I used to believe in science

Antoinette was queuing at a dessert shop down the street from her house because Tony said he wanted donuts. .

This store has strawberry-flavored donuts that she likes very much, but they are rationed, and Antoinette is ranked fourth. Not much more, and Nettie hopes the person ahead of her isn't a sweet tooth.

"Is there any recommendation here?" Just behind her, a man's voice sounded, Antoinette almost jumped up, had to take a step back in order to stand firm, and then hit the broad shoulder behind, And the latter quickly stretched out a hand to help her stand firmly.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Knowing that she just stepped on the corner of the other party, Nitty quickly apologized and turned her head. Then her eyes first hit the biceps wrapped in the sweatshirt, and then she raised her head to see the blonde hair. His blue eyes and firm jaw.

Quite... familiar.

"We meet again." The latter was not angry because she stepped on her foot, but said gently.

"...uh." Antoinette took a second to remember who the other party was. They met yesterday. The other party helped her a lot in the library of George Washington University, and she ruined one of the other party's clothes " Oh, it's you."

It was slightly rude to say that, but she didn't realize it until after she said it, so she could only smile apologetically.

"Yes, it's me, Miss Stark."

Nettie took a little look at the unwiped sweat on the forehead of the other party and the tight sportswear under the jacket, and guessed, "Come out for a run?"

"Why... Forget it, I'm not going to ask." The other party was stunned for a moment, blinked his eyes and was very puzzled, then remembered her identity and let out a sigh of relief and gave up the original question.

"Hello, what do you need?" At this time, it was Antoine's special order, so she turned her head and ordered the remaining three strawberry donuts, and then ordered other flavors to make up a box. Had two cups of coffee.

"Sweets for lunch? Is there any happy event?" The person behind asked a little surprised after seeing what she ordered.

"Sugar can change people's mood, and it can make people feel happy when they are relieved, so you can eat sweets not only when you are happy, but also to maintain your work mood." Antoinette replied as a matter of course, and did not realize what he said until he finished speaking. A little too much, so he closed his mouth in embarrassment and kept smiling.

For a while, the people behind didn't speak, so she turned her head slightly to look, and realized that the other party was in a daze, so she raised her hand and shook it in front of the other party.When he came back to his senses, he said, "Personally, the cappuccino is good, and the latte is a bit too sweet."

It took the other party a while to realize what she said. Antoinette had already got what she wanted and was about to leave, but she stopped after taking two steps and turned around, "I suddenly remembered that I should thank you, Saved my life."

"You don't have to be so polite." Steve declined. He helped the other party catch the criminal, because it was a good deed, and he didn't intend to ask for anything in return.

However, Antoinette ignored his words, walked to the side, tore a piece of note from the hanging sticky note, quickly wrote down his number and handed it to him, "Seriously, I also ruined your clothes, give me a Chance to apologize."

Captain America's Great Crisis.

Steve looked at the note with the mobile phone number on it, and fell silent. This was the first time in his life that he received a small note from a girl. Before that, this kind of honor always belonged to Bucky.

He hesitated and took it anyway, but he insisted "So I'll treat you, tonight?"

Antoinette agreed to the date, because she really had nothing to do tonight, and Tony would probably leave after lunch.So they agreed on a time and place, and she came home with dessert.

Tony had come to his senses, sitting on the couch watching a tablet with the financial news on the TV.

Antoinette put her things on the coffee table and happened to see the notebook buckled aside, so she paused and said helplessly, "Brother, what are you doing with my notebook?"

"Your door was left open, and the notebook was confiscated." Tony gestured twice without taking his eyes off the tablet, as if this could explain it.

Antoinette sighed helplessly to express his dissatisfaction, and reached out to take back the notebook.But Tony moved quickly, and he held down the notebook.And opened it under Antoinette's puzzled eyes, it happened to be the page she drew last night.Antoinette fell asleep and couldn't remember what he drew.

"How did you know the sign?" he asked.

She looked down at the ten rings in the siege circle on the book, and then looked at Tony. She didn't want to tell Tony that she had been having nightmares, and the things in the dreams were usually the projections of some real memories, so she replied, "Which dossier?" Have you seen it?"

"..." Tony looked directly into her eyes, bowing his head before Antoinette could read the emotion in his eyes.

So she felt it was her turn to ask, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing." Tony withdrew his hand and told her to put the notebook back.

There will be ghosts if nothing happens.

Antoinette didn't move, she continued to look at her brother and whispered cautiously, "Tell me?"

"I've seen that mark... in Afghanistan." Tony wiped his face.

Oh.

Antoinette understood.The word Afghanistan means a lot, where Tony went missing, was kidnapped, and after over a week of searching Roddy found him with a bunch of debris and a stabilizing battery on his chest.When he came back, he closed the arms department.

But Tony never mentioned what happened there.Even though Antoinette knew that victim psychology research usually encouraged them to speak up about what happened, she didn't want to push Tony.

So after a moment of silence she changed the subject "Come on, get something to eat and then call Hubby and tell him what time he'll pick you up."

"Oh, my brother is very sad to drive me away in such a hurry." Tony put down the tablet and put down the topic just now.

Antoinette smiled, "I won't take this responsibility, you will always be the busiest."

"So what's your plan for the afternoon?" Tony picked up a donut and tasted it, obviously surprised by the taste, so he nodded, basically asking casually.

"I have an appointment with friends for dinner this afternoon."

"And the guy from yesterday? The one who wrote the report for you?"

"What?" Antoinette was stunned for a moment before realizing that he was talking about Rhett, and Tony's raised eyebrows made her realize that the other party was thinking a bit crookedly.

She felt that she needed to clarify "No, no, you think too much."

"Hmm." Tony didn't argue with her, he shrugged, but he didn't care.His younger sister has a gifted intuition for human emotions and thinking, but she is careless when it comes to her own emotional issues.

Antoinette sat by the floor-to-ceiling windows.This location is very good, the location of this store is at the corner of a crossroad, and she is sitting in this location where she can see the scenery of two streets.

This is an Italian restaurant. Although it does not have a star rating, the chef is a famous Italian chef. Antoinette has heard about it from Emily, but he has never been there himself.

Tony procrastinated in the afternoon, but at least he left before her appointed time.

So she arrived half an hour earlier than the scheduled time, ordered a cup of black tea and looked at the newspaper coming from the door. It was already a few days ago, and there was no meaningful news. The headline on the front page was still "Iron Man, save the world." Hero or war machine? '

Annoyed at one glance, she turned straight to the crossword puzzle, where the tea waiter asked for a pencil and began solving the crossword puzzle.

When she was almost halfway through, there was a rush of footsteps behind her. Antoinette raised her head and before she could look back, the person had already walked around to the position opposite her, "Sorry, I'm late. "

She glanced at the time displayed on the phone on the table, which was 10 minutes earlier than their scheduled time, and smiled. "I insist that I came too early."

"What's new?" Steve sat down and pointed to the newspaper in Netty's hand. He was wearing a coat and T-shirt similar to the one they had when they first met.

And Antoinette showed him half of the content he had filled in, and asked, "A code name for an operation in Germany during World War II. There are two A's in the middle and the end is also A?"

"Barbarossa."

This answer only took less than a second, probably too fast, Antoinette looked up at him in surprise.

Just look at him.

Steve was a little uncomfortable being stared at, and at this moment he felt that the other party had discovered his poor acting disguise.

But the other party finally thought about it and said, "Are you serious in history class?"

Steve shrugged in relief. "I'm more interested in that history."

They had to interrupt the conversation when the waiter came with menus, and Antoinette put down the crossword puzzle and took one and flipped through it.

After all, it was the other party who asked for a treat, so she politely waited for the other party to order the dishes.But after a while, Steve still hasn't spoken, so she sneaks a glance across the menu.Sure enough, I saw him frowning and flipped through a few pages of the menu and then turned back.

So Antoinette put down the menu, ordered a starter soup, a chicken dish, macaroni and asked Steve, "What salad do you want?"

"That's it." Steve pointed to the recommendation at the top without hesitation, then closed the menu, and smiled apologetically at her after the waiter took it away. "Sorry, I don't often come to this kind of restaurant..."

"I can tell." Antoinette shrugged and leaned back in his chair. "No offense, but you don't seem like someone who hangs around this kind of restaurant. I'm actually surprised that you choose this place when you invite someone to dinner for the first time." .”

"It was actually recommended by a friend of mine." Steve folded his hands on the table "I think it might be suitable for you..."

"It's a bit embarrassing." Antoinette touched his nose for this expected answer, "Actually, I don't often come to this kind of place... My friends and I like places that are more 'civilian'. ’ she made a quotation mark sign with her finger as she spoke.

"Next time I will pay attention."

Antoinette wanted to say don't mind, but she was cut off again just as she opened her mouth.

This time it was something big that interrupted her.

A wall of the restaurant was knocked down, and a heavy footstep came over the rubble accompanied by smoke and dust-a two-meter-tall robot.

The words 'robbery' were written all over that noseless and mouthless face.