It was New Year's Eve at a normal ski lodge in Mammoth, California. Everyone was celebrating in preparation for the New Year of 2012. Well, almost everyone. There was a boy sitting down, not socializing with anyone, lost in a book, using his arc reactor as a reading light. Suddenly a pretty red headed girl named Pepper appeared behind him, clearly annoyed by his constant reading.

"Tony, it's New Year's Eve. Enough reading," she told him, grabbing for his book.

"But Pepper I'm almost done-" Tony pleaded reaching for his stolen novel.

"The teen party? I've laid out your best clothes, come on get ready," Pepper commanded heading for the door.

"Can I have my book back?" Tony asked, giving her his best puppy dog pout, reluctantly and clearly irritated, Pepper returned his book to him.

"Thank you," Tony smirked to her as he prepared to get read as he prepared to get ready for a party that he would just be reading at anyways.

There were also another two people not partaking in the parties above and below them, instead they were playing basketball, just like they would at home or school.

"Keep working left, Rogers. Got a guard in the championship game we're expecting, you'll torch 'em!" Basketball coach Nick Fury told his star player that he became the guardian of.

"Am I going left?" star player Steve Rogers asked his coach.

"Yeah, he looks middle you take it downtown," Fury told him.

"Ok, like this?" Steve asked while performing the move that he was just told to do.

"Whoo! That's it, man, sweet, let's see that in the game!" Nick Fury cheered as an attractive brunette walked into the gym.

"Boys?" Maria Hill called, getting the boys' attention, "Did we really fly out all this way to play more basketball?"

Steve and Nick looked at each other before replying.

"Yeah…" they both said a little ashamed but matter-of-factly.

"It's the last night of vacation. The party, remember?" Maria pointed out while twirling in her sparkly black dress.

"Right, the party…the party…New Year's Eve…" Nick remembered looking down.

"Steve they have a kid's party downstairs in the Freestyle Club," Maria gestured for Steve to get ready.

"Kid's party?" Steve asked in a "You've gotta be kidding me" tone. He was normally fairly good with kids, but he was 17 and didn't feel like spending his New Year's Eve with whining children.

"Young adults, now go, shower up!" Maria corrected herself.

"Come on, one more?" Steve pleaded to Maria, "last one." He assured her.

"Real quick," Maria gave in. Steve went to the three point line and shot the ball straight into the basket without hitting the backboard, making the net give off a beautiful swishing noise.

"There we go! That's the way to end it!" Nick Fury shouted happily.

At the teen's party, Tony was trying to find a nice quiet place to sit, which was very difficult with all of the other party guests shouting and two teens singing karaoke. They were okay, but no one was really paying attention to them.

"Howdy sir," a boy tipped his giant cowboy hat to Tony after accidentally bumping into him. Tony giggled and finally found a spot that didn't have the best lighting, but was possibly the quietest part of the room to read his book.

"All right, how bout that for a couple of snowboarders?" the MC announced as a few scattered people cheered politely, "Who's gonna rock the house next?" The two spotlights shined out over the teens, seeking out the two victims that would be singing next. The first spotlight ended up stopping on Steve, who was standing in the corner casually, then the second one stopped on Tony, who was blinded by the light.

"Haha, alright you and you come on!" the MC laughed as the two boys were pushed up to the stage.

"No, guys, I don't sing… I can't sing! Guys!" Steve begged for mercy as Tony prepared for his doom. He had terrible stage fright and couldn't look at a group of people without ending up facing the ceiling.

"Hey, you know what? Someday you guys might thank me for this," The MC said while handing them their mikes, "or not." The song started and Steve was doomed to sing first. The song was called "Start of Something New." He knew it well enough to sing it but he really didn't think he could sing well.

"Living in my own world, didn't understand, that anything can happen, when you take a chance," Steve sang. He was about to leave the stage when Tony took a breath and started singing, then he knew he couldn't leave him up there. It was a duet after all.

"I never believed in, what I couldn't see. I never opened my heart,"

"Oh,"

"To all the possibilities, ooh,"

"I know,"

"That something has changed,"

"Never felt this way,"

"And right here tonight,"

"It could be the start of something new,"

"It feels so right,"

"To be here with you, oh. And now looking in your eyes,"

"I feel in my heart,"

"Feel in my heart,"

"The start of something new,"

"Oh, yeah, now who'd have ever thought that,"

"We'd both be here tonight?"

"Ooh,"

"Yeah, and the world looks so much brighter,"

"Brighter, brighter,"

"With you by my side,"

"By my side,"

"Oh I know, that something has changed, never felt this way,"

"I know it for,"

"Real this could be the start of something new it feels so right to be here with you oh. And now looking in your eyes, I feel in my heart,"

"The start of something new,"

"I never knew that I could happen till it happened to me, oh yeah,"

"I didn't know it before,"

"But now it's easy to,"

"See, oh! It's the start of something new! it feels so right to be here with you, oh, and now looking in your eyes, I feel in my heart, that it's the start of something new it feels so right,"

"To be here with you,"

"Oh, and now looking in your eyes,"

"I feel in my heart,"

"Feel in my heart,"

"The start of something new,"

"The start of something new,"

"The start of something new,"

The song ended with Steve and Tony really close to each other and looking into each other's eyes. They had gotten so into the song they hadn't noticed that a huge crowd formed around them to listen to their duet, so they were caught a little off guard by the ferocious cheering that suddenly erupted.

"Steve," Steve introduced himself and held out his hand to his singing partner with the beautiful voice.

"Tony," Tony smiled as he accepted Steve's handshake.

Steve and Tony went out to the snowy balcony, they had been inseparable and had been talking non stop since they sang together.

"But seriously, you have an amazing voice! You're a singer right?" Steve asked him.

"Just a church choir is all, I tried a solo and nearly fainted," Tony laughed.

"Really? Why is that?"

"I looked at all of the people staring at me. Next thing I knew I was staring at the ceiling. End of solo career,"

"The way you sing that's hard to believe,"

"That was the first time I did that, it was so cool,"
"I know! Completely!"

"You sound like you've done a lot of singing too,"

"oh yeah, my showerhead is very impressed with me," Tony laughed at Steve's sarcasm as the crowd counted down to the new year. The fireworks shot into the air and Steve and Tony looked at each other. They both knew perfectly well what people who liked each other kiss during the fireworks, but they had just met and they weren't even sure that the other person felt the same way, because they obviously felt something for that person.

"I better go find Pepper, and wish her a happy new year…" Tony said breaking the sexual tension.

"Yeah, me too, I mean not Pepper, but Maria…and Nick…" Steve stumbled. He was getting sad that this was his last night of vacation. He would've liked to have been able to spend more time with him.

"Uh…I'll call you! I'll call you tomorrow!" Steve smiled at his idea.

"Yeah!" Tony smiled giving him his phone, "Here put your number in,"

"You too," Steve said giving Tony his phone. They both put their numbers in each other's phones and took their pictures for the contact ID.

"There you go," Steve said returning Tony's phone and receiving his phone. Steve was too busy smiling at his phone to notice that Tony was leaving.

"Just so you know, singing with you was the most fun I've had on this vacation. So, um…where do you live," Steve looked up to see that the handsome boy had gone. He looked back to the picture of Tony on his phone and there he was again, giving Steve an unintentionally sexy smile as his arc reactor and the fireworks made his face shine beautifully.

"Tony," Steve smiled as he said the name to himself. He had always loved that name.