Life As Tony Stark's Child → Iron Man

Chapter 7 (Tuesday Part 2)

 Tony's POV (Tuesday)

''You adopted a kid? Why didn't you tell me earlier?'' Asked Rhodey, my bestfriend looking surprised. He obviously never expected me to ever agree to such a thing. Even I never thought that would ever happen. I wasn't really a kids person. I placed my empty mug on the coffee table and sat back on a love-seat.

''Well we only adopted her yesterday.'' I replied scratching my head thoughtfully. I kinda felt guilty.

''Her? It's a girl? Is she a good kid?'' He questioned, really interested in the topic. But it just made me feel even more guilty. I didn't even stay for her first day at her new house yesterday and I just left to go to Rhodey's today. I rubbed my eyes and sighed.

''You okay Tony?'' He asked, looking and sounding concerned. Was I? Was I really okay? What if Kerry hates me? Well I wouldn't blame her.

''I don't know.'' I told him truthfully. ''I don't know anything about my new child. I missed her first day and now I'm here. I just keep avoiding her for some reason.''

''Why are you avoiding her?'' He waited for an answer as I took my time thinking.

''I'm scared.'' I mumbled hoping he wouldn't hear me. But he did. Oh well I told him worse things than that.

''Of what?''

Damn he's not letting this go is he? To be truthful it is kinda hard to admit that I'm scared of something. I mean, I'm Iron Man. Well used to be. But still I had fought in the Battle Of New York, had to deal with other baddies before that and then Mandarin.

''Scared of being a bad father. My father never had any time for me and was never there. I always blamed him, but now I realize that being a father isn't as easy as I thought.'' I stated. The way the chairs were sorted and what I was telling him made me feel like I was in therapy.

''Dude, you haven't even tried.'' He said.

''Are you trying to make me feel worse? Because you're succeeding.'' I looked at him and he chuckled.

''Dude, you're already a bad parent. My advice? Get your ass of this chair, which is by the way really expensive and go spend some time with your kid.'' He replied. Well okay then. I have nothing to lose.

''Fine.'' I said getting up from the love-seat. I can see why he acted so overprotective over it. It was cream coloured, and all fancy and stuff. I drove home hoping they'll be there. Pepper mentioned something about going shopping, I could tell that she was disappointed in me yesterday. Whatever I'm going to try and make it up for it today.

I opened the door to my house and heard some high-pitched squealing. Oh God it better not be Pepper-or Kerry. I do not want to hear sounds like that around my house EVER. Then it came to me. It must be Jen. God that girl is weird. She better not have broken anything while I was away.

I followed the sound and ended up in one of our spare bedrooms. It must be Kerry's room then. I knocked on the door and waited for an answer.

''Come in!'' Said Pepper giggling. I opened the door and saw that they were painting the walls in surprise surprise- light pink. They were all laughing and had smiles on their faces. Their clothes were covered in paint and they also had some in their hair. They all looked at me and Kerry's expression changed into a serious one.

''Hi. May I join you ladies in painting the walls?'' I questioned hoping they let me. What Am I thinking of course they will. It's my own house.

''Um yeah sure.'' Whispered Pepper loudly. Oh yeah I have to make a conversation with a 12 year old now. Great. Last time I talked to a kid was when that Mandarin dude was a threat. That was a while ago.

''Erm hi Kerry.'' I greeted and she looked up at me with a puzzled look. That's a good thing right? At least she's not crying. Yeah that happened before. It was a couple of years ago when me and Pepper were invited to this rich guys party and he wanted to meet me in person. He also bought his kid. Pepper was all like 'OMG he's so cute, look Tony he's adorable say hi to him blah blah'. So I said hi to the little 4 year old and he started crying. So I'm making progress.

''Hello Tony.'' She mumbled. She didn't sound too happy about talking to me. Well, I have some work to do.

''Er Are you okay? What were you umm up to today?'' I asked, not really knowing what to talk about.

''Well we went shopping.'' She shot, quite angrily at me and looked at her nails afterwards.

''Well what did you buy?'' Awkwardness filled the room. Pepper and Jen were observing our conversation making me even more nervous. I was also surprised by the way Kerry talked to me. She didn't seem like a kid who talked like that.

''Well I think you would know if you bothered to go with us.'' She yelled and left the room with Jen going after her. Pepper just sat on the floor looking at me.

''I tried though.'' I told her, taking a huge sigh. I'm totally failing at this.

''Try harder.'' She snapped and left the room too. Probably going after Kerry as well. She's right. I have to try harder if I want to be a good parent.

I went to my workroom where I made my Iron Man suits ages ago. It was my favourite room in the house and helped me concentrate. What should I do to become a better parent? Maybe I should find out things about her first. Like what's her favourite colour and stuff. It took me a couple of minutes until I got an idea. I should take her out somewhere. Like Pepper and Jen took her shopping. But I can't take her shopping again. Whatever. I will do whatever it takes to be a better parent. Better than my father ever was.

*A/N: Hello, sorry for the crappy chapter. I know it's really bad. I'm gonna edit the chapters after I finish the story. Thank you for the votes. Tell me what you think? I need feedback. Big hugs my friends!*