Forever

chapter five

If he had to listen to Harley say another word, he swore he would pitch himself off this building. It was hard to believe there was a time when he could stand being in the same room with him for more than a few minutes, much less hang out with him.

"Come to mess up another one of my projects? Or did you want to insult this one more?"

Peter looked at the window but figured if he did throw himself out, Tony would kill him.

"First of all I wasn't insulting it, I was just suggesting another way to do it more efficiently, and second, you're the one who destroyed Droney." Peter held up a melted mess of metal and wires as proof. It used to be the spider drone in the emblem of his suit.

"That wasn't my fault! You left it sitting on my desk. And it broke the robot I've been working on."

"It had ventilation issues, which I tried to help you with by the way. If you'd fixed that, then maybe they'd both still be alive. Or maybe try not setting your robot on top of my drone next time."

"Like, I said, don't leave it on my desk."

"Will you boys quit it already?" Tony finally cut in, exasperated. "I swear I'm gonna go deaf listening to you two."

With a last glare, Harley turned back to his desk. Peter huffed and kept working on making a new version of Droney.

Patrol was no different than normal that night, but he didn't like not having Droney with him. Of course, he didn't use Droney on most of his patrols, but it still felt like part of him was missing.

The next day, he didn't see Harley at all before school. He must've driven himself. Good, he wouldn't have to suffer the half-hour car ride with him either way.

"Peter! Guess what," Ned exclaimed excitedly, walking over to where Peter was standing at his locker with MJ.

"What?" He closed his locker and turned toward them.

"I just got the new Star Wars Lego set! You gotta come over soon to help me build it." He turned awkwardly to MJ and added, "You can come over too if you want and... help?"

MJ snorted. "I'll let you keep your nerd things to yourselves. Besides, I'm trying to finish this book."

"Right, yeah." Ned's eyes narrowed slightly and Peter laughed.

"No way, that's awesome. I don't think I can tomorrow but I'll text you. Maybe you could both come to the tower and we can build it or something."

Ned looked like he'd just been offered a million dollars. "Of course, dude!" MJ just shrugged, but he figured she probably would.

The bell rang and Peter groaned. "Alright, see you in math later." They both said bye and went their separate ways.

Peter had never really liked history, but now it was so much worse. The teacher hadn't let them move seats so, unfortunately, he was stuck sitting next to Harley.

Harley was already there when Peter sat down. They both just ignored each other, but it was still tense. While they may not have actively gone at each other's throats, it didn't take much to make them.

Class went on fairly normal. They were given an assignment they had to work on with their table partner and Peter sighed.

"One is A. I think two is A too," Peter said flatly.

"No, two is B."

"They blew up their camp in the first war, not the second, so it has to be A."

"No, they didn't, they didn't have the resources in the first war."