foobar137 | Sunday Six: Honesty (Reply)

Each Sunday, post six sentences from a writing project — published, submitted, in progress, for your cat — whatever.

So Phineas the Fireside Girl ends on a note that there may be a sequel, as Phineas has hurt his relationship with Isabella by turning himself into a girl to sneak into the initiation ceremony, getting caught, and lying about it.

Now, he’s trying to make amends. It’s not going as well as he’d hoped.

“Why’s he here?” Milly asked, nodding her head toward Phineas.

“He has something he needs to tell us,” Isabella said to the rest of the Fireside Girls troop.

They’d gathered in the cramped Fireside Girls’ clubhouse, just two days after the recent initiation ceremony. Two new girls had been initiated: Amy, who had just finished making her new uniform and sat quietly with the rest of the troop, and Phoebe, who didn’t appear to be there yet.

His hand rubbing the back of his neck uncomfortably, Phineas took a deep breath. Dropping his hand to his side, he said, “So, the truth is - Phoebe was me. I turned myself into a girl to see what happened during the initiation. It was a stupid idea, Ferb tried to talk me out of it, I’m sorry, I won’t ever do it again. I took an oath not to tell anyone any of your secrets, and I’ll keep it.”

The girls weren’t as stunned as he had expected. Instead, they mostly nodded knowingly. “I should have guessed,” Gretchen said to Ginger in a quiet voice.