Chapter 16
Steve had been thinking about this for weeks. He’d come up with various scenarios, but had never quite made it as far as to go through with any of them. Tony deserved only the best, after all, and Steve wanted to maximise the likelihood that he would agree to go to prom with him.
They had been friends since kindergarten. Steve was pretty sure he had actually been in love with Tony since then, too. He certainly couldn’t remember a time when he hadn’t wanted to spend the rest of his life with him, at any rate. If Tony said no to his proposal, he actually wasn’t sure what he would do.
Maybe that was why he was dragging his heels quite so much.
"You need to just ask him outright," Sam kept telling him every time Steve let out a wistful sigh and watched Tony wander past. "And, for the love of God, do it soon before I die from all the UST."
Finally, with just two weeks left until the dance, Steve was getting desperate. If he didn’t do it now, someone else was bound to ask Tony to prom - he was the most handsome guy at school, after all, and popular to boot.
With that in mind, he marched into school that morning with his mind set. Not stopping to say hi to any of his friends who called out a greeting, he strode straight over to Tony’s locker where he was chatting with Pepper. Without a word, he grabbed hold of Tony’s waist from behind and, as Tony let out a startled squawk, he swung him down into a dip and planted a kiss firmly on his lips. Tonymelted.
"Will you go to prom with me?" he asked against Tony’s lips when they parted, vaguely aware of catcalls and whistling all around them.
Tony looked completely overwhelmed for a moment, and then let out a guffaw of laughter. “Fuck yeah, I will!”