They started walking down the street with an awkward silence for a little bit.
"So Phineas. How are you?"
"Well I'm good actually. It's good to be myself again."
"I know how you feel that was an interesting week." They continued walking for a little bit before Isabella saw Phineas stop.
"Your carriage is here." Phineas said as a horse drawn carriage pulled up. Isabella took his hand as he helped her in.
"This is great Phineas."
"Well it's only just begun." The carriage stopped in Danville Park and Phineas helped Isabella down. They walked around the lake for a couple of minutes before they came to a picnic, set up with a plate of crackers and cheese, overlooking the water. They watched as the sun hit the horizon. "Hey look it's the beautiful sunset we never got to enjoy." He looked at Isabella. She smiled for a second before she broke out laughing.
"That was a fun 40 hours." She said laughing. Her laugh was contagious to Phineas.
"Well fun wasn't the word I would use for the whole trip. The after party was nice; the Fireside Girls did a good job with that." He heard Isabella humming the beginning to the song as she watched the sunset. The sun sank below the horizon and he joined her humming.
Before they knew it they were standing on top of the little hill singing "Summer Belongs To You" with tourists and couples below stopping to listen. After they finished they collapsed onto the blanket for the picnic laughing.
"That. Was fun." Isabella said between breaths. Phineas rolled to his side staring at Isabella. After a couple of minutes she turned to look at him "What?" Phineas blinked then turned a light shade of red.
"Um nothing. It's just.. I haven't really been able to see your eyes for the past week. At least not while talking to you." Isabella started blushing.
"Phineas, I don't know if you noticed but we already ate all the food here." Isabella said after another couple of moments watching stars appear.
"Well then onto the next destination for the date!" Phineas said successfully jumping into the standing position." Isabella clapped as he took a bow then he helped her up and they walked to the water where a miniature gondola was waiting for them.
"How did you set all this up if you've been me?"
"I might have gotten a certain annoying green haired Brit to help me out." Phineas said pushing off from the beach.
"Well I'll have to thank him." There was a short silence before Isabella smiled and spoke again "And don't think I don't know what you're up too."
"What am I up to?" Phineas asked
"You just want another chance to be in my soft bed don't you?" They both laughed.
"It wasn't the first thought that came to mind. I think that deserves some respect." He said smiling.
"There's an order to your thoughts? This I want to hear." Isabella said rolling to her stomach and putting her head on her hands. Phineas thought for a moment.
"First was spending time with you. Then was making you happy. Then was making me happy. Then the actual idea of asking you out. And only after all of that came your bed."
"I suppose for all other guys the thought process would have been the exact opposite?"
"Only if that makes me better. If not then no." Phineas said. Isabella laughed and splashed him slightly.
"Aww man and we just got to the restaurant." Isabella laughed then looked confused before she turned and saw the restaurant. Phineas stopped next the dock and tied off hopping up and reaching down for Isabella. He grabbed her arms and pulled her straight up onto the dock.
"Excuse me sir you can't be up here." A man said running up to the two.
"Flynn party of two." Phineas said still looking at Isabella, holding her arms.
"Oh my apologies sir your table is set up over here." The man led them to a table right next to the water. It already had candles set up for lighting and the second they sat down waiters surrounded the table.
"Drinks?"
"Umm I guess some cola?" Isabella said.
"Same." Phineas said to the waiter. Another waiter walked up pouring them two glasses of soda.
"For dinner tonight you get a salad, soup, entree, and desert." Another waiter said walking up to them
"Wow." Isabella said looking at Phineas who smiled
"Do you think you have recommendations?" Phineas asked the waiter.
"Well personally I would get the Caesar salad. For soup you should try the matzo ball soup it is the best you'll ever have. For an entree it depends on what's you want. Our specialties are our great steaks, chicken fillet, broiled flounder, shrimp scampi, pasta, and chicken parmesan." Phineas nodded as he quickly flipped through a menu.
"Well the matzo ball soup sounds good I don't think I've had that at a restaurant before so I'll have that. Could I get the Greek salad instead of the Caesar" The waiter nodded as Phineas spoke quickly "For the entree.. I'll take the broiled flounder with Worcestershire sauce. What about you Isabella?" Isabella jumped and looked at her menu.
"That was impressive ordering. I'll stick with the Caesar and the matzo ball soup. Umm and I'll have the chicken parmesan."
"Excellent choices." He took their menus "Your food should be out shorty."
"That really was impressive ordering Phineas." Phineas smiled.
"Thanks but I cheated. I looked at the menu before I left." Isabella laughed.
"I think that's the farthest I've ever seen you plan ahead for something."
"Well when I don't plan whatever I do disappears at the end of the day. Some things are worth the extra planning." Isabella smiled and blushed. "Your hair looks absolutely amazing, by the way, Isabella. If my hair was always like that I would probably just tell people I had an afro but you must have really worked at that."
"Well the girls helped a little. They did a good job with the dress too." Phineas turned a little red.
"Well they had to make sure I would like it. I tried to tell them I would like it no matter what you wore but they insisted."
"It's a good thing too I'd hate to have had to show up in my normal pink skirt." Phineas laughed a little
"You could have come in a t-shirt and baggy shorts and you'd still be the most beautiful person I know." Isabella gained a full blush turning bright red. Before she responded waiters brought over their soups and salads.
"Wow and this is just to start dinner off?" Isabella asked. The soup or the salad alone would have constituted a meal for her
"Well it certainly isn't a Chez Platypus but these servings are rather generous." They both laughed at the memory.
"Remember the look on Candace's face when helicopters took it away."
"Not at all. I stopped noticing her expressions at things disappearing. It was always the same shock. She looked very happy when she got to sit down to a meal though. It was definitely better than when we tried to create romance in the backyard. We should not have let Buford be cupid."
"Well he did insist on wearing the diaper. That was a nice cruise around the harbor."
"I'm glad we were able to do this romance thing again, it is fun."
"Yes, yes it is."