Late. Late. He's always late what should I expect at this point. He's never on time it's like he doesn't even care why am I even dating this guy? Because you dated loser after loser scumbag after scumbag and then you finally met a nice honest good-looking guy. He's great even if he's is late for everything. I still remember when I first met him like it was yesterday.
The rain pouring down that night so heavy you couldn't see 10 feet in front of you. I was so eager to get the story when I got that call from my boss, my first real story, that I ran out the door so fast I forgot an umbrella. When I got to the scene my tape recorder in hand I was soaked and the police were hurrying to get any evidence they could get. There was a female officer crossing in front of me to get back to her car. "Officer could I get a few…words?" I asked as she didn't even slow down by the time I said words she was at her car but I wasn't going to give up that easy. There was another office just within earshot I called to him "Sir, Officer can I ask you a few questions about the murder?' The man got up off his knees where he studying the scene and calmly replied, "Miss it's not a murder as far as we know." "Well what about the supposed gu.." "Just stories miss I'm afraid that's all you'll get out of us." He cut me off mid sentence as if he could have waited another second. I stood there and tried to ask questions to others but it was more of the same no one would answer me.
So there I was standing there drenched in rain head to toe asking questions to the air when suddenly I heard, "Miss do you want my umbrella?" a tall blonde man asked me flashing a perfect smile and holding out a red umbrella. "Thanks that'd be great." I chimed up feeling better already. But why had this man given me his only umbrella. "Won't you get soaked?" I inquired. "No I'm pretty fast on my feet anyways is there anything else I can do for you Miss…? He asked seeming to genuinely care. "West, Iris West and not unless you can get any of our brilliant officers to talk to me." I said making air quotients around brilliant because the Flash did most of this cities crime fighting. 'That seems do able, first lets get out of this rain it's raining cats and dogs." I followed him into one of the few places open at one in the morning a breakfast restaurant. What are we doing here I need to talk to a police officer?' I asked "You can ask me about the murder over breakfast?" I sat there and studied him for a minute." Come on my treat." he said. "Okay why not." Even if he wasn't a member of the police force it was still a nice breakfast and he was handsome. "I never did catch your name.' I stated. "Barry Allen." And after that it was history. But he was still thirty minutes late for their date so it would be another hour before he would be here.