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Feeling the car come to a stop is what woke Tony up. He opened his eyes to see not exactly what he'd been expecting to see. He cast a glance in his wife's direction, "Uh honey, I think we might be at the wrong address?"
Pepper was busy fiddling with her phone, her head shaking, "No, it's not. This is the address Morgan gave me for her new place."
"But we're at a church!"
"Yes, I can see we're at a church. But this is the address." She showed him her phone as she was talking.
"Okay, I believe you, I believe you. Now the question is, why did our daughter give us an address for a church? What are you doing?"
"Calling our-- Hey, honey... yeah we're here but uh there seems to be some mistake. You gave is the address for... what's the name of this church, Tony?"
He turned his head to look for a name, and found an unexpected sight waiting for him. There at the bottom of the church's steps was a very familiar, and much beloved young woman standing there smiling... with a mischievous gleam in her eyes. It was a gleam that matched the one in his wife’s eyes when he turned his head around to tell her he see their daughter.
“What the… Pepper honey, what’s going on here? What are you doing?”
HIs wife was currently unlatching her seatbelt, and opened the car door before stated in an obvious tone, “Why, I’m going to see our daughter, of course!” She was shocked to discover in the time it had taken her to finish speaking that sentence he had somehow gotten over his own shock and had beaten her engulfing their daughter into a hug. Shaking her head, Pepper got out of the car and walked around it.
As she got close to them, she heard her daughter protest, "Daddy, not so hard!" But as she expected, the man she loved for most her entire life didn't let go of their daughter, but he did loosen his arms around her a little bit.
It was another minute or two before Tony finally let go of their baby girl, and Pepper got her turn to hug her daughter. However, her hug didn't last as long as that of her husband because she heard Tony give voice to the question she’d been expecting to hear.
“Err, Maguna honey, do you want to tell us… or rather me , because I have a feeling your mother already knows the answer to this, why we’re all three standing outside of a church?”
Morgan could be as much as a wiseacre as her father, and of course her mother knew she was biting her tongue a little not to give the answer she was no doubt thinking. Instead, she responded in a playful way, "I uh think it might be because there’s going to be a wedding in one hour, Daddy.."
“A wedding?”
“Yes.”
“Okay, there’s going to be a wedding. Great! Congrats to them! Now if you’ll give your Mother and I the address to your new place, I guess we can go there until your friend’s wedding is…” HIs voice trailed off as he noticed that both his wife and daughter were shaking their heads.
“I’m not here because one of my friends is getting married, Daddy.”
“Then why did you want to meet us in front of a church, Mo?”
"Because I'm the one who is getting married in about another hour?"
"I'm sorry but could you repeat that? You know how your old Dad's hearing isn't nearly what it used to be and I thought you said you're getting married in another hour.”
Morgan nodded, "That's because I did say I'm getting married, Dad."
"You're getting married--" Tony started to repeat.
"Yes, in an hour." His wife and her mother finished.
Their daughter gave him an amused look, nodding her head, "Yep, I'm getting married in an hour."
Tony was starting to catch onto something, and he looked at his wife, “Uh, Pepper darling, you somehow don’t seem surprised or shocked that our daughter has just told us that she’s getting married in an hour.”
“That’s because I’m not.”
Then it dawned on him, “Oh my… you knew ? You really did know this, didn’t you?”
“I might have known.”
“Oh my…” He muttered under his breath, shaking his head, then looking back to his daughter, "Well, I hope it's to Carter because if it's not him, you've been leaving some details out when you called home."
"No, actually I met this guy who put Carter to shame in the looks department and I just couldn't say no to him when he said we should get married!"
She said this to him in such a deadpan voice that she knew that he for one awful second was buying it completely. She counted out ten seconds in her head, and then grinned at him as she exclaimed, "Gotcha!"
In response to this, Tony clutched his chest, "Oh thank goodness! For a second I thought that my daughter who has always had at least some of her mother's good sense had actually, in fact, lost her mind"
"Being a little melodramatic there, aren't you, Daddy?"
He rolled his eyes, and then a look of horror crossed his face, “Oh my… Are you..."
Shooting her mother a concerned glance, she stepped closer to her father, "Am I what, Daddy?"
"Um you know…”
“I do?”
“You are going to make me ask it aren’t you? Alright then, are you… uh pregnant?"
"Daddy!"
"Tony!"
Before he could react to their reactions, his wife’s hand connected with his left shoulder, and after one look at her face, the billionaire wisely took a few steps back. Pepper was so red in the face from the outrage she was feeling that he thought he was looking at an old-fashioned cartoon instead of his wife’s face. Morgan’s face mirrored her mother’s , but for an entirely different reason. He knew he had embarrassed her with that question more than he’d angered her.
She must get that from Pepper because there's no way having the ability to be embarrassed by a question about that subject comes from the my side of the family!
Looking at them both, he had to admit to himself that it was an outrageous question to ask your very grown up and brilliant daughter out of the blue.
He also noticed that Morgan still hadn't really answered his question. However one more look at his wife and daughter told him that maybe pursuing the answer might not be such a good idea so he raised his hands in surrender.
"Sorry... sorry I asked that."
His daughter nodded, cleared her throat, and put her arms around them, "Come on you guys have less than an hour to get dressed for my wedding!" She started to usher them towards the door.