Never learned that lesson. Guess when you're more than a foot shorter than everyone else you have to find a way to get noticed.

[But despite those comments about silence, Bucky was still talking. Thankfully, he wasn't taking his own advice.]

We were like brothers. We grew up together. You saved me from bullies and took care of me when I had pneumonia and Ma was too sick to get out of bed. [He'd been the closest thing to family Steve had after she died.] You'd sneak peeks at my sketchbooks when you found out I was drawing nudes in art class. We were just about inseparable until the war.