We walked towards the lift, meaning that I was pressed up against Steve.
"Sorry." I said, looking up at him.
"N-no worries." he replied nervously and we continued to ride the rest of the lift in silence. God, why is everything so awkward around him?
We arrived in Malibu in the day time at 11am. I cannot wait to go swimming. It is really all I am here for. Well that and Steve.
Once we were settled into our rooms, Pepper and Nat came to my door.
"Hey Ria, what do you say we go and change into some sexy cozzie's and completely stun the boys. They are on the roof by the pool right now." Pepper said, wiggling her eyebrows suggestively.
"You might impress Steve..." Natasha added, smiling.
"Hmm...You had me at sexy cozzie's. Meet you in a bit?"
"Come and meet me in my room."
"See you guys there." I said smiling. Okay, Maria. Time to really show off to Steve.
I walked over to my suitcase, smiling like there was a coat hanger in my mouth, and opened my case. I sifted through my clothes until I reached the costume. If you could call it that. It was a blue piece of...material that covered hardly anything. The bottoms had tassels at the sides and the top was a thin strapped halterneck.
I stood in front of the mirror and looked at my toned body. I could admit that my body was toned though, because of my six pack that made me feel proud of my workouts. The hours that I spend working out...God, I'm surprised that I don't have an eight pack at least!
I heard a knock at the door and I walked over. Pepper was there in a black bikini like mine, gold hoops linking the bikini bottom together at each hip.
"Wow!" she said, looking at the bikini. "Steve's gonna faint when he sees you in that and I'm not talking about being hot from the sun."
I laughed and she added "Oh. Sunglasses."
"Thank you." I said and quickly grabbed them before heading to Natasha's room. Pepper knocked on the door and said "Natasha? You ready yet?"
"Give a second." I heard her reply from behind the door.
"Out of all the people, I never thought that Romanoff would be the one we would be waiting for." I said to Pepper and then shouted to Natasha "Come on Nat. Lets go!"
"Just a minute." her muffled voice came through the door.
"I can't believe you're wearing that." Pepper said to me.
"What's wrong with it?"
"Nothing's wrong with it." Natasha opened the door, but Pepper finished "I bet Cap doesn't even know what that is Maria!" gesturing to the bikini I was wearing.
"He is going to get a big surprise when you walk out there." Natasha commented smiling and we headed towards the lift to the outdoor swimming pool on the roof of Stark's old house. The guys had been up there for about 20 minutes already.
"I'm not trying to get his attention." I said, feeling the red crawling up my cheeks.
"But you do want to make an impression." Pepper said with a knowing look.
"Shut up, Pepper. I don't want him getting the wrong idea. But what is the problem with me flaunting how I look?"
"There's nothing wrong with it sweetie. It's not exactly going to damage the situation."
We all laughed and got into the lift. Should I ask? I might as well. I want to know.
"Do you think he's had sex yet?" I asked.
Natasha and Pepper turned around, shocked at my question, but the hesitated. I think they realised that my question was actually valid. I want to know. It's not a problem if he is, but I just want to know...I don't think he's ever dated before?
"I...I think he might be a virgin?" Natasha said to me. "It's not exactly like he's had time to fit a girl into the equation." Does he have time now? "But now, we are on holiday and anything could happen. It's your chance to connect with him.", making me feel a bit happier.
"Right...shades on." Pepper commanded, and we put the shades over our eyes as we reached the top floor.
The doors opened and my eyes went straight to Steve. He was lying on a sun-lounger reading the newspaper, his beautiful chest on display. I felt my heart jump in my chest and I heard Pepper whisper "Act confident." Then Natasha added "You'll be brilliant."
Right, lets do this.
I walked out, actually it was more of a sexy strut, pushed my sunglasses on top of my head, and I noticed Steve's expression. His lips were parted at quite a great distance and I wasn't sure whether he was breathing or not. I walked past him, winking at him and smiled. I sat down on the sun-lounger next to him and splayed myself out over it trying to look as attractive as possible. I put my arms behind my head and breathed out. I looked at Steve who blinked several times before peeling his eyes away from me.
I put the shades over my eyes, but I could still see his eyes avert to me quite frequently.
I saw Pepper enter the area and I heard Stark commanded "Get over here...right now." before he pulled her into a deep, passionate kiss causing Steve to go bright read.
I giggled slightly at his reaction, but went back to watching the girls enter. Last up was Natasha who went over to Clint by the pool. They said something to each other before she put her hand out to him for him to grab. What an idiot.
Barton pulled her in with him and she squealed before falling into the water.
Stark was laughing like mad, Pepper was giggling slightly too, Steve looked quite alarmed and I tried to keep a straight face, but failed. When they resurfaced she took a deep breath, finally getting oxygen back into her lungs. Their hands were wrapped around each other and then they kissed deeply. They moaned into each other's mouths, causing Steve to go red again, and Clint hoisted Natasha up, so she could wrap her legs around him.
"No shagging in my pool!" I heard Stark shout, but Natasha just held up her middle finger to him and continued to kiss Clint.
I turned my attention back to Steve for the next five minutes when he was supposedly reading the newspaper, but I could feel his gaze on me, let alone see it. I pulled up my sunglasses onto my head and turned to him, making sure my breasts were pressed against each other for him to see.
"You gonna stare at me all day Cap or are we going to have a conversation as well?" I asked, causing him to go red in the face. Again. I saw him briefly look down to my breasts, but he immediately averted his eyes.
"I was just..I wasn't...I didn't..." he stuttered.
"Steve, it's fine." I said, sitting up to face him.
"It's just...I don't even know what that is." he admitted, gesturing to the bikini I was wearing.
"What this? It's a bikini Cap. Swimming costume, but smaller."
"It's definitely smaller." he said, with raised eyebrows. I could tell he was concentrating to look at my face.
"You know you can check me out by the way." I said casually. "It's no problem."
"What do you mean 'check you out'?" he asked. Going back to primary school.
"It means that...d'you know what...never mind." I said, deciding to leave that subject for another day. "So, what do you think of Malibu?" I asked, sitting next to him on his deck chair.
"I think that it is beautiful. I can't wait to go swimming though. The sea is incredible."
"Yeah, the view from it here highlights it perfectly. Stark really knows how to pick a place."
"How much did this place cost for him? It's extremely complicated. Like the Tower in many ways."
"Well, it must have cost him at least 20 million."
"20 million?" Steve said, with raised eyebrows.
"Yeah, that's nothing for Stark though. The company owns at least 1000 times that."
"Wow. So does he just own this place or does he have a house in every state?"
"I know that he has houses in every country in Europe, every state in America and then lots in all the continents. He doesn't really like to stay in places that aren't his." I explained.
We kept talking about Stark's money until I saw Natasha run to the door quickly, clutching her mouth with her hand.
Clint looked really confused and stood up to go after her, but Pepper said "I'll go." which made Tony groan, because they had been in a deep make-out session ever since Pepper got here. He got in the pool to occupy his mind instead.
"What was that about?" Steve asked.
"I have no idea, but I hope she's okay."
"Should we go and see if she's alright?"
"We don't want to over crowd her. Pepper'll look after her."
A couple of moments later, Pepper came out to explain that it was food poisoning from the chicken we had on the plane and then she went back to the bathroom.
"I hope that we don't get that either." I said.
"Hopefully not."
"Do you wanna go for a swim Cap?" I asked.
"Yeah, sure." he said, smiling and we went in the pool together. We just swam around for a bit, talking about life, and then I felt like I couldn't stay in any longer, so I decided to get out of the pool. I secretly made sure that Steve was looking my way, before sexily ascending the steps to go to the sun-lounger. I saw Clint mouth 'He's looking at you' and I smiled, putting my hands on my waist and making my hips sway even more.
I turned around and Steve immediately looked away like my eyes were blinding him. I smiled and then looked back to where I was going. I went over and laid down on the lounger and put my hands behind my head, showing off my wet toned body. Steve came over and sat down next to me, trying to avoid looking at me.
Then Natasha came back out of the door and I saw Clint look at her straight away. Tony just grabbed Pepper and went back to groping her.
I stayed there, trying to get a tan, and catch Steve attention occasionally by moaning from the heat. I definitely caught his attention. He basically couldn't take his eyes off of me. He is just sitting there, hands behind his head too, not only showing off his chest, but his beautiful arms as well. I need to speak to someone. Now. Okay, Pepper looks quite...engaged at current, but Natasha's asleep and kind of on Clint. Okay...Pepper it is.
"Back in a minute" I said to Cap and hurried over to Pepper. "Pep?" I asked trying to get her attention, but she was clearly occupied, so I said a bit louder "Pepper?" and she heard me.
She pulled away from Tony who groaned and said "Really? I was just trying to have a nice time."
"Come on. You two have been lip-locked for ages and I really need to speak with Pepper."
"What about?"
"Nothing."
"Is it about virgin over there?" I raised my eyebrows at Pepper.
"You told him?"
"Yeah, sorry."
"No, I don't care that you did, it's just...when did you have time to tell him? Uh, anyway come on." I said, pulling Pepper off of Tony and going out of the door.
"What's up? I'm guessing that this is about Steve?" she asked.
"Yep, I don't know what to do. He is so gorgeous and the sunlight reflecting off of his commander boy abs really isn't helping the situation."
"Look just calm down. Breathe." she instructed and we took a couple of deep breaths. "You need to be with Steve. You need to find out whether he likes you or not. It's obvious to us, but not obvious to you."
"So, what do you suggest I do about it?"
Pepper thought something over in her head and then smiled. "Leave it to me." she said and then left again. What was that supposed to mean?
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