Girl You Just Don't Know
They watched Isabella run to her car before closing the door and turning to each other.
"WHAT WAS THAT?!" Candace yelled at Ferb.
It was not common knowledge, but the one thing that law school had taught Candace was how to lie convincingly. Looking at her now Ferb can truly appreciate this newly learned skill, as had Isabella seen this Candace instead of the one previously standing by the open door, she would have sprinted upstairs in a heartbeat.
"An unforeseen complication to something I thought was relatively simple…" Ferb shrugs.
"I always knew something was going to go wrong with your experiments one day, just didn't expect that it would come through like this…" She looks up the stairs.
"Actually, it wasn't an experiment failure. The only damage he might have gotten was from where I poked him with this after you left." Ferb states and shows the screwdriver which he held previously unnoticed in his hand.
Candace looks at him in confusion, "But you said that…"
"A lie to get her to her match. The real cause of what happened our friend can only tell." And he gestures at Baljeet, who cringes at being noticed.
"It is not my fault!"
"Well, whatever you said to him earlier must have had some effect on him." Ferb begins to make his way back to the stairs. Looking unconcerned about whatever it was that Baljeet had done.
Candace looks at him curiously, "What did you point out?"
Baljeet looks nervously at Ferb and then back at Candace, "Nothing that shouldn't have been obvious."
"Well we all know that Phineas is the King of Oblivious Baljeet, so what did you tell him specifically?"
"Well it isn't my fault that he couldn't see what had been happening right under his nose. How was I supposed to know that he didn't know what was going on? I assumed anyone of basic intelligence on human relations could see it and make the proper assumptions." Baljeet seems to switch from his guilt to a slight smug attitude.
"And what were those assumptions?" The older girl begins to get annoyed.
"Well it was an apparent observation that I, as a person in a relationship, should very well have much insight into..." The boy begins to lecture
"Baljeet!" Candace growls in annoyance and begins to walk towards him.
In fear Baljeet whimpers and raises his arms and quickly rambles, "I just asked if he knew Ferb and Isabella were dating!"
A bump is heard from the stairs where they turn to see Ferb stumble over a step. "WHAT?"
Candace just sighs and turns back to the Indian boy, "Oh, yeah, those assumptions."
"Ah, so you know." Baljeet nods solemnly.
"Yeah, I do, it was pretty blatant."
"You mean with all the cuddling and avoiding Phineas?"
"Didn't know about the cuddling, but I knew about the dates."
"So there were actual dates!"
They keep discussing the topic as Ferb gets up from his sprawled position on the stairs and makes his way down. He has a quick glance towards his shared bedroom and wonders how on earth it came to this.
"Who would have thought that she would reach this point?" Baljeet bemoans.
"You mean who would have thought that she would be able to have a life without putting all of her effort on planning how to get a boy to notice her?"
The two turn and look at Ferb now standing at the bottom of the stairs. "Who would have thought she would be able to step away from something that was obviously hurting her, even though that step is killing her?" Ferb shifts his weight and crosses his arms, which in Ferb language was just the same as shouting. "Or do you just mean you who would have thought that she could have a life without Phineas?"
Candace looks down in guilt whilst Baljeet looks back in defiance. "Actually, I was saying that I never would have imagined her dating you, don't you think you're betraying Phineas?" Instead of the shock or anger Baljeet expects, the green haired boy just looks incredibly sad.
"Isabella had the right idea, we spend so much time together as a friend group, but in the end, we don't know a thing about each other." He shakes his head and starts walking back up the stairs. "She isn't his property, she has the right to choose whoever she wants."
