A.N. Now this story might be unexpected, after all Barry is a bee and Vanessa is a human, but remember two things: real love is based on personality and not appearance, and true love overcomes all obstacles (just look at Disney's The Little Mermaid).
Ever since Barry and Vanessa first talked, he has had a crush on her. You might think that the crush happened when Vanessa saved Barry from Ken and his winter boots, but that's not what happened. Actually, Barry was too bewildered and then grateful to feel any actual love. It really happened during their conversation on the roof, the longer they talked, the more he liked her, until he realized that he had gotten a crush on her. His best friend Adam was the first one to find out, and he at first didn't approve of it, but after getting to know Vanessa he realized that she wasn't so bad, and through analyzing her personality he understood Barry's crush on her (though he didn't develop one himself). Even so he wasn't too happy, since the species barrier and the size barrier prevented a real relationship. He also didn't want to see his best friend get hurt, but Barry kept on ignoring him about that subject. Luckily, in their world bees are able to live a lot longer than the ones in the Main World (almost ten years, a human year is equivalent to about ten bee years) so Adam had plenty of time to try to snap his friend out of it…or so he thought.
In March 2008 (Main World timeline), Barry decided to find a way around the species barrier, and he came to me for advice. I didn't completely encourage him, but to Adam's surprise I didn't disapprove of it either and even admitted that I thought it could work out. I then did an operation on Adam's sandwich sword 'stinger' with my wand, giving him a permanent real one. He was extremely grateful.
The conversation switched back to Barry, and he asked how it could work out. I explained that the only way it could work out was if the Stone Gods helped, but they would only do that if Barry and Vanessa were meant to be together. Otherwise, they wouldn't do anything, and Barry would just meet a bee with some of Vanessa's qualities. I also warned him to be patient, since Stone Gods have a different perspective of time than we do. After all, Stone Gods can live for millions of years, the Prokaryote Stone God himself is way over a billion years old. It was actually fall in Barry's World when he came and spoke to me, and he wouldn't get a sign of how the Stone Gods felt about his ending up with Vanessa until February of his World….