Sorcery [p. parker] || DISCONTINUED

FOURTEEN - STARK KIDS

"You look like shit."

"Hate you, too, Josh."

Joshua Meyers smiled innocently at Eliza Martin, but let out a yell as the girl tossed a grape at his head. Jasmine rolled her eyes as Peter simply let out a laugh of amusement. But what the blond said was true – Eliza did, in fact, look like shit. Dark bags were under her eyes and her entire body was sore; there was a light bruise on the side of her cheek, and her hair didn't look as nice as it usually does. She didn't get a wink of sleep the night before, and early this morning Felicity made both Eliza and Killian train. So, Eliza was extremely tired but couldn't do anything about it. She had school; mid semester finals were coming up soon and she wasn't about to allow herself to miss a day. It was too risky.

"Everything okay, though?" Jaz asked. Her light eyes bore directly into Eliza's brown ones.

Eliza slowly nodded. "I'm fine," she lied. "Just didn't get enough sleep."

"Geez, you're always running yourself to the ground around this time of the year," Josh noted, "You're gonna die one day from not getting enough sleep."

"She does this thing where she studies nonstop when big tests are coming up," Jasmine explained to a confused Peter. "Just a warning: Ellie becomes way more irritable than normal. She punched Josh once for saying her shirt was on inside out junior year of high school."

Eliza glared at the redhead but didn't say anything. It was true. Josh did get a punch in the face because of a small comment that shouldn't have mattered then. And, secretly, Eliza was a bit guilty for it; but, of course, she wasn't going to let the blond boy know that. He would ravish in that knowledge. Peter, at hearing Jasmine, let his eyes go wide in slight worry. They had agreed to study together, after all. He's seen her punches first hand since they fight together every once in a while; he doesn't want to be on the other end of it.

"Oh," Peter mumbled out.

She rolled her eyes, and said, "I won't punch you, Peter. Not unless you piss me off."

Joshua went on, then, to talk about the many times he nearly got punched by the brunette during the times they studied together throughout high school and college. But he lives to annoy Eliza, so it wasn't shocking at how many stories there were – especially during the time when she hadn't learned to control her anger completely just yet. Half way through the third story, all of the loud talking in the cafeteria abruptly stopped and turned into quiet muffles. Eliza watched as Josh's mouth dropped open mid sentence, and how Jasmine's eyes widened, voice squeaking as she clamped her mouth shut. Peter turned around and so did Eliza, to the doors of the cafeteria.

Her jaw went slack and her eyes widened, body tensing. Suddenly, she was fully awake. Peter let out a shocked, "oh", and shifted in his seat. Her father stood in the doorway by himself. Sunglasses sat on his face and he wore a suit. He lifted the sunglasses to the top of his head as he looked across the room. Finally, his dark eyes landed on his daughter and her eyes widened even more. She was confused, and honestly a bit nervous – maybe somewhat scared – of the reason why Tony Stark was in her school, obviously looking for her. She and Peter glanced at one another for a split second before back at the billionaire as the man started walking towards them.