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It was the first chilly day of Autumn, the leaves were still green but the occasional tree was already beginning to shed it’s coat of fluffy leaves to the sidewalks below.
Addie remembered when she first arrived in D.C. It was Spring and she was one of the fortunate as she witnessed the cherry trees blooming all around the city. That was a year ago when she first moved to the nation’s capital for the job at the small, but prosperous arts center: Capital Performances. She loved to act and work backstage when she wasn’t assigned a role, but most importantly, she just couldn’t wait until next Winter when they would put on Rogers: The Musical.
True, she was appalled at the idea of her Steve being made into a musical, but she actually liked the songs, in addition she couldn’t very well say no. It was Marvel, for heaven’s sake, she loved Marvel.
And most importantly, she loved Steve Rogers.
It was puppy love, but she kept it at a healthy distance unlike the other fangirls she ran across on social media. Their thirst posts were enough to make her throw her phone off her beanbag and groan into a pillow.
She didn’t care. In her mind, Steve was in his perfect world.
“Now if only I could actually meet the man.” She shook her head as she picked up one of the fallen leaves off the side walk and studied the veins between the paper-like membranes of the object. She had been to multiple Comic-Cons, but she wasn’t willing to wait 5 hours to meet Chris Evans, but she meet Sebastian Stan once on the street. And honestly, he was the sweetest person she had ever met. He even asked her for a selfie.
She sighed and threw the leaf over her shoulder before sitting down on the grass to paint the Washington Monument with the sunlight illuminating one side of it, while the shadow covered the other side.
She liked those lighting parallels, she tried to paint them as close to how they appeared as quickly as she could before the sun went down.
It was almost therapeutic, but watching the Captain America saga was her therapy. Screw the medication.
Charlotte’s notification sound jerked Addie out of her mid-afternoon nap as she lost her balance and fell on her bottom on the floor. She giggled and picked up her phone which had fallen along with her.
“Any news yet?”Her friend was referring to the acceptance letter from Liberty University that they were both waiting on, but it was Addie who was actually going.
“I haven’t checked my mail yet. It doesn’t come until around 4.” She replied, feeling the butterflies in her stomach rising again. She had wanted to go to New York University, but their tuition was WAAAY too high to even justify the amount of schooling she was to gain.
Nope. Liberty U it was.
“I hate ur mailman.” Charlotte responded quickly.
“I hate the mail system.”
“Right.”
“How was your day?”
“Slow and lowkey.”
“Lo-ki.”
“Yeah XD”
“U need to make Jonah’s contact name that.”
“What?? Jonah’s not a Loki, he’s definitely a Tony Stark.”
“We say it like Zodiac signs XD”
“WELL ISN’T IT?”
“Touche. Did u know you woke me up from a rather pleasant nap?”
“I would say I’m sorry if you were dreaming about you know who.”
“Unfortunately not this time.”
“Well, shoot.”
“IKR?”
“I still can’t believe you’d take Steve over Thor, I mean the hunk of a man Thor??”
Addie shook her head and smiled. Charlotte was head over heals for the god of thunder.
“I prefer my Captain.” Addie replied, adamant.
“Your loss.”
“You’re mean.”
“I am truthful.”
“Whatev.” Addie snickered, knowing full well their insults were playful. “I should go before we have a gif war, plus I just heard the mail slot.”
“Fingers crossed for u!! <3”
Addie took a breath before standing up and jogging to the mail slot in her apartment’s door, there was a small bundle of mail but the only one she wanted was the one with the red and blue logo.
“WAHOO!” She jumped up and down when she found it. She ran to the kitchen and started a FaceTime with her mom who was in Oregon on a much-needed vacation.
“Hey, honey!” Her mom picked quickly and Addie couldn’t help the grin that broke out on her face.
“Guess what came today??”
“Did you get your letter??” Her mom’s face lit up.
“Who’s at the top?” She made a face and held the letter up to the camera.
“Oh, baby!! Well, open it, open it!!”
“Yes, ma’am!” Addie tore open the envelope and shook it to unfold the papers. “Dear Addison Jeannes, we are honored to have you as a student at Liberty University in our Forensic Sciences field of study this spring!!” She read out loud, jumping as she placed the phone against the bowl of Chex mix she always had out. “I made it, Momma!!”
“That’s my girl!!” Her mom cheered, breaking out in smiles. “I will rent you a car so you can get down there!”
“No thanks, Momma, I can take the bus. Its not that far at all. And it might be cheaper.”
“But what about your bike??”
“I’ll get it delivered.”
“Alright, its your call. But this is so exciting!!”
“Liberty, here I come!!”