Peter was kind of bummed. There was a field trip and he couldn't go, since he had skipped too many times. He had already texted Ned and MJ to not talk about it, he didn't even want to know where they were going. If you don't know what you're missing out on, you can't miss out on it he reasoned. Luckily it was Thursday and he could go to the labs on Friday and spend the weekend with Mr. Stark. Thank God for that. But besides that his day was alright. He had managed to avoid Flash, he had done all his homework and he got the feeling he crushed that Science test.
Friday was kind of the same, not counting the "Hey Penis, heard you can't come on the field trip! Guess they don't let liars come!"
He rushed out of school into the car and greeted Happy, well, happily. Happy in turn rolled his eyes and drove off.
When he got to the Tower and practically ran inside, he scanned his pass and greeted the sectary. He skipped past the intern levels and went straight up to Mr. Starks privet labs. Sure, he loved the other interns, but he rarely visited, he only came by when he needed to test his new inventions (Mr. Stark didn't have test rooms, because he is dangerous like that, but Peter wasn't) so they knew a different version of him, namely the one running on three hours and coffee.
He burst into the lab yelling: "Mr. Stark distract me from all my problems with science!"
"Kid, how many times do I have to tell you that it's Tony, besides what sort of problems do teens have." Mr. Stark yelled back.
He rolled away from under his car to raise his eyebrows at Peter. Peter flipped him off and dropped his backpack. He and Mr. Stark had become real close after the events at Homecoming, but Peter never dropped the Mr. Stark much to Mr. Starks chagrin. He plopped down on the ground and handed Mr. Stark a tool.
"There's going to be a field trip Monday, but I can't go, because I skipped too much of school. I know it's a stupid thing to be upset about, but we only have one field trip a year and the only reason I've been tardy is because of Spider-man." Peter said.
Mr. Stark now rolled out from under the car again and looked Peter in the eye and he said: "That's not stupid, but you know what might cheer you up? The fact that you can stay an extra day here working on much cooler stuff. Unless you have to be at school Monday."
Peter lit up with a smile too wide and bright. "Really!" he exclaimed, "Thank you so much, Mr. Stark! I just have to complete this exercise sheet, which they think is hard, but it's actually quite simple. I filled it in on the way here."
"Probably only you would find it simple, you little genius. I still don't get why you turned down my offer to get you into MIT." Mr. Stark commented.
Peter ignored him and got up from the ground and back to his work bench to get on with his own project and to text aunt May about his plan. She had warmed up to Mr. Stark and was happy for him.
Peter was working on explosives that could take out targets without the rubble and flying shards forming a threat to the surroundings. He knew he was close and he knew that with a three all nighters he could have it done and with this new extra free day he could do just that without worrying about school. This missed field trip was turning out to be not that bad.
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Ned and MJ were standing in front of Stark Tower. They looked up and then at each other, Ned said: "You sure we shouldn't tell Peter we're here? I mean what if he's still here? He told me he was going to spend the weekend here."
"No, he didn't want to know, so we're not going to tell him. Besides if he's here he will stay at the top levels and I doubt we're going there." MJ answered.
"God, don't tell me you actually believe Penises lies." Flash said as he passed them by to push his way to the front.
