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   “hey, jules--” alex popped in right next to her, a large faux smile on his face. “can you kindly tell your brother that my drums aren’t a toy?” if he had to find carlos banging on his drumkit like it was a pots and pans setup on the street one more time, he would scream. “i don’t exactly know how to fix broken ghost drums.”

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        “Hey, you know i-” The words die in his mouth, briefly, when she turns to him, replaced with an airy, nervous laugh. Never one to miss a beat, he rolls through the gap with a placeholder until they come back to life; “i-i-I never said thanks for, uh, on the stage?” On the stage. It’s code for during the battle for my actual soul. “You really saved my neck back there, boss.” He nudges her shoulder with his own, grin fixed overtop of his bottom lip. (Oh what a thing to be able to do! She’s lucky he doesn’t just grab hold and never let go. He’ll stick with shoulders touching, for now.)

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“happy brain juice make my brain go zoom zoom”

one blink, then another. alex stared down at the vibrating julie before him. he was reminded of the one time they let reggie drink two cans of jolt in one sitting. it was marketed as a soda, how were they supposed to know it was going to keep reggie up for twelve hours straight? nevertheless, the blond shook his head and leaned forward to gently slide the can across the counter to himself. "alright, no more..." he looked at the can in his hand, "rockstar energy for you." he looked back to her, eyes narrowed. "that's a little on the nose, don't you think?"

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❝ The whispery groans in my mind are beginning to issue orders. ❞

clear concern washed over alex's face. fingers twisted around the drawstrings of his hoodie. "are you-- are you possessed?" it was a genuine question, one that made his heart beat faster in his chest (why did his heart still have to beat in the afterlife?). they didn't know what caleb was capable of or what the magician was willing to do to maintain his power. "i mean, you probably wouldn't tell me if you were... or i guess, maybe you could? if you're still in control. julie, please say you're not possessed."

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❝ This jackassery will not stand! ❞ ( gasp the child cursed!! )

"jacka--" he couldn't even finish the word, he was too shocked to hear it come from julie's mouth. julie molina was a pure, innocent ray of sunshine-- she didn't swear. alex was used to profanities, but not from the girl who paced in front of him. oh, now he knew what it was like to be on the other side of the runway. "jules, i promise reggie didn't think before he started haunting your brother for fun. he has let the youtube fame go to his head, though." carlos had five subscribers and one of them was ray, but that didn't stop them from calling it 'fame.'

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‘I’d like to be my old self again, but I’m still trying to find it.’

"So..." Reggie wasn't the best at social cues, Alex had pointed that out more than once, but it wasn't from lack of trying. Sometimes he got distracted or just didn't understand the point that someone was trying to make, which was human, it happened. But this was Julie and the last thing that Reggie wanted to do was upset her, especially when he was pretty sure she was referencing what happened to her mom. He didn't know the properly grieving Julie, the one that didn't have music, and he didn't know the Julie that had her mom, either, he just knew this one and he liked her, was that a bad thing? "Does that mean that you... don't like yourself now?"

Fingers toying with themselves as Reggie remained perched on the very edge of the couch, he realized that likely sounded weird. "I mean, you're great now and I bet you were great back then, but I don't know, isn't going in reverse bad? You've got all these new experiences - and hey, you've got us! - so you might just turn into someone new?" Despite the cheer he'd injected into the reminder that Julie had the band, there was a note at the end of his words that gave way to something else, a worry that maybe they weren't good enough, and Julie would still rather go back to who she was before them.

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has there ever been a time where they feared for their life?  why?

character questions

... literally all the time. he has anxiety; he's constantly in flight or fight (or freeze) mode. if we want to talk about big "this is it-- this is the end" moments, there have been a few and i would say the biggest is the one where he actually... know perished and that of course would be the moment that tainted hot dog really set in... lots of fear there. so much fear.

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“ oh my god, run! there’s emus everywhere! ” 🙃🙃

eyebrows raised and jaw dropped all the way down as alex let out a confused scream. fingers frantically began to smash every button on the controller in his hands. "what kind of video game is this?!" emus filled the television screen in front of him. his poor character was attacked mercilessly by the giant animated birds while he vainly attempted to do anything to stop the massacre. "julie! what do i do?!" she said run, but where could he run?