"What were the results, mom?" Phil asked
"The search is over, you are a match"
Phil nearly dropped his phone "I am?" he said in shock
"Yes…"
"Well that's great" it was obvious that Phil wasn't thinking about himself at that moment, all he was thinking about was Keely and the fact that now she would get her new kidney.
Later that day Phil went to the hospital where Keely was already, waiting for him and his mom to arrive so that her transplant could get underway. The only snag was that Keely didn't know that Phil was the match they had found, but she would find out soon enough as he wanted to say hi to her before she had her surgery.
"Hi Phil" Keely said, unaware that he was the donor that she'd waited for. "I've got surgery in about twenty minutes"
"I know, I can only stay for a minute, I do too," Phil said
"What, but you're perfectly healthy" Keely said in shock
"But you aren't… and that's the whole reason that I'm here" Phil replied
"Wait a second, you're the donor?"
"Yes… I care about you Keely and I'm more than happy to help you"
"Oh, thank you Phil" Keely hugged Phil and he hugged her back and her surprise was when he kissed her cheek
"I love you, Keel," he whispered
"I love you too, Phil"
Phil slipped away from Keely so he could prepare for surgery.
Barb Diffy and Laura Teslow were both a bit nervous, but they knew that their children were both in good hands, as both Keely and Phil were prepped for surgery, Keely would get her much needed transplant at last. This would be a new lease on life for her.
The surgery went without issue and they recovered quickly and completely.
After a while Phil began to talk with Dana and Ryan about Tommy and Kimberly and soon found out how close they had been and wondered if there was a chance there was still lingering feelings between them.
He met up with Keely who hand been talking to Kimberly and found out that Kim did want to get back in touch with Tommy and together they decided to set the duo up to meet each other, perhaps by 'accident'
Phil and Keely finished discussing their plans to set up the two teachers… but they wondered why the two had never ran into each other even thought they were teaching at the same school for about a month.
Phil smirked as he walked to Dr. Oliver's class the next day… he had a plan… Keely had landed a gig at a local teen hangout and he knew how big Dr. Oliver was on Keely's style of music.
"Dr. Oliver… Keely wanted me to tell you that she has a gig tomorrow evening and she was wondering if you would go?" Phil said
"Well, I have no plans for tomorrow evening… tell her I'll be there… but Phil, why couldn't she ask me herself?" Tommy asked
"You'll have to ask her, I don't know"
Tommy stopped and thought for a moment.
"I have some former students coming tomorrow to visit… I may just have them come with me, one of them is a musician I think she'll enjoy seeing Keely" Tommy said
"I don't think she'll mind…" Phil smiled
Keely was busy inviting Kimberly to hear her sing… it made her nervous, but then again the whole idea of performing the gig made her nervous, but she didn't know she'd have a girl who had been through that before.
The next day came and Tommy brought Kira Conner and Ethan to watch Keely perform. Kira had her guitar with her as she might get the chance to get her old friends to critique a new song she had written, she didn't know that her guitar would be a help to the new singer.
Phil was with Keely while she was tuning her guitar when suddenly one of the strings broke.
"Phil, I don't have another guitar string… I don't think I can go on!" Keely was near tears when Phil headed out toward Dr. Oliver.
"Dr. Oliver… Keely's got a problem…" Phil said
"What is it?" Kira asked "Maybe I can help…"
"Her guitar string broke and she doesn't have a replacement, and she's so nervous I think that seemed like an omen to her that she was not supposed to go on." Phil said
"Dr. O, will you hand me my guitar?" Kira asked
"Sure Kira, what are you going to do?" Tommy asked
"I'm going to go give a fellow singer a pep talk"
To Be Continued…
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