Hot Pepper
An extremely loud beep sounded through the dorm room and yanked Tony out of his deep sleep.
"Damn it... the fuck..?" Tony groaned and pulled his pillow over his head. The pillow only slightly muffled the obnoxious beeping, "Fucking hell James would you turn that thing off!"
"Yeah... gimme a sec..." His roomate mumbled drowsily.
"Fuck man! I am trying to sleep!" Tony cried angrily.
"Yeah, yeah, on it, sorry!" His roomate babbled, and the blaring alarm cut out.
"Thank you," Tony grumbled and closed his eyes again hoping sleep would take him back.
"When's your first class?" James asked.
"Ugh," Tony groaned. He didn't feel like checking. He wanted to keep sleeping. There was a rustle of papers next to Tony's head, "What are you doing?"
"Looking at your schedule because one of has to care about school," His roomate explained, "Oh, your first class starts in 15 minutes."
Tony was awake in a second.
"What?!" He sat bolt upright.
"Yep."
A shirt hit him in the face.
"The hell?" Tony pulled the shirt off his face.
"Put on some clothes on, come on you gotta get to class," James said a little to energetically. Tony squinted at him, somehow he was already completely dressed. How had he gotten up that fast? "Come on! Chop chop! get dressed."
Tony stared down at the shirt in his hands.
"Black Sabbath?" Tony questioned. Why had James tossed him this t-shirt? He didn't even own a Black Sabbath t-shirt.
"Dude it doesn't matter! Just put some clothes on!" James ordered a little bit more authoritatively than Tony had expected from him.
"Okay okay..." Tony grumbled and pulled the shirt on over his head, "This is a nice shirt..."
The shirt was incredibly soft. If his roommate thought he was getting this shirt back he was wrong.
Tony hauled himself out of bed and and grabbed his backpack.
"See? I'm ready just like that," Tony said pulling on a sock.
"Yeah definitely," James snorted obviously trying not to laugh.
"What?" Tony demanded pulling on his other sock.
"Nothing. I am just curious as to what people will think of your boxers."
Tony stared down at his legs.
"Agh! Damn it!" Tony cried cried in dismay, and grabbed the closest pair of shorts he could find, "You were going to let me walk out of here in my underwear weren't you?"
"Damn straight, and I was going to enjoy every second of it."
Tony just rolled his eyes as he pulled on his shorts.
"That is so rude. If you had forgotten pants I would have told you."
James raised an eyebrow, "Sure you would have."
Tony let out a snort of amusement.
"No, you're right. I would have let you walk around like that for a while."
"Okay. Good. Now that we are both being honest we can get down to business," James said with a malicious smile and opened the door, Tony followed him out of the room, "Next time we don't warn each other."
"That's horrible," Tony laughed.
"No here me out!" James did a little excited hop as they walked down the hallway, "We keep a tally of how many times each of us does something stupid like that, and at the end of the year the person with the most embarrassing acts has to do the ultimate embarrassing walk of shame, and the winner gets to decide what that is."
Tony had a feeling that if he agreed to this he would be doing a walk of shame, but on the off chance that he won... He had a few ideas.
"Okay, deal," Tony agreed.
"Oh, wait!" Rhodey spoke up as they walked outside, "No full nude walks of shame."
"Why not? That would be the best walk of shame ever."
"No! It would be illegal, and I don't think either of us have the money to pay bail. Plus I would like to be able to come back next year," Rhodey cried.
"Okay fine," Tony was so busy laughing that he didn't see the person walking toward them on the sidewalk. He walked straight into her and they both went down.
"Tony Collins One. James Rhodes Zero," Tony heard his roomate laugh as he and the young woman pulled themselves to their feet.
"Here, let me help you with that," Tony offered and bent down to help her pick up her papers.
"I got it," she snapped and yanked the paper out of his hand, "Why don't you just go back to pre school, and learn how to walk down the damn sidewalk."
Her curt angry response would have surprised him and maybe even stung a little if he hadn't become entranced by her beautiful green eyes, soft lightly freckled cheeks, and dancing strawberry blond hair.
"Uh... yeah... I'll do that," Tony mumbled absent mindedly.
"Good," She said with a fake smile and shoved her way past him. Apparently he had been in her way. Tony stared after her.
"Damn..."
"DUDE!" James punched him in the arm and brought him back to reality, "Quit gawking and lets get to class! We have like five minutes!"
"...But."
"Good lord man, you act like you have never seen a woman before," His roommate laughed. Tony looked over his shoulder as his roommate grabbed him by the arm and tugged him along. She was out sight now.