Disclaimer: I do not own the song…nor Phil of the Future… I just own this plot…and jotf….

a/n: here it is guys! The final chapter! Hope you like it!

It Doesn't Get Better Than This: Chapter Three

The next five days in school was like a blur-a quiet, uncomfortable, extremely awkward blur. She still waits for me by my locker, I still wait for her by hers, we still go to class together, eat lunch together, spend our free periods together, and walk home together… We've been pretty much doing stuff we normally do… but… and I hate the fact that there always HAS to be a 'but'…. We don't talk while we do those things. The most we say is 'Where are we sitting…' or 'do you have my book…?' The only 'relief' we both get from this is when we hang out with Tia and Seth… Usually Tia knows when something like this is up with Keely… but she hasn't been asking anyone anything… I don't know if we're keeping the fact that we went a date a secret but I respect that if that's her decision… so I didn't tell anyone as well…

"Phil…" She came up to me at my locker, Friday afternoon… We were about to go home…

I took my bag out of the locker and closed it "Ready to go?" I said in the most cheerful, un-shy, non-awkward voice I could muster. She nodded and we started walking… when we got to her front porch, we just stood there and looked at each other…

After about 2 minutes of just standing there, I worked up enough courage and asked her. "Uhmm… Keel…are we still… uhh… hanging out tomorrow?" I hoped she'd say yes… we've been spending every Saturday together since we became friends… and even though things were really awkward and seemed like they weren't going to work between us, I was willing to work on our friendship. Keely's my best friend and I hope she won't stop being my best friend because of our date. That was exactly what I was afraid of. But it was also her advice that gave me the courage to ask her out… everything was just so confusing… and every time I think about it I get… as keely would say 'pretzel stomach-ed'.

She looked around… then looked at me… "Uhh… yeah… let's go to the park tomorrow… see you here at 10… we'll have breakfast there" She said cheerily. She gave me a peck on her cheek, and got inside her house as fast as she can. She hasn't kissed me since before the date… What did it all mean?

I spent the night thinking. There was something telling me that she felt the same. But if she does, why is she holding back? I talked to my mom about it earlier and she said Keely was probably scared she didn't know why. Scared? Of what? That makes no sense at all…there was nothing to be scared of…I know it'll work… I'll make it work… we'll make it work… Funny, she was talking about taking a leap of faith… and that's what I did with her… and now she won't… or maybe she doesn't feel the same way? It totally sucks… The more I think of it…the more I try to understand, the more unclear it is…the harder it is to understand. I found it extremely hard to sleep that night…

I woke up the next morning with a major headache. Whether it's from the lack of sleep or trying to figure out this… thing with Keely, I don't know… I just don't… I just wish we could sort this out and be together or…be friends at least… but I kind of like the 'being together' option more…

I got out of bed, took a shower and got dressed…

"I'm going out…" I yelled to no one in particular as I headed for the door.

"Bring a jacket. Weather reports say it might rain…" My mom called out from the kitchen.

I took my jacket from the closet. "Thanks mom, bye" I yelled in the house…then I went out and closed the door.

I reached Keely's house at exactly ten. I rang the bell and her mom answered the door.

"Hey Mrs. Teslow… ummm… Keely and I are hanging out today…" I said looking past her checking to see if Keely was inside…

She laughed at that…"Of course you're hanging out it's a Saturday…" She tried to get me to focus on her since it was quite obvious I wasn't listening. "Phil… Phil? She went ahead. She said she wanted to go running or walking or something so she left about an hour ago… But she asked me to tell you that she'll be at the bench by the Subway there since you'll be eating breakfast together…am I right?"

"Uhh… Right, Mrs. Teslow… thanks" Before she could reply I ran off to the park.

When I reached the park, I headed to Subway and saw Keely sitting at a bench outside…

"Hey…" She said cheerfully… "Breakfast?" She stood up and headed for the door.

"Sure, I'm starving!" I followed her.

We ordered our food and I offered to pay for both of them… But she insisted that we go dutch. I didn't want to turn it into a date…I just… wanted to do something for her…but I guess she got the wrong idea… I wish I never offered… I probably just made it, whatever 'it' is, worse…

We sat in a booth at the far corner of the restaurant. The entire meal was, again, quiet, uncomfortable and awkward. After we finished eating, we went out and began to just walk around…

I looked at her, looked up, and then looked at her again. "You don't have your jacket… they say it's gonna rain..." I asked her quietly. The silence was just so… I don't know… but one of us had to speak at one point…

She looked up at the sky…the sun was up… there were hardly any clouds… "I don't think it's gonna rain…"

I looked up again… "Yeah… you're probably right… but at least I got out of the house without a you-might-catch-a-21st-century-bug argument from my mom" I copied my mother's voice then laughed nervously.

She looked away… "Yeah…"

We walked around for hours… we stopped to rest a few times… and sat on the swings… we even sat and played around at the see-saw… but we weren't laughing…or talking at the very least... We even saw Alice Deluca. She said 'hi' to Keely and pretended as if I wasn't there… as usual… we never really talked since the mayor's ball freshman year… But that didn't really bother me a lot… I took comfort in the fact that I was able to dance with the most beautiful girl at the ball… even if she was the one busting tables there.

The sky began to darken… then it began to drizzle… then it began to rain… It wasn't like a storm. It was the perfect kind of rain… the kind when it's so hot in the summer… and you just want to cool off…

I stopped walking and she looked at me. "Do you maybe wanna…?" I pointed towards the shed because obviously we were getting wet…

"I'm fine…" we started walking again…

I took my jacket off "At least take my jacket" I put my jacket over her shoulders.

She put in on. "Thanks…" We continue walking…

We walked in the rain…not talking… for a few more minutes…I couldn't stand it… we have to sort this out…And it looked like I had to speak up first…

I stopped walking she continues walking for a while then she turned around, looking for me. "Keely… we need to talk" I said loudly… there was considerable distance between us; we were a few meters apart.

She looked upset and confused… "About what?" It bothered me that things are so awkward and she's pretending like she doesn't notice…

I walk toward her but stop halfway through. "About what!" I looked around. "Keel…how can you not notice? We haven't really been talking for the past 5 days…"

She starts walking again… I ran after her… I touched her shoulder to get her to stop… "Keely… Please… just… be honest with me…?"

She turned to look at me… "I am honest with you… ask me anything…"

I don't know how… but a sarcastic laugh came out of me… which I think got her confused… "Keel… why are you being like this? I thought you had fun on our date? Don't you… don't you like me? I mean… like… even as a friend?"

She started crying. It was raining but I could see every teardrop fall from her eyes. She started yelling. "My gosh, Phil are you blind? Of course I like you! I liked you ever since I broke up with Tanner! And I've known you've liked me since then… but you felt it even more after what happened with Alice!" I was awestruck. I know I liked her then but I didn't know I liked her in that way… I just figured out I'd fallen for her last week… "Phil… I…I love you…" She was still crying… harder this time…

I stepped back a few feet. "Then why, Keel? Why are you doing this?" I turned around looking for the answer then turned back to her… she was still crying… "I love you too… But last Sunday… every time I tried to tell you… every time I tried to make a move… every single time, Keel… you back away… you back away, Keel… WHY!" I didn't know if the moisture I was feeling in my face were tears or raindrops… but I didn't care… I just wanted to know why…

"Because I needed to face reality, Phil." She said… sobbing….

I couldn't understand what she was trying to tell me… reality? "What reality? What do you mean?"

"Phil, come on! Pretty soon someone from the future's gonna come looking for you… or pretty soon your dad's gonna fix the time machine… then you'll have to go home… and…" She was sobbing louder this time…

I couldn't believe it. We had no intention of going back… I exploded… again… "Keely! Hasn't it ever occurred to you that we'd rather stay here! My dad doesn't even care for the time machine anymore… we're happy here, Keel! And if someone was to come get… did you ever think that we'd just tell them we have no intentions of going back! Keely, no one even thinks about going back to the future… So why should that be a problem for you?... for us!" I looked at her…I knew now that I was crying… She looked at me with her eyes filled with tears… I smile and walk over to her… "And besides…our home… my home… is here… with you… wherever you are… that's home for me, Keel… I don't want to hurt you… And I'm not gonna hurt you… just… give this a chance…" I look into her watery eyes with my own…

She looked away… "You're just saying that because right now… When it's time for you guys to go back… you'll have forgotten everything you just said…"

I walked away again and started yelling again. "I can't believe you, Keely! Don't you trust me?" I looked at her… she starts crying again… I walk over to her "You were the one who told me you'd rather find out what was gonna happen than spend the rest of your life wondering…" she's still crying… I hold her by the arms and try to convince her… "What about taking a leap of faith Keel! That's what you told me… I took my chance… Here's your turn…"

I waited for her reply… but nothing came… she just looked away… so I let go of her and started walking… "Forget… I'm going home to try and fix the time machine…. Or try to contact anyone from the future who might be able to help us get back…" I yelled, half sarcastically, looking at her as I walked backward…She didn't say or do anything… she just looked at me… tears streaming down her face… and for a few minutes I did the same… Furious, I turned around and headed home… determined to fix the time machine. I didn't want to go back but the way Keely reacted… or didn't react made me just want to… prove her right or something… I was just so… furious…because she didn't trust me. Because she actually thought I would hurt her. Because she thought I'd rather go back to the future than stay with her…

I sat down on a park bench, buried my face in my hands and started crying… I don't know if I was crying because I was mad… or… I don't know… I just sat there and let it all out…Then I stood up and started walking…

"PHIL? PHIL? PHIL!" I turned around to see Keely running after me…

"Keely..."

I was cut of as she threw her arms around my neck and pressed her lips on mine… When she let go I was confused… and red… very red…

"Phil…" She started talking… and crying "I'm sorry I didn't trust you then… I love you and I should and you trusted me… and you were right about finding out was gonna happen and…" She laughing and crying and talking so fast… all at the same time… "about taking a leap pf faith and taking chances and it's my turn and I'm sorry I took so long I had to process and I'm so sorry and I'm so stupid and…" she looked at herself… we were both dripping wet.. and the rain still hadn't stopped… "and…. Ugh... I look gross and I'm-"

I put my finger on her lips to make her stop talking. I leaned forward and when our lips were only separated by my finger I said to her "You're beautiful… and I love you…"

I removed my finger and before I kissed her she whispered "I love you too, Phil…"

We stood in the rain for minutes, kissing… her arms around my neck and mine around her waist. Then we broke it off and started walking. I put my arm around her waist… She put hers around my shoulder…Then she started laughing

I looked at her. "What's up, Keel?"

"You know, Phil… you were right… it doesn't get better than this…" she said… now I can see for sure that her eyes were sparkling.

"Yeah… well it did get better since the last time I said it… before I was just holding your hand… now… you're my girlfriend" I gave her a sheepish smile.

She giggled "girlfriend, huh?" she gave me a peck on the cheek…

I was stammering again. I ws pretty sure we were girlfriend and boyfriend… I mean after that kiss… "well… yeah… I mean… uhmm… right…?

She stopped walking. "yeah…" Then, She looked at me uneasily.

I was worried. "What's wrong?"

"Phil since we're being honest and taking a leap of faith and all…" She said seriously.

I raised an my eyebrows…"Yeah…?"

She took a deep breath. Then, she put her arm around me again and kind of forced me to start walking… "When we went on our date… I didn't really want to watch 13 Going on 30…at first… I wanted to watch House of the Dead…"

We both burst out laughing

"Me too…" I took her other hand… "but 13 going on 30 wasn't so bad, was it? especially if we make it into our own movie… like 15 going on 25…?"

"or 15 going on 75, Philly-Willy…" she said in a playful voice.

I raised my eyebrows again and gave her a sheepish, semi-pleading smile "Keely, Keely, Keely... I thought we talked about you calling me that?"

She punched me, and I feigned pain "And I thought we talked about your Triple Keely's, philly-…"

I raised my hands in surrender "Okay, okay! But that movie really was nice… I never thought I'd like a chick flick, but when you can relate to it…" I looked at her "… in more ways than one… I guess you're really gonna appreciate it…"

She laughed again, then took my hand and put it around her. "Yeah… but we should definitely include the scene on the swings where they kiss..."

"Yeah… by the way Keel, wanna go out on a date with me later?" I asked cockily…

She laughed some more… "Sure… but only if we watch House of the Dead…"

"It's a date!" We shook hands playfully… It looks like last Sunday wasn't my first and last time driving the Mustang without adult supervision, after all…

It Doesn't get Better Than This
-Katy Fitzgerald


I feel like I'm flyin',
I wont touch the ground.
My spirit is so in now
I turn it around
I turn it around
I turn it around!

It doesn't get better than this
I've waited all my life
To just feel like this
There is nothing that I wanna miss
cause it doesn't get-
No it doesn't get-
No it doesn't get better than this..

Fall
Ooh this was worth it
As I landed with grace
And I, needed to find my way
To get to the place, to get to the place-
Now I can say!

It doesn't get better than this
I've waited all my life
To just feel like this!
There is nothing that I wanna miss
cause it doesn't get-
No it doesn't get-
No it doesn't get better than... this...

Better than this!

Nothing's free
Without the sorrow
You're staying
Go tomorrow
Breaking down
Just Think about today!

I've waited all my life, to be yeah!
Better than this
It doesn't get, no, no!
Better than this!

Cause it doesn't get
No it doesn't get
No doesn't get, better than this yeah yeah!

Doesn't get
It doesn't get
No it doesn't get
Better than this

Better than this

No it doesn't get any better
Better than this!

a/n: ITS DONE! YEAHHH! To all the guys who wanted me to make them kiss… of course I made them kiss! And I made them kiss in the rain because of all the times they weren't able to and it was kinda unfair so I know that it had to be soooo totally romantic! I am such a cheesebal! Lma0o…. am thinking about doing a sequel… what do you guys think? Oooh... I still accept reviews!

…And that was the song I sorta got the story mainly the title from… hehehe… it's from the soundtrack of 'the Prince and Me'… nice movie… anyway… check out my other story, Jen Of The Future….I'll be waiting for those reviews….