Christmas At the West House.

"Like Crazy."

Previously...

“You know what Barry ... never mind, we’ll talk later. The coffee’s getting cold and if you’re late again, I swear my dad will kill you, so scurry off!”  Iris reminds him but still continues to slap his arm.

“Alright! Alright! I’m leaving!” Barry replies as he turns around and leaves.

          He waits until Iris goes behind the counter. He stands outside the window and watches her move around taking orders. She greets every one of them with her signature bright smiles and even the grumpiest of them couldn’t help but return that smile back. He just stood there in awe of how beautiful she is. Her smile had a certain charm that even science couldn’t explain.

          For two minutes, he stood there admiring her. To him, it felt more like forever             

“Like Crazy.”

          It is now 7:00pm on the dot. Iris wave’s goodbye to her co-workers as she exits Jitters. She then decides to swing by the police station and talk to Barry as she had earlier promised. She enters and stops by Eddie’s office just to find it empty. She starts walking towards the stairs when she hears her dad’s voice, “If you’re looking for Eddie, he’s with Barry.”

          She turns around and flashes a smile at him. “Thanks dad! See you in time for dinner?” she asks.

          “Its Mac & Cheese night, Iris, you know I never miss Mac & Cheese night.” He reassures her and walks away.

          Iris giggles and continues up the stairs. The station seemed deserted. She figured most of the officers had gone home for the night. She finally reaches the second floor and sees Barry and Eddie fully indulged in an ongoing police investigation. With Barry’s back facing her, she just couldn’t resist it.

          She slowly creeps step by step; carefully trying to silence every creek the floor might make. Eddie catches her sneaking. She quickly smiles and places a finger on her lips signaling for Eddie to keep quiet. He gets the message and tries to keep cool.

          Iris then quickly approaches Barry, gets on her tippy toes and covers his Eyes and says playfully, “Guess who thinks you’re ‘dreamy’!? She sounded like a schoolgirl would.

          Eddie sends her a surprising look with a sly smile. Barry, even with his eyes covered appeared to be clueless about what Iris was rambling on about. “Iris, don’t you think we’re getting a little bit too old for stuff like this?”

          Iris quickly frees Barry’s eyes, gets between the two men and give’s Barry her signature 100,000 watts smile.

          “Um, Iris, Is there something you’re not telling me?” Eddie interrupts with a nervous tone that revealed he was feeling out of the loop.

          “EDEN!” she quickly yells with her hands going Tada!

          “Not this again, Iris.” Barry wearily tells Iris before he goes to sit down.

          Iris moves closer to Eddie and gives him a quick kiss and hug.

          “Eden is my totally hot and totally gorgeous friend who Barry met at Jitters this morning.” Iris enlightens him and then turns back to Barry.

          “During my break, I decided to call Eden and we talked about girly stuff you probably don’t wanna hear about ...” She drifts off as she observes her audience slowly losing interest. “If I’m not mistaken, this was all your idea.” She sternly tells Barry.