Summary: What if Phil couldn't convince his father to turn back the time machine five minutes from when they first left 2006? What if Keely missed her chance to say good bye to Phil. This takes place right when Keely comes running screaming and the time machine had left.

"NO! WAIT!" Keely stopped dead still as the old fashion RV that was the Diffy's time machine blasted out of her sight within a mere second. "Good bye Phil." She whispered as she sank down to the grass in front of the house which was formally known as the Diffy's home. She pulled her knees up to her chest and she placed her head on her knees as heart wrenching sobs broke out.

"Keely. Why Keely cry." Curtis asked as he knelt down next to Keely. His eyes looked in front of him and his head cocked. "Where Phil go? Why time machine missing?"

Keely's tears suddenly stopped. She slowly lifted her head and turned her wet eyes to stare at Curtis. "What are you doing here Curtis? Why aren't you in the time machine with the Diffy's?"

"Curtis was asleep." Curtis said. "When will time machine be back for Curtis?"

Keely swallowed. The realization of the situation hit her with tons of bricks. "They aren't coming back Curtis. You are stuck here in 2006."

"Curtis stay with Keely than." Curtis said jumping to his feet and did a happy dance. He didn't notice Keely tearing up once more as she turned to face the empty street where the time machine used to sit.

Keely knew that she was responsible for the care of Curtis. She wondered how she could get Curtis past her mother. She'll have to think of something because Curtis can't take care of himself in the year 2006. Curtis is a bono fide cave man. But Curtis was the last link she had to Phil.

"Keely?" Curtis asked looking down confused at the teenager. He was confused on why his friend Keely wasn't doing the happy dance with him.

Keely stood to her feet. "Come on Curtis. I best get you to your new home." She didn't realize that she had gripped the pepper shaker so hard until her right hand screamed in pain. "Phil." She whispered as she looked down at the shaker. She would never lose the shaker. No matter what went on with her life as she lived it the shaker was the symbol of her love for Phil Diffy and the lost that she suffered because she didn't had the guts to confess to Phil that she was in love with him and that she wanted him to stay with her in 2006 and not go back to 2121.

"Come on Curtis." Keely said nodding her head towards where her house was located. She started walking with Curtis at her side.

2121

The time machine stopped out side the upscale and future realistic home of the Diffy family. The door to time machine opened and Pim stepped up and clapped her hands together and looked at her home with an evil glint in her eyes. She walked towards the home quickly and without saying to her parents and brother. She had much work to do and little time to do it, if she was going to take over the world.

Barb stepped from the time machine and frowned at home. She wasn't pleased at all with the way the house was set up. The Diffy's house was just like every house of this century. Future realistic and no old home feeling to it. No grass, flower garden not like the home back in 2006.

Phil stepped the time machine behind his mother. "I'll be back. I need to go and get something." He put the salt shaker in his pocket and he took off with a quick wave at his parents.

"I hope he finds what he is expecting." Lloyd said as he looked after his son.

"He will." Barb softly said as she watched her son run at full speed towards the park. Or the spot of land that was the park back in 2006.

Phil passed through the gate and was relieved to see that the pile of earth was still where he had last seen it before his family had time traveled back into the early 2000's. He looked left and right and down and up above and was relieved not to see any of the security camera at were usually zeroed in on the spot.

Phil rushed to the spot and pulled out his wizard and quickly clicked it at the spot and the ground was quickly pulled aside. In mere seconds a solid lumen trunk was seen. Phil quickly clicked at the trunk and it disappeared and Phil very quickly clicked at the torn up dirt and the spot was as Phil found it just seconds ago. Phil put his wizard back in his pocket just as he saw the security camera zipping towards him. Phil shoveled his hands into his front pockets and causally made his way towards the gate.

Once clear of the gate and the security cameras Phil raced back towards his home. He banged into his house and with a quick wave at his parents he made his way up to his bedroom. Once the door was closed Phil pulled the wizard out of his pocket and clicked it towards his bed and the solid lumen trunk appeared. Phil smiled as he felt tears wet his checks. He set his wizard down on his end table. He gently removed the salt shaker and he set it next to the trunk.

Phil picked up the wizard once again and pointed it at the trunk's lock and the lock easily broke. He put the wizard back in its place on his end table. With baited breath Phil carefully opened the trunk. What he saw made tears fall from his eyes. Keely Teslow's smiling face greeted him. It was the picture that Phil himself had taken a week before his family time traveled back to 2121, a week in 2006's time of course.

Phil lifted the picture and brought to him and kissed it softly. "I'm sorry Keely that I couldn't kiss you once before I left. I wish I had the courage to tell you how I felt long before we were named "cutest couple", than my family wouldn't have come back to 2121 so easily." Phil gently placed the picture frame on his night stand, placing it facing his bed.

Phil turned back to the trunk and lifted up the first letter on the largest pile of letters known to man kind. He opened it and smiled as he saw that the date was the exact day that his family had time traveled back to 2121. So Keely must have written to him the moment that she had found his letter in her mail box.

2006

Keely with Curtis at her side stopped at her mail box. She noticed that the flag was up. She very well knew that the flag was down that morning when she left for school. Her mother had left for work early so Keely was the last one out that morning. So she was confused at why the flag was up. She shrugged her shoulders and she lowered the flag. But her hand stopped mid way before she took it off the mail box flag. Hope sprained up as her breath caught in her throat. Phil.

Keely slowly opened the mail box and what she saw brought fresh tears to over flow unto her checks. She saw a thin envelope. She gently lifted it out and saw her name in Phil's hand. Keely placed the envelope against her heart as she closed the mail box. "Come on Curtis. Let me show you your new home and your new bedroom." Keely said in a brighter voice. She wiped the tears from her eyes as she walked to her front door.

After showing Curtis around the Teslow's home and the guest bedroom which would now be Curtis's bedroom; Keely went into her own room and shut her door. She went over to her bed and sat down on; making sure that she was leaning against her head board with a comfortable pillow behind her back.

Keely slowly opened the envelope being careful not to tear even one piece of the precious thing that Phil had touched. She gently pulled out the single sheet. She opened it and saw only a few paragraphs on it. Keely began to read and savor Phil's hand writing.

Keely:

I love you. I have always loved you. Since the moment I saw you in the busy lunch room before you even knew of my existence. I knew that you were my one and only. But alas I also knew it was impossible for us to be together. You lived in the early 2000's and I was a teenager in the early 2100's. But I could always dream of my perfect woman which was you Keely Teslow.

I wish I had the guts to tell you of my love sooner. Than perhaps if you returned my feelings than we would have been a more solid couple when my dad finally decided to fix the time machine. But I'm sorry to say that I'm a stupid, stupid teenage male and I will regret my lack of courage for the rest of my days.

My love, I'm writing this letter and leaving it in your mail box this early a.m. to ask you if you return my love than would you write me letters and journals of your life. Tell me everything, friends, boyfriends, your husband, children, grandchildren, great grand children and great great grand children. Please find a solid lumen box big enough to hold everything that you would like me to have when I arrive back in 2121.

Bury the box deep at this creation site and the moment I arrive back in 2121 I'll use my wizard to unbury it.

I have written longer letters than this since the moment you and I have met. I have finally given them to someone who will mail them to you at special dates that I have given them.

I love you

Phil

END PART ONE