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do you want to know what i want? i'll tell you what i want. i want the story of punk!bucky and hipster!steve, the story that starts a month into second grade, when a new boy appears in mrs horvath's class at ps ___, and bucky takes it upon himself to befriend this skinny kid who wears glasses and likes to draw and is just learning to stand up for himself. and by the end of the year they're inseparable.
i want the story that follows them - or it can skim - through boys and girls and school and teenage loves and losses and fights with parents and friends and each other, through steve's first and second years at cooper union, which he has to quit when his mom gets sick, and which he never goes back to after she dies, through bucky's fights with his dad and all the nights he sleeps at steve's mom's place, all through to now, when they're on their own and living together in a crowded studio, and bucky works in what feels like the last record store in the five boroughs with natasha, his favorite russian redhead, who can be cold and scary or the biggest dork ever, depending on who she's talking to. (all her exes seem to come to bad ends, so the folks who work at the store have taken to calling her the black widow. clint is her one ex who seems to have survived, and he's a punk like bucky and works in a pizza place.)
i want the story of steve shaving the sides of bucky's head when his hair starts growing back, and bucky visiting steve at the coffeehouse where he works and flirting shamelessly with a little girl whose dad is getting a coffee, and steve designing his own tattoos and some of bucky's as well, and steve's pierced eyebrow and bucky's pierced lip, and steve drawing, always drawing, and bucky encouraging him to go back to school, he's good enough for cooper union and they'd be stupid not to take him. the story of how steve meets sam, because sam must still exist in this world, and how steve meets peggy, the english girl with the perfect lipstick and the mean right hook, and the story of bucky putting in time in a succession of punk bands, and him and steve coming home from a gig or a party or who knows what, so late it's actually early, the two of them sitting on each other and falling asleep on the subway. the story of bucky carving their initials on the sides of subway seats, and steve making chalk drawings on the sidewalk in front of their building, and natasha putting a guy in a choke hold for getting handsy.
steve is still skinny and still wears glasses and still likes to draw, and he never learned to back down so bucky learned to back him up. they still live in each other's pockets and they're still inseparable.
i'd say someone should write that for me but i kind of feel like i already did it myself.
cooper union has an 8% admission rate. but also, all undergrads get full scholarships for their tuition.
i want the story that follows them - or it can skim - through boys and girls and school and teenage loves and losses and fights with parents and friends and each other, through steve's first and second years at cooper union, which he has to quit when his mom gets sick, and which he never goes back to after she dies, through bucky's fights with his dad and all the nights he sleeps at steve's mom's place, all through to now, when they're on their own and living together in a crowded studio, and bucky works in what feels like the last record store in the five boroughs with natasha, his favorite russian redhead, who can be cold and scary or the biggest dork ever, depending on who she's talking to. (all her exes seem to come to bad ends, so the folks who work at the store have taken to calling her the black widow. clint is her one ex who seems to have survived, and he's a punk like bucky and works in a pizza place.)
i want the story of steve shaving the sides of bucky's head when his hair starts growing back, and bucky visiting steve at the coffeehouse where he works and flirting shamelessly with a little girl whose dad is getting a coffee, and steve designing his own tattoos and some of bucky's as well, and steve's pierced eyebrow and bucky's pierced lip, and steve drawing, always drawing, and bucky encouraging him to go back to school, he's good enough for cooper union and they'd be stupid not to take him. the story of how steve meets sam, because sam must still exist in this world, and how steve meets peggy, the english girl with the perfect lipstick and the mean right hook, and the story of bucky putting in time in a succession of punk bands, and him and steve coming home from a gig or a party or who knows what, so late it's actually early, the two of them sitting on each other and falling asleep on the subway. the story of bucky carving their initials on the sides of subway seats, and steve making chalk drawings on the sidewalk in front of their building, and natasha putting a guy in a choke hold for getting handsy.
steve is still skinny and still wears glasses and still likes to draw, and he never learned to back down so bucky learned to back him up. they still live in each other's pockets and they're still inseparable.
i'd say someone should write that for me but i kind of feel like i already did it myself.
cooper union has an 8% admission rate. but also, all undergrads get full scholarships for their tuition.