I wasn't how you say ordinary. I'm special but not that good kind of special. See my life is full of action and trust me you wouldn't get jealous of it neither. My life is kind of what you call extraordinary or very ordinary it may be extraordinary. But my life was a little bit different. I would get up in the morning, eat breakfast, wake up my best friends - my only friends - , go to class, get my books out my locker, get my ass kicked, go to the nurse, get my ass kicked again, go to my room, fall asleep, and do the whole thing all over again the next day. Yeah my ass getting kicked everyday wasn't necessarily a surprise to anyone. It was like one of those things in life that you get used to and don't bother doing anything about it when it happens over and over again. It is a daily routine for me. Sometimes when the bullies aren't feeling well someone finds another guy and they kick my ass because they are bored as hell. You are probably are wondering why and how I get my ass kicked and it is a simple answer really. I'm a weak, scrawny, asthmatic teen who is in college and takes about ten to thirteen pills a day in order to stay alive.
I sat on my bed taking my medication before it was time to get ready and go to class. Getting up I noticed almost every single damn day how I couldn't reach my damn art book Bucky put up there after I fell asleep with it on my head. I really need to talk to him about it.
"Hey Buck! Wake up! It is almost time to go to class!" I yelled at him before going into the other room and getting my other only friend also. Not even bothering to even try to wake him up I walked into the bathroom and grabbed the small bucket of ice water. It was really heavy. Like this is what Bucky called my 'exercise'. Lifting the bucket over his head as the water poured over his face Thor got up slowly.
He was getting used to the ice water by now and that meant I had to find something else to wake him up. I knew he liked pop tarts. Maybe I could put pop tarts on his face every morning to wake him up.
Nah he would probably just swallow them whole and go back to sleep.
Yawning he looked up at me from his bed and smiled. "Good morning sir Steven."
"Good morning Thor." I said walking back towards our half living room half kitchen. As soon as I walked back in I looked to see a girl coming out of Bucky's room like usual.
"Good morning." I said to the girl and for a second she stopped dead in her tracks probably surprised by my easiness.
"Good…good morning." She said with a smile slowing down her pace towards the door. "I'm sorry but isn't it a little awkward by me being here?"
"You get used to it after a while." I said ducking under the kitchen counter to get breakfast.
"Your Steve right? The kid always getting beat up?" she asked.
"The one and only." I said still looking for breakfast.
"Well Steve…never change." She said before leaving the dorm room.
"Steve what did I tell you about speaking to one nighters?" Bucky asked walking out of his dorm room with nothing but shorts on with his prosthetic arm. We all know what happened. How he fell hundreds of feet to the ground during a rock climbing exercise and lost his arm. It was really tragic but at least he made it out alive.
"Just ignore them and they will go away eventually." I said in complete mockery after finally finding the cereal. Thor finally came out of his room with a white t – shirt on scratching the back of his head. It really confused me as I had the most good looking and muscular friends. Usually guys like that beat the shit out of me but I had friends that didn't. They defended me most of the time they saw me get beat up but when they weren't there I would get my ass kicked pretty bad. I would always dream of being muscular and tall and big but I knew every damn moment of my life that it would always be a dream.
"Here ya go Thor," I said throwing the pop tarts at him and he caught it with ease.
"Thank you sir Steven!" Thor boomed before dropping on the couch and eating his pop tarts with delight.
"Thor when will you ever eat anything else besides pop tarts?" Bucky asked getting some orange juice.
"When there is something better than pop tarts then yes." Thor said and both I and Bucky laughed.
I went back into my room and started packing my satchel with what I needed for my classes. Grabbing the stepping stool I got on it to reach my drawing pad. I liked to draw all kinds of stuff the sunset, animals, people, the American flag, things, and just ordinary stuff. I may be small and fragile but I do have a big heart. And that big heart wants to do so much. I need to stop because I was getting way ahead of myself. I grabbed my stuff and walked out into the living room to see both Thor and Bucky ready to go to class.
"You guys good?" I asked.
"Yeah why wouldn't we be?" Bucky answered.
"Because I've never seen you this ready before in my life." I chuckled out.
"Well my friend spring break is coming soon and I at least want to have one class I'm not late too." Thor said.
"Hey Steve did you get your inhaler?" Bucky asked. That right there was an example of what kind of relationship we had. Both Bucky and Thor cared for me in a way people never did. They took care of me. They would stop fights when I got into them. We were more like brothers than friends. Hell I don't even think we were ever friends. Thor being an exchange student from Austria he was still like a brother. He got here about a month after the semester started and for it to be three months into the semester he was doing fairly well with learning what life is like in America.
"Yeah." I sighed as we three walked out into the busy hallways of Marvel University. Everywhere you went you would see something eye catching or something out of the ordinary with us. We weren't your normal teenage kids. We did things normal couldn't do and trust me it wasn't super powers or anything. We just had a gift that we could do something more. We could be something different. We were the future. You had people doing gymnastics, fighting classes, kickboxing, martial arts, hacking into the pentagon, making disguises, building robotic suits, and everything. You may ask why the hell am I here and that is actually a very good question. I am here because the director said I am 'special'. I actually had to hold back a laugh when he told me because what is special about five foot, skinny, asthmatic, and no muscle whatsoever kid? I really don't know. Walking through the hallways I would usually think people would look at me with those seductive smirks and bright smiles but truth was they were looking at Buck and Thor. It was weird kind of. I was the loner of the school but I had two of the most attractive men by my side as my best friends.
"Hey Steve what are you doing for spring break?" Bucky asked as we walked down the hallways.
"Yes lord Steven what are you doing for the break of spring?" Thor asked and he patted me on the back causing me to almost fall forward. He was still learning to be gentle with me.
"Um…I was actually staying here for spring break." I said.
"What? That is insane!" Bucky said.
"Yes come on sir Steven. My friend Anthony invited sir Buck and I to his beach house during the break of spring." I really didn't talk to Tony and his little crew. They were the ones who were the main source of my bullying. Tony and his pompous ass made fun of me. Clint and his fat ass ego kicked my ass. Bruce usually watched when he kicked my ass not even cheering or booing just showing pity. Pepper was somewhat nice to me. She would help me pick up my books and leave without a word. James Rhodes was a cool kind of guy but he would always watch and never care. And the beauty of them all was Natalia Alianova Romanova or Natasha Romanoff. She was the talk of the town. When she did something you heard about it. She was actually the top agent here along with Clint Barton who was her 'boyfriend'. Life was a true bitch to me.
"Nah I'm…good. Besides I actually signed up for this experimental thing for spring break anyway. It is called Project: Rebirth." I said to them in all excitement.
"Anything with the word project in it I'm out." Bucky said as we three entered our technological class where we learned to use the internet to override firewalls and learn how to break through security codes and stuff like that.
I sat in the front with Bucky on my left and Thor right. I was pretty good in this class. I was actually pretty good in all my classes except in gym where we did gymnastics, search and rescue games, obstacle courses, and sparring. I had to sit out with my asthma and all that stuff.
Darcy and Jane soon came into the class room and sat beside us.
"What up testosterones, steroids, and…Steve?" Darcy said with a smile while punching my arm playfully. Darcy was sure as hell one of a kind. She was actually the top student when it came to this class and she wasn't afraid to show off her skills neither.
"Hey Darcy and Jane." I said with a smile.
"What up?" Bucky said.
"Good morning Lady Darcy and…Lady Jane." Thor said. We all knew Jane and Thor had a thing for each other. It wasn't a weird thing. It was practically normal.
"Good morning guys. Hey Steve I heard you signed up for Project: Rebirth." Jane said as we all waited for the teacher to walk in the room.
"Yeah I did. It seems very interesting in order to discover the top physical condition a human could ever be in," I said to her.
"I'm actually going to be there to help with the set up. You want to walk together to the lab?" she asked me. I was actually very flattered.
"Yeah sure." I said with a smile and from the corner of my eye I noticed Thor's hesitant and unsure face.
"I would like to come too if you two don't mind?" Thor said slightly rising his hand for attention.
"What about your beach house thing with Tony?" I asked. I noticed Jane's disgusted face when I mentioned Tony and I had to admit it was a pleasure I wasn't the only one.
"I can go the day after. I mean the project is the first day of spring break. It wouldn't hurt to visit." Thor responded.
"Boring." Bucky sang.
"I agree with the Winter Soldier over here." Darcy said looking at her phone. I never understood why Darcy called Bucky the Winter Soldier. Maybe because he survived in the winter forest for almost a week on a little expedition he went on. Yeah Bucky liked to travel a lot.
"Um Darcy you're going to be there too," Jane said.
"Yeah but I'm just there to supervise when we all know I'm not going to be supervising," she responded. Sam then came flying into the class room next to Darcy who sat next to Buck.
"Am I late?" he asked out of breath.
"If you count being here before the teacher is then yes…you are late." Darcy said.
We were all having a good time until someone had to ruin the moment by throwing a paper ball at the back of my head. I tried to ignore it but more kept coming at the back of my head until Bucky hand enough.
"Hey asshole! Would you stop throwing paper balls at the back of my friend's head?" Bucky said to the guy.
"Oh I'm sorry do you not like that or are you mad that can't throw with a real arm? Well guess what? I don't give shit." The guy said.
Suddenly Bucky got up from his seat and walked towards the guy. "Oh well let me show you what my prosthetic arm can do?"
"Agent Barnes!" the teacher yelled.
"Sir." Bucky said through gritted teeth.
"Detention today and go to the principle with this note." The teacher told him.
"Yes sir." Bucky said grabbing his stuff and walking out the classroom after giving me a wink.
"Well today class we will be learning about using a phone to hack through firewalls."
I looked back towards the guy to see he was looking at me with a smile. I knew what that meant. It meant since Bucky wasn't around and since Thor practically spent all his time with Jane that I would be alone and he could kick my ass. And no Sam could not do anything cause they usually kicked his ass too and I wouldn't want to burden him with that.
Later that day…
I walked the hallways alone after saying bye to Sam, Darcy, and Jane going to my next class. Sighing I noticed the hallways were getting less crowded with people and that was a sign that my ass was about to get kicked. Slowly I took off my bag and got into a fighting stance.
"Well Rogers you know the routine," a guy said behind me. I turned around before getting punched in the face. It didn't hurt as much as it did this time. Maybe my face was getting used to the pain. When my vision finally came back I noticed it was the same guy from the class room. Getting back up like I always did he punched me again and again and again and again. Never ending punches bruised my face and body. Then I thought about it. I had to survive another four years of this.
But still I would continue to fight.
Then he hit me in my face again and I fell down. "Come on Rogers stay down. I was hoping to make this quick so Mrs. Ruth wouldn't count me late."
From the corner of my eye I saw a flash of red and green. It looked like a person but my vision was too blurry that I couldn't tell. Quickly I moved my hands around the area and found a metal plate. Grabbing the metal plate I swung it around hitting the guy in the face.
"Won't stop…never stop," I said and the guy actually looked at me in anger before ramming me into the wall. He kept punching me nonstop. Through my blurred vision I saw a person yank the guy off of me and yell at him. This person was pretty and red.
I think I was going crazy. Next thing I know everything was pitch black.
The Nurses office…
I woke up slowly. My head was spinning and I couldn't breathe. Quickly reaching for my inhaler I couldn't find it on my person and I quickly panicked until it was handed to me by a brunette with a Nurses hat on her head. Grabbing the inhaler I inhaled and exhaled before doing it again.
"How many times Agent Rogers?" nurse Debby asked me with a smile.
"Until the day I die…should I even be called an agent I mean I'm no one special?" I asked her.
"What do you mean? You made it here didn't you? You know the biggest of people started out small," she said to me with an encouraging smile.
"Um…how did I get here anyway?" I asked her.
"Um I don't know her name per say but she was a cute little red head who brought you here," she said checking my charts.
Natasha. Was the first name that popped into my head.
"She was a feisty one too. That guy that beat you up got his ass kicked pretty badly," Nurse Debby said with a chuckle. "I mean he was worse than you."
I actually smiled. Natasha Romanoff. A girl who never talked to me saved my ass while kicking some. But that smile left at the thought of her doing just because she pitied me. Truth is I didn't want anyone's pity. I wanted respect.
Laboratory…
"Is the machine ready for testing?"
"Yeah."
"Wait what is that? We have to use this machine the day after tomorrow. I can't have it malfunctioning!"
"It is fine doc. It will probably just fade away later. Go ahead and put the serum in there."
So what do you think? I know this is the first chapter and things are just starting to get along but I want your opinions.