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BLUEslushPUPPIES: Yeah, I keep ending the chapters in cliff hangers because I can't decide what will happen next, and the second genre is suspense, so here's where the suspense comes in, LOL
goldcatmaster: Thanks! I love comedy, so I try to make them funny, but this one is more dramatic, the next one, I'm hoping won't be as dramatic, because I'm veering from my usual style 2 much. So they should get back to funny: )
"God, who's calling us now?" Phil said exasperated, then he turned and went to answer the phone.
Phil nervously picked the phone up, and said, "Hello?"
"Mr. Diffy, we have your yacht ready at the dock, will you be arriving soon?" The man from the yacht company said
"Oh, yes, we will. Thank-you." Phil said relieved that it wasn't the hospital.
Phil hung up the phone, and linked arms with Dana and Keely again.
"Who was that?" Keely asked.
"Oh, it was a telemarketer,"
"Oh." Keely said
Phil was so afraid there was going to be another interruption, like Seth would die, or they car would stop in the middle of the road, he was panicking the entire ride there, Dana could tell he was freaked out about this, and so was she, she didn't want anything to mess this up again, she wasn't sure that things would work out the way that she and Phil wanted them to, but they would just have to hope that they would.
When they finally arrived there, Phil and Dana nervously walked with Keely to the yacht, then went to the main dock to pay for it, and Keely stayed with the captain outside the yacht.
"Hey, where are all the other people?" Keely said
"What people?" The captain said
"I thought there were going to be other people here,"
"No, this was defiantly supposed to be a private dinner cruise, the young woman I spoke with on the phone was very specific."
"Oh," Keely said
"Hey, are you ready?" Phil said
"Um, yeah." she said
Keely, Phil, and Dana all boarded the yacht, and sat down at a table set for three, with a champagne bottle in an ice bucket in the corner, and a single rose in a vase as a center piece.
"Oh my God, this is amazing," Keely said
"So are you," Phil said, pulling out her chair, then Dana's.
"Thank-you," Dana and Keely both said sitting down.
Phil wanted to propose A.S.A.P. so nothing could go wrong, but he had to follow Dana's plan exactly. He waited, while the captain steered the yacht slowly, and serenely. Dana watched Phil watch the water, and wait for the buoy that marked the middle of the bay. Keely was annoyed with the fact that they were distracted by something, that she decided to interrupt they're staring at the water.
"Phil, how's work going?" Keely said
"Huh? Oh, it's going fine," he answered
"Dana, how's school going?"
"Fine." she answered
This exasperated Keely, she couldn't understand what they were so distracted, so she just watched the water as they did.
About ten minutes later, they reached the buoy, Phil's heart fell into his stomach, and Dana felt butterflies in hers. Phil took Keely's hand again, as the boat made a slow stop, and Phil said, "Keely, I can't believe that we've made it twenty five years, and we have gained so much since the first time we met. We have the most wonderful daughter, a wonderful house, great friends, but most of all, we have each other. I never thought I would be so lucky as to meet the girl of my dreams, and fall in love with her, and the entire time, she was my best friend. Keely, the more time that goes by the more that I think that we belong together and should spend the rest of our lives together, Keely-"
Phil was cut off by the captain saying, "Sir, I need to speak with you, for one second, it's very important,"
"Good Lord!" Dana yelled
Keely turned to Dana who was glaring evilly at the captain.
Phil went to the front of the ship, and said to the captain, "What is it? I was kind of in the middle of something,"
"Well, you have a phone call, from someone named Barbara Diffy, do you care to speak to her?"
"Yes,"
"Alright," the captain said, handing him the phone.
"Hi mom," Phil said
"Phil, you were proposing to Keely, and you didn't invite your father, Pim, or I to see it, Phil, Phil, Phil," Barbara said
"Mom, this isn't a huge family invent, it's O.K. that you aren't here,"
"No, it is, don't do anything until we get there, even if she's already wearing the ring, re-do the entire thing, we have to be there,"
"Mom,"
"Don't argue with me, you do as I say, Phillip Diffy."
"Yes, O.K., lucky for you, I didn't actually ask her to marry me yet, just the speech leading up to it,"
"Good, I think we'll be there in about 20 minutes,"
"O.K. Good-bye."
"Bye sweetie"
Phil hung up the phone, and said to the captain, "I hate my mother,"
"Well, mine isn't a bed of roses either,"
Phil laughed and rejoined Keely and Dana.
"Dad, please continue," Dana said
"I can't, that was your grandmother, and she wants to be here, as well as Pim, and your grandpa."
"God, why! This is so annoying it's like it's never going to end!" Dana said
"I know how you feel," Phil said
They all waited patiently for Barbara, Lloyd, and Pim to arrive, and when they finally did, things didn't go as planed.