Phineas slowly walked across the road to Isabella's house, going to find his girlfriend to do something that afternoon. He had been doing some inventing and Isabella had not come and visited him, so he had decided to look for her. Phineas reached up and knocked on the door, barely had he moved his hand from the door did it get answered.
"Oh, Phineas. It's so good to see you. My, you've grown up so much." Vivian greeted.
"Ms. Shapiro, I just saw you yesterday." Phineas laughed.
"I know, I know, it's just been so long." Vivian continued.
"Is Isabella here?" Phineas asked.
"Si, si, she is upstairs. Go on ahead upstairs if you want to wait for her." Vivian stepped aside and let Phineas into the house.
Phineas thanked her and slowly made his way upstairs to Isabella's room.
"Isabella, its Phineas." Phineas called, knocking on the door. The door creaked opened and Phineas peered inside. Isabella wasn't in her room, which kinda confused Phineas. She wasn't often not in her room when she was at her house. Phineas shrugged it off, deciding to wait till she came back. Phineas began browsing through the different pictures on the walls of Isabella's room. Some he could easily recognize: different inventions, group pictures, some pictures of when he and Isabella began dating. Some of the pictures were of Isabella's friends that he didn't really know some of the girls from school or from Fireside Girl troops that she had meet over the years.
Phineas kept browsing through the pictures as Isabella entered into her room. She was distracted, still going through the motions of her routine after she normally took a shower. She closed the door r behind her and began to take off the towel that she had wrapped around her body, going to grab some underwear out of a drawer.
Phineas had heard the door close behind him so he turned from looking at the pictures other wall and expected to see Isabella. He didn't think however that he would have seen his girlfriend completely naked, pulling some underwear from her drawer. Phineas' eyes widened, part out of arousal but mostly out of surprise. Phineas let out a tiny yelp, and Isabella heard. She snapped her head toward Phineas, shocked to see him staring at her... while she was undressed. She quickly grabbed the towel that she had on earlier, trying to cover herself the best she could.
"Phineas, what the heck are you doing in here?!" Isabella asked, surprised and infuriated.
Phineas snapped out of his stupor, covering his eyes and turning away from her. "I- I- came over to- to see you, an- and your mom said to co- come up here and wait on you." Phineas was shaking, he knew he was screwed, he could tell Isabella was mad, but all he could say was the truth.
Isabella was mad, more embarrassed than anything. She didn't think that an accident like this was going to happen, not in these circumstances... But she took a deep breath to calm her nerves.
"Listen Phineas, I'm going to try my best to not get completely enraged." Isabella began quickly putting on clothing that she could get her hands on. "I can tell you didn't plan this; you don't stammer when you lie, and you didn't scratch on your ear like you do when you lie." Phineas started lose the tension in his back, thankful that his one tell she recognized and this time it saved his sorry behind. Isabella placed a hand on his shoulder, turning him around to face her. He turned, keeping his hand over his eyes.
Isabella simply rolled her eyes. "It's fine Phineas; you can move your hand."
Phineas shook his head. "Nope, not taking any chances." Isabella again rolled her eyes and gently moved his hand from his eyes. Phineas kept his eyes up, not looking down at Isabella. "Phineas, look at me... Phineas." Phineas moved his eyes down to her level. "I'm going to forgive for this one thing, and this only one time."
"I get it, and I'm sorry. It was an accident, I swear."
"I believe you, although," Isabella kissed Phineas on the nose. "I wander if you really didn't plan for this to happen."
"Believe me, if I did plan for something like this to happen, some large machinery would have been involved, as well as an extremely over complicated Rube Goldberg machine."
"Now that I actually believe."
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A few days later, Phineas was again at Isabella's house, but this time, his hands were deep in the dirt. Phineas had been asked by Vivian to come and do some yard work for her. She had to get some extra work done on the yard for a party that she was going to throw for some personal celebration, and she needed Phineas to do the work so she could finish the planning. Phineas happily obliged, glad to help in any way he can. It had been a long day, and Phineas had finished his work. Isabella came out of her house, bearing a glass of lemonade for Phineas.
"Wow Phineas, you really out did yourself. I would have helped you if I wasn't busy making phone calls all day."
"No big deal." Phineas replied, gratefully taking the glass from Isabella and taking a drink of the cool liquid. "I just hope I did everything to your all's liking."
"Oh please, if you hadn't had done it for us, we would have been behind and it would have looked awful. You did a great job." Isabella went to kiss Phineas' cheek, but stopped before she did. "I would invite you to come in, and maybe me and you could... get a little more comfortable with each other..." Isabella looked at Phineas, hoping he could take the hint. Luckily, Phineas did.
"Oh, you like the massaging sessions now do you?"
Isabella shrugged. "A little, like I said, we are getting more comfortable, but your first, you are taking a shower."
"Ah yes, don't want to be smelly and covered in dirt now do I? I'll go and take a shower, and be right back."
"Don't be long." Isabella waved as Phineas quickly ran across the street into his house. She smiled and quickly made her way up to her room, beginning to straighten and tidy, didn't want Phineas to see the mess she had made. A good few minutes passed before a loud crash could be heard from across the road. Isabella looked and saw some smoke coming from the back yard of the Flynn- Fletcher residence. Grabbing a pair of binoculars, she tried to see what the smoke was coming from. She could see Ferb's hair a little charred over the top of the fence. Isabella chuckled, knowing that Ferb was fine. She was simply browsing now that she had them out and was using them. What she happened to set her eyes was not what she expected? Phineas had finished taking a shower, and in an eerily similar set of circumstances to what had happened to her. Phineas was looking for some clothing that was quick to put on, but like Isabella had been caught, he was to. With her binoculars, she could see Phineas' naked body from her room. To her, it was something that was really new, she had envisioned what she might see, but she was slightly surprised at what Phineas did have. She didn't realize that she had not changed her gaze from Phineas as he dressed. He wouldn't have thought a thing about someone watching him, if it wasn't for him noticing a sight of binoculars staring in his window. He was confused, thinking his eyes were playing tricks on him. He came closer to the window and stared across the road. For some reasons unknown to Isabella, she waved her arm above her head. Phineas was surprised, and realized that he was undressed.
Covering himself, he dived out of the view of the window, snapping Isabella out of her stare. Her face was growing redder as she realized that 1. She had stared at a naked Phineas, and 2. She had been caught. She thought that she was embarrassed that Phineas had seen her, but this was nearly or if not more embarrassing than before. Her cell phone buzzed in her pocket. Quickly pulling it out, she hoped it was someone that would keep her from being embarrassed. Instead, the text message was from Phineas.
I think we need to have a conversation.
Isabella sighed, knowing that this had to happen.
I think that you're right. Isabella punched the message and sent it back to Phineas.
Phineas didn't immediately reply, but the doorbell did ring. Isabella walked down the stairs, and greeted her boyfriend at the door.
"Can we go get something to eat first, I'm starving." Phineas asked before anything could get more awkward.
"Yeah sure, let me get some sandals on real quick."
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Phineas and Isabella were sitting in Isabella's room, silently staring at the floor for what seemed like forever. They were thinking about what had happened earlier that day and what had happened in the past few days. They were wondering when someone was going to break the silence so Phineas decided to break it first.
"Well this is kind of awkward isn't it?"
"Yeah, it kinda is," Isabella replied, still staring at the ground.
"But why does it have to be?" Phineas asked.
"You have me confused."
"I mean think about it, we are trying to move forward in that... area of our relationship. Shouldn't this be something we should able to talk about?"
Isabella shrugged her shoulders. "I mean I guess so. This is something new for me. I mean yeah I've been getting used to letting you touch my chest but just the thought of being naked together, seeing each other 'bearing all to see' makes me feel a little uncomfortable."
"Look I'm going to only do what you're willing to do. I'm not going to pressure you to do what you think will make you uncomfortable; I'm only going to do what you want." Phineas leaned in and kissed her on the forehead." I think you're the most beautiful person in the world. No matter what we do will change that. If you don't want to you know 'show off' then that's perfectly fine. If at any point you feel like you're willing to do that then I'll be right there to go along with it."
Isabella slowly lifted her eyes. "Are you really okay with waiting on my decision?"
"Of course. I never want to put you in a position you don't like. Like I said from the beginning I only want to do what you ready to do. I'll admit that I want to see you undressed but that's just because I'm male there's nothing really special about that."
Isabella had to giggle at Phineas' words. Isabella stood up and pulled his hands with her making him stand. "I really thank you for being honest with me but I just don't think I'm ready to go this far."
Phineas rubbed his thumb on top of her hand. "And that's okay, like I said I'm willing to do whatever you're ready to do and obviously this is not it. Everything that's happened this past couple of days has just been... accidents."
Isabella wrapped her hands around Phineas chest and Phineas wrapped his hands around her back pulling her into the hug. "Thank you for being understanding."
"No problem, I just want to see you happy."
