A/N: I feel bad that I haven't uploaded anything in a while, so I'm posting a kink meme fill I wrote back in December. Warning: contains fluffyfluff.
Barry was confident in himself. He felt that he could do a lot of things. In fact, if he put his mind to it, he bet he could do everything. But there were two things in particular he was certain he couldn't do, and it just so happened that he was face to face with both of them.
He should have seen it coming. Really, it was a fancy-pants party, with dancing. And that was the first thing he really couldn't do. Dancing just was not his thing. It didn't matter what tempo the music was, he had a tendency to knock over anything within a ten-foot radius.
Continuing on, the party was for Dawn. It was a celebration of her new title as champion. This was just an absolute disaster. The only thing he didn't want to do more than dance was think about Dawn.
It's not that he doesn't like Dawn…no, that's the exact opposite of his problem. Thing is, Dawn is supposed to be his friend. They'd been friends forever, and they were supposed to stay friends forever. Just friends.
But lately, those stupid feelings had been getting in the way of everything.
He didn't know when it happened, exactly. Maybe he just woke up one day and boom, attraction. All he knew is that he wished they would go away so things could get back to normal already.
But, since that didn't seem like it was going to happen any time soon, he was currently sitting in a chair by himself, trying to will himself to become invisible (it wasn't working).
"S'up, Barry?" Barry was awoken from his trying to ignore everything when Lucas walked over and sat in the chair next to him.
"What? Oh, uh, nothing," Barry said.
"Uh-huh…" Lucas said. "So anyway, have you danced with Dawn yet?"
"Nah, I suck at dancing," Barry replied, figuring that was the easier answer.
"Well, you can't be that much worse than Crasher Wake," Lucas said. He gestured towards the floor, where Crasher Wake was less dancing and more spinning Dawn around the room without any pattern in mind. It caused everyone else on the floor to stand as far away as possible. Barry might have laughed had it been any other day.
"…I just don't want to dance right now," Barry grumbled.
Lucas raised an eyebrow. "You sure? She just left Crasher Wake," he said as Crasher Wake relinquished a now very dizzy Dawn.
"Yeah, I'm sure," Barry said.
Lucas gave up on him and left to go enjoy himself, and Barry looked at the clock as he wondered if this party would end soon. Ugh, if only he had Dialga here to speed up the time.
As it may be worth mentioning, Dawn was having similar qualms about dancing with Barry. And, just so luckily for the two, it had much to do with similar annoying feelings.