Post by poft on Jul 12, 2005 6:54:31 GMT -5
A/N: this is my first potf fanfic. I hope you all enjoy it. You might find that things are a little more dramatic at times. It’s because everyone is older now and I found it kind of difficult writing about their younger years. Please tell me what you think because there’s no point in continuing the story if no one really enjoys it. If some seem out of character, I’m sorry. I’ve only seen a few episodes. Hopefully I’ll get better. Well have fun!!
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The Future is Now
Summer is just about to end and senior year at HG Well’s High is just around the corner. Keely has spent the vacation visiting her dad in New York. And Phil was left behind in Pickford without his best friend. As everyone is now older and more mature, how will this affect our favorite couple especially since this might be their final times together? Will their friendship continue to remain strong and constant or will they realize something more…beautiful along the way? Read and find out.
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Chapter 1 “Keely-face”
It was hot. No, no wait. It was scorching-out-of-this-world-hot. Who knew the last few days of summer was going to be this extreme. Outside giant heat waves could be seen across the road. Everyone was sluggish and the usually loud kids couldn’t be heard anywhere. Even those annoying birds seem too exhausted from the heat to sing.
People looked so shinny as they are covered in a layer of sweat. The large man sitting in his lawn chair down the street chose that moment to remove his shirt. He was so unbelievably white, it hurt. Not to mention, he wasn’t the most attractive looking creature.
“OH. MY. GOD! I’m blind. Blind I tell you” Pim screamed covering her eyes.
“What is wrong with you people??!! HAVE YOU NO DECENCY??”
“Pim, honey. Sometimes I think you are too dramatic for you age,” Barbara sighed.
“I hate it here. Everyone is disgusting. Not to mention that this weather cannot be good for my plan to dominate their entire race. I mean, how am I going to execute my great idea if no one seems to care? Nope, not good at all,” Pim continued her rant.
Barbara, quite use to her daughter…aggressive behavior, continued to garden patiently and waited until Pim needed to take a breath before interrupting.
“And to think that I ever tried to fit i…..”
“Sweetie, didn’t we already discuss this plan of yours…countless of times already,” Barbara reminded Pim.
“Pim we are most likely going to be stuck here a while and with the pace your dad is moving in fixing the machine, we might never leave.”
“HEY! I head that. And I’ll have you know that I have made tremendous…BOOM!!.....progress,” Lloyd yelled as the garage filled with smoke.
“OoOoH. Me made fire,” Curtis grunts as he dances around the newly lit flame.
Lloyd could be seen yelling and trying to get the hose long enough to reach the fire.
Barbara turned and gave her daughter a reassuring smile, “Why don’t you go hang out with Phil.”
Pim gave her mom a blank stare. “Great mom. Great. Just when I though this day couldn’t get any worse.”
Pim angrily stomped off the yard and down the street. Along the way, she spotted a couple of kids from school sitting under a tree hiding from the sun.
“Man, it’s too hot,” Greg complained.
“What I wouldn’t do just for a little bit of…cold,” Thomas said.
Pim slowed her pace down to a crawl as she overheard their conversation. Suddenly a thought occurred and made her grin.
“What exactly would you do for something cooler,” Pim asked as she tried to look causal.
The sweaty looking boys, too hot to even look at her, continued to close their eyes and said, “Anything.”
“Anything, aye,” Pim said to herself. She could already see her plan taking place. With her future knowledge and their….well their past knowledge she would be able to finally force them into submission. Suddenly the weather wasn’t so bad after all.
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“What is the point in having a pool if it’s not gonna keep you cool,” Tia complained while she sat at the shallow side.
“I mean, pool, cool. Hello, they only rhyme which means they’re suppose to go together. I think we should return it Phil and get a better one.”
Seth floated along the side of the pool said, “Yes, Tia. Lets just pack the ‘cement’ pool and put it back in the box ‘that it did not come in’ and return it to the store where we did not buy it from.”
Tia gave him an evil glare and splashed water in his face causing Seth to lose balance and flop around like a fish out of water.
“Well guys, it could’ve been a lot worse,” Phil replied from where he sat dangling his legs in the pool.
“And how exactly could we be in a worse situation?” Seth asked.
“It’s probably 100 degrees, the air conditioning is not working since the power shortage and we could no longer do any last minute plans before summer ends. So tell me, great one, what could possible make this any worse?”
“….weeeellllll……we could have no sweat glands,” Phil raised both his eyebrows.
“Can you just imagine how bad it would be for us? I feel sorry for those pigs right about now,” Phil looked worried.
“Pigs? Well Keely did always say pink looks good on me,” Tia began to get the far away look in her eyes as she imagined herself as a pretty pink pig in a totally cute outfit.
Seth raised his eyebrows and shrugged his shoulder as he sat next to Phil.
“When is Keely coming back anyway,” he asked.
“School is about to start in about a week, shouldn’t she be home right about now?”
Phil looked down at the pool and noticed all the ripples his feet were making. “I don’t know. She’s been too busy for me to say two words to her let alone a whole sentence.”
“Well New York is a pretty amazing place. With all its bright lights and tall skyscrapers. I mean sometimes it seems mathematically impossible for a structure of that stature to be able to stand that high, “Seth ponders.
“Well it’s quite simple actually. Let C be a smooth irreducible algebraic curve of degree d embedded in a project 3-space over an algebraically closed field. K. The homogenous ideal implies that it is the product of the intersection of the angles of the si…”
“Could you two please save your nerdy heart to heart talk for somewhere else?” Tia interrupted. She didn’t understand how two people could carry such a long conversation over anything involving math. Keely needs to get home soon. Listening to those two go on and on about x’s, y’s and all the other letters of the alphabet was almost getting as bad as the weather.
“Look at me. I am so…hot,” Tia began.
“Well, you could’ve fooled me.” Seth replied.
“No you dweeb. Even though I am good looking and you are just too jealous to admit it, I was talking about my skin. Look at it, It’s soooo red and UGLY!” Tia cried.
“That’s it. I have to get out of here before I turn into a tomato. “
With that, Tia jumped out of the pool and walked quickly away. Muttering something to herself about how her skin care lotion better be able to work miracles.
Phil smiled and watched her leave. He got out of the pool and began drying himself off. Seth picked up some of their stuff and followed Phil to his front porch.
They sat down and took large mouthful of water from the bottles left on the table beside.
“PHIL!”
“Huh..wa..what?”
“I was just saying thanks for listening to my problems. You are such a great friend,” Seth teased.
“I’m sorry man. I just have a lot on my mind I guess,” Phil continued to stare off at something in the distance.
“You would think that after spending almost every waking hour with someone, you wouldn’t her that much,” Seth said also looking into the distance, squinting his eyes and turning his head at weird angles trying to find what Phil found so interesting.
That caught his attention and Phil snapped back to reality. He looked at Seth quickly and furrowed his eyebrows.
“What are you talking about? Miss who? I was just…admiring…the..uhh….great…fence over there,” Phil stammered.
“I mean it’s not ever day you see such a….a white and…perfectly….perfect fence.”
Seth raised his eyesbrows and eyed Phil knowingly and chuckled the shook his head and continued to stare straight ahead as Phil continued to look at him demanding answers.
“What are you laughing at?” Phil insisted.
“It was a very nice fence and I was admiring such great….”
Laughing loudly, Seth raised both hands and begged Phil to stop.
“You’re right. You’re right, that is a really nice fence. I don’t think I’ve ever witness one so great before. I don’t know about you but those fences seem to have blonde hair and…..are those…green eyes?” Seth looked at the fence up ahead seriously.
“Ha. Ha. Really funny,” Phil punched him on the arm.
“Listen man, you might be able to hide other stuff but when it comes to Keely, you’re an open book with size 36 font,” Seth said smiling.
“Why don’t you just make it easier on yourself and admit it. “
“You love her.”
“WHAT?”
“How did you……I AM NOT!” Phil dramatically denied.
“And what makes it so obvious anyway?”
“You have Keely-face,” Tia appeared from behind and said it like someone just asked her something as apparent as, is the sun shinning.
Seth laughed and nodded his head in agreement. Tia non-too-gently shove Seth to the side so she could sit in the middle.
“Trust me Phil, you may be a whiz when it comes to math but I am the queen of love and relationships. And you my friend, are totally head-over-heels-I-live-for-you-only in love with our young Keely,” Tia said as she nodded her head and looked as if she’s going to cry.
“But…I thought you were the queen of gossip?” Seth questioned.
“Ugh….that was like sooooo freshman year. Hello doofus, keep up,” Tia rolled her eyes.
“I think the heat is getting to you guys. I am not in love with Keely. I mean I love her but not ‘in love’ with her. Come on, she’s by best friend,” Phil shrugged.
“Besides, I’ve never heard anything as ridiculous as ‘Keely-face.’
Phil locked his fingers behind his head and laid down on the porch, looking up at the ceiling. It was getting dark and though it was still hot, it became a little more bearable.
“Well now you know how you looked this whole summer,” Tia replied.
“Walking around, all mopey and trying oh so hard to hide it.”
“Just between the two of us,” Tia lowered her voice to a whisper and looked down at him, “you were never that good in drama.”
Tia laughed when Phil pretended to be offended and claimed how he was going to have his own show one day.
“Lucky for you, she’ll be home soon man. And then you guys could go back to spending all your time together,” Seth said as he got up and stretched.
“I better be heading home, it’s getting dark and I have some theories I need to prove.”
“Well you don’t have to beg to walk me home, you know,” Tia appeared annoyed as she got up and gathered her things.
“What?” I didn’t even say…,” Seth protested.
“Fine, fine. You convinced me, “ Tia replied as she began walking ahead of him.
“Bye, Phil.”
Seth stood there confused and looked at her back as if she was crazy.
When Tia noticed that Seth wasn’t following her. She stopped, turned around and put an arm on her hip and tapped her foot impatiently.
“Well hurry up before I change my mind,” Tia said as she crossed her arms over her chest and waited.
Seth furrowed his eyebrows in confusion and looked at Phil who only shrugged and gave a don’t-look-at-me smile.
Seth shook his head and thought to himself, girls.
“Later, Phil.”
“Bye guys,” Phil gave them a wave.
And with that Seth broke into a little jog as he caught up with Tia who walked with her head high and acted as if he wasn’t even there.
“Those two,” Phil sighed and laid back on the porch.
“Why can’t they just see how much they like each other already,” Phil smiled and got up and looked as Seth and Tia appeared far off in the distance. He could still hear them bickering.
When they disappeared, Phil continued to look at where they once were and once again thought of the one person that has occupied his mind these past months. He missed her, he really did. It’s hard to adjust when you are so use to someone just….being there and suddenly they’re not. They made so many plans together. After many weeks a few summers ago, she has gotten pretty good at fishing and they were going to head out to the lake together. There were also movies and different places he was going to show her on his sky-ak since she complained about how some countries looked so….dead during the other seasons. He was even going to let her drive the thing.
But her father called out of the blue and he remembered how excited she was when she called him to meet at her house in five minutes but couldn’t wait. Instead, she ran over right after she hung up and burst through his door like a little blonde tornado. A very cute tornado. Wait, what? Man this weather was really getting to him.
Anyway, she was so happy and her smile was blinding him. But then she remembered about their plans and all the promises they made during the lazy nights. Her beautiful face contorted in a frown and she looked at him guilty. With a face like that, how could be ever be mad at her. She apologized of course. Many times. He comforted her and assured her they’ll be plenty of more summers to finish their long to-do list. She hugged him and promised to make it up to him. And then…
Well and then she was off. In a big bird-like vehicle called a plane. It made him uneasy when he thinks that his best friend’s safety was being thrown into a steel tube that weighs more then a few tons and then be catapulted to thousands of feet in the air. The whole concept of this type of flying was completely lost to him. In his time, whenever someone needed to travel away they took the transporter and within a few seconds there are. Here. Here it takes hours. Hours flying at that altitude under that tremendous air pressure. How could anyone feel safe? It’s just something fundamentally wrong about suspending yourself that many feet in the air. What if a window cracked, or something gets caught in the engine and what if…..
Whoa Diffy. Slow down.
He was thinking too much again. If Tia and Seth were here they would probably say he has “Keely-face” again. But he can’t help it. She was so important to him and it bothered him, more then he would ever admit, when she is too far away for him to protect her.
But he didn’t love her. Of course not. How could anyone even think of such a thing? She’s his best friend and it’s only normal that he worried about her. He witness how…careless she could be at times. Who’s going to catch her if she trips or remind her not to forget her latest fashion-type…thingies. What if she meets a guy? Keely taste in guys hasn’t always been that great. Who’s going to do a background check and follow him around and make sure he’s good enough for her?
And miss her? Boy did he miss her.
Of course he’s going to miss her, it’s only logically. And count the days until she came home. Then the minutes…..and eventually the seconds.
So no, he didn’t love her.
Not one tiny bit. Even though he just spent the past hour thinking of her.
I have got waaayyyy to much time on my hand Phil thinks to himself as he continue to wonder how Keely is doing all the way across the globe. Which wasn’t actually that far. He could just take a little ride and visit her. But no, this was her time and he didn’t want to spoil anything great she has going.
This girl was driving him crazy. Hopefully, Keely will be home soon and things could just go back to normal. Normal? Like a guy from the future living in the past could ever be ‘normal.’
He really did miss her though. Now more than ever because in his mind he could picture her so clearly, lying right here next to him saying something witty and funny.
“Keely, Keely, Keely,” Phil whispered to the sky.
He smiled when he could almost hear her voice saying, “Don’t triple Keely me.”
Then he frowned and stared at the sky with hard determination almost as if he’s waiting to see if the sky will challenge him.
“I do not have Keely-face,” Phil looking accusingly and grumpily at the night.
“Yes you do.”
He jumped off the ground and stared in shock. Only to find that a local jogger was having a conversation with someone on the sidewalk. They were arguing back and forth. “Yes you do, no I don’t. “ They saw him looking and continued their walk down.
It’s getting dark and all this thoughts were making his brain hurt. Phil decided to call it a night and head inside. He could already hear Pim arguing something concerning a giant solar powered air conditioning system. Boy, was she a strange child. Too bad they are related.
Before he shut the front door, Phil looked at the moon through the crack.
“Goodnight Keel.”
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The Future is Now
Summer is just about to end and senior year at HG Well’s High is just around the corner. Keely has spent the vacation visiting her dad in New York. And Phil was left behind in Pickford without his best friend. As everyone is now older and more mature, how will this affect our favorite couple especially since this might be their final times together? Will their friendship continue to remain strong and constant or will they realize something more…beautiful along the way? Read and find out.
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Chapter 1 “Keely-face”
It was hot. No, no wait. It was scorching-out-of-this-world-hot. Who knew the last few days of summer was going to be this extreme. Outside giant heat waves could be seen across the road. Everyone was sluggish and the usually loud kids couldn’t be heard anywhere. Even those annoying birds seem too exhausted from the heat to sing.
People looked so shinny as they are covered in a layer of sweat. The large man sitting in his lawn chair down the street chose that moment to remove his shirt. He was so unbelievably white, it hurt. Not to mention, he wasn’t the most attractive looking creature.
“OH. MY. GOD! I’m blind. Blind I tell you” Pim screamed covering her eyes.
“What is wrong with you people??!! HAVE YOU NO DECENCY??”
“Pim, honey. Sometimes I think you are too dramatic for you age,” Barbara sighed.
“I hate it here. Everyone is disgusting. Not to mention that this weather cannot be good for my plan to dominate their entire race. I mean, how am I going to execute my great idea if no one seems to care? Nope, not good at all,” Pim continued her rant.
Barbara, quite use to her daughter…aggressive behavior, continued to garden patiently and waited until Pim needed to take a breath before interrupting.
“And to think that I ever tried to fit i…..”
“Sweetie, didn’t we already discuss this plan of yours…countless of times already,” Barbara reminded Pim.
“Pim we are most likely going to be stuck here a while and with the pace your dad is moving in fixing the machine, we might never leave.”
“HEY! I head that. And I’ll have you know that I have made tremendous…BOOM!!.....progress,” Lloyd yelled as the garage filled with smoke.
“OoOoH. Me made fire,” Curtis grunts as he dances around the newly lit flame.
Lloyd could be seen yelling and trying to get the hose long enough to reach the fire.
Barbara turned and gave her daughter a reassuring smile, “Why don’t you go hang out with Phil.”
Pim gave her mom a blank stare. “Great mom. Great. Just when I though this day couldn’t get any worse.”
Pim angrily stomped off the yard and down the street. Along the way, she spotted a couple of kids from school sitting under a tree hiding from the sun.
“Man, it’s too hot,” Greg complained.
“What I wouldn’t do just for a little bit of…cold,” Thomas said.
Pim slowed her pace down to a crawl as she overheard their conversation. Suddenly a thought occurred and made her grin.
“What exactly would you do for something cooler,” Pim asked as she tried to look causal.
The sweaty looking boys, too hot to even look at her, continued to close their eyes and said, “Anything.”
“Anything, aye,” Pim said to herself. She could already see her plan taking place. With her future knowledge and their….well their past knowledge she would be able to finally force them into submission. Suddenly the weather wasn’t so bad after all.
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“What is the point in having a pool if it’s not gonna keep you cool,” Tia complained while she sat at the shallow side.
“I mean, pool, cool. Hello, they only rhyme which means they’re suppose to go together. I think we should return it Phil and get a better one.”
Seth floated along the side of the pool said, “Yes, Tia. Lets just pack the ‘cement’ pool and put it back in the box ‘that it did not come in’ and return it to the store where we did not buy it from.”
Tia gave him an evil glare and splashed water in his face causing Seth to lose balance and flop around like a fish out of water.
“Well guys, it could’ve been a lot worse,” Phil replied from where he sat dangling his legs in the pool.
“And how exactly could we be in a worse situation?” Seth asked.
“It’s probably 100 degrees, the air conditioning is not working since the power shortage and we could no longer do any last minute plans before summer ends. So tell me, great one, what could possible make this any worse?”
“….weeeellllll……we could have no sweat glands,” Phil raised both his eyebrows.
“Can you just imagine how bad it would be for us? I feel sorry for those pigs right about now,” Phil looked worried.
“Pigs? Well Keely did always say pink looks good on me,” Tia began to get the far away look in her eyes as she imagined herself as a pretty pink pig in a totally cute outfit.
Seth raised his eyebrows and shrugged his shoulder as he sat next to Phil.
“When is Keely coming back anyway,” he asked.
“School is about to start in about a week, shouldn’t she be home right about now?”
Phil looked down at the pool and noticed all the ripples his feet were making. “I don’t know. She’s been too busy for me to say two words to her let alone a whole sentence.”
“Well New York is a pretty amazing place. With all its bright lights and tall skyscrapers. I mean sometimes it seems mathematically impossible for a structure of that stature to be able to stand that high, “Seth ponders.
“Well it’s quite simple actually. Let C be a smooth irreducible algebraic curve of degree d embedded in a project 3-space over an algebraically closed field. K. The homogenous ideal implies that it is the product of the intersection of the angles of the si…”
“Could you two please save your nerdy heart to heart talk for somewhere else?” Tia interrupted. She didn’t understand how two people could carry such a long conversation over anything involving math. Keely needs to get home soon. Listening to those two go on and on about x’s, y’s and all the other letters of the alphabet was almost getting as bad as the weather.
“Look at me. I am so…hot,” Tia began.
“Well, you could’ve fooled me.” Seth replied.
“No you dweeb. Even though I am good looking and you are just too jealous to admit it, I was talking about my skin. Look at it, It’s soooo red and UGLY!” Tia cried.
“That’s it. I have to get out of here before I turn into a tomato. “
With that, Tia jumped out of the pool and walked quickly away. Muttering something to herself about how her skin care lotion better be able to work miracles.
Phil smiled and watched her leave. He got out of the pool and began drying himself off. Seth picked up some of their stuff and followed Phil to his front porch.
They sat down and took large mouthful of water from the bottles left on the table beside.
“PHIL!”
“Huh..wa..what?”
“I was just saying thanks for listening to my problems. You are such a great friend,” Seth teased.
“I’m sorry man. I just have a lot on my mind I guess,” Phil continued to stare off at something in the distance.
“You would think that after spending almost every waking hour with someone, you wouldn’t her that much,” Seth said also looking into the distance, squinting his eyes and turning his head at weird angles trying to find what Phil found so interesting.
That caught his attention and Phil snapped back to reality. He looked at Seth quickly and furrowed his eyebrows.
“What are you talking about? Miss who? I was just…admiring…the..uhh….great…fence over there,” Phil stammered.
“I mean it’s not ever day you see such a….a white and…perfectly….perfect fence.”
Seth raised his eyesbrows and eyed Phil knowingly and chuckled the shook his head and continued to stare straight ahead as Phil continued to look at him demanding answers.
“What are you laughing at?” Phil insisted.
“It was a very nice fence and I was admiring such great….”
Laughing loudly, Seth raised both hands and begged Phil to stop.
“You’re right. You’re right, that is a really nice fence. I don’t think I’ve ever witness one so great before. I don’t know about you but those fences seem to have blonde hair and…..are those…green eyes?” Seth looked at the fence up ahead seriously.
“Ha. Ha. Really funny,” Phil punched him on the arm.
“Listen man, you might be able to hide other stuff but when it comes to Keely, you’re an open book with size 36 font,” Seth said smiling.
“Why don’t you just make it easier on yourself and admit it. “
“You love her.”
“WHAT?”
“How did you……I AM NOT!” Phil dramatically denied.
“And what makes it so obvious anyway?”
“You have Keely-face,” Tia appeared from behind and said it like someone just asked her something as apparent as, is the sun shinning.
Seth laughed and nodded his head in agreement. Tia non-too-gently shove Seth to the side so she could sit in the middle.
“Trust me Phil, you may be a whiz when it comes to math but I am the queen of love and relationships. And you my friend, are totally head-over-heels-I-live-for-you-only in love with our young Keely,” Tia said as she nodded her head and looked as if she’s going to cry.
“But…I thought you were the queen of gossip?” Seth questioned.
“Ugh….that was like sooooo freshman year. Hello doofus, keep up,” Tia rolled her eyes.
“I think the heat is getting to you guys. I am not in love with Keely. I mean I love her but not ‘in love’ with her. Come on, she’s by best friend,” Phil shrugged.
“Besides, I’ve never heard anything as ridiculous as ‘Keely-face.’
Phil locked his fingers behind his head and laid down on the porch, looking up at the ceiling. It was getting dark and though it was still hot, it became a little more bearable.
“Well now you know how you looked this whole summer,” Tia replied.
“Walking around, all mopey and trying oh so hard to hide it.”
“Just between the two of us,” Tia lowered her voice to a whisper and looked down at him, “you were never that good in drama.”
Tia laughed when Phil pretended to be offended and claimed how he was going to have his own show one day.
“Lucky for you, she’ll be home soon man. And then you guys could go back to spending all your time together,” Seth said as he got up and stretched.
“I better be heading home, it’s getting dark and I have some theories I need to prove.”
“Well you don’t have to beg to walk me home, you know,” Tia appeared annoyed as she got up and gathered her things.
“What?” I didn’t even say…,” Seth protested.
“Fine, fine. You convinced me, “ Tia replied as she began walking ahead of him.
“Bye, Phil.”
Seth stood there confused and looked at her back as if she was crazy.
When Tia noticed that Seth wasn’t following her. She stopped, turned around and put an arm on her hip and tapped her foot impatiently.
“Well hurry up before I change my mind,” Tia said as she crossed her arms over her chest and waited.
Seth furrowed his eyebrows in confusion and looked at Phil who only shrugged and gave a don’t-look-at-me smile.
Seth shook his head and thought to himself, girls.
“Later, Phil.”
“Bye guys,” Phil gave them a wave.
And with that Seth broke into a little jog as he caught up with Tia who walked with her head high and acted as if he wasn’t even there.
“Those two,” Phil sighed and laid back on the porch.
“Why can’t they just see how much they like each other already,” Phil smiled and got up and looked as Seth and Tia appeared far off in the distance. He could still hear them bickering.
When they disappeared, Phil continued to look at where they once were and once again thought of the one person that has occupied his mind these past months. He missed her, he really did. It’s hard to adjust when you are so use to someone just….being there and suddenly they’re not. They made so many plans together. After many weeks a few summers ago, she has gotten pretty good at fishing and they were going to head out to the lake together. There were also movies and different places he was going to show her on his sky-ak since she complained about how some countries looked so….dead during the other seasons. He was even going to let her drive the thing.
But her father called out of the blue and he remembered how excited she was when she called him to meet at her house in five minutes but couldn’t wait. Instead, she ran over right after she hung up and burst through his door like a little blonde tornado. A very cute tornado. Wait, what? Man this weather was really getting to him.
Anyway, she was so happy and her smile was blinding him. But then she remembered about their plans and all the promises they made during the lazy nights. Her beautiful face contorted in a frown and she looked at him guilty. With a face like that, how could be ever be mad at her. She apologized of course. Many times. He comforted her and assured her they’ll be plenty of more summers to finish their long to-do list. She hugged him and promised to make it up to him. And then…
Well and then she was off. In a big bird-like vehicle called a plane. It made him uneasy when he thinks that his best friend’s safety was being thrown into a steel tube that weighs more then a few tons and then be catapulted to thousands of feet in the air. The whole concept of this type of flying was completely lost to him. In his time, whenever someone needed to travel away they took the transporter and within a few seconds there are. Here. Here it takes hours. Hours flying at that altitude under that tremendous air pressure. How could anyone feel safe? It’s just something fundamentally wrong about suspending yourself that many feet in the air. What if a window cracked, or something gets caught in the engine and what if…..
Whoa Diffy. Slow down.
He was thinking too much again. If Tia and Seth were here they would probably say he has “Keely-face” again. But he can’t help it. She was so important to him and it bothered him, more then he would ever admit, when she is too far away for him to protect her.
But he didn’t love her. Of course not. How could anyone even think of such a thing? She’s his best friend and it’s only normal that he worried about her. He witness how…careless she could be at times. Who’s going to catch her if she trips or remind her not to forget her latest fashion-type…thingies. What if she meets a guy? Keely taste in guys hasn’t always been that great. Who’s going to do a background check and follow him around and make sure he’s good enough for her?
And miss her? Boy did he miss her.
Of course he’s going to miss her, it’s only logically. And count the days until she came home. Then the minutes…..and eventually the seconds.
So no, he didn’t love her.
Not one tiny bit. Even though he just spent the past hour thinking of her.
I have got waaayyyy to much time on my hand Phil thinks to himself as he continue to wonder how Keely is doing all the way across the globe. Which wasn’t actually that far. He could just take a little ride and visit her. But no, this was her time and he didn’t want to spoil anything great she has going.
This girl was driving him crazy. Hopefully, Keely will be home soon and things could just go back to normal. Normal? Like a guy from the future living in the past could ever be ‘normal.’
He really did miss her though. Now more than ever because in his mind he could picture her so clearly, lying right here next to him saying something witty and funny.
“Keely, Keely, Keely,” Phil whispered to the sky.
He smiled when he could almost hear her voice saying, “Don’t triple Keely me.”
Then he frowned and stared at the sky with hard determination almost as if he’s waiting to see if the sky will challenge him.
“I do not have Keely-face,” Phil looking accusingly and grumpily at the night.
“Yes you do.”
He jumped off the ground and stared in shock. Only to find that a local jogger was having a conversation with someone on the sidewalk. They were arguing back and forth. “Yes you do, no I don’t. “ They saw him looking and continued their walk down.
It’s getting dark and all this thoughts were making his brain hurt. Phil decided to call it a night and head inside. He could already hear Pim arguing something concerning a giant solar powered air conditioning system. Boy, was she a strange child. Too bad they are related.
Before he shut the front door, Phil looked at the moon through the crack.
“Goodnight Keel.”
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