1Chapter 4: An Unexpected Gift
A/N: Hey guys! As promised in the last chapter, this will be a one shot featuring a double date with Cisco and Gypsy and Westallen! Thank you to whoever left that sweet comment on my last chapter! It's honestly why I wrote this chapter today even though I'm really busy preparing for Christmas. So enjoy!
Background information: Gypsy comes to Earth-1 to visit Cisco for Christmas. Barry, Iris, Cisco, and Cynthia are going on a double date to the karaoke.
Barry and Iris were sitting at their booth in the karaoke bar, waiting for Cisco and Cynthia to show up for their double date. Iris chose the location, wanting to try and convince Barry to sing at some point of the night. She loved his voice and all day she bugged him about singing a Christmas song, since it was December 23rd. He kept telling her that there was no way he would sing, but she knew that if she continued to insist on it, he would eventually cave.
"I wonder where Cisco and Gypsy are…" Iris starts. Barry gives her a look and Iris rolls her eyes. Cisco was late to everything, mostly because of his "luscious locks".
After almost an hour of Barry and Iris laughing at the karaoke singers and enjoying their date, Gypsy and Cisco finally showed up.
"Hey Cisco, over here!" Barry yelled and waved them over.
"Sorry we are so late. I didn't actually get here until about 30 minutes ago. Had to deal with a breecher on Earth-6." Gypsy apologized. Her and Cisco slid into the other side of the booth and began to make small talk.
"So… Barry, will you finally sing for me?" Iris says, refusing to let the topic go. Barry shot her a look of fake aggravation, but she knew that he secretly wanted to sing. Even if he didn't know it yet.
"Barry, you can sing?" Gypsy said, confused. Barry nodded, defeated. He knew that if Gypsy sided with Iris, there was no way that he would be able to get out of it. Well, if he's going down, he's going to drag Cisco down with him.
"I'm not the only one here who can sing…" He said staring down Cisco. Iris and Gypsy's heads quickly turned to Cisco, who was trying to come up with something to say. "Oh yeah Mr. Ramon, there is much about my encounter with the Music Meister that you haven't heard about yet." Barry said with a wink.
Iris laughed at the thought and Gypsy just sat in further confusion. "What are you talking about?"
"Well last year my friend Kara, or Supergirl, had an encounter with a villain named the Music Meister. He sent us into this dream sequence where we didn't have our powers and if we died there we died in real life. But, the whole thing was like a musical, and Cisco made his debut, and I must say Cisco, you have quite the voice." Barry explained. He looked over at Cisco who was just sitting with his head in his hand, slowly shaking his head.
Gypsy was laughing at the idea and put her hand on Cisco's shoulder. "Yeah babe, you should go up there with Barry." She could barely get the words out through the laughter. Cisco lifted his head and glared at her. This just made Gypsy laugh even harder. "Pppllleeeeaaassseeee" she asked, really wanting to see her boyfriend sing at this point.
"Come on Barry!" Iris begged "I've already heard you sing, what do you have to lose? Besides, didn't you sing here with Caitlin?" Barry's eyes widened at the thought of that.
"Oh god" He said shaking his head "I totally forgot about that." Iris laughed and continued to beg him, while Gypsy worked on Cisco.
Gypsy leaned in and whispered something in Cisco's ear. "Go up and sing or next time I come to visit I'll bring my dad with me…" Cisco's eyes widened and immediately jumped out of his seat.
"Come on Barry! We are singing!" He said frantically, pulling Barry out of his seat in the booth. Barry raised and eyebrow, but complied, it was his fault that Cisco was dragged into this in the first place. He decided to be a good friend and not make him sing karaoke by himself.
"What did you say to him?" Iris asked Gypsy once the boys were out of eyeshot. Gypsy snickered and was about to answer when she was cut off.
"Um.. Hi my name is Barry Allen and this is-" Barry started but was caught off by a group of people who started cheering.
"Yo it's thats dude from last year! The one that came up with the drunk girl. Still one of the best voices I've heard in this place." One of the guys from the group says.
"Well-um, thanks. Anyways, this is my friend Cisco Ramon and um our girls forced us to come up here… so this one is for them." Barry smiled as the crowd cheered and walked over to Cisco and waited for the music to start.
Bold- Barry Italizated- Cisco Underlined- Both*
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
From now on your troubles will be out of sight
Iris and Gypsy exchanged glances and laughed at the song choice that the boys made.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the Yuletide gay
From now on your troubles will be miles away
Gypsy sat, absolutely stunned at her boyfriend. How has she dated this man for nearly 8 months and not know about this hidden talent of his. She smiled at Cisco and rested her chin on her hand and continued to watch him perform.
Here we are as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more
Iris smiled brightly at her amazing fiancé. It was rare that he sang, but when he did it absolutely blew her away. Growing up, she never knew about his secret talent and she was so happy that he finally revealed this side of himself to her. She was definitely going to exploit this more often.
Through the years we all will be together
If the fates allow
Hang a shining star upon the highest place
So have yourself a merry little Christmas
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
So have yourself a merry little Christmas
Iris and Gypsy stood up and clapped and cheered louder than anybody else in the bar. They were so proud and they met their boys at the bottom of the stairs leading up to the stage.
Iris took Barry's hand and pulled him in for a hug. "Everytime I hear you sing it reminds me of the night we got engaged." She said with a huge smile on her face.
Barry smiled brightly, as he always did when he was around his gorgeous fiancé. The sense of pride in her eyes made his heart swell. He pecked her on the lips and wrapped his arms around Iris to give her a hug.
Cynthia met Cisco was a wide grin on her face that she tried covering up with a smirk. They both knew that she was impressive with his performance, but the both also knew that Cynthia would never admit that she enjoyed the gesture in the form of song.
"You are such a dork." She said playfully while laughing. She slapped his chest before planting a kiss on his lips.
"Yeah…" Cisco admitted once they pulled away "But you love me anyways."
"That I do." She responded. He wrapped his arm around her waist and held her hand with his free hand.
"Let's go home." Cisco suggested and Cynthia nodded. They waved bye to Barry and Iris and began the walk home.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed this Christmas themed story! I was actually supposed to post this 2 days ago and write another one to go up on Christmas Day but there were a few minor complications. Basically I watched the movie Something Like Summer and the ending really fucked me up and it was like the 2nd time in my 14 years of living that I have cried over a movie. Anyways I was really pissed because of the ending and basically started writing and the next day when I reread it all the story took like a sudden really dark route. So, I had to delete like 500 words worth of writing and rewrite it, highly recommend Something Like Summer, it was so good and I just found out there is a book series so I'm definitely going to be reading that. Anyways, hope you liked it and leave a comment below please! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!