Tony's (not so) Little Girl

13: News and A Function

Not long after we landed Mum and Heather were gifted with an apartment in mid New York, but Tony decided that I needed to be in the tower. We ended up working out that I would do one week with one person and one week with the other, but my first week in America would be with Tony.

"I have a work function that I want you at," Tony said as he opened the door to a room that was, from then on, mine, and making me realise why he wanted me there "It's in a couple of hours. Be ready."
"I will be," I assured him

And just like that he was gone, closing the door behind him. The room looked like any other rich person spare room, complete with a big bed, fake plants and large floor to ceiling windows with attatched walk in robe and bathroom. Sitting on the end of the bed I opened the box in front of me labled clothes and after a while of staring at the pile I gave in and decided to text Artemis.

Me:
Hey, are you going to the sfark thing tonight?
Artemis:
I am, yeah, and I have a surprise
Me:
Ohhh, a surprise how cool! anyway, what colour are you wearibg?
Artemis:
I hadnt thought that far ahead. Navy probs. Why?
Me:
Becaude Im now in america... did you not vet my last text?
Artemis:
Oh, yeah! Wait... your dads Tony Stark... and my father is Justin Hammer
Me:
Thet are not gonna like our relationship lol
Artemis:
Want to call? We haven't in a while...
Me:
Can you wait until adter i shower?
Artemis:
Do I have to?😘😏
Me:
Yes. Now wait

Shutting off my phone I dug carefully around in the box until I found the dress that I was looking for. It was a deep and rich navy, came down to just below my knees in the front and down to nearly my ankles in the back and had a very feminine sweetheart neckline with elegant off the shoulder sleeves. Smiling, I took it and my phone into the bathroom to listen to music as I showered and did my hair and makeup.

When I got out of the shower and was towling off my phone started ringing. Laughing, I pressed to accept the call with fingers still just wet enough to leave little droplets on the screen.

"Are you out yet?" Asked the voice of my girlfriend, and I could hear her fumbling around as she tried to find something, and I noticed thst it was odd that she had called normally instead of video called
"The closet? Yes," I replied with a laugh "Would I have answered if I wasn't? Honestly darl, you have near perfect timing."
"I just remember that you only take, like, fifteen minutes to shower," she said through some gentle laughter
"How the fuck did you know that, of all things?" I asked incredulously as I finished trying to towel dry my hair
"Remember when I was down with you for that week? Yeah, I timed you." She explained, and it sounded like she was doing her makeup
"You WHAT?!" I all but screached
"Timed you. You took between three and three and a half songs each time." She explained patiently, if a little mumbled around something
"Which equates to fifteen minutes?" I asked in shock as I started to do my makeup
"Yep," Artemis said, popping the p "But I bet if I was there they would be longerrrrrr"
"Probably," I said with a laugh, before getting fed up with my still wet hair "I'll call you back, I'm going to blow dry my hair."

With that we said goodbye and I took the time to do as I had said that I would before calling Artemis back. Once again a normal call, which I thought was odd. I thought that something must have happened and she didn't want me to see, maybe that's what the surprise was? Either way it made me stress and I ended up doing my makeup whilst stressed.

"You said you were wearing navy, yeah?" I asked as I picked up my phone amd moved back into the bedroom
"Yes. Navy blue and gold. Why?" Artemis asked
"Because I thought that maybe we could be all cute and matching," I said a bit sheepishly "I have something else that I could wear if you think that that's a bad idea..."
"No, I love it," she assured me with a laugh "Very cute."
"Oh thank the gods," I sighed, relief washing over me like a tidal wave "I was stressing that you'd think that it was a bad... a bad, bad idea."
"Don't stress," she said in an attempt to calm me

But I couldn't help but stress, especially with the fact that it was a normal call. Even after we had both completely gotten dressed we chatted,  normal call style. I told her about how the team had practically stalked me and how I had gotten expelled and she told me about her boring work meetings.

OH! I forgot to mention! I had been filming bits and pieces since I had packed figuring that I could get two seperate videos out of this. I didn't have an overly large following or subscriber count and I mainly made them because they were a fun way to pass the time and a great way to showcase things like my creativity, cosplays (all of which had come with me), dancing... and any other hobby I had. I almost always had my camera with me either snapping away or filming. Everyone around me had accepted it like a second hand.

Except for Tony Stark, who didn't really know that I did so. In fact the only time I had a video filmed when he was around was the dance recital video, which was taken by a professional so that parents and family of the dancers could buy it. Of course, I bought it and uploaded it in parts to the channel which wasn't it's intended purpose but I had painstakibgly gone around and asked every single person involved from the dance instructors and the owner of tge dance school to each and every single parent or primary carer of each and every single person that attended.