AN: I'm so sorry this took so long! I was busy writing my other stories... but I promise I won't abandon this one!
Song is 'Just the way you are' by Bruno Mars.
Even though it's hard to believe, as a teenager, Pepper wasn't really self-confident. She was not really a loner, but with her refusal to wear too much make-up and to expensive cloth, she was an outsider. Take her love for reading and her hate for gossip to that and you see that she wasn't that popular.
So Pepper decided to reach her goals on a different way. She went to college, finished with best marks, became the only assistant Tony Stark didn't sleep with in the first two weeks and learned to hold her ground in a board meeting.
Upon all this, she tried to look professional and well-dressed, but she never saw herself as beautiful.
So when she asks Tony the first time if she looks okay, she's very suprised when he simply replies: „Pep, you look amazing."
Tony, however, is suprised by her suprise and the slight blush on her cheeks.
When Tony found out the reason, he made sure to tell her everyday how amazing and beautiful she is. He explains to her that she looks breathtaking, both in a nightgown and in some old pants. He can't believe she doesn't that when he looks in her eyes, the stars are nothing compared to the shining in them, or that her strawberry-red hair looks awesome, or that when ever she smiles, his world stops turning for a moment, or that her laugh is incredible, or that no model can compare herself to her.
After a while, Pepper knows, that on the question: „Do I look okay?" He will always answer: „You'r beautiful, Pep. I wouldn't change a thing. You look amazing."
And one day, she will maybe start to believe it herself.
AN: I hope you still like it. And like always, I need more fitting songs! Please tell me what you think.