𝐂𝐫𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐈𝐬 𝐇𝐞𝐫 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞 • 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬

Becoming Responsible

Elena is here with me and spending a whole month with us because her parents are going on a business trip. Me and Marco are having some issues with our relationship, maybe you should know about it. Ever since his brother came into town, he had been moody.

"I can't believe that your dad is Iron man!" Elena said.

"I know! He lets me fly the suits!" I smiled. It's been a while since me and Elena hung out.

"That's amazing!" I love Elena. She's like a sister. I would never hide any secrets from her. "Now let's get you ready for your date!" She takes me to my room and Pepper volunteers to do my makeup and hair. "Let me pick out your dress!" Pepper sits me down and starts doing my makeup.

"You're gonna be so beautiful tonight Crystal."

"What if he thinks I'm ugly?" I shyly told her. She looks at me and rubs her thumb across my cheek.

"He'll be the most stupidest boy that has ever existed." Then I smiled, she cheered me up. "There's that famous smile." Pepper puts some lipstick on me and started doing my hair. Elena comes in and brings out a simple black dress with some flats and a cute jacket. I was finished and I walked out of my room. Elena, Pepper, Happy and my father were there.

"You look amazing." My dad smiled. He took a quick glance at me. "Ready to break some hearts?"

"Which she got from you." Happy joked. The door knocked. Pepper took some quick photos.

"Now go! Shoo!" Pepper shooed everyone. I opened the door and saw Marco.

"Hey." I blushed.

"Ready?" I nodded and we went off. It was a simple date. We went to eat at a pizza near we lived and went to get ice cream. Since neither of us has a driver's license, we walked. I was licking my ice cream as we walked home. "So your father becoming Iron Man? How is that like?"

"Pretty cool! I mean it's dangerous but I got to bond with him. We became closer."

"I thought you didn't want anything to do with him?" I looked at him with a confused look.

"I didn't say that." We turned the corner to my house.

"I thought you hated him."

"You thought, that's what you said. I didn't anything like that. Matter in fact, I never have said anything like that, ever."

"Calm down, damn." I just rolled my eyes. We made it to my front door. We both looked at each other.

"Are you okay?" I asked him.

"Yeah, I'm fine." He said angrily. We stood there in silence. It was getting awkward and I sure didn't like his attitude.

"I should go in now." I said as I placed my hand on the knob.

"Don't." He grabbed my hand. "I'm mad that all these years, your dad didn't give a rats ass about you and now you're back in his life like that?" He snaps his fingers.

"So what? He's my dad. He made it up for me."

"Like what? Buying you new designer clothes? A 100 thousand allowance?" I backed up.

"What no! He made it up by spending time with me." He just rolled his eyes. "Are you really okay?"

"Yes!" He raised his voice at me.

"Don't talk to me like that, ever again." I then raised my voice. He took a deep breath.

"I'm sorry." He looks at me. He leans in and I backed up again. "What now!"

"What were you doing?"

"Giving you a kiss." I shook my head. "That's what people do when they love each other."

"I never said I loved you." It looked like he was gonna attack me.

"You're probably in love with someone else right?" He assumed. I was just in shock.

"Why would you think that? I'm dating you."

"Then say you love me." I shook my head again.

"I'm not gonna say that."

"Why not?"

"When you say it, you're supposed to mean it, if I say it, i won't mean it." He just laughs.

"You know what, forget about it." He laughs by himself. "Starks sure do love to mess with people's minds."

"What did you say?"

"You heard me." I was in tears now. How could he say that to me?

"You know what, just leave." He stood there. "Leave!"

"Dont you yell at me." He raised his hand, about to hit me, making me flinch. The door opened and my dad was there. Marco lowered his hand and left.

"Everything okay?" I just walked inside the house and ran into my room. I slammed my door and cried. My dad followed me.

"What's wrong?" He sat next to me.

"I'm just a stupid little girl with stupid dreams that never learns." I cried. I'm stupid to like him. I'm stupid to think about him being my prince.

"Hey, don't say that." He hugs me. "What did he do?"

"He said some hurtful things to me." I cried into his chest. He kisses my head and hugged me tightly. He yelled at me. He almost hit me. This isn't love. Pepper comes in and sees us.

"Oh no." She runs in and hugs me. "Oh, sweetheart.

"I'm going to break him." My dad said.

"Tony." She whispers.

"He doesn't deserve you." He continues. "He's not the one for you."

"He's right honey."

"He scares me now. It's like I don't know him anymore." I looked at them. My dad brushes my hair from my face.

"I'm not letting him see you anymore, okay?" I nodded my head. "Nobody hurts your heart. Not like that. You don't deserve to be hurt. You did nothing wrong."