Friday

Tony:

The party was taken place on the biggest and most spacious room the 16th and 17th floor. Tony invited all of the senior class which added up to about 300 people. His group was the first to arrive to help him make the décor as partyish as possible. Everyone was on edge, Thor because he wanted this night to go perfect for him and Jane. Bruce because, hey the girl he was in love with was coming specifically for him. Tony noticed Clint kept looking over at Nat, just sneaking glances at her and every time he'd look at her he'd get a little smile across his face. Also Tony noticed Nat looking at Clint, she was more secretive about it but Tony could notice. Steve looked a little more happy than usual, he had already told Tony he would leave a little early to go on an actual date with Peggy. While everyone was working Tony snuck upstairs and got his dad's second stash of whiskey, beer and wine.

"What the hell do you have that for?" Steve protested as he saw Tony bring down the box of goodies.

"Steve, you can't have a senior party while parents are out without a little fun. See you got whiskey if you really want to get drunk, beer if you want to get buzzed and wine for the more classy ladies." He explained his drinks.

"Tony, that is a stupid idea," Steve was the only one arguing. Everyone else seemed fine with it.

"Look old-timer, you're leaving before the fun stuff happens anyway so it doesn't really concern you anyway."

"But that doesn't mean you have to offer it to other people."

"Well it's mine house, therefore my rules." Tony snickered and Steve just gave up. They continued to set up and Thor had to scare out a few more workers.

Then 8:45 came upon them and the party started. You had your usual early birds, and then the most of the people came. Music was blasting off the walls and the lights were coloring everywhere. Tony went around greeting people, but mostly he was looking for Pepper. It was an unspoken rule that a regular party would happen until about 11, then the real party that everyone stayed for happened. Everyone only went at 8:45 to make sure they didn't raise suspicion. He finally found her talking with Jane.

"Thank god, I thought you'd skip out on me." Tony greeted her.

"Oh," she turned around in surprise. Tony was momentarily breathless as he looked at her. She was wearing a pink top that flowed over hear body like water. Her jeans complemented her legs and her boots. Her hair down cascading down her shoulders. "No, I am a woman of my word." She practically yelled over the music.

"Well that's good; honestly don't care about half these people. I just wanted you here." He flirted. She smiled and looked down at her shoes. All around him people danced and made out. The smell of sweat and hormones filled the hair around him. He checked his watch, it was 9:20. They still had plenty of time before the real party started.

"Uh, Jane I think Thor's looking for you." Tony suggested. Jane smiled and ran off into the crowd of people.

"Here come on," Tony grabbed Pepper's hand and dragged her over to a counter and sat her down and they started to talk.

Thor:

"Jane!" Thor turned his girlfriend around and pulled her into a hug.

"Thor… remember I need to… breathe." Jane mumbled into his shirt. Thor let go and she took a couple of breathes.

"Forgive me my lady, it is just good to see you!" he apologized. He was pumped from the back and he scooted closer to her.

"You just saw me today in Trigonometry," she smiled. Thor loved the little crinkles at the ends of her mouth when she did that.

"Yes but that was school, this is a party!" Thor yelled and got the whole crowd to yell back in agreement. "Plus I'm allowed to do this now," and he pulled her into a kiss. He could feel her smile grow even wider.

"That's, that's good." She smiled and breathed. She pulled back and hugged him again. After his brother ran away Jane was one of the only people he could really talk to and she would listen.

"Let us dance!" he shouted and they started jumping up and down to 'Back in Black' by ACDC. He could hear her laugh and that made him laughed. They danced and danced until even Thor couldn't feel his legs. Thor pulled out his phone and saw it was 10:00. Wow time really did fly by when you were having fun.

"I need some air!" Jane grabbed his hand and led him to the edge of the crowd and over to the balcony. They went outside and met by the cooling air.

"Crap, I didn't bring a jacket." She hugged her arms.

"You shall not need one, for I shall warm you." And Thor hugged her from behind. She laughed and they looked over New York City. The lights were glowing against the night sky. They just stood there for a while and watched it.

"I got into MIT." Jane suddenly said piercing the silence.

"That is most wonderful!" Thor said. She had wanted to go to that college since before Thor had met her.

"Yeah, but it's in Boston," She sighed. "And away from you." Thor opened his mouth and then closed it again. It was true, she would go to Boston and he had a range of choice for his school since he had a football scholarship, but from what he had learned MIT was not looking to build up their football program. He thought about this for a while then spoke.

"Jane that is months away, so we shall worry about it then. But for now let's just enjoy this night." He finally decided on his words.

"Yeah, I guess you're right. Let's make this a fantastic night." She smiled and they walked back into the room and a slow song was playing. They smiled and she put her arms around his neck and they danced. Even though he was smiling and happy to be here, her words did give a little pain in his heart.

Clint:

Clint had stuck by Nat for most of the night. They talked and talked to some of their friends, but he could tell that something was looming over him and his best friend. He wanted to scoop her up and kiss her. But she wasn't that type of girl and would punch him in the face as soon as he did. But then a savior song came on. A slower song and everyone started getting into pairs and dancing. Everyone knew that Tony's party had 1 slow song throughout the night, but after that it was back to rock and today's music. The song played and he and Nat remained near the back. His heart was pounding and he finally turned to her.

"You want to dance?" he spat out. He could tell it took her by surprise.

"Sure," she finally said and they started to dance. She was wearing black jeans and a red top that highlighted her even redder hair. Clint had slowed danced before but never with someone he really liked like Nat before. Her face was unreadable and that made his stomach do even more knots.

"Hey, I want to ask you something." She said into his ear.

"Yeah, what?"

"What do you plan on doing after high school?"

"Jeez Nat, do we really have to talk about this now?" but he knew when she wanted to talk about something there was no getting out of it. "Well, I don't know. I haven't really thought about college yet or what I want to do. Definitely something with sports though and not in an office, god I would die." He smiled. "Why'd you ask?"

"I don't know, I just thought if we did go to different colleges what that would mean for us, I mean we've been in school together our whole lives and if high school's the end of that, I don't what I'd do." She lowered her head as if in shame. Jesus Christ Clint just kiss her already! A voice screamed in his head; and it was right- if there was any time to do kiss her, it was now.

"Natasha Romanoff," he said her full name which he never did. She looked up and he took his chance. He put his hands around her face and leaned in and kissed her. God and it felt right. The slow song ended and more upbeat music took its place, but that didn't stop him. He had waited basically 3 years to do this and he wanted it to last. When he did finally pull back her face was blank. Shit, he screwed up. Shit, she didn't like him back. Oh shit, god dammit he fucked up bad. But then she did something he'd never expected. She jumped into him and kissed him back. And for the first time it felt like nothing was around them. He didn't care if people starred or yelled rude comments to them; all that mattered was his best friend kissing him back.

"Took you long enough," was the first thing she said when she pulled back. They both smiled and laughed and hugged. Clint honestly couldn't picture a better night and it was only 10:10.

Bruce:

Bruce had never been so nervous in his life, Darcy was coming and he just wanted to get to know her better. He didn't want to make out, maybe a kiss would be fine but like Steve he didn't understand the whole concept of a 'one night stand'. He tried to look nice for the party; he even put a little gel in his hair so that all of his baby hairs would stay down.

He was standing to the side trying to find Darcy when he felt a little tap on his shoulder.

"Bruce?" she said in a sweet voice. He jumped and looked at her, he had never seen anything like her before. It was like a breath of fresh air. He brown curls fell behind her shoulders; her purple tank top with a black jacket on made her beautiful. And even her glasses framed her face perfectly.

"Oh, yeah, um hey Darcy." He said a little to eagerly. "How's your science project coming?" HOWS YOUR SCIENCE PROJECT COMING?! BRUCE BANNER YOU ARE A STUPID SON OF A BITCH! He cursed in his head, he was so stupid- it was Friday no one wants to talk about that at a party.

"Oh, well it's going fine really I've about cracked the formula for the serum." But even though it was a lame question she was happy to say. She was doing her own little experiment to make a serum that if you were injected with it, it would speed up the repair of cells.

"That's great!" they stood there in awkward silence even though the whole room was blasting with music. "Wanna dance?"

"Sure!" he look her hand and they went on the dance floor and danced with to awkward nerds would. Darcy threw her head back in laughter as she saw Bruce awkwardly dance, he could feel the blood rush to his face and he grinned. He had never felt more comfortable with a person in his life. They danced and danced until they both needed a break and they rushed off to the kitchen.

"Honestly I never took you for one for the wrestling team." She laughed and made conversation.

"Not many people do.." Bruce agreed. "I don't look like the part."

"But that's what I like, you're full of surprises," and she took a sip of her lemonade. "How'd you get into it anyway?"

"Oh, um.." Bruce hesitated. He didn't like talking about his anger management and why he had it, but this was Darcy. He could trust her, first step of friendship is trusting right? "Well, when I was younger my dad left me and my mom." Darcy looked surprised at Bruce's honesty. "He didn't give us an explanation, just got up and left me and my mom one day. After that I was just so mad at the world. Mad at everything, wrestling is like my stress reliever. Almost like therapy." Bruce looked at her. Her mouth was partly opened in shock. "Seems dumb right?" he tried to laugh it off.

"Not at all," she replied. He turned to her in surprise now. "My sister ran away a couple of years ago, that got me mad at everything. And just like you I had to take it out on something, so I turned to science. Just steadying my mind helps me, that's my therapy." Bruce was taken back at her trust in him already, he felt closer to her now- like they could take about anything. "Wanna go back to the party?" Bruce nodded yes and they went back to dancing and there was a new bond that they both felt through the rest of the night.

Steve:

The party was nice he'd admit, but not his type of party. His grandpa would show him videos of old time dances. The girls in pretty nice length dresses with their hair up in buns, the men usually in their uniforms and hats. Twisting and twirling and just having a good time. He didn't really like the current dance styles, the grinding on each other, the grabbing; just the style of it was just tacky. He preferred the classy style dancing and so did Peggy and that was another reason Steve was head over heels for her. Not a lot of people were brought up in the old ways anymore and those who were connected automatically just like him and Peggy did. She had texted him that she would just meet him at the party and not to pick her up because she still needed to convince her parents about the night.

He was in the kitchen getting a handful of chips when Peggy walked in. She was wearing a green shirt with a tan jacket and some black jeans with her usual boots. Her lips were as red as roses and her hair was perfectly curled just at her neck like always. She walked over with her usual confident stride and came over and hugged him. He was a lot taller than her so he could place his chin on her head. He bent his head and kissed her on the head.

"So what do you want to do after this?" She asked into his shirt and then looked up.

"I don't know, maybe dinner and then just hang out?" he sheepishly asked.

"I don't know, let's do something wild tonight! I just want to do something crazy I mean common, it's a Friday night!" she almost yelled. He was a little taken back, he was a little cautions about what to do with Peggy and what not to do, but if she was willing, he'd go along with it.

"Oh, um yeah- ok. Let's do it!" he replied, he was always looking for adventure.

They only stayed at the party for about another 45 minutes until it was about 10:30. They both didn't want to be here when everyone started getting drunk and started doing… things they would later regret. They left and went down to their favorite little café a few blocks from the Tower, well it was Steve's favorite but Peggy didn't like one waitress there, she would always flirt with him. They went in and order their usual- 2 cheeseburgers and a large fry. They sat at a corner booth and talked. They talked about how Steve's grandpa was getting sicker, they talked about Peggy's AP engineering class, and how Tony was an idiot. All while chomping on their food.

"Then why do you hang out with him?" Peggy asked.

"I don't know, trust me we have our differences. But it's just- I think that we share a common a loss you know? Him having his father ignoring him and his mother being gone all the time and both mine being… dead." He hesitated to say. The conversation suddenly turned dark. He wouldn't cry, he would not cry. He told himself, they ate a few seconds in silence. His burger was almost gone and the fries were reduced to a few little ones. He could feel the tightness in his throat and his breathing got heavy, he hated crying but just everything came on him at once and a tear started rolling down his cheek.

"Hey," Peggy looked up at him from her position of leaning on his chest. "Hey, oh dammit Steve, look at me," she got up and lifted up his head. "They would be proud of you, you know… I know that I am." And she leaned in and kissed him. And she kept kissing him. He put down a twenty and a five for their dinner and they ran outside and behind the building in an alleyway. They started making out. He felt kinda hypocritical because he would feel uncomfortable when people at Tony's parties started doing it but now in the moment, he couldn't imagine a better thing to happen.

After the session they walked down the streets in silence holding hands.

"So was that crazy enough for you?" Steve asked.

"Very satisfying actually," she smiled. They walked to his apartment building and went into his. His grandma was home and hugged and smiled at Peggy, they sat down and watched a movie, the taste of her peppermint kiss still on his lips.