Apparently the universe doesn't love you enough...

(and Darcy's birthday is in umm lets say...January 31st)

"Darcy-"

"No! I'm not doing it" Bucky sighed and looked to make sure no one was watching.

"But-"

"No!" she turned her back to Bucky and he groaned.

"You'll be there for a few minuets you can stop and then you can just walk away" Darcy looked at Steve he was on sketching the trees until he heard Bucky say his name, he gave Darcy a reassuring smile.

"Bucky, if she doesn't want to do it don't make her"

"But Steve-"

"Fine I'll do it"

"Wait when Steve says you don't have to do it,that's when you choose to? Fine fine whatever I mean that's completely fair" Steve and Darcy rolled their eyes fondly.

"Bucky, shut the hell up" Darcy said to him as she got up and smoothed her jeans off before walking over to the red-head playing in the sand, she looked Bucky's age and had shoulder length blond hair.

"She'll be finnnnnne!" Bucky waved Steve off with his hand and they both watched as Darcy slowly approached the girl in the sand she kept looking back and Steve kept nodding holding his thumbs up as she did so, Bucky was busy playing pac man on his phone until Steve hit him on the back of his head.

"What the hell!" Steve rolled his eyes at Bucky and went back to sketching in his note-book. Bucky glared at him for a while until he realized Steve wasn't even paying attention to him and went back to his phone.

Darcy sat down with the girl who either didn't now she was there or didn't care. she took a deep breath in plastered the famous Lewis smile her mum taught her and stuck her hand out. "Hi I'm Darcy Lewis!" she nearly shouted the and cringed and the girls reaction.

She jumped when Darcy introduced herself and turned her eyes wide as she put her hand over her heart. "What the hell man! I nearly had a heart attack! For Christs sake!"

"I'm really really sorry! I thought you knew I was here, and besides didn't your mother ever tell you to pay attention to your surroundings" Darcy sighed as the last thing came out. her mouth filter turned off whenever she was nervous.

"She also taught me not to talk to strangers but that hasn't stopped me either D..."

"Darcy, my names Darcy" she stuck her hand back out.

"And my names Virginia pepper Potts, but most people call me Pepper" she smiled at Darcy and shook her hand. Darcy was beaming on the inside, even if it took Bucky pestering her for a week she actually started a non awkward conversation with someone who wasn't in her family or friends. Pepper and Darcy hung out in the park for a while (they talked but it was mainly pepper having a one-sided conversation and Darcy nodding her head or feigning interest) until Bucky apparently left with Steve and came back from his house with a bottles of coke. He had a small smile on his face the entire time.

"Happy birthday to. youuuu!" Darcy blew the candles out from the cake beaming as she did so.. it was her 10th birthday and she managed to get pepper to come who invited a few of her other friends, she seemed like the popular type and refused to even spend time with anyone who wasn't in her click but apparently Darcy and Clint were the exemption. Turns out she's Coulson's sister and coulson is best friends with Clint so even if she didn't want to she had to see him at least every three days, she refused to voluntarily spend time with him when he was at Darcy's house which always led to him making fun of her and her face turning bright red, it was a weird system but it seemed to work.

Pepper could at times come off slightly snobby or Bratty 25% but she was normally quite sweet.

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"Bucky!" we were all laughing at the sight of Bucky pushing Steve and Clint into the water.

All the grown ups were either in the sitting room or surrounding the barbecue my dad was cooking at. I was listening to pepper talk about how annoying lea Michelle is on Glee when I saw Bucky sneaking his way up to pepper, we were standing quite close to the pool and I started slowly backing away from pepper knowing what would happen, pepper still hadn't noticed me trying to make a good enough distance between us when Bucky rushed at her and dragged the both of them in, I was still clearly to close to them if Bucky could still Grab my arm to pull me in with them.

I swam up to the top gasping for air, I felt a slight rush of adrenalin and felt myself shake with uncontrolled laughter, I must have started chain reaction because soon everyone near the pool was smiling or in fits of laughter as well. It wasn't soon before all the kids where jumping in with us. Most of the people here were either in my class or related to me. when the food was done everyone quietened down and after a while people started leaving. When the sun started going down the only people remaining were me, Bucky and Steve. tony, pepper and Clint had to go home with everyone else and Steve was spending the weekend at Bucky's house.

We spent a few hours staying up watching films until Steve fell asleep sometime around midnight.

We were just about finishing Scott pilgrims vs the world when Bucky said something to me.

"I never gave you my present" I turned to face him.

"You didn't ha-" before I could finish my sentence he was shoving a box wrapped in black wrapping paper with the words birthday girl on it in silver and a white bow.

"open it" he looked nervous and unsure but I did what he said.

I tore of the the wrapping to see a small white box, I opened it and saw necklace. I held it up to the light and twirled it around in my fingers. i smiled at Bucky and he smiled back.

"I didn't actually know what girls like to be honest with you but I remembered from the last time I was in your room you didn't have any like necklaces or other girly stuff so I-" I wrapped my arms around his him catching him off guard and making him fall on the floor and land with an oof.

"Your wel-"

"Don't ruin it Barns"

to be honest i'm not overly fond of this chapter.

review and I'll love you forever and ever and ever and ever!