"She might not talk, but she can tell one hell of a story"
Dia doesn't talk by choice, only a few people know why. She communicates by sign language and so her friends were left with no choice but to learn the language so they can understand her.
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"You and Josh really do this?" Bucky curiously asked Dia as he held a big ball of green wool in his hands. Dia has the wool around her arms since she's knitting with her arms and not with knitting needles. Every loop goes through her hand and up her arm, and when she's done with the stitching on one arm, she transfers it to the other.
"Yep" she answered and popped the 'p'. "We usually do it when we can't sleep or just relaxing on the couch and watching tv. Other times in bed"
"I'm sorry, what?" Bucky looked over at Dia who's sitting next to him on the bed. The night has just begun and since Dia isn't working that night, the couple is in Dia's room where they were going to watch Netflix or play a stupid game, maybe play cards against humanity, but instead they ended up watching Chowder and knitting. Still, it's a nice way to spend the night. A calm relaxing night.
"Not like that" she chuckled. "Josh and I just sit in bed and we take turns knitting. Sometimes we watch tv and other times we talk"
"So Josh is like...your knitting buddy? In bed knitting buddy?"
Dia giggled and began to pass the loops to her left arm. "Well, I mean, yeah I guess. Look, I don't have a childhood friend. I didn't meet anyone in the playground or traded pokemon cards. I skipped fourth grade, I was the youngest and smaller one in my class, I didn't have many friends. I met Josh in my living room when I was 9. He became my best friend. He may be 5 years older than me but he saw me as his little sister. I told him things I wouldn't tell my siblings, and he told me things he wouldn't tell Liam. When we were bored, we would go out and walk around the city. We would go to the science museum which was so much fun, and then we'd go to Chinatown and get mooncakes from my cousin Ashlee. Her grandparents have this amazing bakery and they also have a restaurant. Oh my god, it's so great. And then when I was 16 I met Rhys in an abandoned warehouse. We didn't go to the same high school, in fact we went to rival high schools, but we became best friends. Josh and I still had that amazingly tight bond and as I grew up so did our friendship. I get in his bed and we talk, or knit. I've often fallen sleep in his bed and sometimes his girlfriend is also there"
"That's a little weird" Bucky commented. "Wait, Sarah?"
"Josh and I don't have weird. Sarah understands. I just- I..." Dia sighed and dropped her arms to her sides. How does she word that Joshua isn't just her best friend or like a brother when he's actually more like- like- she doesn't want to say he completes her because it sounds corny, but in a way he does. He understands her, he knows her, he's one half and Dia is the other. That's why he and Dia work so well behind the bar, that's why they have great love for music, that's why she calls him Josie.
Dia cracked a smile at her thoughts. If she didn't know any better she'd say that her and Joshua are- no, that's stupid. There's no such thing. Is there? Is Joshua my soulmate? No. That doesn't exist. That's disgusting. Soulmates are romantic, aren't they? Are there friend soulmates? No. No. Soulmates aren't real.
