Chapter 2
It had been three weeks since Phi.. it happened. Isabella had spent much of the time at home watching TV or on the computer. The group of friends hadn't really talked, the fireside girls had had their weekly meeting but hadn't earned a single patch, Ferb had read almost all of the books at the Library, Baljeet was doing extra school work and Buford was playing video games and hadn't even really talked to Baljeet. Isabella wanted to see everyone again, but her lifetime (lifetime.. it had a different ring to it now) friends all reminded her, and them, of all their times with Phineas, and it was a little hard to face.
Isabella was feeling a little depressed she had spent all her time at home, this was not seizing the day, she looked at the clock it hit 11:12 right as she looked at it I don't need a wish anyway she thought My wish will never come true. Wait its past 11? I haven't done anything. I'm burning daylight. She decided today she would do what she hadn't in weeks.
She reached the gate of the house across the street. She hesitated before opening it but took a breath and stepped into the backyard where Ferb was under the tree reading a book. A random person would see him and his pile of books and guess he was really sucked into it or a book worm, but Isabella could tell he wasn't thinking about the book, even if he was reading it faster than she could ever dream.
"Hey Ferb. Sooo.." She stopped she couldn't do it "Hows it going" her old catchphrase had not ever really been directed at Ferb anyway.
He looked at the book and shrugged, it was Ferb's way of saying it was normal, which meant everything was terrible. Isabella looked at him, she had never really talked to Ferb much, but nobody but Phineas really had. Being as Phineas was the only thing she could think of she was going to talk about him, something nobody had done since the funeral.
"Without Phineas here to make the days count all of Danville has become such a sad place, our tourism board has all but been shut down without the smiles he caused. This town could really use something to bring everybody's spirits up, like a carnival, carnivals always get people to cheer up." After a seconds pause Isabella "Ferb, I..." she calmed herself, too soon "think we should build a carnival today." Isabella called the whole gang to the Flynn-Fletcher backyard. normally when they got there it was for helping build Phineas's Idea, which was usually already drawn up, but today they were needed for something else, at the funeral the priest said Phineas lived in all of them and Isabella was relying on this. She needed everybody there to get the ideas together, then the blueprints, then the carnival. In total they were done with everything but the building in about an hour.
"That's about how long it usually took" Ferb said, the first thing he had said since before Phineas died
The next hour and a half of building flew by and before they knew it a Carnival had been set up in the middle of the park with booths and rides. Everyone was having a blast, the town had all but come to a halt as a result of something happening in Danville, before it had been common but since Phineas died people were expecting their lives to be boring.
"MOM FERB AND ISABELLA BUILT A CARNIVAL IN THE PARK!" Candace shouted into the phone
"Why are you telling me this?" mom said in her cooking class, she had been told about her son's incredible inventions and was proud, but she also understood Candace had been trying to keep them safe.
"Well your missing all the festivities, the whole town is here, leave your stupid cooking class, the cook is grumpy and you've always been a great cook anyway." she hung up and looked at Jeremy with a smile on her face, it was the first time he had seen her smile in weeks and it made him glad
After everyone had had their fun and the sun went down Linda drove all the kids to their homes, everyone was smiling and talking about their day, they hadn't forgotten about Phineas being gone, nor had they moved on, but they had taken his life and continued it, part of life was laughing at the moments that were enjoyable, and if together they were even half the person Phineas was they knew they would have plenty to laugh about.