Ferbnessa! Random plot bunny!

This is set in the future...say...Ferb is 17..Vanessa 21.

Her eyes meet his from across the room and it's as if time itself has stopped. She doesn't hear the music playing or the people talking, and she doesn't register that Tyler is still standing uncomfortably close to her. She's aware of the beating of her heart- too fast and too loud- but she isn't sure what emotion is fueling the sudden adrenalin in her veins. It isn't the kiss with Tyler that is making her pulse quicken though, but the face across the room.

To anyone else he may have appeared uninterested and impassive-an expert at masking emotions, an unmovable stone of calm- but she wasn't just anyone. She noted the slight set of his jaw and thinness of his lips, the tiniest of wrinkles in his brow, but mostly? She notices his eyes- always so open and true in its emotions if you only took the time to look. His eyes reflect hurt, disappointed and …even more than that…heartbreak. She feels as if she's kicked a puppy, or told some kid that there's no such thing as Santa, or….or stood there and allowed herself to be kissed by some guy right in front of him.

He blinks, breaking the spell, his expression blanks completely and he turns away. Her heart feels as if it's jumped up into her throat, and yet the sudden panic that seizes her makes her chest fill as though it may burst.

She didn't expect him to be there, but she realizes suddenly that she had been hoping all evening that he would be. She'd invited him weeks ago- a casual friendly invitation- but so much had changed since then. A few weeks ago she hadn't known about his feelings for her- oh sure, she had guessed that he'd had something of a crush on her, but nothing serious, and certainly nothing that had lasted so many years. He'd confessed his feeling to her, in a way that only he could do, with a tender kiss to the back of her hand- a gesture, not words- his eyes calm and steady. She'd been stunned, heart pounding, mind numbingly stunned. Then he had spoke in the velvety soft voice, brutish accent so deliciously thick "Vanessa-"

"Vanessa? Hey?"

She blinks, turning her attention to the boy in front of her. Tyler.

"You okay?" his voice is less concerned and more airy, an eyebrow raised as if he thinks she's insane, but his smile still in place. "You totally spaced on me.'

'Oh god' she thought, she had allowed herself to be kissed by a guy who said 'totally.'

"I.." her eyes dart across the room to try and track Ferbs movements. He's at the door. He's leaving. "I have to go."

Tyler looks confused.

"Right now? It's still pretty earlier."

"I know but I just…I have to-" she looks at him. "I can't do this."

"There's someone else, isn't there."

Vanessa blinks, taken back by Tyler's words, but then her eyes dart back across the room and she realizes Ferb is gone. Completely gone. Her heart gives an unpleasant lurch….she wants to say that it feels as if her heart is being pulled in two different directions but that isn't true at all. There is only one direction, and suddenly it's so very clear to her.

"Yes." she answers, and her words are heavy with the realization. "Yes, there is."

Forgive me for once again posting at the brink of exhaustion...this is probably crap...confusing crap lol- Just needed to get it out of my head.