Chapter 6

Perry, on his way back to the school, rode past Isabella's cousin's house, who also owned a pet platypus named Patty who he had teamed up with once before*. He figured that he had the roses, so might as well do something with them.

He took a deep breath and went to the backyard where a sleeping, purple platypus was. She drowsily opened one eye, but as soon as she saw it was him, sprang to her feet. He handed her one of the roses he had taken from Doofenshmirtz's. Patty's face lit up. She immediately hugged him. Perry rolled his eyes a little. Once she let go, Perry smiled painfully after that tight embrace and headed off again. Patty certainly had her day made.

As Perry headed back off to school, he wondered what to do with this other rose…

The end of the school day rolled around. When Phineas and Ferb got home, Candace ran through the door. Their mom was reading the mail.

"Mom! Come look! Phineas and Ferb built a robot dog today to attack all the girls in school! It acts like a real dog too! It's not like one of those choppy robot toys that you see at the store! It's really realistic except for the metal and robot-y look to it! But come on! They're playing with it right now in the yard!" Candace screamed.

"Okay, okay!" her mother yelled as she was dragged out the door.

Phineas and Ferb looked down at the door.

"I guess we can take it off the sniff setting. Let's put it on 'play' mode." Phineas pressed a button the dog.

"Sit." The dog did as he was told.

"Roll over."

"Go robot." The dog pretended to walk around clunky and robotic. Candace and Ms. Flynn-Fletcher walked out right when the dog was moving choppily.

"It just likes like one of those robotic dog toys, Candace," Ms. Flynn-Fletcher said.

"But-!"

"Did you boys invent this in science class?"

"Well, no. We were using Whiff to help us with our detective work," Phineas explained.

"Aw. That's really cute, boys. You can play with your robot dog for a while. I'm making dinner."

Candace looked like she was ready to scream. She shook her head. "It's Valentines Day. It's Valentines Day. It's Valentines Day," she told herself hoping that this would keep her mind off of the busting.

Perry peered around the gate to see Isabella next door hanging around a tree looking kind of melancholy.

"You know, Ferb. It's too bad we didn't get to figure out who left that secret admirer note. The hand writings were all good possibilities, but none of them I felt quite sure on. It's weird. Usually we're able to complete our missions by the end of the day. Oh well. I guess not everything can work out the way you planned," Phineas said.

"Take Candace's plans for example," Ferb said.

Perry made the connection right away with Isabella being sad and Phineas talking about a secret admirer note. He remembered he still had that second rose with him. He slipped upstairs when no one was looking and pulled out a price tag on a desk that had been left over from Ms. Flynn-Fletcher's antique store.

Outside, Phineas tossed a stick.

"Fetch! Good boy, Whiff. Hey, where's Perry?" Perry showed up and chattered.

"Oh, there you are Perry. What were you up to? Here. I'd like you meet, Whiff."

Over next door, Isabella sighed still feeling pretty disappointed. She turned to head in through her front door when she saw a rose with a tag on it on her doorstep. She picked it up. The tag read,

To: "Secret Admirer"

From: Phineas

Isabella's eyes grew wide. She made an enormous smile and ran next door.

Phineas looked up from giving Whiff a belly rub. He greeted, "Oh hi, Isabella. What-"

"I can't believe you figured it out! AND YOU'RE RIGHT! I AM YOUR SECRET ADMIRER! I LEFT YOU THE NOTE! IT'S ALL TRUE!" Isabella screamed with a mixture of joy and excitement.

"You were my secret admirer?" Phineas asked looking quite confused. He looked at Ferb who only shrugged.

"I love the rose, Phineas! Thank you sooooo much!" Isabella cried bouncing up and down. She completely ignored Phineas' question. Perry pretended to be asleep while he listened to every word of the conversation.

"Where did the rose come fr-" Phineas was cut off as Isabella kissed him on the cheek.

"This is the best Valentine's Day ever! Whoo-hoo!" Isabella skipped back to her house.

"Uh- Ferb? What just happened?" Phineas asked.

"Love," Ferb answered.

"Wow. So that's what love is like. Love's wet- and loud- and jumpy. So… Isabella's my secret admirer huh? Who knew?" Phineas said. "Well as long as she doesn't turn into Candace over Jeremy then I am completely cool with that."

Phineas tossed a tennis ball without giving what had just happened any other thought. "Go long, Whiff!" he called.

Perry, from under the tree, smiled at what he had done and fell asleep for real this time.

Note: *Patty is from a past fanfic of mine. (P&F's Furry Friends Day Care Center).