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“Yeah, I’ll actually be home for dinner, I promise Iris.” I said before hanging up the phone. I don’t know why I’ve been so late to everything in my life. Or this one at least.
You see, I have a little secret. Either I’m crazy or I remember my past life. If that either exists. In my past life my name was still Barry. Not Barry Allen. I was married to some dude named Hal who I meet online in high school and we finally met in college. We got married when I was twenty-two and were married for fifty-seven years until we both passed. I passed only thirty minutes after him.
I don’t know what to believe in but I do know that I’ve known this ever since I could start remembering things. And if I had to choose between not believing it or believing it, I would go with believing it.
I also don’t know that if I ever find this “Hal” person if they even remember “me”, be named Hal, or if we’ll ever cross paths.
I didn’t let some ridiculous thing drive me down. I fell in love with someone named Iris and I’ve been living my life. I’m still a forensic scientist but that’s only because my mom got murdered and I want to find the real killer. Well, I know the real killer, I just need evidence to incriminate him.
“Your wife’s mad at you again?” Green Lantern asked me.
“Yeah, but I can’t blame her. I hate that I’m always late to everything! I try to be early and then I’m late! I try to go on time, and I’m still late! Even when I try to be late, I’m still late!”
“That’s some pretty shitty luck.”
“Yeah it is. What about you, what’s something that luck doesn’t want you to have.”
“Love.”
“That’s deep.”
“I know. I just can’t really find it. I tried with someone named Carol, it didn’t work. I’ve tried with a bunch of girls, but it never worked out either. I mean there is this one dude that I think I loved him and he loved me back but that was some crazy dream that felt real that I had when I was a kid.” Hal explained.
“It can’t be that crazy. I’ve had something else that’s crazy that stuck with me ever since I was a kid. So come one, tell me.” I said, giving Green Lantern a playful nudge with my foot. He shook his head. Then I shook my head, mocking him.
“Okay, I’ll tell you,” Hal paused for a second before continuing. “There was a guy I knew, the love of my life actually. And I had a perfect life with him until I died. I don’t know what ever happened to him because I, well died. His name was Barry. And everytime I think of him I get happy because of what I had with him but at the same time, I get sad because I don’t have someone like that in my life right now. I know it sounds crazy but-” I couldn’t help but cut him off.
“Hal?” I said in a voice mixed with shock and unbelievableness.
“How do you-” Hal stopped himself from saying anything else.
I took off my cowl. “I’m Barry, then and now so it doesn’t really-” Hal thought it would be his turn to cut me off. He did so not by words, but by a kiss. And I let him kiss me. This is what I’ve wanted for so, so long.
He pulled back and started staring at me. Before his eyes widened. “Oh shit, sorry. I completely forgot about Iris. But how is this even possible?” Hal seem wrapped up in his own little world but I knew that as soon as I started talking, he would listen to me.
“It’s fine and I don’t know, I’m not the reason why this happened. Or maybe I am, I don’t know.” It was a crazy thought that I could’ve done this. But you never know. And what I was thinking about before I died, that could’ve caused it. Or it could’ve been some higher up power, who knows. But what we both knew for sure is that we were finally together again. Even if it took twenty, thirty years.
“Well, I don’t care because I finally get to have you again. And were young too.” I laughed at his last sentence. Hal soon followed up with a laugh too.
“We’re not going to tell anyone right?” I questioned Hal.
“Are you suggesting an affair?” Hal was so obviously joking but I couldn’t help and get a little irritated.
“No! I’m talking about our past lives.” My voice sounded frustrated. To me at least. I did hope that Hal was also hearing frustration come from my tone. That’s what I wanted ti to sound like.
“And have people think were crazy? No, we’re not.” I was glad that Hal didn’t pull any other jokes that went a little under my skin. I definitely didn’t need anymore of that coming in my direction for a while.
“Well, now we have our little secret.” I said while I sunk into one of the chairs that Clark made Bruce buy. Clark made Bruce buy a lot of extremely comfortable chairs for the Justice League headquarters. And his excuse was that we all are living things and need to take a break sometimes. Somehow, that managed to convince Bruce to buy chairs for Clark.
“Yeah, I guess we do.” Hal said while he let his body sink into the one next to me. Even though we weren’t together and probably will never be, we’ll be friends who sink into expensive, comfortable chairs, and we’ll love each other in that way.