Phineas and Ferb Older Years 1

Chapter One

  He paced the room deep in thought, only stopping to scratch the back of his pet platypus's head or look through the occasional paper. Finally, as he was looking at some long forgotten papers a smile slowly crossed his face.
  In a sudden burst of excitement he picked up his platypus and shouted, "Perry, I know what we're going to do this summer!" but all he got in reply was the typical soft chattering noise that Perry always made. He gave a quick glace to the door before adding, "I should go tell Ferb…"  

  Isabella had a crush on a boy at her school. Actually to be entirely truthful, she had had a crush on him since they were kids and she hoped he shared the feeling.
  Her eyes searched the cafeteria for him, hoping he was either sitting at a table next to his step-bother explaining away another plan or fixing some long-broken machine to good as new, but for some reason she couldn't find him anywhere.
  "Isabella!" a voice shouted from the other side of the cafeteria as its owner ran towards her.
  "Phineas?" she asked slightly confused as he stopped next to her.
  "I have something to tell you…"
  Isabella interrupted him. "Really?" she asked slightly more alert.
  "Yeah," he answered before taking out a packet of papers and handing them to her with a simple, "Here."
  "It's a packet…"
  "It's a list of what me and Ferb are going to do this summer."
   Isabella looked down at the list in her hands and started to read some of them silently to herself. "Wow, Phineas," she finally said, "...I don't know… Isn't most of this stuff impossible?"
  "It could be a possibility, but it's never stopped us before."
  "That's so cool," she commented back before adding, "Well, I guess I should start spreading the word that you guys are ready for summer. I mean, everyone'll want to know…"
  "Actually," Phineas interrupted, "I wanted to ask you something."
  Isabella turned back to face Phineas hoping this was it. "I'm listening," she told him, sweetly.
  "Well…you see… I was wondering…"
  Another boy Phineas's age quickly ran up beside them derailing his train of thought. "Oh, hi Ferb," Phineas said even though all he got back in reply was a quick wave, that is until Ferb's eyes widened in shock because of  a screaming group of fan-girls  that caused him to start running again.
  Phineas just sighed. "Hold that thought, Isabella," he said, "I have to go save Ferb… Again…"

  A girl quickly answered her cell phone by fiercely whispering, "Mom! I told you not to call me!"
  "Well, Candace, just think of it as me getting back at you for calling when you weren't supposed to," her mom replied.
  Candace let out a short groan. "Fine, whatever; what do you want, anyway?"
  Her mom was quiet for a second as she gathered her thoughts. "… Well… I was wondering if you were coming home this sum…"
  "Mom!" Candace interrupted, "I already told you I'm NEVER coming home during ANY summer. Summertime is when Phineas and Ferb do all that impossible stuff that somehow you never see!"
  Her mom took a deep breath. "Candace, sweetie, we've been over this… a million time before. Your brothers don't do impossible thing over the summer; they just have really strong imagin…"
  Candace interrupted her again, "No, mom. They do impossible things and until that stops I'm not coming home!" and then she hung up the phone.
  "That was your mom wasn't it?" a voice asked causing Candace to look up in slight shock.
  The shock slowly went down as she realized it was just her roommate. Candace wasn't used to seeing her around and unfortunately wasn't even sure she knew her name. "Oh! …It's just you…ah…"
  "It's Vanessa," the girl provided as she walked over to sit on the bed across from Candace.
  "Vanessa… Right!" Candace slapped herself in the face before adding, "I knew that…"
  They sat in an uneasy silence for a second before Candace finally asked, "How did you know that was my mom on the phone?"
  "Because it's kind of the same between me and my mom, too."
  "Oh," Candace replied, but then quickly added, "…Well… you see, it's not actually my mom's fault, though; it's my brothers'"
  There was silence for a few moments before Vanessa explained, "It's not my mom's fault with me either… It's my dad's…"
  "…O…oh…I'm sorry …I d-didn't…" Candace stuttered as she tried to think of the right words to say.
  Vanessa just shrugged. "Well, it's not like you know him."
  They slipped once again into more uneasy silence. This time Vanessa was the one to break it as she asked, "So, about your brothers…?"
  Candace groaned. "Oh, don't even get me started…"
  "They're that bad, huh?"
  "Oh, you have no idea! They just drive me crazy!"
  "Really… You haven't met my dad, then…"
  "Are you saying he could be even worse?"
  "Ah, yeah."
  Candace laughed for a second. "Oh yeah right. The only way he could possibly be worse is if he were… oh, I don't know… actually evil!"
  Vanessa sighed. "…You have no idea…" she mumbled under her breath.
  "Well… let's talk about something else now," Candace said as she then thought for a moment before asking, "What're you doing for the summer?"
This got another sigh from Vanessa. "Nothing really."
  "Seriously? I mean you should at least have something planed, like going home or… something."
  "No… not really…"
  "Well… if you really don't have anything to do, you can come to our house," Candace offered.
  "But I thought you just…"
  "Oh, don't worry. My mom really wants me to be home, and I don't think she'll mind if I bring a friend. Plus, there's always something going on at our house during the summer," Candace quickly explained hoping that her real plan wasn't too obvious.
  "…Well… I guess…" Vanessa started to say.
  "Okay! I'll call my mom, then and tell her we're coming."
  Vanessa just sighed again as Candace started to call her mom to tell the news. "Yeah, why not," she mumbled to herself. "After all it's not like anyone knows me there…"