As promised, I have now seen AYA (thanks to a link I found on tumblr. Once the episode is available on iTunes, I'm buying it though), and I am posting this story. I am somewhat far into it, but I won't be updating every five minutes on this story. I really want people to like this one. I don't know why, but I think this story is actually pretty good. I'm gonna continue to work in advance in this story as well as try to update some other stories like 'Dolls and Memories', 'Double Trouble' and 'Uprising of Other Alt Doof', but I can't promise anything. Also I was inspired to write another shot involving 'Fear of Fire' so I'll be turning that into a two-shot. Anyway, here it is (I'm not going to review AYA since I understand some haven't seen it yet.)

I do not own Phineas and Ferb, but I own Marissa Flynn as well as this story.

Read, review and enjoy

"Let the Chips Fall"

It was a sunny day in Danville. All the elementary school kids were still in classes. For some odd reason, Danville's High Schools were let out earlier than Elementary and Middle Schools. Nobody really understood it, but that's how it was. Since teenagers would be teenagers, most of the kids went to the mall or went inside to watch TV or play games on their gaming devices or computers. One girl in particular was unlike all the other teenagers of her age though. Even her sister was among the status quo of teenagers. For one thing she didn't have many- -if any- -friends her own age.

Marissa Flynn sat in the shade under the big tree in the backyard. She gazed up at the sky, but she occasionally looked at her cell phone to check the time. By 'occasionally' of course it meant she constantly checked it every five minutes. She sighed in boredom. It was only two-thirty. Her brothers and their friends wouldn't be out of school for another half an hour yet, and including the bus ride home. Phineas had texted her during his lunch break about a bunch of new project ideas he had to build when they got home. Despite summer being over, they were going to make the most of every day no matter what. Even during the winter, Marissa knew Phineas wasn't going to let the cold stop him from seizing every day. School was just a minor setback, right? Right.

"Ugh, come on, clock. Just turn to three o'clock already," she complained.

Like her brother, Phineas, she didn't like boredom. Unfortunately she wasn't as gifted as he was in inventing and building things. The best she can do is draw and write stories. That doesn't exactly help with inventing though. A creative mind is good, but her mind isn't the 'inventor's creative mind'. She stared at the clouds, and she looked for cloud shapes like she did with the boys when they were little. Funny as it was, she kept seeing shapes of her brothers and their friends. One in particular got her thinking. The shape seemed to look like Phineas and Isabella holding hands. Suddenly every cloud Marissa saw warped into an image of those two being a couple. She sighed as she wondered when those two would get together. They were meant for each other. Then again they were only in grade school, so maybe Phineas just wasn't into girls like that yet. That was reasonable, right? Right.

"I don't get it, Marissa. He seems so focused on his inventions. I mean we were in PARIS, and he didn't even notice me!" Isabella fretted.

"Well," Marissa replied, "to be fair there was the bet. He was probably under a lot of pressure, Isabella."

Isabella sighed, "You're right. I guess I understand that. What about all those other times though?"

"Hm, you could just tell him."

"I couldn't be MORE obvious with these hints though!"

"He's a boy, Isabella. Boys don't get hints like that."

"Seems the others do."

"Well...look at my mom. She's extremely oblivious to our big ideas. Maybe obliviousness just runs in the family."

"You and Candace notice."

"Okay, that's true, but maybe- -"

"Face it! Maybe's not even interested in me."

"If you're too nervous to tell him, I could."

"No way, if it gets out to him that I like him. It could ruin our friendship!"

"You're being really cliche, you know that, don't you?"

"Maybe...but you can't tell him. Please, Marissa."

Marissa sighed, "Alright."

Being sworn to secrecy was such a pain in the neck for Marissa. As the summer went on longer, she noticed more and more hints dropped, and she noticed Phineas vaguely dropped hints of his own. Had he known he'd dropped hints that he liked her, or was it all accidental? Maybe things would change now that they were in school again. Yeah, Phineas wouldn't be surrounded by blue prints and inventions. Plus, he'd be surrounded with people that probably started coupling up. It'd be just a matter of time before he got together with Isabella, right?

The questions rang in her head. Was Phineas really that oblivious, or did he truly catch on or secretly like her back? It started to give her a headache. However the calmness of day helped her fall asleep. When she woke, Phineas' deep blue eyes were staring at her. Phineas smiled at her waking, and she did a small yawn stretch routine.

"Morning, sleepy head," Phineas greeted, "have a nice nap?"

"I was waiting for you guys to get off the bus," she answered, "so did you get those projects done?"

"No, I wanted to wait for you," Phineas answered, "I know you like being included with us."

"What did you do in the meantime?"

"Homework," Phineas answered.

"On the first day?"

"Okay, fine, I did my homework way in advance, and you know I don't wait till the last minute," Phineas chuckled.

"Yeah," Marissa giggled, "so how's Isabella?"

"Isabella? Oh, she's fine. We have all our classes together."

"You're in elementary school. Enjoy it while you can."

Both siblings laughed, and they went inside. Everyone- -Isabella, Ferb, Buford, Baljeet and even Irving- -was on the couch watching Pinhead Pierre since their current TV channel was having a 'Back to the Past' marathon of it's older shows. Everyone seemed to be okay, but Marissa could see Isabella was distressed. Either something happened at school, or she and Marissa had the same thought today. Unfortunately it seemed that's what the problem was. Phineas was oblivious as always. Apparently she'd dropped hints all day, and of course, he didn't get them. Would he ever get them?