Hi I'm back and I am really excited about this chapter. I'm actually still waiting for more people to vote on which story they want me to do next but for now lets just get this one further along.

FanPhineasyFerb2011: Ya I tend to have that effect on people.

Piano-Man aka PhinbellaFanatic: you will find out.

14AmyChan: Ya I think so too, if only other people saw it that way, and he certainly wants to.

Skypan: Ya a lot of things are bad, Erick hesitated, and okay.

fvcutie0028: If you are saying for the spelling then I checked it if you are saying for the character then I can't tell, but that is good thinking, and it will just keep getting stranger, and I loved your reaction.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything or anyone except Erick.

(Phineas's POV)

(Saturday morning)

The morning proceeded like any other; I got out of bed, put a patch on my shoulder, got dressed, and walked downstairs to eat breakfast. The only difference was today I had to tell Gretchen that I don't think the two of us would work. After finishing breakfast I got out of my chare and made my way to the door "bye mom, I'm going out to meet with Gretchen" I shouted.

"Okay sweetie, be safe"

I walked out, closed the door behind me, and set off to do probably the most difficult thing I've done all summer 'I really hope she doesn't cry'

(Ferb's POV)

I woke up to see that Phineas has once again woken up before me 'what happened? We used to never even get out of bed until the other woke up' I sighed and got ready for the day. As I walked downstairs I looked into the kitchen to see that Phineas was not there "hey mom, where did Phineas go?" I asked.

She looked up from the newspaper she was reading "I think he said something about going to hang out with Gretchen"

Now I was sad 'is Phineas really dating Gretchen?' I thought. "I think I'll skip breakfast today"

"Why? Are you okay?" my mother asked.

I nodded and proceeded to walk to the front door "I have some stuff that I need to take care of"

"Well okay … stay safe" I gave her a smile and walked out the door.

'I am tired of this charade'

(Isabella's POV)

I was sitting at my computer running through stuff that might make me feel better. I had gotten no sleep whatsoever so I was really not eager to go outside and hang out with friends. "Why does life hate me so much?" I asked to no one in particular. Just then I heard a knock at my door "come in" I said. Even though I had gotten no sleep and I was extremely sad I still got dressed so I didn't mind if anyone came in.

As I looked over to the door I saw Ferb walking in the door "hi … Isabella" he said.

"Hi Ferb" I said weakly "can I help you with something?"

"What's happening between Phineas and Gretchen?"

"How should I know?" I said sarcastically.

"Because she's your friend and Phineas and I aren't that close anymore"

I sighed "I saw them kiss outside the movie theater yesterday"

He was silent for a few seconds "I think we should stop pretending to date"

I leaned back in my chair and looked at the wall "whatever" I didn't care about my 'plan' anymore, it had failed miserably (or worked just … without the outcome I wanted) and now Phineas's heart belonged to someone else.

Ferb was quiet for a few more moments then said something that made me fall out of my chair "I'm going to tell Phineas the truth"

I pulled myself off the floor and gaped wide eyed at Ferb "why?" I asked him.

He closed his eyes and turned his head away "I'm tired of lying to him and … he needs to know what I did"

I was now in a panic "you can't tell him about how I feel about him, you promised"

"I won't name who you wanted to make jealous" he opened his eyes to glair at me "but as of this point you're no longer welcome over our house until you tell Phineas how you feel about him"

I was taken aback "why?" I begged.

Ferb tightened his glair "I'm not going to put up with another one of your plans that ends up pushing me and Phineas further apart" he looked down to the ground "and pushes him into the arms of the girl I love"

My emotions changed from hurt to confused "what do you mean?"

There was a long pause "I'm referring to Gretchen"

"You're … in love … with Gretchen?" he nodded "I'm sorry" Ferb didn't say anything; he just walked out with a sad look in his eye 'what have I done?'

(Phineas's POV)

I was at the better panda restaurant looking for Gretchen 'what am I going to say to her' I thought. After a few moments I found Gretchen sitting at a booth waiting for me "hi … Gretchen" I said.

"Hi Phineas" she said back to me.

I took a seat and averted my eyes from Gretchen 'just come clean, she's going to be sad no matter what so you might as well just get it over with' I took a deep breath, but before I could say anything Gretchen was already talking.

"I'm sorry about kissing you yesterday" she said.

I was caught by surprise and was left speechless for a moment "what?"

She looked down "I'm not in love with you I'm sorry, I thought I was but I'm not" she looked down and closed her eyes tight.

I let out a sigh of relief "I've been trying to think of a way to say the exact same thing all morning"

Gretchen opened her eyes and looked at me "what?"

"I realized that I wasn't really in love with you either but I was afraid that you would be sad if I said that so I've been trying to think of a way to say it without it sounding harsh"

She giggled "that wouldn't be possible"

I scratched the back of my head in embarrassment "ya I realized that"

Gretchen giggled again "so as long as we're here you want to get something to eat?"

"Sounds good" I said.

(Baljeet's POV)

Well Buford had dragged me to the mall so that he could get a date with Brigitte."Ready Baljeet?" Buford asked me.

I shrugged not thinking about what was happening at the moment and paying more attention to my own problems 'how am I supposed to tell her?'I thought. We were in a clothing store and Buford was looking for Brigitte.

"There she is" Buford said pointing at the far end of the store. I squinted my eyes and sure enough she was there.

"How can you see stuff that far away?"

"That's classified. Now let's get me a date with a French girl" Buford and I rushed over to where she was and Buford got into character "Brigitte? Is that you?" he said over to her. I imagined myself roiling my eyes because if I did for real then Buford would really have my head.

She looked over to use with a surprised look "oh Buford! I did not expect to see you here"

"Yes well I was just wondering around with my pall Baljeet and oh you know enjoying the scenery" Bufords plan didn't involve me doing much, just being there to support his alibi that he 'happened' to bump into her. "That's when I saw you and wanted to see what you were up to"

Brigitte giggled and I suppressed the urge to gag. As I continued to pretend that I was paying attention I noticed something off in the distance 'is that …'I quickly looked back to see if Buford was paying attention, thankfully he was really involved in his conversation with Brigitte so I made a run for it 'sorry Buford but this is more important'

(Erick's POV)

I was at the movie theater waiting for Katie to show up'hope she gets here safely'I thought. she had called me earlier and told me the time and movie she wanted to see and it was only five minutes until the movie started. 'I hope nothing bad happened'

(Katie's POV)

I was in a rush to get ready to leave for my date with Erick, I had lost track of time and now had only five minutes to get to the theater. As I was about to walk out the door my phone rang, I grunted and looked at the color I.D. "Isabella? What does she want?" I picked it up "hello?"

"Hi Katie, do you have some free time?" Isabella sounded sad

I looked at my watch and saw that I was about to be late, but seeing as Isabella sounds sad I figured that Erick wouldn't mind if I took a few extra seconds "ya I have some"

"Can you come over?"

I froze, now I was worried, why would Isabella want me to come over? "Why? What happened?"

"Ferb …" she started crying "he … he broke up with me"

"Oh my, I'm so sorry, just give me a few minutes and I will be right over"

"Thank you" she hung up.

'This is just great, now I have to cancel my date with Erick'I sighed and started dialing his number.

"Hi Katie where are you? The movie's going to start soon"

I sighed "I'm sorry, I lost track of time and … Isabella needs me to help her with a problem, so I'm going to have to reschedule"

There was silence as I prayed that he would not be disappointed "I … ya that's fine" I let out a sigh of relief "what the problem?"

"Ferb broke up with her"

There was more silence "wow … I did not see that coming"

"Again sorry, are you good for tomorrow?"

I heard a sigh "my plates full until Monday night"

For some odd reason I was feeling desperate "Monday sounds good"

"Ya … I'll call you when I'm done"

"Okay I'll see you Monday?"

"Ya, oh which reminds me … actually never mind it's not important right now"

"What is it?"

"It's … something that I wanted to tell you but it can … it should wait"

"Okay then I'll see you Monday, bye"

"Bye" I hung up the phone.

I felt a strange tingling sensation when I got off the phone 'what does he want to tell me? and why is it making me feel this way?'

(Erick's POV)

I started making my way over to the better panda restaurant to get something to eat before I went home. 'Well I guess I can't really be upset, I mean I had to cancel it once and she said it was fine'I kept walking while I started to fill with regret'why didn't I just tell her? Why did I tell her that it should wait? Why can't I tell Katie that I love her?'I continued to self mope until I finally got to the restaurant, as I walked in I walked to the counter and ordered a small meal and looked for a seat. As I was walking I heard someone call my name.

"Erick" I looked around to see that it was Phineas. I walked over to him and as I got closer I noticed that Gretchen was with him "Erick what are you doing here?"

I averted my eyes "Katie had to call off a date to help comfort Isabella"

I heard Gretchen gasp and Phineas started talking "what happened to Isabella?"

I rolled my head "apparently Ferb broke up with her … can I take a seat?"

"Sure" Phineas said. I sat down on the same side as Phineas.

"So what happened?" Gretchen asked.

"Well I was at the movie theater and Katie called me up to tell me that Isabella needed someone to talk to or something and that she wouldn't be able to make it"

"I meant with Isabella and Ferb"

I shrugged "heck if I know" I took a bite of my meal "so what are you two doing here? You on a date?"

Phineas laughed and Gretchen shook her head "No Gretchen and I don't feel that way about each other, were just here because we met up" I shook my head jokingly.

Gretchen took a sip of her drink then looked at me "So Erick, you were supposed to have a date with Katie today?"

I nodded "ya it was supposed to be last Friday but I had to help people with things"

Phineas nearly choked "you had a date that day?" he asked concerned.

I nodded again "ya but she understood"

Gretchen decided that I needed some lecturing "What do you mean she understood? How on earth can you justify rescheduling a date? do you even like her?"

I sighed "no I don't" Phineas and Gretchen were in shock. Gretchen was about to start lecturing me again but before she could I finished my sentence "I love her" there was a moment of silence so I decided to continue "I'm more in love with her than anything, that's why I was so sad when I had to reschedule our date, that's why I was upset when she had to reschedule, … I love her … more than anything"

There was an awkward silence for a time before Gretchen finally decided to speak "why don't you tell her?"

I sighed "I'm afraid of what might happen if I tell her to early so I'm waiting for our third date … then I'm going to ask her to be my girlfriend"

"Well if you've decided already then why not just tell her now?" Phineas asked.

I looked down "because I don't think that she's decided yet"

(Katie's POV)

I was at Isabella's attempting to cheer her up; right now we were watching miscellaneous television while eating ice-cream "you want to talk some more about it?" I asked. Isabella just shook her head and continued to look at the T.V. I looked back to the T.V. and continued watching.

A few minutes later she finally started to talk "can you tell me about what it's like to be in a good relationship?"

I looked at her confused "you mean to tell me that you and Ferb didn't have a good relationship?" she shook her head. I sighed "well I can't really answer that because I'm not really in a relationship myself"

Isabella turned to look at me "what do you mean? What happened between you and Erick?"

I let out a small laugh "were not really in a relationship … and based on how it's going … I don't think we will"

Isabella's tone suddenly turned more serious "Explain"

I sighed "well we were dancing around actually dating for a good year before deciding to try it out, then it took us a month to actually go on a date, then we had to reschedule that date a number of times for multiple reasons," I paused "and now our second date is turning out the exact same way"

"So … what are you going to do?"

I sighed "I don't know"

(Baljeet's POV)

I rushed out of the clothing store and toward the very thing that I spent the whole last week thinking about. "Hey Ginger I have something to tell you" I said running toward my child hood friend.

She turned around and gave me a surprised look "oh … hi Baljeet"

I took a moment to catch my breath "Look Ginger ... about what's been happening between us"

"I know Baljeet, I just … I really liked you and … I thought it would … I'm sorry"

"We did, I did, Ginger I … I love you" her eyes started to water.

"Baljeet" she said while about to cry "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to-"

"You didn't" she looked at me with her eyes clearing up slightly "Mishti and I … we …"

Flashback

It was Friday night and I had a very important task ahead of me. I walked up to where Mishti was staying and rang the doorbell. 'Okay this is nothing to be concerned with just-' I was interrupted by Mishti's mom opening the door.

"Oh hi Baljeet, how can I help you?"

I took a deep breath and started "I need to talk to Mishti"

"Okay then" she walked out of sight and before long Mishti was at the door.

"Hi Baljeet" she said sadly

I took another deep breath and began "look Mishti I-"

"I know" she interrupted.

"What?"

"I knew that you and I wasn't going to happen, I know that we are just friends and … I knew that if it really did happen then it wouldn't last"

I tilted my head down in disgrace "if it's any consolation … it was quite enjoyable"

She gave a sad smile "but it was never meant to be was it?"

I looked back at her "I guess not, but you should know …I didn't mean for it to end this way" she pulled me into a hug and with that, whatever relationship we had was over.

End flashback

"Mishti and I were never going to work and we both knew it" I paused "I was hoping however … if you still wanted to-" she threw her arms around my neck and kissed me, at first I was shocked but after a second I put my hands around her waist and returned it, and I must say … it was the best feeling of my life

And for once the chapter ends on a happy note, which is basically the same thing I can say about my day. This morning I woke up and after going through my dally morning routine I found out that my favorite fanfiction might be coming back (I'm not going to tell you what it is but here's a hint; it begins with an "S"), then my day quickly went on a rollercoaster, I found out that I was a month late for class registration, got relatively good times for a lot of the classes I had to take, found out that I did not meet the prerequisite for a class I absolutely had to take next semester, realized that I only had to talk to a specialized advisor to get a class from my last school to properly transfer (or something like that) to meet the prerequisite, found out that the advisor wasn't in his office, went back online to work on this, went to my three hour class at 6PM to 9PM, got back to my dorm, read the new reviews (always a good thing), and finished this story. And on one final note at this point in time I have the first three chapters done for my story "The Light Within the Darkness" and the notes for the next five, so if I'm feeling up to it I might post an extra chapter for that story this Saturday, but that all depends on my mood. Goodnight everyone.

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NOTE: this chapter has been modified from the original to better support what the fans want. Personally I wasn't pleased with how it was originally either so I'm happy about replacing it. For those of you who read the original I know that I just replaced the names and some wording but … theirs not much else to it is there?