Young Love (America Chavez)

Chapter 13

Sage and America get up early in the morning and quickly change. They have many plans for today. Sage's friends from school just came back from a summer camp together, they had gone for a couple weeks.

Sage is wearing a brown, wooly sweater with jeans and America is wearing a stolen, blue hoodie from Sage, with cargo pants. They meet at the front of the tower where Happy waits to drive them to Peter's home.

The two teens quickly run up the stairs to Peter and May's apartment and knock on the door. Peter opens the door and Mj pushes him to the side and tackles Sage.

"SAGE!! I MISSED YOU SO MUCH." She screams jumping into their arms. Sage stumbles back trying to hold up Mj.

"I missed you too!!" Sage says, sending a reassuring smile to America. This is the first time America is meeting Sage's friends and she wants them to like her.

Mj gets down and stands on her own and everyone heads into the living room where May is sitting in an armchair reading a book.

"Hello Sage, who do you have there?" she asks, putting down her book.

Sage's cheeks turn a light pink and they stutter their response, "This is my girlfriend, America Chavez."

"Oh, how cute! Nice to meet you America, I'm May Parker, Peter's Aunt." May says standing up to hug America. May has alway been a hugger, she loves giving Peter's friends hugs when they come to visit, she feels like it makes her home more homey to visitors. After America, May gives Sage a hug and Sage's heart flutters. They can't help it.

Everyone piles into Peter's room where Ned is sitting trying to piece together a part of the lego death star, Mj snickers, "America don't take any offense to this but Sage you are such a simp over May. You can't even keep a straight face around her."

"Oh stop it Mj." Sage demands.

"You have such a crush on her." Ned comments.

"I don't have a crush on her, I find her very pretty and I get flustered around her but I don't like-like her. I have a girlfriend." Sage protests.

"Don't stress it, I find May hot too." America butts in, this causes Mj to snicker even more.

"Can we please stop talking about my aunt like that!" Peter complains.

"I'll have to agree with Sage though," Ned starts, "May is very pretty." Mj nods along. Peter plugs his ears and face plants into his bed. Everyone laughs and stops talking about May and let Peter relax.

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"So you two are together, like dating right?" Ned asks awkwardly and randomly while watching a movie.

"Yeah, I believe so." America answers looking over to Sage, who is nodding in agreement.

"Did you two get together during the summer or before?" He asks.

"It was a bit ago but it was during summer for sure." Sage answers.

"Shit..." Ned breathes under his breath. He stands up and goes to his bag grabbing a $20 bill and placing it in Mj's hand that's sticking out towards him.

"Did you two bet on Sage?" Peter asks, diverting his attention from the movie.

"Yeah, I believed she'd get a girlfriend during the summer, Ned bet against me." Mj explains.

"Thanks for having faith in me?" Sage jokes.

The day goes on and they do tons of things, America fits right in and everyone gets along well. Her and Mj get along the best, other than America and Sage of course. They do more work on the lego death star, they watch some movies and before they know it, it's getting dark and Happy at the door with May, waiting to take them home.

"How are you doing, May?" Happy asks flustered a little.

"I'm really good, how are you?"

"Same, same." Happy replies as the teens come to the door.

"It was very nice to see you again, Happy. You should come over for dinner some night soon." May says in a flirtatious tone.

Sage and America say their goodbyes and head out to the car with Happy. As they drive back home they see Spider-Man swinging across buildings, starting their patrol of the city.

When they get home, Sage heads up alone to Tony's lab where Friday said he was. As they knock on the door they hear a crash and they just decide to head in. There Tony is sucking on his thumb trying to hold something together.

"What did you do?" Sage asks coming over to the counter to help.

"Oh, hi kiddo. I'm working on something for you mother for our anniversary." He says as the thing crumbles apart. He lets out a sigh and sits down, examining his hurt thumb.

Sage grabs a bandaid and quickly puts it on their Dad's thumb before taking a look at the gift. "What are you trying to make, maybe I can help."

"I want to make her something special, I want to make a necklace with something infused in it. I'm trying to make the infuser right now. It's just not working." Tony explains, even the smartest of people need help sometimes.

The father and kid work together to perfect the infuser together within the hour. They created the blueprint of it and had Friday 3D print the different pieces so they can easily put it together.

"Thanks for your help, Kid." Tony says pulling Sage into a hug.

"Not a problem, I enjoyed helping!" The two stay there for a moment until Tony pulls slightly away.

"I want to apologize for the party last night. I shouldn't have gotten that drunk, or drunk in general. You shouldn't have to 'take care of me'." Tony apologies.

"Don't worry about it, Dad. You were just having some fun." Sage reassures.

"Fun is one thing, but I have a drinking problem and I'm just coming to accept that. I want to be sober most of my time, not the other way around. I'm going to do this for you and your mother."

"You can count on us to help you, Dad. You don't have to do this alone. We are here to help." Sage comforts.

"God, when did you get so mature? It was just yesterday you were as tall as my hip, and hanging off my legs begging me to play barbies with you."