The Future in a Flash

10

Life is going by in flashes. Not just mine, everyone's. Barry and I are dating. Zoom takes Barry's speed. Barry gets his speed back. Zoom finds Earth 2 Connor. I'm next. I stay with Jessie in Star City. They say it's just until they defeat Zoom. I want to help, everyone says no.  Zoom kills Barry's father. Barry defeats Zoom. And then there is nothing.
...
"Ma'am?" I'm in a coffee line. I don't remember getting coffee, I don't remember wanting coffee. I'm holding up the coffee line. 
"Girl go!" Brooke's voice.
Brooke's voice sounds so unfamiliar to me. It's almost like I hadn't seen her in months, ever though we made plans to get jitters with Conner only 20 minutes ago.
I have my coffee, I'm at a table. Brooke is across from me, acting as charming as always. Doesn't she notice what I notice?
"Chan." Connor plops down next to me. Barry called me Chan, but whose Barry? For some reason it's weird seeing my best friends. 
"Sorry, I'm just really out of it." I mumble.
"Yeah, you are," Conner said, "Is all the coffee messing with your head?"
I shake my head.
"When's the show?" I ask Brooke.
"What show?"
"Kyle's show."
"My ex Kyle? That show was almost three years ago now. We broke up at that show."
Where did the last three years of my life go?
"What about the storm? The lighting?" I ask.
"Oh yeah, that was a rough 7 months." Connor said.
...
I'm working a job I've never done before, but for some reason I know how to do it. I feel like I've been living on auto pilot for the past 3 years, or living someone else's life. Why does this one feel like the lie?
...
I'm sitting at a table at jitters. A tall and dorky hug walks in. Despite his awkwardness he's cute.
Barry. His name is Barry. He calls me Chan and we have talks late into the night about grief and regret, happier things too.
He sees me, he seems to know me. He walks over.
"Hey," he said.
"Hi Barry."
He looks excited.
"You do recognize me?"
I answered with a question, "Are you still grieving, Mr. Allen?"
"No, just regretting."
He sped me toward the CCPD roof. I was starting to remember, and I won't mind doing it all again.
I saw my future in a Flash.

Fin. Thank you all for reading!