"Another sleepless night?"
I turn and look at him. "Sorry, what?"
"Violet, please, you need sleep." Sam says, halfway doing the dishes. It's the next day and Tony, Steve and fury have yet to come back. I'm sitting at the kitchen table, almost completely zoned out.
"I got some sleep." I say back. That's not a total lie, I got 45 minutes.
"Where is everybody, the compound seems strangely quiet today." Sam's smoothing voice says to me after a minute.
"The usual. Bruce is in the lab, Wanda and vision are in her room, Thor is in the rec room, Peter is at May's place, and Scott and Hope usually want nothing to do with us." I bitterly respond.
Sam's a bit shocked.
"How do you know all of that?" he asks.
"Just habit I guess. After you know people long enough, you know what's gonna happen next."
"and...Bucky?"
I pause. He's all that's been on my mind, but I have no clue where he would be. He seems like the kinda guy who would take a walk really early in the morning.
"I don't know." My small voice croaks out.
Sam raises an eyebrow, he can clearly tell somethings bothering me.
"Hey, let's play a fun game." He puts down the dish he was cleaning and moves his chest slightly toward me.
I look up at him but don't say anything.
"Guess my sign." Sam says. I know he's trying to help me, and he's a good friend for that.
This is so high school, I'm upset over a boy, wondering if he likes me the way i like him.
"ok..Capricorn?" I say to him.
"That would be incorrect. You are really bad at this." he says, laughing. I know he's teasing me, but i can't help it.
I get out of my chair and hit him. Of course, he hits me back. What was I expecting? Hitting the falcon?
"Ugh, rude." I say, slightly panting. I haven't trained in a few days, I should get on that.
"Hey, you started it!" Sam says, pointing his finger at me.
He hits me again, but I dodge it, ducking down under the counter. My jeans catch on the island but I can get them free. I stand up but he gets me in a headlock.
"Sam!" I squeak, being hardly able to breathe.
"Well maybe now you won't hit me! And I'm an aries by the way."
Of course he is.
Bucky walks through the living area. I'm at a spot in the kitchen where I can just barely see him. Enough that I can see him walking, but not for it to be stalker-like.
My eyes follow him until he walks up to the kitchen, but he stops before fully entering to look at Steve's newest piece.
"I knew it!" Sam almost shouts. "I knew it! I knew you liked him!."
"Shhhh keep your voice down Sam!" I say, pulling him under the kitchen island so Bucky can't see or hear us.
"I can't believe you like the metal man!"
"I never said I liked him!"
"Do you?"
Do I?
"Yes."
I quickly put my hand over his mouth to keep him from screaming.
"When we get up, you have to promise me not to tell anyone about this."
He reluctantly nods and we stand back up.
Bucky walks into the kitchen. I'm not sure if he heard anything, I hope he didn't.
We stand back up and Sam looks over to Bucky, then back to me with a grin on his face.
Bucky doesn't care, he's looking in the fruit bowl.
"So, Bucky what are you going to do today?" Sam asks him.
"Uh, probably nothing, why?" He asks.
"Violet was wondering if you wanted to go on a walk with her this afternoon?" Sam says, moving his arms so they are wrapped around me.
I quickly look up at him with the 'what did you just do' look on my face.
His face reads 'don't worry about it.'
I remove his arms from me and I scratch the back of my head, awaiting Bucky's response.
"Yeah." He says, not thinking much of it. Bucky grabs an apple and leaves, but before he does he yells "I'll see you at 1:00?" I nod my head and give a small smile.
Sam turns to me. "See? I just landed you a date!"
"That wasn't a date!" i say defensively.
"You might wanna tell him that. From the way you acted, he definitely knows you're in love with him now."
Please, In love? Absolutely not. A small crush maybe, but never love.
Sam acts like a little girl on the playground spreading rumors about the 2 most popular kids.
I push Sam away and look at my watch.
12:36
"It's later than i thought. Bye Sam, I'm gonna go get changed."
"Bye Violet, have fun on your date!" Sam shouts as I run out of the kitchen.
"It's not a date!"
