Here's the thing about Tony Stark; he's intelligent but he doesn't like to show it off. People expect too much of him and he gets enough of that at home from his father. It's exhausting and frankly, it's sucking the fun out of senior year.
He prefers to be the cigarette smoking, class skipping, resident Bad Boy that all the girls wanna leave town with. He has Perfect Fucking Hair. He's smart and he's a smartass.
Tony Stark is the type of guy who hooks up with some poor, unsuspecting guy's girlfriend in the back of his Mustang, while her boyfriend is away looking at Ivy League colleges with his mom. Everyone wants to be him or be with him. Everyone turns their heads when he walks by.
Everyone except the only girl that makes him turn his head when she walks by.
Pepper Potts is, without a doubt, the coolest girl he's ever met in his entire life and they've hardly even spoken to each other. The only genuine interaction they've ever really had was when she walked up to him under the bleachers during gym class with an unlit cigarette between her lips and held her hand out for his lighter.
She looked like a fucking angel who had just walked right out of a Guns N' Roses music video. He didn't realize girls like that existed outside of MTV. Here she was though, in her leather jacket and her beat up Aerosmith concert T-shirt and her ripped jeans and black boots; her red hair shimmering in the sun.
She didn't care who he was messing around with in the back of his Mustang. She didn't even fucking care that he has a Mustang. She was the one person who stayed seated in the classroom when everyone else rushed out into the hallway to see who he was fighting that day and he likes that about her.
The thing he likes most about her was when she tossed his lighter back at him and grabbed him by his T-shirt to drag him into the girls bathroom to make out until gym class was over.
When the bell rang she moved away without a word, fixed her hair and lipstick in the mirror and walked out of the bathroom. He stood there, stunned for a moment (and not many people had the ability to stun him), before he finally remembered how to put one foot in front of the other to walk out of the bathroom.
Yeah, she was definitely the coolest person he'd ever met in his life and he decided then and there that he was going to win her over one way or another.