Our New Life

Chapter 3

She was upset about coming to Brooklyn leaving her friends and her home in Georgia. Her parents told her how important it was to move because of her father’s job. And that sometimes in life you have to do something which you don’t want but in the end, everything gets just fine, like it never changed. 

And that was true, the 5 years little girl found new friends, like her new house and everything, went back to normal. 

Her first day at school didn’t go well until two boys a few years older than her came to her seeing her sitting alone on a bench, sadness filled her eyes. 

And that day she found her two best friends, her bucky and Stevie, and the day she started to fall in love even though she didn’t know what it was.

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“y/n open up.” Both Steve and Bucky were banging on her door. She wasn’t opening her door since Henry ditched her on their first date making that fifteen years old teenage girl feel humiliated.

“I swear if you won’t open this door right now I'm going to beat that henry, without even hearing what, did he do ” here comes Steve’s comment and that made her open the door, knowing that punk was capable of doing that. That boy just needs a chance to fight. 

She was greeted with Steve’s worried expressions and Bucky's annoying smirk on opening the door. Bucky just pushed her aside and entered her room and jumped on her bed. “What did he do y/n?” Steve asked with a worried face. She smiled at him “nothing, just ditched me, I waited for him for an hour and he never came.” “ and I just feel so humiliated now.” she sighed. Steve hugged her at that, he wanted to tell her she had nothing to feel humiliated about, that jerk doesn’t deserve her. But bucky beat him at that “it’s an okay doll. That boy didn’t even deserve you. You deserve someone better, you know. Someone with a big heart, who cares for you. 

Someone that never backs down from a fight, not even caring for himself. Someone..” he started rambling “okay! I got your point bucky.” she cut him off, feeling her cheeks get red, knowing he was pointing towards her little crush on Steve which he caught when she was staring at him with a cheeky smile on his birthday.

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The day, when Steve spent all night calming her down when she was crying to become an orphan. When his mother brought her to his house because she was no one else to take care of. All the time she spent in his house, Steve didn’t leave her side knowing she needed a shoulder to cry on. 

He had lost his father too, he knew how it felt, he knew she was in pain and that’s why he took care of her. Making sure she had proper food. Trying to make her laugh with his small talk. He didn’t even get into any fights those days. 

The little things that the boy was doing made his mother chuckle, knowing that his once little boy was in love.

Even when y/n decided to move back to her house, feeling weird living in his house, he didn’t leave her. Always making sure if she needed anything. He didn’t want her to leave, he didn’t force her either, respecting her decision.

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She hadn’t gone on a single date since Henry ditched her, too stubborn to trust anyone and to hurt her ego again. So since then whenever Bucky went on a double date with Steve, Steve would always bring y/n too somehow and didn't want her to be left alone. And then when Steve's date would ditch him seeing his skinny body, y/n would step forward linking their arms together “it’s okay, you are not alone, I'm here,... For you”, she would always say with a cheery smile.

Little did they know that was one of Bucky's evil plans to bring them together. That bastard knew that Steve would eventually get ditched and then at the end of the day y/n would be his date.

But the thing bucky didn’t know was they were already together. They could feel that attraction that was now too much to ignore. They just needed a little push to confess everything and they did get that push on his mother's death.

Just like Steve, y/n didn’t leave his side too. She did the same things for him. And at that moment he remembered his mother’s words. 

“She’s the one?” his mother words when she caught him staring at her. He didn’t reply, just bowed his head, blushing. “Tell her before it’s too late steve” 

And that’s what gave him courage, watching his mother slipping through his fingers made him realize how unpredictable life is. And if life didn’t give him the chance to tell her, then he could never forgive himself.

And that night he told her, being a blushing mess, “I want..t...to tell you something.” she could hear him gulp. She knew what was coming just by seeing him blushing but didn’t interrupt him. “You don’t have to say it back…” again a long pause, making her smirk. Who knew a guy that wasn’t scared to fight a man twice his size would be so nervous confessing his love. “I l...loveyoualoty/n, you don't have to say it back, I know we are friends and it could ruin our friendship but I just wanted to say it..” she sighed seeing him panicking and did she think to be cheesy and only a scene for movies or romantic novels. She kissed him just to make him shut up. 

But the kiss got Steve even more breathless. “You want me to give you CPR all night huh?” she said, smirking.

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They were preparing to surprise her. Bucky was leaving in a few days for the war and Steve also hoped that he’d get selected for the war. And he wanted to leave, with a promise to return to her. 

She was returning from the hospital, tried. Being a doctor wasn’t easy at all but she had to do that. It was what she and her parents wanted. The only thing she wanted to do was go home and go straight to sleep. 

But when she went home, her tiredness went away as if she wasn’t tired at all. She opened the door to find Steve on his knees and a ring in his hand. At that moment she could feel his struggle to breathe. “Doll, I still remember that day I saw you sitting on the bench alone looking so sad that I felt the urge to see a smile on that face. 

I remember the day when you felt sad by getting ditched, that you lost interest in dating, and that time I wanted to show you how much you deserve, that how you should be treated, I wanted to give you all the happiness in the world. But I was too chicken to do any of this. 

I remember the day when my mother told me that you are the one, she knew, just by watching me staring at you, she knew how much I was in love with you, told me to tell you before it’s too late. And that gave me the courage to tell this beautiful girl, how much I love her and want her in my life. How much strength she gives me by just telling me I can do anything I want. How much she made me happy by giving me a chance to make her happy. 

y/n/n, today I want to make a promise, promise to come back, to return after fighting for my country. I want to give you a promise, to make you remember me. A promise I’ll remember while being away, fighting, that I have you waiting for me, I have no other choice but to fight, win and come back alive to you. A promise for me, for you, a promise of a happy life after all this mess, to be with you till the end of the line. 

So y/f/n would you give me the honor to change your last name to mine? Will you marry me?”

By the end, y/n was crying happily, she was too emotional to say anything. She nodded “y.yes...yes” she whispered and with that steve put that beautiful ring on her finger and they pulled her into a kiss. 

And after that, he went into the war and became a hero and that was the last time she saw him

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It was another morning, another day waiting for Steve. It had been 3 years since her steve became captain America since she had been waiting for him. 

But that day was different, she was feeling fresh, she wasn’t feeling any hope. She wasn’t feeling satisfied when they announced the war was over.

Maybe seeing Steve everything is fine. She waited for him to come but he didn’t

After a few days a woman with a British accent, brown hair, and brown eyes came with a picture of him and with his last words. “Tell her I’m sorry and I’ll love her.”

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Suddenly she woke with a gasp, her head was pounding with the waves of memories…...