Summer's day...
(A week later)
Candace had an even smaller amount of time in the hospital than the day after she tried to kill herself. Death was easier to get to her when she least expected it.
Just like an unstable bungee cord, emotions had their risky ups and downs when used by humans. It taught them how invalid anything could stay when one misjudges something from the beginning. It wasn't the Flynn-Fletcher's honestly didn't want Candace at all thanks to her new attitude. It was only because of the simple yet deplorable fact they didn't deserve her anymore.
No matter what they did.
For the first time in the majority of the family's transparency together, they felt like admitting it really was their own faults, especially the two younger stepbrothers, who no longer felt as constantly joyous as they used to be.
The funeral happened during the night, within the old Aurum cemetery, even as it gently rained that day. Everyone came, not only the Flynn-Fletchers but their relatives as well. Candace's friend Stacey came alone while the Johnsons came together. Even the Doofenshmirtzs came during half of the testimonial interment.
Although it could have mattered less, Phineas noticed for a minor second one person hadn't arrived: Isabella. The loss of his own sister made him believe nothing in life was worth taking as noteworthy anymore. Now that he knew death could come to anyone, no matter how old or how stable.
The hardship never brought itself to a close once back home. Walking downstairs, Phineas finally knew what compassion looked like when he saw his entire family huddled together in the living room. For him it was beyond different, however. His lack of absolute emotion towards a situation like this one made him worry to the point it was almost dangerous to him.
My sister is dead for crying out loud. He tried telling himself with force. Were Phineas' emotions somehow shut down by an imaginary force?
He went into the kitchen for a moment to try and think it all through as consistent as he could. At first he believed joining his family could heighten her sense of emotions, had it not been for that same force making him hesitate some more. He was sure it wasn't fear, but as he tried to figure out what it was, it only made the answer stray farther from his grasp.
Phineas decided to merely sit on a chair for as long as it would take him to figure something less simplistic than he wanted it to be. It was an odd mystery that by which he wanted answers before he lost his ability to reason.
Then it came to him.
Phineas wasn't so sure he could be right, but a simple try might help him. It all dealt with knowing if he could get a raw sentiment from someone almost as close to him as his family. Other than that, he also wondered why he hadn't seen her for that long.
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