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47 → Filthy/Gorgeous

"How do you know about that?"

"Uh, I overheard Jean and Bobby talking in the kitchen. Bobby asked why you weren't around as much and Jean told him that you didn't want to make things worse so you stayed away when my sister and I were there. And Rhys lives there and whenever we were around he would do the same" Pietro explained.

"Oh" was all Dia said.

"Dia, I'm sorry" Pietro apologized. "I'm sorry for being mad at you, and ignoring you, from keeping you away from everyone at the school"

"I'm sorry for not telling you. I mean I barely knew you when I found out" Dia explained.

"I'm sorrier. So, do you forgive me?" Pietro asked.

"If you let me keep the tickets we win, then yeah" she nodded. Pietro smiled and agreed. He handed his slurpee to Bucky to hold while Dia used her card for the game. All the tickets are electronic, so if they win the jackpot the 400 tickets will be in her card.

Bucky watched in amazement as Dia and Pietro hit each lit button without missing a single one. He's more than sure that Pietro could've hit every single one of the buttons without any help but this is his way of extending an olive branch to Dia. When they reached the end of the game, it announced a bonus round and all the buttons lit up. Dia and Pietro hit all the buttons in a blink. They cheered and raised their arms in the air as they won but Dia gets to keep the tickets. It didn't matter to Pietro, as long as Dia has forgiven him then she can have all his tickets.

They asked Bucky if he wants to play which he agreed and so he played with Dia, handing Pietro back his slurpee. He saw how the game worked so he knows what to do, but Bucky got a little too excited and he almost broke a button. They heard a crack and they grimaced. When he pulled his hand away all they saw was a large crack down the blue button.

"Well" Pietro pressed the button with his finger. "It still works" he took a sip of his slurpee. "Don't feel bad Bucky, I broke the steering wheel off the racing game"

So the three of them walked around, played games without breaking them, even joined the other Avengers that were there. Then at the back of the room there was a hockey table and Sam stood next to it. When he saw Bucky, Dia and Pietro, a smile grew on his face.

"Barnes, check it out. It's an air hockey table!"

"Oh no" Bucky and Pietro dreadfully said. Dia looked between them in confusion.

"Let's play" Sam grinned.

"I- I don't think we should" Bucky shook his head.

"Come on! It'll be fun!" Sam pulled his card out, swiped it and the puck clanked as it fell. He moved to the left end of the table and reached down to pull out the puck.

"Uh, are you sure about that?" Bucky questioned.

"What's happening?" Dia curiously asked.

"Uh, well you see" Bucky began to nervously explain.

"There used to be an air hockey table at the compound but Sam and Bucky always got competitive. The puck would fly out and crash into something. The final straw was when the puck crashed through the window and hit Steve in the back of the head. He got a mild concussion" Pietro quickly explained. "After that Tony got rid of the air hockey table"

"Oh my God" Dia mumbled.

"Yeah. They were like you and Bruce when we went bowling" Pietro laughed at the memory of Dia nearly jumping on Bruce's back.

"Except we didn't give anyone concussions" Dia commented.

"Thor said he was in fear of his life" Sam interjected. Dia narrowed her eyes at him. "Anyway, c'mon, Barnes. Just one game. You know you wanna"