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Phil took another look at his clone and Keely sitting at the table, and ran back upstairs.
I can't do this, he thought. What's the point? She's having dinner with someone else…
(But she thinks that he's me!), his subconscious answered.
It doesn't matter… it's not me… She doesn't care about me if she's having dinner with somebody else, right?
(But she thinks that he's me!)
But…
(She cares about me so much, that she's having dinner with another man right now.)
"She does care," Phil whispered, and quickly looked around to see if anyone heard him. Apparently, nobody did…
Phil was about to make himself visible once more, when Ashley came out of her room, reminding Phil that he wouldn't be able to remove the invisibility effect, as anybody could come in and see him beside himself.
Maybe there was a subtler way…
He walked downstairs, wondering how to go about distracting Keely without drawing his evil counterpart's attention. Then it struck him.
He crept behind his clone, who was sitting across from Keely. He then looked for something…
Keely nearly dropped her glass of water when she saw a plate start hovering all by itself behind Phil.
"Keely? Are you okay?" the clone asked, as a glass started to float as well.
"Would you… excuse me for a minute?" Keely asked, getting to her feet, and Phil put down the plate and glass, and followed Keely upstairs.
She entered her room, and Phil followed her in, and then made himself visible.
"Phil?" she asked.
"Yeah… it's me," he said.
Keely paused. "How am I supposed to know it's you, and not a clone? How do I know the replicate isn't in front of me and the real Phil is sitting down there?"
"I'm Phil…"
"I'm not sure I believe you…"
"Keely… how can you not trust me? After all we've been through… When Brad broke up with you, who told you to eat and eat until the pain went away?"
"You…" Keely muttered, the hint of a smile playing on her lips.
"And when I ran over your foot with the car, who took you to the hospital- the very next day?"
"You did…"
"And when you complained that you were hungry at the park that day, who stole that little girl's ice cream cone?"
"Actually, that was Owen."
"But it was my idea…"
"Oh yeah…"
Phil smiled. "Look… Pim thought it'd be funny if she cloned me and let him wreak havoc for a while…"
"Well… I must say, it was interesting… though maybe a little awkward… and it definitely wasn't as exhilarating as a SkyAk ride."
"SkyAk ride… that's what I was thinking! I told Via about that…"
"You told Via about the SkyAk?"
"I mean, I almost did… Because, she said that I should take you somewhere romantic, because I thought you were breaking up with me. Then I said, 'That's what I was thinking after I kissed…'…" Phil caught himself before he said Candida, and finished, "you… the previous day."
"Really?" Keely asked, and Phil nodded.
"Alright… now let's go rid ourselves of that replicate, shall we?"
"We shall," Keely said, and Phil gave her the WIZRD to do so.
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