Okay, before I begin, I would like to place some new rules on requesting quotes.
First, request only one quote per review. Please. I'm getting requests faster than I can write them down. If that pace continues, I'll never get to half the quotes. So, only one quote per review. Please.
Second, when you request, please cite the source. By source, I mean who said the quote (or where). Yes, anonymous is a person. But I don't want to get in trouble for not mentioning the source of the quote.
That is all. Here's the next chapter.
Quote Of The Day: Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. (Oscar Wilde)
It is a well known fact that Isabella has a crush on Phineas. The fact is so well known that at times, it seems like Phineas is the only one who doesn't know. That Phineas is the only one who thinks Isabella will forever be his best friend, and never anything more. That couldn't be farther from the truth.
There is no friendship between Phineas and Isabella. It's just that neither of them have the courage to call it anything else. In their minds, there was never any friendship between them. There was passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. They knew that from the moment they met, six years ago.
It was raining outside. Not pouring so hard that you had to either wear a raincoat or stay in, but rather the rain was coming down so softly that you could walk outside and it wouldn't bother you.
The rain matched Isabella's feelings at the time. She was still young then, barely five years old, but she was smart enough to know what it meant when they told her that her father had just died. Granted, Isabella barely knew her father, but the simple fact that he was gone, and wasn't coming back, still made her cry. She was crying softly, though. Like the rain outside.
The first thing Isabella and her mom did after her daddy died (sorry, her mom preferred the term went to heaven) was move to Danville, so they could start a new life. So they didn't need to reminisce over the old one.
The first day in their new home, Isabella looked out the window, into the rain.
Across the street, she saw another family getting out of their car. A mother and two children - a boy, about Isabella's age, and a girl, about ten.
Without thinking, she walked across the street, into the rain, to introduce herself. After all, her mother did tell her to make friends.
"Hi," she said, walking up to the young boy.
"Go away," he replied. "I'm sad."
Isabella was slightly surprised at the boy's hostility. But she was not one to give up easily.
"So, umm..." she continued. "My name's Isabella. I'm new here, and-"
The other boy cut her off. "Please," he said. "Go away. My daddy just went to heaven, and I'm sad."
Once again, Isabella was caught off guard. It was less than a week ago the her own dad had died, and the first person she met since then was undergoing the same ordeal.
But instead of leaving this boy alone, Isabella persisted, in a small voice. "My daddy's in heaven, too."
Now, the boy looked up at Isabella for the first time. "Really?"
"Really," Isabella confirmed, tearing up again. Not that anyone could notice; the rain was still coming down.
"He's been there for less than a week. That's why we came here."
The other boy stopped an stared for a long time. Then, for what must have been the first time in a long time, he smiled.
"I'm Phineas," he said, formally extending a hand. "Let's be friends."
It was right then that the two children did, indeed, become friends. But there was never any friendship between the two. There was passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. Friendship couldn't even come close to describing the bond the two children formed that day. A bond strong enough to withstand any test of time.
Sure, Phineas and Isabella called it friendship. But in reality, it was much, much more.
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