47 : MISUNDERSTANDING

They came back on Monday morning with Natasha being really sleepy and planned to skip all of her morning class. Steve let her do whatever she want and prepared to go to class. Natasha changed her clothes and laid on their bed watching Steve gathered his thing.

"Babe, do you see my black t-shirt?"
"Do you mean this one?" She asked, lowered the blanket and Steve saw that she wore it.

He mocked an annoying sigh but smiled gently afterward. He put a white t-shirt on and walked over to her and kissed his little red.

"You look hot with my clothes on." He whispered

Nat hummed happily and deepened the kiss, pulling him back on bed with her. Small hands found it way under his shirt to run it up and down his chest and abs. Steve let out a soft moan.

"Are you trying to distract me?"

"No, just to get you to skip class with me." She smiled devilishly "But it work, isn't it?"

"You little vixen." He said before slowly shrugging his jean jacket off.

Steve grounded Nat underneath him and kissed her passionately. The redhead grabbed the hem of his shirt and pulled it off him. Steve's calloused hands got under her shirt and roamed all over her body. Nat moaned in his mouth, biting softly on his lower lips.

He broke the kiss just to assault her neck and made Nat shivered and moaned louder. Steve quickly tore her clothes off until there was only her bra and panties before his eyes. Nat pulled him down again for a hungry kiss, her hands fumbling with his belt and unbuttoning his jeans.

"Hey guys!" A woman sound came from the door "Ewww!

"Ohhh!" Another male sound exclaimed in disgust.

Steve quickly used his body to hide Nat underneath him. The redhead clung tightly to her boyfriend.

"What the hell, Stark?!" Steve yelled when he saw who that was.

"Don't you know how to knock, Pepper?!" Nat was yelling too.

"We are terribly sorry to interrupt your sexy time but we just heard you guys are back."

"And Tasha, your parents want to see you tonight." Pepper informed and handed Natasha a paper. "They cannot reach you so they stop by the university and tell me."

"Turn the fuck away!" Steve yelled at the new couple.

Pepper turned but Tony reluctant to because he want to annoy Steve and Natasha. Pepper had to turn her boyfriend away. Steve made sure they didn't peek and handed Nat her shirt. They put their clothes back on quickly.

Steve got up from bed and Nat quietly whined. He pecked a kiss on her lips once more and dragged Stark out of the room for Pepper and Nat to talk.

"I see you and Steve almost got back to normal because it seems like you guys couldn't wait to tear each other clothes off."

"Almost." Nat agreed.

"You mother say she will send a car to pick you up tonight."

"What about Steve?"

"She didn't mention Steve."

Nat and Pepper walked out the bedroom to find their boyfriend arguing over something and it looked like they were about to rip each other's heads off.

"Stop fighting!" Nat shouted and they both stopped.

Steve glared daggers at Tony who had a wide grin on his face.

"What's happening?" Nat asked her boyfriend.

"Stark hacked into my phone!" Steve replied

"You two are kinkier than I thought." Tony said as he scrolled up and down his phone. "Wow! You guys came up with very creative ideas of pet name. Pooh bear, teddy bear, really, red? Rogers is more of a grizzly bear."

"Stop it, Tony." Pepper warned because she could sense that the couple was planning their revenge already.

"Shit! You guys cuddling in bathtub!" Tony exclaimed.

"Steve, you can punch him." Pepper told.

Tony heard and ran away, screamed loudly with Steve followed not far behind. The two girls giggled before Pepper excused herself and went to class.

Steve was whining while Nat get dress to meet her parents. He sat on the bed pouting, watching his girlfriend. He wanted to accompany her but Nat said she didn't know what her parents want. They didn't say anything about bring him along.

She dressed in the black dress he brought for her. Nat saw Steve smiled at her from the mirror. He got up and stopped behind her.

"You're beautiful, babe"

"Thank you."

"And if some dude try to touch you, call me and I will be there."

As much as Nat loved Steve being protective of her but she could handle it, "Nah, I can break their hand by myself."

Steve smiled fondly, "That's my girl." He said and pressed a kiss on her neck.

"I might stay with my parents tonight." She told him and Steve pouted again. "You can hang out with the guys without me getting in your way, babe."

"Noooooo, I want you with me."

Nat chuckled and got up from her seat. "My car's here."

"Enjoy your dinner, sweetheart and called me when you're there."

Nat kissed him before headed downstairs. Steve sighed as he was left alone. Thor was on a date with Jane so Steve guessed he will probably spend this quiet night alone. Steve was just sunk himself down on the couch when Tony and Clint burst in.

"What the—hell?" Steve muttered.

"Let's go! Red said we have to take care of you when she's not here." Tony said.

"Pepper and Jess let you out?" Steve asked.

"Yeah, Peps allowed me to go out tonight…"

"Jess and I broke up."

"What? When?"

Clint shrugged his shoulders, "Well, it didn't work out well so I ended it. We just didn't click like the first month we met."

"You will meet the right one one day, Clint." Steve said "Look at me. The womanizing idiot who slept with half of the women in this campus could find the right one for him. So could you, dude."

"Yeah, I know but now I will enjoy my single life first."

"Let's get wasted!" Tony declared.

Nat arrived at the restaurant at the same time as her parents. They sat at the table and Nat asked her parents immediately.

"What's the urgent matter you guys need to talk to me?"

Aliana smiled at her husband before said, "Sweetheart, we would like you to meet someone."

"But he will run a little late because of the traffic so why don't we take a look at the menu first." Alexandre continued.

Nat noticed that her parents acting like they were keeping some secret. She could only hope that her parents weren't planning for her to meet with the guy they want her to marry like Steve's dad did to him.

They ordered their drinks and foods while waiting for the person to show up. Nat tapping her feet impatiently as millions thoughts ran through her mind in the worst possible way.

"There he is!" Aliana exclaimed and got up from her seat. So did Alexandre.

Nat turned to the same direction as her parents and saw a tall man with dark brown hair and broad shoulders dressed up in suit heading their way. When he came close, Nat was able to see the same sharp green eyes as her.

Her expression must be really shock and ridiculous because the guy chuckled when he saw her face.

"Sorry, I'm late. The traffic here is terrible." He said with his sexy voice.

"Natalia, my dear. This is Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanoff the Third. Your brother." Aliana introduced.

Nat reached her hand out to shake but he ignored it and went for a hug instead.

"Little sister, Принцесса" He greeted and held his little sister tightly and kissed her cheeks. Nat tensed up a little. "You are small like I always remember you."
"I can't remember anything about you."

"I know. I barely remember the time we spend but there is one memory of us in the snow together. It was the last winter we spend together."

"Nicholas, you can sit down and let your sister breathe a little bit."

"Sorry" He said to Nat and let her go.

The first family reunion wasn't the way Nat expect it to happen. She thought her brother would remain his distance toward her and they will all have an awkward conversation throughout the meal. It should happened that way because they barely know each other.

"I thought I will never have a chance to have my little sister back." Nicholas said.

"I never thought I had a brother too, Nicholas…"

"Just call me Nick, okay?"

"Okay…" She replied and felt a little relax with her brother. "Nick."

The parents just smiled at each other to see their kids get along well.

Steve didn't drink that much and watch his two friends drown themselves with alcohol and got really wasted like Stark said. The Captain glanced at his phone too often that Skye noticed it.

"Why are you always look at your phone?" She asked

"It's nothing."

"Don't lie, Steve. I know." She replied with a devilish smile. "Natasha isn't it?"

Steve knew he couldn't lie, "Yeah, I want to call her and check that she is okay or not. This is the first night since we got back together that we are not together."

"Wow! She turned you into a little puppy dog." Skye "You are lost without her."

"Yeah, you can say that. I just want to spend all my time with her. I want to be near her, hold her, kiss her, and just wanna be with her!"

"You are a real clingy one boyfriend."

"I know. She just made that happened to me. It happened so instantaneously that I didn't notice it but I think I was right off when I first met her."

"The one, right?"

"Yep, she's the one."

Skye smiled. Since she knew Steve, she never thought that he will fall in love with a girl. Then he met Natasha and everything quickly changed.

"Oh shit!" Steve exclaimed and ran to Tony and Clint.

The two pranksters were dancing drunkenly on the dance floor until Clint bumped into some jogs.

"Watch it, loser!"

Steve noticed that was one of the wrestling team. Steve pushed the guy away from Clint.

"Do we have a problem here, Marko?" The Captain asked.

Cain Marko, the star of the wrestling team, saw Steve but he had no fear in the captain.

"You wanna go, Rogers? Your football friends aren't here. I do not fear you."

"Let's go a few round, shall we?"

Before thing could get out of hand, Grant interrupted, "Let's go separate way before I ban both of you!"

Steve took his friends out of the bar immediately and pushed them into his truck. Bruce and Pepper had to come down from their room to help Steve carried these two upstairs. After that, Steve took the shower and prepared to go to bed when Nat called him to say goodnight.

"Babe, are you alright?" Nat asked

"Yeah, why?"

"Nothing. I just miss you."

"I miss you too, sweetheart."

"Hey, one more thing meet me tomorrow at brunch. I will text you the café. There's someone I want you to meet."

"Please tell me you're not going to introduce your new boyfriend and dump me." He joked.

"Yeah, kinda." She said and laughed. "See you tomorrow, babe. And don't bring a gun, okay?"

"No promise."

"Okay, goodnight, pooh bear."

"Night, little red."

Steve made sure to check up on Clint and Tony in the next morning before beginning his usual morning routine. He jogged for an hour and having his breakfast at Thor's diner where he found Thor and Jane there.

They sat together and had their quiet breakfast. Steve quickly excused himself and told them he had a date with Nat. He took a shower and dressed up nicely.

He had his limo picked him up and took him to the cafe. When he arrived, his blue eyes searching for his girlfriend. All he thought of was how much he missed her and he really want to kiss her, to feel her in his arms.

His eyes stopped at the same familiar shade of red. There she was, waiting for him in front of the cafe and was talking to a man.

Wait! A man!

He never took his eyes away from them as he advanced toward her. He came close enough when the man hugged her and kissed her cheeks. Steve roared in anger and charged in. The Captain pulled Nat away from the man and tackled the guy to the ground.

But the guy just laughed and Steve noticed the same green eyes as his little red were on his face.

"He's very protective like you say, little sister." The guy spoke up.

"Steve let go of him." Nat told and Steve did as she said.

Steve looked at the guy with suspicion as he got up. He shielded Nat away from the guy because he didn't trust him.

"Steve, this is Nicholas Romanoff, my brother." Nat introduced.

"I'm sorry. I didn't know who you are." Steve quickly said and held his arm out. "Steve Rogers, her boyfriend."

"Nicholas, you can call me Nick. My mother told me a lot about you."

"Really?"

"Yeah, she spends a lot of time with your mother."

Steve turned to his girlfriend who just look as shock as he was, "Uh—did you just say my mom—and"

"They spend a lot of time bonding and watching both of you."

The young couple felt into the complete silence.

"Come on! Let's get inside. Nat said this place makes the best stake in town." Nick said and pushed the couple inside the restaurant.

They ordered their foods before Nicholas began his interrogation on both Steve and Natasha. Steve let Nat do the talking while he only added a few thing she missed. He definitely didn't want her brother to know about all the bad thing he done to her.

He didn't want to be judge by his past. He barely knew Nicholas.

"Did he ever hurt you?" He finally asked the question he wanted to know the most.

Nicholas kept his piercing green eyes fix at Steve to observe his reaction.

"Once." Steve replied

"Steve…" Nat knew he wasn't comfortable and probably still felt a bit guilty. "Nick, don't"

"I wanna know!" Her brother's voice immediately silenced her.

Steve frowned and got up from his seat. He will not let someone Nat just met yesterday to talk like this with her.

"Apologizes to her!" Steve used the same tone as Nicholas.

"Make me do it." Nicholas replied in the deadliest tone of his voice. "She's my sister. I can talk with her anyway I want."

"She IS your sister. Show her some respect. You just met her and she's practically a stranger to you." The captain shot back. "Nat, let's go" Steve turned to his girlfriend and lifted her up from her chair.

Nicholas laughed. Steve turned and stared at the older man angrily.

"I like this guy!" He exclaimed and changed his demeanor completely "He's over protective of you like you said, little sister. He's definitely chivalrous too."

"Only to her." Steve added.

"Is all of that just a test?" Nat asked.

"Yeah, I guess I just want to see how far he was willing to go to protect your honor?" Nicholas replied "I just looked out for my sister, Steven Rogers. I need to make sure you will not do anything to hurt her ever again."

"Yeah, that's what I need, more guy to be overly protective of me. You, Clint, Tony, Thor, Sam, Phil and now, my brother is joining this boy band." Nat sighed annoyingly.

"Come on! Sit down and let enjoyed the meal, shall we?"

Steve frowned. His eyebrows almost tied together. His entire body still tensed up in anticipation for the fight. Nat placed her hand on his and pulled him back down on the chair. Two men entered starring contest.

"I forbid you two to engage in any kind of fight and just be civilize for me." She told "Can you guys do that or do I need to tell mom?"

"Yeah" Nick shrugged his shoulders.

"Of course, Nat."

The awkward brunch took almost two hours to end and Steve couldn't be happier to finally avoid prying green eyes of Nicholas. There was a friendly rivalry kind of thing between Steve and Nicholas. He knew that the brother wanted to protect and look out for his little sister. It was the only thing both of them have in common.

They loved her and willing to go as far as they could to protect her from everything.

"I hate your brother." He muttered with Nat as they were waiting for his limo. "He played me like a child."

"Aww, don't be mad, sweetie." She said and hugged him "He likes my father. He just knew how to wind people up."

"Apparently my girlfriend inherits this trait too." Steve noted and placed a kiss on her forehead. "She knows best how to wind me up to do whatever she want."

"I intended to us my skill on you every moment."

Steve couldn't resist kissing her when she being all cute to him like this.

The limo finally arrived and Steve ordered the driver to take them to his penthouse. They will stay there for the night before heading back to the university tomorrow.

They spent the entire afternoon doing their thing quietly. Nat was reading a book on the couch while Steve was typing away on his laptop and played music along. Her favorite song came up the whole time and it made Nat closes her book and sing the song.

Nat noticed that when some song came up, Steve will quickly skip it. His whole body tensed up when he heard the intro to the song. Until 'It Will Rain' by Bruno Mars came up and he skipped it again. She asked him point blank.

"I like that song." She said "Why did you skip it?"

"I hate it."

"Why did you hate it? It's a beautiful song."

Steve didn't answer her so Nat knew he had a very deep dark past about the song. She will get an answer out of him. Nat sat up and hugged Steve from behind.

"Tell me, Stevie. Tell me, tell me, tell me." She said in his ear and nibbling his earlobe teasingly

He couldn't do anything to stop her.

"Okay!" He said "Those songs remind me of my break up with Peggy and then remind me of ours. Technically, I'm being a biggest jerk to you and you did the right thing by not wanting me back."

"Oh…" Nat gasped as she sat back on her seat. "I didn't know. Sorry."

"It's okay. It just…hurt sometime."

"Well, you gotta learn to live with it, baby, because you can't change the past or skip the song every time it came up because your girlfriend like those songs and you have to listen with me."

Steve chuckled "I'm dating the devil."

"The beautiful and sexy devil by the way."

"The sexiest and the most beautiful, babe." He corrected and smiled gently at the redhead.

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