We're Inside And Losing
By. Tate Icasa
Chapter Two: Symptoms, Part Two
Bill was laying on his bed, half awake. Or rather, Phil was lying on his bed, half awake.
"Mom?" he asked, opening his eyes.
"Honey, why are you out of your disguise?"
"I don't know." he was funny awake now. "I didn't turn it off."
Sara pursed her lips. She picked up the instamorph from a dresser and pointed it at him.
He skin rippled, parts of it turned to gold liquid, and he clasped his head in his hands. "Ow! Mom, stop!"
Sara put the instamorph down. "Are you ok?"
He nodded. "Mom, what happend. Why didn't I change?"
Sara thought for a moment. A look of worry spread across her face. "That can't be. . .Phil, what do you know about Yittzie's Disease?"
"Enough." he said. "You can't think?"
"I don't know what else it could be."
"What's Yittzie's Disease?" Kim asked.
"Look it up on your wizard." Phil said. "Mom, if I have it, that means Keely has it too."
Sara frowned.
"She should be here." Phil said. "No one's at home at her house."
Sara nodded.
Phil lurched forward.
"Something's wrong." he said urgently. "I - I felt it." he looked at his mom. "We have to get her. Now."
"How do you know that?" Kim asked.
"Yittzie's."
"Mom, I can't have Yittzie's. It's impossible. Yittzie's isn't going to happen for another. . .89 years!"
"Phil, you know the symptoms, you tell me."
He hesitated, the nodded. "We have to get Keely."
"You have to stay here. Kim and I'll go."
"You said what now?" Kim asked, at the same time Phil said. "Mom, I have to go!"
Phil went on. "Keely knows me. She trusts me. If I tell her we have to go, she'll listen. You and Kim. . ." he shrugged.
"He's right, mom." Kim said.
"But you can't go out in public! What if Hackett see's you?"
"He won't." Phil said confidently. "Kim, hand me the invisospray."
"Kim, don't." Sara said quickly. "Phil! Do you know how dangerous it is to use future gadgets when you have Yittzie's?"
"I can handle it, mom, give me that spray!"
"Mom?" Kim asked.
Sara considered for a moment.
"Ok, Kim, Phil."
Kim handed a bottle of invisospray to Phil. "Here."
Phil slow became invisible. "Let's go." he said slowly.
