Chapter new and final:
"Welcome back to the world of the living."
"Dill, you aren't funny." Dill Pickles shrugged off the comment as if it were a compliment. "No worries dudette, just glad you and Phil My—ster are on friendly terms again. It was getting kinda frigid around here."
"Were you eavesdroppping on us?" Dill shrugged and did a couple of backward rolls away from the twins.
Lil turned to her brother, "Did you understand a word that boy said? Maybe we shouldn't have spiked his milk bottle with bug juice."
"Nah, I don't think it was the bug juice. We're fine, aren't we? It's gotta be the time we tried to used Dill as a pogo stick or the time we accidentally dropped him on his head."
Nodding in agreement, the twins made their way to where Tommy, Chucky, and Kimi had managed to snag a few seats.
"So, how was the DeVille Demon's maiden voyage?"
"She's a smooth ride, Pickles. You do good work."
"Would that be full-service with superior customer care, kind of good work?"
"I guess you can say Phil & Lil …" Lil waited a beat, "… are back in business."
The five friends gave let out a big, "Yeah!" which had everyone else in the room turning their heads.
Phil caught a look at Samantha's less than pleased face. "Uh, guys, would you give me a sec. There's something I've got to do."
Phil walked over to Samantha. "Sam, we need to talk."
"Oh yeah, we definitely need to talk," she agreed. Just when she thought she had DeVille house-and sister-broken, he had to go crawling back to his precious twin.
Phil pulled Samatha outside into the backyard. Somebody had switched CDs in the living room and the sounds of Simple Plan's Perfect played softly out into the night sky.
"Sam, I don't really know how to say this but here goes…"
Phil:
Hey Sam look at me
Think back and talk to me
Did I shape up according to plan?
Do you think I'm wasting my time doing things I wanna do?
'Cuz it hurts when you disapprove all the time
And now I try hard to make it
I just want to make you proud
I'm never gonna be good enough for you
I can't pretend that
I'm alright
And you can't change me
'Cuz we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry
I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late and
We can't go back
I'm sorry
I can't be perfect
I try not to think
About the pain I feel inside
Did you know you used to be my dream?
All the days you spend with me
Now seem so far away
And it feels like you don't care anymore
And now I try hard to make it
I just want to make you proud
I'm never gonna be good enough for you
I can't stand another fight
And nothing's alright
Nothing's gonna change the things that you said
Nothing's gonna make this right again
Please don't turn your back
I can't believe it's hard
Just to talk to you
'Cuz you don't understand
---:::---
"What was that?"
"You sound like my sister."
Samantha was truly offended. "As if, I'm nothing like the weirdo sister of yours, who is sooo three seasons ago, and those freak show geeks you call friends, come on….."
As Samantha rambled on Phil could feel his usually cool temper (Lil didn't count) beginning to heat up. He had never hit a girl (Lil didn't count), but he was tempted to give Sam the verbal equivalent of a left hook.
"Sam, consider yourself dumped." With that Phil turned and walked away with a spring in his step. He was feeling a lot lighter now that he had gotten that off his chest.
"Nobody dumps Samantha Shane," Samantha screeched.
Phil felt a twinge of regret. Samantha was hot, even more so when she was steamed up. He felted tempted to have one last lip lock with the Prom Princess.
But as he got nearer to the house he saw Tommy, Chucky, Kimi, Dill, and Lil cheering from behind the screen door.
Amidst calls of "Way to go, man", "Did you see the look on her face?", and "Woo-eee" the six friends made their way back to the living room.
"Let's get this party started," Dill announced as he commandeered the stereo system.
Phil kicked back on the couch and let his mind wander a bit. He had a sister and friends that loved him just the way he was. Life didn't get any better than that.
-the End-
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