Nightmares

Surprise! Kind of.

You wake up in your bed, still exhausted from staying up so late last night. You yawn and get out of bed. You don't even have a shirt on but you walk downstairs to find Sam and Nat on the couch. "Hey Buck." Sam said. "Hiya Bucky!" Nat says. "Uh, hey." You say, still groggy. Steve was in the kitchen making Breakfast. You walk in and say, "why are Sam and Natasha here?" Steve says, "because, I thought we could, you know, have a little hangout?" You don't even care, you just want some coffee. Steve makes you some coffee, and you go and sit down on the couch. "So, Steve told us you were having nightmares." Nat says. You nod, because you were just too tired to talk. "I use to have nightmares. All the time." Sam says. You almost choke on your coffee. "You have?" You say, trying not to laugh. "Yes I have, it's not funny!" Sam says. "Sorry, sorry, go on." You say. "Thank you. Anyway, when I had nightmares, I would exercise. You know, to get me tired. Then if I still had them I would read a book, or draw, or do something that would make me tired." Sam says. You thought it was pretty funny that Sam had nightmares, but it looked like he was being serious. "Kay, I guess I'll try it." You say. Steve goes and sits down next to you, and says, "we really need to give you a haircut." You say, "Well, Steve, that was completely off topic, but okay." Sam and Nat laugh. While they talk, you go upstairs to get dressed. You're in your room getting a shirt on, when your hands start shaking really bad. Then you start breathing kinda hard. "What's happening?" You say. You start breathing really hard, so hard it's kinda hard to breathe at all. You think you're having a panic attack. But for no reason. "Steve!" You yell. "Coming!" You were sitting on the bed, barely breathing. Steve comes up and says, "hey! What's wrong?!" You say, "I- I think I'm having a panic attack." "Okay, okay, everything's gonna be okay, just take a deep breath." You do. It was kinda helping. "Yep, take some more. Breath in, breath out." By the time you were done, tears were coming down your face. "Why did that happen?" You say. "I don't know buddy, but everything is gonna be okay." Steve pulls you closer, right on to his lap. Nat and Sam come up because they heard you breathing kinda hard. "Hey, what's wrong?" Nat asks. "He was having a panic attack." Said Steve. "You okay, Buck?" Asks Sam. That was weird. He would never ask you anything like that. "Uh, yeah, I'm fine." You say. "Let's give me that haircut." You act like nothing happened. "Uh, okay." Nat says. "Let's do it then!" Sam yells.