The sun was high in the sky as Ferb and Isabella sat in the backyard, waiting for Phineas to return from the dentist.

The two had been sitting closely under the tree in silence for a while. The only noise in the whole yard coming from the guitar Ferb was absently strumming and the sound of pages turning in Isabella's book.

Ferb had been thinking all morning. That was normal, but it was what he was thinking about that made him especially quiet.

"Isabella?" He suddenly asked the teenager next to him.

"Hm?" She replied absentmindedly, turning another page and continuing her reading.

Ferb stopped strumming and put his hand over the strings to quiet the instrument.
"Do you still love him?"

Isabella glanced at her friend out of the corner of her eye, giving him an odd look, but replied anyway. She knew what he was talking about.

"No," Isabella looked back at the book. "Not that way. Not anymore." She added nonchalantly. "I gave up, you know that."

Ferb nodded and kept watching the house.

After a moment of silence he spoke again. "Bella?"

"What?" She replied, looking at him and raising an eyebrow at his talkativeness, faintly annoyed that he kept interrupting her reading.

"I love you." Ferb blurted out as he turned to face Isabella.

This time, the book was closed and set aside. "Funny you say that..." Isabella smiled shyly. "I was thinking the same thing."

Ferb didn't react right away and Isabella thought that she had said something wrong or it just didn't come out the way she wanted it to, so she talked on.

"I mean, I was thinking about how I liked you, not that I loved myself or anything. That would be self-center-"

Isabella suddenly stopped talking when she felt a hand delicately tuck her bangs behind her ear.

"I know," Ferb interrupted.

She looked at Ferb who was giving her an admiring smile like she was the prettiest thing he had ever seen.

"You always hide your beautiful face behind your hair," he added
quietly.

Isabella blushed wishing she could hide her face some more. It was a habit of hers.

When Ferb saw that he had made his best friend all flustered, he smirked and let his hand slide from her ear to the back of her neck, pulling her towards him and gently kissing her.

Isabella let out a small squeak before relaxing and letting Ferb run his hand through her long hair.

The two never saw Phineas slowly backing out of the backyard in hopes of avoiding the situation.

Hey guys! just a cute little idea I came up one day. It was a really random idea buut whatever!

I am SOOOOOOO excited for my new book called, "Contractors in a Castle"!
I won't tell you too much, but it's a Phinibella fan fic and set around the same time period as Excaliferb. It's got, like, three subplots, it's all planned out and outlined...now I just have to finish most of my stories I already have started so I can focus on my new one! The reason I'm so excited for it is because I have NEVER planned, plotted, or outlined ANY of my stories, one-shots, etc...and I really want to see how this works for me. It might help my writing or it might not soo...we'll see. Plus, I asked my mom for ideas (and she is AMAZING of thinking up awesome ideas) and now I'm even more stoked!

(Do any of you know a good cover artist willing to make me a cover for Contractors in a Castle? And possibly a few other of my stories?) ~Joy