Guess who's back… back again… Sultan's back… tell a friend… okay, so I hope you all had non-torturous holidays… I know I did. Gotta few CD's, so that's boss… uh… anyway, I can't believe I didn't think of this idea for a story before, but… meh, what am I gonna do about it? Anyway… I'm sure that you're sick of me talking already, so I'll just get to the story now.

Phil meandered down the street, weaving in and out of the usual people ("Mary, give me the key!" a man shouted to a window in a building Phil was passing).

"Hey, man," a familiar voice called out to him, and he turned around.

"Hey, Seth. What's goin' on?"

"Nothing much… what about you?"

"I've made a command decision," Phil announced.

"What is it?"

"Before the end of the month, I'll make Keely fall for me."

Seth looked at Phil for a brief second before he burst into a fit of laughter. "That's a good one Phil, but I think you were going to say something?"

"Before the end of the month, I'll make Keely fall for me," Phil repeated.

"You're serious?" Seth asked. Phil nodded, and Seth started laughing even more. "We are talking about the same Keely, right? Keely Teslow?"

"Yes indeed," Phil replied.

"I'm looking forward to this…"

Meanwhile, at the school, Keely and Tia were hanging up a banner, welcoming everybody back to school after the vacation.

"So Keely, there's a sale at Bocage tomorrow. I was thinking that you might want to go with me," Tia mentioned, as she tied the banner to the nail in the wall.

"Count me in," Keely said, steadying herself on the ladder. "Anything to get out of my house…"

Tia smirked at Keely, then, having heard loud screaming from the hall, looked down, and saw Pim running away from Candida and the Fashion Zombies.

"Please have mercy on me!" Pim shouted, skidding to a stop in front of Keely's ladder.

"You've taken it too far, Pim," Candida snarled. "And now you have to pay."

"NO!" Pim shouted, and turned and started to run…

"I'm just saying that you have no chance!" Seth said, walking down the hall.

"What do you mean I have no chance? What… why would you say that?"

"Because best friends make the worst couples. It's a fact of life."

"Well, I'll take my chances with Keely."

"Go ahead… I'm just saying that it's going to be hard if you want it. She's not just going to fall into your arms."

But when Pim had turned to run away from Candida, she'd ran smack into Keely's ladder. The ladder shook violently, and Keely fell right off…

…and landed right on top of Phil.

"Or… maybe not," Seth muttered, and walked down the hall.

"Are you okay?" Tia asked Keely.

"Yeah, yeah… luckily, Phil here broke my fall. Thanks Phil," she said.

"I'm fine, by the way," Phil muttered, slowly getting to his feet. "Don't help me up, or anything…"

Keely rolled her eyes, and helped him to his feet.

"Hey there, Princess," he said to her.

"Hey… I'll see you third period, okay? I have to hang this banner up…"

"Oh… okay. Sure thing."

"And we're still going to the mall after school today, right?" she asked.

"Yeah…"

"Great. Looking forward to it," she said perkily, and turned down the hall to hang up the banner.

"Me too," Phil muttered under his breath, watching her walk away…

So, apparently there's a saxophone player named Dave Koz… so I'm wondering why he hasn't started a band called 'Koz and Effect'… wouldn't that be great? I dunno… oh, right. Uh, review, and such. It probably won't be a really long story, but… I think you guys will like it as long as all goes as planned.

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