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On today chapter, Max and Steve spend the night at the expo and something unexpected happen...

I promise that from the next chapter, we will have some action!

Fifth Chapter – What it really means to be with you

"Maxime…" Steve breathed into my hair while his arms went around my waist: "I missed you so much."

"I missed you too and I know that for you have been more than a year again." I said looking into his bright eyes with a small smile: "I'm so sorry."

"We both know that it's not your fault, doll." he said kissing my cheek: "You can't control it."

"Who is she?" asked a voice I didn't recognized and turning my head I saw the two girls that Bucky had found as dates that night looking at me with disgust in their eyes. They were studying my chlotes and judging them because for the time we were in they were really strange.

"She is Maxime, Steve's soulmate." explained Bucky between the two young ladies circling their waists with an arm each while smiling at me. He seemed really happy to see me, probably he was worried for his friend.

"And we are her overprotective best friends, so if you have a problem with her you can say something in our faces."

Chloe and Rachel came near me and my blue headed friend had her hands on her hips while glaring at the two girls who were shocked by her appearance.

"Chloe…" I tried to calm her down, I didn't want to cause problems. It probably was the boys' last night in town, even if Steve didn't knew it yet, and I wanted them to bhave a good time.

"What? I hate when people judje others just for how one appear." she said looking at me with a innocent expression and I couldn't help but feeling grateful for her friendship. She was crazy and very outspoken, but she was a loyal one.

"We weren't…" tried to say one of the two girl, the one with long black hair, but was silenced by a hot glare from Chloe.

"We will wait for you near that stand, James." said the blond one with a slight tremor in her voice freeing herself from the hold the boy had on her, her friend followed her lead and together run away very quickly.

"Chloe, you shouldn't have done that." Rachel said with force to her girlfriend.

"But…" tried to defend herself the blue headed girl, but Bucky stopped her with a shake of his head.

"Don't worry, I understand your desire to protect your friend." he said with a smile: "And I have to say that I am happy that Max has friends like you with her."

"She will always have me to watch her back." said Chloe with a firm tone and looking the soldier in the eyes without fear.

"She has the both of us." replied Rachel with the same strengh in her voice.

"You know, if I didn't had already asked those two out already, I would ask you two." said Bucky with a smirk.

"Sorry, but we wouldn't be interested. We don't like boys." said the blue headed girl putting her arm around Rachel's shoulders and kissing her cheek.

Steve and Bucky seemed surprised by their open demostration of love, but they didn't said anything.

"James? Are you ready?" shouted the blond girl snapping them out of silence.

"We're coming!" replied the soldier looking over his shoulder with a bright smile and grimacing when he noticed that the two girls had noticed Max's friends kind of relationship and they didn't seemed to like it.

"Bucky, you have choosen them well tonight" said Steve with a sarcastic voice noticing how the two girls were talking about his soulmate and her friends with malicious intents.

"Oh come one! They're cute at least. " tried to protest Bucky, but he didn't really believed his words himself.

"If you think so." was the blond's reply.

"You are blinded by your soulmate, I understand, but that doesn't mean that there aren't other beautiful girls out there."

"Beautiful girls without brain." murmured Chloe and I have to say that I agreed with her.

"Excuse me?" asked the soldier confused.

"You seems to like women without brain. Do you think it's easier to get in their panties?"

"Chloe!" I exclaimed surprised by her tone while Rachel hitted her on the head, but we were all surprised when the two men started to laugh. We exchanged confused glances and waited for them to calm down.

"I'm sorry, I didn't want to be rude." said Bucky once he recovered: "But you are the first one beside Steve that had the courage to say that to me without being afraid of offending me."

"I have no problem to say what I think." said my blue headed friend crossing her arm before her chest with a hard expression on her face.

"And that's usually the real problem." murmured Rachel making me stifle a laugh while Chloe glared at us.

"That's a good thing, you must stand up for yourself and what you belive in even if you are a woman." said Steve with a smile.

"Don't worry, she has no problem in doing so." I said shaking my head exasperated and I suddenly realized that I was still in his embrace, but I didn't want to leave his arms.

When the blond girl called for Bucky again, the soldier decided to move the conversation: "I think it's time for presentation. I am James Barnes, but you can call me Bucky. At your service." said with a slight bow.

"Nice to meet you, I am Rachel Amber." said the brown haired girl with a smile.

"Likewise, I'm Chloe Price."

"And I am Steve Rogers." said my soulmate attracting my best friends attention.

"And we are so happy to finally meet you." said Rachel with exitment: "Maxime talked so much about you."

"Yeah, she can't stop to talk about you." added Chloe giving me an amused look while I heavily blushed.

Steve stroked my cheek with a gentle touch to calm me down before replying: "I heard a lot about you two too and I am happy to finally put faces to those two names."

Chloe and Rachel exchanged a strange look when Steve touched me, but they didn't commented. Rachel just added: "While it was a real pleasure, we want to give you two time to spend together. So we will explore the fair until it's time to go back home."

"And don't do anything I would do!" shouted Chloe while her girlfriend pulled her away saying their goodbyes to Steve and Bucky.

"They are really something." said James amused before looking at us: "I imagine that I will have to entertain the girls alone tonight."

"I am sorry, Bucky. It's your last night in the city, I should..." started to say Steve, but his friend stopped him with his hand.

"Don't worry, spend the night with Maxime. It's been a year, I understand."

"Why is your last night in New York?" I asked trying to seem ignorant, but I failed because the soldier looked at me with a look that said he didn't believed me.

"I think that you know why."

"Yeah..." I ammited looking at the floor with a slight blush: "And I am sorry that I ruined your last night with your friend."

"I spent a life with him, it doesn't matter."

"Thanks Bucky." murmured Steve into my hair.

James laughed shaking his head: "I don't believe that you would prefer to spend the night with the girls and me instead that with your soulmate."

"You are right." my soulmate said hugging me harder against him.

"I will have the night of my life, don't worry. You enjoy your date, I'll see you later." and once he said that, he reached the girls, put his arms on thei shoulder and started to walk away.

"Shall we go?" asked Steve offering his right arm to me with a gentle smile.

"With pleasure." Ireplied accepting his offer.

We started to roam the fair with great interest. I asked a lot of things, some machines seemed so foreing even for someone from the future like me, while he wanted to know if Stark and his staff were near a real invention or they all were impossible fantasty of a very rich man, but I always answered with caution because I couldn't reveal too much and Steve didn't seem to mind.

At some point, we reached the luna park's area where a lot of couple and families already were and started to go on some rides. My favourite one was without doubt the ferry wheel where I was seated near Steve with his arm around my shoulder to keep me warm.

Our next stop was a stand were one could win a teddy bear hitting with a small ball three empty coke cans. Steve wanted to try to win one for me even if I didn't want him to spend money again for me, but he didn't listened. He tried three times, each one with three tries paid, but he never did it and we started to walk away with him being defeated.

"It's just a teddy bear, Steve." I said with my head on his shoulder.

"But I wanted to win it for you." he whined loke a small child making me smile, I never saw him that way.

"And I thank you for that, but..."

"If only I could try again..." His words stopped me when an idea hit me and made him look at me confused: "What's wrong?"

I knew my idea was selfish, but it would make him happy and it was a good way to show him my secret.

"You want to know a secret?" I asked with a smirk on my lips grabbing his hand and pulling him towards the stand again.

"What are you talking about?" he asked clearly confused.

"I think that's the perfect occasion to show you my power."

"Your time travel's power?"

"Not exactly, I am talking about my little bit of control on time."

We stopped at the stand's desk again receiving an amused look from the man behind it when he started to come near us.

"Just watch." I murmured in his ear keeping a firm hold on his hand while putting the other one in front of us.

I could feel his eyes on me searching for something, but I closed mine and started to concentrate. I heard a gasp from him and I knew that everything around us was rewind itself.

"Your last try mister." said the man of the stand and when I opened my eyes I noticed him smirk at my soulmate, he clearly didn't believe that he could do it.

"Thank you." replied Steve still stunned by my magic while he exchanged again his money for three balls.

"So, what do you think?" I asked leaning against the table while he tried his first strike.

"I never saw something like that."

"Well, me niether. You can imagine how I was surprised to discover to have this power."

"I think I... I don't know what I would have done to be sincere."

"Well, I totally freaked out and – Oh don't worry if you miss the next strike too." I said when he missed the second one and made a frustrated sound: "I can always rewind the time again if you really want to win – as I was saying, I totally freaked out and I needed some time alone to realize that it was all real."

"I can only try to imagine." he said with a sigh when he lost again, but before the smirking man could come near us and taunt my soulmate like the first time, I used my power and the three balls were offered to us again.

"It's incredible." he whisperered, but he put himself totally in the game and with only two turns he did it and we left the stand with a giant brown teddy bear between my arms.

"Thank you Steve, I love it."

"I am happy to hear it even if I could win it just with your help."

"Well, it was something that we did together, right?" I said smiling at him with happiness.

"You are right."

In that exact moment, I started to feel strange and I knew my time was up again.

"Steve..." I tried to say, but he shaked his head while looking at something behind me.

"It's time for you to go, right?"

"How do you know?"

"I read the signs and... you friends are looking at us with a worried expression."

I looked behind my shoulder and I saw Chloe and Rachel waving at me to which I replied with a simple nod then I looked back in Steve's eyes.

"Steve, I have to say something first."

"What is it?" he asked confused.

"I know that you want to be part of the army and I know that nothing I will say will change your mind. I don't want to change it because I know what it means to you, I just want you to promise me to be carefull because the next time we will see each other you bettere have all your body's parts on you or I will kill you myself."

"I promise Max." he said with a smirk before being serious again: "I will fight for what I believe in and for you."

"That's all I ask." I said before reaching for his lips and kissing him for the first time.

Fireworks seemed to light in my stomach when our lips came into contact and they seemed made for each other. It was a soft and gentle touch full of our love. I felt his arms go around my waist while my hands went to his neck. I didn't want that moment to end, but I knew that our time was limited.

When we separeted, I noticed that my arms where starting to fade and Steve noticed it too with worried eyes before locking our gaze again.

"I love you Maxime." he said with his eyes full of love.

My heart started to beat faster at his word and I gave him a big smile: "I love you too, Steve." and I quickly kissed him again: "And wait for me, Captain."

That was the last thing I said before disappearing while noticing a confused look on my soulmate's face. One day he would understand.