Sweet Vendetta | Barry Allen [2]

Chapter 2

Barry

By the time it was morning I was back to STAR labs trying to see what else was different. I didn't get the chance to ask anyone anything before I was already out on my first outing in my suit since being back.

Currently I ran around the man speeding down the road taking all the tools that kept his motorcycle together. I took the jewel back to the jewelry store he had just stolen them from. Afterwards, I ran back to STAR labs hoping nothing else had changed but somehow I just knew I was wrong.

Quickly I tried to get things back to normal so I asked them what name we would call this guy but everyone looked at me like I had just grown another head. They looked around the room and back to each other looking confused.

I cleared my throat feeling how awkward it was now. "I'll take this one. Uh... the crook. Lame? Five finger-"

"How about the thief. He robs stuff let's just call him thief" Cisco says clearly not amused

I looked around the room wanting to know why Cisco wasn't coming up with a nickname. I looked at Caitlin who was sitting down staring at us all as if waiting for someone to snap.

"Have you seen Lana? I stopped by her place but she wasn't there and I've been calling her and she won't answer me" I say changing the subject

She looked at me as if I was crazy and I could tell everyone else in the room looked at me the same. They all basically looked at me as if they didn't understand what I was saying.

"I have to go to the gym" cisco says ignoring me and leaving

"The gym? What is he working out now?" I ask chuckling

Caitlin stood from her seat and was heading toward where Cisco had gone.

"You know Barry, sometimes your jokes aren't very funny" she says, turning to me one more time, "I thought we had all agreed we shouldn't call Lana, we were supposed to stay far away from her. Stop calling her before she gets angrier than she already is"

I looked after her wondering what had just happened. Why was Lana angry? This couldn't be happening. What did I do? What else have I changed? All these questions ran through my head and I just wanted to know what was happening. But I couldn't exactly tell them what I had done, afraid of what they would say.

"I should get back to the paper" Iris says standing from where she sat

"It's okay, I was just leaving" Joe also says standing and heading to the door

I could feel the tension in the air between the two and I knew it was just another mistake caused by me.

"Hey Joe, I'm sorry I know you guys aren't speaking to each other right now but I was just thinking maybe we could talk about why that is?" I begin to say and see just how annoyed they both look at me