I Can No Longer Hide the Truth {DISCONTINUED}

~Chapter 23~

"Hey Julie. Hey Luke." My dad comes in.

"Hey, we were just finishing the song we were writing." I say.

My dad smiles.

"Okay, I was just coming up to tell you that dinner is ready." He says, walking out of the room.

I breathe out a breath that I didn't know I was holding.

"After dinner, we are cuddling. That was a 30 second cuddle so it doesn't count." I point at him.

"Alright sunshine, I'm not complaining." He shrugs.

I take his hand and we head downstairs for dinner.

"Help yourselves, stuff for tacos is on the counter in the kitchen." My dad says, pointing in the direction of the items.

Once we get in the kitchen we dish up our food and sit down at the table.

"So, there's a gig on Friday?"

"Yeah, at the Hollywood Ghost Club. Where Willie works." Alex says excitedly.

"Who is this Willie? I've heard much about him, but I don't know who he is." My dad asks.

"He's um, my close friend." Alex says quietly.

"Oh. Well, I'm going to be very happy when I meet him then." Ray tells Alex.

When Carlos isn't looking, I steal some of his grapes. For some reason, he always eats tacos with grapes on the side. I don't know why, but I saw the grapes and just started stealing them. Luke noticed this and giggled quietly.

"So, are you ready to play on Friday, because I am!" Carlos yells.

"Yeah, about that... we already told dad. Now we don't have to let you play with us." I say proudly.

Carlos has a sad look on his face.

"Dang it! Hey! Where did all my grapes go?" Carlos finally realizes how little grapes he has left.

I just laugh and Luke does too. Carlos just had the most confused face.

We finish eating about 10 minutes later and clean up the table.

Once everyone has left to do their own thing, I grab Luke's hand and drag him up the stairs.

"Alright, come here." He says, opening his arms.

I throw myself at him and accidentally knock him back onto my bed.

"Woah, please don't kill me a second time." He laughs.

We situate ourselves like we were before.

But this time, we aren't interrupted until Flynn comes in, which was at least a half an hour later.

"Hey lovebirds, you guys have a gig in 3 days so you really need to rehearse." She says, waving us out the door.

"But I was comfortable." I whine.

"Well, you won't be comfortable if I slap you, now get down there! You were supposed to be in the studio 30 minutes ago."

"You're really pushy today." I say to her, walking down the stairs.

"You're welcome!" She replies back happily.

Flynn, Luke, and I walk in to Alex and Reggie fighting over something.

"Well, maybe you should have thought of that before I did it!"

"You didn't give me time to think! You just swung your bass around!" Alex yells.

I notice a little blood on Alex's left eye.

"Woah! What happened." I say worriedly, hurrying over to Alex.

"I got up to go grab a water bottle and this moron threw his bass over his shoulder and didn't think to look for his surroundings!" Alex yells, obviously ticked off.

"Okay, two lessons learned. Reggie, make sure you look around yourself and are aware of your surroundings before you try something like that. And Alex, make sure you give Reggie some space to rock out, you know how he can get." I say, bringing Alex into the bathroom.

I wipe up his eye with a wet wash cloth and give him an ice pack.

"Thanks Jules, did anyone ever tell you that you're a great problem solver?" Alex asks, laughing.

"I mean, I deal with you boys and your dumb arguments everyday, I'm kinda used to it by now." I laugh back, stepping out of the bathroom.

"Well, I guess I should sit this rehearsal out, I can't really see out of this eye and I can't play drums with only one hand." Alex says and we all nod.

Luke grabs his guitar, Reggie with his bass, and I at the piano, start to count it off.

"A 1, 2, 3, 4!"

Might have a snow day tomorrow so if that's the case then you'll probably have another chapter but no promises.

QOTD: How do you think Rose died? Personally, I think she died of a sickness or disease, possibly cancer because with something like that, she would've had time to write the song, Wake Up for Julie. If it were a car crash it would've been an unexpected death.

Questions?

Rants?

Ideas?

~Liz <3