Tony might disagree about liking someone more than was appropriate, because who made the cap on liking people and where exactly was it set anyway? He didn’t have to defend himself, luckily, because then things might have gotten uncomfortable for Steve. Tony wasn’t exactly known for being meek.

That wasn’t the focus of the conversation anyway. “Birthday boys don’t pay,,” Tony said with certainty. Unless that birthday boy was Tony Stark, because then he paid for everything. Money wasn’t something he worried about. There was more in his account than he could spend and he tended to spend it on things you couldn’t buy off of Amazon. It would take Stark Industries tanking and all of his real estate crumbling to really feel an impact.

Besides, that’s what people said in movies and on commercials. Friends pay for friends on their birthdays. Simple as that.

“And I already have a tab running.” They just charged him end of the night.