This case is ridiculous. No clues. No witnesses. No leads. Nothing. Barry sighed and leaned his forehead into his hand resting on the arm of the comfy chair. Barry gently, but obviously irritated shut his laptop, closed his books, and reached for his coffee off of the side table.

"Rough day?" Barry didn't even look up. People usually tried to make conversation at Jitters, but he just wasn't feeling it. So he just took a sip of his coffee.

"You could say that," he replied intending to cut off the conversation. That was until he looked up to see dark chocolate eyes staring at him. "Iris?" Barry felt the heat slowly crawl up into his cheeks, and his legs go still.

"Do I know you?" She asked confused and obviously curious.

"U-um, we used to go to high school together, Barry Allen." A small smile crept upon her face. Which was then followed by flustered cheeks.

"Oh my goodness. I am so sorry, it just slipped my mind. Now that you say that, I completely remember you and I don't know how I didn't recognize you." Barry smiled at that. "Anyways, how have you been? I haven't seen you in forever!"

"Oh, uh, I have been working at CCPD. I am a CSI-"

"Like you always said you would be."

"Uh, you remember that?" Her eyes opened wide. Crap, Barry. Why did you say that?

"I'm going to be honest with you, in highschool, I had the biggest crush on you, Barry Allen." ON ME?!

"O-On me? The nerdy kids whose parents died, and had to go live with a foster family?"

"And the boy who always made me smile by saying something adorably dorky, and never let his past bother him. That is, in front of me." Barry looked at her intently trying to see if she was kidding. She wasn't.

"You know it's really funny you say that," Barry started and Iris looked back confused, "I had a huge crush on you. I mean the way you exposed teachers, students, town officials in the school paper was absolutely amazing! And, uh, don't forget the fact you were absolutely breathtaking. Not that you aren't now- because you still are. And I didn't mean it that way, I'm sorry." He cut his jabbering when he noticed her laughing slightly.

"You are the same cute nerd from back in high school," she said with a small laugh. Barry's cheeks once again became red and warm. Goodness, how more red can I get?

"Oh, uh, yeah. Haha," Barry was barely able to stammer out, "And I meant what I said-everything I said." Iris returned with a small smile.

Thank you guys for reading! Please let me know what I can improve! I will update the next chapter soon!