Stones and Glass Houses (Book 1)

🕷(51) Rooftop attack

Peter Parker POV-

It was a miracle he hadn't slipped up yet. Peter wanted to ask Brooklyn how having her mortal enemy in her home had been, but Peter wasn't supposed to know a thing about that or the criminals they stopped last night.

Normal, civilian, Peter Parker was not supposed to know the Avengers were out on a big mission, and that was probably the reason why Brook frowned at her phone during lunch.

He'd gotten a notification from Mr. Stark as well. They were off the grid for now, it would be radio silence until the mission was over, or if there was an emergency.

Everyone at the lunch table assumed Brooklyn's usual mood was because she was stressed about that project of hers, Harry was considerately more affectionate today, almost always keeping an arm around her shoulders in comfort despite not knowing its original source.

At least there was one other person at the table that understood Peter's position, and that was Ned. He'd helped during last night's mission, heard everything that had conspired, and now lived with a secret identity of his own from their friend.

Knowing all these little things helped Peter keep his mouth shut about her excuse this morning when coming to school. Harry hadn't been as easy to silence, but after a talk during the way to school, the teen was proud to see his friend had not said a thing.

Luckily, everyone at the table always seemed to ease both Brooklyn's and Peter's own nerves, today's main topic of conversation just so happened to be something he could ironically relate to.

As soon as Tanya sat down at the table, curly brown hair bouncing with the movement, she eyed them all with a huge smile.

"The whole school is in a craze about what happened last night! Those found mysterious heroes are really giving something more important to talk about" Tanya said, "Good thing too, this place was getting dull"

Brooklyn smiled at the comment, silently placing her box of raisins on Tanya's tray as the cheerleader added a pack of gummies. Peter had to fight a smile of his own at the normalcy, but listened intently as Tanya leaned closer for suspense, enough so that even MJ leaned forward to hear.

"I know people think it's some sort of myth at this point, but my dad saw them. He saw four shadows retreat the scene, and the fire hydrant the firefighters used to put out the fire was cut open or something" Tanya said confidently, "He reckons a new group of heroes are rising, but unlike the usual wannabes that only get themselves in trouble, these might be the real deal like Spider-man"

Peter almost whooped in joy when he noticed Brooklyn did not flinch or seemed disgusted by the mention of his alter ego. So they had made some progress last night!!!!!

"What do you mean your father saw it? Is he a firefighter?" Brook asked.

Before Tanya could reply, MJ's soft and mellow voice spoke up in its place. Peter had to fight the urge to keep his stare for too long, cause that would be weird. But her hair looked really nice today, as it did always, and the small light in her eyes...

"Tanya's father is the chief of police of Queens" said MJ, and no one was surprised she'd know that. The decathlon leader had a tendency to know everything important.

Brooklyn's eyes went wide, but she refrained from saying anything but a simple "Got it"

"You didn't know?" Tanya asked, pushing Harry's arm out of the way from Brooklyn's shoulders so her own could take its place, "Your old man ordered the police force to keep you safe since you started school. I know they do some extra patrols near your neighborhood some days"