ColdFlash- Soulmates

Chapter 2: First to Call

  Barry didn't tell anyone about Leonard Snart, not even Iris as his best friend in the entire world. He wasn't sure he was comfortable with Joe and Iris knowing he was into guys, the thing he had been picking over for so many years of his life. It was one thing to have a gay boss and another to have a homosexual foster son/brother. He knew they would be supportive but there was the general embarrassment, and what was the point when he had met a hot guy once and had seen a couple of guys in the past that he had secretly admired along side Iris. It really wasn't important. All Barry knew was that after meeting Snart his adoration of Iris had dimmed. His sark and his eyes just slightly out shinning that long held adoration for his friend, a girl who was more his sister than anything. He hadn't even been sure that this thing with Iris had been an actual crush for years, more just a deep-seated love for someone in his family. 

  Despite this he had kept the number, obviously, and yet he hadn't the courage to call it. He had typed it into his phone, added Leonard as one of his contacts. Barry had almost called several times but wimped out each and every one of them.

***
  Barry rapped on the door to the West house only having to wait a moment before Iris opened it. Light and warmth poured out into the cold night along with the smell of something good cooking. Iris smiled brightly at him and pulled him into a quick, bone-braking hug before they stepped inside.

  The lounge was full of light and was particularly warm after the chill of the September night. It held that cosy quality that only a house lived in for many years by a family could hold. It was the cosiness of home. Barry took of his jacket and laid it over the back of the sofa, easily slipping into the comfort of being in the house that he had been raised in since he was eleven.

  Joe poked his head around the corner and gave a wide smile and a welcoming "Hello"  at that moment, Barry raising his hand in greeting, before disappearing back into the kitchen.

***

  The three of them had just sat down in front of steaming plates of Joe's spaghetti bolognese when Barry's phone began to ring. He pulled it from his pocket and looked at the number. He couldn't help it as his face lit up; the number belonged to Leonard Snart.

"I just going to go and take this," Barry briefly waved the phone and got up at Joe's excepting nod and smile. As soon as he had closed the front door behind him, Barry pressed accept.

"Well you took your time answering," came the familiar drawl from the other end.

"Dinner with family, had to get out, sorry," Barry told Snart.

"Embarrassed Barry? Do they not know that you're into guys? " Len teased.

"They don't know but I just don't like taking on the phone to anyone in front of people anyway- making that point irrelevant. So, um, is there a particular reason that you called?" Barry said hopefully.

"Yes, I hope there is," Leonard said on the other end of the line," I thought that it might be nice to meet up again. Somewhere to have a nice, decent meal perhaps."

"So, like a date," Barry suggested. 

"You could call it that if you wanted," was the sly reply. 

"Okay, I'm up for that," Barry beamed.

"Yeah... I was thinking Big Belly Burger night after tomorrow at 7pm. How that sound?" Snart said.

"Sounds good," Barry chuckled to himself.

"Then why are you laughing?"

"I guess it's just that you said "decent meal" and then "Big Belly Burger". I like Big Belly Burger, don't get me wrong, it's great, just not what I thought you'd mean," Barry said rather hurriedly.