What lies behind a smile

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Peter
Y'all should look at the meme

I put my stuff in my suitcase making sure I have Gwens and Miles and Adrian's numbers. I finally get to go home. If I could even call it that.

"Peter Tony is here."I nod and take my suitcase. I say bye to Michael and Adrian, soon it's time to go. Tony stands a smile on his face.

"Hey, Peter ready?"I nod. Tony puts his arm over me and we walk to the car.

"How are you feeling?"I
look at Tony I think he got a haircut.

"Better I guess, "I say. That's kinda true I do feel a little better. Not really but a little. We get into the car and make our way to the tower. "So, "He says looking at me, I keep my eyes around my surroundings.
"What exactly does better mean?"

"I don't know yet, "I say, I met my new therapist the other day she was nice. Ms.Stacy and Michael both said me being honest with Tony would help him not make me feel smothered. And knowing Tony he will likely smother me.

"Um so I'm 2 weeks and 4 days clean of self-harm..."I say "I have an app in my phone now and i-it tracks my progress I have to complete daily logs."

"Oh is that for your therapist?"

"Yes, Ms.Stacy said it'll help her monitor me you and her will get a notice if I don't vlog, I think it's a little dumb."Tony grins I can see he's feeling a little tense.

"So Pepper and I have a surprise for you  at the tower."

"What's the surprise?"I ask curiously. He smiles but shakes his head.
"I can't say that's why it's a surprise, but if you don't want it Clint said he'll take it." What does that mean? I shrug it off and we're finally at the tower, I'm excited to see what it is. Honestly, I have no clue and I'm a little too out of it to guess. My medication has been making me feel a little wonky especially since my dosage is so high.

I'm tired and emotional I lash out randomly, my diet is weird again it's like I'm PMSing? PMS-Ing? Whatever the fuck the word is.

The elevator opens and I hear little stomps, a grey puppy comes running to me.

They got me a dog? This seems a little weird because Tony doesn't even like people let alone animals. I pick up the puppy she licks my face
but I don't mind it too much.

"Surprise!"I turn to him.

"wait so you got me a puppy?"He nods smiling. "You like her? Her name is Tessa."

I nod. I wanted a puppy since I was little but our apartment building never let us get one. May and Ben always wanted me to have one.
Sitting on the couch I look her over.

"Yes! Thank you, Tony"
I say, feeling a little overwhelmed.

"No problem kiddo. You always talked about wanting a puppy."He says. I just pet her. She then lays down in my lap, I run my hand over her she is small and soft. With big blue eyes that stare up at me nothing but joy behind them. Her tail is wagging so hard her whole body wiggles. It's adorable.

"I'm hoping she might help you start feeling alright."I nod looking back at him. "Now she's yours so your gonna walk her and train her she's also gonna get professional training because I'm not allowing a wild animal to run around here with no manners. We already have Clint and Thor for that" That makes me laugh.

"Thank you."I hug him. He holds me a little longer than I thought his arms wrapped over my shoulders tightly.

"I'm glad your back bud."I nod he finally let us go. "sorry, so you wanna talk about anything your therapist and counselor talked to me yesterday."I nod sitting back down. I don't really wanna talk but I know he likely does.