connection - parkner week 2019

day eight: karaoke

what was supposed to be an evening out between peter, harley, mj, ned, betty, and flash ended up becoming an 'avengers bonding session, plus family and peter's friends' (as tony had dubbed it). peter supposed that it was his fault. he probably should've told pepper that he and harley wouldn't be there for saturday dinner in a more private environment - rather than when the whole team was having a movie night. harley disagreed. he was trying to tell peter that this would be funny, and the reactions of all of his and peter's friends would be hilarious. especially if they didn't tell them that it wouldn't only be peter and harley joining them. the small group of friends had got this evening arranged a long time ago (by that, they mean a week ago, which is a long time for the group - who usually arrange this type of stuff the day before). they would go bowling, and then flash's parents had agreed to hire out a karaoke room for the evening - to be honest, flash doubted if they were even listening when he asked, but he was just glad that they agreed to do it.

peter and harley had imagined how each of their friends would react and had written it down in a checklist form. they decided that they would tick off anything that happened - just to see how well they knew their friends. they were originally going to write one each for each person and then bet on it, but once peter realised that he probably only had two dollars, they decided against doing that. besides, coming up with scenarios together was so much funnier.

they agreed straight away on how mj would react. at first, she'd be unbothered. until she noticed that nat, wanda, hope, and pepper were there. then she'd have an internal gay panic, while still having an uninterested expression on her face. the boys were unsure about what she'd do after that, but they eventually agreed that she'd ask them questions about how they felt, knowing that they were some of the most important and powerful women in the world. and the boys knew that the women being questioned would have no problem answering, and would most likely get along very well with mj. which scared them slightly, but they concluded that it would be fine - so long as no one let them interact for so long that they ended up scheming against the men in their lives.

ned would be freaking out the entire time. which both peter and harley supposed was a good thing. ned was amazing at bowling - and karaoke, for that matter - and having the literal avengers in the same room as him was likely to throw him off his game ("gotta throw him off his rhythm." harley had joked, causing peter to laugh). some people would consider that cheating, but really, it would be ned's fault for having a fanboy moment.

flash would probably try to act unbothered, before asking where spider-man was. flash was the only one of the small group of friends that didn't know that peter was spider-man - betty had figured it out in a similar way to mj - and the rest of the group placed bets on how long it would take flash to realise. so far, harley and betty had lost. the former had said that it would take him three months, and betty had proposed six months, saying that peter had far too much faith in himself if he thought that he could keep it a secret from flash for a year and a half. they'd been friends with flash for a year now, and he didn't seem to have a clue. which peter and mj often found very amusing.

betty would probably take the situation the best, striking up civilised conversations with the avengers. besides, she'd told harley before that she'd love to talk to them in a more private environment ("not in a weird way, don't look at me like that!"), so that she could see what they were really like behind their public faces.

as it stands now, tony had managed to hire the whole bowling alley for a couple of hours that evening, so that peter and harley could have a lane with their friends, but the avengers could also have lanes. tony knew that he probably could've just booked four or five extra lanes, but he had to go over the top. also - as pepper had said - the fact that no one else would be there was most likely a good thing, seeing as it completely got rid of any chance of a pr mishap. and the avengers could be themselves - rather than put on their public personas.