literallyjuststonytrash:

Please I want a high school AU where Tony moves to America from Italy and doesn’t speak a lick of english. Despite the fact that he’s incredibly intelligent and skilled when it comes to STEM and Robotics club, the school only sees his failure to communicate and forces him into after school tutoring.
The first day he goes he’s pissed and he’s frustrated because he knows he doesn’t need to be there, these people are treating him like he’s some kind of idiot just because he wasn’t fluent but he was learning and quickly, was that not enough?

Steve is assigned to go to the same tutoring, and Tony recognizes him from class. He’s spent a large chunk of his own time staring at those nice shoulders wrapped just perfectly in a well worn and wildly decorated letterman jacket. Steve’s the guy who sits in the back of the classroom and sleeps and doodles for most of the lecture. Tony and just about everyone else in school’s labels him as an empty headed pretty boy jock, and Tony’s not surprised to see him there.

Tony and Steve are sat at the same table, and Tony is taken aback by just how handsome he is. And how tired he looks. Steve’s got dark smudges under his eyes and his shoulders sag and the worksheets and assignments  seemed to suck even more energy out of him.

So, it starts with Tony helping Steve with a chemistry equation. It’s simple, and easy to do without having to talk too much. When Steve makes a mistake Tony shakes his head and says ‘No, like this,’ in his heavily accented english and takes his pencil from his hand to show him. When he looks up at Steve the boy is blushing and he’s got this odd half smile on his face, like he was trying not to smile at all. That’s the first time Tony ever has the desire to kiss him

Time goes by, and they start walking home together. By this point it’s halfway through the school year, and Tony’s learned enough english to manage conversation, though most people don’t really try to understand him through the accent. Steve does, though. He even introduces him to his friends, and they’re all absolutely insane, but they pull him into their group like he was born to be there. At this point Tony’s got a crush on Steve that’s actual torture. Steve seems absolutely oblivious, but there are moments when tony think he seems interested, but he ’s worried he might be misinterpreting cultural cues.

Tony spends most of his time with Steve. In doing so he notices some interesting things about him. Firstly he’s always tired. The dark circles under his eyes and his sluggish mood is constant. When Tony finds out it’s because Steve works three jobs he’d absolutely flabbergasted. He asked Steve about it, and he just goes red and mutter something that doesn’t make sense and practically runs away from him.

That day, Tony goes to Steve’s house to talk to him, to apologize for sticking his most in places it doesn’t belong. No one’s there, so Tony sits on the front step to wait it out. He waits for a long time. He stays long after the sun goes down, and hasn’t even considered leaving when Steve walks up the drive at three in the morning, looking confused and wildly attractive in a taco bell uniform. Tony sees at least six emotions cross Steve’s face, one after the other. First there’s anger, then embarrassment, and then relief, like he’s actually happy to see Tony standing there on his front step at three in the morning. He smiles tiredly and when he walks up. On the step Tony is just as tall as Steve is, and Steve stands close to him. He smells like taco bell, but Tony pulls him in by the collar of his shirt and kissed him anyway.

Steve is completely surprised, shocked and red when Tony lets go of him. But he smiles. It a huge, dopey crooked thing that Tony’s never seen before, and he can’t help himself from Stealing another kiss.

Three years later they’ve graduated high school and are in college and Tony’s taught Steve enough Italian that they can switch back and forth and totally use it to talk trash in public.