The cold may or may not bother me anyway
"Just for the record, I still don't condone this." peter says while munching on a slim jim
He really, really tried to maintain an invisible undertone around himself.
He tries to blend in with the city as much as one from another universe can, but ever since he has found Felicia she is really trying to get him expelled or something.
"Why not ? We're just eating outside, there's nothing wrong with that." She replies, biting into an apple
"Yeah, outside, on the roof of the school"
"There is no rule against it, is there? Besides we'll be down before the bell rings".
He sighs "Okay fine but if we get detention be prepared to get blamed". he points a finger at her.
She shrugs and continues to eat her apple
"Well I know I won't be getting detention" she answers smugly.
Of course her "luck powers" tend to help her in most situations like this.
"Ugh" she complains as a strong gust of wind blows over them causing Peter's slim Jim wrapper to float away and some of their notebooks to flip their pages.
"It's getting chilly so soon. Feels almost like winter." He says aloud. That wouldn't be the weird thing about this city; the sun is never out for one.
"Yeah it is. Be a gentleman and get a sweatshirt for me to steal, huh?" She comments
He looks at his Gotham academy green sweater vest and takes it off and moves it towards Felicia.
She doesn't even look in his direction and say "Nope. Sorry I can't wear light green on a dark blue checkered skirt" she then dusts off her skirt.
"Don't you know anything? Weren't you friends with Osborn?" She asks, annoyed that he would even dare to give her his vest.
"Yeah, before he got sent to boarding school " he flops his head down in his hand.
"Oh yeah… why'd he get send to boarding school again" she wonders aloud
"I'm not sure, something about him and his dad. I honestly don't remember" he says numbly
"I'm pretty sure we had a fight before he left,I'm not really sure what for but I know I tried to contact him just to make sure he was alright and shit Y'know. And he never did respond." He really does hope Harry is doing alright back in their universe and not laying in a hospital bed overdosed.
"Talk about teenage drama" she mumbles in her hand looking away
He rolls his eyes "But yeah, he's probably just high In his dorm or something".
Felicia shrugs and places her apple core down beside her.
He sighs and lies down on the roof of the school. It's still a cold but he can manage it. He always does.
'Wait what time is it?'
He jolts up "Wait, Felicia what time is it? Have you been keeping track of time?"
She checks her phone and her eyes widen "Oh Shit, The bell rang 20 minutes ago" she says
He blinks at her and scrambles for all his notebooks.
Felicia laughs " Calm down you nerd, I'm just kidding. There's still like 10 more minutes till the bell rings so we better get down there." She gets up with her books already in her lap.
He sighs in half relief and annoyance "don't do that to me, leesh"
"Oh relax," she says and runs back down to the ground.
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They make it down to the lunch room with 9 minutes to spare.
Peter plops himself down at his friends table resting his head on the table.
Felicia comes in not far behind him and sits down next to Steph.
He looks up "Where's Cassandra?" He asks
Duke looks at Tim who is too busy writing in his notebook to notice anything at the moment
"Oh, uh she went to visit some of her family. They live out of state." He explains
"Oh Ok " he lays his head back down
"Wait, Where were you guys at?" Steph asks, taking her ear bud out.
"Um bathr-"
"The roof."
They look at each other.
Duke looks back and forth between the both of them and narrows his eyes. "Hm"
"Damn, why didn't you tell me? I'd rather sit on the roof with you guys than watch dust collect with these two. No offense Duke." Steph states
Duke put his hand up "None taken. Tim hasn't looked up from his notes all morning and hasn't slept in three" he explains snapping his fingers in front of Tim's face who doesn't respond.
"Don't worry, us ladies can leave these boys to their weird nerdy science" Felicia whispers to Steph while picking at her black nail polish.
"That's more like it" Steph nods at her agreement while Felicia nods back.
Steph and Leesh seem to usually agree with each other even if they don't know what the other is even talking about. It's like they have some collective hive mind. But he understands, he and Ned used to do the same thing.
"Wait, three days? Don't you start to hallucinate after four?" Peter raises an eyebrow.
Duke smiles and shakes his head "Believe me Peter, hallucinations are nothing new for him. Right Tim?" he asks
They both look at Tim who doesn't respond.
"Timothy?" Duke says sing-songaly, bumps his shoulder into Tim's lightly
"TIM" Peter bangs his hand on the table not too hard.
Tim looks up with baggy eyes and smiles "Oh hey Peter. When did you get here?" He wipes his eyes.
Duke's jaw is practically on the ground while Steph snickers "the entire time". She jokes
The bell rings and they all get ready to go to next period
They end up not doing much because it's Friday so they pretty much just copy the notes on the board.
Tim and Peter race to see who can get all theirs done the fastest.
"Don't hold back " he tells Tim smugly, rolling up his sleeves
"Wasn't gonna." He replies smirking
Duke and Steph play connect 4 on her phone.
" Prepare to be spoon-fed my dust Brown". Duke cracks his knuckles
"Oh But it is you who will taste bittersweet defeat, Thomas" Steph tells him with a serious look on her face
Steph and Peter win.
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Its last period
Peter sits at his desk, head resting on the coldness of it.
Felicia chats with some girl next to her but he doesn't really care so he just rests his head back down
He jolts upwards when the teacher slams a piece of paper onto his desk.
He smiles crookedly at her and she just shakes her head at him.
He notices that she is giving one to everyone so he reads it and he internally groans
It's a parent teacher conference that the school holds in the first semester of the year.
Just great.
When the bell rings peter darts out if the classroom
He goes to his locker and places it at the makeshift shelf at the top and closes it.
Great this is just what he needs
He slides down his locker and sits there
He inhales and exhales slowly to keep the weird bubbling sensation in his chest away.
After a couple long minutes it goes away. And runs to his bus before it leaves without him.
He makes it to the crappy firehouse in Crime alley and lays in his bed. Well what he can call bed.
A gust of wind passes by.
The so called windows of the firehouse are all broken and aren't boarded up.
Peters either has to buy some warmer clothes and or heater or find some wooden planks to cover up the windows.
Then He thinks. It is getting colder out. So he's probably gonna have to find a source of weather rather than just standing outside and hoping it'll stay warm all day or hoping it won't rain.
So he changes into some casual attire or more formally known as a and some baggy sweatpants and a black T-shirt.
Makes his way out of the building and walks down the street and makes his way to the library.