"Hey Pep, I'm coming in the armor to pick you up, your dads not home is he?" Tony asked once Pepper answered her phone.
"No, he's on date night with his new girlfriend Amy." Pepper answered.
"Aw, I'm sure you'll warm up to her." Tony offered as he landed on Pepper's back porch. Pepper came out, having hung up the phone, and wrapped herself in his arms. Tony held on tight and took off towards his house.
Tony came into the Rhodes living room from their front door with Pepper and they plopped themselves on the couch, turned on the TV and looked for a movie to watch.
As they did so, Tony sighed in comfort as he wrapped his arm around Pepper's shoulder and said "Spending another friday night at home, eh Rhodey?" Rhodey had been sitting on the other couch, reading a book.
"So are you," Rhodey answered, not bothering to look up from his book.
"Yeah, but I have a girlfriend so that's okay." Tony smirked. Rhodey grimaced.
"Oh whatever. Maybe I like my Friday nights at home." Tony turned to Pepper and they shared a chuckle.
"Well since you were so prominent on getting us together we'd like to...thank you." Tony began.
"So we invited that girl from your history class, what's her name, Paige?" Pepper nodded briefly to assure Tony that he had gotten her name right.
"WHAT?" Rhodey exclaimed, spitting out the soda he'd just sipped. Tony and Pepper broke out into a laugh. There was a knock at the door, and they just laughed harder.
"Well, go get it! It's your house!" Tony laughed. Rhodey went to answer it, growling at Tony.
"It's your house too..."
"Yeah, but I just live here." Pepper giggled more at the statement.
When Rhodey answered the door, sure enough, it was Paige, standing patiently with a smile on her face.
It was true that the young African-American boy had been starting to crush on her, but he hadn't ever intended on telling her such a thing due to him being too scared to do so.
"Oh, hey Paige. Tony told you where to go, I take it?" He greeted. She nodded with a "mhm."
"Yeah, sorry I didn't get to talk to you. Tony kinda set me up." Rhodey explained.
"Oh, I'm sorry do you want me to leave?" She asked.
"No, no, this could be fun. I think Tony and Pepper have found a movie by now, wanna sit down and watch it with us?" Rhodey offered with a smile.
"Cool!" She said calmly. Rhodey led her into the living room and they sat on the couch next to the one Pepper and Tony were hogging—Tony had stretched out his legs on the whole couch, and as a result Pepper was laying on top of him, resting her head on his chest right above his arc reactor (the sounds of the mechanical beating soothed her) and Tony had one arm around her shoulders and the other one holding her hand—and they sat down to the beginning of some romantic comedy that Pepper had picked out. Rhodey didn't get the title, but he didn't exactly care.
Paige was familiar with Pepper from their shared study hall in the mornings, so of course she had heard of her and Tony's relationship. Pepper would get bored and start talking to Paige every day about what was going on in her life lately. Paige enjoyed their conversations. She didn't exactly remember how Pepper and Tony got together, but she knew they had recently in the last few weeks.
"They're so cute!" Paige whispered to Rhodey. Rhodey snickered.
"I know, I was the one that hooked them up." He whispered back.
Then Rhodey got up to get some popcorn, Paige following, mostly so they could continue the conversation and not interrupt the movie.
"They've been friends since Tony started going to Tomorrow Academy, and Tony's so oblivious to the female sex's emotions that he never noticed she liked him so much and he never noticed that he liked her too, so I got them together for them. This is their 'thank you' gift." Rhodey explained as he put the bag of popcorn in the microwave and pressed the button that read 'popcorn'. Paige chuckled.
"I've seen them in the hallway holding hands. They're so cute when they're together!" Paige said.
"I know. That's what I said. It just made them blush before they were together. Obviously you see why I had to get them together."
"Because you're just such a good person." Paige said jokingly. Rhodey placed his hand on his chest to look more regal as part of the joke and said,
"I know. I do what I can." They chuckled together as the microwave rang the sign that their food was done. Rhodey grabbed the bag of popcorn and poured it into a bowl, then took it back out to the living room for the four of them to share.
By the end of the movie, Tony and Pepper had fallen asleep in the position they had started the movie in so Rhodey and Paige quietly shuffled over to the door.
"Thanks for having me over tonight, I had lots of fun." Paige said quietly.
"No problem. We should do it again sometime, just the two of us." Rhodey smiled.
"That sounds fun. See you in school Monday," Paige leaned in and kissed Rhodey on the cheek before finding her way home. Rhodey smiled and shut the door behind her.
~…~
A few hours later, Pepper awoke to see that it was one in the morning and her curfew was an hour ago. She shook Tony awake and Tony moaned and rubbed his eyes and sat up.
"I was supposed to be home like, an hour ago." Pepper explained.
"Oh. I'll walk you home then." Tony said, getting up from the couch and retrieving their coats. He stuffed his feet into his shoes and led Pepper out the door. It was raining outside, but they didn't mind.
"I doubt my dad's even going to be home. Whenever he and Amy go out on a date he's not back till like, two or three in the morning. Unless he knows he has to work early the next morning." Pepper complained.
"I'm sure they're having just as much fun as us." Tony offered.
"Yeah, but I don't like her. I swear the minute my dad turns his head away, she gives me a dirty look. For like no reason. She hates me." Tony kissed the top of Pepper's head.
"How could anyone hate you?"
"That's sweet, but I know she does. And my dad has like, no idea."
"Well if you think your dad's relationship is getting serious then maybe you should offer Amy to spend the day with you so you can get to know her better. Maybe if you got to know her she wouldn't seem as bad."
"Ugh, I'll try it." Pepper said reluctantly as they arrived at Pepper's apartment door.
"Good. I know you'll have fun." Tony said as he leaned in and kissed her goodnight. He stuffed his hands into his coat pocket and began the walk back to his and Rhodey's house.
Once Pepper closed the door behind her, she saw Amy sitting on the couch, staring Pepper down.
"Oh. I didn't know you were here." Pepper said quietly.
"Yeah. Your dad is just grabbing his wallet and then he's going to drive me home. Where have you been all night, little missy?" She asked, sounding too much like a mother than Pepper preferred.
"Oh, I was just at my boyfriend's house. We fell asleep watching a movie." Pepper explained. Then Pepper's dad walked out of his room.
"Oh, good to finally see you," He greeted.
"Yeah, sorry, we fell asleep." Virgil raised an eyebrow.
"God ew not like that!" Pepper exclaimed. Virgil then proceeded to bring Amy home, telling Pepper to get to bed as he passed her and once he wasn't looking Amy turned her head and shot Pepper a dirty look again. Pepper sighed and trudged up to her room.
Hah, I made another chapter story! Let me just say this idea came to me verryyyy rannndoommlllyyy this morning, and I'm just glad it turned out the way I pictured it in my mind. It's so cutee too! Ahahah XD so review!
