Chapter 40: All an Act

Phineas and Ferb does not belong to me.


Ferb stares at his older sister like she’s crazy. Phineas motions to a chair, and she sits down gently. “Candace, Suzy Johnson is twelve years old.”

Ferb blinks twice, remembering something suddenly. “So is Zon Joshsyn. And Zon Joshsyn is just the letters of Suzy Johnson rearranged. She’s right, Phineas.”

“I don’t get it. She’s always so sweet and bubbly.” Phineas thinks for a moment. 

“Krrr.” Perry is standing at his feet on all fours with his eyes unfocused.

Candace glares at him. “Get out of here, you little Meat-Brick. We’re trying to have a human conversation, and we don’t need you stinking the place up.”

“That was all an act, Candace?” Ferb looks at his sister, confused.

She reaches up to rub her necklace again. “For the first few years, no. But I basically just kept it up as an act after I found out his secret at Badbeard lake eight summers ago.”

“You’ve known since Badbeard lake? I thought that you thought that you were just making it all up!” Perry abandons his mindless pose. “Anyway, the point is, Phineas. Suzy Johnson can put on a sweet attitude in a moment, but she’s really an evil child trying to keep her older brother all to herself.”

“Perry, you being a secret agent just made so much sense. I mean, I knew Bucky had been a secret agent before he died. Plus, I had been wondering if you were an O.W.C.A. agent since you moved in.” Candace opens her necklace and looks at the pictures inside. “But Suzy has been trying to humiliate me in front of Jeremy and the rest of his family since the first time we met.”

Phineas stares at them. “An act? I-I still can’t make it work in my mind.”


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