Natasha's long speech really made Steve start to rethink his choices. What if he was just overreacting? They were just teenagers after all and who actually is in a committed relationship so early on in their life? Maybe this was exactly how relationships were supposed to be.

Even if it was it wasn't Steve. He wasn't the type of guy to play with a girl's feelings just so he can say he has a girlfriend. Yelena deserved to know the truth. He couldn't stay with her, it wasn't fair.

He met up with her later that day, she was coming to his practice. It was really nice of her and he really did appreciate it, especially because he knew she didn't really want to be there.

"You did so well!" She smiled as he walked over to her after changing. He was in sweats and a t-shirt and had a towel wrapped around his neck.

"Oh uh thank you, Yelena."

"You know, if you keep this up I am sure you'll win the homecoming game." She smiled. He looked down, he had to talk to her.

"Speaking of homecoming,"

"Right homecoming! I am so excited, did you know I have never been to homecoming before?" She asked, but it was more of a statement. "I am so excited, I know you haven't officially asked me but I figured since we are dating now that we would go together, and I can't wait to find you a suit-"

"Yeah about that suit Yelena,"

"If you are worried about the cost don't worry, I will get you one free of charge, I want you to look great after you win the game. What do you think we should wear? Color-wise. We need a color that fits both of us and personally red would look good or you know what? Blue. Your eyes would pop and I'd look so royal."

"Yelena,"

"But of course if you don't like it we could always go another color, I am not picky at all."

"Yelena." He repeated. "Can you stop?"

"What?" She asked smiling confusingly at him.

"Listen, you are great, amazing even." she smiled. "But this thing between us, whatever it is has to end."

"What?" She asked.

"I am sorry."

"Sorry? Steve, what are you talking about?" She asked. "You're confusing me."

"I think we should break up."

"What?" She asked, she almost wanted to laugh. "You want to break up? Break up with me?"

"Listen, I want you to know it has nothing to do with you, but I just don't feel anything for you and it's not fair to either of us if we continue this relationship."

"Wait are you serious? Because if you aren't I don't like how you are acting right now Steve." She said Steve could only stare at her rubbing the back of his neck. "Oh my, you're being serious right now."

"I am sorry,"

"Are you?"

"Excuse me?" He asked.

"Do you always do this? Get a girl to fall for you with your act and then break her heart like it's nothing?"

"I am not trying to hurt you, I am trying to be honest with you." He said. "If you'd just hear me out you'd understand."

"Do you understand that you are the first man I have ever felt some kind of feelings for? The only one I didn't leave after two days. Do you realize I stayed here for you!" She almost screamed. "I could have gone home but I was connected to you and I thought you were connected to me,"

"I think you are amazing, I just don't think I could see us together forever, and if there is no endgame for us, then maybe I should let you go."

"Steve Grant Rogers you are way too ahead of your time." She said.

"I don't want there to be bad blood between us Yelena."

"No bad blood?" She could have laughed. "You stepped on my heart and you want us to be buddies who go shoot hopes on the weekends?"

"As I have said I am not trying to hurt you,"

"if this isn't supposed to hurt me I'd hate to see you try and hurt me on purpose." She sighed. "I don't know why I am yelling, I am not angry. I really am not. Frustrated maybe, but not angry"

"Did I hurt you?"

"Hurt is not something I am, I was not in love with you." She said. "I liked to think I was, pretend, but I know I wasn't. Especially when your heart wasn't in it."

"I tried, you are really great. I can see why you and Natasha are such great friends." At that Yelena couldn't help but laugh.

"Please Natalia and I are only friends because our parents are business partners, and I was always there. Natalia needed someone to push her away from her parent's control, I did that as far as I could and it led her here. Truth be told I have only been following her around the globe because I miss her. I miss when she used to come and complain to me, I miss when we were friends." She sighed. "You and her are so alike that being with you, around you, made me feel like I had a friend. Natalia kept being sent off and she despised me more and more because I got to stay. I wasn't treated the same, I saw our friendship slowly ending. I guess I wanted to be the one to control when that happened."

"I am starting to feel like you are in love with her," He laughed but Yelena didn't laugh as well.

"Natalia has a way of making people fall for her, even if they don't know it's happening. I guess it happened with me too."

"Are um, are you going to uh do something about it?" He asked.

"No." She shook her head. "I like her, but I am not in love with her. Not anymore, not since I met you. Besides I know as much that we'd never get along."

"No? How so."

"Because she's not and will never be in love with me." She gave him a small smile. "I hope you understand Steve that I am not angry at you, just at myself and letting a single person control my life. I think I need to meet new people. I have had her at the center of my world for too long. I need to start doing something for myself."

"You're a great person and deserve someone as great as you," Steve said giving her hand a tight squeeze before releasing it.

"So do you, Steve. I know that you love her too-"

'What? I uhh no, I don't-"

"Please, I know how you look at her, I know what it's like to be in love with her." She said and Steve was shaking his head as if to prove he was not in love with her.

"Don't do that, hiding it away will only hurt. I was not right for her but maybe you will be."

"You are being oddly nice for to someone who just broke up with you," Steve said softly.

"We were never really together." She smiled. "Besides I have to say I really like you and her together, you guys look kinda the next Brad and Angelina."

"Aren't they broken up?" He asked, knowing that much about celebrity relationship. He had to listen to girls and Bucky complains about how if Brangelina is broken up then no one has a chance to make a relationship work.

"For now, but I believe they are Endgame and you can fight me on that." She said.

"Whatever you say but I think that they won't be getting back together, why break up only to get back together?" He teased.

"Whatever," She rolled her eyes as Steve looked down at his phone seeing it was almost time for him to meet his mom for dinner.

"I should get going, but we are cool, right? No bad blood between us?" He asked, her feelings were the most important thing to him at this moment.

"Please you can't hurt me," She smiled. "If anything you were a mild distraction, if I had any real feelings toward you, I would have slapped you and killed you by now."

"I can't tell if you are joking or not, and that kind of scares me."

"good, it should."

"You have a way with people you know that?" He laughed and so did she.

"I want to stay friends with you, Steve. You are a great person and you make the world feel not so lonely."

"Well considering how we rarely ever kissed or did all the couple things I'd say that we have always been friends." Come to think of it, they really hadn't done very many romantic things, instead, it was mostly Steve showing her around New York.

"Good. Okay well, do you need a ride or anything?"

"Steve I have a car, I should be asking you that question,"

"Right, no I am good actually Sam is driving me to the diner he is meeting his parents there," He looked at his phone. "I should go find him, and Yelena please don't forget that I am here for you, whenever."

"Thank you, Steve. And remember what I told you, Brangelina."

"Right," He laughed before walking off. Yelena watched him go with a sigh, she wasn't hurt and that was the truth. She was annoyed of course, but she wasn't hurt as one would be after a breakup. She was using Steve to make Natasha jealous, of course, what she hadn't seen was Natasha wasn't jealous that Yelena was with someone but that Steve was with someone. Surprisingly she wasn't upset. She was almost... released? She couldn't describe it of course but maybe-

"Watch out!" Before she could even react a ball was hitting her on the side of the head.

"Oww." She said as she fell back on the ground.

"oh man I am sorry, I didn't see you there and I was practicing my kicking." She looked over and saw someone running towards her. "Here let me help you up."

"Uhm thanks I guess." She said.

"Woah are you Russian? The accent is cool." He smiled.

"Thank you?"

"Oh wait you're Yelena right? Steve's girlfriend?" He asked. "I am Bucky his best friend."

"Oh right, Bucky? Yeah, I am Yelena Steve's now ex-girlfriend."

"Ex? Huh, I can't believe he actually did it. His lost of course, I don't know why he'd want to break up with you." he smirked.

"I'm sorry but how have we not met before?" She asked.

"I am just as surprised as you. It seems as Steve kept you all for himself if I didn't see you drop him off in the mornings I would have thought you were fake."

"He probably didn't want Natasha to see him, afraid she'd actually murder him."

"That's very likely she has him wrapped around her finger, even if they barely hang out with each other."

"Yeah that's true." She smiled.

"Hey I hope your head is okay, I didn't mean to almost knock your head off."

"Oh no worries, trust me it takes more than a football to take me down." She smiled and he smiled back. "Well I should get going, I have to call my parents to start making plans to head back home."

"Not staying?"

"There's nothing here for me anymore, besides I have been away for too long." She smiled.

"Well, I hope you have a safe trip home, Yelena," Bucky said.

"Thank you, James."

"No one calls me that."

"They should," She insisted. "it's a nice name."

"I guess it can be reserved for you, and my snap name of course," He showed her his phone with his snapchat name on it.

"What do you expect me to do with this?" She teased.

"I don't know it's called making friends. Friends give each other their snap chats." He said. She watched him for a moment before taking out her own phone and adding him on snapchat. "Cool well, I will surely come to you for any Russia gossip,"

"I am counting on it." She smirked. "Goodbye James."

"Bye Yelena." And James watched her walk away and Yelena couldn't help but smile to herself, so what if Steve was a distraction, he leads her to something far more interesting, or perhaps someone? Only time will tell. But for now, it was time to go home, she needed to start focusing on herself and not Natasha for once in her life.