*Peter and Perrin get assigned together for the project. Peter is just a cinnamon bun trying to make a lovely conversation, meanwhile Perrin is patient, but it only lasts so long*
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After a fulfilled weekend with hanging out and (almost) doing nothing, it was back at the school again. Peter loved his school, despite the bullies that lurk there, but non the less, he had good friends and loved most of the subjects. (Except Spanish)
Midtown was a nice school. Every morning, Peter would see students just waiting to enter into school. It was a normal routine. Often times, Tony would either pick him up after school or drop him off in the morning. Today, he was dropping the kid off.
"See you later, Mister Stark! Have a good day!" Peter said, opening the car door open and getting out before slamming it shut. Tony rolled the windows down and gave a grin. "See ya later, kid, don't forget that Happy is picking you up today."
After bidding a farewell, Peter saw Ned and MJ talking amongst themselves. "Hey guys!" Peter greeted cheerfully at them. Ned turned around and gave his best friend an excited, "Dude look at what I got!"
Peter glanced at a-
"A gameboy?!" He shrieked. "Those are so rare! How did you get them, Ned?!"
"I bought it off Ebay and it came with so many cool games!" Ned exclaimed, turning on the gameboy. MJ rolled her eyes and continued chewing on her gum, blowing bubbles and letting them make a 'pop' noise.
"Are you fangirling over those old devices?" She asked bluntly.
Peter and Ned turned around with eye widened and mouths gaped open.
"How could we not? They're freaking amazing! And rare!" Ned explained, but MJ just rolled her eyes. "Not geeks like you guys are. I don't play games, or play with legos." she replied uninterested.
Peter rolled his eyes but smirked. "Reading is boring and so is drawing."
"Take that back." Her eyes bored in his own, but he knew very well that she was joking.
"Never," he smirked. "But, besides that, have you heard who you guys are being paired up?" Peter asked.
MJ and Ned both shrugged.
"We know they're going to be exchange students, but at 7th period, the principle is going to gather everyone into the stadium and hand them a sheet of paper with your partner's name." Ned answered.
"Hmm, sounds-Hey!" Peter was interrupted by a brown haired girl who looked up questionably. She had earphones and from what Peter could tell that she was looking down at her phone the whole time. The girl was the same height, same color of hair and eyes. It was like he found a clone of him.
"Sorry dude." The girl apologized.
"Oh, right...yeah...um, watch where you're going." He retorted, but honestly a bit pathetic. The girl's expression morphed from apathetic to annoying manner.
"Right..." She stated, before continuing to walk and shoving Peter out of the way, making him stumble back a bit.
"You alright?" Ned asked, putting a hand on his shoulder, completely forgetting the gameboy in his other hands.
"What a jerk." MJ commented as she watched keenly on the girl that shoved Peter out of the way.
"I never seen her before. Is she an exchange student?" Peter asked Ned.
He shrugged. "Heck if I knew."
The school bell rang and all of the groaned in response.
"Well...back to hell." MJ sighed. Ned put away his gameboy away and nodded.
"Lego!" Peter announced, knowing that MJ was rolling her eyes with the Lego reference.
"Ugh! I hate Spanish!" Peter whined, looking at his tested paper. There was a B+ marked in red on the top right of his graded paper. Ned gave him a sympathetic smile. "Come on dude, at least you tried. Besides, its still a good grade!"
"Whatever..." He grumbled. They were on there way to the stadium, getting prepared to be assigned to their new partners. Until a someone bumped into him on purpose, making him get caught off guard and drop his paper.
"Hey! Watch it freak!" A boy practically spat the words at him.
"Leave him alone!" Ned hissed at Flash Thompson.
Flash picked the paper up and snickered, "Wow, what a failure you are at Spanish!" shoving the paper in Peter's face. Some students gathered around them and it made Peter nervous as hell.
"Dude! Knock it off!" Ned jeered, grabbing the paper for Peter who was still in shock. "Come on Peter Lets get out of here."
Ned led Peter away from the crowd, leaving Flash snigger with the group that formed around them.
After awhile of walking, Ned turned to his bestfriend. "You okay?"
"Yeah...i'm fine..." Peter stuttered. He shook his head. "Lets just get to the stadium, okay?" trying to ignore the faces Flash gave him before. Ned nodded and gave a reassuring grin. "Yeah, lets go do that. Maybe you'll be paired up with some hot chick." He joked and Peter gave a small laugh. At least that joke him feel a bit better.
"Doubt it."
"Whatever."
They entered the stadium and saw about 5 straight lines ahead of them.
"Oh boy..." Ned looked around the stadium. He saw other students greet each other, which were the exchange students and the students that came from here. Many he did not notice before until they were all gathered in the stadium.
Most exchange students strayed away from the original students, and it seemed like they kept it that way for awhile, until this happened. Though, it was a great opportunity for them meet and learn about other peoples history. Some were Asian, Indian, African or Hispanic, and others he couldn't really identify yet.
"Hey losers!"
Peter and Ned turned around to see MJ walking towards them with confidence they both wished they had.
"See you decided to get here late." She pointed out.
"We had...a pit stop on the way here." Peter said slowly.
"How nice." MJ rolled her eyes. "Anyways, I got my paper." she held her paper up for both to see.
"Who did you get?" Ned asked, peeking at the piece of paper. MJ looked down, "Someone named...Blaine Jin?"
"That would be me." A voice called from behind. MJ turned around and saw the tall, thin boy holding a sheet of paper in his hands with the words Michelle Jones. He had a black, shiny fringed hair. He was no doubt Asian.
Blaine smiled,"Glad I was able to hear and know my name." he laughed, and to their surprise, he spoke like he's been speaking English his entire life.
MJ stared at him for a second. She could tell that this was going to be the longest project in the world. "Oh dear Lord..."
Peter and Ned stifled a laugh and watched as MJ walked away with Blaine talking his butt off. Peter puckered his lips, and making kissing noises. Ned howled with laughter when MJ turned around and put the middle finger up, before turning around again.
Peter laughed with Ned as they waited in line.
What felt like forever, they were greeted by their gym teacher who looked at them both.
"Name?" He asked gruffly.
"Peter Parker?" He asked, almost confused on why his teacher asked him his name if his teacher already knew his name.
"Heres your partner." he gave a paper to Peter, who grasped it and walked away.
He looked down and saw the name Perrin Parker.
Odd. He didn't expect to be paired up with a person who has the last name as his. Though, he shrugged it off, because he knew that a lot people had the exact last names, but it was questionable if Perrin was a boys name or girls name. Maybe it was an intersex name.
Ned joined him eventually. "I got a dude named Carlos Penne." he said to Peter.
"Perrin Parker." Peter responded.
Ned looked at him with a bemused expression. "What a coincidence that you'd be paired up with a person who has your last name."
"Eh, lot of people have last names that could be anyones. Doesn't matter." Peter waved his hand dismissively. "But, maybe we should look for our partners. See you tomorrow?" Peter asked.
"You know it, see you later dude!" They fist bumped and Ned left to find his project buddy. Peter looked around and sighed. Wish I had a picture of them. Peter walked around the stadium, seeing students already being united with their partners.
Not gonna be that hard. All I need to do is just...look for them-
His thoughts were interrupted when he bumped into someone who fell backwards on their butt, making an 'Oof' sound. Their piece of paper floating steadily onto the ground. The person made a groaning sound and Peter panicked. He quickly crouched and picked up the paper, not even bothering to look up yet to see who this person he bumped in on accident.
"Omigosh! I'm so sorry! I- you?!" Peter stuttered as he met eyes with the girl he collided with this morning. The girl looked at the boy and her facial expression turned irritated.
"You."
"I didn't mean to! Sorry about that, I guess I should've watch my ste-" Peter stopped and looked down at the girls paper. On it, it said Peter Parker. He looked back up too see the girl still irritated as hell. "Your Perrin Parker?" he asked.
The girl rolled her eyes and got up, straightening her back while doing so. "Yes, I am. Who are you?"
"Apparently...your project partner..." Peter murmured, handing the paper back to the owner. Perrin took a hold of the paper and looked down to scan the paper again. "Your Peter Parker?" she inquired, raising her eye brow.
"Yeah..." He nodded.
Her gaze softened, but barely, "I see...well, I suppose I should you a proper introduction," she sighed and extended her hand out. "My name is Perrin Parker. I'm an exchange student, which is probably why you've never seen my before, except some classes."
Peter hesitated, but took her hand and shook it slightly, before his hand plopped next to his waist. "Peter Parker. Originally from..." he held his hands up in the air. "Midtown Highschool."
Perrin stared at him like he was the most craziest boy in the world.
"Right..." she said slowly. "I suppose we should get to know each other and make plans?"
"I guess so." Peter shrugged. They silently exited the stadium together with their backpack hanging by their shoulders. Both decided that they can plan outside, considering it is nice and warm.
"Its kind of coincidental that we have the same last names. " Peter chuckled nervously. Perrin nodded wordlessly and kept going.
Please tell me she doesn't enjoy talking. This is going to be awkward as hell.
"And our first names have the same meaning as well." Perrin said after minutes of awkward silence.
Peter looked at her, confused.
"Perrin and Peter means rock." She explained, looking at him. "Really?" he asked.
"Yep. What? You never actually looked up what your name means?"
"No." Peter admitted, "Didn't think it had a meaning."
"Everything has a meaning." Perrin gave him a sly smile, and Peter mentally gave himself a fist bump. So maybe she does like talking!
They sat on the bench and Perrin took out a notebook and colored pencils. She then looked up at Peter, "Because we have to work together, we have to figure out what days we are free and where we can work at." Perrin explained, tapping on the pencil onto the notebook.
"My Mentors house!" Peter exclaimed loudly and blushed on how high pitched it was. "Sorry, what I meant to say is that my mentors house has a lot of equipment to build our project."
Perrin raised her brow, unsure. "You sure? We can also do at mine as well."
"We could do all the planning at your house and then work on the physical work at my house. Sounds good?" Peter asked. Perrin nodded and jotted it all down. "Sounds good to me. What days are you free?"
Peter propped his head on his hand and thought hard. "I'm usually free on weekends. Fridays, Thursdays and Mondays are good as well." He answered. Perrin nodded and wrote it down.
"Okay! So I think we have a plan!" Perrin said happily, "I am too free on those days you just said as well as the weekends. If you want, we can start this Thursday and start right off the bat."
Peter thought for a moment and nodded. "Sounds good."
"We still have about 15 minutes left of school. Wanna talk about yourself? We're going to be stuck together until the last day of school." Perrin sighed, closing her notebook and stuffing it back into her backpack.
Peter shrugged, "Normal life, s'ppose. Though, I did mention a mentor." he looked up all excited when he thought of his mentor/father figure. "Have you heard of Tony Stark?"
Perrin tapped her chin with her index finger and thought. "Stark Industries, right?"
Peter nodded enthusiastically. "Yeah! You know him?"
Perrin shrugged, "I know him because-well, do you know Aldrich Killian?" she asked, facing Peter.
He thought but shook his head.
"He's one of the founders of "Advanced Idea Mechanics" also known as A.I.M," She cringed when hearing the name and Peter could tell from her facial expression that she was not a big fan of them. "Well, anyways, I have a mentor too, and she works there. And I've heard that he hates Stark's guts for some reason." Perrin waved her hand in annoyance. "He's a child."
Peter gasped, "Who wouldn't love Tony Stark?! He made so many inventions that could help our world. He's saves lives! Hello? He's Ironman too!" he exclaimed. Perrin shrugged nonchalantly. "I dunno, so has Mr. Killians. Though, I don't know why he hates your mentor so much."
"Me either...but I can ask him!" Peter said happily.
"Whatever you say," Perrin smirked. "Tell me about your mentor. You seem to look up to him very much so."
Peter smiled brightly and started.
Perrin regretted the first moment Peter opened his mouth. She didn't know until afterwards, but this kid could talk! Peter talked for the rest of 15 minutes were available and when the bell rang, she quickly excused herself, but then he followed right beside her, talking more about his mentor.
She didn't think that Peter noticed that he was walking off of the school property and basically walking the same way he was supposed to go anyways. Peter didn't realize, Instead, he just strolled besides Perrin talking about his mentor with a child like wonderment voice.
Peter was so engrossed with telling Perrin about his mentor, that she had her earphones on, blasting music in her ears to ignore Peter's chatter. Perrin's home wasn't far. Maybe 25 minutes if she walked, but after 15 minutes of walking and almost being home, she stopped him.
"Do you even realize that you walked half way to my home?!"
Peter stopped talking and looked around his surrounding. Oh wait, I'm almost home...WAIT-WHAT?
His mind internally screamed at him. Happy was probably worried sick about him considering that the driver was supposed to pick him up after school, but luckily, Perrin lived close to him.
"I-Uh well, I was walking home with you. This is where I live as well." He could practically see the tower. Perrin rolled her eyes. She knew that he was lying.
"You're terrible at lying." Perrin remarked.
Peter smiled sheepishly, "I tried...is this where you live as well?" he asked.
Perrin nodded. "Yeah, if you turn a right at the end and into a white apartment."
"Cool. Well, I guess I should let you go-" Suddenly a black car pulled over and the window rolled down, revealing a relieved Happy in the car. "Kid! I thought I was supposed to pick you up! You could've just texted me saying that you were walking your girlfriend home!"
Peter blushed and shook his head vigorously, "She's not my Girlfriend!" he literally screamed at the top of his lungs. Happy just smirked. "Hey, you scared me. This is payback. Besides, you seem to have googly-eyes for MJ anyways."
"Happy!" Peter exclaimed, his face cherry red. Happy laughed, "Okay, okay. Sorry." but then he turned serious, "Don't ever walk off of school property without consulting me." The words sent chills down both of the kids spine.
"Yes, Happy. I didn't mean to run off. I guess I was too busy talking."
"Its alright kid. Now, who is the other kid?" He asked, looking over at the girl, who was a pro at keeping a calm and unrecognizable expression, despite him making fun of Peter with her being his girlfriend. Happy then noticed the resemblance between them. It was almost indistinguishable.
His thoughts were cut off as Peter made a "Oh, right!"
"This is Perrin. She's my partner for our school project." Peter said happily. Perrin waved awkwardly, then taking one of her ear buds out. "Nice to meet you, sir."
"Perrin, huh?" A nod. "Well, it looks like the kid has been non stop talking. I apologize." Happy smirked when Peter's mouth gaped open. "How about I drive you home?"
They both expected a "Sure." or a nod, but instead she shook her head. "No thanks...honestly, I'd rather walk home then walk into a strangers car. Also, you're right. Your kid hasn't stopped talking since I asked him if he noticed that we were almost to my home."
Happy huffed a laugh. "Well kid, sorry about that. Take care. Come on kid, let waste no time."
Peter grumbled while getting into the shiny black car. He rolled down his own windows and waved at Perrin. "See you tomorrow!"
The girl nodded and put back her earbuds back in and walked away.
"Isn't she a ray of sunshine?" Happy said, pulling out and onto the busy road. Peter shrugged, "Maybe she was nervous being around. It was just our first day anyways."
Happy just smirked and for the rest of the ride, they stayed in comfortable silence.
They arrived at the compound, the boy was greeted by F.R.I.D.A.Y and told him that Mister Stark was in the lab, conducting some experiments. Bidding a thanks, he quickly down to the lab.
Peter saw Mister Stark focusing hard on the object. He knocked on the door to indicate that he arrived.
Tony's head shot up and gave a grin to his intern, "Hey there kiddo. Didn't see ya there." he greeted, straightening his back, wincing while so. Peter noticed it though and smirked, "Oh don't worry, I bet your old body is having trouble hearing as well as bending over. Need some help?" he asked innocently.
"Sassy Peter, aren't we?" Mister Stark quirked his eye brows up. "At least I don't eat 10 pounds of food."
"Hey! I'm a growing boy!" Peter shot back. Tony smirked and chuckled before settling himself on a chair. "How was your day?"
"Good," He wasn't going to mention the fact that Flash humiliated him. "I met my partner today!"
"Oh? Who is that?"
"Its kind of a coincidence, but her name is Perrin Parker." Peter exclaimed, sitting next to Mister Stark, who propped his chin on his knuckles.
"That is kind of a coincidence that you have the last name..." Tony murmured.
"There are loads of people who have the same last name! I am sure its nothing!" Peter said. "Besides that, I'll be going over her house to work on blue prints and then when we're done with planning and all that jazz, I told her that we can work in the lab."
Mister Stark nodded, "Sounds like a nice plan Pete, just make sure she doesn't vaporize herself with the machines." he joked. Peter smiled widely, "No worries Mr. Stark! She'll be in good hands. Though, she does look smart, so I think we can trust her." he replied enthusiastically.
"Not as smart as my spiderkiddie." Mister Stark cooed, reaching out his hand to pinch Peter's cheek. The boy groaned, "Mister Stark! I'm not a baby!" whining as he shooed away his mentor's hands.
Tony chuckled, "Alright, alright." holding up his hands in surrender. "Let's say we go out for dinner. Suggestions?" he asked the spider kid.
"Applebees!" He instantly answered, eyes darting to Mr. Stark for approval and a bright smile his mentor couldn't say no to.
"Dear Lord, kid," Tony huffed a laugh. "Do you ever choose anywhere else?"
"No, because Applebees is the best!" Peter retorted.
Tony could've said no, but instead he gave in and nodded in agreement. "Alright kid, hey F.R.I.D.A.Y ?" He called out.
"Yes sir?" F.R.I.D.A.Y's robotic sound filling the lab.
"Tell Happy to get ready and that we're going to Applebees. We'll meet him at the garage." Silence fell between them for just a second. "Mr. Hogan has been informed and is on his way to the garage."
"Great!" Tony rubbed his hands together, "Shall we?" cocking his head the exit to the lab.
Peter grinned and nodded, leading the way out as Mister Stark followed behind him.
Closing the door behind her, she plopped her keys into a bowl that was right next to the entrance. She looked around the room. The apartment wasn't small nor big. Ms. Potts' apartment decor was pretty modern and white. Perrin could literally walk down and if she turned a right she would be in the kitchen which also connected to the small diners room. If she went left, she would be 10 feet away from the white couch, and the coffee table. Exquisite architects sitting beautifully on side tables and pictures or painting hanging proudly on the walls.
Her room was down the one hall, right across from Ms. Potts. Her room was simple. Small stars hanging on the wall as it brights the room up. A desk was there with all her pens and papers, as well as a computer Pepper gotten her for her last birthday. A twin bed shoved in the corner with a black duvet. It was the only dark color she had in her room. The closet contained her clothes, and her walls were pretty barren. No pictures were found, but one was next to her bed frame. It was only picture found. And it had only her mom in it with her, but the picture was torn in half and for all she knew, the other half was probably gone into the abyss.
Perrin had never really seen Pepper's room before, but she imagined it just like the living room.
Mondays, Thursdays and sometimes the weekend were Pepper's day off and Perrin enjoyed it when she was able to spend time with her mentor.
"Hey! I'm home!" The girl called out.
Pepper popped her head out the kitchen with a lopsided smile. "Hey there sweety. Dinner is almost ready."
"Thats a relief, the cafeteria food today was terrible." Perrin replied, sitting down in the small diner table. The spaghetti they served tasted of rubber and also felt like it every time she chewed. Eventually, she threw it out and just nibbled on the garlic toast, which wasn't that bad.
"How so?" Pepper asked, popping her head inside the kitchen to check on the food.
"Bland, feels weird on your tongue, and disturbing." Perrin sighed.
"Oh, well I'm sure they'll improve." Pepper came in out of the kitchen and gave a kiss on Perrin's head, "In other news, how was school in general?" she asked, wiping her hands on a towel afterwards.
"Found out my partner, but actually...he was pretty cool." She admitted.
Pepper seemed to enjoy that because after she finished her sentence, Ms. Potts squealed in delight.
"Oh Rin! I knew you'd be able to make friends! Whats his name?" She asked.
Perrin gave an exasperated sigh, "Peter Parker, and what makes you think I don't have friends?" she asked humorlessly, eyes glaring at her mentor.
"Sweetheart," Ms. Potss began. "Its not like you can make friends, its just that...well...you never want to. I just want you to have a good home, a good school and some good friends."
Perrin's face softened, "Well...thanks...I guess." she murmured, not sure what to say after that, but thankfully Pepper just smiled back. "Dinner is ready, can you get the utensils? After that, I wanna hear all about your partner!"
"Yes, ma'am." Perrin replied, sitting up and opening the drawer as Ms. Potts scooped some soup into two empty bowls.
They sat down and dug into their meal.
After a few minutes of slow slurping and clinks of spoons, Pepper had to ask.
"So, Peter Parker?"
Perrin nodded wordlessly, slurping the last of her soup.
"Is he nice?"
"Yeah, but he talks more than I though he would have. He was literally talking while I was walking home and didn't even realize that until I asked him." She laughed a bit. "He definitely keep me entertained through out the year though. Thats for sure."
"I'm very happy! Though, isn't it odd that you have the last name?" Ms. Potts asked, "Are you hiding something from me?" eye brows lifting up. Perrin shook her head quickly.
"No! Many people have the same last names. It doesn't mean we're related. In fact, we're quite the opposites...well in personality that is."
Pepper just hummed and proceeded finishing her soup.
When they were finished, they headed into the small living room where they gently sat on the couch together. Pepper grabbed a book she was reading before Perrin got home and started reading while Perrin did some homework.
"Oh by way, Peter will come over tomorrow to work on our blueprints. Once we finish that, I'll be going over his house to do the physical building." Perrin spoke after some time of silence.
"Oh Okay, where does he live?"
Perrin shrugged nonchalantly, eyes not taking off of her paperwork. "He said he lives near here, so I don't think he lives to far. His driver picked him up actually."
Pepper stared at the girl, quite confused. The boy had a driver?
"Well, once you guys are done and his driver can't pick him up or something, I want you to walk him home." Pepper directed.
"Ms. Potts," She grunted, "He's not a child. He's a highschooler. I'm sure he can find his way home." setting her pencil down.
"I just want to make sure he gets home safely. Capiche?"
Perrin groaned but nodded. "Fine." She grumbled.
"Good," Pepper smiled at her student. "Want to get some ice cream?"
Perrin perked up at the idea. Looking up, her eyes flashing with excitement, she nodded.
Pepper and Tony are such good mentors (Parents)! Thank you so much for the feedback. I didn't expect so many from A03! I'm so happy that you are enjoying this and I'm going to try to upload a chapter soon. Probably next Friday or so? I have another Fic I need to finish and I am halfway done with it, so I'll do my best to upload both!
(Very Important: My computer is freaking broken :( I was able to update today because my brother didn't use his computer, but I didn't proofread more than I wanted. I am so sorry, but I don't know when it will be fixed and I don't know when I'll be able to update again. Same goes with my other Fic. So I will do my best to update as soon as possible! Once again, I am soooo sorry!)
Adios!~