They usually get up to their own things anyway, neither the keeper of the other, even if they still regularly set aside time for each other, but the past few weeks, there have been chunks of time during the day where Bucky can't be reached at all. When he's accessible again, any explanation is skipped over for another subject to shift away any importance to it. Besides, it's better to live in the moment than linger on what's already in the past, right?

It's after one such disappearance when Steve gets a text back several hours later, but rather than reply about what he wants for lunch — which it's too late now for anyway, being closer to dinner time now — it seems to hint at what Bucky's been up to, even if it doesn't quite explain why he's been awol for hours at a time.

I think I found a new therapist I like