The next day proved to not be as relaxing as the Flynn-Fletcher family expected. It all started when the phone rang during breakfast.
"Hello? Oh hi Vivian." Linda said after she answered the phone.
Phineas looked worried. Why would Isabella's mom call this early?
"What?" Linda frowned with confusion. "Oh dear...well I'm not sure why she's still like that. Yes I know it must have to do with that kiss...look I'll send the boys over right away okay? Maybe they can invent something that will help."
Phineas and Ferb stared at each other. Isabella must still be unconscious from the kiss Phineas gave her yesterday! But why? They couldn't ask Candace, since she left early to meet Stacy at the mall to get new swimsuits. They looked at Perry, but he just shrugged. He never developed romantic feelings for anyone so he didn't know how to help.
Just as Linda turned around after hanging up the phone, Phineas and Ferb had left. She realized that they guessed what was going on and so just shrugged and cleared their places.
Phineas and Ferb ran over to Isabella's house, attracting the attentions of Buford, Baljeet, and Irving. They had been walking to Phineas and Ferb's house at the time.
"Hey Dinner Bell, what's the rush?" Buford asked, confused.
This was understandable since Isabella lives next door to Phineas and Ferb. Oh, and a long time ago Phineas asked Buford about the nickname, out of curiosity. Buford explained that there was two reasons. One: originally it was supposed to be an insult since dinner bells sometimes sound annoying, especially if someone plays with it. Two: it turned into a non-insulting nickname due to the fact that dinner bells tell you when there's food ready, which relates to how whenever Phineas talks it's usually to tell someone something good, like a Big Idea.
Phineas explained what happened the day before, shocking their friends. Especially Irving who paled upon hearing about Marcus. He couldn't believe that a great kid like Phineas was related to such a horrible person.
"I couldn't believe it either." Phineas said quietly. "It hurt then, but I'm over it now. After all I have a real father, and a real brother to go with him."
Ferb smiled.
But Phineas wasn't telling the full truth. He did get over Marcus being a bad person, but he hadn't gotten over Marcus not caring about him or Candace or their mom. Even when Marcus hit him on the head with a pipe it hurt him emotionally more than physically. For one thing, Phineas couldn't understand how anyone could be that selfish and uncaring.
Anyway, Phineas then explained about him and Isabella, and about him kissing her. Buford and Baljeet were relieved that the tension of Phineas's obliviousness was finally over, and Irving was ecstatic that Phineas now had a girlfriend and an excellent one too. He couldn't wait for a Phineas Jr, though didn't say so out loud. By this point he had learned to keep his fanatic side to a minimum.
However, when Buford, Baljeet, and Irving found out the current situation, they realized why Phineas had looked worried earlier. They were worried too, they had no idea why Isabella would still be unconscious.
Ferb knocked on the door just as Phineas finished explaining, and a minute later Vivian opened the door.
"Just finished dressing Isabella." She explained. "Quick, quick, come in."
Isabella was now lying on the couch, fully clothed. Her eyes were closed obviously, but she was also smiling slightly. Ferb went over to her and put his hand on her chest, but then removed it quickly.
"Her heart is beating very rapidly." He explained.
Concerned, Phineas went over to Isabella and took her hand. She didn't move, though her smile seemed to grow a little bigger.
"How could my kiss have caused this?" He asked, worried.
"I'm sure there's something you can invent that will help her." Irving smiled.
"How? I don't even know what's wrong." Phineas retorted without sounding mad or annoyed.
Irving had to admit that he had a point.
"Well, maybe we can build a machine that will analyze her and tell us what's wrong." Baljeet suggested.
"It's the best we've got right now." Phineas nodded. "Ferb, Baljeet, get tools and supplies."
Ferb saluted and headed back home. Baljeet saluted as well and headed for his home.
"Buford, carry Isabella outside where there'll be more room for the machine." Phineas said.
"You got it." Buford always liked a chance to show off his strength.
"What can I do?" Irving asked.
"Promise not to add this to your scrapbook." Phineas replied. "I'd...I'd rather not have flashbacks of today in the future."
Irving agreed respectfully. After all who wants to remember being worried or even concerned? Irving wasn't enjoying watching Phineas worry so he hadn't planned to include this to his Phineas and Ferb scrapbook anyway.
In less than an hour, Ferb, Phineas, and Baljeet worked together to build an analyzer. Pretty soon they had Buford gently lay Isabella on a blanket on the ground and then they used the machine to analyze her. According to the machine, she was suffering from a Love Coma. No one knew what to do, after all there was no cure for a coma but a Love Coma was probably different... Phineas then got an idea.
"Wait, we already know that Santa Claus exists." He remembered. "Maybe other holiday characters exist too. I'll be right back, I'm gonna e-mail Santa."
Phineas and Santa had become really close over the years, so Phineas was one of the few privileged to know his e-mail address. Santa was able to do things that not even Phineas could, so Phineas figured that if anyone knew of a solution it would be Santa or one of his holiday friends.
Not long after, Phineas was back home at his computer. He quickly sent Santa an e-mail and Santa quickly replied back:
'You're right Phineas, other holiday characters exist. I can't tell you all of them without their permission, but I can tell you about one, the one you probably wanted to hear about anyway: Cupid. Actually his real name is Eros but we call him Cupid due to those who celebrate Valentine's Day going by that name. I already called him and he's coming right over to help you out. He'll be in Isabella's backyard soon.
Santa'
Phineas went right back to Isabella's house and sure enough there was Cupid...and Phineas's shocked friends. Seriously, even Buford and Ferb had their mouths open and it takes a lot to get them to do that.
Phineas was surprised too, because Cupid wasn't a baby. Instead he was a full grown man with wings, a quiver filled with arrows, and a bow. He also wore a pink shirt and red pants and shoes, which would've looked weird if he wasn't the mascot for Valentine's Day.
"Just to get it out of the way: I've been an adult for thousands of years, me being a baby was just something the Americans' came up with." Cupid rolled his eyes.
Phineas nodded understandingly.
"Guys, this is Cupid. Santa sent him over to help him out." Phineas explained to his friends.
They recovered.
"So you're the famous Phineas and Ferb, Santa talks a lot about you too." Cupid smiled. "I mean I already know all about you guys as well, but since this is the first time you've met me it feels like the first time I'm meeting you. Also it's about time you returned Isabella's feelings, I mean I understand about you wanting to wait until high school but you two are among the few who are more than meant to be."
"Uh, how can you be 'more than meant to be'?" Buford asked.
"You can by being true loves. Those who are meant to be are just soulmates, and have other soulmates out there that they can end up with." Cupid explained. "True loves on the other hand only have each other, no one else. Not that many people, compared to the entire population, are that lucky either. It usually only happens to those who truly deserve it. Now, let's see what's wrong with Isabella."
Phineas wanted to hear from Santa so quickly that he forgot to mention the Love Coma thing.
Cupid looked at the screen on the analyzer and dropped his mouth open.
"A Love Coma!" He gasped. "How long has she been out?"
"Uh, since yesterday." Phineas thought it over. "I think between morning and afternoon."
Cupid let out a sigh of relief.
"Okay good." He wiped his forehead. "People can't be in Love Comas for too long. A week at most actually, after that they start to die of dehydration."
"Understandable, people can only go for a week without water." Ferb spoke up.
"Exactly." Cupid nodded. "Wait, there's only one way she could be in a Love Coma...Phineas how long did you kiss her?"
Phineas and Ferb looked at each other and shrugged.
"I don't think any of us really timed it." Phineas said.
"Though I think it was more than a minute, but no more than ten minutes." Ferb estimated.
"Didn't you let her kiss you back?" Cupid asked Phineas.
"Uh, no. No I didn't." Phineas was a bit confused.
Cupid facepalmed.
"Unless you've already had your big kiss you're not supposed to kiss your true love for a long time without letting her or him kiss you back!" Cupid groaned. "No wonder she's in a Love Coma!"
"What do you mean?" Baljeet asked, suddenly taking notes.
"Isabella already had a huge amount of love in her for Phineas, she's had it for years. However when Phineas kissed her he filled her with his love for her without letting her give him some of her love in return. This overfilled her with love, which was too much for her body to handle. She's really lucky, her extreme love for Phineas gave her some immunity, allowing her to survive the kiss."
"What do you mean?" Phineas looked shocked.
"You've heard of people in love say something like 'I just died and went to heaven' right? Well it actually can happen literally to those who get overfilled with love. Even though true love doesn't have a limit the body does have limits, though they can build up a tolerance to some things if they're exposed to them long enough."
Phineas paled a bit, he didn't realize that his kiss could've killed Isabella!
"Hey it's okay, she'll be fine." Cupid noticed Phineas's expression. "The way to cure her is the big kiss. True love's kiss. You have to kiss her again, except this time let her fill you with her love. This'll balance the love in both of you, and allow her to recover from her coma. And don't worry, after true love's kiss you can kiss her for a long time without her kissing back. True love's kiss is kinda like a vaccination against Love Coma. After the true love's kiss the body becomes completely immune to an overfill of love. The only thing that happens is that the recipient ends up in a daze for a few minutes."
Everyone was relieved. Even Phineas relaxed.
"Hey, Irving?" Phineas said. "You can take a photo of this kiss. This'll be mine and Isabella's first real kiss and I think she'd like to remember it as much as I want to."
Irving immediately whipped out his camera. No surprise there.
Phineas knelt down, picked up Isabella slightly, and kissed her. This time he just relaxed and waited for her to kiss back. After a minute she did, and Phineas started feeling her love for him fill him. As he started to lose consciousness he realized that he was now at risk for Love Coma so he kissed her back. Now they were kissing each other, and forgot about everything else. After many minutes they stopped the kiss, both a bit dazed.
"Ph-Phineas." Isabella started to recover. "What happened?"
"My kiss put you in a Love Coma, so Cupid said that I had to let you kiss me back to stop it." Phineas explained.
Isabella, surprised, turned around and saw Cupid there.
"Hi Isabella." Cupid smiled.
"Wow, Cupid." Isabella smiled. "Oh, so you really do have a bow and arrows. I always wondered about that."
"Yeah, I fire the arrows whenever a couple has their true love kiss." Cupid explained. "I once did it for Linda and Lawrence, and I just did it now for you and Phineas. I also did it for Candace and Jeremy years ago."
Phineas was glad that he was right about his, Candace's, and Ferb's parents being true loves. Isabella was indescribably happy about her and Phineas being true loves.
"Well I hate to help and disappear but I'm not just busy on Valentine's Day." Cupid smiled before vanishing instantly. "I'm invisible now by the way." His disembodied voice added.
"That explains how he fires his arrows without anyone noticing." Ferb remarked.
Phineas then helped Isabella up.
"So, we're true loves." Isabella smiled. "Not that I ever doubted it."
"Yeah, we are." Phineas smiled, still kinda processing the information. "I'm not surprised or anything it's just...it gives you a lot to think about."
"Yeah, like grandchildren." Isabella smirked teasingly, obviously remembering the Comet Kermillian incident years ago.
Phineas really blushed at that.
"Isabella...please." He said in an almost squeaky voice.
"Oh I'm just teasing." Isabella chuckled, kissing Phineas on the cheek; this calmed Phineas down. "But truthfully I've daydreamed about our future for years now."
"I-I can understand that." Phineas admitted. "But I'm not ready to really talk about it...especially not in public."
Isabella then noticed that Buford, Baljeet, and Irving were there. Ferb she wasn't surprised to see.
"Oops, sorry Phineas if I had known that our friends were there I would've left that tease for later." Isabella backed off.
Phineas took her hands again.
"It's okay." He smiled. "I know you didn't mean any harm."
He then kissed her on the cheek.
The group then decided to just hang out and play some games. Including some video games and swimming games. They hung out in Isabella's backyard as a change of pace. By the end of the day only Phineas, Isabella, and Ferb were left. Irving would've still been there if Ferb hadn't gently forced him back home by picking him up by his shirt and pants and carrying him to the sidewalk. Ferb then came back.
"So, you two want to be alone or is it okay for me to stay?" Ferb asked.
"Oh I'm comfortable with you being here since you're gonna be part of what Isabella and I are going to talk about." Phineas smiled.
"Talk about?" Isabella looked at him confused. "Talk about what?"
"Our future." Phineas hugged her with one arm.
Isabella blushed happily.
"This early?" Ferb raised an eyebrow.
"Not that far into the future, I meant into high school." Phineas chuckled. "We have plenty of time to talk about the rest of it."
Isabella was slightly disappointed, but understood.
"So, I was thinking that we'd just have dates on Valentine's Day, your birthday, and my birthday, and stick with the same routines on the other days until high school." Phineas suggested. "I know you can't wait to go on dates - heh, that rhymed - but I still want to enjoy being a kid a while longer."
"Sounds great to me, I want to enjoy being a kid a while longer too." Isabella agreed. "We'll just do our pre-high school dates casually, like picnics or something, and do the serious dating during high school. All I ever really wanted for now was your love anyway."
And that's what they did. For the rest of the summer Phineas and Isabella just had casual dates. Otherwise the days were pretty much like any Phineas-and-Ferb summer day. When high school came around the dates became a little more serious, though didn't happen often since they were getting used to the new school system. By the following year, and especially the summer of that year, Phineas and Isabella were going steady. He, Ferb, Isabella, and their kid-friends were now fourteen. Well, okay, make that 'Phineas and Ferb and their teen-friends'.
