At the same time as Phineas was baring his soul to Perry, Isabella Garcia-Shapiro stood in her element. She was at the head of the large meeting room in the Fireside Girls lodge in downtown Danville, standing at the lectern and waiting for her friends to settle down so they could get down to business. Ever since being named troop leader three years ago, Isabella and Troop 46321 had become famous for two things: for the incredible amounts of money they raised, and also the insane amount of patches they acquired.

"Alright girls, let's settle in and get this meeting over with." she says after pounding her gavel on the lectern. Every girl snaps to attention and sits down, their eyes glued to their fearless leader. "First, I'm pleased to announce that we're only a hundred and thirty seven dollars away from being able to travel to the big National Jamboree in Florida in October!" she announces as the rest of the girls cheer. "Our next shipment of cupcakes should be here by Friday, so get out there and get those orders!"

She takes a moment for the excited chattering to settle down before continuing. "Second, I ask that Adyson, Gretchen and Ginger step forward please." The three girls step forward with smiles on their faces, their chests are puffed out proudly. "Girls, I am proud to award you with the 'I Saved A Cute Boy from Falling to His Death' patch for your incredible bungee jump rescue of Buford, Ferb and Baljeet this afternoon. I'm sure the boys are equally as grateful for your quick thinking and even quicker action."

The three accept their new patches gleefully, already looking over their sashes for a spot to put it. The three retake their seats as Isabella continues. "Also, I am proud to say we're adding another gold star to our 'Help Thy Neighbor' memorial!" After two summers of collecting the patch of the same name, Isabella decided to instead erect a mural depicting the patch on the far wall of the lodge. Every time they helped Phineas and Ferb with their projects, they added a gold star. They were almost all the way around the painting for a third time now.

"With that out of the way, is there any old business we need to take care of?" she asks. Every girl shakes their head 'no'. "Is there any new business we need to take care of?". Again, the answer is a resounding 'no'. This was routine, as they all wanted to get home and eat dinner and relax. Isabella just smiled at her friends. "Then I guess we'll meet up at my house tomorrow after lunch to see what the Flynn-Fletcher boys are up to." she raised her gavel. "Then I officially declare this meeting of Fireside Girls Troop 46321 adjur…" she nearly finishes her proclamation, but a flustered redheaded teenager bursts in.

"Isabella! Wait!" Candace yells, trying to catch her breath for a moment before rummaging around in her oversized designer purse that Jeremy had given her for her birthday. The troop had turned around in shock that someone had burst into their headquarters. The shock value went up when they realized it was their former comrade.

"Candace, what're you doing here? Especially busting in while we're doing official business." Isabella asks rather irritably. It has been a long time since Candace's adventure of gaining fifty patches in one day, and just as long since the red head had set foot inside the lodge. "Last time I checked, you weren't an active Fireside Girl."

"I know, I know. But this is very important, and it couldn't wait until you got home. You see, I caught Phineas…" and as soon as she mentions her little brother's name, she can see Isabella's eyes glaze over and an almost orgasmic sigh escape her lips. Normally Candace would chuckle lightly at this, but now wasn't the time. "Gretchen, would you please bring her back to reality." she asks while rolling her eyes.

"Come on Chief, this sounds important." her second in command says, gently shaking Isabella by her shoulders. This breaks Isabella out of her trance, and causes a deep blush to cross her cheeks. The others, including Gretchen just giggle, having seen this so many times over the years.

"Sorry guys, I was in Phineas-Land again. Okay Candace, what's so important about him that made you race over here like you were trying to bust him and Ferb to your mom?" she asks with a twinge of disgust in her voice. She had gotten fed up with Candace's attitude towards her brothers, especially after they had helped with Candace and Jeremy's Valentine's Day date.

Candace notices the disgust but lets it slide. She has bigger fish to fry here, but she made a mental note to bring it up with Isabella the next time their alone together. "Listen, there's some things you need to hear, and I figured you wouldn't believe it unless it came out of his mouth." she says, pulling the voice recorder out of her purse and pressing play.

Isabella looked great today. Every time I hear her ask 'What'cha Doin'?', it's like a jolt of electricity runs up and down my spine. It's been that way ever since I met her.

The girls all gasp in surprise when those words are spoken. They all turn to see Isabella staring wide eyed at the device in Candace's hand. Her heart had stopped for an instant, and now it was beating rapidly against her ribcage.

It's everything about her really. She's smart, funny, a great leader and absolutely, stunningly beautiful. I'd be either the biggest fool or completely naïve not to notice that she's had a crush on me since kindergarten.

"He thinks I'm beautiful!" she sighs lightly. It's everything she's ever wanted to hear from him. Her knees are beginning to get weak, and Gretchen quickly steps up behind her to catch her in case she faints. Gretchen's as surprised as anyone. Ferb hadn't mentioned a word of this when they went to Slushy Dog on their date.

It still irks me to this day that I didn't go with the original lyrics to 'Gitchie Gitchie Goo'. If I had had my way, it would've been 'I love you baby! Bella! Baby!'. But I know how much she hates that nickname, and I was afraid of everyone's reaction. One of the few times fear has gotten the better of me

This confession doesn't surprise the girls much, as they all (except Isabella) had figured this out a while ago. It'd become a running joke to insert those exact lyrics whenever they heard the song in an elevator, usually under their breath when Isabella was with them. Adyson had been the one to figure it out, after Ferb admitted once that Phineas had written the lyrics to their sole smash hit.

I know I misfired several times, but Paris has to be my biggest screw-up to date. I had noticed everything that was going on, but that darn bet came back to bite me. That was my one shot at romance in the City of Light, and totally blew it. I heard that song she sang, but I got so blinded by trying to get home it didn't register until way later.

This was the biggest shocker so far. Ever since that trip, the mere mention of Paris had been declared off-limits due to Isabella's usually violent reaction. They were all upset at Phineas for blowing Isabella off, but now they sympathized with his angst over his biggest blunder. They could hear the remorse in his voice.

I had plans for her and I. I wanted our first kiss to be under the Eiffel Tower. I wanted a romantic dinner in a trendy Parisian café. Walk hand in hand down the Champs-Elysees towards the Arc de Triomphe. Maybe even see Notre Dame and the Louvre.

"And the hits just keep coming." Adyson joked. The girls were looking at each other, slack-jawed. This was not the Phineas Flynn they knew. He was not one to just out and out confess his mistakes like this. Isabella on the other hand was on cloud nine. This was her every fantasy come to life, and she was savoring every word, though it wasn't live and in person.

It's like that boat of romance we did for Baljeet and Mishti. That's one idea I wish I had kept for myself. Wow was she mad when she saw that dinner for two wasn't for us. If looks could kill, you'd be down to one owner boy. I'm lucky to still have my head after that smooth move. I'm still stunned the other Fireside Girls didn't come after me because they're so fiercely loyal to her.

This brings about a fit of giggles from the Troop. Indeed there had been a plan to exact some sort of revenge for that particular escapade, but it was nixed because they all knew Isabella would kick all of them out of the Fireside Girls for hurting Phineas in any way.

Ginger growled at the mention of her rival for Baljeet's affections. Mishti had come back to Danville a few times since then, and it had taken every once of willpower she had not to go after the 'Bollywood Wannabe', as she had nicknamed her. Baljeet naturally was ignorant of this simmering rivalry.

I don't know Perry, maybe all the good I did with those inventions and helping her get all those patches has been negated by a few moments of bad decisions. Maybe I blew that once in a lifetime kind of relationship because I couldn't see the forest for the trees. And I can't help being nervous around her, my stomach does flips when I even see her or smell her perfume.

This brought about even more giggling, since everyone had noticed Phineas beginning to sweat and even stutter more whenever he was explaining the newest invention to Isabella. For his part, the girls had noticed Ferb just smiling and playfully rolling his eyes behind his brother's back. They all also noticed that Isabella took a degree of delight in this reaction.

Do you want me to say it? Fine, here it is: I am in love with Isabella Garcia-Shapiro!

All giggling ceased and Isabella indeed fainted into Gretchen's arms as soon as they heard him admit his true feelings. A lot of the girls just gasped, and some even started to tear up a little bit. This was a day none of them thought they would see happen. "Melissa, grab the smelling salts would ya please. She's getting a tad heavy!" Gretchen calls out, breaking the moment.

The newest Fireside Girl salutes and runs over to the First Aid kit on the wall. She quickly hustles the small tube over to Gretchen, who snaps it and waves it under Isabella's nose, jostling her awake. "Earth to Isabella! Come back to us please!"

"I love you too Phineas!" she moans lightly as she shakes her head to wake herself up fully. She kept repeating those words in her head over and over, and each time it was like a warmth spread throughout her entire body. She couldn't wait to hear those words come out of his mouth as he looked her in the eyes. "Thanks Gretchen, and thank you Candace." was all she could say until she had her full faculties about her, which took a few more moments.

She straightens her uniform out and takes her place back behind the podium. The girls plus Candace all return to their seats, with Candace leaning against the wall with a tiny smirk. She was pleased with the reaction she got from Isabella, now all she had to do was sit back and watch Cupid work his magic…metaphorically speaking of course.

Everyone is broken out of their thoughts as Isabella bangs her gavel against the wood of her dais. However, they all break out into somewhat less than evil grins when she utters eight simple words that speak volumes to them all.

"Girls, I know what we're gonna do tomorrow."

A/N: Chapter #2 is in the books! Isabella and the rest of the girls have found out Phineas' true feelings, and are now preparing to enact a plan to capitalize on this knowledge. Will they be successful? Thank you so much for reading, and special thanks to those who have reviewed and will review. You guys are awesome!