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Jen of The Future

Chapter Twenty: The Dance part two

The dance had gone by as any other dance would for everyone but Keely. Every moment she spent with the dance she was wishing she were somewhere else. Of course there'd be moments when she and Phil would have inside jokes- where one of them would say something that either made no sense, or that was actually normal, look at each other and then burst out laughing. Whenever they had "moments" like that, she felt like even though Phil had his rich, beautiful, practically-perfect-in-every-way girlfriend, with him, Keely and Phil had something he and Jen didn't have…if only for a few seconds because of course Phil, being the gentleman he is, would not want the love of his life to be left out. So, he'd tell her everything. And then she'd laugh too. At that point, Keely didn't feel like laughing anymore.

Keely was alone with Jen at the table. Tia was trying to teach Seth how to not step on other people while not looking at his feet while dancing while Phil was getting their drinks. Jen was talking about how they socialized with their "classmates" in the future. To Keely, everything she was saying was going in one ear and out the other. She tried her best to make her mind absorb what Jen was saying but the best she could do was just raise her eyebrows and nod once in a while.

Phil came back with their drinks and set Keely's in front of her who smiled and mumbled something that Phil interpreted as a "thank you". Then, when he was about to set Jen's drink in front of her, the up-beat music had died down and out of nowhere, a string quartette began playing a slow ballad- the same one Phil and Keely danced to at the Mayor's Ball.

It seemed like Phil, drink at hand a couple of inches away from the table, was frozen. He just stood there, motionless, looking at Keely. Keely was the same. Her drink was held a few inches from her lips and she was looking at Phil.

Jen looked from Keely to Phil who seemed to be talking to each other through mental telepathy. She took her drink from Phil, an action that brought him back to reality. Jen gave him a questioning look and he shrugged it off and looked at Keely. She, on the other hand, had not yet recovered. She was still looking at Phil, her eyes filled with sorrow and questioning.

"Keely, are you okay?" Jen moved closer to Keely.

Keely wiped the tears forming at the corners of her eyes. "Yeah… yeah I'm fine…" She looked away.

Jen looked at Phil, who was looking at Keely, who suddenly seemed fascinated by the floor.

Phil took Jen's hand. "Do you wanna dance?"

When she heard this, Keely could have sworn she heard her already broken heart shatter into a million more pieces. She took a drink of punch to try to drown it all up.

Jen took Phil's hand and they walked to the dance floor. When they got to the dance floor, Phil put his hand around Jen's waist but Jen pushed it away and said, "I'd rather we take a walk outside"

Phil nodded and led Jen to the main entrance of the gym, which led to the outside of the school. They walked in silence until they reached a bench where they sat. Phil put his arm around Jen who rested her head at Phil's shoulder. They were still silent until Jen began to speak.

"Phil, I had your time machine fixed this morning"

CLIFFIE! yeah, evil I know. But I haven't actually typed the next part yet. It was supposed to be just one long chapter but I didn't want you guys to wait that long. Why? Because you guys ROCK. Hard. Lol.. anyway… I just kind of have the outline for the next chapter and I still have to "build" the story from it so this is all you guys get for the meantime. And I'm sorry but I wont be able to update until late November or early December because……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. KIDDING! I'll update the day after tomorrow or something. In my mind, the next chapter will be second-to-last. Unless of course I cut it or whatever. Anyway, keep those reviews comin! I love reading them and sorry I cant respond to them now because there's so many! But thank you to everyone. I do read them and keep your suggestions or the things you have to say in mind. But, as teejay said, I also have too keep my ideas in mind. So… yeah…kinda forgot my point there… but basically my point is just REVIEW. There. Lol. Aaaand! If you have like anything you want to say you'd rather keep private or whatever.. you can always send me an email…or IM me on AIM my screen name's surrealpink ...or PM on one of the many forums I belong to. Lol. I'll update within the week. PROMISE. xoxo