Carpe Diem
Whyteroze28
Disclaimer: I don't own Phineas, Ferb or their friends. They belong to Dan Povenmire, and Jeff Marsh.
Phineas and Ferb are teenagers, but things haven't been going that well for either of them lately. Will things get better, or are things to far gone to fix? Slash. Don't like, Don't read. And the title of this comes from a song that will be in the musical version of the 'Rollercoaster' episode.
Chapter 3
The next morning, Ferb woke up before Phineas, and looked over to see the red-head curled up in his sleeping bag, one arm wrapped around their pet platypus, Perry. Apparently, the little monotreme had managed to get up into their treehouse sometime during the night. That was odd, but Ferb decided that there wasn't any real reason to worry. After all, Perry had a habit of turning up in strange places.
He climbed down into the backyard, taking a deep breath. "Ah, morning in the 'burbs," he sighed. Then he went inside to see if breakfast was ready, but instead there was a note on the table.
Boys, Gone to the antiques symposium this weekend, so you're on your own 'til Sunday night. There's food in the fridge, and don't forget to feed Perry. Love Mum and Dad.
"Well, that takes care of where we're going to build this," Ferb stated, as he got out the stuff to make breakfast. When he was done, he carried it out to the picnic table in the backyard, and yelled up into the treehouse that breakfast was ready.
Phineas climbed down carrying Perry, and looked around blearily. "Why are we eating out here?" he asked, as he set the platypus down and rubbed his eyes.
Ferb showed him the note, and commented on not needing to go anywhere else to build the project. He watched Phineas become more animated as he began to wake up more, and got some food into his system. Then Phineas took the dishes inside as Ferb headed into the garage to get his tools. Then they double-checked the blueprints and began to build.
When they were about halfway done, Ferb heard voices coming from the other side of the fence, and he looked up to see Isabella, Buford and Baljeet walk in, followed by...
"Irving?" Phineas' voice went up a notch. Ferb could understand why. They hadn't seen Irving often in the last few years either. He'd stopped coming around so much when they'd stopped building their projects. Unfortunately, unlike Buford, Irving hadn't changed a bit.
"Hey, Phineas," Isabella said, walking over to him. "What'cha' doin'?"
Ferb looked back down at his toolbox, and gritted his teeth. That phrase was starting to get really annoying. However, it didn't even phase Phineas... like always.
"Oh, we're taking the plans from the portal we built for Baljeet, and tweaking the destination. We're going to go visit our star... You remember, the one Dad bought us?"
Baljeet had walked over and was looking over the plans. "You can do that? If I remember, we had so much trouble just getting it to go to Mars."
Phineas just grinned. "Ferb and I can do anything when we put our heads together, you know that."
Ferb looked up again, and saw something he'd never seen before. Isabella was glaring angrily at him. She'd never paid him much attention when they were kids, but they'd usually gotten along well when they had interacted. He wondered if she was just upset that Phineas wasn't paying her any attention, or if there was something else on her mind.
Then Phineas began assigning duties to the others, and things went fairly quickly. The music was playing on their old radio, and everyone seemed to have no problems doing what they were told to do. Although Ferb noticed fairly early on that Irving spent most of his time trying to work as close to him as possible. He'd always thought of Irving as his stalker... the boy had a lock of his hair, for crying out loud. But it seemed to have gotten worse in the last few years.
He did notice that Buford and Baljeet were working well together though. Every time he looked their way, he caught a random smile or touch between the two, and he couldn't help but smirk as he realized that things seemed to be working out good for the two of them.
Then he realized that Phineas and Isabella weren't in the yard. He edged closer to the sliding doors, on the pretense of checking the blueprints, and heard the girl's voice clearly.
"I can't believe you'd rather spend time visiting some stupid asteroid than go to the dance with me!"
Ah, now he understood. The girl's choice dance. They held it every year, and Phineas and Isabella always went... though always as friends. He smiled to himself, remembering the fact that they'd had the dance the last time the boys had gone to visit their asteroid as well... Funny how you remember little details like that.
"Isabella, the dance isn't until tonight," Phineas replied. His voice was getting closer, so Ferb bent down over the blueprints, trying to appear uninterested in the conversation. "And anyway, we always go together, wouldn't you rather go with a date than a friend?"
"Of course I want to go with a date!" she snarled, stressing the last word. But Phineas had already moved away, and begun putting the finishing touches on the portal.
As she stepped outside, Ferb looked up at her, and she glared at him again. "This is all your fault, you know."
Ferb laughed. "Actually, I believe it was someone calling him normal, if you must know. Phineas hates for anyone to think he is just like everybody else."
Her eyes widened. "Really?"
"And you've known him for how long?" he asked sarcastically as he went to join everyone else at the portal. As he looked through it, he saw the familiar sight of the Shooting Star Milkshake Bar, and smiled. It seemed the same as it had been years ago.
Phineas spread his arms wide, and motioned towards the portal. "Okay, everyone, here we go."
As the red-head stepped through, Ferb caught Isabella's contemplative expression, and sighed. "Are you coming or not?"
She nodded, and got in line. "I'm sorry, Ferb. I didn't mean to take this out on you. I'm just so tired of Phineas' obliviousness. It's like he doesn't even care that I like him."
As they stepped through the other side, Ferb turned to look at her. "Have you ever considered that maybe he's doing it on purpose?"
"What?"
"Well, every time you start getting romantic, he starts doing or saying something else, right?" She nodded again. "Have you ever thought that maybe he's hoping you might give up, so he won't have to hurt your feelings?" As she stared at him in shock, he continued. "I'm not saying he is, but the only ones I've ever seen him show real affection towards are Mum, Dad and Candace... and Perry. I mean the only thing he's ever said to me is that he couldn't have asked for a better brother, you remember? Yet he's very perceptive when it comes to everyone else's romantic problems. So maybe..."
"He really doesn't like me like that," she stated, coming to the same conclusion. "He's just trying to be a good friend." She sighed again, and sniffed sadly. "Well, I guess we'd better go in."
He put his arm around her shoulder, and walked into the bar with her. He really didn't dislike her after all, he just hated seeing her get her hopes up, and then getting them crushed every few days. But as they walked into the room, he saw Phineas behind the bar, and stopped suddenly. The smaller boy was staring at them in shock.