Isabella's POV
After getting some paper-towels, I enter our room again and walk up to Phineas with them. He takes them and shoves it up in his nose to stop the bleeding. I wrinkle my nose and say sorry for about the 100th time.
"Hey relax, it's no big deal. So Isaac, where do you come from? What's your parent's name?" I start putting in some clothes in the dresser and shrug.
"I come from Texas and my parents… well not that it matters so much but… Vivian and Caleb." Phineas eyes me.
"What do you mean 'it doesn't matter'? It matters pretty much, doesn't it?" I shrug.
"Well they… nevermind, it's not important here anymore. What about you, what's your background?" he leans back against the wall and looks up at the ceiling.
"I live in Danville, not far from here. It's actually in the Tristate-area. I have a sister named Candace, a mother named Linda, a step-dad called Lawrence and a step-brother called Ferb. He's the greenhaired guy, maybe you saw him?" I nod. "Yeah, him. Lawrence and Ferb came to us when I was 5 years old, about a year after my dad… you know, died." I stare at him.
"Your real dad is dead?" he looks down it his lap.
"Yeah. We don't talk about it much, though." I close the dresser and walk up to him.
"I'm sorry." He smiles a crooked smile and waves with his hand.
"Nah, forget it. I'll try not to be sensitive anyway, I've heard that's not so very manly." He puts emphasis on the word manly. I'm about to giggle when I realize I'm a guy now, so I try to chuckle, but it didn't sound so good.
"What's ideal for, when you can be yourself? Besides, a man being sensitive is attractive, trust me." I say as I jump down on my bed. He looks at me.
"How do you know that? It's not like you know what girls like." He says nonchalantly. Yeah, if you only knew… but seriously, what's wrong with boys? Do they seriously still think it's manly to be tough all the time? I thought that kind of thinking ended for like, 100 years ago?
"Well, I've.. had a few girlfriends and they liked when I was sensitive so… n-not that I am very sensitive, I'm cool you know!" hey, I still gotta try to fit in? If I can't make them, I gotta join them, I guess. I can't reveal myself, this is my only chance!
He stares at me. "Right…" he looks around for a bit in the room. "So, here's where we're going to live for the following year, huh?" I nod and put my elbows on my knees.
"Yep, it's pretty good, isn't it? It's so luxurious!" I exclaim as I look around. He nods with an impressed look.
"Yeah, it's like a hotel!" I laugh and nod as I take my smaller bag and put it on the floor between our beds. I zip it up and start digging through it, throwing things out on my bed.
"Are you looking for something?" asks Phineas and I nod.
"Yeah, my charger to my phone. Don't worry, I'm not a messy-type, I will put all these things away later. Phineas gives me a strange look.
"Okay, I guess." I'm so into finding my charger, I don't notice what I throw up on my bed. I hear Phineas gasp. "Uhm, Isaac? Why in the world do you have tampons?" I freeze and turn to my bed and of course, I happened to throw my tampons on the bed without noticing it. I shoot up and pick them up.
"Well I…" I tap on the box, trying desperately to come up with an excuse. "It's… it's my girlfriends! I guess they came along when I packed my stuff!" he stares at me, eyes wide.
"Do you have a girlfriend?" I give him an insulted look.
"Why, yeah? What's wrong with that?" he moves uncomfortably and shrugs.
"Well, nothing I just… didn't know. Does she live around here? Wait, why would she live here, I mean you can't have been here for long, can you?" I laugh nervously. I can't tell him 'she' lives at home, then he would wonder why I never visit her or why she doesn't come here in a few weeks. But what, lives here? I can't tell him that? Wait, I can say we met during summer, right? Well, it's the quickest way out of this.
"Well, actually, she does live around here. I've been in the Tristate-area for the entire summer and we met in the beginning, so." I say. Phineas gets excited.
"Dude, you gotta let us meet her!" he exclaims and I freeze. Okay, this is going good! I can't believe how good it goes, I'm the king of good! Goodie goodie, Isabella! You're good at being good, a good boy!
I grin a toothy grin and nods frantically. "Yeaah, of course! But I don't know when we will get the time, I mean hey, school, right? Uhhh, too bad!" I throw my fist into my palm as I say that, to show how really bad it is. Like, for real. Phineas laughs.
"School's just Monday-Friday 8am-3pm! We'll have plenty of time! Or, how about next week on friday, you, me, Ferb and Baljeet go to Adventure-land and we'll meet her there!" I cock my head a little.
"Adventure-land? What's that for a place?" I ask.
"It's an amusement park, and it has awesome roller-coasters with sick dead-drops and loops!" I shoot up, suddenly getting very excited. I love roller-coasters!
"No way! I'd love that! Buut, yeah… I'll check with her if she wants to!" he smiles and motions to my phone. I pick it up.
"What am I supposed to do with it?" I ask confusingly. He gives me a 'really?' look. Oh right, my 'girlfriend'.
"Oh right! I'll call her now! But I'll do it in the bathroom, okay? I'll put the speaker on!" I rush into the bathroom and close the door. Great, what to do, what to do?
I pretend to call a number. "Okay, it rings!" I take a deep breath and use my girl-voice.
"Oh, hi sweetie! What's up?" I then use my male-voice again.
"Hey babe! Listen, I'm at my new school now, it's great, really! Well, me and my friends wondered if you wanted to go to an amusement park next Friday! What do you say?" I try to stifle a laugh as I think of how stupid this is and how stupid it must look.
"Oh, I'd love to sweetie! I'll see you at Friday, I'm counting the hours!" I say in my girl-voice and then I 'cancel the call'. I walk out to the room again and Phineas eyes me weirdly.
"Dude, her voice sounded so real, almost like she was here!" I laugh nervously and tap my fists against my thighs.
"Yep, my phone has an epic speaker, it sounds almost real!" he smiles.
"Wow, awesome! I think we need to go now, we're gathering in the gym in a few minutes, the principal's going to welcome us and blah blah…" I give him thumbs up.
"Great bro, I'll be there in a sec!" he leaves the room and I sink down on the floor, exhaling.
"Why did you say yes, couldn't you just have said you were busy?" I ask myself in my male-voice. I answer in my girl-voice.
"Well, I wanted to meet your friends! Excuse me for trying to bond with your friends and take interest in your life!" I then use my male-voice again.
"I've told you I'm not ready! You'll get to meet them when you get to meet them, but until then you'll have to stand out with me!" I shout. I use my girl-voice again.
"Well, if you didn't want to, why did you invite me?!" I cry. I then scream in my male-voice.
"My friends forced me to do it! Can we please stop fight for one night and make it look like we're a truly happy couple?!" I cross my arms and snort.
"Hm, fine. But don't think I'm not mad at you, because I am." I wave my hands in front of me.
"Ookay, like I care."
I rub my temples and stand up. What the hell am I doing? I'm literally talking to myself right now… first I dress up like a guy, then I make up a girlfriend, then I talk with my man-self to my girl-self like they're a freaking couple? Wow, I need to go to therapy or something, this is really not healthy…
I shake my head and leave my room to join Phineas in the gym.
Hahah, wow my fantasy is running out… I'm having a hard time coming up with things, if you guys want to you can help me with some ideas, and stay tuned for the next chapter!
