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Caitlin
It started out small, catching Barry and Cisco leaning close together over Cisco’s computer, smiling. At first, she assumed it was just a mutual crush that neither of them had realized yet. But then she saw Barry steal Cisco’s lollipop right out of his mouth and pop it into his own with a playful grin. She hadn’t known that Cisco’s ears went red at the tips when he blushed.
Joe
Joe had known Barry was with someone almost as soon as it happened. You don’t raise a kid as open as Barry without learning how he acts when he’s dating someone. He thought, at first, it might have been Iris, but when a couple of days went by without her ending things with Eddie, he knew that wasn’t the case. He speculated several other girls, including that Felicity woman from Starling, until one day when he was at Star Labs. He caught the tail end of a dirty joke from Cisco, and watched as Barry laughed and smiled like Cisco was the only one in the room. He watched Barry squeeze Cisco’s shoulder and lean down to whisper something in his ear, it was good to see Barry happy again.
Wells
Wells watched as Cisco and Barry bantered about the name of the latest metahuman, arguing on whether Dr. Alchemy or Mr. Chemo was better while Caitlin just rolled her eyes at them. He hid his smile behind one hand, already with a healthy suspicion of how everything would play out. There may not have been any information in the future about The Flash and Vibe being in a relationship, but there hadn’t been anything against it either. Even knowing how this story must end, Harrison couldn’t help but cheer the two of them on.
Iris
Barry was hiding something from her, she could tell. Or rather, Barry was hiding someone from her. She hoped it wasn’t a Linda or Becky Cooper thing all over again, she really did want Barry to be happy. It didn’t help that everyone else seemed to be in on the secret. Then it was Karaoke night, and she felt like she could just smack herself. Barry was making puppy eyes at Cisco, one of the Star Labs techs he spent a lot of time around, and if her highly developed intuition wasn’t mistaken, Cisco was making eyes right back. She started watching them from the corner of her eyes and over her drink. Barry’s eyes stayed glued on Cisco when he spoke, and Cisco was completely checking out Barry’s ass when he went up for a song Caitlin had signed him up for. The highlight of the evening was when Cisco, in a fit of drunken jealousy over one of the waitresses giving Barry a once over, climbed into his lap and laid a sloppy kiss on him.