Safe with me

Part 29

"Hey Natasha we better start getting ready are you sure you don't want to come?" Nat shook her head. "Alright well we'll be back soon I will come find you to say goodbye. I got into a formal outfit and went to find Wanda, I saw her door was open so I pushed it wider. "Hey Wanda are you ready for- WOW." She turned to me with a slight blush on her cheeks. "You look beautiful." She smiled at me and I couldn't help but beam back. I'd never seen something so pretty. "I think red is becoming my new favourite colour." I joked looking at her up and down *respectfully of course*. She let out a small laugh. "I'm glad I'm convincing you, it's a pretty nice colour." I rolled my eyes playfully before chuckling.

"You look amazing too, I love this outfit on you." She continued and I returned the smile, "are you ready?" She nodded so I took her hand opening her bedroom door for her. "Thank you." I couldn't help but smile at how formal we were being. "Nat?" I asked quietly wanting to say goodbye I walked out to see her sat on the sofa wrapped in her blankie. "Natasha? Are you feeling little?" I asked quietly and she shrugged. "Kinda." I nodded along thinking of what to do next. "Do you want me to stay? Or you could still come with us?" Nat shook her head. "You go I be okay just a little scary." I nodded. "It's going to be scary being without me if you do slip fully but everyone here will take care of you okay." She nodded. "And you can always call me okay, be good." I kissed her forehead. "Bye bye." She mumbled waving to me and Wanda I felt bad but I couldn't let Wanda down after I ignored her for ages.

Nat would be fine right? How much trouble can one little cause?

"You know it would be totally okay if you went back to Nat. I understand we can always do an overdressed, overpriced candlelight dinner at home." I chuckled but shook my head. "No this is my treat, I promised you this night and I'm going to keep that promise." She smiled nodding. "I would like that." I opened the car door for her and we drove to the restaurant she picked.

"This place looks fancy." I said staring up at the fancy entrance. "Come on, you promised, no backsies." Wanda pointed at me so I agreed. "Fine." I allowed her to drag me inside the restaurant before we got taken to our table. I glanced over at the third seat and felt my anxiety raise realising Nat wasn't with me and there was no way of me knowing if she was okay. I felt someone grab my hand and I looked over to see Wanda looking at me. "She's fine y/n, she's with the others." I nodded feeling myself calm slightly. "Do you want to leave?" I shook my head. "No it's fine... I mean she's fine I'm worrying about nothing." I felt her squeeze my hand so I focused on that and calmed myself down.

When the host noticed my breathing he came over to the table. "Are you okay? Can I help you with anything?" I pointed to the spare chair. "Can you take that please she's not coming." The guy nodded and carried the chair away. I instantly felt better not having that constant reminder even though the fear was still in the back of my mind.

"I'm really sorry." Wanda shook her head. "Don't apologise, I know how much Nat means to you, I'm worried about her too but she's okay." Wanda pulled out her phone. "Steve but her down for a nap, he's going to wake her up for pizza soon." Wanda showed me the phone and sure enough there were the texts from Tony with a screenshot of the cameras showing Nat was asleep." I sighed with relief. "Thank you." Wanda smiled, putting her phone back.

"What do people even talk about on dates?" Wanda asked and I shrugged. "I don't know I haven't really done anything like this before." She gave me a look but I didn't know what it meant. "Neither have I." She smiled, that surprised me. "Yeah I have only been interested in one person but they were my best friend and it would just complicate things so I waited for a really long time to ask them." I gave her a confused look. "Yes I'm talking about you." I pulled a shocked face. "You liked me?" She nodded with a chuckle. "Did I really hide it that well?"

"Did you know I liked you?" She nodded. "Not really, I knew you liked me a bit but I didn't know it was as much as I liked you." I nodded. "I think I probably liked you more I just was always so busy I never really said anything, I used looking after Nat as an excuse I guess. Which was wrong and I'm sorry, I should've told you."

"Hey, I didn't tell you either so I think we can forget the past right now." She gave me a genuine smile. "And to be honest can we forget the future to because the thought of something happening with us and nat finding out freaks me out. She will kill me." I chuckled. "I won't let her don't worry. And if she does I'll take away her tv time." Wanda returned a laugh. "I forgot how funny you were."

"Ouch." I say with pretend hurt making her playfully roll her eyes.

We ordered food and talked for what felt like hours until it started to get pretty dark. "Do you want to come back to my place and watch a movie?" I joked making wanda smile, "I would love that." I payed the bill and took her hand as we walked down the street I saw her eyeing up an ice cream place. "I fancy ice cream, what do you think?" She smiled and nodded. As we were walking she almost fell over from her heels but I caught her. "If we were in a romcom I'd probably kiss you right now." I pointed out making her smile. "Don't you hate romcoms." I kissed her gently. "Only sometimes." I lifted her back up and motioned for her to get on my back.

She hopped onto my back and I carried her to the ice cream shop. She whispered in my ear the whole time we walked and I couldn't stop laughing. "Alright which one do you want?" We picked out our ice creams and started to walk back home. "Get that on me and I will kill you never mind Nat." I smirked as Wanda ate her ice cream. "You can put me down you know." I shook my head. "Nope not gonna happen. I've stolen you and you're mine now." I teased making her laugh. I finished my ice cream quicker than her so I decided to mess with her and started running with her clinging to me.

"AHH Y/N PUT ME DOWN! STOP! STOP!" I laughed as I came to a stop. She slapped my chest. "Not funny." I smiled. "I'm sorry." I paused for a second before running again. "I seriously hate you, you're going to give me a heart attack."

I was about to say something back when I felt a buzzing in my pocket.

Hm what happened? 🤔😉

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