Chapter 7 – Jogging Memories Ain't That Easy. Maybe a Certain Platypus Can Help?
Still don't own Phineas and Ferb (yet I'm still wishing!)
This is probably the only chapter, besides the one w/ the Perry cutaway, that has a part where Phineas isn't narrating. Remember 5 minutes or so ago, when Buford said he'd try looking around Izzy's room for stuff to help her memory? That's the part where it'll be narrated by Buford. And BTW, Phineas and the others don't actually see/hear the flashback; only Buford does.
Oh, and I realize that the rating is T. I probably should change that. I originally had that, just in case I felt like adding something T-rated later on.
A little while after we found the old blueprints, Baljeet and Buford returned.
"I found all the Fireside Girl, her uniform, and her dog Pinky," reported Baljeet. Holly, Ginger, Milly, Adyson, Katie, and Gretchen were standing behind him, with a shaking Pinky at his feet.
"Great! And what did you find, Buford?" I asked.
"I gots a bunch of her bows, a dress, her iPod, and a photo album from her closet," Buford said, holding the items in his open palms. "And whatever you do, DON'T ask me to go back in there!" he finished, then shuddered at the memory.
FLASHBACK TIME! In Buford's POV (dun dun DUN!!!) - I just had to add that
I'd finally gotten past girly's mom. And let me tell ya, that ain't easy. She's got eyes like a hawk, man.
I finally got in her room, and it's like a pink wonderland in there. Pink walls, pink carpet, pink curtains, pink EVERYTHING!!! Doesn't this girl like anything but pink? Well, besides Dinner Bell, obviously.
I thought I should take a pillow or somethin'. But pillows aren't something you really care to know about. There was a dress and some bows on her bed (pink, who would've guessed?), and an alarm clock on her nightstand; I put the alarm clock on the bed to start a pile.
In her closet was more pink clothes. The pink really didn't surprise me anymore. It did surprise me that it was messy, though. She didn't seem like the pigsty type.
Anyways, as I'm lookin' through the mess on the floor, I find this huge photo album. And it actually wasn't pink! I flipped through the pages real quick-like, and I found in the back a picture of her and Dinner Bell together. At a carnival, I think. She drew all these hearts around the two of 'um, and on the back of it she wrote "Phineas Flynn + Isabella Garcia-Shapiro 4ever" in big bold letters.
If anything would jog her memory, this would. But it might mess with Dinner Bell's head a bit, and I don't think we could handle two messed up minds in one day. So I took it out and stuck it in my pocket. If we needed it later, I'd give it to him to try.
I gathered the other stuff, and headed back to Dinner Bell's backyard.
END FLASHBACK! Back to Dinner Be- I mean, Phineas' POV
"O…kay then…" I said, not really sure what he meant. "Let's try this stuff out and see what happens."
It's been a half hour, and still no luck.
The Fireside Girls had absolutely no luck at all. She couldn't remember their names, what a Fireside Girl is, or why they all wore the same thing all the time.
Pinky just scarred the bejeebers outta her. She thought he had rabies, since he couldn't stop shaking.
We thought maybe the dress and bows might have worked when she said, "Hey! I recognize this!" But she continued with, "This is the same thing I'm wearing right now!" She didn't get that she wore the same thing every day.
The alarm clock: useless. The alarm itself didn't do anything, either.
Me and Perry were sitting in the dirty grass (which Ferb was trying to clean while all this was happening) checking off everything we'd tried. Our options were getting slimmer by the minute, and so was my hope that she'd remember anything. The guiltiness was getting worse, too.
"Hey Perry, do you think she'll remember you?" I asked my pet.
No answer.
"Well, it's worth a shot."
I grabbed him and brought him over to Izzy, who just finished trying to remember the alarm clock. She looked over at me when I came by.
"Um, Isabella? This is Perry. He's mine and Ferb's pet platypus."
I set him down on Izzy's lap. She looked down at him, thinking.
"Hmm…Perry…" she muttered as she pet him. "The name sounds a little familiar…" Perry started growling/purring.
Izzy's eyes widened at the sound.
"Wait a minute! I do remember Perry!"
My heart skipped a beat. "You remember him?!?"
"Yeah, I think so!"
"GUYS! SHE REMEMBERS PERRY!" I called out excitedly.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and ran over.
"Seriously? She remembers him?" asked Buford.
Baljeet muttered under his breath, just low enough that the others couldn't hear, "Great. She can remember the platypus who's never around, but she can't remember me?"
I was honestly too wrapped up with what was happening to care.
"Is there anything else you remember?" I asked her.
"Umm…something about…someone always asking where he is? But I don't know who," she said.
This got me really excited, because I knew sooner or later she'd start remembering me.
"Yeah, that's me! I always say that!" I replied excitedly.
She stared up at me, still smiling. "I still can't match a name to a face, though."
Well, at least she was on the right track. And that was enough to make me happy.
"Maybe we should start showing her the blueprints. Maybe she can get our names by then," Ferb said. Everyone agreed.
That's it for the chapter! At first, I was gonna make it that she couldn't remember Perry at all (since he's never around). But, the Perry fan in me was too excited to care .
Next chapter up l8ter!
