Hey guys, so this is my first story I'm actually publishing so please review and let me know if I made any errors or just what you think. I'm a huge Ferbella fan and I know it's not a popular ship but Anyway I don't own anything except my crazy plot line. Please let me know what you think.

Ferb's point of view

God I was exhausted. I had been up all night last night talking with Isabella on Skype, well not talking, listening and gesturing. To think this girl who I grew up with, who had the biggest crush on my brother until 9th grade, to think, well that she was growing up. She was leaving and going off to college. I don't know why I was feeling even remotely sentimental, I was going too. I had my plane ticket for England already, four years at good old Camford-on-Oxbury.

We stayed up all night, her going on about how excited she was about college. Debate camp mostly. They were going to start training for the competition they would be having in the fall. That's why she'd be leaving early. That's why I didn't go to bed, I couldn't stand the thought of not seeing my best friend for years, and I think she felt the same way. She had to because she just kept talking even when she ran out of things to say about college, she just kept talking.

"I don't think I will tell anyone I'm going, well not anyone that doesn't already know, I just really don't wanna spend my last day with a bunch of sappy story's about the past and everyone looking at me like they will never see me again, I mean it's just tristate state right? I will still be in town, albeit a big town, but still in town…"

I was silent as ever, she seemed much more worried than her speech let on, she was worried she'd never see us again, I'm sure she just didn't want to cry in front of everyone or have painful memories dragged back up. It wasn't very long ago that she … I looked up and she had stopped talking. I blinked and she knew.

"Ferb I … ok maybe you are right I am worried, I'd love to say good bye to everyone but you know I'm no good at those things. If I could be certain the day wouldn't be a sappy mess then maybe..."

'With our friends it would always be a sappy mess' I thought, but I simply tilted my head and blinked again.

"Uhg your right… you're always right Ferb…"

"Why not do as you are planning now and just leave tomorrow, and then you can come back at Thanksgiving and it won't be sappy but you can still see everyone and It will be normal... well normal for us."

It was logical, it would work and she'd get exactly what she wanted and not have to worry about anything while she was at camp. I didn't want to think of her at school all alone just worrying.

"Oh wow why didn't I think about that? Ferb you always know just what to do, you've always been so smart, smarter than any of us. Speaking of which, what about you? What are your thoughts about college?"

College…ugh. "Well, I will be back in England, which will be nice for a little while." That was code for 'I want to be somewhere that I'm not just Phineas's brother, the quiet one, where I could just be Ferb for a while.'

"Do you really have to go to England to get what you want?"

How she always knew was beyond me… I shrugged. Maybe I didn't need to go, but I didn't want to stay and nothing change. "Even if we went to different schools I feel like that stigma would still be there"

This time she nodded. She was thinking something, what I wouldn't give to peer in her mind like she could do to me. "Is something wrong Bella?"

She looked up, opened her mouth like she was going to say something, then visibly shook off the thought, smiled and tried again. "I bet Vanessa will miss you while you are gone, do you have any plans of how to stay in touch?"

Another shot. She always hit right on the sore subjects. I shrugged. "We haven't per say, she's been kind of flighty lately. We haven't spent a lot of time together either. I feel like she doesn't think it will work out…" just voicing the thought made me sad, like I by acknowledging it was making it real…

"Maybe that's not the case Ferb, hopefully she's just trying to adjust so it won't be such a shock when you're gone." She smiled a half smile. We both knew the odds. Bella was my best friend though, it was her job to say those things, so I didn't argue I just nodded.

"Plus you'll be home during the holidays, you too can reconcile each time you do and be all lovey-dovey or whatever" she laughed a little at the thought.

"Bella… I probably won't be home during those times… I have family in England and if I want to graduate early I will have to work as much as I can." I saw the wheels turning in her mind.

"So you wouldn't be home for thanksgiving?" I shook my head. "Then can we spend the day together tomorrow?"

I was shocked. I mean me and Isabella spent a lot of time together, we went out and did things and we all spent time together as a group but… it was her last day, and she wanted to spend it with me. Just me. Well she didn't say that exactly. I didn't need to jump to conclusions but I couldn't help but feel happy. No that's not right, why did I feel that way? It would be selfish of me to keep her to myself like that, our friends would want to see her, not that I didn't want to have her last day… no I have a girlfriend! Those thoughts were banished years ago. Another reason I would be glad to be out of my brother's shadow…

"Ferb? Hello did you hear me?" I snapped back to reality. "Sorry Bella."

"Geeze Ferb sometimes," she laughed, "How about after I get off work we go get something to eat and maybe you can help me move into my dorm?"

She really did want just me, well not like that, but a day of just us hanging out like the old days. I must have paused too long.

"Well I mean I don't want to force you to do manual labor or anything, and if you're busy or anything I understand, I didn't-"

"Bella I'd love too"

"Geee!" she squealed. Sometimes she could act like she did when she was 12; cute, innocent, and easily excitable. Then she'd be back to 20; cool, reserved, and confidant. I envied that. I feel like I've been stuck just as the same Ferb since that first summer of invention, or at least in the eyes of everyone around us.

"Well we better get some sleep then so we can have fun tomorrow, oh maybe we can watch old cartoons after we unpack, do you want to go to get pizza or buffet? Well maybe buffet would be a bad idea if we have to unpack, oooh what about Italian? No still too much. Geeze what time is it? Oh gosh that late! Ferb time always flies while I'm with you, though I hope it doesn't tomorrow. I guess I better go, sweet dreams, text me ok." She smiled and waved, like she always did at the end of a skype call. She really does ramble when she gets excited.

After we hung up I went to the bedroom and laid on my bed and looked at the clock; 4:15, what an odd time, but what an odder feeling. I may not have been completely honest with Isabella. I knew Vanessa was breaking up with me. I had seen signs; she had been talking a lot with one of her old flames, the sad look in her eyes when we talked, the sadder look from her friends, plus the fact that she hadn't kissed me in at least 2 months. It was just a thing I guess. Of course I was upset but it was like I had been weaned off of her. That intense need that I had, that longing to be noticed by her, it was muted; but I'm sure that happens in all relationships after a while, and we had been dating since I started high school. She had given me something that I needed without knowing, Identity. She gave me the ability to be Ferb. Not one of the dynamic duo, not Phineas's brother, but an individual. And for that I was forever indebted to her. We were more friends at this point than anything else, and even after what I knew was to come within the next few weeks there wouldn't be any bad blood, and in the end I guess that was for the best. Especially givin the feelings I was having now. No it was just late, these feelings were a mix of sleep deprivation and leftover night. Isabella was just a good friend, a great friend who knew me better than anyone, I was just displacing my left over feelings for Vanessa. We were just friends.

I sighed, that depressed me more than I wanted.

Well I was leaving soon, she was leaving tomorrow, nothing was going to happen and if it did it wouldn't matter.

Wait no nothing would happen.

I went to sleep, smiling slightly…

A day to be just Ferb sounded good.