(iii) karaoke and friendships

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never gonna give you up@TSintern
karaoke night w the interns yoooooo

   ↪️ Tony Stark ✔️ @iamironman
   
have fun kid, call happy to pick you up when youre done


   ↪️kathy is karaoke queen @plutoisaplanet
   we are going to vibe so hard @TSintern @biomedsuperior

          ↪️Tony Stark ✔️ @iamironman
          
take good care of him @plutoisaplanet @biomedsuperior

                 ↪️kathy is panicking @plutoisaplanet
                 
YES MR BOSS MR IRON MAN SIR PLS DONT FIRE ME

                 ↪️ paul @biomedsuperior
                
mr [redacted] is in goods hands sir pls we love our jobs

To say Peter is excited for tonight would be an understatement. He usually feels left out of things, whether it be having to go Spider-Man and missing team bonding for decathlon in Washington, or not being able to go bowling with the rest of the Avengers because apparently, it's not a pg event, Peter feels like he is constantly stuck between worlds.

Today, however, Peter is going to have a karaoke fun night with a bunch of college kids and he is excited. Kids his age are fun and all, but being a genius/vigilante/probable heir to SI has made it so that he seems to be rather aloof with kids his own age, they just don't understand the type of pressure he is constantly under to be the perfect intern, perfect student, perfect superhero. However, these college students and interns know what it is like to be looked towards by their peers, to have such great expectations on their shoulders they're scared they'll fail.

It's days like this, where the wayward interns' group together and cry about their deadlines and how their peers won't leave them alone or scientists outside of SI keep bothering them for statements on issues or their projects, that they are all able to relax. Peter feels himself relaxing too. Due to the sheer pile of NDAs, the other interns have to sign to even see his face, he knows whatever he does tonight, cry, sing at the top of his lungs, or even just laugh about their work projects, will never leave the room.

The other interns loved him, they really did. Peter was a ball of energy, constantly compared to a golden retriever, and was instantly adopted by all of the interns as a little brother (that is technically their boss). Kathy and Paul, two interns Peter was closest with, meet Peter in front of the karaoke bar that Mr Stark had rented out and then thoroughly threatened the other interns about giving Peter even a drop of the free alcohol. Peter waves happily to Happy who drops him off and then skips into the neon-lit place.

never gonna let you down @TSintern
[image of a bunch of interns spread around the room, some sitting on couches talking, hands flying in the air to get their point across. Others are on the blue-lit stage singing a song from High School Musical, lyrics on screen in front of them and behind their heads on a screen. Many interns wave at the camera. A few are sitting at tables in the back tinkering on something distinctly metallic. Everyone is in casual wear.]


   ↪️wish that was me @hiremepls
    
SI plsplspls i promise id be a good edition to your team pls im begging


SI Official✔️@StarkIndustries
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never gonna let you down @TSintern

[image of a bunch of interns spread around the room, some sitting on couches talking, hands flying in the air to get their point across. Others are on the blue lit stage singing a song from High School Musical, lyrics on-screen in front of them and behind their heads on a screen. Many interns wave at the camera. A few are sitting at tables in the back tinkering on something distinctly metallic. Everyone is in casual wear.]


   ↪️ SI Official ✔ @StarkIndustries
   
We are always happy to provide accommodations and activities for our employees to bond and relax! #StarkIndustries #internkaraokenight


The night goes exactly as Peter expected it to. It's a night of laughter and getting to know other interns, who he follows on Twitter and puts down in his contacts in his new Stark Phone, and just gets to relax. No one asks him about his position in SI, or how he knows Tony Stark, or even how he got his job. Everyone just relaxes and gets up to dance to Peter's rendition of Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up, and Thriller by Michael Jackson.

He learns some facts like Kathy has worked for SI for just over a year and is expecting to get her bachelors in Physics in a few months and will be adopting a puppy named Zenith in celebration, or his new friend, Alex is non-binary and is getting ready to take over as the first lgbtq+ lab director at SI and will be donating a portion of their monthly salary to the Trevor Project.

It is only after he gets Happy to pick him up and is in the car, smiling from ear to ear, that he realizes that he can't wait to spend the rest of his life working with these wonderful people and can't wait to continue to learn and grow with them. He babbles and rants about his new friends to Happy, who as usual looks distinctly unhappy, but nods along anyways.


there's a bee??? @beterbarker
making new friends is kinda pog ngl,,,


   ↪️ nedward @LEEDS.me.away
   
YOOOO FRIENDSHIP POG

         ↪️there's a bee??? @beterbarker
          
YOOOOOOOOOO


  ↪️we live in a society @MJ03
  
we been knew. but glad youre people are starting to realize youre not like totally awful i guess

       ↪️there's a bee??? @beterbarker
        
awwwwww mj ily2


   ↪️flash @myfatherwillhearabouthis
   
as if you could make any friends.

       ↪️there's a bee??? @beterbarker
       
are we not friends :(

            ↪️flash @myfatherwillhearabouthis
            
no.

     ↪️abealicious @abe87
     
flash last week you baked peter cookies and cried cause he said you werent terrible

     ↪️petty prant @bbmidtown
     
flash youre a softy at heart stfu every time peter makes a new friend you threaten them saying they better not make him sad

     ↪️moon 🌙 @silky.moon
      
Peter once called you his friend in public and you choked on your lunch and ranted to me about it for an hour


flash @myfatherwillhearabouthis
i didnt come here to be attacked like this my father will hear about-

    ↪️abealicious @abe87
    
stfu malfoy kinnie


loki ✔️ @ssssinistersnake
am i doing this midguardian 'twitter' thing right

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