"Uh oh…" said Phil. That was all he had to.

"Uh oh…" said Pim, suddenly wide awake.

Barb sat wondering what was going on for a moment before it struck her.

"Uh oh…" she said.

Lloyd was also wondering what was going on at this point. However he just dismissed it as one of his family's quirks. You see, his family wasn't exactly what you would call normal. In fact, they were probably the least normal family in our time period simply because of the fact that they WERE'NT from our time period. They were from the year 2121 and had become stuck in our time. However, they were on their way home now… or so they thought.

An exasperated Lloyd turned the time machine around to pick up their pet caveman, Curtis.

Phil's heart skipped a couple beets at the prospect of going back to the past, and, more importantly, to the girl he had fallen in love with. The girl that had his heart in a relentless headlock and wouldn't let go. The girl who had no idea how much she hurt him by being so beautiful, so pure, so perfect, and always being just outside his grasp. The girl of his dreams, Keely Teslow.

Even though they were officially together now, he didn't think she loved him, at least not as he loved her, which could be summarized in one word… forever. He loved her forever, and he knew his feelings were true and that nothing in the world could make them change. So, understandably, the idea that he could see her one last time before he left made him feel like he was floating on the very air around him.

Keely Teslow sat in her chair with the camera still on her. She was staring at the door that her best friend had just used to leave her life forever.

"Leave…forever…" she thought to herself. She continued to sit there, going over everything that had just happened. In the course of 24 hours, her best friend had become her boyfriend, they had shared their first kiss, and then he was gone. Her eyes filled with tears as she thought about losing her best friend when she remembered that he wasn't her best friend. He was her boyfriend. The tears quickly stopped as they were replaced by worry. Why didn't she think of him as a boyfriend, but just as a best friend? She wanted to love him…and she did. More than he could ever imagine, but as a friend. She even loved him as if he was her little brother… strangely protective of him. This was the extent of her love for him, but nothing more. To her he would always be cute Phil Diffy, her best friend.

She pondered for awhile more when it hit her. It didn't matter how she loved him, but she loved him, and he was about to go away, forever.

She stood up so quickly that she nearly gave Owen a heart attack. As her chair went flying out from behind her, Owen went down to the floor in shock, taking the camera with him. This was a good thing for Keely, because at that moment of realization, tears started streaming down her face as she ran through the door and after her best friend.

Phil waited with anticipation as they got closer to the past… and Keely. They passed the year 2020, 2010, 2009, 2007, 2006, then finally… 2004. Phil unbuckled his seatbelt and jumped out of the time machine before it had even stopped. His parents yelled for him to stop but he didn't listen. He felt the shock of his shoes hitting pavement quickly travel up his spine. The time machine had kept going, so he was alone. He checked his watch. It was 8:10. Perfect. It was right before the kiss. He would get to experience that again and this time, he would do it different. He would pull Keely away with him and let her know just how much he loved her. They were already going out, so what did he have to lose. ..?

Those were his thoughts until he checked his digital watch again and realized the date. It was 8:10 all right. 8:10 yesterday! He ran into the reporting room just in time for his job as camera man. However, he knew what came next: the fateful announcement of the winner of cutest couple…them!! This was what forced him and Keely together in the first place.

Getting together with Keely had been Phil's dream since he had first met her. He wanted to kiss her, and hold her. He wanted her close, so he could whisper how much he loved her into her ear. He wanted to do so much with her, but would never get the chance to.

"I love her and I never want her to be hurt. But now I know she's hurt because I'm leaving and if there is only a way to make it hurt less I would do anything, go anywhere, endure anything to see her smile. If she's hurt, I'm dying inside. If only" he thought to himself.

Then he knew. There WAS something he could do to make it hurt less. If he and she never got together, never kissed… He knew what he had to do. As soon as he walked into the reporting room he was handed an envelope with the winners inside. He turned his back to the room and pretended to be tying his shoe while he opened the envelope and took out the paper with the words Phil Diffy and Keely Teslow written on it. He stopped for a second to admire how good their names looked together. Then he took it out and replaced it with a paper that had the names of Owen and Via written on it. His two best friends. It was perhaps the hardest thing he ever had to do, because it meant that he would never be with the girl he loved.

"Only for Keely. To make her happy, and to see her smile light up her gorgeous green eyes." He said under his breath.

After the show, he walked up to Keely and pulled her into a tight hug. This shocked her a little, but when it came to Phil there were almost no boundaries. She trusted him with her life, and she knew he would never take advantage of that trust, but she couldn't help noticing his muscles under his tight t-shirt.

"This feels nice" she thought to herself.