Here is what I think should have happened when Barry asked Iris out to Jitters. Also, I am setting this scene after Barry already traveled back in time. So, he remembers the kiss and wants to something about it. I do not have a beta.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the flash characters.

Barry broke up with Linda, after the whole bowling alley debacle and now he's am not sure what to do. Iris is still with Eddie and she doesn't remembers the kiss, but he doesn't want to let her go. Especially after knowing what she tastes and feels like. So, he decides to take his chances and see what happens.

He goes to Central City Picture News to see Iris working at her desk. He walks up to her, she sees him and says "Hey Bear, how are you?"

"Ok, I guess."

"What's wrong?"

"Linda and I broke up." Barry says, while looking down trodden. He does feel bad, because Linda was nice, sweet and pretty, but she can't compare to Iris.

She gives him a look of sympathy and asks "Do you want to talk about it?"

"Not right now, maybe tomorrow at Jitters when it's not so fresh in my head." Barry looks at her wishing that he could hold her and not let go. Then, an idea pops into his head and he decides to go with it. "Iris?" He asks, stepping closer to her. "Yeah, Bear?"

"Can, I get a hug?"

"Of course, you never have to ask" she stands up to give him a hug.

Barry leans in, pulling her against him and breathes her in, his arms wrapping around her and one of his hands stop just before the small of her back. She freezes and he pulls away while dragging his hands across her sides; leaving them there just a moment before letting go. She looks slightly flustered and disoriented making a swell of pride rise up within him knowing that he did that to her. However, he knows that this has to be taken slowly and with caution.

"Are you ok?" Barry asks.

She hesitates "um...yeah, I just...that hug felt different than what you usually do."

He chuckle saying "It was just a hug Iris...right?" knowing full well what he did to her and why.

"Besides, I've given Felicity a hug similar to that and she didn't have trouble with it."

Barry sees a spark of jealousy in her eyes "I am not Feli-"

"Iris!" Mason yells while walking up to us,

"We aren't paying you to talk with your friend, get back to work!"

Barry tells Iris that he will see her tomorrow morning at Jitters. As he leaves he can see that she is still irritated about the Felicity comment. Maybe, this will work out after all, he will just needs to bide his time.

Iris sees Barry walk away and thinks about why he brought up Felicity when he's with Linda. Except, he's not with Linda or Felicity now, so why was she irritated? And what was with that hug?

He has never held her like that before, almost like he wanted something more, but like he said to her before they're just friends. Friends hug, it's what they do, but they don't hug like that...right?

She pushes the thought out of her head, thinking that maybe it's all in her head and he is just sad because of his break up with Linda and that's why he hugged her like that. Nothing more she tell herself.

So, she stops thinking about it and gets back to work on the article that Mason wanted her to write.

Barry is sitting at a the table in Jitters waiting for Iris to show up, so they can talk. He made sure to get there early not wanting to screw this up.

He knows this isn't a date, that he should just act normally and continue with his plan. Knowing that if she doesn't return his feelings then he will be more than happy to let her go with Eddie and live her life with him.

At that moment she walks in and sits down. Right then Barry's nervousness goes away as he looks at her beautiful face and wonderful smile.

"Good morning Barry"

"Morning Iris"

"Are you feeling better about how things went with you and Linda" She asks.

"I guess, I still feel a little sad, but maybe she isn't the right one for me. At least she isn't another Becky Cooper."

"I didn't think that Becky was that bad, she just wasn't the right person for you."

"Then, who is Iris?"

"I...I don't know, but I am sure she will come around and notice you-"

"For the great person, you're are always saying that I am." He cuts her off give her an exasperated look.

"Bear…" she stops and stares and puts her hand over his.

The barista comes right at that time with two lattes and two chocolate muffins. She looks at the food and then me and asks "Mr. Allen are you trying to make me gain weight?"

"And make you more muffin top than woman? No, that is not the case, but I am in desperate need of a sugar rush and this will do it." He says while eating the muffin and then smiling at her.

Then, Barry starts to think that maybe this won't work, maybe they're destined to be childhood friends for the rest of their lives because he was too slow.

Iris mistakes his solemn expression for missing Linda and says "If you feel so bad, just go after her again and tell her how you feel."

"Linda isn't who I want to chase Iris." He stares at her, deciding that it's time for him to go and clear his head, before he says something stupid and ridiculous like we should stop thinking and start doing. But then she asks "Who do you want to chase, Bear?"

"No one you should be concerned about, she won't reciprocate my feeling anyway so it doesn't matter." Barry finishes the rest of his food and gets up to leave.

"You haven't even tried! You keep getting scared and running away!" She yells and draws attention from people around them.

Barry stops what he's doing and just stares at her. He walks to her side of the table, quietly asking "Are we still talking about Linda or is there someone else you have in mind?" She blinks back tears and looks away. Barry touches her cheek hoping she doesn't move away, she doesn't.

"I told her how I felt and she never responded back, so now I am trying to move on and she thinks she can keep me in limbo, while I wait for her to make a decision. So tell me Iris what do you want?" Barry looks at her, then at her lips; He steps in to kiss her, but pulls away. She is still on guard and he doesn't want that, he wants their second first kiss to be similar to the first sweet, hot and willing.

Iris knew what Barry wanted to do and against her better judgment asked " Why did you pull away?"

"Because, you are with Eddie and it wouldn't be right to do that to him." He leans down to whisper in her ear "Besides if you want me to kiss you at least have the decency to break up with him first."

He pulls away, leaving a flustered Iris behind at Jitters, maybe there is still hope...just maybe. Barry smiles walking away.

Alright guys, tell me what do you think? This is my first story ever and I hated how they made Barry look in the episode after they kiss so I wrote this. I am not really sure where to go from here so ideas please.

Leave comments and little heat please because my poor westallen heart can't take hard criticism. Right now I am writing because I want more westallen fics to fill the summer while we wait for the flash to come back.