Lydia | Barry Allen [1]

A Call From an Old Friend

Barry, Iris and Lydia had just finished watching the new zombie movie.

They walked out of theatre, intertwined like a human chain, Iris in the middle who was complaining about the movie, "Regular movie scale, that was a seven or an eight. Zombie movie scale, it was, like, a four, tops." Obviously she wasn't impressed with the movie.

"There's a zombie movie scale?" Lydia asked.

Barry excitedly looked at both girls,"Did you know that zombies exist in nature? There's a species of fungi

Lydia interrupted him knowing exactly what he was talking about,"-that infects ants causing the ants to attack plants that-"

"-can release spores which in turn infect new hosts. We're going full nerd again, aren't we?" Barry finished off the fact for her. This was the 15th time tonight Barry and Lydia finished off each others random facts.

"Yep. Yeah. Yeah. It's okay though. You two are still the cutest nerds that I know." Iris enjoyed that the two closest people to her got along. Just like how she predicated weeks ago.

"Anyways, I'm a lot more interested in the amazing as of late." Iris continued on.

Lydia looked towards Barry noticing the frown etched on his face, "You mean 'cause of this streak thing?" She also couldn't help notice the slight pitch in his tone.

Iris turned to them, "He's out there.
People are talking about him."

"How do you even know he's a he? Maybe it's a she?" Lydia asked

"It's a man, okay? You know I am really intuitive about this kind of stuff."

"Someone even posted a picture after being yanked from a car accident. It's a red blur leaving the scene. Here, what do you see?" She said while holding up her phone to show the pair.

They both looked at the her phone screen, only to see Eddie's names across the screen, "I see your boyfriend's calling."

Iris looked confused and her phone screen, "Oh, I should probably get this. I'm crashing at his place tonight, and he's supposed to leave a key for me somewhere." she walked further from the them to get to a quieter place.

"Hey, babe. What's up? Not much, just hanging out with Barry and Lydia.
You off yet?"

Lydia turned to Barry, "Do you wanna keep talking about the rare ant-infecting fungus?"

Barry laughed at her while nodding, "Yeah, so did you know Ophiocordyceps unilateralis is an entomopathogen, or insect-pathogenising-" he was caught off by the sound of his phone going off.

"Sorry." He silenced his phone and went to go back to talking to Lydia.

"An-" but was quickly silenced by his phone ringing again.