Martin let out a long, heavy sigh as he stepped out onto the fire escape to watch the sunset while having a drink. The students were particularly insufferable that day and were a major pain in his ass. Between the boys trying to one up each in the stupidest ways possible and the girls breaking the dress code to the point where even he, who was known for not giving a single shit about the dress code, had to ask them to put on a jacket. He rubbed his eyes tiredly with his free hand, his other hand holding the can of beer as he leaned against the railing with his forearm. Sometimes, he really reconsidered his career as a teacher.

"What?!" Martin looked up as he heard someone shout above him, "Oh you gotta be kidding me!" Martin twist and turned his head to try and see who was talking, but still couldn't. the voice was slowly getting closer and closer.

"You got this Spidey, you got- I don't got this!" Martin blinked in surprise as he saw a red and blue blur fall past him and then cringed as he heard a final yelp, and then the sound of something crashing into the fire escape right below him.

"Ow…" Martin leaned over the railing and looked at the fire escape right below him. His eyes widened in something mixed with surprise and amusement as he stared at the defeated Spider-man right below him. He landed on his back with his legs up and over his head.

"…Are you ok?" the hero's head shot up to look at Martin and stilled. They both stared at each other for a few seconds before Spider-man started.

"…You saw me fall, didn't you?"

"Yeah." Martin watched with amusement as the hero covered his face with his hands in embarrassment before muttering something under his breath.

"You uh," Martin held his beer over the railing, shaking it gently to catch his attention," You something to drink?" Spider-man slowly lowered his arms to look at the man before quietly saying.

"…Sure." Martin nodded his head before turning around to climb back into his window, calling over his shoulder.

"Beer or soda?"

"Soda please." Martin made a sound as his answer before opening up his fridge, grabbing a cold soda for the hero. Taking note of the metallic sounds from the fire escape and the curses he could hear. Honestly, if he was a superhero, he wouldn't be a family friendly as Spider-man is so he let it slide.

"here." The superhero as sitting on the edge of the railing when he came back out and gratefully accepted the sugary drink.

"Thanks," the hero pulled up his mask and opened up the soda before taking a sip out of it with a sigh.

"Long day?" the hero sighed heavily again before shaking his head.

"You have no idea…what about you, long day?" Martin look a long drink of his beer, smacked his lips before sighing.

"I'm a high school teacher."

"Yikes that's gotta be tough."

"Tell me about it…so why was your day so shitty? If you don't mind me asking." The hero moved his head in a way that made it look like he was rolling his eyes.

"Well, I had tons of problems with my web shooters today, this is the fifth time they stopped working and the second time I landed wrong. I'm surprised I haven't broken anything yet."

"I'm surprised you didn't break anything the first time you decided to throw yourself off a building to swing around." The hero chuckled at that.

"Same." The two of them sat in for a couple of minutes, occasionally taking a sip from their respective drinks.

"So," Spider-man broke the silence first," high schoolers huh?" Martin shook his head and leaned onto the railing more.

"Yeah, it's been rough, between the guys being absolute idiots and making a competition out of everything they can and the girls showing off their assets a little bit too much, it's been a shitshow and a half." Spider-man cringed before taking a drink of his soda.

"Yeesh, it was bad when I was in high school, it must be even worse now."

"Tell me about it, some of my students got mad at me when I told them to put on a jacket. Honestly, I get that its hot and humid right now, but they still can't come to school in tube tops and stuff. They're just lucky I didn't dress code them." They sighed together in tandem, and when they realized they did that, they turned and smiled at each other.

"Ugh,"

"Adulting, what a pain." Spider-man finished the rest of his soda in a gulp before hopping off the railing.

"Well, I'm going to try and get home and hopefully not end up on the street. Thanks for the drink man." Martin took stood up straight and waved off the hero.

"You're welcome, I got papers to grade anyway, have a nice night Spidey." Spider-man hopped up onto the railing of the fire escape, his hand holding out the can to Martin after he offered to take it.

"You have fun with that Mr?"

"Martin." Martin saw one more smile before it disappeared behind his mask.

"Martin, I'll see you later, hopefully you won't see me falling like that again." Martin let out a laugh.

"Yeah yeah get out of here you clumsy child." He extended an arm while giving the teacher a halfhearted glare.

"I will have you know that I'm old enough to vote and drink." Martin scoffed before gently pushing the hero off the fire escape.

"Still a child in my eyes, now go and do something heroic you weirdo." He watched Spider-man as he fell off with a yelp between quickly letting loose a string of web and pulling himself up. He turned around and saluted the man.

"I won't let you down Martin!" Martin watched the superhero until he couldn't see him anymore, a smile on his face the entire time.

While his day could have gone better, it wasn't that bad after all.