Major writer's block... hmhmhm... "Aerials" by System Of A Down is playing...
Okay... this chapter won't write itself...
It was maybe twenty minutes before Phil and Keely began to walk home.
"So…" Keely said, as they walked in the rain, "why did you come out here? Why did you come looking for me?"
Phil sighed. "You know how you said that maybe I came to the past for a reason?"
"Yeah…"
"Well, it seems to me that the reason I met you was so that I could save you… from getting hit by that car…"
"How did you know I was going to get hit, though?"
"Because it said so on the Giggle…"
"So… if you hadn't have landed in this year… I would've gotten hit by that car?"
Phil shrugged. "It sure seems that way… anyway, you said you wanted to look something up on it?"
"Maybe I don't anymore," Keely said, mulling over what just happened. "Come on, let's pop in at Via's."
"But Via doesn't like it when we just pop in…"
"Exactly," Keely said, widening her eyes at Phil.
The two walked in silence for a bit until Keely piped up again. "So… do you think there are any other reasons you came here?"
"Well… I mean, there is the Via aspect… I mean, what are the odds that I'd travel back in time only to meet another time traveler? Not only that, but… she's gorgeous…"
"That's a word I need to hear a lot less- gorgeous…" Keely muttered. Phil shook his head. Keely tapped her cane on the door, then whacked Phil in the knee with it. He yelped in pain and hopped up and down.
Via answered the door, and looked at Phil. "Um… are you alright?"
"Yeah," Phil said, slowly putting his foot on the ground. "I'm fine."
Keely smiled as she walked into Via's house. "So, Phil, have you…" she trailed off, her eyes falling on a bowl full of candy canes.
"What?" Via asked.
Keely looked at Via without humor. "Are you mocking me?" she demanded, half shouting in Via's face. "WELL?" she yelled, slamming her cane on the ground.
"What? What do you…" Via paused, realizing what Keely meant- Candy canes? "No, they're just candy canes… I'm not mocking you at all… I didn't--"
"Relax, Via," Keely said, calmly. "It was a joke."
"Oh… so what have you two been up to?"
"Phil killed George."
"What?" Via asked.
"I didn't… I was in a crash…"
"You were in a crash?" Via asked, even more alarmed than before.
"I'm perfectly alright," he reassured her. "He died…"
The room fell silent, and Keely let out a small snicker.
"What?" she asked as Via and Phil looked at her.
"Nothing…" Phil muttered. "The important thing is that I saved Keely's life."
"You did?" Via asked, looking at the two. They nodded.
"Please," Keely said, as Via got a look in her eye, "no kissing…"
Keely turned away for a moment, as to avert her eyes from anything that may have happened between the two. "Are you… decent?" she asked.
"Yes," she heard Phil answer her.
"Anyway…" she said, observing the details in her cane, "…I hope you realize, Phil, that I'm not an addict…"
"Still in denial, huh?"
"I'll be in denial unless I die from an overdose. Then I'll admit you were right."
Phil and Via looked at each other nervously- they had thought Keely was joking, but there was no humor on her face…
Hm… writer's block. Oh well. I'll end it here… the chapter, not the story… I'm sure there's other stuff I need to finish.