Little Situation

Chapter 14

"Aunt May! I brought over someone else besides Ned, I hope it's alright," Peter called into his apartment.

"It's probably not as big as the compound but it's home."

"I lived in a cell for a good chunk of my life, nothing's too small."

Sarah didn't want Peter to feel like just because she came from the Avengers' lifestyle that she was some stuck up.

"Oh, of course, Peter. That's fin— Oh, hello, you're a girl." Aunt May came from around the corner making Peter groan again.

"Hi, I'm Sarah Rogers. It's nice to meet you Ms. Parker."

"Please, just call me May... Sarah Rogers? As in—"

"Yes, May! We're just going to hang out in my room until her ride gets here," Peter cut her off.

While Peter pushed Sarah and Ned towards his room, he caught the look of May.

"She's cute," May mouthed.

"Friend. I just met her."

"I'm just saying."

May and Peter communicated in various facial expressions and mouthing words until he couldn't see May anymore and Sarah, he, and Ned were down the hall. There was nothing better to do while they waited but homework. Peter let Sarah take the desk chair while he and Ned sat on the bottom bunk of his bed.

"Do you two mind if I put on music? I work better with music." Sarah looked up from the math textbook.

Ned and Peter shrugged.

"What do you listen to?"

"Honestly our house listens to a lot of jazz. Two out of four of us are from World War II."

"Well, at least it won't be distracting."

She turned up the music on her phone and set it down on the desk while the three of them kept working. Once she finished, Sarah checked her phone and still didn't see any text from Happy or Tony. Sarah watched Ned and Peter until they finished doing their own work.

"So..."

She didn't know what to say. She never had friends her age before, Cooper and Lila didn't count being family. Plus, Peter and Ned seemed so close that Sarah wasn't sure if she would impose by saying the wrong thing. The two boys looked over at her and suddenly she felt the rest of Peter's room was more interesting.

"Is that a Rubik's Cube?"

Sarah walked over to the drawer that it was laying on top of about to grab it when she stopped.

"Oh, can I?"

"Yeah, go ahead."

She grabbed it and returned back to the desk chair. Fingers moving at rapid speed, Sarah listened to Ned and Peter talk. She held up a solved Rubik's Cube in accomplishment.

"You've heard us talk all week, what about you?" Ned asked.

"What about me?"

"Who is Sarah Rogers?" Ned asked all serious that made the girl laugh. She threw him the Rubik's Cube and spun in the chair before stopping, facing them again.

"Hmmm. Sarah Rogers. Um, I'm a super-soldier baby, deaf, colorblind but only with blue and purple. Engineering is one of my favorite academics. Favorite color is green, I love Disney. Oh, I like to draw... I can teach you how to snap a man's neck?"