distance ? barry allen [1]

"There's the birthday girl!" Cisco cheered as he entered the Cortex, a wide smile on his face and neatly wrapped package in his hands.

Spencer swiveled around in her chair to face her friend with furrowed eye brows. "Cisco my birthday isn't for another two days." Her eyes fell from his to the gift he was holding, her mouth falling open. "And you didn't have to get me anything!"

Cisco smirked. "But I did and I couldn't wait any longer." He set the present down in front of her, edging it closer. "Go ahead, you know you want to."

The blonde girl smiled, reaching out for the gift and didn't waste any time tearing into the paper. She ignored Cisco's laugh at her eagerness and focused on the task at hand. Spencer wasn't a greedy person; that was totally her parents' area of expertise. She was, however, a sucker for birthday presents from her best friends. Because of Spencer's materialistic upbringing, she requested that she only receive funny or inside joke related gifts, which always led to interesting exchanges. One particularly memorable present was when Ronnie got her the novel Twilight but replaced some of the words, such as penguin instead of vampire. She had never laughed so hard reading a book.

Shredding off the last scrap of paper, she looked at the transparent, plastic box and let out a laugh. "It's a ping pong ball gun!"

"Actually, the proper name for it is a Moon Blaster Gun." Cisco corrected. "It took 1500 tickets to get at Chuck E Cheese."

At that she laughed even harder. "I can't believe you went to freaking Chuck E Cheese for me."

"Yeah, you owe me big time Spence."

"Yeah, yeah, I'll take you to Dave and Busters so we don't get mistaken as people trying to kidnap little children."

Cisco just rolled his eyes, making his way around the desk to stand beside her. "You haven't even seen the best part of the gift." He took the box from her hands, opening it and pulling the toy gun out, along with a plastic bag full of ping pong balls. "I wrote something on each ball, so when you get annoyed at me or Cait, you can shoot them at us. From a safe distance and not in the face."

"Of course. What do they say?"

"Stuff like, 'Cisco, shut up', 'Cait, lighten up'. I also left some blank for you to fill in yourself."

"God, this is awesome. I will put this to good use." She stood up and wrapped her arms around his shoulders. "Thank you so much."

"No problem-o. Happy birthday two days early."

Just as they pulled apart from their hug, Caitlin entered the Cortex, eyes narrowing in on the gun. "What is that?"

"Cisco's birthday present for me." Spencer answered with a smile.

Caitlin looked to Cisco in disbelief. "I thought we were going to wait until Thursday to give them to her together."

The boy shrugged. "Sorry, Cait, I was excited."