Don't get your hopes up too much, you might not think it's a big deal okay - even the other guy didn't, but I do.
[Steve cannot believe he's telling another person about this okay. It shows. He takes a deep breath then exhales heavily.]
Okay, so... this was back in freshmen year of college - late in the year. Same height I am now but almost no muscle - the 'almost' though makes it probably the first time in my life a stiff breeze wouldn't knock me over, though. I got press-ganged into going to a frat party with our buddy Thor - yes his real name - because by that point we knew that if Thor was drinking and didn't have someone around, Thor would probably end up being arrested. Not violent, just very... enthusiastic about everything. And probably even bigger than I am now at the time.
And of course he'd found out that I had never even really held someone's hand in a romantic fashion before that and so he decided that it was his solemn duty to see that "fixed".
[Steve pauses there for emphasis, giving Bucky a look that says that yes it's obvious where this story is going, probably.]
Neither of us are twenty-one, but college party, that doesn't really matter. Especially not for Thor who played like every sport and knew every athlete on campus already and I might have been a nobody but I was a nobody who was with him, so that was where I got beer for the first time too. It was probably the most awkward party I'd ever been to - not the least of which because of Thor trying to set me up with literally anyone with a heartbeat. I didn't manage to get any phone numbers but after like two beers I did manage to get in a fistfight with two football players and a lacrosse player.
... Needless to say I kind of got my ass handed to me and only avoided breaking something because Thor was there.
So we left the party, both pretty wasted and at least slightly bloodied. Thor lived off-campus with his brother who was out that night and he lived closer, so he said I could sleep in his brother's room that night so I didn't have to find my way back to the dorms. That part was actually nice, the walk back. It was dark by then, pretty quiet, we stopped to make idiots of ourselves at a park on the way and Thor split his lip trying to do the monkey bars. When I was helping him clean the blood off his face we kind of... uh .... ended up ... making out.
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[Steve cannot believe he's telling another person about this okay. It shows. He takes a deep breath then exhales heavily.]
Okay, so... this was back in freshmen year of college - late in the year. Same height I am now but almost no muscle - the 'almost' though makes it probably the first time in my life a stiff breeze wouldn't knock me over, though. I got press-ganged into going to a frat party with our buddy Thor - yes his real name - because by that point we knew that if Thor was drinking and didn't have someone around, Thor would probably end up being arrested. Not violent, just very... enthusiastic about everything. And probably even bigger than I am now at the time.
And of course he'd found out that I had never even really held someone's hand in a romantic fashion before that and so he decided that it was his solemn duty to see that "fixed".
[Steve pauses there for emphasis, giving Bucky a look that says that yes it's obvious where this story is going, probably.]
Neither of us are twenty-one, but college party, that doesn't really matter. Especially not for Thor who played like every sport and knew every athlete on campus already and I might have been a nobody but I was a nobody who was with him, so that was where I got beer for the first time too. It was probably the most awkward party I'd ever been to - not the least of which because of Thor trying to set me up with literally anyone with a heartbeat. I didn't manage to get any phone numbers but after like two beers I did manage to get in a fistfight with two football players and a lacrosse player.
... Needless to say I kind of got my ass handed to me and only avoided breaking something because Thor was there.
So we left the party, both pretty wasted and at least slightly bloodied. Thor lived off-campus with his brother who was out that night and he lived closer, so he said I could sleep in his brother's room that night so I didn't have to find my way back to the dorms. That part was actually nice, the walk back. It was dark by then, pretty quiet, we stopped to make idiots of ourselves at a park on the way and Thor split his lip trying to do the monkey bars. When I was helping him clean the blood off his face we kind of... uh .... ended up ... making out.
... And then doing a lot more than making out.