Petey Boy! | Peter Parker x Reader [stark's daughter]

too close for comfort [Chapter 18]

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peter's pov--

im swinging around, looking for criminals, as one does. as I swing around and bound from roof top to roof top, I spot the light on in a familiar balcony door. so I swing up to go say 'hi'.

I land in her balcony and she's... laying on the floor of her bedroom, her eyes are closed.. but she's breathing phew...

I lightly tap on the window..

her eyes shoot open and look over at her balcony.. we make eyecontact .. er.. eye-fake mask eye contact... she gets up and opens the balcony, she takes a step out..

"hi?" I say.. it sounded like a question because I wasn't expecting her to come to me.. "hi..." she looks tired, upset and distant..but, I can feel her presence becoming less and less distant as we continue to talk..

"how was your day?" I ask her... "awful." she answers before I even really finish my sentence...

"same.. do you wanna talk about it..?" I look at her, trying to get her to spill the tea.. "maybe.." she turns around and steps into her room and sits on her bed... I don't come in, i don't just wanna barge into her room uninvited.. "..you can come in.. by the way.." I take a step in to her room, she pats a spot next to her on her bed, I sit.

"I'm having a really hard time.." she says looking at her lap. "and I made a few friends.. not to many.. oh wait.. I forgot to say I'm new to school.. ive always been homeschooled and I have like 4..er.. 3 friends that I know from school.. er.. more like 2? its a long story...anyways..one of the friends I made, her name is liz" little did she know, I know who liz is.. but I pretend to not to....i guess for obvious reasons.. 

".. and I got coffee with her on Monday.." ...knew it... 

"and she said a lot of stuff about my friend, and I feel like he's not even worth giving him my time.."  ....is that me?

 "so.. I've been ignoring my friend Peter-"... yeah.. I guess so

 "-cuz liz said that he was really.. not great to all our friends.. and.. he'd be in an awful mood all the time... a-and he'd always leave and make people do his class work, and do his homework when he was at his internship with my dad.. or he was just straight up bragging about his job and how much he was doing at any moment possible.. and it made me feel like he's only being nice to me because of my dad.." 

liz said that  she's never said anything bad about anyone.. ever.. I knew she was different..

"and i guess im also a bit sensitive to people using other people...ii guess you can imagine why.. i have money.. and i guess im smart and people want to be friends because of that...or friends i already had felt entitled to all my things.. and it just.. really made me really... never mind... i guess i just had a lot of empathy for them.... and i don't want them to think i support that..." 

i guess that all makes sense... even if what its based on is untrue.. or at least i hope so... i don't think ive ever asked ned or MJ for homework...  let alone use them..

" and I didn't want a fake friendship or a friendship with someone who treats their friends like that... so I stopped talking to him.. but he did help me.. a-and I was really rude to him after he helped me.. and-and.. it did make me mad but... and i dont know.." she seems very conflicted... and she continues speaking

"I know our whole friend relationship has been fake b-but I really feel bad.. and.. I - I .. don't know what to do... should I keep ignoring him or should I say sorry.. but I dont want it to seem like I'm saying sorry just because he helped me... but.. I guess I am.. and I-i don't want to waste the fight.. and I still think our relationship's fake.. and I don't know.. maybe.."