Short on Time

Chapter 66

"Iris you really should be coming with," I told her on the phone as I got ready to meet up with Joe and Cecile.

"I have a deadline due, you two go and have fun. I'm sure she's going to want to know all about the baby," Iris said.

I rolled my eyes as Barry gave me a look telling me we had to go, "yes. The never ending questions..."

"Tell her I said hi," Iris said and then hung up. I turned to Barry, but he just scooped me up and we stopped right by Jitters.

"And we're not late," I said in relief as I took a step forward, but then my stomach rolled. 

"Ginger?" Barry questioned as I turned to the side and then threw up.

"To think I was hoping I would be immune to the morning sickness," I said as Barry held back my hair. 

"You had to start showing symptoms sometime," Barry offered.

"But I thought I would only have them sometimes, not every morning," I said.

"Maybe you'll get lucky," Barry said helping me up. 

I sighed, "and now we're late."

"I think they'll understand," Barry said as he grabbed my hand and led us in. Barry went to go and talk to Joe and I promptly went to the bathroom to rinse out my mouth. When I came back, Barry was being interrogated by Cecile. 

"You are just glowing," Cecile said hugging me. 

I smiled at her, "it's just the light." 

Joe sniggered as Cecile turned to him, "isn't she just gorgeous?"

"Yes, she is," Barry said grabbing my hand and making me sit down. 

"How has everything been?" Cecile asked.

I shrugged, "I was shortly immune to the symptoms."

Cecile smiled sympathetically, "sometimes it gets better. It just really depends."

I nodded, "since it just started recently, Barry's been singing to me since I get in a bit of a temper-mental mood when I don't feel good. He also just sings when I ask."

"You sing? That is so cute!" Cecile said smiling at Barry. 

"Not as good as Joe," Barry said.

"Shut up, Barry," Joe said choking on his drink.

"Well, okay, that reminds me, my sister has four tickets that she can't use -to Hamilton," Cecile said.

"Hamilton?" I asked surprised.

"On the house. I thought that maybe we could make it a double if you guys were interested?" Cecile asked.

"Uh, yeah, we're interested," Barry said.

"When?" I asked.

"First weekend in July," Cecile said and the three of us deflated.

"Um, July," Barry said awkwardly.

"Does that not work for you guys?" Cecile asked confused.

"No, that works great. We'll be there, all of us," Barry said smiling at me.

~*~

"He calls himself Abra Kadabra," Gypsy said.

"As in hocus pocus?" I asked.

"He's certainly got a lot of tricks," Barry said.

"Yeah, we think he has some sort of nanotechnology built into his body allows him to do some extraordinary feats. Teleportation, telekinesis, you name it, and believe me, I have seen it all," Gypsy said.