Hm… I don't have any possible way to put off writing this anymore… guess I'll get to it… blast. 'nother short chapter...
Ah… "Screaming At The Wailing Wall" by Flogging Molly… high quality song…
The next day at school, Keely, Tia, and Phil all stayed after the final bell- Tia and Keely because they needed to up their grades, Phil because he… well he felt like it. It's not that Phil needed a higher grade, if that's what you were thinking…
But Phil did have a higher reason for staying after. After all, Operation Keely-Haul was well underway…
Phil was cleaning out beakers in the science lab, where Tia and Keely had decided to stay after (coincidentally enough). He kept constant surveillance of them, whether it was from looking in the reflection of the glass he was cleaning, looking at them through the glass, and occasionally looking at them through the reflection of the TV screen in the corner. He was careful never to make eye contact…
"I really hate this," Tia muttered, twirling her pencil between her fingers.
"How do you do that?" Keely asked, staring transfixed at the pencil. Tia rolled her eyes. Keely sighed. "I'd get more done in French class right now…" she muttered, looking at her notebook.
Don't go there, Phil thought… he couldn't really leave the classroom… break one beaker and clean all the rest… he thought. Yes… Phil Diffy had detention.
"But I don't take French," Tia muttered. "You have to stay with me…"
So Keely did, for the remaining twenty minutes they had left, and the most the two accomplished were a few mindless scribbles in their notebook, only one of which had any relevance to science at all (And this was only at first glance-- sure enough, the word "copper," which could easily be taken as an element off of the periodic table, was on the notebook, but it was being referred to as a shading of eyeshadow that Keely intended to buy.).
The final bell rang, and the three of them ran out of the classroom.
Much to Phil's surprise, Jake Hanlon walked up to Keely and they began talking.
Hm… what do we have here? he thought. He's offering to drive her home… but wait… she's accepting?
"I'll pull up front," Jake said. "Blue sedan," he added.
Phil devised another plan on the spot, using the information he'd just received.
Finally, Keely thought, maybe me and Jake can work something out…
A blue sedan pulled up to the front of the building, and Keely walked out to it, holding her backpack over her head to block the rain.
"Thanks for doing this for me," she said, jumping into the car, without so much as a glance at him- she was too busy looking at any damage to her outfit. "My mom will flip if I'm not home soon- I'm grounded, you know… but I've been thinking about your offer, and I might take you up on it after I'm un-grounded…"
A brief silence…
"Hey there, Princess," a familiar voice said.
Hm… well wouldn't that be an interesting oneshot…
Oh, I was just thinking aloud there… but I just got an interesting idea for a oneshot… you might see it after this story, unless I decide it's impossible.
And, uh… I'm not updating too fast, am I? Because I only got 4 reviews for chapter 5... Just curious… maybe everybody was busy… I guess it was Friday, after all…
"Feelin' This" by blink-182... ah, good songs are playin on this today...