Wrong Number (Spider-Man)

🕸 35. Girlfriend 🕸

Peter was very nervous for school, now that everyone knew about him being the son of Tony Stark, he was definitely going to get a lot of unwanted attention, but all he needed to do was stick to the friends he already had, as everyone else would probably just try to 'use' him.

Prom was also coming up soon as it was soon the summer break, and Peter didn't have a date yet, he was thinking about asking MJ out, but she was so intimidating, so he didn't really have the courage to do so.

Peter finally got out of bed and changed into his clothes, now his new clothes that was a lot more expensive than what he had worn before, now that everyone knew 'who he was' nobody would send him weird eyes for wearing fancy clothes, that had happened before.

Happy drove him to school as the fancy car wouldn't give anything away anymore.

He arrived at school and as soon as he entered the hall, whispers and murmurs spread across the students, the spider sighed, he guessed he just had to get used to this for now, at least until it died down.

A lot of people Peter had never talked to before went up to him and talked to him, asking him out to prof, where he declined as he had never met them before, some even asked for an autograph and he sighed as he finally got to his locker where Ned, MJ and Flash were.

"Sup Parker, enjoying the fame?" Flash asked with a grin and the boy sighed. "No, not really, I never expected it to be this bad" Ned sent him a pitiful look and MJ punched his shoulder.

"It'll die down eventually, don't worry Loser" she said while Peter rubbed his arm where he was hit. "Wow, thanks MJ"
"You're welcome Loser" the girl replied with a smile.

"How are you feeling dude? It's public that you're Starks son! That's amazing!" Ned beamed with excitement and Peter smiled.
"Yeah, it's pretty cool, but I hope that it's not always going to be like this, 5 girls have already asked me out! And I don't even know them!" Peter complained and MJ got a weird look in her eyes.

The whispering and approaching the spider didn't die down, at least not that day. Even in class people whispered about him, and it wouldn't bother him if he didn't know what they said but he did, sometimes he didn't appreciate his enhanced hearing.

"Tony Stark probably only adopted him out of pity"
"Stark probably doesn't love him"
"I wish it was me"

Those were some of the comments the spider picked up around him. There were also some other comments that were weird, about who would date him, and if they would date him for love or for money.

Peter felt really uncomfortable with all those remarks and comment, but he survived. He paid (some) attention in class, because if he didn't then he would listen to the voices around him.

He decided to also do some of his homework instead of zoning out, to avoid listening in on others and then he had more time for Spider-Man. Peter had already decided to ask MJ out that day, but he didn't know when, as people always wanted to talk to him, it was weird as he had never been popular before and wasn't used to it.

It was now lunch break and Peter sat at his usual table with Ned, Flash and MJ, the only reason there wasn't any other at the table was because of Flash and MJ, the boy threatening to punch anyone trying anything and the girl sending them death glare.

Peter had agreed with Ned that if looks could kill, this girl would be a serial killer.

The bully group approached anyway, despite both Flash and MJ.
"Hey Peter" the 'leader' said.
"What?"
"You try anything and I'll punch you" Flash threatened and Alex O'Hirn raised his hands in surrender.

"Chill out 'Trash' we're here to apologize" he snarled and Flash scoffed, annoyed at the name while Peter scoffed internally, they were only going to apologize because it was revealed that he was the son of Iron Man.

"Look Peter, we're sorry for bullying you, and I promise we wont bully you anymore, can you forgive us?"
"If you prove worthy of my forgiveness, yes, but not right now, because it seems that you're only saying sorry because you found out who my dad is" Peter replied and the bully made a weird grunting sound.
"So now daddy's rich you're a brat, I see how it is, we'll see you around" The boy hissed and walked away with the other goons. Ned put a supporting hand on the boys shoulder. "Don't worry about them dude, you did the right thing, they don't deserve your forgiveness" Ned stated and Flash got a guilty look in his eyes, and the spider was quick to shoot the guilt down. "Not you Flash, you deserve my forgiveness, because you have actually done your best to improve yourself, you were literally ready to hit those guys in the face in order to protect me, they would never do that for me" the boy said and Flash got a thankful look in his eyes and smiled.

The lunch break was quickly over and now they had decathlon-team practice again. Which was nice, because these already knew that he was Tony Starks son so these wouldn't talk about him behind his back, and the bullies weren't on that team either, the only bully that was on the team was Flash, but he had stopped the bullying, so that was nice.

"Hello decathlon team, how are you all today, we have some questions to practice, and Peter, are you feeling up to answering these?" The teacher asked as he arrived and Peter nodded. "Yes, I swung home at 1:37 so I'm not that tired" the boy answered, it was still weird talking about being Spider-Man in front of his class, but also nice as he didn't really talk to anyone about this.

Then the class started and MJ was responsible for reading up the questions, and she had been ever since Liz moved school, due to her dad being arrested, which Peter actually felt a bit guilty over. The class ended quickly and Peter involved Ned and Flash in his plans about asking MJ out, the two guys sent each other a look and blinked, and then they left the school in order to leave Peter and MJ alone.

The spider walked up to the girl, while sweating nervously.
"Uhh, Hello MJ" he stammered and MJ put her book in her bag and looked at the boy in front of her. "Sup' Loser?"
"Soo, I was wondering-"
"If you were going to ask me to go to prom with you, then yes"
"Well, no, not really-" Peter started and MJ looked embarrassed. "- well yes, but it was not only that, I was wondering if you'd like to be my girlfriend?" He finally asked and MJ smiled. "Sure thing Loser" she chimed and gently kissed his cheeks, then she left, leaving a dumbfounded Peter behind with a stupid grin on his face.

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