Who's Afraid of Little Old Me

12

I'm the first person to walk out of the meeting room. I walk out with the file in my hand. I can't believe they want me and Bucky to pretend to be a married couple.

But there is no chance of me getting out of it so I'm just gonna have to suck it up.

I go up to my floor and into my room. I turn on the lamp on my desk and place the file on the desk. I sit down and open the file. I read through it very thoroughly.

Antonio Rossi is a mafia member through blood. His whole family are mafia members. But they won't be at the event thankfully.

Isabella Rossi has joined the mafia to save her father. The mafia threatened to kill her father if she didn't join them. Isabella was used to lure men and get information out of them. She sounds like a girl boss to me.

During the time she was there, that's when she met Antonio and they fell in love. Blah blah boring stuff.

The file has a lot of stuff I need to memorize. Like Isabella's birthday and just basic facts about both of them.

Going undercover as real people can be dangerous. Someone could tell we aren't the real person or someone could bring up something that we don't know. Then someone could figure out we are fakes. That's when you kill them. I'm joking you don't kill them you just put them to sleep. By reading a bedtime story.

I hear the elevator door open. Which means the others probably are back. Bucky is back. I will be avoiding him.

I can hear them talking in the kitchen. I can't tell what they are saying. I can smell food. It smells really good. Which makes me realize how hungry I am. I'll wait till later to eat. When Bucky isn't in the kitchen.

I finish reading the file and doing my research. The mission is in a few weeks. Maybe I could get heavily sick and get out of the mission. It works like a charm. I could have Wanda use her witchy magic and make me sick. I don't know if it works like that but worth a shot.

Or I could just jump off a building and kill myself

Y'all think I'm joking. I'm dead serious. Anything to get away from Bucky.

I turn on my TV and put on The Walking Dead. One of my favorite TV shows. I have watched it maybe 5 times. I love just watching the whole show over and over. I could never get tired of it.

I've watched two episodes so far when I hear a faint little knock on my door "Are you awake" Bucky says quietly trying not to wake me if I was asleep.

I pause the TV and sit up. I walk over and open the door. Bucky is standing at my door with a fast food bag.

"I figured you were hungry," Bucky says softly and gestures to the bag in his hand. The bag is from Burger King. One of my favorites.

"Did you go out and get that for me?" I ask him.

He looks at me pausing as he thinks of a response "Yeah" he says and pauses before continuing his sentence "Sam made seafood and I know you're allergic to seafood so I went out and got you a burger" he says. He hands me the bag "This was stupid just take this I don't know why I even bothered" he says upset and hands me the bag as he turns to walk away.

I grab his arm. Not his metal arm. His real arm.

"Don't go" I say. He turns around with a confused face and is slightly surprised. I give him a soft look "Uh thank you I appreciate it" I say to Bucky.

"You don't have you pretend you are probably just gonna throw it out once I leave doll" he says to me.

After he says that I open the bag and grab the burger out of it. I take off the wrapping of the burger and take a big bite of it. When I say big bite I mean BIG bite. My mouth was full.

"I no throw out yummy food" I say with my mouth full. Bucky laughs at me. I chew my food up and swallow all of it "Why are you laughing at me" I ask him.

"You have a little ketchup right there" he says and points to my face. He brings his hand up and wipes off the ketchup from the side of my mouth. What the fuck just happened. When he did that it felt like time just stopped. My stomach gets this little tingly feeling. I can't help but smile.

Bucky notices me smiling "You know you don't smile often. You should smile more" he says. We both just look at each other for a second not saying anything. That's when I realized how close we are to each other.

I can feel the tension rising. Bucky feels it too. He breaks the eye contact and backs away "Well goodnight and enjoy the rest of your burger" he says quickly before walking across the hall to his door. He opens his door and looks back at me.

"Goodnight Sarge," I say to Bucky and close my door. As I close my door I hear Bucky's door close at the same time as I close mine.

I walk back over to my bed. I get under the covers. I eat my burger and fries while watching TV. After about an hour I fall asleep.