We come back from what turned out to be a short, peaceful 2 mile walk. Barry and I chuck ourselves down on the sofa and Dad and Cecile go to get ready for their evening. Barry and I only have to put something waterproof on.
Dad and Cecile leave, trusting we'll get to the beach on time even though Barry's driving and he's pretty much always late for absolutely everything. Apart from our dates, that he's always punctual for.
It's 6:00pm now so we decide to go and put our swim suits on.
We go in the bedroom and I open the closet.
"What trunks you want babe?" I ask him, looking at his selection.
"Don't mind." He says.
He walks up behind me and gently touches my waist, breathing down my neck. He runs his hand down my arms on to my hands and lifts them up to my chest like yesterday. He starts kissing my neck as I try and chose which tankini to wear. I didn't think a bikini would be very practical.
I turn around so we are now facing each other and he still has hold of me. He kisses me and I pull away.
"We need to leave soon," I inform him, knowing I'd probably end up getting carried away if we continued.
"We still have 45 minutes.." he says smirking and leaning in for another kiss. I kiss him back but then pull away again, owning my self control.
"Babe, no we have to give 10 minutes to get there and be there 5 minutes before so we actually have half an hour and we need to get ready," I say, not really wanting to pull myself away from him.
"You don't need half an hour to put on a bikini," He says.
"You'd be surprised..." I joke. "And it's not just that, I get carried away and we'll lose time and then we'll miss our slot." I tell him.
"Oh really?" He says, raising his eyebrows and kissing me again.
He grabs my thighs and picks me up and pushes me up against the closet.
He then carries me to the bed and places me down on it and is on top of me whilst our lips are locked on each other's. He lifts my top off again and runs his hands all over my torso. I toss us over and whip his shirt off.
He is just about to move his hands down to get in my shorts when my alarm goes off.
I pull out of the kiss and we both sigh. I sit up, staying on top of him and turn it off.
"We can proceed with this later." I promise him.
"Okay." He says, smiling.
"C'mon then," I say, tapping his chest, "we gotta get ready." I say.
He taps my ass as I crawl off him and get my bright pink tankini. I chuck him his dark blue swim shorts and go in the bathroom and put it on. I throw an all in one on top of it for the sake of the short drive.
I walk out of the bathroom and he's all ready with a bag but refuses to tell me what's inside. I know then that he's probably planning something romantic again.
We get in the car and it's exactly 6:40, surprisingly on time.
We get to the beach and go to where the water skis can be rented.
"Hi, we have a session booked for Barry Allen and Iris West?" I ask.
"Yeah, of course if you just both come with me I'll get you set up and go through some things." The woman says.
Barry takes my hand and we follow her. She gives us both a life jacket and goes through some health and safety things and teaches us how to use it.
We take it out on to the water and Barry hops on first and I get on next behind him. I wrap my arms tightly around his waist so i don't fall off. I've never done this before either so it'll be interesting.
"Have fun guys!" The woman leaves and Barry revs up the engine.
"Don't be an idiot on this thing now or I'll drive." I demand to him.
"Here we go!" He yells.
I grip to him tighter and push my body up closer to his.
The water is flicking up my legs and onto my belly and some in my face.
"Slow down dude!" I shout.
He laughs but slows down.
The sun is setting again giving it the most beautiful scenery once more. I rest my head down on his back and close my eyes. The wind is freely blowing in my face and the moment is absolutely perfect again.
Our hour is up and the sun is now almost completely down. Barry rides us back to the shore and the woman comes to assist us again.
"How was it?" She asked.
"Amazing, Thanks." We say.
We take off our life jackets and we are both somehow wetter than expected.
The woman leaves and we are alone again.
"I say we take a little romantic walk before we go back don't you?" Barry asks, taking my hand.
"Yeah, sounds nice."
We walk down the beach, hand in hand, just admiring the breathtaking views.
He stops walking for a second and just looks at me with the love in his eyes that seems to be there always.
"You know every moment I spend with you seems to be perfect?" He says.
I chuckle at his sweetness,
"Oh yeah, why's that then?" I say, wrapping my arms around his neck, "I seem to get the same feeling and I just can't explain it," I tell him.
He holds my bare waist.
"I have a feeling it's because we're just meant to be together. You're my everything, Iris. I just want you to know that." He tells me, looking deep into my eyes.
I'm flooded with so much love for him it's uncontainable.
The last bit of sunlight of this day is reflecting upon the trickles of water on his chest and may hair is slightly dripping. I move my hands from his neck to his chest, feeling the warmish water on the skin of the palms of my hands.
I look him up in the eye, drowning in the ocean green colour of them.
"I love you too," I whisper.
He gently pulls me in even closer so that our bodies have no air gap between them and places a soft, warm tender kiss on my lips that lasted a lifetime and I know right here, right now I'm a winner.
"I thought we could hang out here for a while," Barry says, leading me to a hammock that was attached to two palm trees.
He gets in and I climb in, led on top of him and hug him tight, fully wrapped within his body.
The sun is now completely set and we're just looking up at the stars, enjoying every precious moment in each other's company.
"You see that star right there?" Barry gently says, pointing up at the millions of diamonds within the night sky.
"Which one?" I say in almost a whisper.
"This one..." He takes my hand and points to what I'd say is the brightest one there.
"Yeah,"
"I'm gonna call it Iris." He says, caressing my back.
I giggle at his cuteness.
"That's adorable but i don't think it works like that," I say.
He screws up his face. "Of course it does," he tells me.
I shrug. "Well in that case, you see that one right there, next to it?" I point up to the sky and look at him and he gently nods. "I'm gonna call it Barry." I say, smiling.
"Well there you go then. We are now officially inseparable." He says.
It's the most sweetest and cheesiest thing I've ever done with someone before.
I snuggle into him again and look out onto the ocean. The only noise to be heard around us was the soft, shooshing music of the waves.
My eyes get tired and I fall asleep to the sound of his heartbeat. I wake up about 30 minutes later to Barry smoothing my head.
"Babe," He whispers.
I look at him with my sleepy eyes.
"We gotta go back to the cabin now, Joe and Cecile will be back in a bit"
I sit up and look around me, taking in the beauty of the moment one more time for today and then lean back down to kiss his lips.
"I love you," I tell him.
"Love you too," he tells me back. In his gentle voice.
I climb off of him and he gets out of the hammock. I almost fall where I am still half asleep.
"Here, you want a lift?" He asks, kneeling down, inviting me to hop on to his back.
I wrap my legs around his waist and hook my arms around his neck and hold him tight. He takes grip of under my thighs and carries me to the car.
I fall back asleep on the drive home and I am awoken by one of his luscious, tender kisses, pressed on my lips.
"We're home." He whispers.
I open my eyes slightly and see my beautiful Barry Allen. I yawn and he takes off my seat belt and carries me out of the car, frontwards.
He takes us to the bedroom and rests me down on our bed.
"Baby, you need to wake up so you can get out of these wet clothes." He tells me.
I look at him, really not being bothered to do any of that.
"You do it," I invite him.
He chuckles but declines my offer.
"No, come on I'm not that type of guy. Maybe tomorrow when your awake we'll have some alone time, I'll tell joe not to interrupt us and we can finish what we start but for now I think you need to sort yourself out," he says, rubbing my arm.
I sigh.
"Fine." I drag myself out of bed and run a bath.
I'm once again great full to have Barry in my life and for him being everything I live for.
I put on my pyjamas and drain out my tankini and then walk back into the room and throw myself down on our bed.
He comes in to the room and smiles at me but says nothing and I'm too tired to speak.
He climbs in bed and cocoons me in his body, his warmth sending me to sleep.
