The New Boy One Door Down

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Peter's POV

I saw the punch coming from a mile away but I waited until the last second to move out of the way.

Harley made a noise of annoyance when I slipped his punch yet again. He hadn't been able to land a punch on me all morning and I could tell he was starting to get frustrated at it.

Mr. Stark was yelling random suggestions at Harley who seemed to only listen to half of them.

Sweat poured down Harley's forehead, his face was a dark red from nonstop exercise, and he had slowed down considerably since we first started about thirty minutes ago.

I could tell he was getting to his breaking point so I stood up my normal height and let my shoulders sag. Harley looked confused for a second but copied me.

"Maybe we can take a break or something?" I ask Mr. Stark as I glanced over at my boyfriend with a concerned look in my eye.

We had been working with barely any breaks since early this morning. The pre work out was brutal and worse than any one we had done before and Mr. Stark had been hard on both of us during the training and insisted we work on our fighting skills before we could stop for the day.

Mr. Stark seemed to have a lot on his mind today and was taking it out on us. Every little thing we did wrong had to be done again with barely any explanation as to how we got it wrong.

I'm honestly surprised Harley hasn't passed out yet. He was pushing himself way too hard today. I think Mr. Stark forgot that Harley was only human.

With a small sigh Mr. Stark nodded and told us we were done for the day before leaving the room without another word. I looked over to Harley expecting him to be happy we were done for the day but he didn't seem to be very happy at all.

He frowned at the door while biting his lip.

"What are you thinking about?" That seemed to snap him out of whatever spell he was in. His lip disappeared from his teeth as he eyes snapped over to me like he forgot I was there.

"Am I not allowed to think?" He asked as he walked over to me with a small smile on his face. His arms wrapped loosely around my waist pulling me closer to him.

"I never said that, I was just wondering what you were thinking about." I stared into his eyes trying to see if something was bothering him but I couldn't find anything.

"I was just thinking about how amazing my boyfriend is at fighting." He said with a small smirk. "It makes me wonder what else he's really good?" I didn't miss the suggestive undertone to his words; I just didn't pay it any attention.

"How do you feel? We didn't get to many breaks today, are you feeling okay?"

"I'm fine, just a little tired. What are we doing today?" He asked with a small eye roll that I didn't pay attention to either.

"I was thinking we just relax today. You know, just stay here today and watch movies or something."

"Don't you have homework to get done at some point?"

"I can do that later." I brush off, hoping he won't make me go do it right now but when I saw his eyebrow raise ever so slightly I knew that wasn't going to work out for me.

"It's only a few pages and will only take like an hour." I try to reason as he took his hands away from my waist and began backing up.

"Well since I take oh so long to get ready you can do your home work while I take a shower and set up a movie for us." I groan at him as I follow him out of the gym.