Home Is Where The Heart Is (Peter Parker)

[12] Trust Issues... Starting Now.

I changed into my opera outfit earlier to diffuse confusion as to where I had been the past two-ish hours and Peter finally showed up an hour later.

"Hey. Hey." He says and Ned rushes over to us in his bathrobe. 

"We almost died!" He exclaims

"It's fine. Hey, guess what - We're done with the mission." Peter says and smiles. 

"Dude, the trips over."

Well that figures. 

"There's monsters coming out of the ground everywhere we go. Of course our parents would want us home."

Mr. Harrington rushes past us but back-tracks when he spots Peter, "Don't put me on hold. Oh, Peter, you're not dead. Oh, my God. Yes, good. Stay here. Don't- Put some clothes on. We're booking flights."

"We came for science, we're leaving because of witches. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!" Mr. Dell says approaching us. 

"What is going on, dude?" Peter asks. 

"We're going home in the morning." I say.

"No. No, no, no. All the Elementals are gone." Peter says. 

"Ned!" Betty exclaims from her room.

"Coming, sweetie." He says and rushes off leaving Peter and I alone. 

"Hey, can you guys keep it down? I'm live-streaming." Flash says opening his door. 

Then, MJ opens her door.

"Hey. Where were you?" She asks.

"Um, I got lost." Peter says, lying through his teeth. 

"We were worried 'bout you. Good thing you're back."

"Yeah."

"So much for Paris, right?"

"Would've been fun."

"Yeah. Night."

"Night. You look nic-" Peter says but is cut off by her door closing. 

I turn to him.

"What are you doing?! She's right there, go get her. Ask her to go walk around the city with you or something. Just go!" I say regretfully. 

"Uh- wha- Nooooo."

"Why not?"

"Well, uh- because I-"

"See, no good reason. Now go!" I say and push him towards the door. 

He looks at me for a long while as I hide behind a plant nearby. He goes to knock on her door but before he can she opens it!

"Hey. Uh- Look, um... I'm not ready for this trip to be over yet, and I kind of want to do something fun that's not on the itinerary or planned or with Mr. Harrington."

"Yes." She says almost automatically. 

"Yes like you want to go?" He asks. 

"Yes."

"Awesome. I'll see you outside in 10 minutes."

"Meet me outside in five minutes."

"Five is good. Okay."

She shuts her door and Peter looks back at me. I squeal in excitement as I charge towards him and hug him. I break apart the hug and our faces are inches from each other. This is wrong. I gently push him away from me. 

"Proud of you buddy, now go get changed!" I say and skip off to my room, but as soon as he door was closed a warm tear runs down my cheek as my face becomes hot and red and I bury my face into the bed. I nap, I think for thirty minutes before I hear another knock. I look in the mirror that is next to the door, my mascara is smeared and my hair is messed up but thats whatever. I open it to see Peter.