Song-MFEO Pt. 1-Made For Each Other by Jack's Mannequin

I swim across an ocean
It's my matress in the basement
I'm sweatin' out excuses
That would make your stomach turn
The road we drove last night
Stretched from the desert to Las Vegas
We filled our cups, and lit one up
The snow began to burn
Oh, Oh maybe, we were made
We were made for each other
Ahh, is it possible for the
World to look this way forever?
Ahhh, Ahhh...

Tony was on his dormitory bedroom studying when he heard a knock on his door followed by a shrill girl's voice call out,

"Tony I know you're in there! Now open this door!" He knew immediately that the girl's voice belonged to Pepper. Tony hopped off his bed and opened the door, sporting a confused look on his face as he did so.

"Pepper, Rhodey, what are you guys doing here? How did you know where I'd be?" Tony asked. Rhodey had his arms crossed and Tony knew that meant he was aggravated.

"Tony, you can't just run away and expect no one to go after you." Rhodey explained. Tony sighed. He knew he would have to explain why he had run, and that was something he did not wish to do.

"Besides, there is such a thing as tracking your cell phone signal." Rhodey added.

"Yeah, seriously Tony, why did you run away? You have to tell me EVERYTHING!" Pepper demanded. Tony let them into his dorm and closed the door in hopes that Roy would be stuck in the workshop all day like he was most of the time.

"Well it's kind of hard to explain and I don't really want to explain it either." Tony said.

"Too bad, you're explaining anyways." Pepper demanded. Tony had had a feeling that that's what she was going to say. Tony sat on his bed and began to explain the best he could, why exactly he had left.

"I-I don't really know when it all started. I just felt so…too pressured by all the responsibilities that I had. I just couldn't keep up. I needed to get away from it all." Tony couldn't really explain it any further in a way they'd understand. He really didn't know how else to put it. Pepper, in that moment, realized just how little Tony knew about being a teenager.

"Oh, Tony, feeling that kind of pressure is normal for an average teenager! I mean, not all the superhero hype, but its still no reason to run away. Come on, Tony, why don't you come back with us?" Pepper tried to get him to understand, but she noticed it wasn't working as effectively as she had hoped.

"But as strange as it sounds, I like it here. I don't want to leave, I want to finish the four years." Tony said.

"What? Why wouldn't you come back? Tony, my mom wouldn't like it." Rhodey said.

"But I feel so much more relaxed and less pressured here. I can't leave."

"What about your responsibilities about Iron Man? Are you just going to ignore that for four years?" Rhodey pestered. Tony hadn't thought of that and it silenced him. He felt stuck again. Go back just to fight evil or stay and finish college?

"And what about your dad's company? You only have two years until you can take that over, Tony. Are you really willing to let Stane ruin your dad's company for an extra two years?" Tony couldn't dictate a response at all. He hadn't thought of either concepts and it got his mind reeling. He looked from Rhodey to Pepper and back to Rhodey again, trying to find a good response for his friends that would make them understand the spot they had just put him in. Looking at Pepper reminded him of his earlier predicament, and it brought Roy's words echoing behind the thoughts that were just planted into his mind. It's a little thing called love.

I talked so much, I'm sure
I didn't realize I'd gone crazy
Didn't catch my bloody nose
Or that my heart tried to explode
I still live with my High School friends
Some people never change at all
We're still the same compulsive drunks
We were when we were small
(Someone get this man to a hospital!)
Ohh, maybe, we were made
We were made for each other
Ahh, is it possible for the
World to look this way forever?
Ahhh, Ahhh...

Yet for some weird reason, his thoughts of Pepper started to dominate thoughts that Rhodey had put in his head. She had come all the way here, he thought, for me. She had driven six hours just to see what the heck was wrong with me. Most friends don't do that, Tony thought. He wanted just for her to give him a smile, because when she smiled her eyes sparkled and he admired that about her. He liked her excited outlook on life and he liked how she tended to talk too much sometimes, but other times she was so worried about him that she hung on his every word and movement. He even liked how she had a little nickname for Iron Man and his assistance. There was just something about her, also, that he couldn't put his finger on, that made him feel warm and fuzzy inside whenever he looked at her or thought about her when he couldn't sleep at night.

"Well? Tony?" Pepper prodded. Tony snapped back into reality.

"I…I don't know." Tony's friends looked and felt annoyed with Tony's response. Since when had he become so irritating?

"Well when you get your life straightened out, Tony, you know where to find us." Especially the fact that these words had come out of Pepper's mouth is what crushed Tony the most. She had never been so negative towards him since she had been mad at him for lying so many times; and he didn't like it. He could barely stand the fact that every night he went to sleep knowing his bubbly, energetic female friend wasn't in agreement with him once, and he didn't want to have to go through that pain and agony again.

Tony watched as they left and lay back on his bed, ran his hands over his face and sighed.

A long (a long) way from from a firework daze
But i still like to burn, burn, burn
I'm always (I'm always) in the haze of a car crash
The orange airbag dust covers everything
Oh, everything
And maybe, we were made
We were made for each other
Ahh, is it possible for the
World to look this way forever?
Ahhh, Ahhh...

As Tony sighed and stared at the ceiling, all he could see was her face. Everywhere he looked he thought of Pepper and how disappointed in him she had seemed. Where had he gone wrong? Why hadn't he just stayed in the city?

As these thoughts and more ran through his head, Tony heard the door open once more and looked over to see Roy. Tony groaned and turned on his side and faced the wall. Roy smirked.

"Still lovesick, eh Stark?" Roy commented. Tony sighed and turned on his back again.

"I don't know." Tony complained.

"Hey, I'll tell you one thing: once you wrap your arms around her, dude, that's the medicine." The statement only made Tony groan louder.

Ehh, not much going on this chapter. But I'm happy with it because I actually got it done in one night, unlike the last two that I updated which may have taken a week total to update…but come tomorrow I think I'll have more time to update so I'll be doing more of it then. But for now, chao! (that rhymesss :D) Review!