THE BEST KIND- The Amazing Spider-Man

32.

"It's weird how quickly things have been back to normal," Peter pointed out as he observed his peers walking by over the edge of his locker's door.
"They are average teens. They don't have to worry about things much," Liam shrugged as he leaned against the locker next to Peter's lazily, arms crossed over his chest and gaze fixed on his boyfriend.
"Yeah, but a few weeks ago, they were chased by a giant lizard. I thought that would leave an impression, at least," Peter huffed as he pressed the last book into his locker. He then turned with a slight shake of his head, "It's ridiculous, isn't it?"
"Well, I don't blame them too hard. They have Spider-Man protecting them and a graduation coming up. And to be fair, I'm also not that concerned about the lizard anymore," his boyfriend answered truthfully as he rose to his full height.
"Yeah, but you have the memory span of a fly if you don't want to think about something," Peter pointed out the boy's antics.

"True. And I'm also an optimist. Everything changed, and everything will change again. That's how it works," his boyfriend shrugged with a little smirk on his lips, which made Peter highly skeptical.
" And once again, you sound like you know more than me."
" Well, statistically speaking, I'm older than you, so I know more than you," Liam chuckled. "Ah yes," Peter hummed as he rolled his eyes at him."Tell me if I need to worry about you, baby girl."
"You don't." Liam smiled at him, his eye glistening fondly into his boyfriend's, which was enough to convince the boy he didn't need to know about that secret. He knew Liam well enough by now that he would tell him eventually anyway, and until then, he was fine with the occasional hints about it.

"You know," Liam added as he leaned closer. "I'm very much in the mood to take the suit on an adventure tonight. We haven't made out on the Chrysler Building yet, haven't we?"
Peter looked up at him, raising one eyebrow teasingly, "Empire State not enough for you anymore?" he asked softly.
"I love the view, but it gets.. kind of boring. I need change," Liam said, a brooding look on his face.
"Oh, I see. I get boring, is what you mean?" Peter responded with a chuckle, bumping against his boyfriend playfully as he smashed the locker shut.
He had chosen the Empire State Building as their date spot after all, and he had thought of it as a genius idea. But his genius boyfriend was a spoiled brat and needed different views around their webbed hammock occasionally, or he would crawl up the walls in agony, and Peter loved to tease him about it.
Liam huffed, obviously highly offended by the accusation he could ever find his boyfriend boring, which made Peter's smile even softer.
"I'll never get bored of counting your freckles," his boyfriend declared wholeheartedly.
" At least not until I have a definite number."
"You still have that table?" Peter asked with a sigh, referring to the notes on the boy's phone he religiously updated about every tiny detail of his boyfriend's physique.
"Oh yes. And I'm still convinced I haven't discovered them all yet," Liam nodded proudly. "And it's not that weird
considering it might help to me identify your torn-up body in a hospital one day," he added on a serious note. "I like my data to be better safe than sorry."

"All that while also coincidentally fuiling your documentation kink," Peter chuckled at him.
"You are my kink," Liam sternly disagreed. "What's your kink?" Gwen asked, having only caught the last bit of the conversation as she approached.
"You know what? I don't want to know," she decided after eyeing Liam's big grin at that question.
"But isn't that exactly your job soon?" the boy asked cruelly.
"Oh no! I signed a contract for being your assistant, not your bawd," she shook her head so violently that her ponytail swung around like a whip.
" But you have to agree it would be the much more interesting job," Liam said, for which the girl bluntly glared daggers at him. "Why do you need a new assistant anyway? What happened to Pepper?" Peter asked curiously.
"Pepper is getting her well-deserved promotion soon and won't have time to look after Oscorp anymore," Liam just waved the question off quickly, which was highly suspicious, but again, almost everything the boy did was.
" And after Conner's, they can use every help they can get," Gwen agreed. "Also, I was able to add the job title to my college application, which got me a few acceptance letters early." Her proud little smile reminded Peter so much of Liam it didn't baffle him as the two shared a smug high-five. The two had grown to have a weird little bond he couldn't get behind but was more than happy for.

"By the way, my parents want to know if you want to come over for dinner tonight. It's barbecue season," Gwen remembered with a grimace.
"Can't. It's date night, and I'm feeling extra long today." Liam clicked his tongue with a smirk, briefly glancing at Peter, who was still blushing at remarks like that.
"Nope. Still don't want to know about that," Gwen shook her head in reply. "I just tell them you already got plans." With that, she skipped away.
"I sure do," Liam whispered as he leaned against Peter. " I really need to get that power converter issue solved. It's driving me nuts." Peter just shook his head at him in adoration.
"You're really something else."
" I know. And I'm still taking name suggestions. I don't think 'Spider Boyfriend' is the right fit for a battlesuit-wearing companion," Liam rambled as they finally headed to their next class.
"How about Iron Spider?" Peter suggested, but Liam didn't look impressed.
" I'm not a Spider," he said. " I'm just a nerdy teen punk in an expensive suit. At least that's what my dad would have said."

"I think you'll be outgrown 'teen punk' soon," Peter chuckled as he observed the cute little frowning lines and the tongue tip sticking out, which came with his boyfriend's thought process. For someone that smart, he really was terrible at making up names.
"Well, maybe I will come up with something good later," the blonde boy finally shrugged off the fixation.
" You never know when inspiration strikes." Peter couldn't agree more. They had all the time in the world, and there were more important matters to Liam's new suit than the name. Also, he didn't plan to stop calling him his Spider Boyfriend anyway. It was a pure ego thing to remind himself that that ridiculously handsome boy was eager to find a way to even be with him when he was saving the city. He just couldn't wait for them to protect the city together like in one of those movies. The Oscorp incident had shown that the two of them were just better together. And it was good to know he would never have to worry about Liam like he had done on that roof ever again.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Liam interrupted his thoughts with a soft question.
"I was just thinking about your suit," he responded just as gently. "Do you think you'll try to fly it again later?"
"Hell yeah, I do. And I expect you not to catch me because it wavers a little," Liam huffed, turning to the classroom door on the left.
"You fell fifteen floors before I caught you," Peter pointed out as the boy opened it.
" fourteen and a half, but who's counting? You just hover," Liam responded, waving his boyfriend's concerns off like a nasty mosquito. The boy strutted to his seat, Peter closely behind, and as he made himself comfortable, the boy turned around. "By the way, I haven't forgotten it's your turn tonight." Peter cringed, "It's the perfect place to remind me."
"Of course. We really need that toolbox for our biology project," Liam nodded as innocently as a saint. In moments like this, Peter really longed to throw something at the boy.