Ep. 5 Every Action…
"Hello bro," my sister tackled me in a hug.
"Whoa don't knock me down, I'm your ride home sis," I said laughing.
She handed me some of her luggage which I took.
"So how was your trip to Gotham?" I asked her.
We started walking to the exit of the airport. She bit her lip.
"What's wrong sis?" she looked uneasy.
"N-nothing I just had a feeling of something bad happening."
Even though they were just feelings they usually turned out right, but there is no set time whenever she feels it. It might happen the exact moment she feels it or even months later. I swear sometimes I think she's got a superpower or something.
"Don't worry it might just be something you ate," I tried reassuring her.
"I hope so," she sounded worried.
We arrived at my car and got in. Her expression totally changed from depressed to ecstatic.
"So I forgot to ask you how has my favorite couple been doing lately?"
"Oh no, I forgot to call you about it."
"No duh Sherlock, you didn't even call me at all since you got that internship at the CCPD."
"Sorry, but a few weeks after you left to Gotham Academy we broke up."
"What!" I had to cover my ears as she screamed. Even though the windows were closed her screams could still be heard all the way outside.
"So I leave for a little bit and everything falls apart?" she glared at me.
"That's exactly what Cisco said." I said shaking my head trying to get the ringing out of my head.
"Cisco?" she asked confused. "Nevermind, so why did you two break up?"
(I have retconned the previous reason from chapter one)
"Well It just wasn't working out. She was just having control issues over my internship. She just didn't understand the reason why I entered the CCPD."
"So how are you holding up?"
"I'm doing okay especially right now."
"Why might that be?" She looked at me suspiciously.
"I might have met someone new," I said embarrassed at what she might say.
"Well that's great!"
"You think so?"
"Yeah, just because you broke up with my best friend doesn't mean I don't want my brother to be happy," she explained. "I still haven't asked how Iris is doing."
"Uh, we don't know."
"We?"
"Yeah after our break up she left to a college in Coast City. Joe and I have heard her voice at Jitters but whenever we try to talk to her she leaves and we haven't actually seen her in person since she left.
"Well she is old enough to know what's right and wrong," she tried to defended her.
"She's seventeen!"
"The law says that one is an adult at seventeen Barry! Even if it didn't we would still have to trust her so she won't do anything stupid!" she scolded me. "How is Joe taking this?" she lowered her voice.
"Even with everything that's happening he still sides with me," I looked outside the window.
"Barry! Barry look at me! Look at me," she demanded.
I forced myself to turn and look at her.
"It's not your fault, don't beat yourself for a decision that she made," she told me.
"Who are you kidding sis? Maybe if I hadn't ended it with her she might've not left and we could have worked it out."
"Like I said she made her own decision.
Besides if you hadn't done that you wouldn't have met that new someone. Speaking of, why don't you tell me about her?" she prodded.
Thinking of Caitlin relaxed me a bit.
"She's perfect, she's got lucid brown hair, bright green eyes, a perfect white smile flawless skin, and the way she smiles. What?" I asked. My sister was grinning, smile stretching from ear to ear.
"Looks like she stole your heart," she giggled.
"You could say that."
I started the car and drove. My sister pulled down the mirror / sun blocker dropping a letter.
"What's this?" she asked picking it up. "To Jace from Hal," she read.
"Oh I forgot to give you that. It's from Hal, he told me to give it to you before he left to Coast City."
"Hal," she muttered.
I guess she thought I hadn't heard because she had just had her posture and said normally. "Might I ask why you left to go see it?" She asked handling the letter.
He finally got a job as a test pilot.
I hope he'll be all right. She crossed her arms.
Don't worry he'll be all right, I reassured her.
Are you kidding?! He's a teenager trapped in a man's body!
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"Why are we here again?" I asked.
Even though the mall was large and wide it was always somehow packed. Every store had people eating at each other trying to get to a register.
"To get new stuff for me of course," she smiled. But this is a zoo! I have served from the people walking past eating, and there were some fighting.
"Oh stop being so dramatic," a woman knocked someone out just as she said it.
We stopped and stared wide-eyed.
"Am I?" I remarked.
I spent the next few hours hoping Jays choosing clothes. The last store we visited was the Gap where she tried on nearly every clothes and the store.
"Well how did you manage to buy all this?" I asked him either. We were exiting the mall
"Mercury Labs paycheck," she answered indifferently.
"Wait a second, so you're telling me that you're working for the enemy?"
"Look Barry. Mercury Labs has what I want, working on new technology and experiments. Something Starr Labs cannot give me, Besides in Star Labs everyone usually works on one thing, and let's be honest, I'm not really much of a team player."
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"Welcome home sweetheart!" Joe hugged Jace tightly. "So how was your trip?" he chuckled slightly.
"It was okay."
"Okay? Just okay? I don't believe you come let's sit down and you can tell me all about it." I could tell that Joe was just trying to distract himself from thinking of Iris, I wish I could do that but I was never good at distractions. So as they left to the kitchen to talk I sat down on the sofa and stayed thinking about how life would be if it took a different turn.
Finally after a while I got up. "I'll see you guys later," I interupted annoyed at their actions.
"Where are you going Barry?" Joe asked.
"I'm going to jog just to clear my head," I responded.
I hurried out before any of them could say something more. I slammed the door behind me a bit harder than I intended but payed no heed. I walked a bit to Central City Park before I started jogging. I ran faster and faster until I started letting out ragged breaths. I stopped and sat on a bench. I was sweating a lot from my face, there were some sweat marks on my clothes too but I didn't care.
All I thought about was Iris and how I pushed her away too far with the decisions I made.
"Is this seat taken?" A voice anchored me back to reality.
I looked up and saw Caitlin in a purple and pink sweat suit.
"Yes… N-no Y… I have no idea," I gave up in trying to talk. I just couldn't bring myself to talk to her normally like I did that yesterday at her house. I would like to blame it on the shortness of breath but I knew better. I tensed as she sat next to me.
"So what's been happening lately in your life to make you this tense?"
"Uh, nothing, it's nothing really," I didn't know who I was trying to convince, if her or me.
"Uh huh, that's actually what everyone says these days, even me myself," she confessed. "So tell me really, what's wrong?"
"It's just some family problems that I wish my family wouldn't ignore." I answered.
"Don't worry every problem always comes into light. What really matters is that you all face it as a family," she shifted her posture to face me. "Do you know why it matters?"
"Huh? Oh no, not really."
"I know why it matters because I have just gone through with a similar not a family problem but it was still a problem. Look what I'm trying to say is that the reason why it matters is because you can't deal with anything on your own. Someone recently taught me that," she smiled at me.
We sat in silence for a moment due to me not knowing what to say at the moment.
"Wow it's really beautiful," Caitlin looked up to the sky.
"What is?" I asked not removing my gaze from the ground.
"The sunset just look at it."
I looked up to see the sun setting. Rays of sunlight streaked the sky setting fire to it. The inferno was painted across the bright blue sky.
"It sure is," I answered looking at her.
The sunlight was shining off her brown hair making it appear a rustic red color. It gave me enough courage to do what I planned during the silence.
"Hey, uh, Caitlin?"
"Yeah Barry?" she turned to look at me.
For a moment her blue eyes seemed to glint like ice.
"I know that we barely even know each other but, uh, how can I p-put this? Would you like to…? Would you like to…?"
"Like to what?" she laughed, amused.
"Well there's this minigolf course and I was wondering if you would like to join me in a game?"
"I'll give it a try. But right now it's getting late. See you tomorrow Barry Allen." She got up and left me sitting there triumphant.
Every action has its consequences. I learned that with Iris. But I didn't care about my actions with Caitlin.
0-0-0-0-Author's Note-0-0-0-0
I am so sorry for not updating last week guys or any of the other weeks but I'm having some school finals and which is from summer school of course. But I will start updating more often after coming out of summer school next week so yeah.