Phil and Keely walk to a restaurant called The Traveling Eagle. Keely and Phil went over what happened over the past years since seeing each other last. "Why didn't your parents want you to come back to the past?" Keely asked while taking a bite of her steak. Phil swallowed his sip of water hard when she asked this. "Uh, they," He started, "Just the usual, they didn't want me to go to the past because I might drastically change something." Phil lied threw his teeth. But he knew this wasn't the right time to tell her what was really going on. "But it doesn't matter. I'll pick up the check, ok?" Phil told Keely. "No, I can't let you, your my guest sort of." Keely protested.

"I insist, you've had a hard day. Let me pay."

When the check came by Phil left the money and asked Keely if she wanted to leave.

Keely and Phil then walked to the park reminiscing about when they were younger. They walked to a small pond and watched a bird bath in the water.

"Phil?"

"Yes Keely?"

"What would have happened if you stayed in the present and never went back to the future?"

Phil choked a little again, "Well, we would still be best friends, and hopefully we would have continued dating."

"What do you mean by hopefully?"

"Well, things happen between couples, like you said, it didn't work out with that one guy from collage."

"Oh, yea..."

"Keely?"

"Yes Phil?"

"How would you feel if we continued from where we left off from when I left?"

Keely felt warm inside and wanted to scream out yes but she needed to stay cool. "I would love too." She said smiling.

Phil beamed. He had all the wanting to just dance wild and crazy with his excitement, but didn't want to humiliate himself. Phil took Keely's hand in his instead and gave her a small peck on her forehead.

When they got back to Keely's house Keely went to take her shoes off. "Well, I should probably head back to the apartment." Phil said as inching toward the door. Keely jumped in front of him, "No, no, no. You said that your apartment was disgusting. I won't have that! You're staying here tonight."

"Oh, no, I couldn't impose on you."

"How are you imposing, you came back to the past to see me. And also we're dating again. Just stay for tonight at least. You can't just leave me again after leaving me for five years."

"I guess your going to be one of those clingy girlfriends now that never leave there boyfriends out of their sight." Phil laughed.

"Phil!" Keely gave Phil a stern look.

"Keely, I understand, but believe me, I'm not going to leave you again. I'm not going back to the future."

"Please Phil? Just at least just for tonight. It would just make me feel better."

Phil pulled Keely into his arms and kissed her again on the forehead. "Fine, if you insist."

"I insist! I insist! You can stay in the guest room."

"Thank you Keely. Yu have no idea how gross that apartment is."

"I could only imagine, I'm going to go set up the bed in the guest room, you can just wait down here or something." Keely walked up the stairs and turned down the hall.

Phil walked into the living room and looked at the pepper shaker without a salt shaker. He reached into the inside pocket of his jacket and pulled out the missing salt shaker. He placed it next to the pepper shaker and sat on the couch. He looked at the shakers and thought about their significance."

Keely returned down the stairs and sat next to him on the couch. "What are you thinking about?"

"What do you mean?"

"You have that look on your face like your thinking about something."

"I do? Oh, nothing, never mind."

"How's Pim? You haven't talked about her all night."

Phil turned to Keely and held her hands, "Pim... died... Someone killed her when she was at that mall with her friend; you know the mall I showed you with the virtual-goggles?"

"Yea I know. Did anyone find out who killed her?"

Phil eyes were glassy, "Yes. But he never served his punishment."

Keely gave Phil a hug for comfort. Phil hugged back and took in deep breaths.

"She got in a fight with the killer while he was in line and taking forever at the food court. One thing had lead to another and he took her by the arm and took her to a small room and raped her. Then he strangled her to death." Phil continued.

Keely had tears coming down her face. She could feel Phil's tears soaking through her blouse on her shoulder. She gave him a squeeze. Before he pulled away from the hug her cleared his tears and tried to seem like he never lost a tear even though he knew that Keely knew that he cried. "How are your parents about this?" Keely asked holding Phil's hands.

"Mom shut herself in hers and dads room for about a week. I think my dad cried along with her when I wasn't around."

"I'm so sorry Phil."

"My mom almost took a time machine and went back in time to keep her safe. But the laws of time travel wouldn't let her."

"I'm really sorry Phil. That's terrible."

"It's not like you could have done anything." Phil gave another hug to Keely.

"You know what? Lets watch some TV to get your mind off of unhappy things, ok?"

Phil smiled, I would love that.

They turned on the TV and started watching the old sitcom "10 Items Or Less". Keely fell asleep on Phil's shoulder as Phil laughed at what people from the year 2006 thought was funny because it was so stupid.