"Look both ways”
“Hey Bucky wanna go with us to the park?” Peter asks lifting Maria up in his arms as he tries to strap the squirming toddler into her carriage.
“Your dads are letting you take them outside without them?” Bucky says.
“We begged and pleaded with them until they finally agreed to let us take her,” Harley says hoisting the diaper bag over his shoulder.
“We want to get plenty of pictures of her on all the games,” Kami says as she comes in with a bottle of sunblock and the ugly pink hat that Maria hates but is the only hat that keeps the sun off her face.
“Yeah, sure I’ll go with you,” Bucky says throwing a hoodie on over his tank top and following the kids down and out onto the sidewalk. Bucky keeps a couple of paces behind the kids watching their backs.
When they reach the corner and wait for the light he’s not even thinking when he says, “look both ways.”
The kids turn to glance at him and Bucky feels his face heat up and they smile at him.
“Thanks dad,” they say and Bucky feels his stomach flutter at being called dad.
It feels nice.