[Comprehensive English and American] Ripples in time and space

"You're so beautiful today." These were the first words Steve said when he met Kylie at NYU.Kelly, with her light brown curly hair thrown back, wore a sky blue dress that had a hint of green in the yellow lighting, matching her turquoise eyes just right.

"Thank you, your opening remarks today are very good and have improved." Kelly smiled slightly.She held out her hand for Steve to lead into the dance floor. It's been a long time since the two of them have been to a prom. This scene reminds Kelly of Steve's prom - when she finally confirmed that she likes Bucky. , and now almost two years have passed. "I didn't tell Bucky you were coming, guess he'd freak out when he saw you?

"I hope to scare him." Steve said with a smile, the two looked around for a while, but he found Bucky first: "There!"

They made their way through the crowd towards Bucky, halfway there Bucky saw the two of them. "Steve?!" His expression really seemed to be taken aback, "Oh, did you come with Kelly?"

"I heard you got a girlfriend." Steve smiled at him, "But you didn't tell me?"

"It's not that far yet." Bucky replied softly, then he raised his voice and shouted in another direction: "Nina!"

The brown-haired girl Kelly had met a few times ran over, smiled at them friendly, and eyed Steve curiously.Several people had just greeted each other and introduced each other, and the first piece of music had already been played.

"Come on, Bucky, let's do our first dance!" Nina excitedly dragged Bucky towards the dance floor, and Bucky looked back at Kelly and Steve, but followed immediately. was pulled away by her.Kelly and Steve took a seat next to them.

Neither of them danced, had a few drinks together and chatted occasionally, and after several songs like this, Steve finally asked the question he'd been oblivious to asking: "How are you, Kelly?"

"I don't know." Kelly shrugged, "Bucky has a girlfriend, so I should give up, but now..."

"I'm not reconciled." Kelly said, looking at the couple twirling and embracing on the dance floor, she felt a dryness in her throat, "I mean, if he just finds a blonde with big boobs and no brains, well, Then I'll give up, I know he likes girls like that and I'm hopeless in the first place, and that's okay. But Nina—"

She looked at the giggling girl with her arm around Bucky's neck, she was brown-haired like Kelly, she had lovely round cheeks, she had a good-natured disposition, and she wasn't like the other girls with Steve. Obvious dislike, "Am I not as cheerful as her? Not as beautiful as her? Not as smart and talented as her? Am I not on good enough terms with his friends and family? Or is it just because I'm a witch and he's afraid of me?" "

"Shh, keep your voice down!" Steve looked around more nervously than she did, "Don't say that, Kelly, you know Bucky will never be afraid of you."

"Then why is he getting colder and colder to me every year?" Kelly turned to him and Steve was horrified to find that there were tears in her eyes - he thought she was the kind of girl who was so strong that she would never cry , "He hasn't even invited me to a dance this whole year. You know he is deliberately avoiding me, but Nina just—why not me?"

"I don't know." Steve said sincerely, "I thought Bucky must like you, I can tell, the way he looks at you..."

"Don't comfort me." Kelly glared at him. "You and Bucky are best friends, I know you must have discussed me behind my back, just like I am discussing him with you now. Please, please tell me , Steve, at least I have a right to know what he doesn't like about me."

"I swear, if I knew I'd tell you!" Steve said sincerely, "But all Bucky said about you was compliments, and really, he never did that to any girl he dated. Compliments, there must be some misunderstanding, you know, maybe he was too nervous...uh."

Kelly raised her eyebrows sadly at him, and Steve couldn't go on talking, after all, he knew Bucky well enough to know that he would never be nervous about asking a girl to dance.

"Okay, then, but I'm still not reconciled," Kelly said.At this time, the dance music was coming to an end. Bucky and Nina left the dance floor and were standing beside them chatting. Kelly dragged Steve to stand up: "Steve, invite Nina to dance."

"What?" Steve was staggered by her, "But I..."

"Go ask Nina to dance, please." Kelly whispered.She had pulled Steve over there, and Bucky looked up and waved at them.

"...Okay, okay." Steve took a deep breath.He said hello to Bucky, then turned to Nina, "Uh, Nina, I, can I ask you to dance?"

Nina looked at him in surprise, she turned her head to Bucky, as if asking for his opinion, and Bucky looked at her and Steve, then turned to Kelly, as if waiting for her What did she say, but Kelly just carefully maintained a deadpan expression and said nothing.Bucky shrugged and tilted his head to show that he didn't mind.

Nina seemed to frown, but she still took Steve's nervously extended hand, and the two of them entered the dance floor together, leaving Kelly and Bucky standing face to face.She felt her heart pounding in her chest, so loud and so hard that the blood vessels around her temples were throbbing with pain.

"Mr. James Barnes," she said, with a sweet smile, "would you like to ask me to dance?"

Bucky opened his mouth slightly and looked at her in surprise, seemingly overwhelmed by her sudden question.

"No." He said subconsciously.

Kelly felt that her sudden heartbeat stopped suddenly, as if her whole body was frozen from the heart.She was already prepared that Bucky might have no reason but simply didn't like her enough, which was fine, but she never thought that Bucky would reject her so directly.This answer was like a sudden slap, which made her take half a step back.She opened her mouth, but found that she couldn't say anything, and she couldn't think of what to say, so she turned around, barely maintained a pace that could be considered "walking" rather than "running", and fled towards the door without looking back. go.

"No, I didn't mean that - Kelly! Wait, Kelly!"

Kelly heard Bucky chasing after him and tried to hold him back, but she twisted her arm and managed to shake off his hand skillfully without even turning her head. Hold the expression on your face.Her heart seemed to revive again when she turned around, but other parts did not cooperate and were still frozen, so that every heartbeat seemed to send ice balls into the blood vessels, anger, shame and sadness mixed together, piercing Her fingers were numb, and her skin ached as if exposed to snow.

She doesn’t really mind if it’s just that the invitation to the dance is rejected—Kelly, after all, came here seven or eighty years later, and it’s never a shame for a girl to take the initiative to invite a man. In fact, at her own college prom, She and her friends hooked up handsome young men all over the place, and there were many successes and many failures, but she just laughed it off at that time.What she really minded was that Bucky rejected her so directly to her face.

Bucky had never been the type to be so cruel to a girl's invitation.He is very gentle, even for strange girls, he will take care of each other to the greatest extent, and what is different from others is that his approach is not out of prejudice against a certain gender, but his tenderness from the bottom of his heart Good character and genuine appreciation for lovely girls.That's what broke Kelly's heart, and it's what breaks her heart so much now: if Bucky was too scared to say no to her offer, he'd feel even more for her than if he didn't. Like—he has never treated any girl like this, even the most ugly and annoying girl...

"Kelly, please, Kelly!" Bucky grabbed her arm again, this time so tight that Kelly had to stop, "I'm sorry, Kelly, I'm sorry, I didn't mean— —Can you dance with me, Kelly?" She didn't look back, but she heard Bucky's voice was more than pleading and polite, and there was a hint of pain in it.

"It's okay, you don't have to make it up, Bucky," Kelly said, knowing her voice was on the verge of crying, but she couldn't help it, "I understand—I understand you just don't like it." I……"

Her voice faltered and she couldn't continue, and Bucky seemed to be frightened, and even let go of her hand: "God, Kelly, I—I'm not, I—"

He let go of his hand, as if he was going to go around to the front of Kelly, but as soon as he let go, Kelly ran regardless. She could guess that everyone in the bar was looking at her curiously, but she just needed to After running a few more steps, he opened the door and went outside.Kelly double-stepped around the corner, Apparating without a moment's hesitation.

However, just when she felt her body was being squeezed by the magic power, a hand grabbed her shoulder tightly.

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