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When he reached Keely's house, he began pressing the doorbell repeating to get Mrs. Teslow's attention. The door immediately flew open, revealing Mrs. Teslow in her robe and runny mascara.

She looked at Phil, unable to replace him at first. But then, she suddenly cried, "Phil? Phil Diffy?"

"Yeah, it's me," Phil confirmed.

"Oh, Keely mentioned you were back in town," Mrs. Teslow forced a weak and pathetic smile. Then she questioned, "You haven't seen her, have you? She never came home last night!"

Mrs. Teslow frowned when Phil shook his head. Now trembling, Mrs. Teslow whispered, "Do you know where she could be?"

Phil didn't respond at first. Then he said, "Could we talk inside? There's something I feel we need to discuss in private."

"Oh, yes, of course," Mrs. Teslow replied and stepped aside to let Phil in.

When she closed the door, Phil said, "Keely could be anywhere. And I mean absolutely anywhere."

"What do you mean?" Mrs. Teslow choked.

"Well," Phil took a deep breath, terrified of what Mrs. Teslow's reaction was going to be. Then he murmured, "Keely's been kidnapped by one of her co-workers."

"What!" Mrs. Teslow shrieked. Then, ripping out her cellphone she declared, "I have to call the police!"

Phil gently pulled the phone out of Mrs. Teslow's hand before she was able to dial the number. When she demanded what he thought he was doing, Phil said, "That's not going to do any good. The police are never going to find her."

"Why not?" Mrs. Teslow cried.

"Because, believe it or not," Phil took another deep breath, "The man who took her…has the ability to time travel…"

Of course it made perfect sense after the fact. There was no way he didn't if he had such a tangible to connection to Theodore.

Mrs. Teslow's eyebrows just rose at Phil's statement.

"I'll prove it to you," Phil said. "Come with me."

Mrs. Teslow silently followed Phil as he stepped out of the house and made his way back to the hotel. They arrived within ten minutes. They walked into the parking lot where Phil had his RV. He opened the door, revealing not a kitchen and other such basic living utilities, but a strange room filled with strange gadgets, flashing lights, and car seats.

"It's a time machine," Phil stated. "And it's the only way we're going to find Keely. If we go into the future, we'll be able to contact the police force that specializes in this type of case."

Mrs. Teslow silently stepped into the time machine. Phil crawled in behind her and practically shoved the key into the ignition after plopping down in the driver's seat. When he turned, it however, the engine did not start up.

Leaning forward in her own chair, Mrs. Teslow questioned, "What? What is it, Phil?"

Phil smacked at the controls and growled, "This is what I get from buying from that waterslide guy!"

Time was running out. And for the first time in his life, Phil found himself unable to actually stop it.

He turned to Mrs. Teslow then and said, "The time machine broke down."

"Well, can't you fix it?" Mrs. Teslow questioned.

"Even if I could," Phil murmured, "It took my dad almost two years to fix this same model."

"Phil, can you slow down please and just explain to me what is going on here," Mrs. Teslow sighed and buried her face in her hand. "One minute I'm worried about my daughter not coming home, hoping maybe she was just out with you all night. Then next minute I hear you mumbling stuff about her being kidnapped by a time traveler. And now I'm suddenly sitting in time machine."

She looked back up at Phil then and questioned, "Just who are you, Phillip Diffy?"

Phil took a deep breath to calm himself. And then he began to explain all about his family had been on vacation when suddenly their time machine broke down in Pickford. They had no way of fixing of it, forcing his parents to settle down there and send him and his sister to school there. He remembered being so miserable and angry at first. His stomach grew sick whenever the memory of his father telling them that he didn't know how long it would take him to fix the time machine. In that moment, as he sat recounting everything to Keely's mom, his heart grew sick just thinking about his father. He suddenly grew silent when his dad came up.

"And then what?" Mrs. Teslow wondered.

"Well, I got used to being here," Phil shrugged. "I just got so used to be here and then one morning, I woke up and they said it was time to go home."

"Home to the future," Mrs. Teslow realized. Phil just nodded.

"So now what?" Mrs. Teslow questioned. "We wait around for two years for you to be able to fix this thing? Who knows what could happen to Keely by then!"

"There's got to be something we can do," Phil insisted and stood up.

"Where are you going?" Mrs. Teslow questioned as Phil started toward the door.

"To get some air so I can think some things through," Phil said and let the door slam behind him. He leaned against the side of the RV then and let a few tears roll down his cheek as he suddenly recalled why he'd gone and forgotten all about Keely Teslow.

It happened not long after his family returned to the future. It was his last year of high school and graduation was growing near. Instead of heading off to college like every other kid his age, though, he had every intention of buying a time machine of his own, no matter what it took, and return to Keely. But then…

Phil and Pim were called into the principal's office in the middle of the school day. The principal told them that they might want to sit down.

Heart attack? Pim had shouted. People don't have heart attacks anymore!

Pim and Phil took the rest of the year off from school. Since it was late enough in the school year, they had both been allowed to complete all their assignments outside of school. Pim returned to school that fall right on track. Phil received his diploma, but did not attend the ceremony. He was suddenly the man of the house and had to work. But his mother felt otherwise. He had already been accepted into quite a few prestigious colleges. And she didn't want him to through his youth away trying to take care of family that wasn't his responsibility.

You should go, Phil.

He couldn't just defy his grieving mother's wishes. And he couldn't just abandon her by taking off to the past. And so, he selected a college a few miles away from home. And he locked his desire to return to Keely deep in his heart.

And somehow it just faded away with time.