything out, did she? That was actually impressive Cat."
"Told you, that you'd be surprised."
The three ghost boys looked impressed too. Cait looked at Julie who still looked confused, "Okay that answers that question, I guess, but how did they get here?"
"I can't answer that one, Jules." then she looked at Luke, "What do you remember before you ended up back here?"
Luke looked at her, "Well we floated off out of the ambulance and then were in a dark room, and then I heard our song, and then we got sucked out of the dark room and ended up back here in the studio…" he had a confused puppy look on his face that Cait wanted to coo at but knew it wasn't the appropriate time for that. "Like the girl said, we're in a band called Sunset Curve.
"Tell your friends." Reggie cut in making Cait snort.
Luke continued, "and last night was supposed to be our big night … it was gonna change our lives."
Cait bit her lip as Alex leaned forward, "I'm pretty sure it did." the blonde knew that she had to be the one to break it to them, that they would take it better coming from her than anyone else.
"Hey, Rockstar look at me." Luke looked at her, and Cait sighed, "Come here," she motioned the boys to gather round her, which they did.
"Cait what are you doing?"
The blonde looked at Julie, "No offense Jules, but they're gonna take this a lot better coming from me." that confused the boys.
Cait squeezed Luke's hand which was still firmly grasped in her own, "All right boys no easy way to say it, but you didn't die last night, that was 25 years ago in 1995, it's 2020 now…" she trailed off looking at the three Luke squeezed her hand a little tighter as he processed the information given to him by his girlfriend.
"That's not possible," his voice came out softly. Cait's face softened at the tone of his voice, Luke looked into her eyes, and he could see that she was being truthful, "But how it was only like for an hour, and then we showed up here…"
Reggie shook his head, "No, that can't be right, all we did after we floated out of the ambulance was go to the dark room where Alex cried."
Alex gave Reggie a look, "well… I don't think- I think we were all upset."
"Like I said, that was only for an hour before we showed up here," Luke repeated himself. His mind spiraling with questions, while they were all conversing, Julie had pulled her phone out and googled Sunset Curve.
"No, Cait is right," she showed them her phone and the three boys looked confused.
"What is that?" Alex questioned.
"My phone," Julie answered, "and it says that you died in 1995 when you were seventeen, it's 2020 now like Cait said… it's been 25 years."
Cait gave the girl a look, "Jules, I was handling it."
"Wait," Alex started… "So- so it's really been 25 years? I have been crying for 25 years?" getting more worked up about it as he continued talking, "How is that possible?"
"Well, you're a very emotional person," Reggie answered honestly.
"I am not!" Alex denied it, but his voice cracked slightly at the end.
Cait sighed and gave Julie a look, "See Jules, this is why I was easing them into it."
The girl winced slightly, giving the blonde an apologetic look, "my bad."
While Reggie and Alex were having their little argument with the three living teenagers watching them, Luke looked at Cait, and spoke softly, "If it's been 25 years, why do you still look exactly the same as you did the last night I saw you?"
Cait sighed as she looked into his eyes, "It's a long story, Rockstar." she spoke just as softly and tried to unnoticeably pull him over to the couch but was noticed by the twins, and then Julie and then Alex and Reggie which made them all congregate around the couch, Cait sighed seeing this. She looked at the twins, "I don't know if Mel's told this one before." The blonde looked back at Luke, "It was six months after, and things were slowly starting to go back to semi-normalcy, some days were better than others, it was April 15th and everyone was basically walking on eggshells around me for the most part which is understandable considering what day it was." Luke nodded at her, that would have been their three-year anniversary as a couple. "Anyway flash forward a little into the day I was meeting a friend for lunch after a little pit stop which again understandable because of the day and then as I was leaving to meet her, I ran into someone, and the next thing I knew the little bitch that I ran into stabbed me, and then I was floating above myself in the hospital morgue and yeah that is how I died."
Julie looked at her, "The friend that was my mom, wasn't it?"
"Indeed, Jules, your mother helped get me through the darkest period of my life… I would not have made it as long as I did without her or Mel, Mikey, and my mom, the four of them helped to keep me grounded" Luke wrapped his arms around her, hugging the blonde ghost, he hated that she died the way she did, but the more selfish part of him was happy that, she did because he had her back. Cait hugged him back, she had missed this being in his arms, she had missed him so much and was happy that he was back in her life and was determined to not let anything else come and separate them.
Julie was looking between the two and had to admit that they were extremely cute together. Caid noticing the look chuckled and spoke quietly to the girl, "Our mom and Uncle Mikey always said, when they would tell Cat and me about them, that they were sickeningly cute. And I can see that having seen them interact."
Cat smiled hearing the conversation and came into it, "Mom also said that she believed that they were the definition of soulmates, that they complimented each other so perfectly that they were made for each other." Cat leveled her fellow 16-year-old with a look, as she spoke her next words, "Mom's stories of them are the reason that I am such a hopeless romantic." her eyes flicked over to Cait and Luke, a smile gracing her face, as the couple once again seemed to be in their own little bubble "I want a love like that, I want someone to look at me the way he looks at her like she's the most important thing in the world to him…"
Julie followed her friend's line of sight and immediately noticed the look of complete adoration on Luke's face as he looked at Cait, and she nodded and had to admit that Cat was right, and it would be nice to have someone look at her like that and if she had looked to her left at that moment she would have realized that she did have someone that looked at her like that, but Julie was just too oblivious to realize it at that time.
