Hello hello hello. If you read my summary, well, then you probably would've figured that I'd use a certain All-American Rejects song as one my chapter titles. If you did, good job. You've managed to win… well, I guess you won the ability to read this chapter? I don't know… Anyway… Reviewers are the highest form of life on the planet, as far as I'm concerned.
CiTyGrL0912- Can you have another cookie? You can, if you believe you can. Yeah, you gotta watch out for my sneakiness. Never know what I'm going to do next. Like... THIS! One... two... THREE! (waits...) Oh. Sorry. I thought something was going to happen.
element90- I think I need a bigger head to fit these thoughts in... Yeah, Disney really has us thinking with this show, doesn't it? That's why I'm so intrigued by the fanfiction of it all. ...Certainly intrigued by the eschatology of it all, obviously. Glad you liked that... Well... them sleeping in the same room is enough to give you a warm feeling on the back of your neck... hopefully that feeling isn't a tick, by the way. I'm not sure if I'd melt into a puddle of goo... Maybe if I was one of those Sugar and Spice Cyborgs from 2121... :)
Phil sensed something fishy was afoot when Tia looked at him with that expression on her face. No, he had to investigate further into this.
He ducked out of the classroom, and applied the invisible spray when he was sure that nobody was watching him. He wandered the halls for a little while until he heard two girls talking.
"… him eventually," Tia was saying. "I say that the sooner you tell him, the better."
"I know I have to tell him, but I just don't want to. It'd just make our last days together awkward."
"Well, you two are going to be separated soon, so I suggest you tell him now," Tia said, looking right at where Phil was standing. This coupled with the previous sentence, Phil came to a conclusion. Keely had told Tia he was from the future.
"I guess you're right," Keely muttered, looking down the hall. Tia walked away, leaving Keely standing there, seemingly alone.
Phil stifled a sneeze. Keely whipped her head to the source of the noise, causing Phil to freeze, forgetting she couldn't see him.
She slowly started to walk towards him. His paralysis broke only when she extended her hand, mere inches from his face. He silently slid to the side, and her hand closed around what would've been his shoulder, had he stayed rooted to that spot.
She turned away from Phil, and he began to leave, but his shoe squeaked on the floor. He looked at the ground, terrified. She started to advance on him, and he backed away. Unfortunately, he backed into a corner.
She had trapped him, and she wasn't even totally aware of it. Her face was about two inches away from his, and as much as he liked that, he knew he couldn't let her catch him without her losing her trust in him. He reached into his pocket to find anything, and his fingers closed around a quarter. Her hand was nearly on his throat, when with a sharp flick of his wrist, he launched the quarter across the hall, praying it would make a loud noise.
It bounced off a locker, and the sharp metal-on-metal sound echoed through the linoleum-floored hallway.
Keely froze now, not taking her eyes off where Phil was standing. He was sure that she knew he was still in front of her, and when he knew he was going to get beaten, she whipped her head around, looking at where the quarter had collided with the locker. A lock of her hair poked him in the eye, and he barely stifled a gasp of pain.
She turned back to Phil, unknowingly staring him in the eye. He didn't even dare to breathe. But, slowly, she started down the hall, still watching Phil. He started to creep down towards an empty classroom, and there, he removed the effects of the invisibility.
Phil confronted Keely after school. "I can't believe you told Tia that without telling me!" he fumed at her. Keely looked genuinely shocked.
"She… she told you?" Keely asked.
"Yeah, she did!" Phil shouted.
"Look," Keely explained, "I know I should've told you first--"
"You're darn right you should've told me first!"
"But I just wasn't sure how you'd react. I mean, Tia's been my best friend for seven years, now… I had to tell her!"
"And you just ignored me?"
"I was going to let you know!"
"Well I don't want people talking about me now!"
"Well I didn't want people making glib remarks about it!" Keely snapped.
"I can't believe you didn't tell me you told her!"
"Well excuse me for caring about my friend's feelings!" Keely shouted, and stormed off down the hall.
At no time during that conversation were Keely and Phil talking about the same thing.
Do you hear that? It's the sound of that little 'Go' button, saying, "Click mee... Cliiiiiick Meeeeee!"
