✮ Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Reader
✮ Summary: Bucky leaves his laptop open. You peek. What you find in his search history sends you into a full meltdown of the best kind.
✮ Genre: fluff, crack + softness, emotional!Bucky, oblivious boyfriend behavior, accidental confessions, best friends to lovers, you’re already in love but now you’re sure
✮ Author Notes🖋️: He’s in love. Deeply. Dumbly. Entirely. And apparently, he’s trusting Google with his feelings before you 😭💗
You weren’t snooping. Really. You weren’t. You were just trying to pull up Spotify on Bucky’s laptop while he was in the shower. Totally innocent. Totally not looking for anything private.
And then… you accidentally brushed the trackpad. And his browser popped open.
And his search history was right there.
You squint at the top entry.
“how to flirt without sounding desperate”
Oh. Oh no. Your heart stutters.
You scroll down one line “does soft girl love metal arm”
“how to propose with no ring but max love”
“can you marry your best friend without them knowing”
“what does it mean if she always looks at your mouth during arguments”
“why is she so pretty it hurts”
You cover your mouth with your hand. Are you crying or laughing? Who knows.
You hear the shower shut off. Panic hits. You slam the laptop closed like you’ve just committed a federal crime.
He walks into the room in nothing but a towel and a blush, rubbing water from his face “Hey, did the music stop?”
You’re still frozen on the couch, laptop on your lap, hands clenched like it might explode “Y-Yeah. I—uh. It glitched.”
He doesn’t notice. Just walks over, presses a kiss to your head like he does every day.
Like you’re his. (Because you are.)
He plops down beside you. “Movie night?”
The man who just googled how to propose with no ring but max love. The man who’s been “casually” in love with you for months and has apparently been consulting Google dot com about it like it’s a therapist.
And suddenly, it hits you. He’s terrified.
He loves you, but he doesn’t know how to tell you. So he’s been asking questions he doesn’t feel brave enough to say out loud.
He notices your expression shift. Brows furrow “Hey… are you okay?”
You nod, quick. Too quick “Just thinking.”
He shifts closer, presses his forehead to yours “’Bout what?”
You swallow. Then smile.
“About how I’d say yes, even if you didn’t have a ring.”
His breath catches. You feel it.
Slowly, so slowly, he pulls back and stares at you “What?”
You smile wider, heart in your throat. “Max love, remember?”
He turns red. Full-body flush. Ears. Neck. Even his chest “Oh my god,” he whispers. “You saw.”
You nod. “I wasn’t snooping—”
“No, no,” he mumbles, hiding his face in his hands. “I’m an idiot.”
He groans. “That’s worse.”
You giggle and climb into his lap, cupping his face “Bucky Barnes,” you whisper. “I love you. Desperately. Fully. And yes, even the metal arm.”
He peeks at you from between his fingers “Even when I google dumb things like ‘can you marry your best friend without them knowing’?”
You press your forehead to his.
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