Hello however few of you are still here lol. So i apologize but this is like a tiny chapter. I wanted to add more but my muse would not let me and kept telling me to end it where it did. So thanks for those of you left, thanks for reading and i hope you're enjoying your vacation. :) So my colege campus visit went well yesterday and it got rid of any doubts i had about supposed to be going to the school. And now i'm excited cuz the dorms are fuly furnished, like cable and internet peeps, and freshman can have cars, holla! lol anyways...

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Chapter 17: Pepperony Pizza

DAY 12: 4/1/13

Even a day later Pepper could tell the whole girl attack at the bar scene was bothering Tony. That had been clear when he disappeared early to go to the small gym they had. She knew that he needed to blow off steam and decided not to bring up his sudden trip to the lower level of the ship. She tried to take his mind off it by keeping him busy but nothing was able to fully engage his brain. Breakfast, bingo, shopping, the pool, playing air hockey, nothing was working until dinner rolled around and they sat on stools at the 24/7 pizza bar.

"So what do you want on the pizza?" She asked.

"Please no peppers…Pepper." Tony answered with a small smile.

Pepper rolled her eyes and asked again, "Okay, so what do you want?" She could see wheels turning in his head and a second later the biggest smile she had seen all day appeared and enveloped his entire demeanor.

"Pepperoni! I want pepperoni!" He cried excitedly.

"Oooookkkkaaaaayyy."Pepper said with an amused and confused laugh.

"No no no no no no Pepper, don't you get it? Pepper and Tony equal Pepperony; so pepperoni pizza is like our pizza! Pepperoni is a solid meat that can't be picked apart by some other invading cheese that looks good but goes bad quickly. It's it's it's it's…it's pure and…good." Tony explained more to himself than to Pepper.

"Why do I get the feeling you're not actually talking about the pizza?" Pepper asked.

"All day I've kept thinking that something like last night could happen again and break us up and that I would be completely…devastated that who I was interfered with who I want to be and who I'm trying to be for you, for us…and now, I realize that cheese can't separate the meat." Tony said softly and in awe with his own revelation.

Pepper smiled and leaned in to place a tender kiss on his lips. "I'm so glad you had something click into place even if it came from…pizza ingredients." Tony beamed her a smile and she kissed him again. "So does this mean you're done brooding now?" Pepper asked with a playful little smile on her lips.

"First of all, I wasn't brooding. Secondly, if I was brooding I'd look sexy as hell." He said cockily.

Pepper smiled and leaned in to whisper, "You already are." Tony grinned and kissed her lovingly.

"God I love you."

"I love you too." She replied.

Tony was about to kiss her again when a throat cleared and they both turned. Pepper of course was embarrassed and began to turn red while Tony played it off. There was a man in his forties standing there donning a chef hat and black and white stripped apron. "Can I get you folks something?"

"Uh yes, we'd like a medium pizza, half with peppers, the other half with pepperoni." Tony ordered.

"Okay, that'll be twelve forty-seven and it'll be ready in about fifteen minutes."

Tony forked over the cash and turned back to Pepper as soon as the man left. "So."

"So." Pepper repeated.

"You think I'm sexy as hell huh." He said with a grin. Pepper laughed and rolled her eyes. It was going to be a long fifteen minutes.

XxxxSpring BreakxxxX

Cross my fingers, I should see you back here on Wednesday, everything go according to plan anyway.