Is It Too Late For Love? (A Phinbella Story)

BONUS Chapter # 1: What About Ferb?

(A/N: This is Ferb's POV, so there won't be much dialogue since, well, he's Ferb.)

After I heard of Phineas' fate, I decided to keep our invention, the Crush Finder, in the secret basement of our old house. Phineas and I built the secret basement a few years ago when we were fourteen, just so we could sneak out and watch movies there late at night. 

The problem was, we didn't know how to fit an electrical socket in there without having to call an expert and paying for it, so we decided that we could just keep stuff in there.

I had to call Baljeet and the others to help me find the invention and help carry it back to the basement, since our stuff always mysteriously disappears. We found it using our Invention Detector (made when Phineas and I were sixteen so our future inventions can't get lost)

It's a complicated device which, via special satellites designed for this machine built by request of our cosmonaut friend Sergei, locates any machine that matches the description given to it.

Since I memorized everything used to build the Crush Finder, we successfully located it in an island two hours away from the Tri-State Area. We got there, and we found it half-buried in sand, with what I think are platypus tracks near it.

When we got home, everyone left, except for Gretchen.

"Hey, Ferb?" she began. "I've been thinking about it a lot lately, and there's definitely no doubt about it. The bizarre feeling I get when I'm around you is due to me having an attraction to you."

I was surprised, and I barely managed to ask "You like me?" before she said "Yes." I smiled at her, and I realized the girl I liked before was probably not worth it. I kissed Gretchen.

I was confident that she was the one for me.

(A/N: This mini-chapter showcases a part of the series of events that leads to the sequel "Meeting You Again".)