Hey! Thanks for the awesome reviews, you guys rock like no other! Well, here's chapter 2. There IS Pheely in this chapter for all you Pheely fans out there, but most of it will be in chapter 3, even though I haven't written it just yet…anyway, enough of my rambling, here's chapter 2. R&R!
It was a chilly, cloudy autumn day in the town of Pickford. The strong smell of rain was quite evident as it poured down upon H.G. Wells in buckets. Inside the school, an incredibly frustrated Phil Diffy jerked his locker open, forcefully shoving his books inside it. Keely pranced up to Phil's locker, her eyes locking with his.
"Hey Phil! Are you ready to sabotage Tanner's social life?" Keely asked happily.
"Hey beautiful," Phil grinned. Keely was caught off guard indefinitely and felt her face heat up. 'That was weird…' she observed inwardly.
"Well, about the plan, I totally messed it up…about an hour ago I discovered that I hit the wrong switch on the wizard and NOW I can't stop randomly telling the truth. So much for my brilliance, I feel like an idiot," Phil admitted.
"Wait…why can't you stop telling the truth?" Keely asked, befuddled. Phil slammed his locker shut and they proceeded through the hallway to lunch.
"Because, Keel, I accidentally activated the truth ray, one of the more unfortunate features of the wizard when used the wrong way. And trust me, I did MORE than use it the wrong way. Now I'm afraid that I might unintentionally reveal something big like, oh I dunno, the fact that everyone here is more than 100 years older than me!" Phil vented to Keely, who tried to lighten Phil's situation by bringing things back to an earlier matter.
"Sooo…uh, a few minutes ago you told me I'm beautiful…" Keely began, discovering where so could go with this, "you never mentioned that opinion of yours before…" Phil looked her directly in the eyes and didn't hesitate for a second.
"Of course I think you're beautiful. The most gorgeous thing I've ever laid eyes on in fact. I just never had the fortitude to say so, considering how nervous you make me." Keely stopped walking at this point and grabbed Phil's shoulder, preventing him from venturing further.
"I make you nervous? How so?" Keely felt a strange combination of being offended, yet somehow inquisitive. Phil picked up on this immediately and corrected himself.
"Not in a bad way, it's more like…well, it's indescribable. Sort of like this really strange "butterflies in my stomach" type deal. Know what I mean?" Phil spilled to his best friend. 'Diffy…get it straight…you're definitely not holding the reigns in this situation,' Phil wished he could just put duct tape or something over his mouth, anything to shut up!
"Yeah right, like one of those "I'm falling for my best friend" scenarios?" Keely shot sarcastically and laughed. Phil just smiled in reply to Keely's statement, which made a strange silence fall over Keely. At that second, Candida and the rest of her lackeys (A.K.A. "The Fashion Zombies") strutted up to Keely and Phil.
"Phil Diffy of the 10th grade!" Candida chirped with an enormous grin. It instantly vanished as Candida began discussing her order of business. "Listen, tell that slimy life form, that is, your sister, that since she filled my designer boots from Peru with rotten milk during gym class, she better pray that I don't find her!" Candida sneered as she flipped her hair over her shoulder. "I have the perfect way to get my revenge. She'll be sorry she every attended this school!" the 8th grade blonde snickered. Phil wasted no time in retorting back to Candida.
"Listen here, Princess Pitiful," Phil began sarcastically. Candida and her drones gasped in disbelief as he shot her down. "Pim and I don't always get along, but I'm her brother, and I will ALWAYS have her back. So leave my sister alone, and take your self absorbed 'I'm the best thing that ever happened to this school' snobby waste of everyone's time attitude and back OFF," Phil informed Candida, maybe a little TOO honestly. Candida and her posse were in shock, and Phil just left them there, stunned. Keely and Phil continued, once again, to the cafeteria, Keely in awe. Somehow in the back of her mind, she couldn't stop wondering about the conversation she had with Phil only a moment ago.
"That…was freakin AWESOME! I've never seen you be so upfront with anyone like that before!" Keely exclaimed, tugging Phil's sleeve.
"Well, today I don't have much of a choice," Phil pointed out matter-of-factly.
Keely made a face, "Can't you just reverse it or something?"
Phil sighed and shook his head as they sat down at a table. "I can't reverse it because the effects automatically stay on for 24 hours…" Owen and Via spotted them instantly and joined them across the table.
"Hello Phil, Hello Keely," Via greeted.
"Lookin' good Keel! How's it goin' Philly Cheese Steak?" Owen remarked and shoved food in his mouth.
"Pretty bad actually," Phil confessed and drummed his fingers on the table. Keely tried to distract Via and Owen from Phil's current "ordeal."
"So, um, what do you guys think of the….weather?" Keely asked awkwardly and smiled nervously as Via and Owen exchanged looks. Phil turned to Keely and grabbed both of her hands and held them in his. Keely glanced at him questioningly while Owen and Via pretended not to notice.
"Phil…w-what are you doing?" Keely felt herself turn red and promptly looked away.
"Keely, now that I'm uncontrollably blurting things out against my will, I don't think I can hold this back anymore," Via and Owen exchanged devilish grins, amused by the entire thing. "The truth is, Keel, I--"
Phil was cut off by a mild argument between Tanner and his newest project from Chile as they whizzed past Phil's table. Phil quickly let go of a puzzled Keely's hands in a flash.
"But Alejandra, I'll hire someone to tutor me in Spanish! We'll understand each other eventually!" Tanner whined.
"Lo siento, pero no entiende tu idioma!" (I'm sorry, but I don't understand your language!) Alejandra fumed, obviously annoyed by Tanner. She stormed off to another part of the room, with Tanner hopelessly following suit.
"Finally, someone figured out the right way to treat Tanner," Keely said gleefully as she drew on the table with Via's pencil.
"Who's this Tanner fellow?" Via wondered.
"Some brillo-head that doesn't know how to treat women," Owen replied with his mouth full.
"That's an understatement," Keely remarked as she stole Owen's Coke and took a drink of it.
"You know what Keely? We are gonna have the best looking children that Pickford has ever SEEN," Phil stated, seemingly out of no where. Keely spit Coke everywhere, not believing what she had just heard.
"Children…you…and me? What the heck are you talking about!" Keely flailed her hands wildly.
"I looked it up on the Giggle earlier today, the suspense was killing me," Phil shrugged casually as if it were nothing.
"The Giggle?" Owen and Via asked in unison.
"Uh-huh. It contains all of the world's knowledge up until the year 2121," Phil explained. Via raised an eyebrow; Owen just had a blank look on his face.
"Why, and HOW, could something operate that? And why 2121? Nothing can predict the future, dude!" Owen exclaimed. Keely glared at Phil.
"PHIL! You might not want to let everyone know you're from KANSAS, because if they find OUT, you'll be a show at the circus, get it!" Keely hissed. It was now official: Owen and Via had never been this confused in their LIVES.
"Kansas? Puh-leez," Phil gave her a "you've got to be kidding me" look and leaped on top of the table. "Everyone! Can I have your attention please? I have an important announcement!" Phil shouted and a hush fell over the cafeteria. Keely tugged his pant leg, as she was still seated.
"PHIL DIFFY, GET DOWN FROM THERE THIS INSTANT!" Keely whispered loudly. Phil ignored her pleas and continued his idiotic announcement.
"I'm from the future, 2121 to be exact. My family and I were time traveling and our time machine broke down, so now we're attempting to fit into your time. Thank you, that is all!" Phil waved his arms. Gasps of shock and horror filled the room, followed by a deafening silence. Then, as if on cue, the room burst into a fit of laughter.
"Good, they don't believe him," Keely observed with relief.
"What, you don't believe me?" Phil hollered over the noise, "Watch THIS!" He snatched a glowing sphere from his pocket and "Vanna Whited" it to the crowd.
"PHIL DON'T!" Keely begged, but it was too late; Phil tossed it on the floor and it transformed into a skyak. Phil dashed towards it and climbed aboard, smiling and waving to the crowd. Keely smacked her hand to her forehead as her best friend proceeded to act like a 5 year old.
Phil whizzed around the cafeteria on the skyak, shouting gleefully, "I TOLD you so! I'm PHIL of the FUTURE!"
"PHIL DIFFY IS FROM THE FUTURE! RUN!" Bradley Benjamin Farmer clamored. The crowd was frantically scrambling around and shrieking with terror. Pim witnessed the chaos from the entrance and was actually enjoying it, not surprisingly. "That's right, time turkeys! Run, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!" Pim called to the crowd menacingly. And that was it; the entire school knew that the Diffy's were from the future.
Dun dun dun! Man, that was a LOT of typing. I edited the chapter like six TIMES, but it was worth it. You know the drill, review if you think I should write chapter 3. More Pheely to come, and will Phil's parents totally murder him for revealing their secret? Stay tuned! Lol.
