A/N: next chapter… hope you like it …thanks again, michelle for helping! chelsea

Jen of the Future

Chapter fourteen: Someone to talk to

"Mrs. Teslow, is Keely there?" Phil was in sitting in front of his computer tapping on the desk impatiently. He had gone online earlier looking for Keely. After half an hour of agonizing waiting; he realized that she wasn't going to get online anytime soon and decided that he probably should have called her in the first place. He really needed to talk to her. If anyone could give good advice it was Keely.

"Phil…Phil is that you? I'm sorry… I'm vacuuming…" Mrs. Teslow said a little too loudly into the receiver. "Keely's not here right now. She went for smoothies with Tia" Mrs. Teslow said; her voice getting louder with every word. "Do you want me to give her a message? Should I tell her that you called?" She asked politely, well, as politely as you can when you're screaming.

"Oh… no… that's okay Mrs. Teslow I'll just…call again later… thanks" Phil said; obviously very disappointed he couldn't get a hold of Keely. He put the phone down and started typing an email, hoping she'd see it if he didn't call. He needed to talk to someone… Not Jen…he needed to talk to her.

"Keely, where are you?" Phil asked. "I really need to talk to you…" Phil closed his eyes, maybe hoping that someone would answer him.

There was a soft knock on the door. "Phil, are you in there?" Someone said from outside the door. "Jen wanted you to know that she went out with Pim. They said something about yoga
with Debbie." She said.

He recognized the voice as his mom's. "Okay mom…" He said with a sigh of relief. It would be much easier to talk to Keely without Jen around. Not that Jen would be looking for him anyway. He heard her footsteps backing away from his room and descending the stairs.

Phil sighed and lay down on his bed, thinking about what happened just a few hours ago. It didn't seem like a few hours ago. It seemed like last month…not that he didn't remember it. Just that a lot of things had been happening. Things had gotten hectic since Jen got there.

They were at the park. Jen had wanted to go on a long, romantic walk with Phil, so he had gone along. If only he had just said no. They had been talking when Jen brought up Alice Deluca. Obviously Jen felt uncomfortable hearing Phil relate in detail how he tried to impress
the mayor's daughter. That had been awkward enough. But when one of Alice's friends walked up to them Phil thought seriously about just running away.

"Hey, Phil!" She yelled. "I heard about the mayor's ball…" She said as she caught up with them. Phil took a deep breath, just hoping this would go quickly. Jen was already squirming at his side. "Anyway, Alice thought things over and actually wanted to apologize." She said smiling up at Phil who was taken aback. "She was actually flattered with what you did pretending to be into karate and horses and France and stuff…" She continued. The thought that Alice really didn't hate him made him feel a lot better. Then he remembered Jen at his side. Alice's friend continued. "She actually wanted to ask you out again but she's away with her dad right now…" She said expectantly, as if waiting for an answer.

Shocked, all Phil managed to say was "Oh…um…okay…" Before he could start forming
coherent sentences Alice's friend ran off leaving Phil slack-jawed and in a very bad position.

"Phil, I can't believe you!" Jen stopped walking and stood right in front of him; blocking his path. She flipped her hair and crossed her arms. Phil stopped walk, not like he had a choice really.

"What? Why? I didn't say anything!" Phil asked surprised but mostly confused.

"Exactly! That girl just said that her friend wanted to go out with you again and all you can say was 'oh…um…okay…'"Jen said snootily and turned her back to Phil.

He walked around to face her; blocking her path with his body. "What else could I say, Jen, I was shocked!" Phil said, gesturing with his hands wildly.

"Oh, I don't know… maybe 'I'm sorry I can't go out with her again I've got a girlfriend' or 'Have you met my girlfriend? She's standing RIGHT HERE'" Jen's tone wasn't like Phil had ever heard before. It occurred on Phil that Jen was the only child of the of the world's richest people in the world. She wasn't used to being ignored, not by her boyfriend, especially not when another girl was asking him out for her friend.

Phil came back to reality and got out of bed. He took his jacket and headed for the door and yelled that he was going out to no one in particular just before he closed it. He started walking, no real destination in mind. He saw Jen across the street and ran over to her. Maybe he should just talk it out.

"Hey, Jen, I'm sorry… It's just…" She cut him off.

"Save it, Phil I don't want to talk to you…" She shoved past him and started walking. He ran after her, determined to sort this out now.

"Jen… wait… please… I'm…" Again he was cut off.

"I said save it" Jen yelled without looking back and began walking even faster.

Phil stopped chasing after her and found himself outside the ice cream shop where Keely
and Tia were sitting inside, drinking their smoothies.

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