Hey everyone...just posting this since it needed to be updated. I'm a little bummed today because the Nickelback concert (which was today) was postponed till July...so...that's that...

"Phineas! Ferb! Wake up! It's time for school," Linda called out, and a long arm with a long orange sleeve emerged from the covers of the S.S Phineas. The hand hit the alarm, and disappeared under the covers again.

"Boys!" Linda called out again, and Phineas emerged finally.

"Ugh," the teen yawned and stretched, still dozing as he said, "Ferb, we gotta get ready for first day of high school."

Ferb moaned, and he threw his pillow at Phineas to bugger off. Ferb's throw had gotten a lot stronger, so Phineas had been thrown off his bed. Phineas chuckled as he got up.

"Well, I'm up I guess," he chuckled to his brother, "Come on, Ferb, we gotta get ready."

Ferb just gave a sleepy mumble. He wasn't a morning person like he was when they were kids. Phineas had slowly developed into a later riser, but he was always a morning person. Once the boys hit middle school, Phineas had to get up and get Ferb out of bed. Whenever Phineas was- -on a rare occasion- -sick, Marissa or Candace went in, and they would wake him up. Marissa was usually nice and playful. Candace was too up until Ferb started smacking her away; then she just threw a cold glass of water at him. It was a little funny to watch him spaz out so much. Marissa, if he smacked her away, would just pull off the covers, and keep poking him and repeatedly say his name until finally he got annoyed enough that he would get up. With Candace in college and Marissa leaving soon, Phineas knew that soon he'd have to figure out some machine to wake him up for days when Phineas is too sick to wake him up (or just not want to get close to him if he's contagious). Phineas remembered one method of waking him up was to say there were crumpets on the table. Ferb loved crumpets, so that got him out of bed.

"Ferb, there's crumpets for ya," Phineas said in a sing-song voice.

Ferb's eyes shot open, and Phineas stepped back.

"If there aren't crumpets, then you're a dead man," he said quietly.

Phineas gulped, and he rushed downstairs since Ferb was still drowsy.

"Mom! Quick, make some crumpets, or Ferb's gonna kill me!" he panicked.

Linda just rolled her eyes playfully, "I'll start now, but don't make this a habit, Phineas. You know how much Ferb likes crumpets."

"Yeah," he said, a nervous sweat having developed on his forehead.

Phineas chuckled in his mind at that memory. That was always a funny memory. He then went up to the bed to coax him out from his slumber.

"Ferb, come on, bro," Phineas teased, "Don't make me get Candace. You know she'll throw a glass of cold water on you."

Ferb finally sat up. He didn't want a cold glass of water on his bed today. He gave Phineas a bit of a grumble, then he climbed out of bed. Phineas saw a book on his nightstand, and he gave a bit of an impish smile.

"You were up all night, reading, weren't you?" he asked.

Ferb shrugged him off, and they both got dressed. Once they were dressed, there was a knock on the door. After clearance to come in, Marissa Flynn walked in, twenty years old with her hair in a long braid which wasn't usual, but she decided to put her hair in a braid now that she was older. She'd been working to earn money for college tuition as well as earned scholarships in school, and finally she had enough to pay for tuition as well as other leisure spending. She was leaving for the college tour that day, and she'd be staying the night since her first day was tomorrow.

"Morning, boys," she greeted, "I guess I don't have to come in and wake Ferbooch, huh?"

"Nope, just had to threaten that Candace would come in with a cold glass of water," Phineas said.

"But Candace has been in college for months," Marissa answered, and the sudden realization caused Ferb to push Phineas off the bed they were sitting on.

"Okay, I deserved that," Phineas commented, and Ferb nodded.

Marissa also chuckled, and she helped Phineas up. She stared into his blue eyes. Every time she stared into them, she saw the adorable little boy he was when he was ten and she was fifteen. She couldn't help but smile, and Phineas smiled back.

"What?" he asked.

"Hm?"

"What are you smiling at?"

"You've just...grown so much. I am so proud of you and the young man you're becoming, Phineas."

"We're proud of you too, sis. Good luck at college."

"You know, I don't have to go just yet. I can stay another semester if you want."

"Nope, you're going today, and you're going to have a great time."

Marissa hugged Phineas, and he hugged her back. Since he was older, he didn't do hugs a whole lot anymore, but he hugged his sisters and parents every now and then. He knew she was going to miss him, being in college after all, and he was going to miss her. However, he also knew that Marissa's wanted this for quite some time now, and he wasn't going to keep her from leaving.

"I'm going to miss you so much," Marissa said, her eyes getting misty, "you know that no matter what, you'll always be my little Phinny, right?"

Phineas nodded, "Yes, yes I do. I'm gonna miss you too, but this is what you want. I'm not going to keep you from it. We'll contact each other every day, and we'll update on our lives. We'll see each other for breaks. I mean it's not like you're leaving that far away."

"I know, but it is a bit of a long drive, so I can't visit too often."

"Don't worry, sis, we'll be fine. We're older now, more mature," Phineas assured, and Marissa nodded and headed out the door so they could finish getting ready for their first day of high school.