Best friends for Ava
Chapter 10: More Secrets?
This story is not official in anyway for the Phineas and Ferb series.
Ava Fletcher-Bertram belongs to me. Please don't use without permission.
"Boys!" Linda calls out. "Dinner's almost ready!"
While Ferb and Ava are nowhere to be found, Phineas and Isabella have both been in the backyard all day trying to build the tractor beam, and it's been proven to become very difficult to do without Ferb. As the sun starts to set, the young boy and girl are at the peak of exhaustion.
"Oh, man! I should've called Baljeet and Bufort to help." Phineas says.
"As much as I enjoy our alone time together...I agree, I should've called the girls." Isabella says.
With one final twist of a wrench, and after a long and hard day of working, the tractor beam is FINALLY finished.
"Ok...whew...it's done." Phineas says as he starts to huff and puff. "Let's test it out."
Placed about 10 feet away from the tractor beam is is a large rock, shaped suspiciously like Buford's head, which the two of them hope to pull in with the tractor beam. Phineas reaches for the lever, pulls it down...
VRRRRR...ZAP!
SMASH!
Unforetunately, they get the wrong results. Landing right on top of the Buford rock comes 3 actual red tractors. Phineas and Isabella have spent all day long trying to build a tractor beam without Ferb's help, only to once aagain, built the WRONG kind of tractor beam.
"OH, COME ON!" Phineas screams. "ALL THAT HARD WORK AND WE MADE THE WRONG ONE? AGAIN?"
"I guess we really did need Ferb." Isabella says.
"FORGET IT! I'M DONE WITH THIS!" Phineas shouts. Shortly after, he starts to calm down. "Let's just push the self-destruct button and get rid of this thing."
"Why does it have a self-destruct button?"
"I don't know, it's been a long day."
Done with the failed experiment they've wasted all day on, Phineas walks back up to the "tractor" beam, pushes the self-destruct button...
BOOM!
A massive explosion sends piece of the machine flying in many different directions. Incendently, the 3 tractors created were also blown away from the explosion.
A few miles away...
"I can't believe that you spent our savings to buy this tractor rental shop. WITHOUT BUYING TRACTORS!" A women tells her husband. "What, did you expect tractors to just fall out of the sky?"
The husband and wife then both look up to the sky, almost expecting something to actually fall out of the sky.
"I said...did you expect tractors o fall out of the sky?"
Still, nothing falls.
"Can't happen all the time I guess." The man answers back.
"I guess we should be thankful things fall out of the sky at all." The woman says.
Back at the Flynn-Fletcher house, Phineas has, sadly, been blasted right into the tree from the explosion. Shortly after the impact, he comically falls slides down and lands at the base of the tree. Losing consciousness from this, it appears as if he has actually fallen asleep.
"Phineas?" Isabella says in a concerned voice.
She reaches down and grabs his hand, reads his pulse, and fines that he's perfectly fine. After reassuring herself of this, and looking down at him, a thought occurs. She looks at Phineas again, then looks around to see if no one's around, then plants a light kiss on Phineas's cheek.
"Oh, what the heck."
Wanting a little bit more, Isabella bends back down, grabs Phineas's head, and and plants a big, long kiss onn Phineas's lips, knowing that there's nothing to stop her. After savoring what was practically a 6 second long make out session, she lets him go, and begins to walk back home. She took an opportunity and is proved of herself for it, but also with a small bit of guilt. All in all, she regrets nothing.
Shortly after Isabella leaves, Ferb and Ava returns. They see that he's "sleelping" under the tree, so they decide that they better wake him up.
"Phineas? You ok?" Ferb asks.
"Hmm...huh? Oh, hi guys!" Phineas says as he wakes up. "You just woke me up from a great dream I was having! I think Isabella was in it."
"We are terribly sorry for waking you up, but your mother has asked for us to come inside for dinner.." Ava says.
"Well in that case, let's go eat."
Shortly after going inside, Ava leaves to get herself washed up before dinner, but as for Ferb, he chooses to take a moment to talk with Phineas, who he blew off for the whole day and ruined their initial plans. No matter what reason it was for, that sort of thing makes a person feel guilty.
"Look Phineas, I'm really sorry for ditching you today, but...
"No no! It's okay, Ferb. I understand completely." Phineas say, explaining how he understands. "You don't have to explain a thing. I just hope you had a good time with your sister today.
"Well, we did. But I still want to make it up to you. Ava has a Fireside Girl meeting tommorow. So that means we'll have plenty of time to play by then."
"Well, at least Ava won't be keeping you all to herself. Haha."
Happy with the other being cool with what's happening, Phineas and Ferb both start doing some type of secret handshake with each other. They have no made plans for tommorow and hope to keep it that way.
Later that night, in the master bedroom where Lawrence is reading a pamphlet...
"Oooh! They're going to be doing a production of Hair next week! That'll be fun!"
Much to his surprise, his wife quickly approaches him, snatches away the pamphlet, and begins showing her true colors.
"Lawrence Richard Fletcher!.You've been stalling this long enough! We need to talk!" Linda says in anger.
He knows that he's been trying to run away from this all day. Candace has totally called it! While Linda was perfectly calm before, she's, in reality, more mad then she's ever had been before. And seeing that he's trapped in the bedroom, there's no way he'll be able to escape, even if he wants to.
"Alright, Linda dear. Precisely what exactly do you want to talk about."
"Do you remember the last time I was this mad at you?" Linda asks.
"When I forgot our anniversery?" Lawrence asks.
"No, before that."
A stupid answer from Lawrence. He already knew what Linda was talking about. It was what Candace was referring to. "That's right. I din't tell you I had a son when we first met. But to be fair, you chose to take us both afterwards, did you not?"
"Lawrence, what bother me back then wasn't that you had a son. Heck, I had two kids and you still stayed with me. THAT'S gentlemen like. But what DID bother me was that you kept such a big secret from me. And just today, you revealed that you have TWO kids! Please tell me you don't have a third or something like that!"
"No, no! Honest truth. Ferb and Ava were the only kids I've ever had!" Lawrence says.
"Then why didn't you ever tell me? What other secrets are you keeping from me."
This subject, something that Lawrence has been afraid to talk about, is now taking an uncomfortable turn. He knows that he needs to tell the truth. Problem is, he's not sure if he really can or if he even should. He's afraid of how Linda will react, yet he's also afraid of her now. A real bind. And on top of all that, he doesn't want his son to know anything about this either.
"Linda...to explain this all to you, I would have to talk about my first marriage and my ex-wife."
"Then tell me about your first marriage." Linda demends.
"Linda, the way it failed on me is something I'm not really proud of. I'm REALLY uncomfortable about bringing it up. And if Ferb or Ava ever find out about it..." Immidiately upon thinking of his son and daughter, he pauses. A horrified look appears on his face. "I'm just going to go ahead and go downstairs right now to sleep on the couch so you don't force me to yourself."
"We're not done this conversation, Lawrence."
"I know, dear. I know."
Not ready to come completely clean with his wife, Lawrence leaves the bedroom to sleep on the couch for the night, since he's well aware that it's what happens to the men in this kind of thing, since there's no way Linda will be wanting to sleep in the same bed as him tonight.
He leaves the bedroom and makes his way down stairs. He walks down fearing what'll happen if Linda hears the truth. What he doesn't realize however, is that someone else has been listenining on their talk. Candace, who's grown curious about how her parents will handle this issue, has grown even more curious about this new secret.
Ok, for the first time in a little while, I'm happy with how long I made this chapter. I've been writing them pretty short lately, so this makes me feel like I've done a good job.
Now you know the little thing that Candace was talking about a few chapters back, but now I've given you something else to drive you nuts! What happened regarding Lawrence's previous marriage and why doesn't he want to share it with anyone?
I'm also interested in putting Ava in a darker side in the next chapter to add a bit more conflict. This could get fun.
Ciao for now.