Chapter 3 : Warming Up

Jinx awoke slightly at the smell of waffles frying. For a second, she thought everything was a dream and she was still in the Hive 5, but that all too familiar red head turned the corner of the kitchen and said good-morning to her.

It took her a while to process what was happening, until she realized where she was and whose clothes she was wearing, She muttered a barely audible good-morning.

"Not a morning person I take it we are?" Kid Flash joked.

"Wow it must take a rocket scientist to figure that one out." She replied coldly.

"Oh now you hurt my feelings, I think I'm going to have to eat all these waffles by myself." He smiled tauntingly.

"If you do that then, you'd leave me no choice but to put a hex on you." The saccharine voice replied.

No sooner than she sat down, a plate of waffles were in front of her. She ate them quickly, not getting very many home-cooked meals living with the Hive 5.

"Someone was hungry, or we were just too in love with me and my food." He sat down next to her.

"If you wish to keep your vital organs, I suggest you stop asking questions like that."

"Oh but I love annoying you!"

"Too bad you won't be doing that today."

"And why not?'

"Because I'm going to go find a job, so I can support myself, get a new place and finally be rid of you." She replied coolly.

"Ooooh, do I sense a bit of hate in your tone? Maybe I should come with you."

But before she could respond he was all dressed, ready to go and had given her a new pair of clothes.

"First we should get you some new clothes and then we'll start looking for the job."

She didn't feel like arguing so she just got ready and left with him.

Shopping went by rather quickly, and she still had more than half the day to look for a job. Kid Flash was surprised to find that she was reasonable in all aspects of time and the price-tag. As they were walking down the street, looking for help-wanted signs, he couldn't help but look at her. She looked amazing in her new clothing, a pair of tight fitted jeans and a plain black t-shirt, her pink hair was down for a change and it looked so pretty. He had to resist the urge of pulling her into his embrace right then and there.

When they had enough of walking through the cold with no success of a job found they decided to head home. However, they had walked pretty far away from the apartment, so Kid Flash decided to pick Jinx up and run home with her. She was not aware of his plan though and as soon and she felt him pick her up, she was about to yell at him when she felt winds blasting at her and everything around her became a blur, she had to hold on to something and the only thing there was Kid Flash. She wrapped her arms around his neck and he chuckled a bit at this. He even slowed down his pace so that the moment would last longer than 3 seconds.

With her arms around his neck he felt… good and wanted it to last forever. He could feel her breath on his neck and being this close to Jinx, was something he had only dreamed about.

Jinx took a moment to stop thinking about her fear and realized how pressed up against him she was. It made her forget everything for a moment and looked at him with the slightest hint of affection in her eyes. She was starting to grow a soft spot for his fiery red-hair, caring eyes and charming manners.

When they arrived in the apartment 10 seconds later, Jinx was still holding on to his neck even though he had stopped running long before.

"Um, hi." Kid Flash said, trying not to laugh.

Jinx was embarrassed and much to his disappointment she reluctantly pulled her arms away from his neck and he let her down. They looked away blushing and then Kid Flash broke the silence.

"You hungry, or something?"

The tingling feeling that still resided in each other from when they were touching so intimately before wasn't making things more comfortable.

Jinx refusing to look at him said, "sure, we can order something or whatever, and one more thing," she looked up at him, "Don't EVER do that again!" Her fingers were shooting off sparks and he ran away to go order the food as not to get hit with her hex energy.

They got a pizza and sat together on the couch watching T.V. It started to get late and the weight of the day was slowly taking its effect on Kid Flash and he started to give in to his wants. He slowly stretched and put his arm around Jinx's shoulders. Either she didn't notice or she didn't mind, he was in the clear either way and chose the first possibility. However, right at that moment she leaned her body into him and put her head on his shoulder. He was actually so proud of his accomplishment of touching her so closely and not angering her that he decided now was not the time to say something stupid and they just sat there enjoying each other's company. They were so comfortable that they drifted off to sleep in that position.