Next To Me // A Stucky Au

Chapter Five

It was two days after the meeting with Loki and also the day that the radio was going to play their song. Everyone was there half an hour early, even Clint, and Bucky was pretty sure that Nat got there half an hour before her usual time.

The morning slowly dragged on. They didn't know when their song would be playing, all Loki said was that Peggy would get a text five minutes before. They still kept the radio station on all morning, pop songs that had been digitally edited to much and singers that had no real talent came pouring into the studio all morning. Everyone rushed to see what it was when any phone buzzed, not just Peggy's. The excitement and restlessness in the air was like the feeling you got on your birthday when you were little, just before your birthday party started.

It was almost two in the afternoon and they were yet to give up hope. All of a sudden, Peggy's phone pinged. She reached over for her phone and her eyes lit up when she saw the message. With a broad smile on her face, she read it out. "We are going to play your song on our radio in five minutes," she read, "I suggest you tune in."

It took the team a minute to fully comprehend that, and when they realise that their song was finally coming on, they cheered so loudly they drowned out whatever sad pop song was playing. Then they turned the radio up to max volume and waited.

"And for our next song," said the radio presenter, who they all immediately recognized to be Thor Odinson, "is 'Gold' by the Avengers. This is their first time having their song on a major radio station like this, so good luck to you!"

Then their song started playing. For the first verse, they pretty much sat in near silence, almost as if they weren't daring to believe that this was happening. Then Bucky started to sing along, and gradually, very one else did as well, even Peggy, who hardly ever sang along.

'When everything, everything, everything you touch turns to gold, gold, gold,
Everything, everything, everything you touch turns to gold, gold,
Gold
Gold
Gold
Gold'

They were all shouting when they got to the last verse. Smiles were on everyone's faces and Bucky couldn't believe what just happened. Finally, the sound of the radio presenter's voice brought him back to earth.

"What a fantastic song from the Avengers!" He said cheerfully (though Bucky was pretty sure that he was always cheerful) "I know I said good luck, but you guys really didn't need it! Anyway, the next song is..."

Bucky was overjoyed. All that was left to do now was to watch as the downloads of their songs slowly, but surely, rise. Oh, and hope that Steve had heard it. Bucky presumed he would, he was always listening to that radio station.

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Steve sat in a coffee shop, working on a reply to an e-mail he'd got. It may not sound like a big task, but Steve had never been good at e-mails. He just couldn't figure out if you were meant to write it as formal as a letter or more to the style of texting. Or somewhere in between. They really should teach you how to write an email in school, he thought.

All of a sudden, he heard Bucky's voice coming from somewhere behind him. He whipped around, but couldn't see him anywhere. Only then did he realize that his voice was coming from the speakers. Steve froze, sinking deeper and deeper into the tune and being swallowed by his astonishment that Bucky and Nat and Clint and Sam were actually on the radio! After the song had finished, he packed up his laptop as quickly as he could, leaving his half-drunken coffee on the table. He hopped in his car and began driving like a mad man to get to Bucky, but luckily the studio wasn't to far away.

After what felt like hours, though it was probably only minutes, Steve finally arrived at their studio and didn't even bother knocking, he just charged in. "OH MY GOD YOU GUYS WERE ON THE RADIO!" He ran Bucky, giving him a giant hug while Bucky looked suprised that Steve had so much force for someone his size. He ran around the rest of the group, giving out high-fives and laughing.

"Oh my god, why didn't you tell me?" Steve finally said, "I was just sitting in the coffee shop and I heard you playing on the radio! I probably looked so awkward, now I think about it, but whatever! It's not everyday that you get to hear you friends play on radio!" He turned to Bucky, who was beaming, "You know, I actually thought that you were standing behind me for a second when you started to sing on the radio, it was really confusing."

Bucky smirked at Steve's tendancy to ramble, but he didn't mind. In Bucky's opinion, it just made Steve a whole lot cuter. Nat caught him staring, and she gave him that look where she raised one eyebrow and mouthed 'we will talk about this later'. Scary, but Bucky could probably deal with it. Probably.

"We should've set up a video camera near you!" Clint said after Steve had finished, "Now I'd almost pay to see your reaction, it was probably hilarious!" Everyone nodded in agreement. Then they all started to talk in smaller groups, no one quite able to wipe the infectious grins off their faces. But it didn't matter. No one wanted to get rid of their smiles, not even Nat, who always seemed to smile the least.

At last they all agreed that they should go out and eat to celebrate. They started arguing on where to go, before Steve and Bucky said in unison, "We know this great Chinese place,"

"You''ll love it," Bucky added, glad to see that everybody agreed on Chinese, for once.

A/n: helloooo beautiful peoples of wattpad! Hope you enjoy in my story so far also thx for sticking around this far. Also if someone could tell auto correct to stop correcting my terrible grammer in this section that would be nice. Have a wonderful day you guys, you deserve it!