Somehow like Friends


"If you don't stop making fun about it right now, I swear I will make you pay for every single word!" Jinx said furious, glancing at Kid Flash in front of her. "Sorry, but I can't believe that he really fooled you" he replied still grinning.

"It was an undercover mission. It was supposed to fool everyone" she answered frustrated "I can't believe that I was stupid enough to tell you this." They were in the large park outside the city. It was one of those perfectly sunny days, where the sky was immaculate blue.

"So you really believed that Cyborg was a student of the Hive Academy?"

"Yes" she answered annoyed.

"And you believed that till the very end?"

The pink haired girl groaned "Yes, I did! Can we stop talking about it now? You don't have to remind me how stupid I was."

"I didn't say that you were stupid just a bit…gullible. I mean seriously a new student that appears out of nowhere, who looks exactly like Cyborg?"

"He didn't look exactly like Cyborg. His disguise was good!" she said trying to defend herself "He was really convincing!" The girl slightly blushed. The fact that she had had a crush on "Stone" was something she wanted to hide above all else, but if he would go on like that, it wasn't unlikely that she would accidentally admit it. The hero was annoyingly good at making her admit things she didn't want to say.

"L-Like you are the one to talk!" Jinx replied.

"Of what are you…?"

"Oh please!" she answered. Then she said in a slightly frightened tone "What shall I do? Where will I go?" The pink haired girl crossed her arms before her chest. "And falling for that isn't gullible?"

"Hey, you did change the sides in the end" he answered. He wouldn't let her win this easily.

"That's beside the point. I mean how could you believe that a villain would give up his old life this easily? You are not that convincing!"

"Well, I convinced you. Doesn't that count?"

"Excuse me! I didn't give up my life as a criminal just because of you!"

He didn't answer, but his expression made it clear that he was thinking about that differently. A few moments she sighed and admitted "Okay, maybe you are…mostly responsible for it, but only because you can say something reasonable once in a while."

"I try to."

"But honestly you fail most of the time" she said smiling again.



The former leader of the Hive Five sat crossed-legged on her bed trying to ignore the young hero as hard as she could, but like always it wasn't working. "Like the last hundred times you asked me: The answer is still NO! And now stop asking me!" she groaned desperate. She let herself fall back on the bed and covered her ears with the pillow.

"And why not?" he asked sounding more curious than disappointed.

"I'm not listening!"

"Now you're just childish"

"Still not listening!"

Within a second the pillow was gone. She sat up. "Using your powers won't help you either. I'm going to ignore you till you stop asking me!" she said insistent and very annoyed. "Then you'll have to ignore me forever, Jinx" he answered smirking. "Come on! Please don't make me do this!" the pink haired girl sighed desperate.

"Then say yes."

"Getting on my nerves won't make me give in and say yes."

"At least tell me why!" He still didn't sound upset more like he was teasing her.

"I just don't want to!" she said and stood up from the bed "There's no other reason!" She made one step then he was in front of her. "That's not a reason" he answered and tilted his head. She bit her lip. She knew that this wasn't an explanation, but the truth was something she couldn't say out loud. At least not to him.

"It's that…I don't do things like that" the girl answered and tried to get past the hero. She couldn't.

"Better late then never" the teenager replied. "Not gonna happen, Kid Flash! And now out of my way!" she said close to freaking out.

"Are you afraid of something?" he asked.

"N-NO! I'm not afraid of anything!" she answered flustered.

"Well, it sounds like you are" he teased. Now Jinx blushed and answered angry "Say whatever you want! It's not going to change my mind!"

"You said that before and I still was able to convince you."

She narrowed her eyes. "That was something completely different!"

"Just once and I'll never ask again" the hero promised.

"Really? Never again?" she asked carefully.

"Was that a yes?"

She sighed. The girl wasn't quite sure what she should do now. It wasn't like it would hurt if she would say yes, but…to be honest she was a bit afraid of it. Jinx had no idea why he had asked her in the first place, but she was quite sure he wouldn't stop until she said yes.

Eventually she said sounding quite annoyed "If you never ever bother me again with that and…if it's just a single time… Okay fine, I'll go out with you."



"Oh come on! Just let me go! They surely can't handle it. Let me help!" Jinx heard the sirens in the distance. Not too far away someone was committing a crime and she wanted to go to there and help the police. She wanted to go there so badly! But unfortunately her "partner" didn't.

"The police will take care of it. They managed to before we started working here and they will manage it for a single evening" he said to her. The former villainess knew that he was right, but... well; she really wanted to get out of this.

"But…at least one of us should take a look at it" she answered hoping to convince him to stop the whole thing.

"If you want to…" he replied lightly. For a second she thought that he had given up, but he disappeared and came back within a few moments.

"Just a simple burglary. Nothing spectacular" the hero said "Even you could handle it."

"There are moments when I really hate your powers. This is one of them" Jinx growled. Then she realized what he had just said and asked angry "Hey, what do you mean by "Even you could handle it"?"

"Do you really want to know that?"

"Probably not." She sighed.

"Could you at least pretend that you aren't completely frustrated?" he asked, yet he wasn't sounding like her attitude was really bothering him.

"I'm…not frustrated! It's just that I know that I will feel absolutely uncomfortable for the entire evening" the pink haired girl answered.

"You know how to make compliments."

"NO! I didn't mean it like that!" she said as fast as she could and despite her efforts Jinx couldn't prevent herself from blushing "It's not because of you. I mean…yes it has got a bit to do with you, but…I don't know how to explain it. I'm just…"

"Nervous?" he guessed. Her jaw dropped. A second later she hissed "I am not nervous! And if I was, which I'm totally not, it wouldn't be, because of you!"

"You know when you're lying you blush even more" he said after a while.

"What?" Instinctively she touched her cheeks. Then her eyes narrowed. "You…Stop making fun of me! And I'm not lying!"

"Sure. Even when talking to Madame Rouge you were calmer" he said and the smile on his face made it very hard for her not to blast him to bits.

"You are walking on very, very thin ice!" Jinx warned him sharp.

"I'll keep that in mind" he smiled at her; she avoided eye contact "Can we go now?"

"Whatever you promise you from this, it's not going to happen" she said a bit calmer, but that didn't seem to bother him. No, not at all.


Probably one of my favourite chapters.