Training had just been finished by the team but for some reason Esther has not been attending these rituals. She has been locked away in her room doing paperwork of some sort that Fury has given her. Sam finally got the nerve up to ask her to the dance and is now outside of her door trying to decide what to say. He reached out to knock on Esther's door but first hesitated. Finally, his hand met the door. Esther's voice arose on the other side.
"Who is it?"
"It's Sam."
A few seconds of delay and then Esther showed her face.
"Hi! Come on in!"
"Um... actually this won't take very long. I wanted to know if... uh... if you..."
Esther cut in. "Yes?"
"I would like to know if you would like to... go to the dance with me."
"I would love to! Oh, great I have no idea what I'm going to wear. I need to start planning."
"Okay. Well I guess I'll see you there."
"Yeah. I'm really glad you asked."
The door shut whcih left Sam in the hallway.
"Wow Sam could you have done any worse," he said to himself.
Esther immediatly tried to call Pepper. She spoke to the screen on her wall.
"Transfer to Stark servers."
A woman's voice answered. "Please state your full name."
"Esther Christine Stark."
"Voice recognition approved. Transfering to Stark servers."
There was a pause and then Peppers image appeared on the screen but she was looking down at some papers and did not realized it was Esther she was talking to.
"Pepper Potts speaking."
"Hey Pep, It's me."
She looked up from the papers. "Hey Esther. What's up."
"There is a dance at school and I a dress by tomorrow."
"Okay I can do that. What do you want. Neon colors? Gems? Floof?"
"Actually this is different. It's a ball and it's supposed to be based back in the 1800's so I need an older looking dress."'ll
"Alright I will send you the pictures of the best and you can pick one out."
"Thankyou so much, Pepper."
"Your weclome."
"I have work to do so I really need to go."
"Work your only 16."
"I do though."
"Well I'll leave you to your work. Bye."
"Bye."
Esther hung up and rubbed her eyes. How could she concentrate on her work when her crush had just asked her to be his escort.