"You'll get used to it." Joe laughs, "C'mon, I bet you boys are hungry." The twins make hungry sounds of agreement as they follow Joe into the kitchen for lunch.
After lunch, Joe heads back to the station for the rest of his shift. "Don't get into trouble." Joe sternly tells the twins, "And don't go anywhere I wouldn't want you going."
Barry nods his understanding, "Of course, Joe."
Joe ruffles their hair once more before heading out the door. Sebastian grumpily, albeit pleased, moves his hair back into place. "So what's to do in Central?"
"There's a mall?"
Sebastian laughs, "Anything else?"
"Movies? Or there's an arcade...there's a couple of cool museums." Barry lists off.
"Man this place sounds lame."
"Eh, it's a Monday, nothing is open really during the school year." Barry shrugs.
Sebastian thinks through the options, "How about one of those 'cool museums' that you mentioned?"
"Awesome! There's this amazing new exhibit that I've been wanting to see at the science museum…"
"C'mon, nerd, let's go." Sebastian ushers Barry out the door.
The twins buy their tickets and head into the main part of the exhibit hall. Barry spends most of his time cooing over the projects on display and the rest of his time pulling Sebastian around from place to place. Sebastian simply rolls his eyes and lets his brother drag him around, spending most of his time playing on his phone, taking selfies and Snapchatting them to other Warblers. Every now and again Sebastian actually takes the time to read the information that goes along with the exhibit if it was interesting enough.
Eventually Barry takes too much time at one particular exhibit, totally enthralled with what it was showing. Sebastian wanders off down the hall and to an exhibit that has enough to do with music to capture his attention. Neither twin notice a rather large group walk into the hall, led by a preppy museum guide. "And this is exhibit hall B and where I leave your group for the day. It was wonderful to have you visit us here." The guide smiles at her group of bored high school students before walking off. The science teacher waves her students off, giving them a time that they absolutely have to be back at the bus by.
The twins are still absorbed in their exhibits, Barry down the hall and Sebastian in the thick of the group of high school students. Sebastian turns from the exhibit and is subjected to varying looks from the public school students. Sebastian gives the students who stare too long a glare before moving on to the next vaguely music related exhibit. Sebastian takes his phone out, smirks at a snap that Nick and Jeff sent him, and then sends an ugly snap back to them.
After a few minutes of high school students pretending to be interested in the exhibits, a girl a few feet away from Sebastian nudges her companion, "Isn't that your foster brother?" She asks.
Another girl next to them nods in agreement, "Yeah, that sure does look like Barry, Iris."
"What!? Where?" Iris demands of the other two girls.
The first girl points towards Sebastian, "Him."
Iris' jaw drops, "That is him! I'm going to go talk to him!" Iris hustles over to Sebastian. Placing her hands over Sebastian's eyes, she practically squeals, "Guess who?"
"Um, some crazy chick that's hugging me?" Sebastian guesses, tone heavy with sarcasm.
Iris laughs and takes her hands off of his face, allowing Sebastian to turn around. "Me!" Iris smiles happily at Sebastian.
Sebastian continues to look at Iris as if she's crazy. "Who?"
"Oh, ha ha! You think that since you haven't seen me since the end of summer you can pull that type of joke. Well it's not that funny." Iris rolls her eyes playfully.
"I'm sorry, who are you?"
"Iris. You know, your best friend?" Iris sighs, as if Sebastian being the mysterious one.
"I really do think you have the wrong person." Sebastian tries to look apologetic rather than annoyed. "I don't know anyone by that name."
Iris' eyebrows raise, "Wow. How far are you willing to take this joke, Barr?"
"Barr?" Sebastian starts to understand, "I'm not Barry."
"Of course you are!" Iris shakes her head, "Who else would you be? His evil twin?"
Iris' teacher comes forward towards the two of them and without looking up from her clipboard asks, "I'm sorry, is my student-" The teacher then looks up and a look of recognition flashes across her face, "Oh, how are you Barry, dear?"
"I'm really sorry, you don't understand. I'm not Barry-"
"Barry, this isn't funny anymore." Iris snaps. "Did Dalton make you lose your memory?"
"Look," Sebastian tries to explain once more before seeing Barry walk up towards the trio and other students who are eagerly watching from the sidelines, thinking Barry Allen had finally gone crazy.
"Hey Seb, I think I saw a sign for that exhibit that you wanted to-" Barry looks in confusion at the group surrounding his brother. "What on earth is going on?"
"I don't know!" Sebastian practically wails, "They all came up to me, surrounded me without mercy and started questioning me!"
Iris turns around and spots Barry. "What on earth?"
The teacher and the other classmates spend a few seconds glancing between the twins in utter confusion. "There's two of you?" One of Iris' friends finally asks.
"That is the idea of twins." Sebastian snaps irritably, "There's two for the price of one."
Barry laughs, "Don't mind Seb, he's just unhappy that there's nothing music related in this museum."
"Music makes everything better." Sebastian mutters.
"It's a science museum, not a music one."
"Whatever."
Barry rolls his eyes in amusement, "Anyways, Iris, I'm Barry and this is Sebastian, my twin."
"Since when have you had a twin?" Iris demands, an irritated and hurt look crossing her face.
"Well, I would hazard a guess and say since our birth." Sebastian drawls sarcastically.
"Don't mind him." Barry rolls his eyes, "He's the evil one. And yes, since birth. We were seperated at birth and met at Dalton. We're actually roommates which is pretty good dumb luck I'd say."
"Yes, yes, good luck. Now all of you can scram, it's not a soap opera." Sebastian practically growls at the gathered students.
"That is a good idea, it's almost time to leave for the end of the school day." The teacher starts to herd the students back towards the front of the museum. "You too Iris, I'm sure you'll see plenty of Barry and his brother once Thanksgiving break starts."
" Fine." Iris mutters, "And you better explain everythingin great detail when I get home." Iris threatens the twins. Iris pulls Barry into a tight hug before scampering off after her teacher.
"That was a terrible way to end our visit." Sebastian grumbles, "Getting mobbed by a bunch of public school kids looking to terrorize an innocent museum-goer."
"Oh stop being so dramatic." Barry rolls his eyes.
"How do you like being attacked from behind by a crazy chick you've never met before?"
"Fine, point." Barry grudgingly allows, "S'pose it's my fault for not showing you Iris' picture."
"C'mon, let's get going. I think she might actually kill us if we're not there when she gets back. She seems the type." Sebastian comments, ignoring the second part of what his brother said, not wanting to play any version of the blame game.
Barry laughs, "Oh, you're catching on pretty fast!"
"Sadly."
Barry continues to laugh as he drags his twin out of the museum.
