Prologue

He looks at me. I fake a smile so he won't see what I want and I need,
and everything that we should be.

Tony talks to me, I laugh cuz' he's just so funny.
And I can't even see anyone when he's with me.

~o~

Steve walks by me. Can he tell that I can't breath?
And there he goes, so perfectly,
the kind of flawless I wish I could be.

Steve and Tony had been best friends ever since Steve's mom died when he was 12, and Howard Stark decided to take care of him.

At age 15, all good and responsable Steve decided to stop living in the Starks mansion's house guest and go to live in an apartment near school - he refused to let Howard pay for it, and so he got a job as waiter in Thor's dad's restaurant-. Tony had joked about going with him.

Throwing a big tantrum about his best friend leaving Tony asked his father to take him out of his private school and into public school with Steve. Howard didn't say no, didn't care much.

Tony remained at Steve's shadow for about 3 hours, after that, everybody knew who Tony Stark was.

Everybody loved him. Others were jealous.

Steve laughed inside as Tony winked at him. Of course he was enjoying this.

"So that is the jackass you have for best friend?" Natasha had asked him one day. Steve just shrugged with a smile. Sometimes he didn't get it himself either. Why him? Why Tony? They were probably the most different people ever. But it didn't matter, because Tony was always that missing part of him. The part he didn't have and he needed.

Steve didn't have that many friends, mostly because of his shyness and difficulty to make a conversation after knowing someone. So he was basically friends with people that really wanted to be his friends. To do headcount, there was Thor, his most loyal friend inside high school and his FB in the football field. Natasha, probably the only woman that could make him feel tiny and helpless and his French classmate. And then there was Clint, captain and proud founder of the archery high school club, Steve considered Clint his friend ever since he saw sparkles lit up between him and Natasha in one of his birthdays small party -because hell no, you can't be Tony Stark's best friend and not have a birthday celebration-.

Days passed and Tony slowly won over almost all sciencey class and team there ever was. And that's how Steve added Bruce Banner to his trust circle. Those two would rule the world one day, Steve was sure. He got a bit jelaous about Tony and Bruce's sudden friendship but he shoke it off eventually.

Tony's charisma made all Steve's friends like him. And he soon made some friends alone himself. Like Pepper Potts.

Steve saw Tony's eyes spark when he met her in Steve's art group. She, with him, where the leaders of it. Pepper was great, Steve agreed. And if Tony was into her, Steve couldn't be more happy.

That's why when he got closer to Peggy Carter, Tony was all over the place getting him to ask her out.

And under the lights of the stars, in a party provided by Tony, two days before they started their junior year, he asked her to be his girlfriend.

Two days after that, Tony decided to man-up and do the same with Pepper.

And by the fresh start of high school, they both had brand new girlfriends.

The year past almost as fast as they wished for.

It was a good year, all of them could agree, but something told Steve that this year would be much better.

And it had nothing to do with the fact that they were seniors now, he told Tony one morning.

ok I feel ashamed lol. YES i got inspired by a Taylor Swift song, what's the problem?

anyway, as the summary says, you know you love cliche :P

first of all I want to tell you that I have the whole plot in my head so dont think this would roll around shit after the first three chapters. so, please have a little faith.

second, im starting my own sort of au-universe with this story. I will be doing something short after I finish this and basically it'd be like the continuation of this story, only it'd be a little different. afksdlgdfg
anyway i dont wanna spoil the fun.

also, I know there are many au-high school/college fics out there, so any resemblence here is mere coincidence. because I've only read 3 and im making my own very different since i didn't like some stuff of each one :)

anyway, read, tell me what you think and remember you can tell me to shut up