So she's dead. I have popcorn on my t-shirt because I saw 'Corpse bride'.
Phil had been sitting in his room for 3 days straight. Just sitting there, doing nothing but thinking and dreaming about Keely, and only Keely. He had locked the door so no one could get in, no matter how many times his mother had pleaded. Early in the forth day, Pim knock lightly on the door.
"Hey Phil, are you O.k? Look, I know I haven't been the best person when it came to you being upset and everything. Sorry. Do you wanna go down to the grave yard? I was gonna see if I could find some peoples graves, you know, Berwick's and Danny's and stuff" She knew that her brother hadn't acknowledged what she'd said, so she was surprised to hear the lock turn and her brother had emerged. His hair was ruffled and greasy, as if he had constantly run his finger through his hair and his eyes were puffy and bloodshot, for all he had been doing was crying.
"Sure, I'll come" He said quietly, before walking down the corridor, to the lift at the end. Pim followed him hastily and took the lift down to the outside. From there on, they walked to the cemetery, the route was easy for Pim to remember as she had walked there just four days previously and the roads hadn't changed much since. They reached the wrought iron gates of the cemetery, shinier then when the siblings had last seen them. Phil ran head on, ignoring all the other graves he would have recognized if he had look. Soon he reach her grave, and saw a glass with a long neglected flower in it, seemed like no one had been visiting since her mother died, or maybe one of her cousins. Looking down at the grass, he saw that a few daisies had sprung through and, to Phil's amazement, the black rose lay there, untouched, as if it was grown into the ground. Pim ran over to Phil,
"Hey, I found Hackett's grave, seemed like he lived in Pickford for the rest of his life and I found your friend, Owens's, he died when he was 19." Pim could tell her brother wasn't listening, "I'll go wander round, I might go into town and see if I can recognize someone" Pim walked off towards the gate and Phil was left sitting on the grave. Moss had grown and died on the headstone and Phil brushed it away so he could see what was written.
'Keely Teslow
April 19th 1989- July 16th 2005
Beloved Daughter and
Incredible friend'
Phil smiled when he read this and then felt his eyes welling up. Brushing away the tears, he lent against the headstone and let the tears fall freely. He closed his eyes and imagined Keely was wrapped in his arms. If only she knew how much he loved her.
"Phil? Phil Diffy? Is that you?" A vaguely familiar voice called to Phil. Turning around he saw two boys and a girl heading towards him. They stopped right in front,
"Phil! Dude, it is you!" Cried the tawny haired boy, Nate, "I can't believe it, where did you go?"
"Oh, well, our time machine broke and we got stuck for a year, but now I'm back" Phil told them, desperately trying to get away from the subject of the 21st century and everyone in it that he knew…and loved.
"Phil…I…I can't believe you're back, we all missed you terribly" The girl, Cady, told him.
"Same," muttered Phil, politely, although he hadn't though about his future friends since the day he arrived in the 21st century.
"Are you O.K, Phil?" she asked him, gazing into his bloodshot eyes.
"What, yeah, I'm fine; I'm just a bit tired, s'all"
"You don't look 'fine', Phil, you've been crying" retorted the other boy, Rex, "and why are you sitting on a grave?" before he had time to reply, Rex had pushed Phil off his spot. The boy squinted as he looked at the faded carving on the tomb,
"Who's Keely Teslow?" Asked Cady, in a kinda spiteful way. Hearing someone say Keely's name in such a manner made Phil start crying again.
"Sorry, Phil, I didn't mean to upset you, I just wanted to know who she was" But Phil ignored her. He just stood up and walked away,
"Why was I ever friends with them?" He whispered to himself, "None of them are like Keely, they are all horrible people"
"Phil, hold up!" Cady called to him
"Look, sorry about them," she panted as she caught up with him, "They've changed a lot in the year that you've gone. Here, sit down." She ushered Phil to sit down under a near-by tree, by now they were long away from the cemetery.
"I'm guessing that this 'Keely Girl' was important to you"
"Yes, I…I loved her, and she's not 'This Keely girl'" And with that Phil told Cady everything that had happen since he landed in 2004. Cady listened and asked questioned and when she was over she gave him a hug as he cried on her shoulder.
"I think I know how I can help you" Cady told him, leaning in close "I have something to give you"
O.k, by the way, it will get happy at the end. I'm watching The O.C, whoo!
