Chapter 4: Party through it all! (part 2)
I'm stupid. Pepper thought to herself. What was I thinking of when I decided to come to Tony's birthday party? Oh,right, I was thinking about how beautiful his brown eyes were...and are. And now I'm here, with Tony getting drunk and flirting with other girls, not even noticing me. I don't even think he was even paying much atention to me even when I was in front of him! Why? Because he was too busy with Natalie. Then, she saw Tony talking to another girl, a blonde that was giggling like a loony girl. I'm getting out of here.
As she was walking to the door, she almost run into Rhodey.
"Hey Pepper..." He started.
"I'm gonna go. I... gotta go get some air."
"What's wrong" He asked in a worried tone.
"This is what we call a new low" she answered in a cold voice as I dropped my gift in one of the tables.
"What happened?" He asked in a more worried tone.
"Well, em-"
And before Pepper could reply, they turned around the wall and Rhodey saw it for himself.
Tony playing around with a girl that had his flying stabilizers and was floating in the air, attached to Tony's arc reactor in his chest. Rhodey's mouth dropped open.
"Apparently this is his new move. It's cute" She said as she feeled like something punched her in her heart.
"Let me...em... go talk to him. Just wait here." Rhodey said. Pepper watched as they were talking and after some minutes, the girl shut down both stabilizers and sat down on Tony's shoulders. Then, Rhodey came back to her.
"Ok, he says that he's going to stop-"
"And you believe him?" Pepper asked him.
"You know I don't, but let's hope he will."
"Yes. You're right. You know, it seems stupid that I even came to his party" She said in a hurted voice.
"Pepper, you mean more to him that he let's you see." He told me.
"How do you know?"
"He once told me, that when he was in Afghanistan, they tortured him because he refused building the missile for them. They did this tortured that you take someone and almost make him drown. Well, they ddi that to him. He told him that when he almost died then, he heard your voice calling his name. I don't know if you know it, I don't know if even he knows it, but he actually does love you. Even if he doesn't seem like he does."
That took Pepper back. Did Tont say that? Does he really love me? ME?
"Rhodey, I don't know if what you say is true. But either way...Thank you." She said. Then she walked from the balcony they went in to talk.
And when she turned the corner, she decided that she couldn't do this alone. He had just crossed the line. Not only the Iron Man line, but the relationship line. He's getting officialy insane.
"Rhodey!" She called.