She's not usually this bad!!! But this is kind of a weird situation and there's something about him that just throws her -- and not necessarily in a bad way, exactly.

She has to jerk her head back a little when he suddenly shoves his phone in her face, dropping her tablet on her lap and grabbing his wrist gently before she can fully process the move to pull his hand a little further so she can read the text without going cross-eyed. She hadn't really speculated what he was doing -- that's his business -- but no, she wasn't expecting this. Pepper turns her head to look at him and only now realizes how close they are, swallowing a little. No really, those glasses look ridiculously good on him.

"Don't forget to tell him I kicked your ass during sparring," she recovers after a beat to snark, lips quirking lopsidedly. Tie, what tie??