Treat you Better

Chapter 4-

It's been about a year and half since the blip. Bucky and I have gotten really close, the ones who didn't blip would think that we were dating but, nope, were just friends, or that's what he says whenever someone asks if we're dating. Honestly, I hope to be more than friends with him. I was walking around the outside of the compound when Nat came up to me.
"Hey Delia, we should go to the mall since Tony is throwing a party tonight. I don't know why he is, but he just is." Nat says, throwing her arm around my shoulder. I looked towards her and shaked my head.
"That man loves his parties. But sure let's go to the mall, Nat." I say.
"Ok, go get your wallet and I'll go get my car and I'll meet you out front." She says. I nod and go inside. I walk to my room, and throw on a hoodie and grab my wallet before heading to the front of the compound. She rolled down the window and then I walked around to the other side and got in. As soon as I buckled my seat, she took off. Some time later, we arrived at the mall. We got out of the car and once we were inside, Nat dragged me into a clothing store. We then started looking through some of the dresses, we both got long wine red dresses. We only needed dresses so we paid for them and left the mall. Once we were back at the compound, I went up to my room and Nat went up to hers.

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The party was at 9:30pm, and it was 9 o'clock. I decided that I would get into the shower. Once I was out of the shower, I tied my silk robe around my body. I walked over to my vanity and as I sat down. There was a knock on my door. I got up and walked over to my door and opened it. It was Tony at the door. I've been friends with him for years, ever since his family went on vacation to Romania when we were kids. My parents were friends with his parents and when I came to new york, We started talking again and he recruited me to the avengers and from then it was just something else from then.
"Can I talk to you about something?" He asks.
"Yeah, of course, Tony." I say, letting him in. I walk back to my vanity and start on my make-up.
"Tonight, I want to propose to Nat." He says, sitting on my bed. I turned to look towards him.
"I think that's great, Tony. What's the issue?" I replied. I turn back to the mirror.
"I don't exactly know what to say." he says, running his hand through his hair. I finish my make-up and turn towards him.
"Tony, just tell her how you feel about her, just like when you asked her to be your girlfriend." I say.
"This is why you're my best friend. You're so helpful when it comes to stuff like this." Tony chuckles, getting up from the bed. I get up and put my hand on his shoulder.
"Of course, Tony. We've been friends since we were kids, I'm always gonna help you whenever you're in need of help." I say. He smiles and leaves my room. I close the door behind him and walk over to the closet and get out my dress and put it on. The dress didn't cover my stomach, but it covered enough. I then walked back to my vanity and started to do my hair. It was 9:35pm when I finished, so I then headed down to the party. I first went to the bar and ordered a drink. I then walked away and took a seat on a couch by Nat.
"Hey nat." I said as I took the seat next to her. She turned towards me and smiled.
"I've always wondered, How did you and Tony meet?" She asks me.
"We were kids, and I was living in Romania at the time. His parents were friends with mine, and his family went on vacation to Romania, and y'know we just kinda clicked. His parents saw how we easily got along so they made it a tradition to visit Romania every year." I explained to her. She nodded.
"Speaking of Tony, where even is he?" I ask her. She shrugged her shoulders, she didn't even know where her own boyfriend was. I took a sip of my drink and leaned back onto the couch. Sometime later, Tony came over and took Nat's hand and took her up to the stage. I gave Tony a 'good luck' look. He smiled at me. Nat was looking at me weirdly. I just smiled at her. He got up on the stage and turned to Nat.
"I don't mean to be all sappy and all that, but Natasha, you've made my life so much better and you've helped me with my sleep, I used to have a crappy sleep schedule but ever since you came into my life, it's been so much better, I'm over the moon grateful for you. I love you so much more than words can explain." He says, before getting down on one knee. Nat tilts her head in confusion at him. Tony pulls a box out of his pocket.
"Natasha, my love, will you marry me?" He asks her, opening the box. Nat glanced at me and I gave her a thumbs up. She looked back at Tony and smiled. She put her hand to his face before saying, "Yes Tony, yes I will marry you."
He smiled and slid the ring on her finger before pulling her into a long hug. She pulled away from the hug and placed her lips on his, into a long passionate kiss. He smiled against her lips. She pulled away from the kiss. The two of them stepped down from the stage and the music started playing again. Nat quickly made her way over to me.
"I'm engaged, Delia. Can you believe it?" She says to me,
"Yeah I can. I helped him pick out the ring." I said, rolling my eyes.
"Now, we just got to get Bucky to ask you out." She says. I just roll my eyes at her.
"Whatever, he just sees me as a friend." I said to her, little did I know bucky thought the complete opposite and he thought that I saw him as just a friend.
"Yeah whatever." She mutters as she takes a seat beside me but before she can, Tony sits down on the couch next to the spot where she was going to sit and pulls her onto his lap.
"Where even is Bucky anyway?" I ask, more to myself. Nat looks around until she finds him.
"There." Nat says, pointing to him. He was in a full suit. I couldn't deny it, he looked hot in the suit. The blazer was tight fitting so his biceps, well bicep was very defined.
"Thanks nat." I say, standing up. I walk over to Bucky.
"Hi bucky." I said to him, he turned around and looked me up and down.
"Well hello doll." He said, smiling. I smiled back at him. I was about to say something but before I could, I felt a hand land on my rear end. I turned around to see an older looking guy, grinning at me.
"What the fuck!" I yelled at the dude. As soon as I yelled at him, Nat came over to where I was.
"What happened, delia?" She asked me.
"This jackass just smacked my ass." I said. Nat looked at the guy and gave him a look. Tony heard me say that. He slapped the guy across the face.
"Get the hell out. I ain't allowing no one to touch my best friend without her consent." Tony says. Before the guy could walk away, I punched him square in the nose. Nat did the same as soon as I moved my hand away. As soon as nat pulled her hand away, the man got up holding his nose and ran out.
"YOU CRAZY BITCHES!" The man yelled as he ran out. I rolled my eyes. Tony and Nat walked away and as soon as they did, Bucky wrapped his arms around me from behind.
"You look gorgeous." Bucky whispered to me. I turned around while his arms were still wrapped around me.
"You don't look too bad yourself, Barnes." I say. Just in the moment a slow song starts playing. I see a little smirk appear on Bucky's face.
"Want to dance?" He asked me. I shook my head.
"Sure, why not." I said. He took my hand and we went to where all the other couples were. One of his hands landed on my hips, it was his metal hand that was on my hips, while his flesh hand was still holding mine. Since the dress I was wearing showed my stomach, the contact of his metal hand touching my skin gave me goosebumps. One of my hands held onto his shoulder while the other was holding his flesh hand. We then started to dance to the music, weirdly enough, he was really good at slow dancing. It was weird, but I didn't really care, I guess he had experience in the 40's. After the song was dancing, we went to the bar and got another drink. Once the party was over, we went our separate ways, going to our own rooms.