The adorable Spider-Man (who is misunderstood by everyone)

17 - The Fantastic Four

First of all I.AM.SO.SORRY!!! I got really stuck with this chapter and then lost all motivation to continue writing for some time. But I'm back! And I will try to finish this story soon so something like this won't happen again.

I reread everything I have written up to this point and I'm really embarrassed, but it's fine. People seem to like it so I will continue writing 🙈 Maybe I will rewrite the story, but I wouldn't count on it. If anyone is interested in editing this (either the already written chapters or the upcoming chapters) Feel free to text me here or on Wattpad or Insta (same name). Now, I hope you forgive me and have fun continuing to read this story 😅

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Everything that happened so far: Up until now Peter has met Bucky, Sam, Loki, Stephen, Clint, Wanda and Pietro. Everyone loves him of course, but only as Peter. Only Loki knows about Spider-Man. Trying to message Johnny, Peter has sent a message to MJ and they started talking. Currently Peter is at Johnnys house and meeting the other members of the Fantastic Four.

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Walking into the kitchen, Peter expected to be noticed by Johnnys family, but it still made him uncomfortable to be stared at. The only woman in the room seemed to notice and walked up to him with a smile on her face.

"It's good to finally meet you Peter. Johnny told us a lot about you."

Shaking her hand he gave her a confused smile.

"He did? We.. I mean, I didn't think we... what did he tell you?"

"Oh, just how much he likes y..."

"Sue!", Johnny interrupted her, "Why don't we sit down and do NOT embarrass your favourite little brother?"

Sue chuckled and moved closer to Peter. Looking straight at Johnny she stage whispered:"He hasn't stopped talking about you ever since you agreed to meet up."

"Sue!", Johnny put his hands on Peters shoulders and steered him to the kitchen table, "Ignore her, she doesn't know what she's talking about."

Peter started playing with the hems of his shirt and averted his eyes that had a slight mischievous spark in them:"So you don't like me? And you didn't tell your family about me."

He did his best to sound sad while saying it and it worked. Johnny started sputtering and moved Peter so that they were face to face.

"No way! I really like you! And I told everyone about you. Just a respectable amount! I...!"

Johnny stopped talking abruptly as he realised Peter started giggling. Even though he tried to hide his smile with one hand, he couldn't hide the sounds escaping and the way his eyes sparkled with mirth.

"You..! How could you do this to me!", Johnny made sure to really exaggerate his voice to show Peter that he wasn't seriously hurt.

Between his giggles Peter tried to apologise:" Sorry but,.. thank you for caring about me."

With Peter showing him such a genuine smile, Johnny couldn't even pretend to be mad anymore. He huffed and tried to get back his confident look as he continued leading Peter to the kitchen table:" You're amazing after all. I'm just telling you the truth."

"I already like you, kid.", a gruff voice came from the direction they were walking in, causing both boys to jump and look into that direction.

"What, already forgot we're here? Wow, you two really fit each other."

All three adults had a smile on their face. The one who was talking nodded in Peters direction.

"Hi, you can call me Ben. Don't be surprised by my appearance, it's a side effect of the powers I got. Johnny said you haven't heard of the Fantastic Four, huh?"

Peters smile lost some of it's sincerity at hearing his uncles name, but he tried not to let it show:"Uhm, hello sir. Yeah, I didn't really have the chance to keep up with the news recently and I spend most of my time in queens, so I didn't see any of you around either. Johnny got me up to date though, so I now know about you! It must be really inconvenient to be made of stone though, isn't it?"

Ben started laughing loudly:" Yeah, it is. It's not all bad though, at least I don't get hurt by normal stuff anymore."

"Now, boys, sit down. Food is ready and I'm sure you're all hungry. I hope you like meatloaf, Peter", Sue smiled and Peter stomach decided on that moment to answer for him.

With an embarrassed smile he nodded and sat down next to Johnny.

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As the dinner came to an end, Peter got sad thinking about having to leave soon.

As if having read his thought Johnny started speaking while looking anywhere but Peter.

"Hey,.. I was thinking.. do you.. would you like to... ugh, do you want to sleep over?"

The last part was said in a rush, even Peter could see Johnny was embarrassed.

Peter sat stunned, processing Johnnys words. After a while Johnny started getting nervous and stopped averting his eyes to look at Peters reaction.

"If you don't want to it's fine. I was planning on asking you before we met up so that you could take everything important with you, but I couldn't bing myself to ask. I thought if I rushed things too much you'd surely say no to even meeting up at all. You don't have to say yes, but I just really liked spending time with you and I thought you would feel the same so I just thought..."

Johnny trailed off at the end of the sentence and tried to look more confident again. Peter used that silence to finally answer.

"If you're fine with it and if I won't be a burden then I wouldn't mind staying over one night", even though his words were merely a whisper and he didn't look at Johnny as he said it Johnny heard and a smile spread on his face.

"Really! That's awesome! I'll have to prepare everything then. I already put the sheets on a mattress and blanket and pillow, I just have to bring everything to my room. Oh, and you can have a clean toothbrush and toothpaste and stuff, no problem! Wait here, I'm just gonna get everything ready in my room!"

With that said, Johnny got up and practically ran out of the kitchen to do as he said. Peter looked after him with wide eyes, a bit overwhelmed at the positive reaction.

Hearing a chuckle coming from beside him, he turned to look at Sue and the others, who had smiles on their faces, even though Ben seemed to try really hard not to smile.

"Sorry about that. This is his first time having a genuine friend sleep over so he's a really excited. He's never had a real friend before, everyone who got close to him always turned out to have some ulterior motive. Don't tell him I told you though, otherwise he will be embarrassed", Sue smiled at him as she told Peter about Johnnys past.

"Oh, uhm, we're the same then. I also, well... I never really had a friend my age,.. ever."

Sues smile turned gentle at his words.

"Well, I'm sure you will continue to get along with. Now shoo, I'm sure Johnny is making a mess out of everything trying to get his room ready. Let's go look what's taking him so long."