Chapter 1

"Bear what's this?" Iris asks as she takes a letter with a rubber stamp off the top of the trash. Barry flashes into the kitchen to see what she's talking about. His eyes widen and he snatched the letter away.

"Nothing," Barry said almost too quickly.

"Wasn't it just last week that you were telling me 'Nothing' doesn't exist?" Iris replies.

"Well, it not… it's something… but not an important something." he stammers.

"Then show me the letter," She tells him in a commanding tone. He hands her the rubber sealed letter after a muttered, "fine". Iris gently pries open the letter not know whether Barry was lying about it being important. She slowly starts taking the paper that was inside the envelope out. She reads the top of the page out loud.

"You, Sebastian Smythe, are invited to the 7-year reunion of Dalton Academy… Oh, I guess you were right this isn't important. It's not even to us." She moves to place it back into the trash.

"Wait," Barry says almost to quietly to hear. He doesn't want to lie anymore and Iris already knows his only other secrets.

"What Barry, are you going to tell me you changed your name in high school and pretended to be gay?" Iris says jokingly.

He grinds his teeth and says, "Yeah"

Iris laughs at what she thinks is his lame attempt at a joke, but then she notices he's being serious or is really good at faking it. "You're serious?" she questions, she's not angry, just confused. Iris just now realized that Smythe's the name of a Multi-Billionaire.

"Yeah" he pauses for a moment but continues, "You remember in eighth grade when I was beaten up really badly?"

Iris nods, she didn't think she could ever forget. She ignored the 'Sebastian Smythe' bit from earlier.

"Well after that you know I went to live with one of my relatives to go to high school somewhere else, to get away from bullying." He pauses again and Iris nods again. "The relative I went with was my mom's brother Richard Smythe" Barry waited for her to understand the connection between Sebastian and Richard.

"When I went with him he said that it would be easier for the media if I just changed my name and changed it back when I turned 18. I agreed with him because it would look bad if he adopted what to the rest of the world, at that time, was the son of a murderer. And who, in their right mind, wouldn't want to change their name from Bartholomew to something else for a time?" Barry questioned playfully. "I went with him to Paris for a few months before school started, I loved it there." He stopped talking for a second as if he was thinking of something. "Iris do you remember how many times you teased me about how I'd probably only had 1 girlfriend ever?"

"Ya, I remember doing that," Iris told him.

"I lived in Paris for 3 months," Barry states, again.

"And you being dorky you would've gotten how many girls." She teased.

Barry's phone rang. "I really should've changed my phone number since then."

"Since when?"

"Since high school," he responded.

Iris snatches his phone, "Before you answer that call tell me the moral of the story, sum it up."

"I am Sebastian Smythe," Barry said to her quickly before grabbing his phone back from her.

Who should be calling Barry? I'm thinking it should be satan. AKA Satanna