Super Human? •PETER PARKER 2•

Chapter 33

I unlock my door and step in putting my stuff down on our entryway side table. I turn and see Peter in the doorway. "You can come in if you want," I say. He shakes his head.

"I told you I would leave," he says lightly leaning on the doorframe. I didn't bother turning the lights on cause I knew I'd just go to my room and go to bed so all that lights him is the moonlight through our massive window.

"You can stay for a little bit if you want," I say. He shuts the door and gets his phone out. "What are you doing?" I ask as I hear a slow song I don't recognize playing. As he puts it down.

"I'm Peter Parker," he says to me. I furrow my eyebrows. "I'd buy you a drink but I'd settle for a free dance if you like," he says with a light smile. I feel my heart skip a beat as I nod lightly. He puts his hand around my waist and sways back and forth. "This is what should've happened at that benefit," he says lightly.

"I like this song, what is it?" I ask not wanting to get into what we have been avoiding all night.

"It's a cover of Back to You by Selena Gomez. I think a group called The Mayries sing it," he says. I nod as he spins me around. I smile a bit as I go back into his chest.

"It's really pretty." He looks down at me as we make eye contact.

"Stella I meant what I said. On the roof," he says.

"Peter I really don't-

"I know, but I think we should talk about it," he says. "I am still confused, but I think if tonight is any indication I think we can be normal. Even just for a night," he says as the song ends. We've stopped dancing before then though as more music just keeps playing.

"I still think you're a flip flopper. Even if you don't start anything with Felicia."

"If you must know we did talk after we kissed. I told her I could help her and we made a plan to get her out, or try to get Fisk back in the Raft."

"Did you just kiss?"

"No," he says simply. I pull away from him. "But also like I said, we didn't have sex."

"Do you like her?"

"I honestly don't know. I want to fix her."

"You like me?" I ask him stepping back up to him.

"I told you I did," he says licking his lips lightly looking down at me. "What about you? Am I too much of a flip flopper for you?"

"I want you to promise me something," I start. He nods without even knowing what I'm gonna say. "If I kiss you right now, we don't talk about it tomorrow. We don't bring up anything from tonight or today so that we can stay friends. Okay? I just want to be your friend. Cause you do terrify me and I terrify you. That's never going to work," I explain. We are really close to each other so close that if I stepped up a bit our lips would touch. "Do you promise me?"

"Stella," he says lightly. I glance at his lips then back at his eyes. His big brown glistening eyes.

"Promise I'll wake up with a friend tomorrow. Not a boyfriend, not a mistake, not a Spider-Man issue. I just want to wake up and have this be a night I'll forget," I add. We are lingering playing the will they won't they kiss trope. Reminds me of when I told him not to kiss me in his bedroom all those years ago.

"I don't think I can forget about today," he says lightly. I feel his hand resting on my hips as if they don't know where else to go.

"Then," I start to back up. "I don't think we can be friends anymore Peter."

"Stella wait," he says as I sit on the couch. Why haven't I turned the lights on? He looks too good in the moonlight. I might just be in my head though. "I don't want to hurt you. I don't want this to be our lives. It's the same problem I've had in all my relationships. Spider-Man always ends up ruining a normal life," he says sitting next to me.