ahungryobsession
Peter Parker has a talent for making everything complicated: school, homework, keeping secrets and, apparently, group projects. When Olivia Bennett gets paired with Peter for a school project, she's less than thrilled. He's awkward, annoyingly kind and far too easy to tease. She's sarcastic, stubborn and has absolutely no intention of becoming friends with him.
But somewhere between late-night study sessions, terrible jokes, shared secrets and a project that seems to take forever, something changes. They become friends, then best friends and somewhere in between, Olivia starts noticing the things Peter doesn't say - the exhaustion behind his smile, the bruises he refuses to explain, and the way he always seems to disappear when something goes wrong.
Peter, meanwhile, is trying to balance school, friendship and a life Olivia knows nothing about, because he has a secret - he's Spider-Man. Meanwhile, Olivia has secrets of her own - mostly the kind she hides behind sarcasm and a carefully constructed 'I don't care' attitude.
As they stumble through seventeen, friendship, love and the strange uncertainty of growing up, Olivia begins to realise that Peter Parker isn't quite as ordinary as he seems. And Peter begins to realise that falling for Olivia might be more terrifying than facing any villain in New York, especially when the truth finally comes out.
Sometimes loving someone means letting them see the parts of you that you're most afraid to show, and sometimes, when the person you love has the whole city to save, all you can do is smile and say, "Go save New York, Parker, just come back to me."