I'm Not Defeated [Sequel to Not Like This]

Chapter One

WASSUP! I'M BACK WITH A SEQUEL FOR YOU AWESOME PEEPS! LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED! YEAH!

BUCKY'S POV

"Steve!" I yell, barging into the bathroom without a care in the world. "Hurry up, graduation starts in an hour!"

"Fucking hell, Buck!" Steve shouts, dropping his towel so I see everything. "I'm almost ready!"

"You're completely naked." I point out, stepping in and shutting the door.

"And you're not helping." Steve mutters, picking up his towel and wrapping it around his waist.

"Yeah, well Natasha is going to kill us!" I pick his boxers up from the bench and toss them at him. "She's been spamming me non stop and Clint said we might want to just not show up because she's becoming scary! So get that sweet ass into those clothes right now!"

"Hey, you're the one who woke up all hot and bothered and decided to tease the shit out of me, so it's your fault we're late." Steve grumbles, pulling on his boxers and jeans, his blond hair flopping into his eyes.

"Excuse me but that's a lie, you were the horny fucker this morning." We were actually both horny fucks this morning but not important. "Do I have to help you with your shirt?"

"No, otherwise we won't get anywhere." Steve mutters, struggling with the buttons.

"You get boners real quick." I tease with a cheeky grin, getting a look from Steve as he finally manages to do up a couple buttons. "Oh come here."

I end up doing up his buttons and tying his tie for him. He thanks me and we grab our graduation things from my room and finally make it out the door and run straight into a very annoyed red head.

"Finally! I don't want excuses, get in the car." Nat pulls open the car door with a straight face.

Knowing better than to argue, we both clamber in the back. Before we can even put our seatbelts on, she floors the gas and we're speeding towards our highschool. She manages to find a carpark by almost rearending another car.

We all scramble out, tugging on our robes as we run to the field behind the stage set up for the stupid ceremony. It doesn't take long to find the rest of our friends. We stand around cracking jokes and being overall dumbasses and surprised we managed to even graduate, let alone stay a friend group all this time. And at the end of summer, we're all heading to this new college for a few years.

After a little while of bullshitting around, one of the teachers gets us to line up in alphabetical order by surname, so naturally myself, Bruce and Clint are near the front.

Finally after what feels like forever, our group is sitting around our usual table at Sottocasa for one last pizza before summer.

"I can't believe you two will be out in Montauk all summer." Nat laughs, tossing an olive which hits me right in the forehead.

"You guys are welcome to tag along." I say, throwing the olive back and wrapping my arm around Steve's waist. "The cabin is huge."

"Could be fun?" Clint raises an eyebrow at his girlfriend.

"You guys okay with this?" Nat asks but Steve and I both nod. We had talked about inviting them along last night. "When do you leave?"

"Tonight but you guys can come whenever." Steve says, resting his head on my shoulder, so I kiss the top of his blond head.

"Yeah, my brothers and Dawn are going on camps so I thought I could give mum and dad some alone time for the first time in forever," I tell the group, picking up a slice of pizza and taking a bite. "And Sarah has found herself a nice guy that she's going out with tonight, so we're getting out of her hair too."

"Hey Buck," Steve looks up at me, clearly trying not to laugh which makes me confused. "Jessie isn't a dude."

"Oh." I raise my eyebrows. To be fair, I hadn't met Jessie or anything. "That's cool, is Jessie nice?"

"She's lovely." Steve chuckles, pecking my cheek before cuddling back up into my side.

"For a very gay dude, your gaydar is absolute shit." Tony laughs, pulling some olives off his slice of pizza.

"Whatever." I scoff at him, flicking pepperoni at his face. "You coming or what?"

"Can I bring a date?" Tony asks and the whole table groans. He doesn't exactly have the best taste in partners. "I met her at M.I.T, she's cool. Her name is Pepper Potts."

"Yeah, bring her." I shrug, watching as Steve slowly gets more sleepy. "What about you two? Matt, Bruce, you two coming?"

"I'll need a ride." Matt chuckles, leaning forward in his seat with a grin.

"I'll take you." Bruce finally decides with a shrug.

"Awesome! Now," I start, gently poking Steve to keep him awake. "We better get going, it's a three hour drive. Come on babe, we're going now."

"We'll either be there later tonight or in the morning." Nat smiles at us when we finally stand.

"I'll text you the address." I smile, wrapping Steve's arm around my shoulders.

I manage to get Steve back to his place nearby and into his beat up old car that we've been fixing up. Once he's secure, I head up to his place and get some clothes, a sketchbook, my guitar and a couple other things that I put in the back of the car. Steve happens to look very uncomfortable, and even though there's pillows at the cabin, I go grab one of his and place it between the window and his head, chuck a blanket over him and do up the seatbelt.

A three hour long drive later and we're finally at the cabin. It's not quite on the beach and it's more of a house than a cabin. It has four bedrooms, a huge lounge, kitchen, indoor and outdoor dining and three bathrooms. My parents inherited it from my mums parents after they passed and they said we can have it for the summer as long as there's no parties and it doesn't get set on fire or blown up.

Steve wakes up right as we get there and helps me take everything inside and we start dusting everything down to make it look a little more homey.
We take over the master bedroom on the second floor then while Steve is starting the fire because it's nippy, I start making dinner.