a/n: sorry it took this long… haha.. cliffie at the end.

Jen of the Future

Chapter 16: make-ups and journals

"Jen…" Phil began

Jen pretended not to hear him. She looked the other way and took a sip from her milkshake.

Phil shifted his weight his weight so that he would swing harder. "So, how was yoga with Pim?"

She kept her gaze on a nearby tree. "I bailed… I spent the day in this café…"

Phil slowed down. He knew he was making progress. "So, what's with the dark glasses? The sun set a few minutes ago…"

She adjusted her sunglasses "Fashion statement."

"Oh" was all Phil could say. He again began swinging harder thinking of a good way to start his apology. Then, he slowed down. "Jen…about what happened earlier…"

"I have to go." Jen stood up and started walking but Phil quickly stood up as well and blocked her path.

"Jen, just hear me out…" he pleaded.

She shoved past him but she wasn't strong enough to push him away "Say that to the Alice Deluca's friend. Maybe after she hears you out She'll realize you had a girlfriend" She turned the opposite direction.

Had? Is she breaking up with me? Have we broken up? He took her by the arm and forced her to face him. She couldn't fight it because she wasn't half as strong as him. "Jen, listen…"

She managed to break free from his tight grip and started tapping her foot impatiently "Fine…you have one minute"

He looked around and started laughing… he couldn't believe how stubborn she was being. "Jen! C'mon!"

She looked at her watch "forty-eight seconds"

He sighed "Okay, I'm sorry for not introducing you to Alice's friend. I was just shocked… And I'm sorry I didn't figure it out earlier… I'm sorry for everything… I just"

"Just what, Phil?" She sat back down on the swing

He sat down beside her "I was just too stupid…"

"Yeah, you were" She said sarcastically

He sank down on his seat and buried his face in his hands. "I know… I'm sorry… I…"

She didn't seem to hear anything Phil was saying and just cut him off when he started to stammer "You what, now?"

He straightened up and took her hand and played with the ring he gave her. Then he looked at her with watery eyes. "I don't want to lose you, Jen… I don't think I can take that…"

She gave him a teary, reassuring smile. "I don't want to lose you either, Phil… and maybe I overreacted because…"

He put his finger on her lips to make her stop talking and kissed her lightly on the lips. "C'mon, let's go home…" The two stood up, fingers still laced and walked home…

Keely on the other hand was sitting on a nearby park bench… She saw everything and began crying again. She ran home knowing that Phil was going to call to thank her and tell her that her advice worked. Good job, Phil…

At around 9 pm, the phone rang in the Teslow residence

Keely answered the phone. She knew who was calling. "Hello?" She said in the cheeriest voice she can fake

Phil was on the other end of the line "Keel, It's me. Listen, I just wanted to thank you for your advice, it really worked…"

"Anytime Phil…" She leaned against the wall and twirled the telephone cord in her hand.

Phil tilted his head back on his chair "Cool, so… we were thinking maybe we could play tennis maybe on Friday… after school it would be fun to Play doubles with Jen and Pim…"

At the mention of Jen's name, Keely felt herself sliding down the wall…" Yeah, sure… Phil… Listen I gotta go… journal so… bye…" Keely put the phone down before she could here what Phil was going to say. She went off into her room, crying and began her journal entry. The fact that anyone anywhere would be able to read it didn't matter to her. She had to vent.

"Bye…Keel" He looked at the phone and put it down too "Wow, she must have a lot to put on her journal…"

Just then, Jen entered Phil's room and snuggled up beside Phil "Who was that?"

"Oh, that was Keely, she's game to play tennis this Friday" He put his arm around her

She moved closer "Oh that's great… Pim said she's ready to cream you…"

He looked at her and raised and eyebrow… "Really?"

Jen stood up and sat down on his bed "Yeah…" she let out a heavy sigh. "Phil…"

He turned his chair around to face her "Yeah?"

She stood up and kissed him on the lips and he of course kissed her back "What were you saying?" He said after they broke the kiss to breathe

She gave him a peck on the cheek "Goodnight!" She said in her cheeriest, flirtiest cheerleader voice, lay down on the bed and pulled the covers over her

"Good night, Jen" Phil laughed to himself and went online hoping to find Keely in the chat rooms. She wasn't online so he decided to check her online journal to see what 'great adventure' she was so excited to journal about earlier.

When the page finished loading, Phil skimmed through her previous entries… he already read them all. Most of them were either lyrics of song she wrote or random poems and quotes…some were hers, some from different authors. Also she put in here creative writing projects for English. He grinned at screen, feeling so proud for her. She never had a 'normal' entry. She would usually write a beautiful poem or short story or something like that about what happened or how she feels. Sometimes she'd put in a song or a quote and write a short, deep caption at the end. He realized that most of the things she was writing about these past few weeks were about heartbreak and undeclared or unnoticed love. He didn't know why…

Then he read her latest entry…. it was a short one… but regardless of how short it was, what Phil read rendered him speechless.

a/n: I'll update soon.. but first you guys have to leave your reviews… so I can make the story better… haha… no reviews, no update! Kiddin… am a quarter through the next chapter… maybe the day after tomorrow…?