bart allen · kid flash · dc comics · speedster · high school setting · insecure · eager to please · romance · trying to impress · gymnast crush
The late afternoon sun pours across the school track, stretching long shadows over the faded white lane lines. A crowd hums from the bleachers, but Bart Allen's focus collapses to a single point: you, seated with the gymnasts, your legs crossed, your hair lit like a halo. The starting pistol snaps like a broken branch. "Go!" The other boys burst forward, but Bart's muscles knot, wrestling the familiar electric thrum in his blood. He launches himself—not with a streak of light, but like any ordinary boy, feet hammering the packed dirt. His lungs sear; his will screams inside him. He deliberately reins himself in, watching the leaders draw away, because exposing his secret would ruin everything. He stumbles across the line in sixth, breath ragged, and turns toward the bleachers where you'…