Hey here's the next chapter. I own nothing except John Teslow, Mrs. Lavender, and the plot. I hope you enjoy this chapter.
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"You were supposed to call me Phil," Sam whined as she shut her locker. Phil shrugged slightly, but placed a small kiss on her check.
"Sorry Sam, I was busy," he said, adjusting his backpack. Sam frowned slightly. "Well call me tonight so we can make some plans ok."
"I, can't Sam, I have other plans," Phil said apodictically.
"What are you doing?" Sam asked as they headed down towards class.
"Nothing, just… going over to Keely's house for dinner," he mumbled quickly.
Sam couldn't make it out and shrugged.
Phil sighed and took his seat. Keely wasn't there and he wondered why not.
"Well it looks like she's sick," Sam said and couldn't hide the glint of happiness in her voice. Before Phil could say Ann and Ben came walking in.
"Hey Sam, Phil what's up?" Ann asked as she took her seat. Sam shrugged and began talking to her friend, while Ben and Phil sat there in uncomfortable silence. Luckily in about a few seconds the bell rang.
Mrs. Lavender stood up from her desk smiling. "I hope you enjoyed the first part of the assignment. Lets see who should we start with….hm, ah why not Phil and Keely, Phil would you come up please," she said gesturing for him to come up to the front.
"Mrs. Lavender, Keely isn't-"
Phil was cut off as the door opened slowly and another new girl stepped inside the room.
"Sorry, I'm late Mrs. Lavender," the girl said.
"That's all right Keely, you and Phil will be presenting first," Mrs. Lavender informed the new…Keely.
Keely nodded and turned to face the rest of the class.
All at once the whole class seemed to breathe out one huge breath of amazement. Keely was wearing a jean skirt and a pale short sleeve shirt with a small jacket around her shoulders. The skirt reached down to her ankles and her shoes seemed actually clean. Her hair was pulled back away from her face into a half French braid and the rest of her hair fall gracefully around her shoulders. Her whole face seemed to be painted on. Her eyes shone, still very sad and nervous, but shone with a small glint of happiness. The lips were full and covered with light lip gloss.
"Wow," Phil breathed out as he walked up towards the front. Behind him, Sam leaned forward towards Ann.
"What does she think she's doing, she's still a nothing," Sam whispered, but Ann wasn't paying attention to her friend. Everyone, even Mrs. Lavender seemed transfixed by the new Keely in their presence.
Finally Mrs. Lavender snapped out of the trance and said, "Well, then lets get started than."
Phil was almost speechless and a small smile of knowledge crept onto his face. He slowly walked up to the front his paper shaking in his hands. Keely smiled innocently and said quietly, "Hi Phil."
He nodded his head towards her and turned around the face the rest of the class.
Closing his eyes he let out a large sigh. Mrs. Lavender smiled gently saying, "Whenever you're ready."
"Alright," Phil said opening his eyes and looking down at his paper. Clearing his throat and not looking up from the page he began to read.
"The frist dinner was at my house. We had beef, potatos and green beans. My mom started talking and soon Kely began talking. It very nice and I learned a lot about peple and their own lives."
The easy went on for about another minute like this. Then it was Keely's turn. Her paper was elegant and full of detail and a lot of the students could almost see everything before them. When she finished a few looks of amazement were edged onto the students' faces. Only Sam and her friends seemed to scowl in disgust.
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Later at lunch, Sam caught up with Phil. "That was a great paper Phil!" Sam exclaimed happily.
Phil shrugged saying, "Really?"
"Yeah, it was so much better than "Miss Look At Me" did," Sam replied as she and Phil sat down at their regular lunch table.
Ann and Ben nodded in agreement as they sat down with their lunch trays. Phil nodded slightly, but from the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of Keely.
Glancing over towards her, he saw her heading for the same spot for lunch. Just then Sam called out, "Keely…over here!"
Keely's head turned slightly at the sound of her name. She looked around then stupidly pointed to herself. Sam nodded and gestured for her to come closer. Slowly Keely obeyed, but her shyness was taking over her again.
"Hi, want to sit with us?" Sam asked moving closer to Phil to make room. Keely didn't say anything, but when Ann moved over to make more room she sat down.
"So Keely right, that paper to day in class was something," Sam said forcing a small smile. Keely blushed slightly as she took out her bagged lunch.
"So, where did you get the new clothes?" Ann asked when she caught a glance from Sam.
"Oh…Phil's sister Pim gave them to me," Keely answered turning to look at Ann.
"Oh, nice," Ann said honestly. Keely smiled, but then heard a small crash of something on the table.
"Oh, I'm so sorry," Sma said hurriedly as she went to pick up the slipped soda. Yet it had already fallen onto Keely's skirt.
"O, it's fine," Keely said brushing the apologue off. "It was just an accident."
Sam nodded, but said again, "I'm sorry."
Keely shrugged and went back to eat her lunch. Phil watched her closely. It seemed as if she was very uncomfortable here with all the popular kids.
"But she was so talkative last night," he thought to himself as he bite into his own sandwich.
The conversation kept on going, but anyone who saw Sam's eyes correctly could see flames.After about ten mintues Keely had had soda dumped onto her skirt and mustard stained on her shirt all caused from ehtier herself or by "accident."
"Oh Keely I'm really sorry about all this I'm really clumsy," Sam said as striated herself from tripping and her gum got stuck in Keely's hair.
"Oh…it's fine," Keely said as Sam tried to "remove" her gum. Finally Sam got it out, but not before pulling Keely's hair down from the braid and completely roughing up her hair.
Once Sam was done, Keely stood up saying, "If you'll excuse me, I have to go do something, see Ya' later."
With that she picked up her trash and threw it away before heading back into school. Phil watched her leave and felt a ping of guilt in his gut, but thought nothing of it.
"Well that was fun," Sam said smiling. Phil turned around and nodded, even though he had barely said two words since Keely had joined them.
"So Phil, are you coming to the big game on Saturday?" Will asked tossing an apple towards Phil.
"You bet!" Phil cried happily before biting into the apple.
"What about you Sam?" Ann asked slyly.
Sam laughed. "Of course, how will we win without the cheerleaders?"
Everyone laughed out loud except for Phil. He didn't understand it, but for some reason and he didn't know why, but he hadn't helped Keely at all during lunch. Even though he could see all the damage down to her new look.
"A hot look," Phil thought to himself as he stared after her.
"So Phil, are we going to get together Thursday?" Sam asked, "Phil, Phil, earth to Phil Diffy."
"What?" Phil asked slowly coming out of his thoughts.
"Are we going to hang out on Thursday?" Sam asked again a little annoyed.
"Oh, of course Baby," Phil said smiling and placing a small kiss on her check. Sam giggled saying, "You're too much Phil, I love you."
"Me too," Phil said as he turned fully around back to his friends.
Keely peeked out around the corner and let out a heavy sigh.
"Get a grip, Keely he doesn't give a dam about you anyway, it's just for the project, that's it!" She kept repeating to herself as she turned around and slipped into the bathroom.
She walked over to the sink and hung her head as tears welled up in her eyes, but they didn't fall. Swallowing them back down, she closed her eyes and then lifted her head.
Letting out a deep breath she opened her eyes and gazed back at her reflection. Her shirt and skirt were already soaked though and her hair was a wreck and she wasn't sure how to fix it.
Letting out a great big sigh she ran her fingers though her hair looking down at the ground thinking. After a few minutes she glanced back at her reflection and muttered, "Well, it's…it's not that bad."
Whipping away small tears, she took a deep breath and existed the bathroom. Only a few seconds later the ball rang, to signal lunch was over.
"Keely!" a voice cried from behind her. She turned around and saw Phil walking towards her. Wetting her lips nervously, she stood there until Phil was a few inches away from her.
"Keely, I'm sorry about lunch."
"Forget about Phil, it was fine, and my Dad said that it was fine for you to come over tonight," Keely said her eyes shifting so that she didn't have to look directly at him.
"That's great, I can't wait," Phil replied his eyes doing the exact same thing. Just then Sam walked up to them saying cheerfully, "Hey guys, come on, Phil, we have to get to get going to Global."
"Right, I'll see you later then Keely," Phil said as he and Sam walked past her. Keely nodded and gave a soft smile towards him. Yet it stopped short when she caught a glimpse of Sam scowling at her.
Biting her lip, Keely gave a very brief wave towards Sam before darting as fast as she could towards math.
"Nice of you to join us, Miss Teslow," her math teacher said sternly. Keely glanced at the clock and saw that she was six minutes late.
"Sorry Sir," Keely whispered as she took her seat.
The teacher glared at her once more before going back to teaching. "Great, what else could go worng today?" she asked herself.
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After about 45 minutes, the bell rang. Keely got up, but the teacher called her back.
"Miss Teslow, I'll see you today in detention after school is that clear."
"Sir, I have-"
"Is that clear Miss Teslow," the teacher almost snapped at her.
"Yes, Sir," Keely replied gently. The teacher smiled and then said, "Alright be on your way, you wouldn't want to be late."
"Yes Sir," Keely replied quickly before darting out of the room.
Soon school was over and as Keely sat there in detention she thought over the day.
"Maybe this new me, isn't meant to be…maybe I am Miss Nothing, just like Sam thinks," she thought bitterly as she was released from half an hour of detention. Just as she walked outside to the courtyard a thought struck her causing her stomach to do a flip.
"Phil's coming over," she muttered to herself. Taking off at a run she ran as fast as she could to her apartment the only thing on her mind was Phil coming to dinner.
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Ok for anyone who thinks Sam was mean because of Phil and Keely, that's worng. She did it, because she fely like her popularity was getting lost and didn't want Keely to have it.
Ok so next chapter Phil goes over to the Teslows for dinner. Please review. More soon I promise.
