IS VANESSA...?

FERB gave out a faint squeal when he accidentally hits his hand with the hammer while working with another invention again. He dropped the hammer which alerted Phineas a bit, and he stared quietly at his injured hand.

"Ferb, something wrong?" Phineas approaches his brother and saw Ferb blowing over his little palm. Curious why, Phineas poked his head and sees a very swollen hand.

"Ferb! Your hand's all swollen and red! What happened? You hit yourself?"

Ferb nodded silently.

"Why? This is very unusual for you to happen!" Phineas exclaimed as he grabbed a plaster and dressed it over Ferb's wound. "You're usually very focused. What happened with you?"

Ferb knew this question... It was during the time Isabella had her tonsilitis removed and he and Phineas were to build a giant ice cream maker for her... And the time he first saw Vanessa.

"I..." Ferb uttered. "...was weak."

"Weak?" Phineas asked, thinking that he heard this before. "What on earth would make you weak?"

Suddenly, Vanessa then came flying down with a rocket on her back. Her screams echoed over the neighborhood and she seemed to be unable to control it.

Ferb has gotten to his senses - he picked up the hammer and aimed it at the rocket, causing it to break and Vanessa came falling. Ferb, in fast speed, picked up a nearby skateboard and zoomed towards the direction where Vanessa is and quickly caught her in time.

"F-Ferb?" Vanessa opened her eyes and saw Ferb winked at her.

Ferb then gently helped Vanessa on her feet until Phineas came running towards them.

"Vanessa!" Phineas yelled as he was three feet away. "What are you doing here... With the rocket and such?"

Vanessa puts her hands on her waist and groaned. "My dad is on his evil schemes again. He's making this rocket to activate the Clean-the-Mess-inator and while he and his nemesis are fighting, I was accidentally shoved on the rocket and get stuck into it... And then my genius father also accidentally pushes the button that'll activate it... So I came flying around here. I'm so glad Ferb's here to catch me. Thank you."

Ferb nods as Phineas stared in complete wonder.

"Uhh..." Phineas rubbed his head. "I don't quite understand what you're saying, but yeah... It's a good thing Ferb's here. That's a cool rocket, by the way."

A hovercraft suddenly came flying by again and that's where Perry rides on. He sets out to find Vanessa, but then sees her with Phineas and Ferb. Thinking she'll be all right with them, he returns to his mission.

"Are you going to go back with your dad?" Phineas asked as he doesn't seem to realize the hovercraft passing by.

"No, definitely not now." Vanessa scoffed. "I'm actually glad that I finally got out of there."

"So what do you wanna do now?"

"Hmm..." Vanessa glanced at Ferb, who seems to be staring deeply at her... In other words, eyeball-ing her. "What are you guys doing?"

Phineas laid out his arm and introduced her the invention they're making ten feet away. "We're building a Backyard Resort. It's consists of two swimming pools: one is an adult pool, and the other one is... well... Another adult pool. It also contains a hot spring jacuzzi... And Perry's very own private pool. I wonder where he is now... But I'm sure he'll be back by then."

Vanessa's eyes widened. "You guys made all that?"

"Yeah... Why?"

"Just how big your backyard is to contain a resort? And where on earth did you get money for that?"

Phineas glanced on Ferb. "We ask permission to our neighbors to lower their houses and rest them on the underground while we gather the space for our resort. We promised them to have access on Perry's Private Pool in exchange, though. As for the money, we - "

"Hello, Phineas!" Isabella and friends came walking towards them, already on their bathing suits. "Watcha doin'? Well, I know what you're doing, and that's the Backyard Resort. But is it finished? We're all ready."

"Yeah, it's actually done. We're currently waiting for you." Phineas then leads everyone back at their house. "So, Vanessa... Do you want to come join us?"

Vanessa gave a cute smile as she continued to glance at Ferb. "Sure."

. . .

Everything seems to work out well at the tropical resort - there are swimming competitions with the champion of all time: Isabella, and the trainee Buford; all of the neighbors who were asked for space are all spiced up inside Perry's Private Pool; and Ferb and Vanessa gets privacy on the hot jacuzzi while Phineas becomes the host in overall.

He then suddenly approaches the jacuzzi and hands wine glasses with grape juice to Vanessa and Ferb.

"Here you go, miss, mister. Enjoy." Phineas winked at Ferb. "You know, I kinda feel weird with Candace not around here... Oh well. I hope she enjoys her mommy-daughter trip."

Phineas then left the two alone, hoping the two to develop mutual understanding.

"You know, Ferb," Vanessa stated as she took a sip. "It's really very impressive for you guys to make this... This grand resort! This is the first time I've seen something very great like this just made by kids."

Ferb stared at her silently. "You think of me as a kid?"

Vanessa smiled. "Of course, silly. What do you think you are?"

Ferb suddenly gave out a small sigh. So that's what Vanessa only thinks of him... As a kid.

"You know what, Ferb?" Vanessa suddenly said, which made his surprised a bit. "I'm really glad I fell down here on your place. Thanks again for saving me." Vanessa gave a kiss on Ferb's nose in gratitude.

This made Ferb blush a little, but it didn't cheer him up. He thought Vanessa will think of him more than a friend, but it's worse than friend itself. She thinks of him merely as a KID.

"Oh, Ferb!" Vanessa suddenly squealed as she grabs Ferb's hand covered with plaster. "What happened there?"

Ferb just stared silently at his wounded hand. "It's an accident."

"Are you okay? Does it hurt? It won't heal by just dressing it with a plaster! Stay there, I'll go get some ice."

Vanessa quickly leaves and runs to get some ice, leaving Ferb in a silent state. He then stared at Baljeet and his childhood friend Mishti having a romantic time in one side, then he saw Phineas and Isabella having a fun time on the pool, and other different couples... He then feels sudden envy.

Suddenly he saw Phineas approaching him with a worried look stuck on his face.

"Hey, bro... Is anything wrong? Where's Vanessa?"

"Getting ice." Ferb uttered.

Phineas raised an eyebrow. "Ice? For what?"

Ferb lifted his wounded hand up and Phineas then nodded in understanding.

"Hmm. I knew plaster alone isn't enough. Are you feeling okay now?"

Ferb nodded, and silence passed. He kept glancing towards Phineas in anxiety, thinking if he should finally tell the truth.

"I..." Ferb suddenly broken the silence, and Phineas then turned at him. "The reason why I hit my hand a while ago is..."

"... is because of Vanessa?" Phineas finished, chuckling a bit. "I know that. I'm noticing it for a while now... Whenever Vanessa's around you're acting strange. You'll be able to sense if she's here if you hurt yourself or something. Is that it?"

Ferb's eyes just widened even more.

"Never mind." Phineas rolled his eyes. "What am I even saying?"

Ferb just looked at his reflection on the water and rests his hand over the nose where Vanessa kissed him. Is it even possible? Is it possible for a young person like him and a 16-year-old girl like Vanessa be together? Is it...

"Is Vanessa...?"

Phineas suddenly turned to Ferb, who just muttered those words out of nowhere.

Phineas made an anxious look. "Did you say something, Ferb?"

When Ferb's just about to answer, Vanessa suddenly came running towards them with a handful of ice cubes in her hands. She hurriedly descended on the pool and rests an ice cube over Ferb's wound. The latter gasped a bit.

"Does it hurt?" Vanessa anxiously asked, with a clear worried look written on her face. She saw Ferb shook his head, but she doesn't seem convinced.

Phineas, on the other hand, noticed the deep relationship these two are having. Despite his own obliviousness and naiveté with his own love problems, he can clearly see the 'more than friends' aura on these two.

Is Vanessa...? That's the question Phineas distinctly heard from Ferb earlier. Ferb clearly likes her, but of course, he should feel awkward about this crush for her. Phineas can see what only Ferb can do right now is to approach her indirectly... That's what he always do anyway. But the other party doesn't seem to realize anything about it.

Suddenly, Phineas noticed that Ferb keeps glancing at him then back at Vanessa. A thought then came that Ferb is actually seeking HELP from him.

Phineas gave a thumbs up at his brother and quickly left for a while. Ferb, on the other hand, widened his eyes in surprise when Phineas just left him in an awkward situation, in which he realized that his brother's having his own business.

. . .

"Ladies and Gentlemen, may I have your attention, please?"

Everyone's heads turned to see a triangle-head kid standing on a stage who-knows-where-it-came-from. Ferb realized it's Phineas, who in turn winked at him for some reason.

"I was thinking of holding a contest - this time, a different one - and the contestants should be a pair of a boy and a girl. To those who wanted to join, just approach us here and we'll approve of it. Procedures will be announced later on."

Silence occurred a minute later, then everyone suddenly came running towards the stage asking to join. Ferb and Vanessa was then left on the jacuzzi.

Ferb glanced at her who's deeply staring at the people rioting over the stage, and gathered the guts to ask her out there.

"Do you..." Ferb uttered, and Vanessa turned. "You want to join?"

Vanessa's eyes widened, but smiled meekly. "Sure."

The two got up and walked towards the stage, with Ferb desperately trying to hold her hand... But unable to.

"Ferb! Vanessa! You're going to join!" Phineas blurted out when he saw the two lining up. He smiled sheepishly at the two, and winked again. "Have fun."

When the contestants were reduced to fifteen pairs, Phineas finally announced the procedures. "Here's the objective. This is commonly a race; you guys are going to be tied up in the legs and you have to complete every puzzles that our hosts will hand to you. If you've completed the three puzzles, you're going to head to our another adult-pool and you'll see a buoy floating there. The girl will ride on that buoy and the boy will swim to the end pulling the girl. The first pair who gets on the end wins and will receive a prize."

Ferb saw Vanessa smirk. "That's not too hard."

Phineas then held a toy gun and shoots, creating a bang sound which marks the start of the game. Everyone then ran towards the first puzzle, with of course difficulty with their legs tied up with each other.

But on the meantime, despite their height, Ferb and Vanessa seemed to be working out well. They were the first to reach the first puzzle.

It was Fireside girl Gretchen who welcomed them on the first puzzle and they were asked to assemble a pen with parts seperated in thirty seconds.

Ferb quickly gets hold of the pen and in just a blink of an eye, he's able to assemble it as good as new. They were then given a ribbon and they headed off to the next puzzle.

Ferb noticed Baljeet and Mishti quickly coming behind them... Which is no doubt since Baljeet's a nerd as well. Puzzles like these are no match to him; but Ferb seems to desperately want to win.

"Wow, Ferb... That's some great assembling skills you got there," Vanessa complimented, making Ferb blush again. "We're sure to win."

They finally reached the other stall and saw Holly in it. A metal clamp suddenly caught grip of Ferb and Vanessa's right wrists, and the puzzle is to try to let go of the clamp in thirty seconds.

Vanessa suddenly grabbed a hairpin with her left hand and inserted it in the hidden keyhole of the clamp. After a few seconds, they were free. They're given another ribbon and headed towards the next one.

Ferb glanced at her in admire and wonder, in which Vanessa chuckled.

"My dad creates those kinds of things, so... I'm kinda used to it."

When Baljeet arrived that stall, he grabbed his hand sanitizer from his pocket with the left hand and poured it over the clamps. Seconds later, they easily removed their hands from it.

Baljeet smiled at Mishti. "Sanitizer's another version of oil. It makes metals slippery."

Ferb and Vanessa finally arrived at the last puzzle, and saw Isabella on it. She hands Ferb a ball and asks them to target the 'moving-vase' across them.

"I'm warning you, Ferb. It's a little bit hard if you look at it." Isabella whispers, but Ferb seemed to be very focused on the innocent vase.

When he locked the target, Ferb threw the ball towards the vase but then it suddenly moved, able to avoid the ball.

"Hey, what happened?" Vanessa asked in surprise. "You didn't tell us it's moving!"

"I did," Isabella replied. "I said it's called the 'moving-vase', because it's moving. You try to hit it if you can."

Ferb's eyes widened again. He realized he remembers this game before... It's the game he and Phineas used to play with Candace when they were young. Candace will try to hit the vase, but the two brothers will move the vase to avoid the ball...

And THAT'S when he realized that Phineas is the one moving it right now.

Ferb's eyebrows twitched... He knew how good Phineas is when it comes to this kind of games. He knew he'll be having a hard time.

Baljeet and Mishti then arrives, and Isabella handed him a ball. This time, the two compete with each other with shooting the ball, but even with the two of them, Phineas's vase could avoid these easily. This is tough.

Ferb's now sweating very heavily. He continuously throw his ball in any direction just to hit the vase, but still no luck. Vanessa throws him a worried look.

"Ferb, take it easy..." Vanessa uttered, but Ferb ignores her and is very focused on targeting the vase. "Ferb, slow down... Don't take it so seriously or..."

Suddenly, one of Ferb's throws backfired and hits Vanessa instead. Loud gasps are then suddenly heard.

"Vanessa...!"

Ferb stopped throwing and grips on Vanessa, in which the latter covers her face with her hands... It should really hurt.

Phineas also stopped controlling the vase and stared anxiously at the two, which caused Baljeet to be able to hit the vase... And headed over to the another adult-pool.

"Vanessa... Are you all right?" Ferb's voice suddenly turned rough. It's very rare for him to be covered with emotions, since he's usually emotionless. Meanwhile, Vanessa's still on a trance.

"Vanessa... Vanessa..." Ferb repeatedly muttered her name, but his face was deeply covered so there's no clear distinction of what he's really feeling right now.

Everyone were all gathering around the place where Ferb and Vanessa are, staring deeply at them and exchanging looks. Phineas and Isabella also stared at them worriedly, hoping no extreme injury occurred.

Suddenly, Vanessa finally removed her hands over her face and rubs her nose.

"U-Uhh... I-I'm all right, everything's okay..." Vanessa uttered, smiling a bit. "It doesn't really hurt that bad; I was just so surprised. The ball's just made of plastic." Vanessa realized that there are a lot of people gathered around them and saw Ferb's face buried in her arms. "F-Ferb? W-What happened here?"

"Vanessa..." Ferb stated with a bit of joy, very happy that he hasn't injured her in any sort since he'll probably won't forgive himself if it ever happens. He then hugged her quickly, and the crowd cheered when she hugs him back.

After few moments, more crowd cheered when they realized that Baljeet and Mishti has already reached the end of the pool race. Phineas laughed, since he never expected that they will win after all.

"Well, it is too bad we hadn't won, but who cares?" Vanessa chuckled as she holds Ferb's hands. "At least, I enjoyed it."

Ferb gave a slight smile and even if he doesn't show it, his heart was now jumping with joy.

Suddenly, a car honk was heard at the front of the house. It's Linda and Candace from their mommy-daughter trip.

"Mom's here!" Phineas exclaimed. "I'm sure she and Candace will be happy to see our resort."

Another suddenly, a ZAP from nowhere hits Phineas and Ferb's backyard resort, making everything disappear and clean up the mess and the neighbor's houses to return from where they were.

"What happened?" Phineas raised an eyebrow in wonder.

Vanessa laughs. "That's probably the Clean-the-Mess-inator my dad made. This means he and his nemesis are finished fighting."

Just that moment, Linda and Candace came entering the backyard and saw almost everyone from the neigborhood in the backyard.

"Ooh, what's this?" Linda greeted.

"We're having a resort and puzzle-contests, mom."

"Ohh, that's so cute!" Linda chuckled. "Candace keeps panicking during our trip since she's saying something about her sixth* sense that she can tell that you guys are making something incredible again, but you're just having fun! Good thing it's just make-believe... Because if I see a real resort here, I just don't know how to react. Anybody want snacks?"

Everyone cheered and entered inside the house, leaving Phineas, Ferb, Vanessa and Candace... With Perry landing beside them from nowhere.

"Oh, there you are, Perry." Phineas and Vanessa both commented, and they chuckled.

"Well, since Perry's here, I'm going back to my dad and see how he's doing." Vanessa smiled and gave another kiss to Ferb. "Thank you again for the concern, Ferb. See you guys tomorrow!"

Phineas and Ferb waved good bye, with Candace approaching them in a dazed state.

"So Candace, how's the trip? Did you have f..."

"DON'T ASK!"

* Whew. Another mistake. EDITED thanks to SyahirSQRT2. You're the best.

"Sometimes, when you love someone, you have to meet them halfway... Yeah right."

- Ferb Fletcher

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

Hmm... Is the main question answered? LOL. Maybe. It's up to your imaginations if what the question REALLY IS. ;)

This is another long chapter... But I do hope that it's worth it. I had a hard time coping up with Vanessa and Ferb's relationship, but I hope it turned out well.

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