#juke

Hi friend! Thanks so much for the ask and sincere apologies for the slow response! 😅

( @phantomxarmy here’s the other half of your ask too lol)

"You cannot leave everything to fate, boy. She's got a lot to do. Sometimes you must give her a hand." - Ever After

Alex and Willie give Fate a hand, much to Luke's chagrin, by hiring a friend of friends to play live music at their wedding (for the sole purpose of entertainment and definitely not for any ulterior motives for the only single person left in their friend group)(None whatsoever). Alternatively: a Juke meet cute at a Willex Wedding :)

hmmmm how to explain without over or underexplaining XD

I had the idea of like a Juke situation with step up, only the whole dance thing doesn't really apply to them, so then my brain was like, well Carrie dances, and we like Reggie with Carrie sometimes so I think the whole "my partner dropped me" "oh maybe i can help with that" thing is going to be part their story - even though this was going to just be a Juke fic originally

Luke is the Tyler, only instead of damaging the art school and having to do community hours there to make up for it, everyone is aged up in college or possibly even grad school? @onlygenxhere helped me brainstorm some thoughts on why Luke is there but not in school (we think he maybe emancipated himself from his parents at a young age and couldn't get enough scholarships to get in, but he lives near his dream school and is going to give music lessons to students as a way to support himself)(/ conveniently gets him on campus to meet everyone)

Reggie is a music production major, and his capstone project is producing an entire album. Nick was supposed to help as a tradesies for Reggie working on his album, but N droos them at the last minute for his own self serving needs (like Nora's asshole boyfriend in the movie), and when Reg finds Luke putting up tutoring lesson posters, he swipes him to help out with his project, a super experimental session album.

(I am actually really excited about the project - kind of based on something I saw on instagram; each person is given a key, a time signature, and a genre/theme/general idea and they record their parts individually and then put them all together to see if it works and obviously this is how they're going to realize they've really got something good together ;))

Julie (Nora) is dating Nick - and like the movie/as stated above, he's a royal asshole who only thinks of himself. Nick the Dick strikes again. (Sorry, Sacha.) There's more to her story that I haven't fully figured out yet

There is also some background Willex as of now but I want to pull their story more to the forefront - I just have no idea what this looks like yet either

There will be lots of shenanigans that move everyone closer together - looootsss of moving pieces I'm still working through. No idea when this story will ever be done but that's half the fun, no?

Somehow I feel I both overexplained and underexplained lol

Chance Meeting

Julie and Luke meet by chance when they’re 15 and 17 and share one magical day together that leads to years of phone calls and letters supporting each other as much as they can from opposite sides of the country with the hope of getting to see each other again one day.

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Reggie is definitely bi, I hope we can all agree on that👀

Chance Meeting

Julie and Luke meet by chance when they’re 15 and 17 and share one magical day together that leads to years of phone calls and letters supporting each other as much as they can from opposite sides of the country with the hope of getting to see each other again one day.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Tagged by @phantomxarmy Sunday and @legolasghosty yesterday. Here's the beginning of the next chapter of Chance Meeting going up tomorrow.

Luke was having the most amazing kiss of his life. He’d kissed a few girls in his seventeen years, but they were all a sad comparison to kissing Julie Molina. It was like drowning and flying at the same time and if he had to choose, he wanted to drown. She made the most delicious noise and he ate it up, forgetting to breathe as the kiss turned more intense until they reluctantly broke apart, needing to catch their breath. He leaned his forehead against her’s and panted. “Wow.” “Yeah.” She gasped. “That was…” “Amazing.” He pecked her lips and she leaned forward chasing him as he pulled back with a laugh. “Give me a sec, Jules.” He took a deep breath trying to calm down a little. “You make me forget we’re in public.”