Scared To Be Lonely

Chapter 26: Photo Floor

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After spending the majority of Spring Break with her friends, for camping and a beach day - school had seemed to sneak up fast on them. 

Nick had decided that she would wait until Summer break to visit the Williams, because she also had plans to go see Clint and his family soon - after not being able to visit them during Spring Break because of being grounded and Accord things.

After Steve had apparently broken them out of the prison raft, Scott and Clint ended up staying behind and taking a deal that meant that they were basically imprisoned at their homes.

Now, even though Tony didn't like it, he still wouldn't tell her that she couldn't see Clint and his family - especially with her and the kids having gotten close. They seemed to FaceTime just as much as Nick FaceTimed the Williams by now. 

But because the next morning was school, Nick found herself having moved all of her downstairs living room furniture off to the side - as she was playing music throughout her apartment, singing along to it as an instinct with the ones she knew by heart - while also spreading out all the photos she had taken since Quincy had given her the camera, on the floor. 

And soon enough, they had basically taken up her entire floor, barely leaving her a footpath, as she tried to move them around - trying to figure out the best way to collage them onto her wall. She had already tried just doing it on the wall first, but somehow, seeing it all on the ground made it easier to imagine - especially with her constantly stepping up to stand on the counter to get a overhead view. 

She had spent the night before going through her films and printing them out at a cool shop down in Hell's Kitchen that had a nice darkroom you could rent out by the hour. Then all morning she had been going through them all and spreading them out on the floor... not really knowing that it had been a few hours, and now it was nearing noon, and she was still in her sweats.

And because she was so focused, she didn't even realize when Spider-Man got there... until there was a brief silence between songs. "Wow."

Nick jumped at the sudden voice and slipped off the counter, but in a second, Spider-Man was there and catching her. "Whoa! I got you."

She looked up at him with slightly wide eyes, but let out a breath and shake of her head. "Hi."

"Hi." He responded with a smile under the mask, holding her like that for a moment - before his eyes suddenly widened and he cleared his throat, moving to put her feet on the ground and help her stand. "Sorry, for scaring you."

"Doesn't matter, as long as you're here to catch me." She teased, not looking at him as she looked around the room - before tilting her head a bit, and he turned to look. "So... what is this?"

"A project I'm working on." She shrugged off, before grinning and taking his hand. "Come on."

Then she climbed onto the counter again, him following, but commenting. "Maybe this isn't the best idea. Given how accident prone you are."