yay! the fourth chapter is finally up!
well, cant think of anything to say right now, so ill just answer a few reviews then.
Catwoman15 – actually, I think youre right. you have to be 13 to become a member. but it cant be helped…people will break the rules sometimes. anyways, thanks for reading! i hope you have time to read the other chappies!
ShortyFaillace – yup! i live in HI! i don't think on the same island, tho…never heard of st. andrews or la pietra or anything like that…
GilmorePottergirl81529 – thanks for the comment! the reason i can actually write this story is because i actually like my best friend as well, and i deal with all the "does he like me" stuff. we're not going out or anything, though, which is why i have yet to figure out how to finally get phil and keely together in my fanfic. ill figure it out somehow. lol…
Emily - wait...swearing? i dont think i made keely swear...unless your counting the "damn" and "hell" stuff. if thats what you mean, then im sorry. ill try to avoid it next time. i just think its weird to have them say, "oh, darn it!" or something like that. it sounds corny. but yeah.
Yu-Lun - hey, miyoko-chan...are you ever gonna find the time to read my story? i mean, cmon, i know you have homework and all, i have classes with you! but could you take five minutes to just read and comment? jeez! lol...nah. i know youre not really a POTF fan anyways.
okie dokie then. onto the next chappie!
Disclaimer: -groan- must i do this for every chapter? no, i dont own phil of the future or any of its characters. only this twisted plot of mine. muahahaha...
If Only You Knew
Chapter Four: Studying in the Snow
It was even colder than in the morning. As Phil and Keely walked up the street that lead to the Diffy house, a gust of freezing wind blew and Keely shivered vigorously. Suddenly she felt something warm, and she turned to see Phil adjusting her forgotten jacket around her shoulders. She smiled gratefully and slipped her arms into the sleeves, but then frowned when she saw him shiver slightly as well.
Wait...Phil, what about you?" she asked, stopping to look at him.
Phil grinned. "No worries." He pulled out the Wizard from his pocket and materialized a thick jacket right onto his body, and they continued walking.
"That thing is so awesome!" Keely exclaimed, never failing to be in awe of Phil's many futuristic gadgets. "I wish I had one of those when I go out with you---" She saw the look on Phil's face and panicked, blushing furiously as she quickly corrected herself. "No, I-I mean, not on a DATE, just...like, to the mall, or something...you know, as friends...guy friend, gal friend...yeah..." She mentally whacked herself on the head for thinking about him again, but Phil just smiled, amused.
The Diffy house was quiet as the two friends walked into the backyard, waving awkwardly at an enthusiastic Mr. Hackett on the other side of the fence before rushing through the back door and into the safety of Phil's kitchen. Both Phil and Keely took off their jackets and slipped into the living room, dropping their bags on the couch and looking around.
"Dad? Mom?" Phil called into the silent house. No reply. He glanced at Keely, who shrugged, and he yelled again. "Pim?…Curtis?"
A grunt came from the top of the stairs, and a familiar caveman popped his head out above the railing. He smiled wide and said, "Phil come home! Curtis told to tell Phil that Mom and Dad out. Come back by dinner!" He chuckled and went off to do whatever he had been doing before, leaving Phil and Keely alone again.
Keely sat down next to her bag and opened it, glancing at Phil as he quietly stared up the staircase. "Wait…where's Pim?" he called, and Curtis's voice drifted down in reply. "Garage! Working on thing-a-ma-jig!"
Phil turned to face Keely, and she noticed a vaguely familiar evil glint in his eyes as he smiled. A certain part of her dream can tumbling back into Keely's mind, and her eyes widened. "Phil?" she asked cautiously, shifting uneasily on the couch as her stomach squirmed. Evil eyes never meant anything good.
"I'll be right back. Could you wait here for a bit?" he asked, slowly starting to walk backwards towards the stairs. Keely nodded, bewildered, and Phil turned and raced up the steps. He skidded to a halt before Pim's room and opened her door, an evil grin on his face.
"I'll scare her a bit. It'll make up for this morning."
He took out the wizard and browsed through it, finally finding the design of the room his mom had made for Pim a few weeks ago, with the shimmering rainbow display. He pressed a button and the furniture in Pim's room vanished, only to be replaced by pink walls, stuffed animals, big poofy pillows, and the trademark rainbow. He pushed the "locked" button and typed in a passcode, then shoved it back into his pocket. Then Phil quickly closed the door and ran back down to the living room, where Keely sat waiting.
He sat down next to her and opened his bag, taking out his Geometry book and turning to the pages related to the test. "Okay, Keel, let's start and get this over with." When he got no reply, Phil looked up and saw Keely staring out the window, looking shocked. "Keely?" He waved his hand in front of her face, and she slowly turned to look at him, mouth open. "I-It's..." she started, but couldn't finish. "What?" Phil asked, cocking his head, confused. Keely tried again. "I-It's...It's..."
"It's snowing out there, Phil..."
"WHAT!" Phil whirled around on the couch and stared out the window in complete awe. Thousands of beautiful flakes fell from the sky, coating the ground in brilliant white and already a couple of inches deep. "H-How long?" Phil asked Keely, without taking his eyes off the sight outside. "Right after you left," she whispered, eyes sparkling. "It just...started falling...but how? We're in Pickford! It never snows here, especially not this much..."
Phil's mind clicked right then and there. "Yeah..." he said in a low voice, suddenly suspicious. "At least, it wouldn't, unless someone MADE it snow..." Memories of Pim complaining about school and getting revenge on Candida and the Fashion Zombies for something suddenly appeared in his head. He put two and two together...
"Pim!" Phil growled, standing up in a rush and startling Keely. He stormed into the garage, where Pim was sitting at a dusty table, examining a gadget and in deep thought. He slammed the door behind him in a rage, unfortunately right in Keely's face, and glared at his devilish little sister. Pim squeaked in surprise and hid the gadget from view, laughing nervously as a faint "Hey!" was heard behind the garage door.
"Oh...heeeeey Phiiiil...what's up?" she asked innocently, trying to put on her best "cute-little-sister" face. It didn't work.
"What's that?" Phil replied, ignoring her greeting, pointing to her hands under the table. He quickly walked over and snatched the gadget from her, much to her complaints. He looked it over, then realized what it was.
"The Insta-Weather!" Phil said in disbelief. (yes...my pathetic name for this gadget...DONT TEASE!) "Pim, it's SNOWING out there! You know Dad said you couldn't use this in 2005! How the heck did you find it, anyway?"
"Time Machine, under Dad's seat," Pim said in defeat. "I was only gonna put it on 'Extra Sunny' for a while, since Fashion Freak was tanning in her backyard, but it malfunctioned and broke on 'Blizzard'. I was trying to fix it until now."
Phil groaned and put his head in his hands. There was no way they'd be able to fix this, at least not until their parents came home. "The snow's gonna keep on piling up unless we fix this thing. We have to get Mom and Dad. Fast."
"But how am I gonna get home?" Keely asked quietly from behind him, and he whirled around to see that she had unnoticeably slipped in without him realizing it. He gazed at her with a loss of words. "I...I don't know. The snow's gonna fall harder by the minute, we can't go out there."
Keely stared at him silently as her mind worked things out. 'Snow means block-up. Block-up means no getting home. And no getting home means...Oh God...a night over at Phil's house? TONIGHT, of all days? This is NOT what I thought would happen when I woke up this morning. Oh wait...I didn't wake up this morning, I was up the whole time THINKING ABOUT PHIL. What am I gonna do? I know Via said to act cool, but I don't think she expected THIS! Am I starting to ramble again? Oh shoot! I AM starting to ramble again! And now Phil's staring at me like I'm nuts. Smart, Keely, smart!''
Phil watched in utter amusement as the girl's face in front of him changed from blankness, to horror, to realization, to despair, then to embarrassment in all of ten seconds. "Um, Keel..."
Keely pushed her thoughts away and said, "Phil, I don't have any extra clothes or anything. How am I supposed to---"
Phil laughed, interrupting her. "Keely, I think you're forgetting who you're talking to." He took out the Wizard and swung it playfully in front of his friend's face, watching as her eyes widened in realization. "C'mon. let's get out of this garage. We can study for Geometry and do other stuff till my parents come home. Pim---" he shot his sister a deadly look. "Don't do anything stupid. Just...watch some t.v. or something in the living room. Me and Keel will be in the kitchen."
"Yeah, okay." Pim answered, being careful to not give any attitude. She was already in enough trouble anyway. They walked back into the house together, as the snowfall outside became slowly worse.
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"Wait...WHAT?" Keely asked for what seemed like the hundredth time that day. Phil was patient with her, though, and explained again. "It wouldn't be cosine, because you're trying to find the distance of line B on the right triangle. 47 degrees represents this acute angle, and to find this missing length you have to use tangent. Here, just think of it as---" He wrote SOHCAHTOA on a piece of paper, "...SOHCAHTOA. For SOH, it means that sine equals the opposite length divided by the hypotenuse." Phil pointed to the letters on the paper, and Keely nodded in some understanding. "CAH is cosine, which equals the adjacent length divided by the hypotenuse, and TOA is tangent, which is the opposite length divided by the adjacent length." Phil finished, and Keely finally understood. "So we'd use...tangent...and the answer for line B is...134 feet!" she said in triumph, and Phil cheered. "YES! That's it!"
Pim groaned from her spot on the couch in the living room. "I need ear muffs..." She upped the volume on her movie glasses and unpaused Galactigirl 2, smiling with glee as another robot was annihilated in surround sound.
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Having finally finished studying, Keely followed Phil upstairs to his room, sitting down on his bed as he went over to the window and looked outside. The snow had picked up a lot by now and was turning into a blizzard, and there was already at least three feet of white covering the ground. Phil sighed in exasperation, leaning his forehead on the cold window pane. "Where are they?" he asked, more to himself than the girl on the edge of his bed.
Suddenly he felt her behind him, her hands on his shoulders, comforting him. "Don't worry," Keely said softly, putting her face right next to his own, forgetting that she was a lot closer to him than she should be right now. "They'll come. They'll fix it. No one's gonna suspect anything. And..." she smiled brightly, "School will be cancelled for at least two days because of this whole thing!"
Phil smiled as well, thanking the Gods that he had such a great---and gorgeous---best friend. They stood like that for a while, side by side, watching the snow fall, just happy to have each other in that moment---
And then Pim let out an enraged scream nearby.
The two friends broke apart and looked away from each other, flushed. Pim screamed again, except this time a single word had been made out of it. "PHIL!"
It was then that Phil realized---Pim had walked into her room.
"Uh-oh." he muttered, grabbing Keely's hand and pulling her towards the door. "We'd better run and hide. FAST." Keely looked at him, confused and flushed at the same time as she looked down at her hand. "But---what---"
"I'll tell you later. Just RUN!" he yelled, wishing he could've seen the look on his sister's face when she saw her room. But now was too late. As Phil and Keely ran down the steps as fast as they could, Pim stomped out of her room, face red, a teddy bear in her hands.
"You just wait, big brother..." she gritted through her teeth, gripping the bear so hard that its head ripped off. "When I find you, if I find you before Mom and Dad get home...you'll look worse than this little teddy of mine!" She laughed wickedly.
"Oh, it's on, Phil...It's on..."
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A/N: lol...that was so fun to type! dont worry, nothing happened to lloyd and barb, im just putting them in the next chappie. i already started typing chapter 5, so no worries! anyways, thanks so much again for supporting me on this story...dont forget to read and review! THANKS! I LOVE YOU GUYS!