When they finally let go Pepper looked at him blushing and Tony smiled at her. "I'm guessing you liked that a lot" he said chuckling. She turned as red as an apple and turned her eyes a different direction. He put a piece of her hair behind her ear. "I love you" he said giving her a kiss on the cheek. She was so embarrassed she couldn't speak. "Aw you don't love me?" he said sarcastically. She finally summoned her words. "I do" she said. Tony smiled. "Don't go anywhere…I'll take care of Whitney" he said moving around her hair from her face. "Tony please she's going to start up again" she said. "No she's not" he said.
"No she's going to send more texts and letters and-"Tony stopped her with another kiss. "You seem calmer when I do that" he said chuckling. She buried her face in his chest. "Please don't do anything you'll regret" she said. "I won't trust me she'll be taken care of" he said. "Now please don't be sad anymore I hate it" he said stroking her hair. "I'll try" she said. Suddenly they heard a car pull up and Pepper's head spiked up. "Uh oh I bet that's my dad" she said. "Thanks" said someone from outside. "Yeah that's him" she said. She quickly got off him and pulled Tony to her room and closed the door.
"Go out through the window" she said. The door opened. "Patricia I'm home early" said Agent Potts. "Go, go, go" she said opening the window. He climbed out of it and turned around. "See you tomorrow?" he asked. "Yeah" she said smiling. "Sweet dreams" he said. He gave her a peck on the lips and jumped off. She closed the window and grabbed a book from her shelf and pretended to read on her bed. The door to her room opened. "Patricia I'm home" he said.
"Oh hey dad!" she said. "Whatcha reading?" he asked sitting next to her. "Uhh" she said looking at the cover. "Captain Underpants?" she said. "Your old childhood book?" he said laughing. Pepper giggled kind of embarrassed. "Did you have fun at the beach today?" he asked. "Yup" she said. "I see you took well care of the car" he said. "Of course" she said. "Well you should go take a shower it's getting a little late" he said. "Alright dad" she said. Agent Potts kissed his daughters head. "Good night Patricia" he said. "It's Pepper dad" she said. "Oh right" he said laughing and closing the door.
The next day Pepper's door bell rang. "Coming" she said walking over to it. She looked through the peep hole and saw it was Tony. She smiled and opened the door. "Hey!" she said. "Hey" he said. "Come in" she said moving for him to enter. He walked in. "I talked to Whitney" he said. Pepper closed the door frowning and crossed her arms. "What did she say" she asked. "We argued but in the end a black mailed her" he said. "No way" Pepper said smiling. "She has a history of cheating on her boyfriends" he said. Pepper looked at him in astonishment. "Got dirt on her" she said. "You bet" he said.
Pepper smiled more and Tony pulled her into a hug. "Thank you" she said. "No biggy" he said resting his chin on her head. Pepper broke apart a little bit. "I have something to do today" she said. "What's that?" he asked. "I do track on Thursday's" she said. "So that's why you're never home" he said. Pepper giggled. "Sorry I never told you" she said. "Don't worry about it" he said. "I gotta go get ready" she said walking to her room. She stopped at the door arch. "Oh you're welcome to come where I go a bunch of guys who don't know each other go to play basketball" she said.
"Sure I'll go" he said. "Alrighty" she said. "Gotta go change, back in a bit" he said running to his house. After they got ready they drove to a park and got off. "This is the place" she said. She grabbed his hand and directed him to the basketball court. "Guys mind if he plays?" she asked the group of men. "No problems come on over bro!" said a guy. "Have fun" she said kissing his cheek. He went off to play with the guys while Pepper went to her sport. "Hello girls now start you're warm up I want four laps around the track" said the coach. They did as they were told Pepper and the other girls were able to run three laps straight but walked half of the fourth lap. After the warm up the coach had an idea. "You know what girls why don't we do something more fun today" she said. All the girls looked at each other wondering. "Let's go play basketball with the men over there!" she said. All the girls nodded.
"Boys!" shouted the coach. The men stopped and turned to the coach. "Wanna go girls vs. Boys?" she asked. Some guys chuckled. "Sure" said a guy. They all got in their positions. Pepper put her hands on her hips looking at Tony. "Hey watch out for the red-head she's good" Tony whispered to a guy. The guy nodded. The coach blew her whistle and game started. One of the guys got the ball first and dribbled to the other side. Pepper blocked him and managed to get the ball away. "Hey!" he said. She stuck her tongue out at him and dribbled to the other side. Two guys were blocking him and no girl was open so she made a shot from her position and surprisingly made a basket.
"YEAH!" shouted the girls. "Told ya" said Tony to the guy whose mouth was wide open. Few baskets later it was 15-19 the girls were winning thanks to Pepper. "One more and we win!" she said. "Not gonna happen" said a guy. The game started again and the guy who told her off got the ball away from Pepper. He made a few baskets and the score now was 19-19. "We're tied now little girl!" he said. "Don't call me little!" she said. Happy and a few other friends happen to go to the park and they were watching half the game.
"Potts is tearing it up" said a friend. Whitney also happens to be there too. The guy was almost at the basket when Pepper sprinted to him and slapped the ball out of his hands and into hers. "HA!" she said. She dribbled the ball back the other way. A girl was open so she threw the ball to her and she made the last basket. "We win" she said. All the girls high fived each other. "Good game and by the way my names Mathew" he said winking at her. Pepper walked over to Tony. "You did good" she said to him. "Thanks you too" he said. Pepper took the end of her shirt pulled it up half way and wiped her chest. "It's really hot outside" she said.
Whitney walked over to them and Tony glared at her. "Guess what Stark I DON'T CARE" she said. "Slut you were so bad out there who taught you to play like a guy your dad?" she said. "Ugh you're dad is like a horrible basketball teacher" she said. Pepper looked the other way. "Whitney stop it!" Tony yelled. "Don't look away from me!" she said slapping her. All the guys ooo'd and they made a circle around them. "You're so stupid you can't even pay attention to me!" she said. Pepper didn't say anything she was getting shot by every word. "I heard you're mom died little birdie told me" she said. Pepper looked at Tony. "Wasn't me" he said. "He's right it wasn't him it was my spy" she said.
"I bet she committed suicide because of you" she said. Pepper's mouth hung down and tears rolled down. "That's it….I can't" she said running to the parking lot. "Pepper!" he said running after her. "You bastard!" the girls yelled. They made a circled around Whitney and looked angry. "Wait what are you doing?! These are Steve Madden shoes get your dirty self away from me!" she said. The girls pounded her to a pulp as she screamed. Tony grabbed Pepper's wrist. "Pepper wait!" he said. "What do you want!" she said turning to him. "You know that's not true what she said about your mom!" He said. "Tony I can't anymore I just can't!" she said. "Pepper don't leave" he said. "I suffered for a month" she said. "Unfortunately my heart isn't made of stone I'm only human" she said. "But that's the best part of you" he said putting her hand where her heart is located and had his hand on top of hers. "You have a nice warm and caring heart and that's what made me love you" he said. Pepper cried more. "I love you Tony but I don't want to be miserable!" she said getting in her car and driving away.
Tony let out a tear. "I've never felt this way about any girl before….and now it's getting taken from me" he said. Pepper got home and went straight into the bathroom to cry. "Why does she hate me so much?" she said crying. She took a shower and packed all her things and left a note for her dad. She called her aunt to tell her she was coming right away, she called for a taxi. Tony had finally gotten to her house and saw she wasn't there. "Airport" he thought.
(Pepper don't leave him Q.Q)
