“Ooh! Bucky look at this!” YN practically squealed as she pulled yet another shirt off it’s rack. Bucky turned his attention away from a pair of jeans he as looking at and to YN. He let out a laugh that sounded through the almost silent store. 

In her hands was a shirt covered in Bugs Bunny faces. “Wow,” He walked towards her and took it from her. “That’s definitely an interesting shirt.” 

“I’m getting this for you, Buck. Happy birthday.” She set it in her shopping basket. Bucky snorted and as he watched his roommate continue walking down the aisle. 

Thank god we’re in a thrift store, he thought.

At least once a month the pair would head out to local thrift shops and just look around. You’d be surprised the stuff that you could find. Most of YN’s wardrobe consisted of clothes she bought second hand. Bucky wasn’t as invested in it, but he’d be lying if he said he didn’t enjoy the one of a kind finds every so often. 

As the two moved through the store, the heavier their baskets got. Bucky had just finished looking through another rack of jackets when he heard YN call his name. He looked over and saw her in the women’s winter section of the store. She was waving him down and signaling him to go over to her. 

“Look, finally a Sherpa denim jacket that isn’t in horrible condition.” She held it out to him for him to see. 

“Would you look at that. Price?” He questioned. YN scrambled for the tag and read it aloud. “$5. Steal! And I have just enough money.” She took it off the hanger and placed it in the bucket under the rack. “Good.” Bucky responded. He took her basket and lead her out of the aisle. “Maybe you can stop stealing mine.” YN scoffed and lightly hit him his shoulder. She heard him laugh lightly. “Never.” She laughed as she followed behind Bucky to the register. 

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The two were in the checkout line when she saw it. 

Just past the registers, in a small pile of new arrivals sat a small yellow footrest. It was round and a vintage look to it. 

“Buck,” YN set her basket down on the ground and bushed past Bucky. “Look.” 

“YN, what are you doing?” Bucky asked. 

She ignored him and knelt down to pick up the footrest. She turned on her heels to face Bucky. He could tel by the look on her face what she was trying to tell him. “Please.” She whined. Bucky couldn’t help but laugh. He nodded his head and grabbed her basket and set it on the checkout. “We’ll take the footrest too.” 

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“Okay, set it down right there.” YN instructed from the doorway of her room. 

Bucky set the footrest on the carpeted floor and stepped back. “Looks good.”

“I just knew from the moment I saw it that it would go great with my reading chair!” She exclaimed. She rushed to her closest and pulled out a white knitted blanket from the stock pile she already owned and rushed back to her chair. She plopped down with a book in hand and got comfy. 

Bucky smiled at her as he grabbed his phone from her bed. “Don’t get too invested. Dinner will be ready in a little bit.” He said as he left her room. 

She didn’t reply. Instead she propped her feet upon her new footrest and continued to read. 

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