Erica walked next door to begin her usual afternoon tutoring session with Peter. She reached the door and knocked gently but the door was quickly opened by Peter's Aunt May.

"Erica," she said, her expression always warm and welcoming, "Peter's in his room with someone but I'm sure it won't be a problem if you join them. They should be nearly finished," she informed the girl.

Erica nodded as she walked past May and back toward Peter's room where she gently knocked once more, this time on his door.

"Who is it?" she heard his voice yell distinctly through the door.

"It's Erica," she replied, surprised he didn't know already since she came at the same time every afternoon, "I'm here to work on your history paper like we've done every other day this week."

Erica listened at the door as she heard some soft exchanges before the door opened to reveal Peter, his usual self, but on his bed sat another man. Erica recognized him immediately as her jaw dropped.

"Tony Stark?" she said, unable to hide her sheer delight at being in the same room as her favorite Avenger and crush, "What are you doing in Peter Parker's bedroom?" she asked, her shock still evident.

Tony stood and walked toward her, his calm demeanor only making her anxiety worse, "I am working on a little project with Mr. Parker here and you look a little too old to be in high school. I mean that in a good way," he clarified causing a blush to warm Erica's cheek, "So, what is your business here, if you don't mind me asking?"

She attempted to take a deep breath and gather herself before speaking again, afraid to scare him off with her starstruck reaction, "I am a Senior at NYU and this kid may be a genius at the things in your universe but he can't write a paper to save his life so I have been tutoring him for the last year," she explained, "But, if you two are busy then I can just come back later on tonight unless you have plans, Peter?"

Peter shook his head looking as if he was hoping he wouldn't have to speak at all during this interaction because he honestly had no idea what he would say to even try to sum up why Ironman was in his bedroom.

Luckily for him, Tony smiled as he spoke once more, "Nonsense, his school work is much more important then anything he and I were working on. I will leave you two to it. What's your name? I didn't seem to catch it," he said as he looked directly at her, sending a shiver up her spine.

Erica felt like an idiot as she'd told him why she was there and her education level but not her name, "I didn't mention it. I'm Erica Lowery and it is very nice to meet you."

"I'm gonna call you Lowery," he replied as he held out his hand to her which she gladly reached out and shook, "And, I very much hope we get to cross paths again soon. Maybe you should start arriving a little early for tutoring," he threw a wink her way as he nodded at Peter and exited the room.

Erica took a moment to absorb everything she'd just lived through before she turned to Peter, "You know I have been talking about that man for months and you couldn't mention that I might run into him here. I would have worked so much harder on my appearance," she finished with a frown before walking to Peter's bed and taking a seat so she could unload her backpack.

Peter sighed, "I really didn't think you'd ever run into each other, to be honest. But, you look great so don't worry about that," he finished with a smile.

Erica smiled back at his compliment, "Well, we have a lot of work to get to if we're going to get you an 'A' on this assignment. Did you do the draft like I asked you?" she asked, trying to focus on the purpose of her visit and not the butterflies flying around her stomach from moments before.

Peter pulled out a printed paper and passed it to her, "I got half of it done."

"Give me a second to read over it," she replied as she took the paper before looking back at Peter once more, "What are you helping Tony Stark with?"

"He's more helping me but I can't really talk about it," he replied, looking away.

Erica wanted to pry more because she knew Peter would eventually give it up but she decided to simply bask in the joy of meeting her crush and getting a little flirtation from him then to dive into the possibilities of why he was there at all. The two got straight to work on his paper over the next few hours before Erica went back to her house to work on the hours of homework she had to do for herself.