Irondad and Spiderson

2 engaged

Oct 3rd 2003

"Peter, do you want to go to a store with me or stay here with Mom?"

"Store."

"Okay go get your coat," I say, and he runs off coming back a minute later with his coat half on.

"Daddy my coat is stuck, please help me."

"Okay," I help him fix his red and blue coat.

"Can we go in jeep?"

"Okay," I say grabbing my hat, and sunglasses then I put my hood on, "let's go."

"Car ride," he smiles.

When we get to the store we walk inside and Peter looks around his eyes twinkling.

"Shiny," he says amazed, and I pick him up.

"Peter, do you know what we're doing here?"

"Buying shiny things? I think."

"Yes, we are getting a sparkly thing for Mom, but you can't tell her okay."

"Okay, I won't tell her, is it her birthday?"

"No, I'm gonna ask her to marry me."

"Finally," he responds excitedly.

"Yeah, and I want you to help me get her a ring, and we have to be careful not to break anything, like when we are in my lab."

Mission, find mommy a sparkly ring don't break anything, got it, can you put me down now?" He asks and I set him on the ground.

About a minute later an employee brings Peter back to me. "Is this your kid?"

"Yes, why?"

"Kids aren't allowed to be running around in here, alone," the employee says as I pick Peter up.

"I could still see him and he knows how to be careful, I'm an engineer and I let him free roam in my lab which is full of scrap metal and saws."

"And I doubt you could be able to afford anything here so I suggest you leave."

"And you think this why?"

"You obviously can't afford better clothes so how could you afford expensive rings? And you have a kid before you are married"

"I choose to dress like this because I want to, and rich people can have kids," I start to get mad.

"So are you going to leave?"

"Uh no," I grab my phone and make a phone call. When I hang up I say, "You are fired."

He scoffs, "You can't do that."

"I just did."

"Ugh I don't want to deal with this and it's my break so I'm gonna go," he leaves the store.

Another employee walks over "Can I help you find anything?"

"Uh, Peter did you find one you like?"

"Yeah," I set him down he pulls me away. And points to a simple silver ring with three small pink gems in the middle.

"It's perfect, we'll get this one."

"Okay I'll bag it up you are welcome to wait near the till," replies the employee.

I nod and pick up Peter before walking to where she pointed.

After a minute she walks over to us with a small paper bag in her hand. She hands Peter the bag and walks behind the till punches in a few numbers and waits for me to pay.

When we get back home we get into a different car and I call Pepper.

"Hey Pep me and Peter are waiting in the car can you come down here?"

"I have work can't you come here?"

"Pepper you haven't had a day off in two months get down here now."

She laughs "Fine give me five minutes."

I hang up.

"Peter when Mom gets down here you can't say anything about the surprise or anything but still talk about other things or you could just pretend to sleep."

"Ok, I'm bad at lying to Mom so I'll pretend to sleep," he yawns.

"Good," I say as he puts his head on the side of the car and closes his eyes.

Soon Pepper gets in the car.

"Hey," I say quietly letting Peter fall asleep.

"Hi, so where are we going?" She whispers.

"You'll see."

2 hours later we finally reach our destination, a beach house near Atlantic City.

I get out of the car and walk over to Peter's door open it and slowly rub his shoulder.

"Hey, kiddo time to wake up."

"Dadda?" He slowly opens his eyes.

"Yeah," I unbuckle him and pull him out of the car. We walk inside and I order pizza.

After dinner, we all walk outside and I set Peter down.

"Mommy, Daddy has a question for you."

"Pepper, uh..." I stumble

"Can you marry Dadda?" Peter says helping me, I hold out the ring box.

"Yes," she says smiling. I take the ring out of its packaging and put it on her finger.