This chapters slightly strange. I've been writing super late at night so this is really the product of sleep deprivation.

Chapter 4

The days leading up to the field trip were filled with the typical "now remember: you're going to be representing your school" type thing as Mr. Harrington got more frazzled, although he seemed more worried about the kids embarrassing him in front of the Avengers rather than the school. Anyone who ever had him as a teacher knew he had posters of them up in his office. Peter just didn't have the heart to tell him the most of his idols would probably join in any shenanigans his decathlon team pulled. Not that anyone would believe him anyway.

Mr. Harrington wasn't the only one acting differently as the field trip neared. Everyone on the team was noticeably more excited. Even Flash, who expressed his excitement through annoying Peter more and more.

"Hey Penis, how are you going to keep lying about your internship after the trip?"

"Can you introduce me to Tony Stark, oh wait you don't know him."

"I can't wait to expose—"

"Flash if he was lying, why wouldn't he just confess now and save himself the pain?" MJ had interrupted this time. She and Ned were constantly annoyed the Peter didn't stand up for himself against Flash, especially since, as Ned would say, he could "crush him like it's nothing." Peter always explained to them that that would just cause more problems. They always disagreed. It was a thing.

Peter, however, did still have that little, traitorous part of him that still was excited to see Flash's face when he found out that he not only interned for a Tony Stark, but knew the other Avengerstoo. Sometimes Peter liked to imagine Flash's face if he did learn that he had been bullying Spider Man, his idol, for three years now, but he had to quickly remind himself that that would be bad. He doubted Flash would keep his secret for shit.

On Friday he still went to Stark Tower after school, even though he was technically mad at everyone except Steve. Being mad at the Avengers is hard, however, since they could all kick your ass and simultaneously guilt trip you about them "just caring too much". So in reality, it was more like a prolonged pout.

"Ok… look I'm sorry for planning an amazing field trip for you ok?" Tony finally said after sitting in heavy silence for a couple minutes. Peter's silence was slightly unnerving to Tony. Ususally when they worked in the lab, Peter would start talking about something nerdy and never stop. So much so, that Tony had a mental list of topics that could get Pete to stop ranting and take a breath.

"That's not really much of an apology" Peter retorted, smiting very slightly at his mentor's ego.

"Look...what's the worst that could possibly happen?" Tony sighed leaning over the piece of armor he was working on.

"All of a sudden everyone's wants to bombard me questions about you guys and what I do?" Peter replied feeling even more stressed.

"And exactly want wrong with your classmates being interested in you?" Tony asked still not looking up from what he was doing.

"I don't want it! Or.. I mean I want them to like me but not just because I know some famous people."

"Wow, you and I are very different." Tony looked up at the exasperated kid finally. Friday's alarm went off, telling the two people it was time for Peter to go. The kid started gathering his stuff up.

"And thank goodness for that" Peter said with a half joking/half serious face as he crossed the lab to the elevator.

"Hey!" Tony calles out behind him before the doors closed.

On the car ride home, Peter watched the storefronts go by with glazy eyes. Something was bothering him, something he couldn't put his finger on. He kept thinking about Tony's question: "what's the worst that could happen?". He didn't want his classmates to be weird around him, but that hardly seemed like a reason for his overwhelming anxiety about this trip. Was he worried about people finding out about Spider-Man? No… he knew the Avengers would never risk his identity in any way. So why was he so on edge about this trip?

Sigh.

This is just his crazy, anxious self making a big deal out of nothing. He needed to watch some Brooklyn Nine Nine.

Well, in Peter's opinion everyone needs to watch Brooklyn Nine Nine.

Jeez, I'm sorry they're always so short, I don't realize how short they are when I'm writing them.