i'd be a fool not to love you

part twelve - rodrigo guevara

it was the next week

"pete, i'm not so sure this is the best idea anymore" i admitted to peter as we walked to oscorp

"listen it'll be fine, trust me"

"fine, but we can't ruin this for gwen. it means a lot to her."

"we won't."

"okay, i trust you"

"good" he put his arm around my waist as we walked

"welcome to oscorp" the lady at the front desk said

"hello, we're here for the internship." i smiled

"okay, to the left." she said and resumed what she was doing on her computer

"sorry?"

"you'll find your badges, to the left" she looked annoyed. i looked over to the left and saw mine and peters badges. well, mine and rodrigo guevara's badges.

"oh, thank you"
we picked up our badges and made our way over to the elevator.

"welcome to oscorp i'm gwen stacy, i'll be leading your tour this afternoon, i'm a senior at midtown science and i'm also head intern."

that was my best friend.

i gave gwen a thumbs up and a proud look, and she smiled at me, then looked at peter
"if you'd all like to have a quick look around this room and just excuse me for one second"
uh oh

"olivia! why is peter here?" quick olivia, i had to think of an excuse

"uh what do you mean? this isn't peter? this is rodrigo" i said and then i heard a man call out in the distance

"STOP! IM THE REAL RODRIGO GUEVARA, PLEASE IM RODRIGO I PROMISE! YOU CANT DO THIS!" uh oh

"really?" gwen gave me an unimpressed look
"i'm sorry, i snuck in because i love science. it wasn't olivia's idea it was mine" peter added
"ok well if you get me into trouble, i'll expose your secret peter. or should i say, rodrigo. and you'll be kicked out."

"i promise gwen, we'll be careful- he'll be careful."

"ok liv, but if you're sure"
"i'm sure" i smiled

"peter."
"i'll be careful i promise"

"peter get back here right now" i spat as he started walking away from the group "you promised"

"i promised i wouldn't get you or gwen in trouble, not that i wouldn't stay with the group"

still walking away, but facing me, he knocked into a man in a suit. this didn't look good. the man was holding some important looking files that he then dropped

"hey, you dropped these" peter called out and the man looked back at him "here, here" he scrambled to pick them up and give them back.

but his eyes were fixated onto a strange symbol. a red circle with a line through it.

the man snatched it out of peters hand. yikes, way to make an impression pete.

"olivia, that symbol, ive seen it before" he told me as he came back

"what? how?"

"when i was analysing my dads briefcase, that file in it with the photo of dr connors and my dad, it had that symbol and next to it were the words "decay rate algorithm""

"what is it?"

"i have no idea. but it must be important"
"ok we'll look into it later, but for now can you just stick with the group? please?"

"okay, fine"
gwen then lead us all into the other room.