A/N: I always pictured Bucky being a good dancer so it was difficult for me to get out that he didn't know in the last chapter. Enjoy :D

Late 1934- Early 1935

Age is Just a Number

At least once or twice a month I would try and get Steve to go out dancing. He either refused or never actually tried. However if it was anything that didn't involve human contact or interaction he would go. I brought him to the new motion picture theatre that just opened up before our graduation. About 10 minutes of laughs at these new cartoons they invented. Everytime after watching one, we would drive Steve's mom crazy while we contemplated the future of films.
"Home theatres!" I said smacking my hands down onto the kitchen table.
"Then I can invite 'all' of my one friends over to watch my home theatre!" Steve said sarcasticly.
"But for people who aren't... you." I snickered.
"Oh trap it Bucky."
"We should invent something and become famous!"
"and how would that work? Stark Industries is already ahead of society in creations, and they have the money and brains for it too..." I contemplated this.
"Bring the idea to them?"
"No."
"Fine!" I said sarcasticily.

My eighteenth birthday. It was just a normal day. Get up at 5:30, breakfast at 6:30 out by 7:00. Except this time on my way out, I was stopped. It was the fat lady that was, actually I'm going to stop insulting her right now because it could go on for days. She brought me into her office, she waved for me to sit but I never did. She grabbed a file with my name on it.
"It's been the longest and most tiring years of my life since you got here." Is she leaving? That would be the best birthday gift ever! "But the time has finally come!" She said with a small hint of excitement. I felt the corners of my lips curl into a small smile, which I tried to wipe away but I was so happy right now. "You are eighteen today right?"
"Yes ma'am."
"Good!" She stood up from her chair. "Go get whatever you own and get out!" Her face went dead serious as she pointed at the door.
"Wait... what?" I was so confused right now.
"You're 18, we don't take care of adults, get out! You're never coming back!"
"A little heads up would have been nice, you know, about a year ago."
"It's not my job to make sure you can live as an adult, it's just to give you a place until some unlucky parent takes you damn kids out of here! You were never picked and now, you leave!" She pointed at the door again. That's exactly what I did. I left. I gathered the few things I had stored under my bed and clothing and stuffed them into my book bag, I still had school to attend.

Instead of stopping by the corner store I jogged to Steve's house. I knocked quite frantically. Steve answered the door.
"Bucky? What are you doing here? Why does it look like you just ran an Olympic race?" Breathing heavily, trying to catch my breath.
"Can I... Come... In...?" He moved out of the way to let me in, closing the door.
"Steve, who was it?" She stopped when I walked in. "This is different. You know there is school today right?" She simply stated. I've never shown up on school morning so this is weird.
"I ummm was wondering if I could stay here for a few days..." Both Steve and his mom looked at each other, obviously curious of why the short notice, so I continued. "... Turns out when you become 18, they kick you out without any notice, at all. If I would have known, I would have went looking for an apartment but I got up this morning, heading out for school and she said 'Grab your stuff, you're never coming back'." There was a pause.
"Bucky, you can put whatever you have in my room for now." Steve said, sounding worried.
"I can let you stay a few days, it wouldn't be much different than before other than you'd be here in the mornings." Sarah laughed. "But as you know, we don't have a spare bedroom so I hope you're fine with the couch." I laughed.
"Better than an alley!" I smiled.
"Always so optimistic." She turned around and went back to making Steve's lunch.

While we were away at school, Sarah in her free time would search for affordable apartments in the paper. Once we got home we were out looking for places. The topic of Connie moving in with me once she graduated did come up, that would be awesome! We would have to talk about it of course... also it would be helpful to find a place too.

After an unexpected two weeks living with the Rogers I finally found it! It was a place to call home. It was in a huge apartment building with at least 30 people living there. The living areas were small but I was just one person, right? Okay so it wasn't the nicest thing to set eyes on, there was mold, water damage, bad electricity and bugs but it was affordable! I would get a full time job once I graduated and hopefully be able to get a better place. Luckily for me though, it came with a fridge (no working freezer FYI), an oven/stove, a random destroyed couch, and... well I should be grateful but I'm not sure how glad I am that there is a used bed... it's pretty nasty, but we won't go into details.

That weekend I got situated, moved my stuff over (keeping my clothes inside of a bag cause I was not putting them in the dresser here). I wasn't ever going to bring Connie over cause I think as soon as she got into the neighborhood she would want to leave, and I don't blame her. I did however, bring Steve, which ended up with his mom as well cause she was curious.
"You can't be living in a dump like this James!" Were the very first words out of her mouth when I finally got the stubborn door open.
"It's better than nothing, isn't it? And I can finally say I'm living on my own like an adult!" I smiled to her. "It could be worse you know. I could be living in a sewer system with 30 other sick and dying people. and it's only temperary anyways!"
"Bucky..." Steve seemed terrified. "I think you could catch diseases here and die."
"And to think, I just spent all weekend cleaning what would come off..."
"I'm actually having troubles breathing in this place, and i've been here for what? 3 minutes... This isn't healthy." I snickered.
"You have troubles breathing just from going up the stairs at school!" I poked Steve in the chest.
"Just tell us that you'll be out of this dump soon..." Sarah said in a caring voice.
"Yes, mom! I'll move as soon as I can." I snickered again.

A/N: So I made a little reference to the warlocks from X-Men (Not in the movies, yet at least) who live in the sewers although it was really no hint at all... Review please and yeah. Oh and feel free to favourite and whatnot...

SPOILERS FOR "HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER" TV SHOW:
Bucky's apartment was pretty much based off Lily's apartment after she leaves Marshal and moves back... yeah...