Ferb Fletcher was sitting on the green couch in his family's living room next to Isabella Garcia-Shapario, his best friend, having an argument with himself while the rest of his usual group of friends were talking about what they usually did, which was...well, he wasn't really paying attention.

"Come on...just admit it!" His inner voice urged him.

"I can't! I don't love Vanessa!" He argued back. "I love Isabella!"

"Yeah sure, go from one practically un-available girl to another...this method suits you well." The other half of his brain taunted.

Ferb sighed out-loud in frustration, but no one noticed, since no one ever noticed.

He wasn't even sure how this got started.

"I love Isabella." Ferb argued with his head.

"You love Vanessa!" It practically yelled back.

"Isabella!"

"Vanessa!"

"I love Isabella!"

"You love Vanessa!"

"I love Isabella!"

Ferb immediately clapped his left hand over his mouth loudly as his eyes widened in realization.

He just said that last part out-loud.

His friends stopped talking, and joking around to stare at the usually silent green haired teenager who still had a look of shock on his face.

Everyone was dead silent, and it was killing Ferb.

"I'm dead." He told himself as he glanced at his best friend on the couch beside him.
"Im dead!" He thought again as he saw her expression.

She was staring at him with a confused look on her face as she blinked repeatedly.

What he had said obviously hadn't sunk in yet.

Ferb let his hand drop from his mouth, and put his head in both his hands as his elbows rested on his knees.

"What?!" Phineas, Baljeet, and Buford asked simultaneously from the floor, sounding gobsmacked.

Ferb sighed.

No one was supposed to know that.
He hadn't planned on telling anybody until the day he died. Not even then.

Ferb planned to take that little piece of information to his grave without it ever leaving his mouth, because Isabella loved his little brother, and Ferb was pretty sure Phineas loved her back, even if he didn't know it.

Now he ruined it all because he got into some stupid argument with the voice in his head! Of all the stupid things to argue with...

"What did you say?" Ferb heard Isabella ask quietly from beside him.

Maybe she didn't actually hear him.
Maybe Ferb had an opportunity to fix this. Isabella and Phineas might have chance together after all!

Yet again...she probably heard him just fine, she just needed it to register...

Ferb lifted his head out of his hands to look at his best friend he had spent years comforting, and encouraging.

He knew it was no use lying.
She would find out the truth eventually.

Ferb took a deep breath before replying.

"I...love you Isabella." Ferb said quietly. "But...you weren't supposed to know..." He looked around at the three on the floor. "No one was supposed to know," he said before looking back at Isabella. "because you love-"

Ferb never got a chance to finish his sentence because Isabella had thrown her arms around him in a bone crushing hug before speaking.

"You." Isabella stated. "I love you, Ferb." She said.

Ferb was surprised- no, he was astonished, that Isabella loved him back, but he was so happy she did.

Ferb wrapped his strong arms around Isabella's small figure, and hugged her back before she pulled away.

"You aren't kidding around with me are you?" He joked, still not completely convinced that his dream had come true.

Isabella smiled deviously before gently taking Ferb's face into her hands, and crashing her lips into his.

"Oh god no. I'm leaving." Buford exclaimed before walking out of the living room. "Come on Baljeet." He called from the front hall.

Baljeet sighed, before saying goodbye to Phineas, and leaving as well.

"Believe me now?" Isabella asked as she, and Ferb parted.

Ferb smiled.
"Yes." He replied.
"Yes I do."