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"Where. The. fuck. Have you been?" Harley Keener said to the man in front of him. Harley is furious. He's the only male teenager inside an airport at 12 in the night and has been waiting for more than 5 hours doing many things (sitting, sleeping, going to the toilet, eating, etc.) while waiting for a certain someone to pick him up.
5-freaking-hours for god's sake.
The old man was nowhere to be seen, his phone's dead and he forgot to bring his charger. It's his first time in New York by himself, and he's just a scared teenager, goodness.
"Buddy-" the man's words were cut by him,
"No, don't you buddy me, sir. Where the fuck have you been? Am I forgotten?" Harley scoffed.
"You know what? Okay, I deserve that,"
Harley snorted.
"Fine, let's do this then. How about on our way back we buy some food, anything you want, and-"
"And you'll let me fly with your latest Iron Man suit. How 'bout that, deal? Deal. Okay then, yes. Let's go, Tony. Chop chop, I want some McDonald's chicken nuggets, pizzas, and cheeseburgers because I've only eaten my five pieces of gums, and I am starving like hell. You won't believe how they cost a single piece of croissant here, bloody ridiculous." Harley let out a big breath after talking non-stop.
"...Deal, but your school starts today, if you skipped I'll tell your mom." Tony, the man said.
"Fucking hell?" muttered Harley, but loud enough for Tony to hear. "I just arrived here five fucking hours ago and you're telling me that my school starts for the next 8 hours? Dude, not fair!" whined Harley.
"Life's not fair," said Tony.
Harley pouted.
"Dad, I have to leave right now. There's an assembly at school that I have no idea what it's about, probably some kind of boring announcement or something, and we have to be there like thirty minutes before class. So if you want to say something… Don't say it, we'll talk about it later, okay? Bye, love you!"
Not giving his dad a chance to talk, Peter left.
Tony's still sleepy, and it's five in the morning. After he went to pick Harley up and get him to bed, Tony went to his lab and worked there instead. In the end, he slept after about 15 minutes on his sofa there.
Tony Stark is not functional in the dead morning before his morning's super black coffee, so he had to process everything that his son just said to him a couple of seconds just after he left.
Tony sighed.
The plan (that Tony and Harley made inside the car on their way to the tower at midnight) was to surprise Peter with the existence of Harley Keener in New York before Peter woke up. But everything is ruined now, haha, okay.
Harley, that damn kid…
"FRIDAY, where's Harley?" asked Tony, while drinking his coffee.
"Mr. Harley has shown no signs of waking up, boss. Would you like me to wake him up for you?"
Tony snorted, but then he grins.
"Yes, please. Ah wait, FRI, please use your one-hundred-percent alarm volume. He'd like that,"
It ended up with Harley having a tantrum for not wanting to go to school at all that day and Tony was left with no choice except for letting him tardy and Harley could start his class at noon.
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It was an okay day for Peter, everything was the same as usual. No one talks with (to) him, no one bothers him as usual, it’s the same. But then he remembered that in his physics class today, they were supposed to form this group of two for their project later.
Peter groaned while he’s putting his books in his locker.
Being alone is fun, but at times like this, it’s not. There are approximately 23 students in his physics class and that means that Peter has to mingle into one of their groups. Just if you don’t know, Peter hates socializing with other people that he’s not close with (that means everyone at school).
Peter walked his way to the cafeteria. School lunches are not it, so he’d always brought himself some sandwiches or other snacks from home. He ate it alone, by himself, in the corner of the cafeteria, catching nobody’s attention.
“Why is no one asking Parker to get some lunch together? Dude- he looks soo lonely, I want to ask him to eat lunch together,” it was their school news reporter, Betty Brant whispered to herself while typing those words she had just said to her school group chat that insists everyone from the sophomore year. Well, except for Peter since no one from her year got his number.
THIS IS A NO MORE ACTIVE GROUP CHAT
BETTY BRANT
why is no one asking parker to get some lunch together? dude looks soo lonely, i want to ask him to eat some lunch together.
SOPHIE MARIE
he looks sooo cute right now fr fr. i’m gonna cry.
ZELL DANIEL
are we going back to the stalker parker phase in freshman? i srsly forgot about all that and remember about all that just now.
CINDY MOON
let’s ask him for some lunch together guys!!
NED LEEDS
peter’s quite nice. we got paired up on a bio project last month. doesn’t talk much but he and i finished our project great btw.
JASON IONELLO
lol. that month where ned and parker got themselves 100% on the project and others only got like… what, 85% ? yeah. i obv remember that.
FLASH THOMPSON
you guys are sooooo obsessed with the kid. get over yourself.
BRAD DAVIS
^
KATIE JOHNSON
flash, brad, shut up.
LAYLA KATH
flash, brad, shut up.
ABE BROWN
flash, brad, shut up.
JACK RAM
flash, brad, shut up.
CARSON FLOYD
flash, brad, shut up.
JEREMY WILLIAM
flash, brad, shut up.
BETTY BRANT
flash, brad, shut up.
OLIVIA ZAYN
flash, brad, shut up.
MASON BEN
flash, brad, shut up.
CYNTHIA JO
flash, brad shut up.
WILL PATRICK
flash, brad, shut up.
ARTHUR LIAM
flash, brad, shut up.
ANDREW CHARLIE
flash, brad, shut up.
AVERY NOAH
flash, brad, shut up.
MICHELLE JONES
yesterday, i overheard flash, brad, jacob, isaac, connor, adam, dan ian talking about parker’s fake gucci shoes and LV jackets haha lmfao.
BETTY BRANT
MJ AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA