So I'm back :)

Sorry for the long wait.

(just so you know, I added something to the chapter 5)


One year later.

Lia looked around excited at the tall buildings.

Wally laughed. "You know. We have been here before, you know."

"I know." She said and turned around to him with a big smile. "But this is the first time without our parents."

Wally shrugged with a smile, as Lia spun around completely giddy. "Well, starting High School has its privileges I suppose."

"Well, going to the city center alone is a bit of privilege." She smiled.

She then took his hand and they started walking.

Wally tried to stifle a laugh, as he watched Lia.

She pulled him through the crowd, while she looked around with eyes as big as teacups.

Lia stopped and turned to him with a fake frown and a raised eyebrow. "Oh, like you aren't excited to be able to come here without your mom."

"Of course," he agreed with a grin. "But I'm not walking around looking I'm in Lollipop Land."

Lia frowned. "That was a sugar-induced fantasy told to you in confidence." She whispered angrily.

He laughed. "Yes, yes."

They started walking again.

"You do realize, that the only reason we're allowed to come here alone, is because we pass through here to get to the High School, right?" He whispered in her ear.

She gave him a stiff look, then look straight ahead. "I will pretend I don't know that!" She said in mock determination.

Wally couldn't hold back his laugh and Lia joined in.

"Look," she said and pointed to the other side of the street to a cafe. "I'm starving. Want to get something to eat?"

"Always," Wally said. Though Lia had already started to pull him towards the street.

"Table for two?" The waiter asked.

They nodded and he led them to an empty table by the window and they sat down.

The waiter glanced at the hands. They only let go of each other, when they went to sit down.

As the waiter gave them each a menu and left, they took off their jackets.

"It really nice," Lia said and looked around. It was nice and cozy.

"Yeah," Wally said from behind the menu. "I think, I'll have a sandwich and a soda, you?"

She smiled. "Sounds good."

The waiter took their order and disappeared again.

Lia gave Wally a look. Could this be considered their first date?

Wally raised an eyebrow. "What is it?"

She felt her cheeks grow warm. "Just enjoying the view."

Wally turned his head to look out on the street.

"Yeah, it is." He said sounding a little confused.

But then he turned back to her.

"There was something, I wanted to talk to you about." He leaned over the table as he spoke.

She froze for a moment. Was this the moment?

She leaned in, in anticipation.

"Our first project is coming up and..." he started.

She managed to hide her frown and smile instead.

Of course, it was the project. Wally had been talking about it for weeks. He wasn't going to let the chance to impress his new physics teacher for the first time.

"So what did you have in mind?" She said with a smile.

Wally gave her a sly grin and started explaining about electron diffraction, and what they would need for the experiment.

When the waiter came with their food, he took a break, but they continued talking and discussing the project. Because she had been Wally's lab partner, since they first needed lab partners, she knew what he was talking about.

Wally's experiments had grown a lot since the crayon house and were always way bigger and more complicated than other projects in his class. And they usually had some meaning behind them. Wally generally intended to figure something out with these experiments and use them to make the world a better place.

She smiled, as Wally talked.

He had introduced her to the other genius's. The Japanese boy and the girl living in Egypt. The group tried to make the world a better place with their combined brainpower.

Though they didn't let her in on their plans, because she wasn't smart enough, Wally often told her of his ideas and experiment.

Lia leaned her head in her hand, as she looked at Wally. He was so adorable when he was like that.

"You know it's not going to work like that," she said and sipped her soda. "Both the x-ray and electron source must be coherent for it to work."

Wally's sandwich stopped half to his mouth as he thought. "Doesn't that depend on what you use the x-ray for?"

"Where do you plan to get an x-ray source in a High School lab anyway?" She shot back.

As they continued to talk and eat, the cafe started filling with people.

Wally's phone rang.

He pulled it out of his pocket and looked at the screen.

It was Hiro.

He glanced at Lia, then back to the phone still ringing in his hand.

"You can take it." She said.

He glanced from her back to the phone and then turned it off.

"I'll call him later."

She smiled at him.

He returned the smile. "You know, I like this."

Lia blinked confused. "What?"

"This," he said. His voice was so smooth, and his eyes seemed to twinkle a little. "I like that we can just sit and talk about anything like always, we can just be ourselves, I like it."

She mimicked his expression and slit her hand across the table. He took it. "I like it too."

Suddenly the person sitting behind Lia stood up. The guy pulled out a gun and waved it around.

"Get down, this is a robbery." The man shouted.

The entire cafe seemed to stop moving.

The waiter had stopped in the middle of a step.

Wally speculated how he should handle this.

The man with the gun pointed it towards the ceiling and fired. "I said get down!"

Some people threw themselves to the ground in fright, while others, like Wally and Lia, duck down in their seats. The waiter put up his hands, seemingly not knowing what to do.

Another man appeared by the man with the gun and they turned towards Wally and Lia.

With the gun pointed towards Wally, the man yelled at him "Cash now!"

The other man held a bag up.

Wally grimaced. He could take them both out, but he couldn't really use his power here.

The man snarled when Wally didn't move.

He glanced at Lia, who stared back at him.

In a jacked motion he pushed the barrel of the gun hard against the side of her face.

Her eyes meet Wally's, she seemed scared … and confused.

"Cash! Now!" The man spat the words out.

Wally needed to think fast. He needed to save her, but...

The man pressed the gun harder against Lia's head. "You give me cash, or your little girlfriend gets an extra hole in her head."

"I..." Wally stuttered. He could do it. People would think it was adrenalin, or that they just remembered this wrong.

The gun clicked like it was about to fire. The man stared him down.

All he had to move, they wou...

Before Wally could move, Lia had pushed the gun away from her face in a swift motion.

The robber grimaced and went to fire the gun, but Lia took hold of his wrist and directed the barrel towards the ceiling.

Then she stood up and promptly pushed the man away from her.

He stumbled back, and the other man with the bag came at her. In a swift scissor-like motion, she kicked him where it hurts.

The man fell to the floor both hands covering his private area. She kicked him in the face.

The man with the gun got up and charged at her.

With just a glance in his direction, she knocked him out with a push.

The cafe fell silent.

Lia blinked like she didn't really know what she was doing,

She bit her lip. She hadn't meant to go that far.

She turned around to Wally, who was standing by the table.

"Was I sick the day you learned karate?"


"Here, it's on me," Wally said and started rummaging through his pocket after his wallet.

The waiter smiled at him and shook his head. "No … this one's on the house."

Wally and Lia shared a look, knowing why the meal was free.

Lia smiled sheepishly.

Wally made a half shrug and looked at the waiter and smiled. "Well, then your food was delicious and we'll definitely come back for our next study session."

The waiter lifted an eyebrow with a knowingly smile, as he glanced down at their intertwined hands, but he didn't say anything.

Wally glanced down at their hands, as they left. Of course, people misunderstood sometimes, but it had sort of just become this odd habit when every time they walked together.

Lia looked up at him as they walked down the street.

"Study session?" She asked.

Wally gave her a weird look. "Where were you, when I talked about the physics project?"

Lia looked forward. She smiled and bit her lip.

She'd let it go … this time.

"You know, we're going to have to tell our moms what happened today." She smiled mischievously up at him, as they continued walking.

Wally signed, but there was a glimmer in his eyes. "There goes our city center privileges."


Another year later

"Lia?"

She turned her head and looked at Wally.

He looked like he'd have a rough day.

Wally came closer. "What are you doing?"

She nodded towards the principal's office.

Wally gave her a look. "What did you do?"

She gave him an innocent smile. "I might, might not have gotten into a fight with a girl."

Wally shook her head smiling. "Kathy?"

Lia smiled with a shrug.

Kathy was a bit of a bully, had been since they started High School last year, something was bound to happen at some point.

Some girls came down the hall. They called out to Lia, cheered her on for putting Kathy in her place.

Lia greeted them back.

As the girls passed Wally, they smiled and giggled at him.

He smiled and waved back.

"Flirt," she said under her breath.

Wally leaned in. "Potential clients," he whispered in her ear.

She snorted.

"Anyway, what happened to you?" She asked and looked him up and down again, her gaze linkering at the wet stain on his pants.

"Water fountain." He said and looked her straight in the eyes.

"You look like you've been in a fight," she commented.

He signed defeated. "Let's just say it's been a bad first day of school."

She gave him a sympathetic look. "Wanna hang out after school?"

Wally smiled back but shook his head. "No, I'm planning to go to my extracurricular… there was something planned for today."

She shrugged. "Then we'll hang out later then."

"The bench?" He asked.

"The bench." She confirmed, slyly smiling at their little, secret meeting spot.

Another guy came down the hall and leaned against the wall next to them. Another person, that caused trouble on the first day and needed to talk to the principal.

The door to the principal's office went up and a secretary stuck her head out.

Lia signed loudly.

Wally reached out and squeezed her hand.

"I'll wait for you here," he said.

She smiled and crossed the hallway.

Behind her, she heard a snort.

"Comforting your girlfriend?" The guy next to Wally mocked him.

"Oh … she's not my girlfriend," Wally explained calmly.

She smiled to herself as she walked past the secretary into the office.

Not yet anyway. He was going to figure out his feelings for her someday, she just had to be patient.

Her fingers played with the chain around her neck.

This year had been perfect so far though. Her dad had come back in almost a year, the longest time he'd stayed away yet. And her mother had been a lot happier. And she had all of her classes with Wally.

Her smile widened as she sat down on the chair opposite the principal.

Yes, this was going to be a good year. But she still had to be patient.

Well …Wally wasn't going anywhere, and … they had all the time in the world.


The End

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If you are curious about what's going to happen to Wally and Lia in the future, you can read my other story Kid Flash and Artemis.

Hope You'll the next story too :)

Again sorry it's been so long 2020 was not a good year.