Keely stood there stunned. Her heart skipped many beats. She almost fainted from disbelief. She threw her arms around the man and squeezed him with all her might without killing him.
"Keely, I came back for you." He said.
"Phil, I missed you so much! I thought I would never see you!"
"I know, but I just had to see you again." Phil said.
"Your choice of words makes it sound like your going to go back to the future soon." Keely said unhappily.
"No never. Do you know how hard it was without you?" Phil asked still embraced.
Keely changed the subject, "How did you know where I lived?"
Phil chuckled a little, "Call me a stalker," He let go unwillingly from Keely, "But I came to this time yesterday morning and I knew you worked at the local news station because I saw the news yesterday at noon. So today I went to the stationed and disguised myself as a janitor and was waiting to see you. When you never came in to do your report, my heart sunk into my stomach. But I decided maybe you would be there later, plus they thought I was actually so I had to stay there anyways to clean up. I saw you walk in hurriedly and when you were in your boss's office I just had to listen but I couldn't listen anymore when Mr. Ways fired you. It was too hard for me, and I figured you'd be coming out soon so I had to keep my cover and keep on sweeping."
"That was you?" Keely was awfully confused and thought about if the janitor resembled Phil.
"Yes, and then when you were walking down the street and you tripped, I had to help you out. But I followed you to your house, then went to my newly rented apartment and cleaned up to come and see you."
Keely threw her arms around him again and started crying, "I'm glad you're a stalker Phil."
After standing there hugging for several minutes. Keely pulled away with tears still racing down her face. Phil wiped her tears away with his thumb. "So, this is your house." Phil said while looking at his surroundings. "Yep, my mom bought it for me after graduating from collage." Keely replied looking with him. "So you mentioned that you have an apartment?" Yes, it's not that great. It's actually rather revolting. My parents didn't want me to come here but I didn't care because I've been out of the house for four year now, hell I should be able to do what I want. And money is worth less in the future considering our-" Phil stopped in mid sentence, "your not supposed to find out about that for another 115 years." Phil and Keely laughed lightly at this. Keely lead Phil into the living room to sit down and talk.
Keely sat on the couch and Phil sat in the armchair. He sank in the seat relived to be in a comfortable seat. "I've been either walking or driving all day; it's good to be able to sit down." Phil explored around the room with his eyes from the seat. He noticed that on the mantel was the pepper shaker from five years ago. "You still have that?" asked Phil pointing at the shaker. "Yep, still have it after so long." Keely answered.
"It hasn't been that long, only five years."
The way Phil said that sentence almost tore Keely's heart out. She had missed him so much for all of those five years. She felt stupid for missing him so much now.
"So do you have a boyfriend now?" Phil asked trying to not sound too curious. Keely had a slight smile because at least he was wondering about her relations with other men. "I had a boyfriend during collage but... things didn't... work out so well."
"Oh, I see. Hey, let's go do something. Let's go out to get your mind off of your nonexistent job now." Keely laughed at this small joke and stood up to get her purse to walk with Phil to a near restaurant.