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Chapter 4

Doofenshmirtz Eating a cupcake!

"Mmmmm. Oh, Perry the Platypus, you have to try these." He grabbed a cupcake out of its box and stretched his arm out to give it to Perry but he quickly jerked his arm back and took a huge bite out of the delicious treat. He then cackled maniacally. "Sorry about that Perry the Platypus but you know…" he pointed to himself and squealed in a high pitched voice not to different to Isabella's "EVIL!" He began to stride over to his –inator, ready to start his evil scheme. "And, because I am evil and now that I have had my necessary sugar intake, trust me ask my doctor, I am ready to fire up my –inator and take over the TRI-STATE AREA!" He pressed the power-up button next to the self-destruct button on his new –inator and the machine began to warm up.

Back in her room, Vanessa was staring at this girl sat on the edge of her bed, her face hidden by her raven coloured locks. There seemed to be something on her mind and so there was no expression on her face, not one trace of happiness or sadness dared make its way out in case all her emotions flooded out at once. Vanessa felt the tension in the room and decided to speak.

"So…"She started to scratch the back of her neck. "What did you say your name was?"

Isabella didn't move an inch when she replied, "I didn't. It's Isabella."

"So why did you want to talk to me?" The next question posed to her made her tense up just a bit.

"Vanessa, what do you know about love?" Vanessa hadn't been with anyone else in just over a year. She thought she and Monty Monogram were a sure thing but after their respective fathers found out about their relationship, they banned both of them from seeing each other.

"Well… What do you want to know specifically?"

"How do you make someone… like you?"

"I…I don't understand. Who doesn't like you?"

"No one… It's just…What if?" She couldn't finish her sentence before her emotions overwhelmed her. Her eyes like waterfalls as she burst into tears. The emotions had been building up all day and now she didn't trust herself to make any kind of decision, let alone about the boy she loved. Vanessa was soon to console her. She grabbed the sobbing girl's shoulders and spun her around to face her.

"Isabella. I can't help you if you don't tell me what's wrong."

'Doofenshmirtz's –inator warming up!'

"Guys, you do know I don't pay you per Evil Jingle?" Doof said as he turned to the window beside him to face his evil jingle singers who quickly walked out on him. "Oh well, if they don't come back tomorrow, I'll just reuse the classic 'Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated' jingle and, I won't have to pay anyone. Ooooh, so Evil." He turned to face his –inator, which was still warming up. The power to change people's minds sure did take a lot of power. He turned back to Perry the Platypus. "So, you wanna play Skiddley Whiffers?"

By the time Doof had found the game board, Isabella had calmed down and was ready to talk.

"I just want him to love me. I want him to hold me tight and never let me go. I want him to take my hand when we walk in the park. I… I.." Vanessa saw she was starting to cry again but this time she intervened.

"Who? Who is it that's making you feel like this?"

"It… It's Phineas!" she cried out.

"Phineas?" she muttered as she tried to remember this boy who apparently broke this little girl's heart. "Wait, the redhead?"

"Y…Yeah" she said, her voice breaking through her sobs.

"I thought you two were already an item?"

"What would make you think that? He… he doesn't even look at me like that."

"Well you sung that song to him in Paris, remember?"

"Yeah well, wait how did you know? I thought you were off with Ferb back then?"

"I could hear you from the Eiffel Tower" she chuckled.

"Yeah well, you obviously didn't stick around for the end of that song. I was so mad at him in Paris. The city of love and I was mad at the one boy I'll ever love." Vanessa saw that this girl was more distressed than anyone she had ever seen; even more so than her father when Perry escapes from his trap. She opened her mouth to speak but the words that came out turned Isabella's grief into anger.

"Why don't you try to find someone else?"