hey you people!

its unbelieveable how damn long i took to whip up this chapter. jeez. again, im really sorry about it, because the pressure is really on me right now, especially since im expected to maintain a 4.0 average, juggle in work and swimming, AND go to bed all before eleven. ("you need your sleep, now GO TO BED ALREADY!") so i've dedicated the little time i have on the bus each morning and afternoon to try and get as much of this story done as i can, just for you! lol...many thank yous for the many reviews while i was gone, its always great to see that. im almost to a hundred! yay! thats my goal now, one hundred reviews.

anyways, i kinda came to notice that everytime i put uncommon puctuations and designs in my story, it always ends up getting erased. like, for instance, i cant put a stupid exclamation mark after a question mark, because then the question mark is erased and it messes the whole quote up, and then it doesnt sound like a question because there IS no question mark. the same goes for the little star symbol (you know, the SHIFT 8 thing...is it called an asterek or something?), it always gets erased. so if any of you guys know how to fix this, id really appreciate it. its pissing me off. :(

and now, to wrap things up...my new favorite songs on my aly and aj cd is now collapsed and no one. (all of them are good, though.) me and my friend sing it like idiots during school. so fun. lol...now to the story!

Disclaimer: still hoping...STILL WAITING...(silence)...nope. dont own it.

If Only You Knew

Chapter Seven: Plans

"Are you almost done fixing the Insta-Weather, honey?" Barb asked her husband as she walked into the confinments of the small dark garage. For some odd reason a distinct odor reached her nose, and she covered her nose and mouth with her hand to block out the stench. Lloyd spun around quickly to face his wife, his features twisted into a overjoyous smile. "Even better!" he almost shouted, causing Barb to raise her eyebrows in amusement. "It turns out that, while fixing the Insta-Weather, I discovered an extra piece that could be used to fix another part of the time machine! With this, I can connect it to the element condenser so that it won't refract and create a parabolic curve, which means that the partical tube won't ignite and the a-symptonic curve..." he continued to babble on incoherently as Barb shook her head, impatient. "Which means...?" she asked, interrupting Lloyd's "speech" halfway through. He gave a goofy grin, unable to contain himself any longer. "JUST ONE MORE PART, AND WE'RE GOIN' BACK HOME!" With that he broke out into an unusual tap dance, whooping with glee.

Barb gasped and clasped her hands together, watching happily as her husband jumped around the garage. Slowly, though, her smile faded, and she turned towards the door behind her, gazing at it in sorrow. 'But Phil...and Keely,' her mind whispered, and Barb sighed. Whatever happened between the two wouldn't matter much longer, especially if things kept on going the way they were. Her son was going to have a lot of trouble on his hands...whether he wanted it or not.

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"Look, I just want you to mess up their little date," Pim said as she laid back on her bed, arms behind her head. Ironically, she was talking to thin air. "NO, don't hit on her again, you freakin robot, just mess up Phil's life and get it over with! She's not gonna fall for you like last time." She sighed in irritance, and continued. "Yeah, I guess you could make her mad at him, I really don't care!"

Suddenly Lloyd's voice echoed throughout Pim's room as her Wizrd automatically turned on, his face appearing on the small screen. "Pim, get down here! You gotta see this, it's important!" When he didn't get an answer, he sighed and left the screen, Barb taking his place. "Honey, you really do need to see this. Listen to your father, and come to the garage."

Pim groaned and sat up, still talking to what seemed like herself. "Ya got all that, Pipehead? Good. Don't screw it up."

She laughed sinisterly as she took off the Virtu-Goggles, tossing them on her bed as she stood up to leave. "How pathetic. I can't even watch my brother experience the worst day of his life!" She shook her head and closed her bedroom behind her, trudging downstairs to whatever awaited her in the garage.

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Not that far away, back in the Virtual World, Robbie rubbed his hands together as he thought up a plan.

"Mess up Doofus's life? No problem..."

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A/N: (sigh...) im sorry, i know its short. i just wanted to update for you guys, since i know youve been waiting for so long. ill try to post a longer one soon, i promise. until then...see ya! read and review...thanks!;P