Phineas' pov

I woke up to the alarm clock screaming in my ear and hit it hard on the snooze button. Ferb was sitting up in bed already, grinning. I cracked an eye open as he kept staring at me.

"What are you so happy about?" I groaned. "It's way too early." Ferb grinned even bigger.

What is today? He asked. I frowned.

"I don't know." I said. He gaped at me in disbelief. "What?" I asked. "What am I forgetting?"

It's the first day of summer you idiot! Ferb yelled in telepathy. I was instantly awake and out of bed.

"Awesome!" I yelled. "Ferb! I know what we're going to do today!" He rolled his eyes.

When do you not?

"good point. Do you have any suggestions?" I asked. He shook his head, then paused.

"Why don't we go spook Isabella by seeing what she's doing instead of her coming to us?" He said. I grinned.

"Brilliant!" I said. "Let's go see what Izzy is up to!"

Isabella's pov

"Hey Isabella. Wha-cha do-in?" A sing-song voice asked from the gateway. I turned around and blushed as I saw Phineas and Ferb come through the gate side-by-side as usual.

"Oh nothing. What are you doing?" I asked.

"Seeing what you're doing." Phineas replied matter-of-factly. I grinned, caught up in Phineas-land for a moment. "Are you okay Izzy?" He asked. I nodded, realizing I'd been staring at him. I loved when he called my 'Izzy'.

"Isabella?" My dad called from the house. "Isa – oh there you are. Hello boys." He said, coming out onto the porch, already dressed for work.

"Hello Mr. Monogram." Phineas said. Ferb saluted comically. I giggled, then turned to my dad with puppy eyes.

"Daddy, do you have to go to work today? It's the first day of summer! Can't you stay home?" I asked.

"Wish I could sweetheart, but I have a breach in security, and none of the agents can go unnoticed long enough to figure out what it is." He said. A light bulb went off over Phineas' head.

"Mr. Monogram, if Ferb and I build you a tiny spy bug, can you stay home with Iz-Isabella?" He asked. Dad thought about it.

"Well I guess it's worth a shot." He said. Phineas grinned.

"Great! We'll have it ready for you in twenty minutes tops." He said, leaving the yard with Ferb at his heels. I turned to my Dad.

"They'll be back in 5." I said. "We better hide Phineas' birthday gift."

Candace's pov

"Yeah Stacy! Phineas' birthday is in two days and I still haven't gotten him a gift! What am I gonna do?" I said into the phone. I was freaking out.

"Well Ferb's birthday was last month, right? What did you get him?" She asked. I thought back to last month. I had gotten Ferb something pretty good. What was it?

"Oh yeah." I said. "I got him a picture of Vanessa Doofinshmirtz." I said. "Actually, several pictures. I even digitally inserted Ferb into a couple."

"So get Phineas a photo album of Isabella." Stacy said in a shrugging-tone.

"Yeah but nobody knows Phineas likes Isabella. Phineas doesn't even know Phineas likes Isabella." I pointed out.

"I know Phineas likes Isabella. And I'm pretty sure Ferb does too." She said.

"Ferb is a ladies man and you spend almost as much time around the boys as I do." I said.

"Good point. Why don't you come over and we can brainstorm together?"

"Great! I'll be right there! Thanks Stace." I hung up and left the house yelling to Mom that I'd be at Stacy's. I jogged around the block towards the Hirano house to get my brain moving. I was so focused on trying to come up with what to get Phineas that I ran right into a short woman with black hair and silver eyes. "Sorry." I said, embarrassed. She just smiled.

"No problem at all." She said, her voice light with a faint accent.

"Are you new it the neighborhood? I don't think I've seen you before." I said. She shrugged.

"Just passing through. I came by to see if I could find some friends of mine. Do you happen to know a Phineas Flynn?" She asked. I was a little surprised.

"Yeah, he's my brother. My name is Candace Flynn." I said. Her eyes widened slightly.

"Really? What a surprise. When you see him, tell him that Camille said hi." She said. "Oh, you dropped this." She held out my phone. I took it gratefully.

"Thanks I don't know what I'd do without it." I said. She smiled in a creepy way.

"Me either." She brushed past me and vanished. Literally, I turned around and she was not there. It freaked me out and I decided not to tell Phineas about it. After all, what good would creeping him out right before his birthday do?

Camille's pov

She fell for it like she fell for that stupid powerless blond. She was so focused on how creepy my disappearing was that she didn't realize that I had bugged her phone. With any luck, she wouldn't notice until I got the information I needed. I dropped form my position in the tree and headed to where I knew I would find Carter – at Doofinshmirtz Evil Incorporated.

OOOOOO. Things is heating up fast! Are you keeping up with me? Hope so because we're about to speed up. Hang on tight!