Electric Love || Bucky Barnes X OC

Chapter 21

Bucky's POV...

Mia and I've been going around in circles with one another and I can't say I blame her for pulling away. On one hand, I want to let her go if she wants to run away from me but I can't let her go. I've not even properly had her yet and I'm already addicted to everything about her. All I could focus on during Tony's party was her flirting with some random guy. She looked amazing and I wanted to interrupt them and take her with me around the party. Tony would've tried to kill me if I'd touched her and based on the way he was watching Matt, I think he was considering killing him too and he doesn't even hate him. Sam almost had to hold me back when I saw her leaving with him, his hand on her waist like she was his. She's not his, she's mine. Well, she's not technically but it's my name she screams every day. I tried to avoid her the day after but she came to find me and calmed me down. She's the only one who can talk me down like that and I don't understand but as soon as she put her hand on my shoulder, I was melting. I'd give just about anything to be good enough for her, to be the person she needs and wants.

Sitting in the park with her and laughing at all the people passing by made me have a little too much hope. Even with the sun setting, I could see the glimmer in her eyes and it made me want to kiss her even worse. I'm a mess. If I kiss her then I'll never give her up, I know that but I can't help but want to be selfish. What could I even offer her? I can't give her a white picket fence and a house full of children to adore. That's not the hand I was dealt but those are things she deserves. She deserves to be happy, to get everything she could ever want in this world. Being around her like this makes my heart ache, in the best way possible. I slip and open up to her a little and she somehow makes me feel a million times better. I thought that her making me a new arm was just something she was doing to be nice but it seems like she actually gets it. Mia is such an anomaly that it blows my mind every time I'm around her. She's not afraid of me, even when I was cutting off her air and she still wants to be around me when I hurt her. I could see the slight outline on her neck from my hand and it killed me. She ever said anything about it but I caught her running her fingers along the outline when she thought I wasn't looking. I tried to make up for it, I had her screaming for hours and I couldn't bring myself to take her to her room. She fell asleep quickly basically on top of me and I thought it'd be difficult for me to fall asleep with someone in my bed but I passed out right after her.

When I walked in on Steve trying to intimidate her, I almost ripped his head off. Even though she may have looked unphased, I could see her hands shake and I knew she didn't feel safe. The look in her eyes when she saw me was part relief and part begging for me to help. I got her out of there and stood up to Steve about her. Just as I was about to head out behind Sam, he stopped me one last time. "Seriously, what's going on Bucky? Are you two dating?"

"No."

"Are you sleeping with her?"

"No, and even if I was, it would be none of your business."

"Just be careful, she already slept with two men since she's been here and I have a feeling she'd happily make you the third."

"It doesn't matter, do not ever get in her face like that again. If you ever hurt her, I'll make you pay."

"Carefully Buck or I'm gonna think you're in love with her."

I didn't even dignify his taunt with a response, I just walked out to find Sam waiting. "What is going on with you two, seriously?"

"Nothing, we're friends."

"Friends don't make those kinds of sounds."

I didn't respond but he kept following me. "Bucky, is Steve right? Are you in love with Mia?"