"No, a pregnant girl kissing her ex-boyfriend late at the office at night freaking kills people!"
Kara and Adam froze after Barry said that. Neither of them had the words or thoughts to say or do anything at this moment. Kara's mind was wild.
Adam, on his part, tried to play it off. "Yeah, that, uh, episode of that doctor show, was uh, kind of weird." He laughed nervously.
Barry squinted at Adam. "I'm not stupid, shit head."
"Barry!" Kara stressed out.
"What?" Barry bluntly asked.
"Can we go somewhere and talk?" Kara questioned.
Kally sluggishly took hold of Adam's shoulder. "Addy, I no feel good." She whined, then burped loudly.
"Uh, I'll...bring Kally home, unless you guys—"
"No, we're good." Kara said. "Thanks for the night out."
"Sure, no problem." Adam said as he stood up and then helped Kally up. "I'll pay."
"No, I'll pay." Barry said, still sounding pissed.
"I invited you guys, I'll pay." Adam insisted.
"No, you never invited me. Your ex—girlfriend invited me," Barry stated, still annoyed.
"Barry, just him pay!" Kara stressed.
"No, I'm paying." Barry said.
"Guys, just split the freaking bill!" Kara shouted.
Each guy pulled out forty, both still wanting to pay for both ends, then Barry stood up and helped Kara out. The second she was out, Barry walked off to the door.
"Sorry," Kara said. "I had a good time."
"Yeah...good time," Adam said, pulling Kally up from leaning over too much on a side. "Uh, I'll wait twenty minutes before heading out. And, uh, hopefully Barry cools down."
"Yeah, bye." Kara said.
Kara hurried out and looked for Barry. Barry stood on the sidewalk looking across the street. Kara walked to him. "Barry?"
Barry held his arms crossed over his chest, starting directly at a couple on a bench. The woman's torso was small, but noticeably pregnant. Neither had wedding rings on which most likely meant they were just dating one another.
"Barry?" Kara spoke up again. "I'm sorry, can we talk please?" Barry said nothing. "Barry, I am so sor—"
Kara felt a rush around her and within five seconds, she was back inside of her apartment with Barry staring at her. "Did we—did we just phase through the door?"
"I've done it once or twice." He said, no real tone in his voice. "Lots of practice last year."
"Cool." Kara said. "Barry, about last week, I'm really, really, really sorry about that."
Barry tried to stay calm around her, but he was still pissed. "Really? You are really sorry about that?"
"Yes!" She expressed.
"Because you looked like you freaking enjoyed it, Kara, since you leaned in and kissed him!" Barry said.
"But before that I was just upset and I just...ranted on him."
"Yeah, I heard all that too!"
"You did?"
"I planned on surprising you after work and when James mentioned that you were going to stay super late, I went out and got a few things to give you. I know I've been a sucky person the past few weeks—"
"HA! Week!?" Kara forced a laugh. "It's like you haven't been here since the day I said I was pregnant!"
"WHAT!? I may have not been here all the time, but I cross over plenty of times to see you!" Barry shouted. "I haven't ignored you."
"I feel like you have! You've missed countless doctors appointments—"
"Well shit Kara, I've missed five!"
"No, you've missed seven of them!" She corrected him. "I get your busy with both jobs but you can probably find some time to spend time with me."
"Then why haven't you crossed over to me within the past three or four weeks then Kara?"
"I've been working at CatCo getting work done so that when this baby is born and I take maternity leave, I won't be behind anything." Kara said. "And I've been trying to get in contact with freaking villains to talk to them, but they're always freaking hiding! The only time they are not hiding is when I'm working—"
"Never stopped you before, Supergirl!"
"Ugh! And I haven't had time to tell you but I don't have my freaking powers because the fucking D.E.O idiots took it away! AND DO NOT ASK ME HOW THEY DID THAT WITH THE DAMN SUN STILL OUT ALL THE TIME EVEN AT NIGHT!" Kara shouted.
"Oh yeah, that's another thing I wanted to bring up. Why the hell do I hear about your being hospitalized from your sister and not you!?"
"I didn't want to worry you!" Kara shouted. "Since you're busy all the time over on your universe I didn't want to add to any sort of stress with the amount of stress you already had!"
"Geeze Kara!" Barry threw his hands up. "Your in a freaking hospital with OUR child inside you! I would of threw stuff down and get to you immediately."
"Really? Even during a fight?"
"Okay, as soon as the fight or whatever was over, then yes!" He said. "I'm busy all the time but I'll always make time for you."
"Oh yeah!?" Kara yelled. "What about baby?"
"What?"
"You barely ever had time with me so what will happen when baby is born? When baby is growing up?" Kara shouted. "What if I'm unable to get to baby and you aren't either? Huh?"
"Well...don't schools have emergency contacts?"
"We can't rely on that all the freaking time, Barry!" Kara nearly pulled her hair out. "I haven't been this stressed on in years!"
"Well sorry for making you stressed out," Barry said in some sort of sarcastic tone. "Geeze, what are even arguing about? The stupid office kiss or us?"
"I don't know," Kara said. She was emotionally and physically drained. Kara sat on her couch, looking away from Barry. "Go."
"Kara—" Barry said sympathetically, walking to her.
"Go." She said as her voice shook. "Just go."
"I'm staying."
"No. Get out of here." She said, not looking at him. Barry kept staring at her though and tried to take her hand gingerly, but Kara shook him off. "Go." She said again, trying to not cry.
"Kara, I'm not leaving until we talk about this."
"What's to talk about?" Kara muttered. "We're not on the same level with anything. We haven't talked about how we're going to raise this baby together while living in two different worlds. We haven't hung out together as much as we use too in a long time and..." Her voice shook more.
"And what?" Barry asked, his voice choked a little.
"I don't know how I feel about you anymore."
There was an awkward silence for about a minute. "What?" Barry asked in uncertainty.
"I don't know how I feel about you anymore." She repeated. "I don't feel anything. I try to put some sort of feeling in here," She patted her chest, indicating her heart. "But I can't put anything in there."
"D-Don't say that. Come on, we can work through this." He told her gently. He wanted to talk about this, about them, everything.
"I can't right now." She said. "I just kind of need a break."
"Are you breaking up with me?"
"No..." She answered, but lingered the word. She didn't want to break up with him, she loved him and felt like they were meant to be. But it was so difficult now and they had only been dating for not even three years exactly and were becoming parents in a little less than a month. "Go home. I just need time."
"Kar—"
"Barry! Go!" She yelled and looked at him wide eyed.
Barry didn't move. He didn't want to move. He wanted to stay here with her. Not just tonight, but forever. He wanted her in his life forever, but her stupid world needed Supergirl and his stupid world needed The Flash. Bless the multi-universe and then curse the multi-universe.
Barry let out a rather large sigh. "Okay." He said with sadness. He was still angry about everything and even more, but he didn't want to stress out any more and he didn't want Kara to stress out any more either. "I'll come back in a few days. Promise." He said. With that, he took her hand gingerly, lifted it and kissed her knuckle.
With that said, Barry left her apartment. He didn't speed out in a flash, just walked out.
Kara sat there on the couch holding a pillow. She had no more tears, she's wasted them all over the weeks. She just sat there with a frown and a cracked heart.
Oh geeze, what's going to happen to Kerry now?
Happy Independence Day to those who celebrate it! Eat lots of fried dough and cook out food! :)
