Canderemy redux: Phinbella

Sleepover

Phineas POV

I stared at our now-conjoined hands in awe. They were literally inseparable, with the skin and fingers smoothly connected. How did that even happen? Oh, maybe by the random beam of light that happened to hit our hands only a moment ago. Duh.

Isabella was in a similar state as me, her eyes scrunched up in disbelief. She used her other hand to feel the connection. As she moved her fingers up and down our hands, the feeling of her touching my hand phased in and out. I could feel it on my side of the join, and it slowly numbed out into nothing as she trailed her fingers back.

"Should I be freaking out right now?" she asked me worriedly, looking at me.

"No, let's stay calm," I replied, taking several deep breaths. "I have no idea where that beam of light came from, but we just need to get the molecular separator that we used on Candace and Jeremy to get us unstuck".

"But Phineas," Isabella said, "don't you remember that Rover the dog destroyed the molecular separator?".

"Oh" I replied. I hadn't remembered about the incident at the fair earlier that day. In fact, due to the movie I had almost completely forgotten about what we had done today. I was so focused on Isabella and her new, strange behavior that I only comprehended bits and pieces of the movie. I was already so confused, and now this new problem had to arise! A grimace formed on my face and I growled at nobody in particular.

Isabella jumped a bit. "Are you okay?" she questioned me.

"Yeah, I'm alright, I've just got a lot of things on my mind," I told her. "Let's just get home and rebuild the molecular separator to get our hands separated".

I stood up and helped Isabella up too (It's not like I had a choice, but I would have anyways).

As we made our way out of the isle and towards the exit, I spotted two of the fireside girls, Ginger and Milly, making their way out of the movie theater as well. They saw us too and waited for us to catch up to them.

"I didn't know that you girls were watching the movie too," I told them, "We would have sat by you if we would have known".

"Actually, you wouldn't have," Milly told me, "because this place was booked. Didn't you notice?".

I had noticed when we walked in, but I had kind of forgotten about everything when Isabella had started ... being a close friend.

Milly then looked down and noticed our hands, but she took it the wrong way.

"Are you two on a date?" she squealed, excitement rising in her voise.

"You finally got to him, Isabella!" Ginger added.

"No, we're not on a date, right Isabella? We're just friends," I said, glancing over at Isabella. She said nothing, her face extremely red and avoiding eye contact. I shrugged it off, she was probably still confused. "Well, anyways, while we were watching the movie, some strange, green beam of light hit our hands and joined them together," I explained to Milly and Ginger, both of which had lost their smiles. "We've got to go now so I can separate us at home. We'll see you later!"

"Sorry, Isabella," I heard Milly mutter.

"Maybe next time," Ginger said soothingly. "Bye!".

We made our way out of the now-empty theater building and into the street. It was getting dark now, but it was still light enough that we could walk home safely. What Ginger and Milly had said confused me. They thought we were on a date. How could anyone possibly think that Isabella and I were dating? That's absurd. And what did Ginger mean by "You finally got to him"?