"Ferb! I know what we're going to do today!", Phineas said as he turned to his brother and friends.
"Actually... Uhh.. Phineas?", Isabella cut in, somewhat nervously.
"What?", Phineas asked, curious why no one was as enthusiastic as normally.
"Well.. See...", she wrung her hands nervously, not really sure of his reaction. "We were all talking and.. Well.. We know you already took a whole day off to do nothing, but you think that we could have a day where we could just be...normal?"
"Normal? Whatcha mean by normal?", Phineas asked. "I thought today we could build a-"
"Well that right there! That's not normal!", Isabella said, pointing at the blueprints. "Every day we try to build some impossible thing with you and you know, it's really starting to take its toll on us."
"Yeah. Sometimes I can barely even eat my dinner after some days.", Buford chimed in, rubbing his arm sorely.
"You know, after that day I quit being Buford's nerd, I doubt you can even go a whole day without building ANYTHING.", Baljeet shrugged.
"I can go a whole day without building.", Phineas said, feeling a little offended.
"Phineas. Get real. You defied gravity. You traveled through time. You went around the whole world in two days.", Isabella listed. "You've done so many crazy, large, big-time inventions, while they ARE a lot of fun, how can we really expect you'd be able to just, take the day off and have fun like regular kids? You know, play video games. Read books. Take weird little quizzes on the computer or watch cartoons."
"We've watched cartoons.", Phineas retorted.
"Pinhead Pierre is hardly a cartoon.", Baljeet rolled his eyes. "It is not even animated."
"We've watched, actual cartoons!", Phineas restated, finding it hard to believe no one's noticing.
"Only the cartoon WE'VE created in ONE DAY.", Isabella argued.
"Yeah Dinner-bell. You know what? I BET you can't go a whole day without doing some insane invention."
"Buford, do you remember what happened the LAST time we made a bet?", Phineas asked, raising a curious eyebrow.
"Yeah. We traveled the whole world in two days. Not a huge deal, givin' everyone back their bikes. THIS time, though..", he pulled out a ten-dollar bill. "I'm putting out some money on this."
"I'm in on this action.", Isabella said, pulling out her money. "Baljeet?"
"Sure. This is going to be most definitely interesting.", the nerd smiled as he pulled out his money.
As everyone dug out the money they were willing to wager and laid it on the dining room table. Phineas looked at the money and shook his head.
"Guys. I'm not gonna-", he began to say before a 50-dollar bill was raised.
Everyone looked over to see Ferb hold it up with a serious look and toss it on the table towards Phineas, silently doubting his own brother's stability.
Phineas looked at the dollar, looked at Ferb, and then scowled while saying, "Oh, it's ON."
Ferb smiled, knowing he had the upper-hand.
The bet was laid out and the money arranged. Phineas would go until dinnertime without building anything. He would only do normal, mediocre, kid activities.
"Alright. So what's the first thing a kid would wanna do on a perfect Saturday morning?", Phineas asked, placing his arms across his chest.
"Well since it is 12 now, cartoons are out of the question.", Baljeet shrugged. "Thank you, Phineas."
"ANYWAY...", Phineas continued. "What next?"
"Um... Saturday... Kids would probably normally play mindless video games till they get hungry for lunch.", Isabella intoned. "Or just bored."
They went to where the video games were and looked through them finding only games that would attract Candace's attention. Not really theirs. Going to the game store, Phineas was already beginning to lose his patience with the bet.
"I can't believe this!", the young boy exclaimed. "TEN dollars for a 'JUMP AND DUCK'? Ferb I KNOW we coul-"
He stopped as Ferb looked over expectantly. KNOWING what he was going to say next. Everyone waited as Phineas stood there with his mouth open in mid-scentence. He closed it again, thought very carefully, and then turned back to the game.
"So. 'New jump and duck graphics'? I'm...sure this is going to be fun...", he sighed as his heart writhed in pain for saying such a thing.
Ferb smiled widely, walked over, and placed a reassuring hand on his brother's shoulder before quietly saying, "We could build a better one...and sell it for less."
Phineas groaned, and headed to the counter after picking up a couple of other games, slammed them onto the counter, looking at the startled cashier straight in the eye and saying through gritted teeth, "Set me up."