Reply to: Phineas Flynn 12 (Guest): Phineas and Ferb are 17 in this story, and are a few days away from their first day of Senior year. Also, thanks! ;)
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Phineas' P.O.V.
We take this in for a while, looking at each other, not sure what to do.
I didn't want to mention it for fear Ferb would freak, but as soon as I went outside and even looked at the moonlight laying over the grass feet away, I could feel this pressure in the back of my head, almost like tI ahad ension headache. I could also smell the flowers from the backyard, hear the grass sway in the unnoticed breeze, even see every hair on the back of Ferb's head, and yet… I ignored it. I told myself it would be easy to avoid the moon, but Heaven knows it's not.
"Everyone, get jackets on if needed and follow me outside," Mrs. Richards says as she begins walking. I start walking too, eventually jogging and then running to her.
"What, scared of the dark?" Buford comments on our expressions. (Sorry, I know I just kinda threw him into the story; I forgot I was suppose to mention him last chapter. This book will definitely need rewritten eventually XP) I roll my eyes at his snarky-ness before trying to figure out what to do about our problem.
"Hey, um, Mrs. Richards, do we all have to go outside?" I say as I walk next to her. She stops and directs everyone to a door before replying.
"Well, I'm certainly not leaving any of you alone in here,"
"Well, you can trust me!" I say quickly. "When have I ever been untrustworthy?" I try with an innocent smile, but she sees right past.
"Phineas Flynn, if there's anything I know about you and your brother, it's that when unsupervised, you do unimaginable things and I really don't feel like rowling up the other students. Besides, what are you so against in going outside?"
"Well, there's uhm… There is a curfew. 10:00, right? Or how about, any number of bad people could be around, awaiting their chance to swoop in and take one of us right out from under your nose?" I say nervously.
She sighs, "And what are the chances of that? This is a good part of town. So, you're not staying in here alone."
"Well-" "-OR, alone with your brother. That's worse. You can sit by the door if you want, but the rest of us, I imagine, will be playing Kitty Wants a Corner." And with that, she walks away.
"What are we gonna do now?" Ferb asks, startling me out of my thoughts. My ears tingle in that instant.
"I'm not sure," I say slowly as I turn my head towards him. His heart is beating faster.
"Well we can't go outside! You know that… what are we going to do?" Ferb whispers, trying not to panic. I sigh before looking towards Mrs. Richards who was on the other end of the hall, just about to leave the building.
"Hey, Mrs. Richards!" I call, maybe a bit too loud. She stops and turns around, looking to me.
"Ferb and I are going to go to the bathroom, we'll be out in a second," I say, quieter this time.
"Right. Just be out quick," And then she opens the door and leaves. I hear the slightest electronic buzz, almost of something turning on an axis, before it abruptly stops.
"Well, we're gonna have to-" "Shh, we shouldn't talk here. There are security cameras active, and there might as well be sound to it," Ferb looks at me, confused, but follows me to the nearest bathrooms nonetheless.
"How would you know there were security cameras? I don't see any, and the school doesn't use them unless it's necessary," Ferb questions.
"I just know there are," I say before leaning against the wall.
"But how would you, quote-on-quote, 'just know'?" He asks with air quotes. I sigh in irritation.
"I just know, because I can hear them buzz periodically as they move. Besides, secret cameras exist you know. They're watching, listening, I just know it…" I look away from Ferb as I let him take in this information.
"Wait… you didn't… did you?" He thinks out loud.
"Technically, no, but apparently when I even look at moonlight, I guess I'm affected in a way,"
"Well, how exactly are you effected?"
"Well, I can smell things and see things that I don't think the human senses can pick up, which is annoying. Not too long ago, someone was having an amazing barbecue and boy did I want some. I can also hear things, obviously. It might as well be wearing off now, I could only hear the camera faintly and I only heard one. I'm sure there's more though,"
"Okay, well at least that's good. So the passive effects of moonlight are temporary. Also, the barbecue is probably over. That won't bug you either," He teases, but his smile quickly fades.
"So what are we going to do?" I ask, speaking what was on both of our minds.
"I don't know… Maybe-" He doesn't get to continue when Baljeet peeks his head in.
"Baljeet?" I ask.
"Hey, um, sorry to interrupt but Mrs. Richards told me to get you two. Says you need to come out as soon as possible," He says sheepishly before stepping in and closing the door.
"Anyway, I know exactly why you guys are here so I took the liberty of checking the perimeter and then volunteering to get you two so I could lay out the details."
Ferb and I nod as he continues, "Right now, the shadow of the school building goes far enough that you could stand and play, depending on where you are in the circle. However, the moon is quickly rising. Eventually, you would have to stay next to the building, or else you'd be at risk.""
Okay. How long until then?" I ask. I try to keep my voice steady, but I'm not sure how well it worked.
"I'm not sure, but we'll probably be inside before it becomes a danger to you," He replies. We stand in a moment of silence, before Baljeet speaks up again, "Hey, don't worry about it. I'll keep an eye on you. Now, let's hurry before I get in trouble too!"
With that, we walk out of the room, but what I was telling Ferb before was still bugging me. Now what does he think? And did Baljeet hear any of it, or would I have repeat it? It was hard enough the first time.
He opens the door and holds it for us. I stop just before the doorway, take a deep breath and step outside. I throw my jacket back on (I had taken it off during the movie) and walk a ways before joining the circle.
We play for a while before I begin to notice the weird pressure feeling again. I decided it was best if I ducked out.
"I'm done playing, I'll be by the door," I say as I begin walking over there. I hear running footsteps behind me and turn to see Ferb following.
"Something wrong?" He asks as we stop by the door. I get down and sit, leaning against the wall.
"Nah, I'm fine," I continue watching the others play. "I'm kinda regretting my decision, though,"
"Oh?" He looks at me, as if telling me to go on.
"Well, I…" I pause, and then continue in a whisper, "I told you earlier about my senses. Well, the longer I'm out here, the bigger of a headache I get," I continue.
"Oh… Well, here, let's sit in this doorway then."
We get up and sit in the little indent that the doors are in, Ferb sitting on the outside and me being right next to the door.
"This any better?"
"Yeah, a little. But um… should we tell Baljeet?" I look at him, not knowing why I'm asking. I mean, of course we'll be telling him, but the sound of talking is better than silence. Or, in my case, every impossibly quiet noise unheard by the human ear.
"Yeah," Was his only response, and then it was back to silence.
That's when I heard it; the sound of a car driving.
That's odd I think to myself. I get on all fours and lean over Ferb, looking around the corner to spot a police car, probably on some sort of nightly patrol, and another normal car not too-too far behind it. Funny thing is, both of them almost look familiar.
"Mrs. Richards?" I watch as Baljeet walks over to Mrs. Richards.
"We should go inside soon. It's getting pretty late, and pretty chilly out," Baljeet says. And thankfully, in good time. The moon was way higher than I had realized.
"Yeah, there's also that creature," I hear one of the freshmen mention. I jolt my head towards her, shocked at the comment. Baljeet and Ferb do the same, almost to my amusement.
"Oh, yeah! I heard about it from those cops who were going around town to each house. Some sort of werewolf! They say there's still one out there."
"Really? Cool," One boy says, the girls acting revolted.
"He could kill any one of us, and at any moment!" I feel a lump form in my throat as I listen carefully.
"My mom says she's found a dead deer in our yard. It was a gruesome sight, too. My mom didn't want me to see, but I looked anyway," One girl says with a triumphant smile, as if everyone should have been impressed.
"Oof,"
"That's enough, boys, and girl, you're scaring the other girls," Mrs. Richards commands. Ferb pulls me back down, after having heard the last few comments.
"It's alright, Phin, they don't know what they're talking about," Ferb tries to sooth.
I stand up and he stands with me as the freshmen group around Mrs. Richards to get further instructions.
"Alright, if the majority of us want back inside, we'll all go inside," She motions for everyone to go inside. Some freshmen run, others simply walk. The ones who ran were already inside, and the seniors along with Mrs. Richards made their way through the doors when I realized Baljeet was missing.
I listen close for him, until I hear a very unexpected noise. I frantically look all around, "Ferb, where's Baljeet?" I ask.
"Maybe he already went inside," Ferb walks through the doorway and looks, but the only other soon-to-be seniors there were definitely not him. "Um…"
I hear it again, louder. I turn on my heel and run towards the corner of the building where I thought maybe the sound was coming from, while keeping in mind my distance from the light.
I look past the corner as much as I can to see Baljeet, struggling just as Ferb had when he was getting strangled, and by the same man.
My head told me to stop.
My heart told me to go.
"Phineas?" He asks as he sprints up to me, "What's- Baljeet?!"
"Stay right here!" He orders as he runs past me and I watch him sprint to Baljeet, attempting to get our friend out of his arms.
"Let go of him!" Ferb yells as he grabs the man's arm and tries to free Baljeet.
"What's goin' on? Where's my nerd?" Buford says suddenly from behind me.
"Buford! Uh, what are you doing here?" I ask nervously.
"I heard, 'where's Baljeet' and wanted to know what happened to my nerd," He says before looking directly past me. "Hey you!" He yells and begins walking towards the fight. Everyone stops and looks at him.
Buford, even though he has become much less violent in the past years, was still strong physically. And, still perfectly capable of taking on anybody who messed with his best friend. A.K.A., his nerd.
"Let my nerd go or face the consequences," He says, putting his fist to his hand and popping his knuckles in a threatening manner. Ferb slowly backs away from Baljeet and the man as Buford walks towards him, confidence in every step. The man didn't budge, rather, smirked at the kid's threat.
"I think I want to see these consequences," He says, a taunting tone to his voice.
Buford runs at the big man, throwing punches left and right. The man manages to dodge most of them, but big blows were still given. Holding Baljeet was making dodging harder; eventually, he threw Baljeet off to the side and went head to head with Buford.
"Baljeet!" Butch kneels down next to Baljeet, helping him up and pushing him towards the corner I was hidden behind.
"Baljeet, are you alright?" I ask. My gut wells up with guilt, Baljeet had been nearly suffocated, Ferb was exhausted, Buford was trying to wrestle someone probably much stronger than him, and all I did was watch.
"I-I'm sorry, this shouldn't have happened… I shouldn't have dragged you into this, I should've helped, I…"
"No, Phin, it's alright. If you were to have gone beyond that corner, you know exactly what would have happened. And if these guys were to have gone after you with their knives and guns, or God forbid capture you, I'd never forgive myself." I lower my head to look at the grass.
Buford lands right next to us with a yelp, startling us all. I look up, wide-eyed, as he scurries back onto his feet and retreats behind us. I look off to the side.
"That guy is freaking strong! What did you DO?!" Buford says angrily, hands out to his sides. I could tell his gaze was on me when he said it, but I didn't bother checking.
"Don't look at him, nobody did anything!" Ferb says in defense.
"Uh, guys?" I yell-whisper, "He's just standing there…" Ferb, Baljeet and Buford go silent as we all face the man who had been standing there, simply watching us.
"You guys done?" He asks. We keep silent. "Good. Now, we can either do this the easy way or the hard way. You can either give him up, or you can run. Either way, your monster is limited to this slim stretch of shade lest he want his entire school to know his secret." His daunting smile and confidence is strange for someone who wants to face a monster.
"So, what'll it be?"
I hope you enjoyed, and again, sorry for the missed week. I mean, high school. Ya gotta love it, Heheheee... Huh.