Emily

Emily was relieved when she woke up and it was the weekend. She was meeting up with Steve for lunch later that day and then they would be joining Bucky that evening for a group date.

Emily rolled herself out of bed and got herself ready into some gym wear so she could go running. She made her way down the park and started jogging round the area. She noticed that not many people were out running, but then again it was a Saturday and who would be stupid enough to want to go running at 8am.

Emily had her music playing on her headphones and she was in her running zone. She had been running for a hour and she was covered in sweat. She came to a stop near a bench and started stretching when she saw two familiar figures running past her who suddenly turned their head towards her, Emily smiled at Steve and Bucky and gave them a small wave. They both instantly stopped and came over to Emily and she instantly regretted waving. She knew her face was still red, blotchy and covered in sweat.

"Hey!" Emily greeted, "you guys just started?"

"No we're nearly done," Steve responded, "we've been running for a few hours now."

Emily looked both the super soldiers up and done. They hadn't even broken a sweat and she was standing here looking like a pig sweating.

"Wow, I wish I looked as good you guys do after a run." Emily could now see Steve turning slightly red and Bucky smirking. She instantly regretted her choice of words, "I mean, like I currently look like I'm melting and you guys haven't even broken a sweat. You guys must having amazing stamina if you can go for hours." Once again Emily found herself mentally slapping herself as Bucky and Steve started chuckling at her last comment. "I'm really not making this any better am I?"

"So are we still on for later on?" Steve asked, changing the subject which Emily was extremely grateful for.

"Yeah that's all fine! Want me to meet you somewhere?"

Steve shook his head, "no that's fine. I will come pick you up at 12?"

"Perfect! Well I will let you guys get back to it! I don't want you to get frustrated because you couldn't finish." Emily groaned as she could hear Bucky chuckling next to her.

"Oh you know what I meant!" Emily said, trying to hide her embarrassment.

"Oh I sure do, doll" Bucky smirked at her before going back to running and Steve giving her one last smile before joining Bucky.

After almost dying of embarrassment Emily made it back to her apartment and spent the rest of the time relaxing and getting ready for her date. At 12pm on the dot there was a knock on the door. She opened it and Steve was standing there. "These are for you" He told her handing over a bunch of sunflowers.

"These are lovey steve, thank you" Emily said taking them and putting them into water. "Shall we get going?"

Steve nodded and they made their way out of Emily's apartment block. Emily instinctively put her arm around Steve's and in the corner of her eye line she could see Steve smiling. "So what's the plan today?" Emily asked looking up at Steve.

"I thought we could grab some lunch and then maybe head to a museum?" He asked, "I'm not entirely sure still what to do on a first date and after Nat's idea backfired I thought this may be a bit more casual."

Emily smiled, she found it cute how steve, a super soldier was nervous about their date. I mean he saved the world more or less every week and he's worried about this. "Sounds perfect" she reassured him.

They ate lunch at a diner and Steve and Emily chatted about random things, her likes and dislikes. Steve's list and anything she recommended him to try or to watch.

"Steve, do you ever find it lonely?" Emily asked, "I mean you've gone through such big changes."

Steve paused for a moment, taking in what Emily had said. "I found it very lonely at first, but that was before I found Bucky. Before him, I was having to face this all alone and it wasn't fun."

Emily nodded, "What do you mean before Bucky?"

"Well bucky has only been back in my life for a few years now. Before that he didn't remember who I was and I thought he was dead."

"Sounds like you both had it quite tough" Emily took a sip of her drink. "It's nice that you two could rely on each other." It was a strange thought for Emily, being able to rely on someone for support. She had always been friendly with people but never had anyone that she could call a friend. Through everything that she had been through there was never anyone that she could go to help and because of that here she was living in New York.

"Do you ever find New York lonely?" Steve asked Emily, snapping her out of her thoughts.

"Pardon?" Emily asked.

"Well just recently moving here, it must be difficult." Steve expanded, snapping Emily back to the realisation of what he was actually talking about.

"Oh! I'm kind of used to it" she told him, "I grew up moving around a lot"

"Army family?" Steve asked smiling at her.

"Something like that," Emily responded, "so shall we make a move to the museum?"

Steve room Emily to an art museum and they had currently been walking round it for a hour. They had looked at the modern art which Emily had scoffed at and both her and Steve agreed that some of the stuff that had been created looked completely accidental and wasn't really art. They were currently looking round a room which had black and white photographs scattered around it. Emily was now holding Steve's hand as they made their way through the room, still laughing and joking with each other. Once they had finished at the museum they sat outside on a bench waiting for Bucky to come join them.

"You know I had a really good time" Emily said smiling at Steve.

"You know the day isn't over?" He asked, rubbing the back of his neck and smiling.

Emily turned her body so she was now facing Steve who then automatically mirrored her body language. "I know but it was nice spending one on one time with you. All this stuff can be pretty overwhelming"

Steve nodded and Emily knew he completely understood what she was going through. He looked like he was about to say something but quickly stopped himself. Emily leaned in towards him and gave him a soft kiss on the lips and started to back away, until Steve pulled her into another kiss. This one a bit deeper and after a few moments they pulled away.

"I've been wanting to do that all week" Steve told her.