Grant woke up to find Candice, resting her head on his chest still in a deep slumber. He wished to wake up like this with her forever. Candice yawned, awaking from her deep sleep. "Good morning." She said, looking up at him, her eyes sleepy and full of love.
"Good morning." Grant returned with a smile. "You OK?" He asked gently rubbing her back.
"Never been better. And you?" She said, still sleepy. Grant gave her a soft, tender kiss. "Perfect." He whispered. Candice turned round to check her phone which was on the cabinet by her bedside. The glow from the screen lit up her face. Her contagious laugh came out of no where. Grant shuffled closer, and cocooned her in his body to see what she was laughing at. On her screen there was a picture of them both on Instagram. It was the picture of them at SDCC 2017 with the Caption 'love my king and queen, #grandice'. Grant also laughed when he read this. "we have our own hashtag. Wait you don't think they know do you?" Grant asked.
"No this was trending before we started dating. Don't ask me how I know that." She laughed.
"Oh. Carlos said it was kinda obvious that I liked you so that's probably why they are shipping us."
"And we are like super cute together." She joked. "And Zoë of course."
"Yeah." He smiled. He looked at the time on her screen. It read '7:04am'. "Shit we better get ready, I have to be on set at 8." He rolled over but Candice took his arm as he went to leave.
"No, stay please." She whined. Grant flopped back down onto her bed. Candice rested her head back on his chest and wrapped her arms and one leg around him.
"You realise you have to be on set too right." He laughed. He didn't want to get up. He'd much rather stay like this with her forever but that wouldn't pay the rent unfortunately.
"Yeah just 5 more minutes. We never sleep in." She closed her eyes again.
"OK. Five more minutes." He rubbed her back and kissed her on the head. Before they could savour this moment, their five minutes were up. Zoë was yapping for her breakfast, wagging her tale and licking both their faces to wake them up. They both laughed at her adorableness. "I think that's our cue to get up." Candice said as she pulled the duvet off them both. Zoë jumped down and ran into the kitchen and started playing with her new toy Grant had bought her for Christmas. Candice climbed out of bed. Painfully dragging herself away from Grants warmth. "No cooked breakfast for us this morning mister." Candice said jokingly as she put on her dressing gown which was hung in the back of the door. Grant pulled a playful sad face. "I have toast or lucky charms in the cupboard though." She laughed. Candice never needed to keep much food around. It was only her and Zoë so she just could buy anything she felt like.
"That's fine." He stood up and walked toward the door. Zoë was in the kitchen, still playing with the toy he got her. "Zoë, here girl." He called her towards him. She ran in to him and jumped into his arms wagging her tail, licking his face again. Candice was in the shower and so Grant thought of how he can help her get ready faster so they can have some one-to-one time before they had to leave for work. Candice only lived around the corner of the studios so they'd only have to leave a few minutes to get there on time. He fed Zoë, tidied up her apartment and made them both a coffee and toast. Candice came out from the bathroom, her hair now in full natural ringlet curls, a dark shiny brown color and she wore nothing but a towel. Grant stared at her, stunned by her natural beauty.
"What?" She asked, rubbing her hair with a different towel.
"Nothing... I just- um, I made us breakfast." He said in an awkward Barry sort of way.
"Aw that's so sweet. Again. Thank you, I'll just quickly get dressed and I'll be back out." She smiled, making the butterflies in his stomach stir up again.
"Yeah, sure."
Candice was in her room for what you would say was less than 5 minutes. She couldn't be bothered to do her own make-up considering she will get it done in a bit by the hair and make up crew. She opened her bedroom door to find Grant sat at her glass 3 seater dining table with 2 cups of coffee and two plates with 2 slices of toast on them. Zoë was perched up on his lap and he just starred at her again. Candice thought he probably thought it still feels surreal as well; to have liked each other for that long and now for it to be real was just crazy. He was still in his lounge pants, top less.
"That was quick." He said pleased.
Candice laughed "well when it comes to food I AM the flash quite literally. Thanks Grant it's great having you here. Days can get lonely sometimes like bruh." She picked up her toast and began to eat it. Grant pulled the same move out as he did his first night here. He stretched so his leg was brushed against hers only this time she didn't move she actually moved in closer to him and rubbed it up and down his.
"If only I could have done this year's ago." He said.
"Well you're here now." She said, giving him a gentle nudge. He leaned in and kissed her.
"I love you." He said, knowing it wasn't too soon. That they'd been together for 4 years in an illusion and now it was finally real and time to say it. Candice's heart warmed and a flood of happiness filled her.
"I love you too." She responded. There was a moment where they didn't say anything, they just sat there, starring into each others eyes all full of love and emotion and it wasn't weird or awkward, it was just like being in a movie where there is an unbreakable bond between the two. Only this was REAL. And it has no end. They will spend the rest of their lives together.
...
Grant had washed the dishes and Candice dried them and they had 15 minutes before they had to leave for work. Grant had taken a shower and now they had 10. The quickest shower anyone has ever taken in the history of showers.
They were both sat on the couch, Candice tucked up under his arm which was around her shoulder. She was scrolling through her mentions on twitter. Grant scrolling through the '#grandice' tags on instagram. He was still confused on how he wasn't aware of this. "Dang some people really ship us." He laughed. Candice looked up at him with a smile.
"Yeah." She looked at his phone and saw all the pictures of them together. "What are you looking at?" She asked even though she already knew.
"Nothing just looking at our hashtag." He let of the same sort of laugh that Cisco would when he makes a joke that only he finds funny, "haha OUR hashtag. That's cool."
Candice laughed at his cute dorkyness and rolled her eyes. There was a mention from a fan: 'Grant is single now, @candicekp get in there NOW he likes you so much you can tell!!' Candice nudged Grant gently. "Here look at this one." She laughed. Grant turned his head to look at the screen on her cell.
It hit him again that this was finally real. He felt it again. That strong tsunami of happiness flooding his soul. He kissed her forehead. "I love you." He said with the most meaning. She looked up at him smiling and shuffled up to his level.
"I love you too." She said with the same high level of meaning. She leant in and kissed his lips. His hand was on her waist and she was almost on his lap. He put tounge into the kiss and she climbed onto his lap with her legs wrapped round his waist. She felt Grants hand move up under her shirt, his hands were warm on her bare soft skin. He grabbed her ass and pulled her in even closer so they were fully pressed against each other. Candice felt her shirt lift up, Grant intending to take it off but candice put her hand on his to stop him. Grant pulled away from the kiss in confusion. "What?" He said concerned. Candice laughed which was reassuring.
"Nothing, we have to leave for work." Grant pulled a sad face. "But... we can continue with this when we get back later." She smirked pressing another kiss on his lips.
"Okay." Grant said with a laugh. He kissed her again before taking his hands out from under her shirt. "We do have some good Barry and Iris scenes to shoot today as well you know." Grant said as Candice got off his lap to put Zoë's harness and leash on.
"Hm." She said smiling. "Let's get to work then. Wouldn't wanna be late now would we?"
