The bell rang, and the middle schoolers all ran into the halls, determined to get the best table or the best meal. In the crowd, two kids stood out. A boy with a triangle shaped head and fiery red hair, and one with bright green hair.
While the other kids went to the nearest line or sat down and started unpacking their own lunch, the two brothers didn't get in line, nor did they carry the classic brown bag lunch.
Sitting down at the table, the red head turned to his brother. "You ready, Ferb?" he asked. Ferb nodded, giving him a small smile. "Okay," Phineas said with a grin, that familiar inventive spark in his sapphire eyes.
Opening their backpacks, each boy got out half of a machine. They connected the two pieces together, with Phineas holding them in place and Ferb screwing them together. Once he finished, Ferb quickly located the nearest outlet, and plugged in the machine (thank goodness for the extra long extension cord they installed). After getting a thumbs up from Ferb, Phineas pressed the big green button.
The bright light coming from the top of the machine caught the attention of nearly everyone in the cafeteria. After only a few minutes, four warm pieces of bread plopped down onto the clean plate inside the machine. Doors opened up, revealing three mini fridges inside the machine as well: One for meat, one for vegetables, and one for mustard and mayo.
The students and teachers watched in awe as tiny, mechanical hands put together the sandwiches (one with lettuce, baloney and mayo, the other with lettuce, tomatoes, turkey and ham) and then presented the completed plate to the two young inventors. "Nothing like fresh, custom ordered sandwiches, huh Ferb," Phineas said as he took the baloney sandwich.
Immediately, students rushed up to their table to ask to use their machine, and of course were granted permission. As for the teachers, they still couldn't believe their eyes, and the cafeteria workers were talking to one another, trying to think of how much a machine like that would cost and how much the boys would charge for it (after all, a machine like that could definitely help when making lunch for over five hundred kids). It was only their first day of middle school, and they had already made a huge impression.
But they weren't thinking about that.
"Perhaps tomorrow we can try a dessert machine," Ferb suggested after swallowing another bite.
Phineas smiled. "Ferb, you know what we're doing tomorrow."
Just the boys being boys. I haven't had them together in a chapter for what feels like forever, and I'm really glad I could write this. Oh, and if you're wondering where Isabella, Buford and Baljeet are, I can't have more than two main characters per chapter so let's just say they have a different lunch period (at my school we have lunches A, B and C).
Anyway, please review!