Hey! I'm currently taking a break from Alexa's story because, well, I've lost motivation. However, I am hopeful that I will find it again one day, hopefully in the near future. For now, enjoy my new story!
Everybody loves to wake up to their dog barking at 8:00 in the morning. Especially on the day that they can sleep in. Lexi Douglas groaned and had just wedged her head between two pillows face down, to muffle the noise when her mom, Julie, burst through the door,
"Come on, wake up! Let's go to the gym. We can go to my water aerobics class!" She sang the last part as Lexi wedged further in.
"I'm good!" Her reply muffled.
"I can't understand you, get your face out from the pillows." Julie chided.
"I'M GOOD!" Lexi repeated loudly raising her head.
"You know it's good for you." Julie sighed, leaning against the door.
"Yes, I do! But I have one beautiful, much needed, morning a week where I can sleep in, but you and Maisie have ruined it by waking me up!" Lexi moaned.
"But you nee-" Julie started but was cut off.
"I exercise plenty enough in my kickboxing class. What I really need is sleep, so shoo!" Lexi reasoned before putting her covers over her head and sighed when she heard her bedroom door click.
She tried for another half hour to fall back to sleep to no avail. She threw the covers off her in a slightly dramatic fashion and slid out off her bed before walking into her bathroom. She looked at herself in the mirror and gave herself a small smile. She had gotten her hair done the previous week and the dark brown hair that had previously framed her face had been replaced with balayage. She had wanted to kiss Sarah, her hair stylist for doing such an amazing job. After a quick breakfast of berries and yogurt, she showered and got ready for the day. As she was finishing up her makeup, she got a text from her best friend, Connie asking to meet at Starbucks. Lexi threw on some sandals called a quick,"Bye!" to whoever was home and left. The Starbucks in question was actually the one Lexi had worked at a few years before, so her ex-coworkers gave her discounts off drinks. Lexi walked in and smiled at Ari, her old manager.
"Hey, Lexi! Haven't seen you in a while, what've you been up to?" Ari smiled.
"Nursing school, I just finished my first year and we have summers off, so I've been working and interning." Lexi shrugged rubbing the back of her head.
"That's great, what can I get you?" Ari asked, uncapping her pen.
"Ummm, I'll get a grande green tea lemonade with four pumps of raspberry syrup." Lexi ordered.
"Okay!" Ari replied, marking the clear, plastic cup.
Lexi payed and went to sit down at a went on Facebook and was looking through her notifications when Connie sat down in front of her.
"Hey!" Lexi smile faded as she saw Connie's puffy, red eyes. "What happened?" She asked.
"Jason and I were getting close again and he just… stopped talking to me!" Connie's voice broke as her eyes filled with tears.
"Oh, Connie, I'm so sorry!" Lexi looked at her sympathetically and held her hand as her friend tried to calm herself.
She never listens to me, we knew this would happen and she did it anyway. Lexi thought, slightly annoyed with her friend.
"Maybe try Tinder?" Lexi joked.
Connie gave a watery laugh.
"After seeing what guys send you? No way!" She sniffled.
"Yeah, I gave up. Besides, if I did meet someone and it turned into a real relationship, it'd be bit awkward telling people how we met. Not super romantic, ya know?" Lexi shook her head and sipped her tea while Connie absentmindedly nodded in agreement.
The two of them sat for a while in comfortable silence when Connie piped up.
"Sooo… Have you been watching The Flash?" She asked.
"Yeah. I mean, I've been a bit busy, but I'll be done with the second season within the week. I just finished the episode where Barry goes back in time to talk to the fake Wells." Lexi recalled the last episode that she watched.
Connie had been trying to get Lexi to watch all of the DC shows for a while now and had finally persuaded her friend to start them.
"Did you finish Arrow? And Supergirl?" Connie asked, excited, her boy trouble momentarily forgotten.
"Almost, I'm watching all three at once so they go together. I actually really liked the crossover with Barry and Kara-" Lexi was cut off.
"I know! Do you see now why I was trying to get you to watch these shows now? I knew you would like them! I also really needed someone to talk to about them." Connie smiled.
"Yes, I do. Thank you." Lexi smiled as Connie continued to fangirl.
After a few more minutes of discussing the shows they left to do some shopping. Retail therapy always mends a broken heart. At least for Connie it did. After two hours of walking around in the heat, they parted their ways and went home. Lexi had to start preparing for her shift at four.
Lexi was bored. She always was at her job. Working a dinner shift on a Thursday was pretty uneventful but for some reason, she had a weird feeling when she came into work. The sky had turned gray and gloomy in the middle of July, that's not common where she was. Maybe twenty minutes after clocking in at 4:00 p.m., she was looking out over the hostess stand, through the window, and into the street and she thought,
Something's coming, she thought. She frowned and shook her head. What a weird thing to think, and pushed it out of her head.
The first two and a half hours were completely normal, seating people, answering phones, and helping set up tables when it was slow. It was 6:35 p.m. when it happened. Two reservations came in at once and a then group of men behind them. After seating the first group, she noticed something funny about the men that came in. The four of them all had their hands on their belt or back. She noticed the black butt of a gun as one of the men shifted.
"Sorry, I'm going to have to ask you to wait two minutes longer," Lexi smiled apologetically,"I need to call someone about their reservation."
She quickly dialed 9-1-1.
"Hi! This is Lexi calling from Hunter's Tavern, you have a reservation right now and if you don't hurry it'll be gone soon." Lexi glanced nervously at the men and prayed that the operator would understand.
"Miss, is there something happening at the establishment you are at?" A man responded.
"Yes, there is. If you want your party of four to have a table I suggest you come now." She said, trying to sound pleasant and calm.
"Okay, Miss. Are they armed?" Asked the operator.
"Yes." She laughed trying to sound like she was having a nice conversation.
"I've notified the police, they will be there soon. Can you stay on the phone?" He asked
"I'll try to hold your spot Ma'am, but I'm not sure how long I will be able t-" She was cut off by two gunshots and screams erupted from around the restaurant.
Lexi turned slowly only to face a gun pointed at her, about four feet away from her chest.
"Put down the phone, now!" The man with the gun pointed at her chest growled menacingly.
"Okay, okay!" Lexi said meekly and set it on the counter, raising her hands after doing so.
"Now, we want all the money from the safe, registers, and people as well as all the jewelry. You do what we want, and nobody gets hurt." Said one of the men, who stood by the bar.
Two of the men started going around, collecting money and other valuables, while the other two kept their guns aimed at people throughout the restaurant . Lexi could see customers with fear in their eyes and hated feeling so useless and powerless. Lexi kept looking at the time, five minutes passed, then eight, then ten. After twelve minutes they heard sirens and Lexi let out a small sigh of relief. The four men looked up at the sound.
"The stupid bitch called the police!" The one nearest to her yelled, pointing his gun at her.
What happened next happened so quickly, Lexi could barely even register it.
She saw the man's finger squeeze the trigger.
Heard someone scream.
Saw the bullet leave the gun.
And watched, helplessly, as it made a path towards her heart... She was pushed away at the last second by a red blur, but the bullet managed to catch her arm. Lexi fell back as all four men were knocked down and disarmed. She looked at her arm, dazed slightly, and her instincts kicked in. Lexi grabbed her arm and applied pressure to it. She could feel the bullet in her arm and winced. Too distracted by her arm, she didn't notice the man who approached her and leaned down to pick her up. It took a few seconds for Lexi to realize that she wasn't on the floor of Hunter's anymore, but being sped off by a man in a red suit.
"Wait, stop!" She said to him.
"I'm taking you to the hospital." He said, continuing to run.
She frowned, and then gasped as she saw his face. It couldn't be….. It was impossible. She thought. Wait... She had an idea.
"Barry, stop!" She said to him.
That's what did it. He stopped quickly, set her down, and looked at her.
"You know who I am?" He asked.
And now that they had stopped moving, she could see that it was actually him.
"Y-yeah. I-I think you're on the wrong Earth… a-again." She managed to say before she passed out
Soooo... I hope you guys like it. If there are any errors I apologize, I edited this late into the night.
Lexi is going to be fun to write, I know it.
Please review and all that jazz.