The following Monday after radio silence from Tony, Erica walked over to Peter's to study. When she knocked, May answered, "Hey Sweetie, he's not home yet. Do you wanna wait in his room?"

Erica nodded, "That'll be fine."

May nodded as Erica walked past her to Peter's room to wait on him. As she sat on his bed, her phone lit up with a text. She opened it to read, "Our friend kept me busy this weekend along with some out of town business. I hope you'll let me make up the silence with a dinner date this week. Tony."

Erica smiled at her phone screen before putting it away for a moment so she wouldn't reply too fast. As she put her phone down and looked back up, Spiderman was standing in front of her.

"You're Spiderman?" she asked in shock.

"Oh my god, Erica!" Peter replied, "What are you doing here?"

"The same thing I'm always doing here," she answered, "Helping you with school work. How long have you been saving people dressed as a spider?"

"A while," he answered, "I don't have time to study tonight though because I am on to something big and I need to get this guy to make Mr. Stark proud of me."

"Oh wow," she realized, "That's why you know him. You're like his little superhero trainee. Wow, that's really cool. Well, if you don't wanna study that's fine but do you wanna tell me what big thing you're after?"

Peter's face lit up like a Christmas tree, "So, I was at a party and I saw something crazy far away so I went to look into it and it was this weapons sale with crazy weapons that were way more high tech then they should have been. I tried to take them out but then this crazy guy dressed like a bird grabbed me and dropped me into the lake. Now, I have a lead because I put a tracker on one of the guys so I'm going to find their evil lair."

"Wow, well if you need any help with your mission count me in because I need something fun and spontaneous to get me out of my senioritis," she answered, "Are you going to your Decathlon or are you skipping out on that too?"

"I might go if the tracker leads me there. Anyway Ned is going to be over soon to help me watch it. Do you wanna stay?" Peter asked.

"Ned stares at me creepily so I'll pass," she replied, "See you tomorrow. Text me if you're too busy."

Erica walked back to her house where she went straight to her room and pulled out her phone to reply to Tony. She typed, "Our friend just updated me on all that he's been up to and it does sound like he's keeping you busy. I'd love to do dinner one night this week. Peter is busy so any night should be good for me."

After she typed the message, she put her phone on the charger and walked downstairs to find something to eat. Her Dad was a surgeon and he wouldn't be home for hours or maybe not until morning.

She ate and walked back upstairs to see her phone screen lit up again. She read the reply, "I'll pick you up at eight Wednesday. Wear something nice. Tony."

She smiled to herself as she laid down on her bed. She didn't have class on Mondays but tomorrow she'd be getting questioned by anyone who saw her photos with Tony online. She didn't even know how to explain what was going on.