Summary: Bucky and his girl enjoy a nice rainy day at the game shop.

prompt: post/171876630790/what-if-you-taught-bucky-how-to-play-video-games

I loved afternoons like these. Outside was a light spring shower that wasn't supposed to clear up until later tonight. Inside the game shop, things were slow with the only people being here beside me were a few of the regulars testing out their new Magic decks and buck who had just returned from a mission last night. Bucky sat on a stool that was right next to mine so that we were softly touching.

Looking up from my book He's still glued to his Gameboy. I had introduced Bucky to the world of video games a few months back. He wasn't too fond of the newer gen game systems, but old school ones like the Gameboy and NES seemed to be right up his alley. Now Bucky's favorite thing to do to unwind for the stresses and physical toll a mission had on him was to immerse himself in retro open world games. You would think it would be hard to get a hold of such games, but with a girlfriend who worked at a game shop that delt second-hand retro games and accessories I was able to hook him up.

Pokemon Red had been his latest fix. Bucky had been playing it for the past two hours now proudly showing me hat pokemon he caught. He had given a few of them names like 'Steve','Nat' 'Banner' and ' Wanda'.Like said before, I was found of this kind of afternoon in the shop when I got to spend time with Bucky. Bucky was the one person that I never got tired of being around. Never got tired of looking at either. Even now when he was dressed in sweats, a long-sleeved t-shirt, and a baseball cap meant to cover up his bed head while clean-shaven Max was setting not too far away from us still dress in his oxford and bow tie he wears to work as a history teacher at the college, I still though Buck was the more handsome of the two.

Bucky seems to pick up that someone's watching him and he looks up for his game to me who had been smiling goofily at him the whole time I was staring at him.

" What?", He asks beging to smile in the same manner.

I shrug my shoulders,"Nothing. I was just thinking about you."

This peaks Bucky's interest he leans in closer to me so that our foreheads lightly bump together," What were you thinking about me ?"

" Just how much of a nerd you are."

We both share a small laugh then Bucky comes back with " Well you're an even bigger nerd for getting me into this stuff."

" You're both fucking nerds."
With our moment ruined Bucky and I look across the glass counter so see Max ad Lakin staring at us. Max looks a lot more annoyed the Lakin did and I figured that was because he was still going through that post break up angst.

" Dude it's been like three months. You gotta let her go .", Lakin tells Max giving him a look of pure pity.

" Let go of it ?", Buky looks over at me confused. I haven't told him the latest gossips since he's been gone

" it's been two months a week thank you very much ."

"What haven't you told me?", Bucky asks again.

" Lakin's girlfriend cheated on him …,"I pause just to be extra," with his cousin Jessica."

Bucky's eye goes wide and his mouth opens. Once you get Bucky to relax like he did in the game shop some of his true self-started to show. You wouldn't guess it but the man loved to hear about gossip and drama. He tries to sound Apologetic as he addresses Max" Oh no, that's horrible. How did it happen."

" can I tell him, please.",I pleaded with Max.

Max waved his hand dismissively still in his angst mood, " Go Aahed ."

I then begin to spin the tale of how Max caught his girlfriend of six weeks and his cousin in the act as they literally came out of the closet at their family reunion.