Kid flash, or rather, Wally West, stood nervously outside the movie theatre. What if Jinx really was going to set him up? It'd get to eight and the HIVE five would jump out and catch him. He shook his head, what was he thinking, CATCH him? He was the fastest boy alive. Nervously he tapped his foot faster than any normal person should have been able to. He felt vulnerable without his mask on, he looked down at his rarely worn civilian clothes. He had a white T-shirt under a red shirt that hung open, he was in beige Khaki trousers and looked over all, quite normal.
Wally West glanced down at his watch, it was ten past eight. He shrugged, so she was late, not everyone had super-speed and the ability to ALWAYS be on time. She probably just got held up by her team asking her questions. He twirled the red rose between his fingers idly.
Wally was starting to become aware that the girls in the ticket sales booth were giving him pitying looks, they thought he'd been stood up. Granted Jinx was in fact twenty minutes late, but he wasn't stood up that was for sure. He glanced up at the movie timetable, they couldn't see swamp monsters from mars now, which to be fair wasn't a great loss to the night.
Wally was starting to feel a little rejected, Jinx was now half an hour late, even SHE couldn't be that slow accidentally. He stepped out from under the shelter of the movie theatre awning and looked up and down the street, he couldn't see Jinx on her way up the street.
He sighed and sat on the kerb it had been forty five minutes now, he glared at the rose in his hand and felt foolish. Maybe Jinx HAD stood him up.
"No." He muttered to himself, Jinx wasn't a cruel person, despite what everyone else thought. She wouldn't stand him up. He looked at his watch, he'd give her until nine, then he was out of there, he was sick of the pitying looks of the movie theatre staff.
"She loves me not." Wally finished as he plucked the last petal off of the rose. He bit his lip, Jinx really had stood him up, she'd humiliated him publicly. A hot tear ran down his cheek, he felt so stupid, so ashamed and so damn angry.
"Are you okay son?" A voice asked from behind him, it was some man who worked at the movie theatre.
"I'm FINE." He replied a little too loudly, he turned his back and stalked off.
25th April
Say hello to a friend
Kid Flash? Aren't you going to say hello to a friend? I'm not used to being the first person to write in this on any day… Listen, I didn't stand you up at the movie theatre, I was being chased by cops, by the time I got there you were gone and there were just a load of rose petals on the floor.
Sorry,
Jinx
26th April
Tell someone a secret
Jinx.
I have nothing to say. Here's a secret, you humiliated me.
Kid Flash.
Flash,
Don't be like that, I told you it wasn't my fault! I got chased by cops, I hadn't even done anything wrong, they just recognised me and chased me! I'll tell you a secret if you come back, I'll tell you what it was that makes me insecure.
Please?
Jinx
27th April
write something new about yourself
Jinx,
I'm listening.
Kid Flash
Kid Flash,
Fine, I'm sorry okay. Really. Argh, it makes me insecure when people think they know me without even talking to me, like I'm just a 'type' to them. I don't want to be a type, I'm me. Happy now? I told you my secret, now stop sulking, this damn diary idea was yours in the first place. I should have just let you stop talking to me, you're a good guy, I'm one of the bad guys, we shouldn't even be talking at all. I should have ambushed you at the movie theatre not tried to meet you there.
Jinx
28th April
Forgive someone today
Jinx,
Okay… fine. I waited there for an hour you know, do you know how LONG an hour is for me? Do you know how many times I could have run around the earth in that time? And don't think I'm dumb enough to fall for you scribbling out today's suggestion and writing your own. It's in your handwriting. I suppose I forgive you if it was an accident.
See, if you gave up your life of crime this kind of thing wouldn't happen. Then we could go to the movies any time we wanted without you nearly being arrested.
But your secret is interesting, did you think that I thought I knew you from first sight? I didn't, I knew you were interesting (and pretty) but the reason why I followed you around all the time was because I WANTED to know you. So you have no reason to feel insecure around me.
Still a little hurt,
Kid Flash.
Kid Flash,
I guess you figured me out huh? Not about the secret thing, about the changing the suggestion thing. How about I make up the missing the movie thing with you? There's this coffee bar on main street called ice, we both show up any time between four and five tomorrow afternoon and the first one to recognise the other wins? BUT! We've both got to be in disguise, (so I won't be arrested!) bring a flower of some kind and the first to give the flower to the other person wins. You're not allowed to say anything to the other person, after you give the flower you have to leave straight away leaving the person who lost in the café.
Scheming as always,
Jinx.
Jinx,
Okay, I'm game. But why can't I talk to you after we've found each other? How about we make it interesting then if we can't talk to each other, whoever wins gets to pick the time, place, and activity of the next time we meet up and the other person HAS to do it. You up for the challenge?
More scheming than you,
Kid Flash!
Kid Flash,
Prepare to lose. Also, stop ringing my doorbell so you can write in here during the day, it's starting to annoy me and my team.
The obvious winner,
Jinx.
Jinx sat in the café, her head down sipping her coffee. The wig that she wore under her hat itched, it wasn't even that long, very little of the blonde hair hung down, she figured too much would look too false and give her away. The bell over the door rang, Jinx tilted her head slightly so the brim of her hat put her eyes in shadow, she looked up. A blonde boy with ruffled hair entered, he wore a scruffy brown coat, Jinx shook her head, almost dislodging the small pink flower she had tucked discreetly in the band of her hat, Kid Flash would never look scruffy. And that dark blonde hair moved like real hair, not like a wig anyway. She watched him patiently just in case, the boy bought his coffee and left, Jinx looked down at her own drink and gasped, a small daisy head was floating on the surface of her coffee. How… how had he done it? She'd never taken her eyes off of him! And how did he know it was her?
Jinx looked up and out of the wide glass windows with her mouth hanging open in shock, the blonde boy turned to look at her through the window, he pulled a silly face at her and grinned cheekily. He mouthed the words 'I win' at her, Jinx fumed. She could see him laugh as he dropped his coffee in a bin and ran off.