I woke up the next morning to fingers running through my hair.
"rise and shine" he whispered
I shook my head and groaned
"I don't wanna"
I buried my face in his chest and he laughed softly
"we have school. Get up. And then we are going with Candace to pick up mom and dad at the airport"
"I don't want to go to school" I complained as I sat up "they're all going to try and take you away from me"
"well I wont let them" he whispered
I smiled at him and pressed our lips softly together. When we parted I said
"well... let's get this over with..."
He laughed slightly and nodded, and we got out of bed and dressed quickly.
I yawned as I pulled my striped shirt over my head, and he laughed and tossed me a pair of jeans. I put them on and tossed him his shirt. When we were finally presentable we walked quickly down the stairs, and I held back yet another yawn.
When we reached the table, there were two sandwiches.
"guys I made you each a sandwich" she said, pushing one at each of us, "and here are your lunches" she passes us each a bag and pushed us towards the door. "hurry or you'll be late"
"what time are you picking us up?" I called
"I'll be waiting after school!" she called, and the door closed
I turned and caught up to Ferb and said
"so are we telling people?"
"maybe we should play it cool for the day, and see how they react to my return before throwing that at them to" he said with a small grin
"good idea" I said with a smile. I quickly squeezed my hand, then sped up.
"hey!" I exclaimed and ran to catch up, effectively starting a race.
He beat me by a foot, and as soon as we were in the doors the whole school fell silent. I stared around in shock before gripping his arm and dragging him to our shared locker.
I quickly twirled the combination and he smiled at the pictures of us in it, and the notes. He shot me a smile and grabbed his things off the top shelf. I grabbed mine off the middle shelf and he slammed the door shut.
"uhh... wheres class?" he whispered, turning bright red
I laughed gently and said
"this way"
He silently followed me down the various halls until we reached the room.
"do we sit together?"
I nodded
"what class is this even?"
I laughed gently again and said
"math" I lead him to the seat, just as the teacher walked in. He spotted Ferb and grinned, and said
"I knew it wasn't true. There's noway a kid as smart as you would be killed by that"
Ferb grinned in reply, and the bell rang, causing the rest of the class to stream in frantically, desperate to be marked on time.
The teacher quickly took the attendance and began the days lesson.
"we're already on quadratics!" Ferb exclaimed in shock
I laughed gently and said
"we started it last week... I think Wednesday"
He frowned and said
"great..."
"I'll help you" I whispered
He shot me a small smile and said
"thanks"
When the lesson was over and he was handing out papers and assignments he approached Ferb
"Ferb, I think I should assign you a tutor. You missed a lot, including the culminating, and I don't want you to fail the class"
Ferb nodded
"once you've caught up remotely, I'll need you to do the culminating"
Ferb nodded again, and I said
"I'll be his tutor. We live together anyways so it saves time, and I'm getting a great mark in this class"
He eyed me, then nodded.
"alright. Phineas I need you to refresh him on all of the units, then get him caught up on quadratics"
I nodded and he handed us our sheets and walked away. I couldn't help but notice that while we were doing our work, others were staring at Ferb.
"so what does y equal?" he asked
"in the chart y equals x squared" I replied, pointing it out
"whats the full equation?" he asked
I pointed it out to him on his sheet and he nodded thoughtfully.
"I hate this" he complained after a moment
I laughed lightly and said
"I know. Me to"
He smiled and the bell rang. I gathered up my stuff and waited while he did the same, and we left together, ignoring the stares.