love is complicated (a philidosia fanfic)

The day before the dance (part 1)

Phillips pov

    It was the day before the dance I played in my bed trying to get a couple more minutes  of sleep, my younger siblings bounced up and down on my bed. "Phillip wakey wakey!" The yelled as they bounced around. "I'm up, I'm up." I told them as I rubbed my eyes. I sat up and scooped my younger sister into my arms, she squealed with delight as rocked her back and forth. I grabbed their little hands and walked them downstairs, and lead them to the playroom. I walked back up the stairs, I was exhausted I couldn't sleep I was to busy thinking about how I hurt Eacker. As I walked in my room I heard a buzzing noise, it was my phone I grabbed it and said

"Hello?" "Phillip thank God you picked up." She told me, Theo's voice sounded like she was panicking. "Theo what's wrong." I asked her I was now almost as scared as her. "My dad said I can't go to the dance with you because you hurt Eacker." She says her voice was all shaky. "Theo it will be okay I'll talk to him, this is all my fault." I tried my best to make her stop crying but know I was crying too. "It's my fault I never should have told him." She said she seemed to be crying even harder. "Ill be there in 10 minutes, we can fix this." I told her this seemed to make her crying slow down. "Ok meet me outside my house." She told me. "Ok see you there." I told her as I hung up. I rushed to get dressed and then raced down the stairs. "Phillip where are you going?" My mom asked as I frantically tied my shoes. "To Theo's I have to fix something." I told her as I rushed out the door. "Fix what! She yelled but I was already half down our street.

I arrived at Theo's house, and noticed her pacing back and forth across her  porch she seemed so stressed. "Theo I'm here." I told her as I ran up to her and grabbed her hand. "Phillip" she says as she grabbed me and kissed me. "I'll go talk to him." I told her. "Are you sure I don't want you to get hurt." She started crying again as she talked. "Ill be fine." I tell her as I wipe away a tear. I followed her inside, her father walked out of his office and said "Theo what is Phillip doing here, I told you not to talk to him." He told her sternly while giving me a death glare. "Sir you don't understand it was a accident I didn't mean to hurt him." I told him very politely. "How do I know your not lying." He told me as he softened his glance. "I assure you sir that this the truth, I tackled him but he nearly escaped my grip so I pounced him, I landed on his ankle and sprained it." I explained carefully. "Theo is this the truth? He asked her. "Yes father." She said as she bowed her head in submission. "Well it seems like I might have over reacted." As he said this Theo's face lit up with delight. "Thank you father!" She said runing into his arms tears of joy streaming down her face. "Aww Theo, I'll I want is for you to be happy."  Her father told her as he wiped away her tears. "Thank you sir you have no idea how scared she was when she called me this morning." I told him taking a step closer to Theo. "I can tell by the way she talks about you that she loves you very much." He said, I felt my face blush, Theo looks back at me her face was bright red. She walked towards me and grabbed my hand she was smiling and said "Thank you for fixing this Phillip." I brought her into my arms and told her, "it's no problem my love." She looked up at my face and next thing I know my lips where on hers. "Ill leave you two alone." Her father told us walking back into his office.

Theo lead me into the kitchen and grabbed a small picnic basket and started making peanut butter and jam sandwichs. "What are you doing? I asked her helping her spread some peanut butter on a slice of bread. "I thought we could go on a picnic to celebrate." She told as she closed up a sandwich. "That sounds good to me." I tell Theo as I place some peanut butter on a slice of bread. She grabbed the sandwich from my hand once id finished making it and plaved it in the picnic basket off the counter and I followed her outside. We walked to the park and then layed down a checkered blanket on the field. I watched as Phillip sat down next to me on the blanket and handed me a sandwich. I grabbed the sandwich and took a big bite, the jam was sweet and smooth and the peanut butter was sticky. I turned towards her and asked "This jam is amazing, what brand is it?" She finished chewing then said "Well it's my mother's recipe, we used to make it together every summer." Theo looked towards the sky when she mention her mother like she was imagining her mom was still alive. She seems like such a wonderful woman." I tell her being careful not to upset her. "She was the best, she was always there for everyone kinda like your mom Phillip." She told me as she took a bite of her sandwich. We sat there in the sun eating are sandwichs and talking for 30 minutes, after a while we decided to stare up at the clouds. We layed there trying to find shapes in the clouds. After we finished packing up I drove her home, and then drove back to my house when I arrived I was greeted by my mother.

"Where were you?" My mother told me as she looked me over making sure I was alright. "I had to sort something out at Theo's, I'm sorry mom." She calmed down and told me "Never scare me like that again Phillip or you'll be grounded for a year!" "I won't mom I promise." I told her, my mom's the sweetest woman alive but when she yells it strikes fear right in your heart. "That's my good boy now go take care of your brothers." She told me sternly. I walked to the playroom and was greeted by my younger siblings screaming my name and grabbing my legs. I played with them for several hours, we played with their toy trains. We also played horsy for a bit they would climb on my back and equal as I walked on all fours around the playroom. I watched as they sat on the floor giggling, to he a child again with no worries and no stress I missed when life was that easy. "Phillip bring the kids dinners ready." My mother called. "Coming mom, let's go boys it's dinner time." I told them as I lead them into the dinning room, they all were so happy. I helped the kids sit down at the table, my mother brought in a tray of burgers. I watched as everyone grabbed a burger and dug in, once everyone else had a burger I took one for myself. Everyone was there at the table except for my father who had so much work he had decided to eat in his office. I took a bite of my burger I little ketchup oozed out the corner of my mouth, my mother handed me a light blue napkin. "Thanks mom." I say wiping away the ketchup. After dinner I helped Angie with the dishes it wasn't my day to do the dishes but I felt bad about running out earlier. Once we finished me and Angie headed upstairs to finish our school work. I finished my homework in twenty minutes so I decided to work on some poems. After a hour of work I finished my poem and then headed to bed the dance was tomorrow and I needed the sleep. I layed in my bed trying to sleep but it was hard, I was so excited to dance with Theo she was the love of my life after all.