The adorable Spider-Man (who is misunderstood by everyone)

10 - Let's do this!

"I don't want to go!"

"Pietro! Go away! Or do you want us to do your make-up and hair?"

"But Wandaaaa! I wanna spend more time with the cinnamon roll!"

Peter wanted to die from embarrassment, but he then finally decided to speak up.

"Uhm... Pietro ... I will come back here again. We could... spend time together the next time I'm here. If you want to of course. Just... today we have already planned everything. Loki could tell you the next time I am here and... we can do something else then?"

Pietro showed a confident smile, if Peter wanted to do that he had to wait, sadly, but at least he could see him again!

"Of course! I have put my number in that book of yours, so you can tell me yourself. If you do anything that isn't so girlish today tell FRIDAY to call me, so I can still spend time with you, okay?"

With that said Pietro went over to Peter, ruffled his hair and was gone.

"Finally. Sorry for my brother, he can be stubborn. Thank you Peter for sending him away. Well then, shall we get started? I'll just get my things, please wait a bit."

With that Wanda was gone. Peter and Loki were left in the kitchen. Loki was having an internal crisis. She couldn't be a man today. She hadn't told Peter yet that she was gender fluid. She preferred being male most of the time, but today it was different.

The Avengers already knew that she was gender fluid and they didn't really care about it. For her, it also wasn't really that important what the Avengers thought, they hated her anyway. But with Peter it was different. She didn't know how she would react, if Peter didn't accept her.

But she had to tell Peter. Now that Wanda was gone she could do it. So she put on an indifferent mask and steeled her resolve.

"Hey Peter, I have to ask you something."

Peter loooked at her questioningly, stopping his humming, which Loki would've heard if she wasn't so lost in her thoughts.

"Do you know what gender fluidity is?"

He thought for a moment, it was shown on his face, but then shook his head.

"I have heard about it, but I'm not sure exactly what it is. Why?"

He looked at Loki with his big, innocent eyes and Loki imagined them looking at her, filled with disgust. But then she thought that Peter wasn't like that. He would surely accept her.

"It's when someone can be either male or female, depending on what they feel like, sometimes they also feel non-binary, but that depends on the person."

Loki stopped talking. Should she just show him? Or should she tell him.

Peter looked at her confused, but slowly understanding crossed his face.

"Are you...?"

He didn't know if it was impolite to just straight out say that, he didn't want to hurt Loki.

Loki then decided to just show him. She turned into a woman. She was lucky that she was able to just shift between the two genders, humans weren't so lucky. But she was still dreading Peters reaction.

Peter on the other hand just started smiling.

"That's perfect! Now that your hair is longer I can do so much more with it! Not that your hair from you male body isn't nice! It is totally fine either way. So like, when I talk to others should I say he or she? Or does it depend on what you are at the moment? What if I don't know...?"

Loki let out her first real laugh since a while. Peter immediately shut up, looking at her confused.

"What did I even worry about. Peter, you really are an... what would it be on Midgard... Angel? And here I was, worrying that you wouldn't accept me as I am. Thank you Peter."

Then Loki did something she never thought she would ever do. She hugged Peter.

Peter smiled and returned the hug.

"I will never not accept you. Did that make sense? Anyway, you are beautiful no matter what! You are so nice and wonderful, no matter what gender or whatever you are. You could turn into a fish and I wouldn't care! You would still be Loki. Okay no, that would be weird. I couldn't do your hair or talk to you that way, but you know what I mean!"

Loki let go of Peter and smiled at him fondly.

"Thank you Peter."

Just then the elevator dinged and Wanda stepped out with a lot of her stuff.

"I am back! I hope you are ready to get pretty!"

She stopped for a moment, looking at Loki with confusion, but then realization took over and she smiled again.

"Well, Ladies, let's get started."

They went into Lokis living room, all of them in comfortable clothes. Wanda took her make-up out an put it on the living room table while Loki went and got her nail polish collection.

"Well, what do we do first? Nails or make-up? I'd say we do our nails first."

"Yeah Loki, I think so too. So, Peter, will you do your nails as well? Or what will you do anyway? I thought most boys don't like make-up and that stuff."

Peter started blushing.

"Uhm, I... kinda like that stuff. I mean, I am babysitting sometimes and this one adorable little girl likes to play dress up with everything from hair to nails. Her parents said it's ok, so sometimes I do her nails and mine with it. That's also how I learned to do hair so nicely. She was always asking that I do her hair, so I learned. And I like make-up as well, just not that much on myself."

Wanda looked impressed.

"Wow, that's a lot. Is there anything else you can do?"

Peter looked embarrassed, he didn't think it was that much. It was nice to hear compliments when most of the time no one even recognized that he was able to do anything.

"I mean, I learned some things for different jobs or just because I thought they were interesting, but I'm not really that good at a lot of things. I think I can sing decently, it's a hobby of mine. And I like science a lot, but I'm no genius like Mr. Stark or Dr. Banner."

Loki was fast to diffuse what Peter said.

"Peter, that is absolutely not true. You are really good at a lot of things! Anyway, let's start. What colors do you want? I will paint my nails in a dark gold tone today."

Wanda and Peter tought for a moment, then a smile appeared on Wandas face.

"Peter, do you want to decide for me? Normally I would go for red, black or purple, but today I want a different color. What would you recommend?"

"Uhm, if you want something different... I think, maybe, this light green would suit you. Depending on what you will wear later. Should we do each other's nails or everyone their own? I think I will decide on red."

Wanda smiled and agreed with Peter. Loki contemplated it but agreed as well.

"I will let you do my nails Peter. I don't like anyone on my nails or hair, or anything really, but I trust you."

"Then when Peter does Lokis nails, she could do mine and I can do Peters. Right?"

Peter nodded energetically.

"Loki, can I try something with your nails? I watched a YouTube tutorial with Cicilia, that's the girl I'm babysitting, but her nails are too small and I'm not good enough to do it on my own nails yet."

"What is it you want to try?"

"Uhm , I think it is called Ombré nails. I thought maybe dark gold with the black would look good. But only if you want to of course. You don't have to let me do it, I can also just do it normally."

Loki shook her head with a smile.

"It's ok. I will allow it. Let's start."