A/N: woo-hoo, new chapter! Glad everyone liked my short story. I didn't think I would get any reviews!
Chapter five: Time that is lost and forgotten
Phil ate his breakfast the next morning in silence.
"Hey Phil."
Pim was carrying a bucket full of bolts and a bunch of glue and yarn.
"What's that for?" he said shaking a finger and her.
"Actually, don't say it...maybe I don't want to know."
Pim Laughed Evilly " Look out Fashion Zombies , here I come."
Phil's dad was happier then he had ever seen him, ever since they got stuck back in time.
"Dad? I've been thinking...well maybe, you guys can go home and I can stay here. I can look after myself I'm going to be 18 next year."
Phil's dad sighed "Phil, you can't stay here..it's just that by the time we get back, You'll probably already be dead."
"Oh, so if I go and Keely's dead it won't matter because since she's from this century she doesn't matter?"
"I didn't mean it like that. The point is, you are going back with us whether you like it or not."
Phil walked up to his locker and before he could open it, someone came up from behind him, and put their hands around his eyes.
"Guess who?"
Keely smiled at him. Phil only smiled weakly at her, and took his history book out.
"What's wrong? You look kind of down."
"Oh it's nothing, I'm just nervous about that test we have today."
"Oh." she said unconvinced.
Phil and Keely were at his house talking about that hard test in history, when they heard a loud thump.
"What's that?" Phil went to the front door and opened it. In the doorway stood a strange looking man and a young boy who looked familiar...
"Grandpa!" Phil shouted.
"Hello Phil."
"What are you doing here?"
"Well I was getting worried about you guys, and so I rented a time machine and came here."
The little boy walked up front "Oh this is Jason. He's a real genius. He helped me work out the controls on the time machine."
Keely waved at him, and noticed his eyes where brown like Phil's..
Don't kid yourself Keel, a bunch of people have brown eyes.
"Hmmmm"
"What?"
"So how long have you guys been stuck here?"
"I don't know grandpa, I think for about two years"
His grandpa clutched his chest "TWO YEARS! No wonder you didn't come back for Thanksgiving."
Phil rolled his eyes at Keely who smiled. They both stared at each other for a moment and looked away. Jason was looking at them very strangely.
"So Gramps, why did you come back here?"
Phil walked over to the couch and Keely sat next to him. Jason eyed them out of the corner of his eye and noticed that they were sitting too close if you know what I mean.
"Well Phil, I had to come back and ask your father why he didn't show up for thanksgiving! I spent all day spraying the food and it wasn't easy since the bottles were almost gone and I had to shake them like crazy."
Phil and Keely got up from the couch and they all walked to the kitchen, except for them.
"Phil, you were so quiet today and I know it can't be because of that history test today."
"Keely, sometimes I can tell you things, and sometimes I can't."
"Well tell me."
"I can't tell you, it might make everything worse."
"Worse? What do you mean?"
"Nothing, nothing."
"Phil,I am your gi- friend and as your friend you need to tell me what's wrong.
"Okay, I'll tell you, after the prom."
"Promise?"
"Promise."
Phil smiled at her and Keely smiled too. They were leaning toward each other, when they heard a crash from outside.
They both turned around, and heard a bunch of weird noises from the outside.
Phil grabbed Keely's wrist and she looked down at him.
Phil dragged her to the window and they saw a bunch of people dead in the streets and they saw smoke and fire everywhere.
"Oh, my god. Keely look at this."
"What? I don't see anything. All I heard was a crash, but nothing else."
"Really? You didn't even hear people screaming outside."
"No." Keely looked at him as if he were starting to scare her. The truth is, he was starting to scare himself.
Phil had trouble sleeping that night. He had the weirdest dream ever, and it felt real, as if hit was actually happening (A/n: I'm sure we've all had dreams like that, I know I have.) In the dream Phil walked up to an old lady. She had an old coat on and shredded dress.
"Excuse me, do you know what happened here?"
"They found out."
"Who? Who found out what?"
"The FBI found out about this family from the future."
"Really? How did that happen?"
" A young man around your age, sent in the tape."
Tape? What tape?"
"The young man carrying it said his friend Phil gave it to him, because he asked him to record his basketball game, but instead he got a tape. The tape showed someone filming inside the ''time machine' and all the futuristic things in there."
Phil then remembered he had given this guy at school a tape that was supposedly a basketball game, and that was over a week ago. He had told him, if he didn't record it, bad stuff would happen.
"Uhhh.. Excuse me miss? What year is this?"
"2123."
"So why did all this stuff happen? Why was everyone killed."
"Not everyone was killed, but the reason why was the family and their time machine had vanished, and in 2006 ,just a few months after they left, the FBI took no chances, and wanted to find out what the future would be like. And let me tell you, they were really desperate to find out. They broke into people's house's, killed them if they thought they were lying, pushed them, and sometimes they took families who they thought were from the future captive, and most of them died inside their cage."
Phil couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"So..do you know the names of the people who died. In 2006"?
"Yes, a girl named Keely Teslow was murdered by the FBI. They kept on asking her if her best friend was from the future, because after they left they found out they were friends. They kept on asking he rand the only thing she said was "I made a promise. I can't tell you" the FBI got really mad then, and so they choked her and left her to die."
Phil stared at her, and rubbed his eyes. He cast an angry look at the old woman and said
"I don't believe you."
"If you want to find out for yourself, go to the cemetery, it's right over there."
Phil walked over there and looked at the grave stones. They were carelessly put up, and some of them where knocked over.
Phil didn't want to believe the old lady, and he sighed when he couldn't find Keely's grave. He turned around and saw another tombstone, it was still daytime, but it didn't feel that way to him. The tombstone read :
Here lies Keely Teslow
Born April 30, 1990- died May 27, 2006.
We will remember her in our hearts.
Phil woke up from his dream sweating and was relieved that it wasn't a dream, but he kept on thinking to himself.
Could our leaving this time cause all that to happen? Why would that boy send in the tape? And why did the FBI capture people like they were nothing?
Phil knew what he had to do, he had to get that tape back from that guy, who's name he had just started to remember what it was. He hated the name, and every time he thought about him, he wanted to throw something after what he did to Keely. He remembered what he did, two years ago.
The guy's name was Tanner.
