Chapter 13: Some choices are easier than Others
Okay, as for the question I posed last chapter, the question was: What happens to Mallorie? Well I'm disappointed that nobody got the correct answer. If you remember my summary on Chapter 1, it had a line that talked about Isabella using words to get Phineas's heart or if her final birthday wish would make Phineas break up with Mallorie… Well that's what's going to happen to Mallorie. Eventually… Maybe this chapter. I don't know…
Phineas's Point of View
So we continued to sit there for another ten minutes until Ferb had judged us "rested" enough for us to continue our way back to the time machine. I decided that now was as good of a chance as any to ask. "Hey Tasha, you don't mind if I talk to Isabella alone do you?" I asked suddenly as we got back up to continue getting as far away from the Labor Camp as possibly.
"Uh… Yeah… Sure… No problem…" Tasha said slowly, reluctant to leave Isabella's side.
"Thanks," I said pulling Isabella away from Tasha. "We need to decide what to do with her."
"Um, what do you mean?" Isabella asked. "We take her with us."
"Yeah, that's the problem," I responded. "She's not from our time, she has her whole life here, and she doesn't belong with us. We don't even know how she'll cope with not only the time difference, but also the technological advances, for all we know, she'll grab some really good weapons and go back in time and change history."
"You have a point, but we can't just leave her here either," Isabella pointed out.
"You also have a point, but we can't just bring her along…" I acknowledged.
"Well, I'm not leaving her Phineas," Isabella declared. "And that's final."
"So if we decided to leave Tasha here, you would leave us for her?" I asked innocently.
"Yes," Isabella responded after a moment of thinking before leaving and heading back to Tasha. I rolled my eyes and went over to Ferb.
"Were you listening?" I asked. Ferb nodded. "So what do we do? We can't leave her and we can't bring her."
"Take her home," Candace said butting in. "She belongs here, but she also wants to come with us, so take her back to where she lived, I'm sure her family is still there."
"And if it isn't?" I asked. "Like Isabella said, we can't just leave her either… We won't abandon her, but we do need to come back to our time now."
"Why do you care so much that Tasha comes with us anyway?" Irving asked also coming in on the conversation.
"Moral beliefs," I lied quickly. Actually not entirely a lie, I'm more jealous that Isabella would hang out with her new friend more than me, and I didn't want that to happen.
"Liar," Ferb said to everyone's shock. I didn't even scratch my ear or anything; Ferb just said right off the bat… Hmm… Oh dear. "You're jealous that Tasha will spend more time with Isabella than Isabella will spend with you."
"And you would know that how Ferb-meister?" I asked.
"I was thinking the same thing about you and Isabella," Ferb admitted.
"Well, that isn't creepy seeing as that it is coming from my own stepbrother," I pointed out.
"Point taken," Ferb replied. I dropped back to talk with Isabella and Tasha again.
"Hey Tasha?" I asked.
"Hmm?" Tasha stops listening to Isabella and looks at me.
"Where did you live? You know, before the war began and all that?" I asked. Isabella glared at me, already knowing where this was going and was powerless to do anything about it.
"Um, London, I was visiting Paris when it fell to the Germans," Tasha replied. "My parents were allowed to leave, I wasn't so lucky."
"Oh, well... Ferb!" I called.
Ferb came at my beck and call. "Yes?"
"Set the coordinates for London, this year," I said running ahead to where the time machine was in sight. Ferb followed. I pulled out my gun and shot two German guards that had decided to figure out what it was.
"Well, that was random considering that they were here," I said. Ferb nodded and began punching the coordinates to London. Tasha's jaw dropped when she saw it.
"Whoa," Tasha exclaimed. Isabella rolled her eyes. Tasha turned to Isabella. "You guys do stuff like this EVERY day of summer?" she asked in disbelief.
"Yep," Isabella said nodding her head and getting into the backseat.
"Come on guys," I said impatiently. "We haven't... Actually we do have all day with this machine, but I'd prefer not to spend it being hunted down by German Patrols."
"Right," said Isabella, Candace, Buford, Baljeet, and Tasha. Irving just nodded his head, as did Jeremy. They all got in and Ferb pulled the lever and we zoomed to London so quickly, we couldn't even tell that we had moved except for the fact that when we blinked we were in London, not Germany.
"Alright," Tasha said. "This is my stop."
"You sure you don't want help finding your house?" I asked politely. Ferb rolled his eyes.
"Nah, my house is just over there," Tasha said pointing to a house in the distance that was still standing.
"Alright," I said. "Ferb put in the coordinates for home, earlier on Isabella's Birthday."
"What?" Isabella asked dumbfounded.
"What type of friends would we be Isabella if we just did one thing for your birthday?" I asked innocently.
"Fine," Isabella said rolling her eyes.
We zoomed back to our backyard, it was 7:00 in the morning. Strangely, as soon as we got out of the time machine, it disappeared.
"Alright Isabella," I said eagerly. "Now what do you want to do for your birthday?"
"Hm," Isabella said. "I don't know..."
"Well that's a first," I said. "Alright bye everybody." Everybody but Isabella, Ferb and myself took their leave. "Come on Isabella, there must be something that you want..."
An idea just struck Isabella in the head so hard and fast, that she didn't have anytime to control herself before she said it. "I want you to break up with Mallorie..." *cricket* *cricket*
"You want me to do what?" I asked confused.
"I want you to break up with Mallorie," Isabella repeated more firmly.
"Why?" I asked slowly...
"Your relationship isn't going anywhere right now, so you might as well cut your losses and move on," I said hopefully...
*cricket* *cricket*
"Let me go make a call," I said rushing into the house. Isabella dropped to the ground from exhaustion from having the nerve to ask that of me. Ferb was comforting her while I went to where I kept my cell phone while I was at home. I took out my cell phone and saw that Mallorie was just calling me. So I answered. "Hello Mallorie."
"Hey Phineas," Mallorie replied.
"Listen," I said uncomfortably. "There is something that I need to tell you."
"Oh, what a coincidence, I have something that I need to tell you to," Mallorie replied estaically.
"I'm breaking up with you," I said flatly. (Can you guess what is next?) *cricket* *cricket* "Sorry, but this relationship really was going no where, and I realized that as I got home today."
"*cricket* *cricket* YOU ******** *******!" I could only guess what she had said because their was a beep everytime she tried to say some bad word at me. I snickered at the memory of secretly installing that onto her phone.
"I'm sorry, but I need to go. Bye Mallorie," I said. I hung up the phone and put it back in my little area that I kept my cell phone in, and went out to meet Isabella and Ferb who were both looking at me expectantly. "I did it." I said sourly.
"Well, thats a relief," Ferb said shocking everybody. Isabella raised an eyebrow, I had pure shock on my face.
"What... What do you mean?" I asked.
"That relationship would've turned bad sooner or later, and then you wouldn't have had any good thoughts about dating, and I really want to be an uncle to your family. Isabella passed out when he said that. That's when I got the most wonderful idea of the century.
"I'VE GOT IT!" I shouted startling everybody.
"And what have you got?" Isabella asked.
"I know who I want to start dating, Mallorie was gonna dump me anyway, so I just saved her the trouble..."
"And who would you like to start dating?" Ferb asked with a smirk on his face. Isabella was sweating bullets.
"Isabella..." I said slowly. She looked almost shocked that I was addressing her. "Will you be my girlfriend?"
Isabella faints, Ferb faints, the guy listening to the radio outside fainted when he heard it, Linda who was in her cooking class fainted randomly into cake batter, Lawrence fainted at the British carneval and the ball he was holding flew out of his hand, hit some guy in the face, and hit the water dunk target where a guy was promptly thrown into the water, Candace screamed her head off for no reason, Vivan fell off of her chair in surprise, and Mayor Doofenshmirtz declared a Tri-State Area Holiday. All this happened because Phineas had asked Isabella to be his girlfriend. "Was it that big of a deal?"
"Was what that big of a deal?" some guy in a wrecking ball machine nearby shouted out.
"Um, do I know you?" Phineas asked.
"No. No you don't. So what was that big of a deal?"
"I asked out this girl named Isabella Garcia-Shapiro," I said. The guy fell back in suprise and the wrecking ball flew into a house and some guy was taking a bath. (If you have read The New Adventures of Phineas and Ferb, you should associate this with Mr. Cleveland Brown.)
"So is that a yes?" I asked Isabella once she recovered from fainting.
"Yes. Yes it is," Isabella said. "Well, I'm going to go see if I need to help my mom from the aftershock of what you asked me... So see ya tomorrow hun."
And so ends another beautiful birthday. I'll admit, I expected to write more for this story, but I'm already bored with it, and I wanted to finish it. So good day, and please vote on my poll on my profile on which story you want to have updated more often. Toodles.