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Chapter 5

"What did you say?" hoping that she had misheard her. Vanessa repeated herself but instead of questioning Isabella, it seemed as though she was questioning herself as she saw a scowl forming on her face. Just then Isabella's left hand clenched into a fist of pure rage as she aimed for Vanessa, but her sorrow got the better of her and she ended up falling into Vanessa's lap. "I…I can't. I just can't love anyone else. He… he's just too perfect. I… I just love him so much!"

"Have you told him this?" Isabella managed to break a small "What" through her tears before Vanessa repeated herself.

"But if I tell him… What if he doesn't like me…? We wouldn't be friends anymore, I… I couldn't take that."

"But if he does like you?" Isabella froze. She searched her memories for anything that hinted at Phineas' feelings for her. She found nothing. With Phineas and Ferb's big ideas, every day was memorable. As she sat there she marked up every interaction between them she could remember. For every pro for telling him there were two cons. However, there was one day of summer she couldn't remember. Something happened but she couldn't… She couldn't remember.

"I… I don't know."

"Well if you don't ask, you won't know."

"So I should confess to him, no matter what he thinks?"

"If he is as oblivious as you say he is, he obviously won't take a hint." She sighed, "Look, if you don't want to tell him, that's your choice. I'm just saying that it would be better for you to know now rather than in ten years or however long it takes him. You don't want to keep this to yourself for years. It won't make you feel any better." Isabella wiped the tears from her eyes and made her way to the end of Vanessa's bed. "If he doesn't like you in that way, at least you can still be friends."

"Yeh" She began to think out loud, If he doesn't…"she couldn't say it but she continued "…Then I can at least be the greatest Best Friend I can be! She turned around to hug Vanessa who returned her hug. In that moment, she bust out of Vanessa's room full of confidence, she was gonna tell her man how she felt. "Bye, Mr D!" she yelled running past Doofenshmirtz, unaware that Phineas' pet platypus was in the room.

"It's Dr.!" he yelled after her. "So, Perry the Platypus. Your Move!" As soon as his front door closed, a flash of blue struck him in the face. He attempted to get up but a webbed foot, kept his head down. "Perry the Platypus! But…how?" He looked over to his trap to find Perry's wooden decoy sitting there. Perry had escaped much earlier, before Doof offered him a cupcake and had been waiting for Isabella to leave in case their fighting blew his cover. "Wait… wait, wait a minute. You mean I was playing a board game with an inanimate object? That makes even less sense than the other time you used that thing!" He would have carried on but Perry's fist soon shut him up.

"Well that was…Weird?" Phineas stated as Gretchen ran out of the backyard, with the other Fireside Girls in tow. Unknown except to only the other Fireside Girls, Gretchen had begun to develop a crush on Ferb and when she saw another girl's face in the machine's monitor when it was his turn she just couldn't hold in her tears. "Ferb, I think you should go and check on her." Ferb had no idea what was wrong with her but, even though he seemed calm and collected; he couldn't help but feel a little bit guilty. He hated seeing people upset, especially his friends.

"Uh… Yeah guys, I'll head off too. My mom's cooking pie tonight!" said Buford as he quickly climbed over the fence.

"Who would have thought Buford biggest love was…" Baljeet whispered to Phineas, the last words inaudible to everyone except Phineas, in case Buford was listening in.

"Yeah, I don't know how she'll take it though." Everyone thought Buford would love food, or mud, or bugs but even he had no clue that he felt that way about her. "Although it could be the machine, I mean you caused it to shut down for twenty minutes after you overloaded it with equations!"

"Sorry about that" Baljeet said shrugging his shoulders. "Well I guess I'll get to work on those math problems. See you tomorrow Phineas!" he shouted as he exited their backyard. About three minutes away was Isabella, running as fast as her long legs could. She needed to tell him and she needed to tell him today. As she neared the backyard she brushed passed Baljeet, taking home a handful of books, which she almost made him drop.

"Sorry!" not even realising it was him.

"Oh, secretly I'm very lonely" he said dimly before continuing home.

When Isabella reached the backyard gate she hesitated a moment before entering. Sitting by his invention was Phineas, looking into the sky, as if expecting something.

"Hi Phineas, What…'cha doin?" She said noting his uncharacteristic expression on his face.

"Oh hi Isabella. I'm just waiting for our invention to disappear. I mean, it usually does…" he began to trail off as Isabella approached him.

"Phineas…?" She instantly became nervous and started scratching her arm. "I... have to tell you something. You see…" The redheaded boy's eyes grew wider and he leaped off from off the grass and grabbed her by the shoulders.

"You. It's all about you!" Her heart stopped for a second. Had he seen his inner most feelings for her?