Chapter 10

The plane finally landed in Danville sometime in the afternoon. Phineas woke Isabella up and helped her to Candace's car. Candace began driving with Mr. Shapiro next to her, Isabella behind her, Phineas in the middle, and Ferb to the other side. They were all talking excitedly about getting back but Candace still had no idea how her mom or Isabella's would react. All of a sudden her phone rang. She had two voicemails from her mother. She put it on speaker to listen

"Hey Candace I know you're still out with your brothers but your father and I have to get out to the quad-state area for some rare collectibles auctions we found. We'll be staying out there a day or two and flying back. Call me when you get this." Candace realized she hadn't called so she was pretty sure she knew what the second message would be.

"Don't worry about calling my phone will be off for the flight and I won't have any service out there. I'll text you after I get back." Candace and the rest of the car let out a sigh of relief. Candace turned onto the clearly packed interstate as her phone rang again. This time a text.

Just got on the interstate. Its packed. Be back soon. It had just been sent. There were thousands of cars on the interstate but Candace knew the one she caught out of the side of her eye. She couldn't really go anywhere with all the cars. She waited but it didn't take long before she heard the honking of the horn of the car next to her. She rolled down her window.

"Candace what are you doing out here?" She didn't sound angry but generally confused

"I'll explain after we get home. It's a pretty long unbelievable story. You should be used to those from me by now."

"There better be a good reason for why you're out here."

"Don't worry mom there is." The back door window rolled down unnoticed.

"Hi Mrs. Fletcher!." Isabella said with a huge smile on her face while Phineas and Ferb tried to retain their laughter. Candace shot them a glare. They couldn't just wait could they? Luckily for Candace her mother was so busy being confused she didn't notice Candace get off the exit until it was too late. Now they just had to get home and explain to Mrs. Garcia-Shapiro.

"Okay guys I'd say we have a good 8 minutes before Mom gets back so we better move this along." Candace said as they walked up to the door.

"Oh Candace dear it's been too long, how are you did you grow tall.." She saw Isabella standing to the side of Candace "Isa? Isa! It's you!" She bent down and hugged her daughter. "How did you children.." She trailed off again as she saw someone else in the group "What are you doing here?"

"Hello Vivian. Nice to see you. Lovely weather isn't it?" Mrs. Garcia-Shapiro did not look amused. Mr. Shapiro sighed knowing it wasn't going to work "Well I.." Phineas cut him off

"He helped Isabella when she was stuck in the desert. We ran into the both of them while they were trying to get back. Had it not been for him we never would have found Isabella." He didn't exactly lie but he was pretty clearly not telling the whole truth. Vivian did show a little less pure hatred toward the man but instead looked upon her daughter.

"Are you okay Isa?" She checked her daughter over for any sort of visible wound but none could be found.

"Yea mom I'm fine. And Phineas is right. I wouldn't have been able to get back without any of them especially Dad." Vivian's eyes widened a little but she had figured he told Isabella

"Aye how did you get to be in the desert anyway?"

"Well it's an interesting story, perhaps we should all go inside to sit." Ferb suggested. They all went to go in but were stopped by screeching tires and a familiar voice yelling.

"PHINEAS! FERB! CANDACE! GET OVER HERE NOW!" Clearly caught they went to meet their mother halfway across the lawn but Mrs. Garcia-Shapiro beat them to her.

"Linda! Did you here that your children helped save my little Isa from the middle of the desert?" Linda face instantly dehardened.

"No I wasn't granted that information." She said eyeing her kids who's smiles were growing for Vivian saving them. "How did all that come to happen?" Vivian joined her in looking at the kids

"As previously said. It's an interesting story. Perhaps we should all go inside to sit down." They walked in and sat down in the living room. Phineas and Ferb told their story first with backup from Candace. Linda didn't want to hear about a "cute-tracker" so they changed it to tracking her phone's last place. They made it so that they just drove out to the unpainted desert where Isabella went with Mr. Shapiro because he lived there after she fell asleep in his car. He had tried to get her home after she woke up but his car broke down. All in all it turned out to be much more believable to Linda and Vivian. But Vivian looked skeptical of her husband living in the desert. Or, rather, a desert in the U.S. but she wasn't going to contradict them since Linda clearly looked like she didn't want to hear about her kids going across the Atlantic for any reason whatsoever. Eventually Linda decided it was getting late and time for her kids to come home.

"Hey Phineas wait up." Isabella said stopping Phineas before he could leave with his family

"What's up?"

"While I was asleep on the plane ride home did I wake up?" Phineas smiled and thought on it

"I think you might have. Why, not sure if you were awake or asleep for something?" Isabella nodded yes

"You were talking to my dad then I woke up had a quit chat then went back to sleep.

"The one where we hit the turbulence and your dad freaked out a little bit?" Isabella looked down

"I must have been dreaming"

"Oh you must be talking about when I found out you like me too." Isabella's head shot up. "No you probably wouldn't care about that time you woke up. See you tomorrow" He started walking away leaving Isabella dumbstruck behind him. After he walked out she ran out the door to find him. It had started raining and she couldn't see him anywhere. The door closed behind her to reveal Phineas standing behind it. He walked up to her and put his mouth next to her ear "ma chérie, je t'aime" He leaned over and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek "Now let's get you inside. Just because you're back from a desert doesn't mean you should stand out in the rain. You could get sick and then it would be impossible for tomorrow to be the best day ever." Isabella was still half dazed from Phineas as he opened the door. He started walking down the stairs.

"Wait Phineas. Again." He turned to look at Isabella while standing in the rain but not showing any sign of noticing "French? Really? Doesn't that seem a little corny to you?" He smiled

"Hey you asked for it. And I think 'I love you' is becoming over used." Classic Phineas, refusing to follow the crowd.

"Well then au revoir!" Phineas smiled and jogged across the street through the rain. Of all the weird things that happen in Danville Isabella had to say being kidnapped was turning out to be one of the more interesting and fun ones.